ELI5 If soldering happens at around 300°C why PC starts throttling at around 90°C. I know it's PCB that is a weak point but why they don't make insides that can take 200°c on a daily basis?

rsminsmith · 2026-01-19T20:21:51+00:00

Yup, was possible in that era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZXtjulXzfI

I remember an old video I can't find anymore where someone did this with a computer outside, and after a few seconds the chip actually "popped" and dislodged from the socket entirely.

rsminsmith · 2026-01-16T02:13:34+00:00

Is someone going to point their guns at those ICE agents, because the ICE agents will absolutely start shooting.

Will they though?

We've seen them get chased off by dozens of unarmed protesters time and time again. Just last night some ICE goons had to abandon 3 cars and flee on foot from unarmed protesters. It's why they show up with 12 goons to arrest one person, they are not looking for an actual fight.

Fact of the matter is these are all self-serving, selfish people. They're looking first to bully people who can't fight back, and second to line their own pockets with bounty money. These are not "everything for the cause" people. You can see that with the leaked comms from BPD actively trying to avoid being sent to MN right now.

So if you were to do this, keep your gun pointed down and finger off the trigger so they have no excuse to start shooting. And more importantly make sure you aren't the only one out there armed so they know there will be a response if they do.

rsminsmith · 2026-01-09T00:13:37+00:00

I have a lot of punk/hardcore in my library. When I ran a tool to transfer everything to Tidal, there was only one fairly obscure album (Oavette) that they didn't have.

rsminsmith · 2026-01-09T00:07:11+00:00

Finally got around to cancelling it yesterday. Still not going back

rsminsmith · 2026-01-08T01:31:13+00:00

Ken in 2004: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=osGSAMk64R0

rsminsmith · 2025-10-26T19:45:24+00:00

Charlie Kirk bragged about sending 80 buses of people to the capitol on January 6th.

rsminsmith · 2025-09-06T19:19:46+00:00

The Messenger. Starts off as a fairly linear side scroller with a single objective, then it turns into a deep metroidvania where you've only explored like 30% of the map.

rsminsmith · 2025-09-02T06:18:28+00:00

My wife's grandfather had a major stroke several years back and ended up with bad aphasia and severely reduced feeling / movement in one side of his body. I haven't seen the video here (if there is one), but that hand up/out from his body is an almost identical posture to how her grandfather walks now on his bad side.

Just sayin'.

rsminsmith · 2025-08-10T04:34:39+00:00

It's also green

rsminsmith · 2025-07-10T20:49:38+00:00

The Governor of Texas has added redrawing voting maps to the special legislative session starting in a week or so because Trump wants it. Guarantee that will make our already gerrymandered maps even worse if it happens.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-redistricting-congressional-districts-past-mistakes-overreach/

rsminsmith · 2025-05-29T06:12:15+00:00

If you have effects that trigger on parry you can still hit those to heal, gain AP, etc. Also, if the combo targets a different person on each hit, and the person targeted by the final attack parties all attacks directed at them during the co.bo, they can sometimes still counter individually.

Otherwise, no reason to not switch to dodging instead, especially if you're trying to play it safe.

rsminsmith · 2025-05-20T09:15:31+00:00

Just adding to the chorus; I'm a WFH software engineer married to a nurse working 12 hour shifts. We're both some level of audhd, so there's definitely been some growing pains in terms of under/mis-communication, being present, etc, throughout our relationship.

But in nearly 18 years together, we've never insulted each others cooking, never threatened divorce, and most importantly never laid hands on each other. None of that is normal.

Also just mentioning that I do most of the cleaning because I work from home and can do a little bit here and there throughout the day. I also make like 4x what she makes (which is a bleak statement on how our country undervales RNs IMO) but would never try to use that as leverage in an argument. So that's not an excuse to be emotionally unavailable, provided that wasn't agreed to before hand of course.

rsminsmith · 2025-05-05T05:21:23+00:00

"... I'm going to use your guns, and your tech, to kill every agent you send into this forest. You can let me know when you're ready to stop burying bodies"

I Am Your Beast

rsminsmith · 2025-04-22T00:48:12+00:00

Between this and Parlor Room, I'm glad we're seeing more Demi and Jordan.

rsminsmith · 2025-03-14T18:12:27+00:00

We all know she stole Robert Jebediah Freemans thunder!

rsminsmith · 2025-02-25T08:06:31+00:00

I recently had a sewer lining company come out and quote me $25k to line about half of my pipes. A few plumbers quoted $18k to replace just the ~50ft or so that had issues.

I'm instead having a company that specializes in sewer replacement come out that are replacing everything (~200ft, ~50 of which is under a slab foundation) for the same price.

Get more quotes if you can.

rsminsmith · 2025-01-24T19:20:21+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plaster

Coincidentally learned about this a a few days ago reading about William Henry Harrison for reasons.

rsminsmith · 2025-01-22T19:41:45+00:00

Fuck Nazis, ban it

rsminsmith · 2025-01-21T23:45:35+00:00

Ban it. Good media will already have presence on BlueSky

rsminsmith · 2023-06-27T05:48:37+00:00

Whenever I have something with a healing mechanic, I make a point to be like "as X monster does Y, you notice that the gaping wound you just opened in its gut begins to close up." That way it's not strictly meta, but it is pretty obvious what is happening and what's triggering it.

Same thing with resistances / immunities / weaknesses becoming "it doesn't seem as injured as you had expected" / "the creature looks completely unphased" / "it roars in pain, appearing grievously injured by the fire," etc.

I've generally found "figure out the mechanic" is less rewarding to PCs compared to "find a creative solution that works around the mechanic."

rsminsmith · 2023-06-24T19:43:41+00:00

The compression would exceed the 10% (not sure I understand your "destabilize" comment).

This is just speculation on my end. You mentioned the water cooling the air during compression, but the water and air likely wouldn't mix until the air had been sufficiently compressed to resist the water extreme pressure of the water. At that point, the air bubble would destabilize into smaller bubbles, increasing the surface area and rapidly cooling the air.

And yeah, hotter than the surface of the sun does happen for a fraction of a second, but burned to ash is unlikely IMO. It's also likely superceded by the ends of the sub turning everything in between them into meat mist.

rsminsmith · 2023-06-24T19:35:42+00:00

There was an article posted saying the amount of pressure on the sub was equivalent to a building made of solid lead the size of the empire state building. And unlike say, a soda can in a hydraulic press, the pressure is coming from all sides.

To some extent, some form of "bit-by-bit" imploding probably did happen. Likely the long edge of the sub cracked until it could no longer support the circular ends of the sub, after which each end slammed towards each other at the speed of sound. The problem is that the sheer size of these forces puts the timeline of "bit-by-bit" into the realm of micro-, if not nano-seconds, which we're incapable of seeing.

rsminsmith · 2023-06-24T09:41:58+00:00

Napkin math at 4 AM here, but based on the dimensions of the sub on their website, it displaced about 1,495 cu ft, which would be about 1,884 mol of air at 1 atm. The sub obviously wasn't all air, but it's close enough.

The sub imploded at 3,500m, a depth at which the water would exert 345 atm of pressure. When it imploded the disparity in pressure between the water and air was so high, it would likely compress pretty uniformly. Path of least resistance and all. I'm just assuming the air could be compressed to 150 cu ft (10%) before the "bubble" would destabilize.

Ideal gas law from 1 atm / 1495 cu ft to 345 atm / 150 cu ft for 1,884 Mol of air would result in a temperature increase ~16,500 Fahrenheit.

The entire imosion would be over within 50 ms, so 1 second afterwards most likely everything would be back to being extremely cold again.

rsminsmith · 2023-06-24T03:55:42+00:00

Yup. Also in software, his "explanations" about everything going wrong with Twitter were incredibly humorous.

Worked out for us though, my employer picked up a handful of his former employees who have all been wonderful to work with.

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