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- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 6 hours ago:
What kind of materials was the street made out of?
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 week ago:
I hope they get SLAMMED for that.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 4 weeks ago:
It’s ‘fewer’, Tim, ‘fewer’.
- Comment on Photons 5 weeks ago:
They’re also rapidly making their way and taking a long time.
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 month ago:
That mb appears to have 8 channel audio on the backplane (7.1) and maybe another stereo header for the front panel headphones? That would make 10 channels in total which fits…
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 month ago:
Interesting. Is the orange line on the board separating the audio section from the rest?
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 month ago:
You’re probably right—I searched for ‘20 mosfets in parallel’ or something like that and it came up near the top. But I didn’t read the whole thing.
I guess there’s got to be some reason for using so many though?
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 month ago:
My gut feeling is they didn’t put 20 there in case you scraped one off. But likely the others will have enough leeway to cover for it. If the power rail gets stressed enough, it might well fail sooner than it would have.
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 month ago:
From the TI briefing note:
Paralleling power metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) is a common wayto reduce conduction losses and spread power dissipation over multiple devices to limit the maximum junction temperature.
It would also provide redundancy in case of a failure—if you had only one, and it failed (or was scraped off by an over-enthusiastic GPU installation), you would probably not be going to space today.
- Comment on Chameleons 1 month ago:
Maybe it should try standing incredibly still?
- Comment on Water 1 month ago:
How are you averaging the humans? Or are you averaging testicles?
- Comment on why does everyone i know treat me like a child or if i was a very childlike person?? 1 month ago:
I think I covered this the last time you posted, but swearing isn’t a sign of maturity. It’s generally a sign of limited vocabulary.
You may need to reconsider this view. One example (there are others):
- Comment on 1.58-bit FLUX 1 month ago:
Still not getting the number of fingers right :/
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 2 months ago:
Also depends where you go. We paid £13 at Asda. Pays to shop around.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 months ago:
BuT ThiNk oF tHe laNdFiLL!!!
- Comment on A common nasal decongestant lacks evidence but is still sold in the UK 2 months ago:
I had a dive instructor who recommended snorting a bit of seawater if your nose was blocked and you couldn’t equalise. I’m not sure that’s good advice given the general contents of the sea, but it certainly worked :)
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 2 months ago:
Poll reveals surprising number of editors don’t know how to use the word ‘amount’.
- Comment on dream job 4 months ago:
No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.
- Comment on dream job 4 months ago:
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
- Comment on Science fact 4 months ago:
I wandered in here from computer science, and I’m going back to solving parallel cache coherency for a bit of light relief.
- Comment on Damn right I'm a silly goose 4 months ago:
Big employer in the uk back in the day would fine your boss if you parked outside the lines. People were pretty attentive to how they parked…
- Comment on Flute 4 months ago:
Lelete dater.
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 4 months ago:
That one is … far away.
- Comment on Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm 5 months ago:
Saddameurysm.
- Comment on lolirl 5 months ago:
It probably had quite a lot to do with whether the unknown man in front could possibly be the senator. If he didn’t have white skin, it’s very unlikely to have been who she thought it was.
- Comment on Stained Glass 5 months ago:
They are super cool and super territorial by all accounts. We were in a pop-up pub in a field and this guy kept coming to sit on our hands. I guess we were in his spot…Common Darter
- Comment on Geohydtotypography 6 months ago:
I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.
- Comment on I can whistle at the speed of sound 6 months ago:
It would also still be the speed of light. Always is, unless you specify ‘in a vacuum’ every time.
- Comment on Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs 6 months ago:
Anything’s a regex if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on Linguistics 7 months ago:
Tomomorrow?
Yestesterday?
