Failed electrical engineering major here - it turned out I was built to be a scientist, not an engineer, but it took a year of EE classes to figure that out.

Regarding energy storage, capacitors aren’t much different than batteries, but they can charge/discharge faster, have lower energy density (units of stored energy per units mass), and self-discharge faster, hence why they aren’t used in place of batteries. For something where weight and volume aren’t an issue and with no need for long-term storage, like a solar-equipped house, a huge cap would be a great option. I’m trying to figure out how to build one of what’s described it the article now.

The rate at which a capacitor discharges varies just like a battery, proportional to the resistance of the circuit. The reason most folks associate capacitors with “shorted terminals go boom” is the maximum rate of discharge on a capacitor is much higher than a battery, plus some capacitors operate at a much higher voltage than is practical for a battery, increasing the likelihood of generating a small arc. Shorting the terminals with a conductor makes a low resistance circuit so it just dumps its charge, whereas a battery would max out at a much lower rate, typically making a toasty wire versus a vaporized or melted wire.

Speak for yourself, I might make one!

Or accessible at all!

Edit: this picture is getting so much mileage this year.

People are much nicer as a whole here. I was on Reddit for years and I started to dread seeing I had replies to my comments. I’m actually excited when I get responses here.

You’re not supposed to chew them?! I love oysters but I chew them up.

That was over a decade ago. She now receives 49% of merchandizing profit.

Habitual consumption of even small amounts of processed meat, sugary drinks, and trans fatty acids…

Followed by

The data showed that people who ate as little as one hot dog a day …

As little as one hot dog a day? I eat like one every few months. How many hot dogs is the average American eating daily?

I think you nailed it. There are definite upsides to macOS, especially for less tech savvy users, but they gouge the hell out of the denizens of their walled garden.

I don’t think the biggest concerns about Windows are about functionality. It works perfectly well and even has some neat features. I’m using Linux and I miss the sys + v for clipboard history. The biggest gripe themes I see are the loss of privacy coupled with increasing sales pressure for everything Microsoft.

Edit: I looked it up, of course there’s a Linux equivalent to clipboard history. Added!

I’m surprised they even used it. It doesn’t make sense.

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Bees are brutal. In some colonies, they’ll bee ball queens that are no longer fecund. “Thanks for all the babies, now roast to death!” In others, the new queen beats the old queen to death.

Fucking bees, man. Fucking bees.

You can get/make your own archive link by going to archive.ph and entering the article’s URL.

Here’s the link for this one: https://archive.ph/wUAQn

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Now they’re on to me!

And your helpers and you must be white.

I was poly for about a decade. There’s a lot of solid advice in this thread. The only point I want to hammer home is the amount of unavoidable drama inherent to human romantic relationships increases significantly. It doesn’t just double: going from a two to three person relationship it quadruples.

Nothing disastrous or even bad happened due to being poly. I don’t regret it at all and would consider it again in the future. When I met my current partner and they said they wanted to be monogamous, though, I was happy to take a break.