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Lorenzo Stoakes

Honestly transistors are a scam, microchips consist of billions of tiny valves CHANGE MY MIND
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@ljs Nah, I am with you. Conductors, resistors, capacitors and inductors are actually pipes, constrictions, diaphragms and rotors. It makes so much more sense. It must be true.

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@rasterinterrupt @ljs

I loved at each physics course how they used water analogy when explaining electric stuff and electrical analogy when explaining water. 😜

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@ljs these diodes are waiting outside and want to have a conversation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming_valve#/media/File:Fleming_valves.jpg

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@djasa @rasterinterrupt we've been played for ABSOLUTE FOOLS
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@engarneering @rasterinterrupt the secret being this is how chips actually work, which is why sometimes you hear a whirring noise from your computer under load.

They thought they could fool us by saying it's fans!!
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@lkundrak oh GOD NO you talk to them about raw square wave signals from a disk head, distract them while I run
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@ljs @rasterinterrupt the experience-derived hydraulic equations are very special sort of that. 😜

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@djasa @rasterinterrupt me and my mate Navier came up with some equations that cover everything in that realm actually tbh
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@ljs @rasterinterrupt yeah, but! 😅

Use that tangle of derivatives for computing flow over a weir given water level. Pipe flow in 90° bend depending whether detached flow develops or not. Etc.

I hated that the empirical equations had to exist but there's actually a reason for that! 😊

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@djasa @rasterinterrupt bro me and Navier are absolutely losing it over here laughing our asses off that you guys are too dumb to use our equations

Honestly if you need to resort to that empirical crap instead of the pure beauty of Stoakesian wonder then perhaps you don't deserve to
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@ljs @rasterinterrupt

Maybe that's the reason why I'm not doing that stuff for living 😂

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@djasa @rasterinterrupt it's ok man, life can be turbulent
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@ljs @rasterinterrupt

Now I'm wondering what the life outside turbulent period is, is it also laminar? And does that mean that it's layered and every layer moves at different speed (this is a paradox: turbulent flow outside boundary layer is at the same speed across the cross section, laminar flow isn't)?

This toot would deserve hashtag in Czech (or Slovak; I can explain this one but it would be toot-long)

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