Inductor

@Inductor@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday, as an American⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  base12 has the advantage of being divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6, while base10 is only divisible by 2 and 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do rainbows work?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a circular rainbow from an aircraft: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morse post⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact about that: in morse code, SOS is a prosign. This means it gets its own special rules.

  Rather than being three seperate letters (… — …), it’s one letter without any letter spaces (…—…). This is something that applies to all prosigns in morse code, though most of them are just two letters long.

  Also, when sending it on repeat you just continue the pattern without any spaces. Instead of …—… …—… (with a letter space) or …—…/…—… (with a word space), you send …—…—…—…—… and just keep continuing the pattern. iirc SOS is the only prosign where this is a thing.

  Other prosigns are for example HH (…) to indicate a correction to something previously sent, and SK (…-.-) (silent key) to signal that you have finished with the current conversation and the frequency is now clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lemmy system⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know enough about the lemmy server to say whether this is a regular issue. I’d just retry creating a user with the same email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lemmy system⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it show an error when you tried to confirm your email?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys need to stop⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, at least afaik. Prototyping and building cars by hand (without a whole factory set up to build it) is hard. Not to mention extremely expensive. And you have to build multiple (identical) copies of the prototype to get it street legal, because of crash testing. And you have to be able to guarantee that what people build with your kit remains identical to your prototype. Or everyone assembling such a kit would have to build multiple copies of the car and go through the certification process individually.

  And of course there are very few people that would want to assemble their own car, so you wouldn’t be able to make a business out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new adaptor just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While, as you said, both wires will conduct electricity just fine, they will have different AC impedance.

  I would guess this wouldn’t make much of a difference if you go Audio->Ethernet->Audio, since sound is at fairly low frequencies. But Ethernet->Audio->Ethernet might have problems with really high data rates, like GiB/s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone/computer screens in movies and TV series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Found one !itsaunixsystem@lemmy.federated.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we strap a GoPro to the moon lander?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They have radiators to dissipate heat. And all the required systems to make that work like coolant pumps, as well as heat sinks (or the coolant fluid is the heat sink).

  But they also have heaters, to make sure that (especially the batteries) don’t freeze. Satellites hang in a delicate balance between freezing and overheating.