@madietlx that book, Getting Started In Electronics. It has diagrams where the electrons have smiley faces, and it was written at exactly the level I needed. I was able to do the build the logic gate project, and suddenly the stuff in my E&M class started making a lot more sense.
@madietlx One semester in college I was taking Electricity and Magnetism, and Computer Architecture. For CA I had to build a logic gate device. I pulled out my E&M textbook and realized that I had no idea what I was doing. Went to Radio Shack to buy transistors and spotted …
@Cardboard0G@momo__eigo “Y’all” is different from these other abbreviations because it started as part of a regional dialect (southeastern US), not as part of making chat/sms more efficient. It’s great because English lacks a clear difference between “you” (singular) and “you” (plural).
@eevblog Biblical tradition. From the Book of Armaments: “Three shall be the number thou shalt jump, and the number of the jumping shall be three. Four shalt thou not jump, neither jump thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.”
@mattbramanti Huntsman, I’ve had a few of them. I hid one of them in some garbage outside LaGuardia airport before I went into security, then found it again on my way home.