Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dear Faith IV 1 day ago:
Noy really sure how it’s relevant here?
- Comment on Dear Faith IV 2 days ago:
I’m skeptical just because their email signature changes - I haven’t touched mine in years, so why does Prof. Kutaywa go from being first supervisor to just supervisor?
- Comment on He told police 55 years ago that he’d killed a toddler. Why the law won’t touch him 4 days ago:
TL;DR
Duty lawyers argued that his confession was inadmissible because of a 1987 law that stated an adult should be present during the questioning of a child. NSW Supreme Court judge Robert Hulme then ruled that the law applied retrospectively, and without the confession to rely upon, the director of public prosecutions dropped the charge.
- Comment on Fr🤮nch 6 days ago:
… Illegal?
- Comment on We should be able to buy this today 6 days ago:
Both are correct, although the use of “lighted” as in the above is becoming archaic.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 1 week ago:
(You can edit post titles on lemmy, fwiw)
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 1 week ago:
In this one case EA is to blame, but I do know what you mean. I think it’s just that YouTube videos have had a large impact on the form media takes, and that’s trickled out towards other forms.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 week ago:
Red-dyed ones were all over the middle east when I was a kid, but I’ve never once seen them in the US sold this way. I think it just depended on what exporter your region mainly used.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
While that’s a factor, it’s a very minor one - soft metals (lead and copper) are used as projectiles primarily because the bullet itself deforms to engage with the rifling when fired (softer materials also present far less wear on the rifling as a result - this is why shotguns, which are smoothbore and thus far less delicate, often use steel projectiles). The weight of the projectile is largely secondary to the mechanical properties of the material while it’s being fired.
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 1 week ago:
Man, I haven’t seen this image in a decade and I can still spot it.
- Comment on Nomenclature 1 week ago:
Are there really herpetologists saying “don’t say snek”?
- Comment on McBludda Please 😫 2 weeks ago:
Yeesh no that’s what they’re after, they’re spaming this drivel everywhere to promote their youtube channel.
- Comment on the wok agenda 2 weeks ago:
God, it really is.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I’m not sure if you’re satirizing the initial poster or not :(
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
… Because they tell a compelling story? How is that relevant?
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
What? What does that have to do with it?
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
I suppose an argument could be made that a battery simply sitting around is only connected to one circuit (itself thru the air) and thus there’s not an “unintended” one it’s also connected to - but really, my unstated point this whole time is that this is not a usefully rigorously defined term. The definition on wikipedia is as close as we’ll get, and it’s extremely broad by it’s nature.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
(I’m sorry I hate doing these, but I’m tired and I had to stab my partner with a microohmeter to verify the numbers and now she’s real horny so you get the low effort version)
but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes.
The current flowing when you complete the circuit with with your hand is about 0.2 miliamps (measured at ~47,000Ω resistance so I rounded to 50k). If any engineer is considering that an open circuit
they should be driven through the streets in a waymoI would very much like to see the application in which they consider that an open circuit because none is springing to mind (outside of clear outliers like some of the really weird switches used in high voltage electronics which I can’t even remember the names of).
Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.
That is one type of short, yes, however if we look at the formal definition from wikipedia:
A short circuit is an abnormal connection between two nodes of an electric circuit intended to be at different voltages. This results in a current limited only by the Thévenin equivalent resistance of the rest of the network which can cause circuit damage, overheating, fire or explosion.
We can see that it is not actually a requirement to have a circuit with zero impedance; it’s just a common form a short takes. This makes sense of course: a short across a signal wire is obviously not going to dump the full potential of an entire system, only that portion that provides current to the shorting circuit. In the case of a car battery, the leakage current is the part of the absurdly low current circuit (something like 30 picoamps) which you are shorting when you make contact with the terminals.
However at the risk of still being right, let me say that this is… an incredibly dumb semantic argument to be having. Yes, technically, you are shorting the battery. In a more formal setting I probably wouldn’t have phrased it like that in an effort to stave off the chance of a tedious argument like we’re having right now; however this is a shitpost community so I figured brevity instead of defensive technical inaccuracy was the ideal course of action.
Clearly, that was the wrong call.
- Comment on Sleep well 2 weeks ago:
You could reproduce something like it, but I’m going to stand by the assertion that the subtle color gradients that give the AI piece depth are realistically impossible.
Those are all amazing; but they’re working with the limitations of the medium masterfully, not recreating something pre-dictated. Stupid metaphor: It’s like how the graphics in windwaker still hold up while most of the other games on that platform look horrible by modern standards, they produced art that looked good on it’s own instead of art that relied on you to fill in implied details.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
No, there is absolutely current flowing when you touch both terminals, it’s just an incredibly tiny amount. You can do the math yourself and see, it’s a basic application of Ohms law. The formula is (I=V/R).
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
Yes exactly, I cannot stand the idea of you plebs learning things. How dare you.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
How do you mean?
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
You’ve put a worrying amount of thought into this.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
It’s just the common parlance. I wouldn’t have done this were it a more technical setting, but this is a shitpost community - so I’ll just have to beg forgiveness for my imprecision. Fortunately, should anyone go to test this by fondling their car’s terminals, no harm will befall them due to my lack of strict accuracy in the description here (though they might get rebuffed by their car if it’s not in the mood).
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
I’m aware - I very intentionally spared everyone the lecture on the mechanics of how this works because it is, on the whole, very boring. However if we really wanted to get into the boring technical details nobody but us cares about then yes, you are indeed shorting the battery, it’s just for a ludicrously small amount of current.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
Is this a semantic argument about my use of “short”?
- Comment on Sleep well 2 weeks ago:
You for sure can! Were I doing this I’d use a 3D stitch for the teeth/gums/lips and the outlines of the eye and lower jaw (probably also combined with stitching over layers of felt (or similar) to really bulk up the depth for the whole piece, especially for the horns), but it’s going to be miserable to do.
The issue I see is that the shading is just too gentle - most complex embroidery like this looks “cel shaded” because you can’t get smooth gradients with thread, and swapping different colors of thread to produce that look ruins the stitch pattern.
There are a handful of techniques wherein you create the stitch using a single thread on a blank piece, paint the color gradients on with dye, unravel the whole embroidery then recreate it exactly on the final piece. (I own an edo period piece where this was done, though it’s faded to where it’s extremely difficult to tell. Needless to say it’s incredibly rare for anyone to take the time to do it this way anymore)
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
You can short the terminals on a car battery with your body with no issue, but It might melt the hardware and set the floor on fire! What they should really do is connect a HV source and charge up the pole. Won’t cause any lasting harm, but hopefully it’ll convince them they drove a screw through a live wire.
- Comment on Sleep well 2 weeks ago:
The color gradients, shading and depth would be effectively impossible, unfortunately. You could recreate the flat pattern possibly, but it wouldn’t look the same.
