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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly off the top of my head I wouldn't know that the Niger is Africa's third longest river, so I'm glad they call it that, since it makes the whole story more interesting than just an arbitrary river doing a weird thing.

Besides.. it gives it that clickbatey touch of " oooh, i wonder what's tge third longest river in africa! Better pause and check the article!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's probably south of something though, unless you're at the north pole

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

That's a normal housecat. Not sure what people are confused about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I bet that spoon has some iron

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like you dodged a bullet, if that's how the CEO reacts to you declining the offer. Just imagine how they'd react to somone actually making a mistake at work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

If he falls over, he can't get back up because the feet can't touch the ground anymore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is normal for anyone who ever dumpster dived at a bread factory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now i'm disappointed.. i thought you took a picture with an old digital camera that scanned the picture line-by-line, and the cat somehow managed to jump up midframe, without ending up blurry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's a conspiracy, orchestrated by Big Adapter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That password is not very secure, you should come up with a longer one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Rly? My daily driver is GNU grep

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Unfortunately I cannot find it anywhere online. It doesn't help that there is no brand name on it ;)

EDIT: The product is http://milebv.eu/index.php/products/product/25 (thanks to @[email protected] for finding it!)

I used to buy this at a local vegan store (veganz at Warschauerstr in Berlin), but that store closed a while ago.

It was the most amazing mock duck I've had, but now I can't find it anywhere else. All I have is this picture (I don't even remember why I took it, probably to tell someone how amazing it is).

As far as I recall the product was made in Taiwan, not sure if that helps.

Of course, any other suggestions for tasty mock duck are welcome too, since I just love this stuff 😋

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What kind of screw is this? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

EDIT: I believe I found the answer, it's something turned by this: https://ctatools.com/products/5065

Found some trash on the street that i'd like to take apart, but this screw is in my way.

It's like a hex bolt, but with 5 sides, and rounded (a bit like flower petals).

Here's another picture from the top:

I tried turning it with various tools (hard to get pliars in unfortunately), no success so far. The material is very soft, which doesn't help..

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help (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

I can't recall a time when I wasn't lost in the inner solar system. Currently I'm stuck on the third dot - how do I proceed?

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The picture shows today's XKCD comic.

Transcript:

[A grayed-out sentence in the Times New Roman font reads "Optimistic aliens measure space typographically". The "O" in "Optimistic" is dark black and indicated as representing the Sun (not to scale). The dots of the letters "i" in the sentence are similarly dark black. The dot in the first "i" in "Optimistic" is indicated as representing Mercury; the dot in the second "i" represents Venus; the dot in the third "i" represents Earth. The dot in the "i" in "aliens" is indicated as representing Mars. The dot in the "i" in "typographically" is indicated as representing Jupiter. A measurement bar indicates that the distance between the "O" and the third "i" in "Optimistic" is equivalent to 1 AU (astronomical unit).]

[Caption below the panel:] 
Space tip: if you're ever lost in the inner Solar System, you can just type out the phrase "Optimistic aliens measure space typographically" in Times New Roman and use the dots as a map.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I am powering a 5V microcontroller (arduino clone, atmega328p) using a 9V block and a buck converter. Now I want to let the microcontroller occasionally measure the battery voltage, so I can get an idea of how full it is.

My first idea was to use a simple voltage divider:

I've chosen the resistor values so that:

  • the voltage at the measure output is < 1.1V, to be able to use the 1.1V internal reference of the atmega's ADC
  • R1 || R2 < 10kΩ, since the atmega datasheet says "The ADC is optimized for analog signals with an output impedance of approximately 10 kΩ or less"

This is great and all, but what bothers me is that this circuit will constantly draw ~100µA from the battery.

So, my next thought was to add a mosfet to the divider, to switch it on only while measuring:

This is obviously bad, because now when the mosfet is off, the ADC input sees the whole battery voltage.

To address that issue, I've added a second mosfet into the measure path:

This works, and it does not draw any current, except while measuring.

However, it's quite a few parts. So I'm curious if anyone has an idea how to do this with just a single mosfet. It seems to me like it should be possible, but I haven't figured out how.

Oh, and if I'm doing something stupid here, please tell me :)

 

I have a whole bunch of them. They are possibly a bit older (70s, 80s) judging by other contents of the junk box they are from.

There are no labels of any kind, but on the top they have stripes that look hand painted.

For at least some of them the resistance roughly corresponds to the color code.

So, I'm just curious why I can't find anything about these on the internet.

 
 

Does anybody know a source for the IARU bandplan (such as this) in a machine-readable form? Or something similar?

I'm mainly interested in the frequency ranges for each mode, and the maximum bandwidth. Typical channel spacing would also be nice info.

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