skells @skells@qoto.org

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Electronics is full of "It's not a bug, it's a feature"-type inventions.

* Inductors stop functioning at high current due to core saturation? Add a control winding to the core, now you can make a magnetic switch or amplifier by driving the core in and out of saturation.

* Diodes burn out and become a short circuit after taking too much power? Put them in a chip as factory one-time programmable fuses.

* Diodes create a large current spike before it turns off due to reverse recovery? Use that spike to make a pulse generator, special Step Recovery Diode can generate picosecond pulses.

* Noise from Zener voltage references is just too strong? Make a standard noise source to test radio receivers.

* Your electrolytic capacitors are really crappy and have high resistance? Use them as free resistive dampers to suppress LC resonance and parasitic oscillations in power supplies. (Yes, replacing crappy capacitors with good low-ESR ones can actually destabilize some power supplies)... #electronics

> If you invite one European to a war, it's only polite that you invite them all.

"....just a reminder that the good guys don't always win...they sometimes prevail, but it often takes centuries...until then...party on"

Sincerely, buddies for life,
Genghis Khan

the average person overseas knows more about the dollar than the average american

"Pornography and sex work seems to just make monsters of physical pleasure. The connection is gone. I remember hearing studies done on those who use pornography regularly. When they were shown a picture of a woman (men viewing pornographic images of women regularly, that is) they found the area of their brain that activated was the same that would activate when viewing objects, like a hammer or tool. Those who did not view pornography had another part of their brain activate when shown a picture of a woman, one associated with relationships and empathy. I think it has a major negative affect, but our society won't even entertain the thought that it might."

"This also illustrates how important good fathers are to young women. There are things that, for the most part, only a mother can provide for her children--but there are some things that only fathers can, and single-mother homes will be destitute of them. One of those vital fatherly things is a true understanding of male sexuality.

A good father won't let sleezy guys date his daughter, because, as a man, he knows their intentions better than she does. And sometimes it's necessary for a father to help his daughter(s) understand the emotional difference between female sexuality and male sexuality, because they're not the same."

Agreed. Although I do worry whether the men growing up today are aware of these differences so that when they become fathers they can impart that wisdom to their daughters.

"Broadly speaking, Femininity is the wellspring of life itself, and Masculinity is the guardian of that wellspring that has evolved or been created to protect it, our societies are shaped by the interactions between them, walls are built to defend it. Modernity has forgotten the inherent value of femininity and forgot its roots, seeing women as interchangeable objects and men not as guardians but as disposable future-problems to be neutered and penned, though women are seen as just as disposable these days too but that's more at a surface level, deep down society / the public conscious still has a more or less subconscious rejection of that idea, stronger than the rejection of the masculine as men have always been the somewhat more sacrificial sex that has always been on the font lines and has risked death for the preservation of women and children. When the nobility and heroism behind that sacrifice is lost, men are left out to dry, and left confused as to the purpose of aggression and physicality as problems to be tamed."

This does make me think... have we forgotten these roots, if so... how do we remember them again?

@skells @augustus @lain

Definitely, for a long time he was the person I would most like to meet in real life.

Never meet your heroes, they say, I think it's also better to not follow them on Twitter either.