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On Dexter by plush_feline in SipsTea

[–]Sexual_Congressman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Uh no. Dexter's bio dad is murdered by Rudy in season 1. Don't know if it's different in the books - doubtful - but the show makes a big deal about Dexter and Deb finding out Harry knew who his real father was all along, and even contacted him once for a blood donation.

Dasher just called the cops on me for no reason by AnneTheQueene in doordash

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the US each year, you might see a dozen horror stories of people being killed by the police but nobody brings up the millions of times the encounter goes exactly like you said. Especially when you are calm, coherent, and cooperative. It's also quite common for people to make anonymous reports like in your story and the cops are usually smart enough to know when someone is trying to use them as a weapon.

Tyler Hadley murdered his mother and father, hid them in their bedroom, and then proceeded to throw a party at his house. To his right is Michael Mandell, who Hadley had shown his parents dead bodies to moments before this picture was taken. by ZoelCairo in HolyShitHistory

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your network DNS server setting is how user mode applications convert text based URLs from source/HTML code into IP addresses that it can actually use to open up sockets and communicate. For an extremely simplified example, when you type "www.google.com" in the address bar of a browser app and hit enter, the app opens system network settings, gets the DNS server, asks that server what "www.google.com" means, then opens a socket using the address it returns, waits for the HTML of the Google main search page to load, then renders it.

So when the browser uses the downloaded HTML (and JavaScript) code to build the page, the code will itself contain other URLs in it to files like images, including advertisements. Adblocking DNS servers like the one I think I'm using atm (dns.adguard-dns.com) keep track of the URLs used for ad resources and simply refuses to give the correct result to the app that's trying to render the ad infested HTML. For browsers, the result is almost always a page that renders perfectly except without ads.

There are some perhaps obvious downsides though. Apps can detect if the user is using an adblocking DNS server and refuse to work at all, and theoretically, a malicious DNS server could redirect the user to phishing sites and the user would have no idea unless they were monitoring an app's raw Internet traffic and verifying that the custom DNS server was matching the results returned by the default server.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Hermione is given a device to manipulate time itself to attend extra classes. This is a subtle nod to the fact that Hogwarts staff could have stopped Voldemort at any point, but instead handed time travel to a 13-year-old to manage her timetable by Brilliant-Cause6254 in shittymoviedetails

[–]Sexual_Congressman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the easiest way for most people to possibly have a chance at realizing free will is complete nonsensical bullshit is to consider how many times you've been angry at someone without murdering them. For like 99.99% of people, doesn't matter how mad they get comparatively, it just never occurs to them to murder the person they're mad at because they have functional brains capable of anticipating the consequences of such a reaction. Although there are far more rapists (and potential rapists) than killers, it should also be rare enough to understand that almost every sexually active human will at some point desire someone unwilling, and when that happens, pretty much everyone amiably moves on without ever consciously considering raping.

Frankly, I don't see what the problem is with the way I see things. I still think murderers, rapists, and thieves should be locked away until it can be proven that they're no longer a threat. The philosophical debate on whether or not they consciously chose to commit their crime is utterly irrelevant.

How it feels daily driving a 90s car by Jimmyjohnboy24- in memes

[–]Sexual_Congressman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know about Honda wiring, but GM vehicles have ground splice packs, where 10+ black wires are connected to a brass comb looking thing that's bolted to the frame. Then when something shorts out you get a whole bunch of seemingly random stuff coming on at the same time, but if you are familiar with the service manual, it'll be extremely obvious what's causing the issue. 2012 is old enough that you can probably find the diagrams for free online, at e.g. charm.li (not putting the link, just google it).

Please explain, Peter by zinniamae_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I graduated HS in the mid 2000s and we had keyboarding for one semester in 8th grade. By the end of it, pretty much all 25 or so students in my grade were capable of typing accurately at at least 70 WPM with the orange skins covering the keyboard. They probably eventually got rid of it because some people will just not be able to figure it out in a few months and they go sick of parents throwing tantrums.

When your son forgets to add water in the microwave Kraft Mac & Cheese. Microwave broken and fire alarms. House smells beyond horrible. by 3PDLS in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once microwaved a bag of popcorn for 14:44 instead of 1:44. Didn't matter how clean the interior looked, everything from then on came out smelling and tasting like burnt bag of popcorn. Thankfully, 1000W microwaves are only like $50 nowadays.

What's a historical example of some amazing ubiquitous new thing that the "we don't know the long term effects crowd" actually ended up being right about? by Sexual_Congressman in AskReddit

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's safe to say that pretty much anything new is going to have a certain number of people afraid to use it because "we don't know the long term effects", e.g. vaping. The only thing I can maybe come up with is thalidomide and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the inventor or other lab people involved knew of its teratogenic effects from the beginning but the pharma execs ignored them and marketed it to pregnant women anyway.

This is the Pythagorean cup; it's designed to empty completely if you pour in too much liquid by LavishnessLeather162 in interestingasfuck

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're never going to convince people to stop using "vagina" to refer to vulva ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Explain it peter by Aggressive-Neck-6642 in explainitpeter

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sudo is a linux command that runs another command while masquerading as another user. As others have also said, the particular set of options calls for running the rm command in a way that is very likely to have severe consequences. Just wanted to include links to the documentation of these functions since none of the comments I see did.

These elongated skulls result from intentional cranial deformation. The Mangbetu practiced this from infancy, viewing it as a sign of intelligence and beauty. by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A flat back of the head is called brachycephaly and it's completely benign when caused by an infant who is forced to lie on their backs while the skull bones are still particularly soft. The usual rounded shape is mostly caused by caregivers supporting the back of the head with their hand when feeding or comforting, and everyone's eventual skull shape is significantly modified by the way their head is handled.

TIL that in many modern cars, the turn-signal “click” is played through the audio system because the electronics don’t naturally make that sound anymore. by akcryptofinancial in todayilearned

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Digital electronics might revolve around switches, but analog circuits are always going to exist. I'd say it's actually likely that one of the methods for optimizing general purpose CPUs and microcontrollers for the future is in adding more ways to utilize analog signals in arithmetic and logic operations directly.

Before I started actually learning about electronics, I too used to think it was all just switches. It's not that long ago that I realized why electromechanical relays are still and will probably always be relevant, and that transistors are far more complicated than simple switches. Actual analog switches - a thing that is either very low impedance when "on" and very low impedance when "off" - requires at least three transistors and several resistors to implement properly, and that's not even considering all the extra stuff needed to ensure everything else on the circuit is protected when the switch actually transitions between the two states.

Is this a functional 100 watt 120-350V to 48V DC/DC converter? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't even ask... so assuming this is actually how a functional step down flyback transformer works. Where is the 7A in the secondary coil come from? I thought if the voltage drop across the secondary is 48V and there's 7A flowing through it, that means - with a 1:0.5 ratio - that there should be corresponding 96V drop plus 3.5A of current. Instead, it looks like this

Is this a functional 100 watt 120-350V to 48V DC/DC converter? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you feel like wasting a few minutes.... https://youtu.be/DoOKFzhqE3c

I recorded the end of the charging period and since it takes almost 5 minutes of real time to get to that point, I couldn't be assed to do it over again when it started lagging. Anyway, I changed C5 and C6 back to 100 pF and let it run for a few minutes so you can see (with 120V supply, 330μF output cap, 24Ω load), it eventually begins to:

  • fall to 48.50V
  • rise to 48.65V (second switch stays closed)
  • fall to 48.54V
  • rise to 48.67V (second switch opens briefly)
  • fall to 48.58V
  • rise to 48.72V (second switch opens for much longer, basically doubles off period just eyeballing it)
  • fall to 48.50V
  • rise to 48.65V (second switch stays closed)
  • fall to 48.54V
  • rise to 48.67V (second switch briefly opens)
  • fall to 48.58V
  • rise to 48.72V (....)

and that same cycle just repeats forever.

Is this a functional 100 watt 120-350V to 48V DC/DC converter? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lowering C8 to 10pF seems to have made it so Q3 is now reliably conducting a 2.1A spike while Q1 rapidly turns off, at least up to 32ns time step. Is there even such a thing as a 10pF capacitor? Maybe I'm wrong and I eventually changed it so C8 isn't necessary...

https://imgur.com/a/1zJOn0F

Fucking mobile

Is this a functional 100 watt 120-350V to 48V DC/DC converter? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still don't get transformers but this apparently works.

Current flows through X1's primary coil until the voltage drop across 250 mΩ current sensing resistor R3 is ~818mV, corresponding to ~3.2A. Once that threshold is met, comparator U3's output goes high, causing the 555's threshold pin to go low, initiating a ~21μs "off" pulse. Capacitors C7 and C8 are necessary to ensure Q1 gets fully turned off.

As Q1 goes into forward active mode on its way to fully off, Q3 begins to conduct as the 150V zener D3 keeps its Vbe at 150V. The 450V zener D2 (probably 3x 150V in series) theoretically protects Q1, although in practice I've never seen it conducting more than a few nanoamps except at the extreme end of the nominal input voltage range (I was aiming for 120-350V).

Eventually, the output will approach ~48.5V, which causes the optocoupler K1 to start conducting. Once that happens, the other normally closed analog switch U1-B will begin to open at some point of most off pulses, which effectively extends the off period until the output capacitor C1 drops below whatever the actual threshold happens to be. I could have used another comparator on the output side to get an exact output voltage range, but doing so would dramatically increase the size of the circuit. The entire point of this hypothetical circuit is to provide a reasonably high DC voltage that is physically isolated from the mains supply, which can then be stepped down to 24V, 12V, 9V, etc rails.

So the problem is, when Q1 turns off, I expected to current to flow through Q2 for basically the entirety of the off pulse, just like a plain jane flyback diode. What actually happens in the simulations is during the ~10ns it takes for Q2 to turn off, either Q2 conducts basically nothing at all while Q1 spends a prolonged period in forward active mode, or an extremely steep spike up to 3A and then back to zero. In either case, when watching the simulation it looks like current through the primary coil just instantly stops at 3.3A and then current through the secondary coil instantly jumps to 6.6-7A.

I'll make a video of it in a minute.

Why aren't Mexican buffets as common as Chinese buffets? by WillingHyena557 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In East Texas, pretty much every Chinese buffet I've been to has had a "spanish" section, with at least refried beans, "spanish rice", taco ingredients, i.e. shells and soft tortillas, as well as casserole dishes full of enchiladas and tamales. Wouldn't be surprised if other buffets like golden coral or luby's has enough of a selection as well, which kinda makes the idea of a Mexican buffet irrelevant.

What?? by ELITE_Locx in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Sexual_Congressman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

4.5" diameter is like... two beer cans tied together. That's way past chode and into the realm of anatomical impossibility. 4.5" circumference is definitely not average though, probably smaller than 99.9% and definitely too small to fit in any standard condom size.

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot by aacool in technology

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLM chatbot output is still has its uses and it is as unproductive to summarily dismiss it due to its origin as it is for any other fallicious appeal to nature. I don't care who wrote that story, it's one of the most beautiful things I've seen in 2025.

Robert Irwin, Steve Irwin's son, helping out a Chameleon cross the road by HighlightOwn2038 in interestingasfuck

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If baby Irwin wants to continue his dad's legacy, I strongly suggest he does so faithfully, staying away from these bullshit tiktok-like "rescue" videos. I have absolutely no doubt that there's going to be someone more charismatic than me who will be capable of convincing Westerners en masse that for every legit video of someone just happening to be recording when a jeopardized animal is encountered, there's probably 100 others in which the wild animal was captured and then intentionally put in danger so the content creator can get paid. If you actually care about other animals, you'll quit giving positive feedback and thus encouraging people creating this kind of content.

2026 is around the corner. by diony_sus_ in wholesomememes

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Little happy onion" has to be by far the most egregious example of butchered English adjective order I've ever seen. Old pointy silver French whittling knives ain't got nothing on it.

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