I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • For work, we got some of the HP AI Ryzen Max 390 laptops with 64 gigs of soldered on 8000 MHz DDR5 memory, and holy shit, I have never felt such a snappy, responsive computer.

    Like the comparison between my laptop with the 13950X and 64 gigs of memory at 4800 megahertz and this Ryzen ai 390 feels very much like when we first started getting SSDs and making the transition from spinning rust to SSD.

    And I know that a huge portion of that is due to the fact that the ram is twice as fast. But still, it is simply snappy. It’s nice, and it makes me jealous that these are not computers for me, but for someone else.


  • Counterpoint, like, I can draw things, but I can’t draw people, but I have used AI to generate pictures of people that I can then trace to learn how to draw people, and because it’s a new person, and it’s something I’m in control of, I feel more encouraged to fire up Krita and work on my drawing.

    I still suck, don’t get me wrong, but I have done more artwork since having access to AI art tools than I did for several years prior to that.

    There’s just something about having an idea of knowing what the finished output is supposed to look like that helps me figure out how to draw what I’m supposed to draw.

    And eventually I will be fully drawing my own stuff from scratch, thanks to using AI as a self-learning tool.




  • I saw a movie that had the actress that played Rita Repulsa in it as the mail order bride of a random side character who would occasionally sneak away to the bar across the street from their house and shoot ping pong balls out of her pussy.

    It’s not really relevant to this conversation, but every single time Rita Repulsa is mentioned in some thread somewhere, I always go back to seeing the ping-pong balls flying from between her legs.

    I think it was the movie about drag queens going across Australia.




  • bizarroland@fedia.iotoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3106: Farads
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    3 months ago

    Capacitors can be used to remove ripple from a DC current. Ripple is basically alternating current that is running along a DC current. So, attenuation, I believe, is the correct terminology.

    They generally don’t completely get rid of AC, and they don’t perfectly filter it out unless they are perfectly matched for the AC, and even then, I don’t know of any capacitors that are used in lieu of a full-bridge rectifier or half-bridge rectifier to convert AC to DC.

    I could very well be wrong. I am far from an electronics expert, But this is what my understanding tells me.


  • And when they are used for air-conditioning units, they are typically boost capacitors, which means they store up a nice amount of juice for when the compressor powers on and needs a sudden rush of energy, but that’s only a very small amount, like you couldn’t crank a car with the amount of energy in these capacitors.











  • I have a friend who went through something pretty similar, ended up spending ten years alone except for when people would come over to see him.

    Eventually he pulled out of it and is married now, And if everything can work out for him, then it can work out for you too.

    And also, like, don’t worry about your opinion of yourself and thinking that you’re gross, because it really doesn’t matter. Like, the things that you’re concerned about are never the things that other people are concerned about.

    If you are clean and somewhat presentable, everything else can take care of itself. No matter what you look like or what you think you look like, there is going to be somebody out there who sees you as the most attractive, beautiful, desirable being on the planet if you give them the opportunity.