Grumpydaddy

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[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

"You and I have memories, longer than the road that stretches out ahead" is such a simple yet powerful lyric that captures how I feel about my relationship with my wife. Knowing we have more time in the past then what is left for us in the future is both amazing and daunting. Realizing how many great memories we made through those years. All of that captured in one line of one of their lesser songs. But, if they aren't your cup of tea, that's cool too.

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My favorite way of shooting myself in the foot.

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Stocks also represent a company's net asset value. So, unlike crypto, a shareholder would be compensated by the sale of a company's assets in the event of its liquidation. Crypto has no such safety net.

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is the first photo I've seen of an owl that doesn't look mad as hell and ready to rip your face off.

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I vote with my wallet. I don't buy games that have scummy conditions or requirements. There are too many other choices out there to justify supporting companies who treat their customers poorly.

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You forgot to include alcohol!

Seriously, though, it just appears to me that it wouldn't take much to turn that situation into a tragedy but I don't know a darn thing about sailing. I went one a few charity motorcycle rides and they felt the same: too many people who's abilities are unknown and mostly likely more than a few who were drinking.

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Beautiful, but the first thing to come to mind: "That looks like an accident waiting to happen"

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Using that logic, can we also get rid of Stroll?

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

An all time classic!

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are you saying that the rules did not strictly forbid this system prior to Miami and the underlined text was added to the regulations to eliminate the loophole RBR was using to help win?

[–] Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think you want the screwdriver to seat as far down as possible so I would recommend you dig out the glue

 

Kind of an ELI5, but I tune a radion into a specific frequency to listen to a station. If that frequency is constantly being modulated (changed), how is the radio not going in and out of tune? I expect it is finding a way to measure multiple frequencies around the tuned station and decodes the data from it's deviation from the tuned frequency?

 

I'm trying to understand what's happening in this circuit:

I------------------T1 (+333V)
I                 I
I                 R1(10K)
(pos)             I
1000V             I------------gnd (0V)
(neg)             I
I                 R2(10K)
I                 I
I                 IT2(-333V)
I                 I
I                 R3(10K)
I                 I
I-----------------IT3 (-666.7V)

I am learning basic DC theory from reading and sometimes I come across something I'd like to ask a question about, so:

  1. In the above circuit, without the ground, the voltage across all components would begin at 10V and finish at 0V. By adding a ground, I'm basically saying "here is 0V" and everything gets redefined in reference to that point and I end up with a 10 volt circuit with +3.33 as it's highest voltage and -6.667 as it's lowest.

  2. The electrons could care less, they still flow from the anode to the cathode of the battery under normal conditions, going from the highest potential to the lowest.

  3. This example was only used to demonstrate voltage dividers. It revolved around worker protection present in aluminum processing. Each machine is in series and mobile grounds are used nearest the machine a worker is using. I assume that this allows the worker to have the least exposure to electrical shock as they are also at ground potential?

I actually think working though these questions has cleared everything up, but please, comment on anything I got wrong.

Also, sorry about the crappy drawing, the autowrap in this editor really made things tough to format

Thanks!

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