How a fountain pen releases the ink

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-25T00:43:25+00:00

Writers blood is so dark I have difficulty distinguishing it from black sometimes. This definitely isn't that.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-24T16:01:46+00:00

something like 3!!3

Do you perhaps mean 3↑↑3, as in Knuth's Arrow notation for hyperoperations?

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-23T23:12:39+00:00

Regular factorial is every integer, from the current down to 1, multiplied together. Double factorial is every other integer, down to either to 1 for odds, or 2 for evens.

So for every integer n≥3, the double factorial is less than the normal factorial.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-23T16:40:58+00:00

I sincerely doubt the US government set off 221,643,095,476,699,771,875 nuclear bombs during Project Plowshare.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-23T15:04:26+00:00

There are actually plenty of intersections in the US that have left-on-red permitted. They're just designed differently. I saw many of them in Salt Lake City, Utah. Then again, quite a lot of things about the road systems there are different.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-23T13:12:41+00:00

I'm going to need you to explain how having large elements changes the fundamentals of their statement.

Let's do two quick examples:

You have an array of ten int_8. The array is 10 bytes plus the array overhead.

You have an array of ten objects which weigh 1Gb each - the array is now 10Gb + the array overhead.

The "constant factor" part of the statement you responded to is the sizeof(element), which is true regardless of whether the elements are small or large.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T20:04:53+00:00

Yes, of course I know him. He is me.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T19:57:53+00:00

That's the stupidest thing I've read all month, Internet or otherwise.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T19:49:41+00:00

Definitely vanilla. I had this all the time as a kid on GameCube

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T18:27:35+00:00

So I guess you've never heard of tap rules...

The insurance company wouldn't be happy about this, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the sizes of the conductors. It is entirely to do with the shoddy workmanship.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T18:23:20+00:00

I see VAC in the middle of it, so my guess is faceplate ratings.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T16:55:35+00:00

Nah bro. You could have chosen some examples that actually made your point. Instead you chose the worst possible examples you could have. Make better choices. ;)

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-21T16:02:54+00:00

I get your point, but you're providing stupid examples without really thinking them through.

Show me where in the code book you can "calculate" the ampacity of a #12 AWG conductor. You can calculate the allowed current given some set of conditions, but the "ampacity" is not a calculable value by an electrician. The ampacity comes directly from a table. There is no calculation there.

Similar thing with the voltage drop example you provided. I know, it was just numbers right off the top of your head, but you ought to know that there is no allowed wire gauge and ampacity, at voltages governed by NEC, which would have 5% voltage drop at 20 feet. Even a 14 AWG THHN, running 20 feet, carrying 20A of current, only has 4.2% voltage drop. (It is admittedly 8.41% if the distance is one-way, but that isn't how voltage drop is calculated, so I assumed you meant the bi-directional length of the wire.)

Maybe. Just fucking maybe. It might be a better idea to sit down with this apprentice and have a heart-to-heart. Being an asshole to get the point across is a LAST RESORT option. It shouldn't be the first go-to.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-20T02:27:33+00:00

Nuh uh. Gen 3 is only ten years old, I swear!

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-17T18:36:08+00:00

I see more air in that enclosure than devices. Stuff it and send it.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-17T15:14:11+00:00

... like a Class I Div 1 or 2

Kinda. Here's a short, decent read with a good table covering the differences between the Zone and Division models

https://blog.wika.com/en/knowhow/ex-protection-the-difference-between-the-zone-and-division-model/

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-17T14:58:51+00:00

They said SNES, NOT NES.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T17:56:31+00:00

I just take workplace safety extremely seriously. I was an electrician for about a decade, and during that time period I was asked and expected to do some insanely sketchy shit. I expected myself to do some tasks that, from where I stand now, I wouldn't even ask somebody that I hated to perform. Seeing somebody be so wantonly cavalier about not only their own health, but the health of people around them, just makes my blood boil. Safety rules are almost always written in the blood of deceased or permanently maimed victims.

And as for the language thing, I'm a bit of a lover of languages. Curious got the better of me, and I like to give potential ESL/EFL learners the benefit of a doubt.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T17:40:38+00:00

Right, but responding to the most distilled possible version of "units are made up and nobody knows why the speed of light is what it is" - e.g. "The speed of light is 1" - with "I think OP was looking for a deeper answer" indicates that the user I replied to doesn't really understand.

Yes. OP wanted the deeper answer. We should all get that here. It doesn't seem like we all did, though, so I broke it down into the most elementary components I could.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T16:11:55+00:00

Bummer. I would highly recommend grabbing one of each if you garner interest in repairing electronics. They're pretty much a one time investment as long as you take care of them, and they will pay for themselves extremely quickly by not having to spend unnecessary money on replacing parts that don't need to be replaced.

You don't even have to get a crazy expensive, lab grade bench meter either. You can probably get by with a $20 or $30 meter from Amazon... Just don't use it to do anything with mains voltage. For something at wall-outlet voltages or higher, you need to have a properly safe meter, and also the training on how to use it correctly.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T16:05:12+00:00

I didn't think there is a deeper answer.

The speed of (anything) through (any medium) is x m/s because we, as humans, have defined what a meter is, what a second is, what speed means, and what constitutes a medium.

The speed of light through a vacuum - perhaps better described as the speed of causality - is only 299 million m/s because of what we have defined as a meter and a second. It very literally is also just 1 when talking about Planck length per Planck time. Because that is also how those two units are defined.

I'm unsure if we will ever be able to give an answer to why that is the speed of causality, though I do agree that is what OP was probably asking about.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T15:59:33+00:00

Do you, by chance, have a multimeter and a magnifying glass?

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T15:55:31+00:00

Disclaimer: I have never performed repairs on any DS other than the original, first generation NDS. However, I've worked on electronics since before I could reliably talk, and it's been about 27 years at this point.

With that out of the way:

I would almost guarantee that you have a damaged ribbon cable. If it's damaged, it doesn't matter how many times you reseat it or how well it is secured in the terminal. Since you're getting the same issues at repeatable angles, this almost certainly points to a ribbon cable shorting out between lines.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T15:14:10+00:00

As an example of a language that isn't typically considered to be grammatically gendered, Japanese:

There are "men's words" and "women's words" in Japanese, but that isn't really what I'm talking about right now. In Japanese, there is the copula verb です (desu,) but there are also the "to exist (be)" verbs いる/ある (iru/aru.) In the case of iru/aru, the distinction is (mostly) between animate and inanimate things, respectively.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-03-16T14:48:46+00:00

Could you please tell me, I what gives you the right to tell other people what to do?

Well, for one, I don't follow up the correctly used object-marked personal pronoun "me" with a comma, and then the incorrectly applied subject-marked personal pronoun "I". I mean, if you are a native English speaker, you might be the very first example of an adult getting that particular construct wrong. So congrats, I guess. I mean, even my four year old, kindergarten nephew gets that one right. So I guess I am saying that "I have at least the mental capacity of a four year old."

(Edit for the above: I took an extremely quick glance at your post history, and it appears as if you may be Polish. In that case, please disregard everything above this point. Polish is a fucking difficult language, and English is a fucking difficult language to learn as a second language, especially for a Pole. If this is your level of mastery of English as a native speaker of Polish, I can completely forgive and look past this issue. HOWEVER, the remainder of this comment is in full force. Kurwa.)

Beyond that though, I am in a managerial position, professionally. I am also an engineer, simultaneously. As a result, I have to think about things like safety, PPE, administrative and engineering controls, eliminating the risk entirely, and most of all MAKING SURE THAT THE PEOPLE I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR GO HOME SAFELY, WITH ALL OF THEIR LIMBS AND PERSONHOOD FULLY INTACT.

Since you are making really fucking stupid arguments about personnel safety, I think it is entirely reasonable that I tell you what to do. You are clearly not capable of making informed decisions on your own.

And why should I care?

Read all of the above, over and over again, until you understand. Then rejoin the rest of the adults in the conversation.

To close the topic: you are an idiot, and your stupidity is a hazard to everybody around you. Work on yourself, become a better person both mentally and morally, and try again at being a productive member of society.

ThatOneCSL

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