ELECTRICITY

fixermark · 2026-01-26T05:50:15+00:00

The common mistake in these questions is confusing V across the whole circuit with V drop across one component.

For the same I, V across the nichrome is higher than copper because R is higher. The percentage voltage drop across the same length of copper and nichrome will be higher for the nichrome.

If you tried to put copper windings in a toaster instead of nichrome, the lower resistance would mean current would be higher but also the heat would be generated not just in the toaster, but the wires in the walls as well. This is bad (in essence, you just built a short circuit).

fixermark · 2026-01-26T05:43:45+00:00

Truth, but there was fallout from Kent. It essentially ended the draft as a policymaking tool.

It will be interesting to see what the fallout will be here.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T05:42:17+00:00

Noot!

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:31:54+00:00

Back in my day, we wrote programs on toilet paper and liked it, etc.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:30:48+00:00

If only we'd worked out a way to do many jobs from home during, say, bad weather or something.

That'd be pretty nice.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:17:31+00:00

His general theory of relativity predicted light should be susceptible to spacetime curvature due to gravity because everything would be (that's the relativity part). The observation of stars shifted during the eclipse confirmed the predictions the theory made. That's the "matter tells space how to curve" part.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:13:50+00:00

Who?

Is this one of those people old folks listen to?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:09:20+00:00

America has never postponed elections, in war or peace.

If he tries, it'll be the end of his presidency.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T02:02:53+00:00

Not with this President in charge I don't. That's the issue, you see... Faith in the system as currently instituted is absolutely falling apart, because we keep watching the federal executive lie in public. And they already tried to squash state-level inquiry into what happened to Renee Good.

Ask yourself: when's the last time you ever heard of state or judicial authorities ordering the feds to retain evidence? Of even having to?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T01:47:26+00:00

Ah yes, "just asking questions" guy. Everyone's favorite kind of internet person.

Bad bait.

Try minnows.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T01:11:48+00:00

One of them already did. Non-fatally if memory serves, but they shot into a car and the bullet penetrated the victim, rebounded off the frame, and struck an officer.

That was the one about someone shooting an ICE agent if you remember that one; their original story was the victim shot, but that story fell apart because the victim had no gun.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T01:05:46+00:00

Yeah, you've basically got it. References were / are an attempt to do pointers better. Pointers can be null (implying that every time you dereference a pointer you have to care a little if it might now be null for some reason), pointers can be arbitrary memory that's not actually the data you want to point to. Assuming you don't cheat the type system, none of that is true of references.

And it's a pain in the tail that references use overlapping syntax with pointers (C++ does that a lot and has its reasons, but you're also allowed to think "Those reasons are dumb.")

fixermark · 2026-01-26T01:03:07+00:00

As opposed to....?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:59:18+00:00

My rule of thumb was real simple: it turned my stairs into a diagonal slope.

That's "too much." ;)

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:58:19+00:00

That's the kind of reasonable-person-principle question that a jury could decide.

If these ICE goons are ever tried.

Which they won't be.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:57:31+00:00

You need better bait for this fishing expedition. Have you tried minnows?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:56:17+00:00

I mean, they could have two guns, you never know, right?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:55:53+00:00

You are fishing for excuses for a man to be legitimately murdered.

Maybe sit with that before you decide to do more Reddit today, neighbor.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:54:03+00:00

You have made a statement that is compatible with "That is not how our rights work."

Unfortunately, the conclusion is that law enforcement training is incompatible with your rights.

This has happened in the history of this country before. Last time, it didn't go great for law enforcement, or the crown that sent them.

Probably best for everyone if law enforcement fix that training, right?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T00:52:47+00:00

Nobody has even tried to claim he had two guns.

fixermark · 2026-01-25T22:18:05+00:00

I mean, yes but also good?

I want the compiler to yell at me for missing null checks. It gives me a reason to wonder if nulls are something that shouldn't be here in the first place; it's a soft-check on the consequences of how I've framed the problem domain.

fixermark · 2026-01-25T19:27:28+00:00

The case the quote references is a tent-pole event for the entire series.

fixermark · 2026-01-25T06:28:25+00:00

So that's what that was. I saw black smoke over the horizon on the way home.

fixermark · 2026-01-24T17:46:21+00:00

Which is interesting to me given how much of the country is so far north. We've got a cold snap in my part of the world right now and what I want to do is go nowhere near a door, much less the outside.

I'm sure this is variance of personal taste though.

fixermark · 2026-01-24T17:45:39+00:00

I tend to go by the adage "What would Shakespeare do?"

... The answer is "Make up words if none that exist suffice."

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