Jerkface (any/all)

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I had a degreed engineer ask me to help them tally the count of screen objects because they kept losing track. There were just over 10 items. I told them they needed to discuss the issue with their manager because clearly that’s a problem.

    Dude, that’s not someone who didn’t learn to count, that’s someone experiencing a cognitive issue or who has a learning disability. Don’t be a dick. Just count the things. Please use your intact senses and faculties to help others when you have the opportunity.






  • Voltage is like air or water pressure, and there is an ambient pressure in a system (like the atmospheric pressure) that we arbitrarily call zero. Negative (*) voltage would mean that there is enough voltage/pressure to force electrons to be emitted to ground (ie the ambient pressure) and positive (*) voltage would mean that electrons can be accepted by ground.

    *) Negative and positive are a bit confusing because we originally assumed the charge carrying particle was positive, but the electron turned out to be negative; there were some historical quirks as a consequence and some things are backwards from what you would anticipate, and sometimes I get them wrong.