Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space
Headmate to @Felthry, still figuring out how things are after a long absence.
Twenty-something feminine-leaning androgynous arcaninetales taur usually with two heads. Interests in puzzles, engineering, and a good book, and curling up with a good friend.
Pronouns... zhe/zhir for now, but that might change in future.
Rosemary#3888 on Discord. Talk to me here before adding, please!
Time: UTC-6
Joined Jan 2018
re: politiscales
@archadia@tootplanet.space There's nothing wrong with that! You have a different perspective on things than we do. I'm more surprised that mine, Terrana's, Tryn's, and Siruco's are so similar than that yours is different.
re: politiscales
@Terrana@tootplanet.space Nothing too surprising there.
@ashiinu@snouts.online We have a friend who is simply "long enough". Exactly the right length for whatever situation she's in.
re: mh (~)
@kaiyote Oh, now that's something you don't see often at all.
re: mh (~)
@kaiyote This is one thing we like about No Man's Sky. The character models are all very non-gendered and neutral pronouns are used for everyone. There's no gender selection, you just pick what you want to look like.
I wish more games would work like that.
@catterfly I assume you aren't able to just say you don't feel up to talking?
@catterfly That sounds unpleasant. Are you okay?
re: politiscales
It seems that my biggest priorities are internationalism and constructivism, which sounds right. I'm somewhat surprised communism is so low, comparatively.
politiscales
http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?m0=71&b0=88&j1=5&j0=69&t0=14&t1=36&c0=86&femi=76&s1=10&s0=69&p0=69&e0=55&e1=21
Just saw someone else do this, and I found it interesting enough to do myself. A few of the questions were rather confusing, and there were some we didn't understand at all, but these results seem not too surprising. The progression/conservatism one confused me at first, but then I realized that's probably because I think it's worth preserving non-harmful traditions, to keep cultural diversity alive.
@pearshapes Felthry wants to front now, so I'll not be around for a little while, but if you want any further help, it should be able to help you just as well as I can. Sorry for the poor timing!
@pearshapes If you were to plot current vs voltage for a zener diode, you'd have a near vertical line at the zener voltage. The diode will absorb any amount of current to keep the voltage across the diode at the zener voltage.
@pearshapes If you want 3v on the output with less than 3v on the input, you need much more advanced circuitry.
What the zener diode does is divert current through itself until it reaches a balance; the excess voltage is dropped in the resistor.
@pearshapes If you want a voltage regulator, you can use this circuit: http://falstad.com/circuit/e-zenerref.html
But keep in mind that if the voltage drops below three volts, say to 2.7V, the rest of your circuit still sees that 2.7V. The zener diode and resistor combination only bleeds off excess voltage.
@pearshapes Not with the zener in series. In that configuration, it would have 3v across it, so the rest of your circuit would be left with 0.7v.
@pearshapes This one wouldn't cause a small explosion, or at least I don't think it would. It just wouldn't do anything useful.
@pearshapes Ah, yes, the thing about zener diodes is that the voltage across a reverse-biased zener diode is fixed to its zener voltage. The first-order approximation is to think of it like a voltage source.
@pearshapes Right, but I'm trying to understand exactly where you intend to put the zener diode, so I can explain what happens with it.
@pearshapes Could you explain what circuit topology you're thinking of? Draw a schematic or something?
@pearshapes If you put that in, you won't have enough voltage left to power the lights.
@pearshapes If you're not concerned about being able to recharge the battery though, you should be okay to use it. Just know that you'll be irreversably damaging the battery.
Headmate to @Felthry, still figuring out how things are after a long absence.
Twenty-something feminine-leaning androgynous arcaninetales taur usually with two heads. Interests in puzzles, engineering, and a good book, and curling up with a good friend.
Pronouns... zhe/zhir for now, but that might change in future.
Rosemary#3888 on Discord. Talk to me here before adding, please!
Time: UTC-6
Joined Jan 2018
