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    looks at schematic

    FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!

    eyebrow dance

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          And in this specific application (simple resistor as a load) you could even save all the diodes and generate even more heat in the resistor alone instead of also „heating“ the diodes. *

          This my most favorite circuit. It’s a very simple and elegant solution doing its job in silence without getting the kudos it deserves.

          • I know RL is just a simple generalization for a load.
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        so, from bi to either gay or straight, unless it passes an inverter, then becomes bi again

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    Said it before and I’ll say it again: just because you understand the magic doesn’t make it any less magical. A wizard may know the ins and outs of their spells, but they’re still spells. Our entire universal is fucking magical, we just happen to have a decent understanding of why (some) of it functions the way it does. Jiggle a quark here and another may jiggle the same way somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, that’s fucking wild and magical and incredible, and just because we have some level of understanding behind the mechanics doesn’t make it not magic. It just makes it a hard magic system.

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    It’s chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.

    Also, that’s a control spell, not a summoning one.

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      I was really hoping someone would catch this. I’m glad someone else was also paying attention in biology

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      that’s crazy to think about. which NT is responsible for sending a signal along my vagus nerve to my brain? what NTs regulate the functions of the sympathetic nervous system? how can transport as quickly as my body reacts? I need to know more!

      how quickly do NTs even travel? it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous! how do they do that so fast???

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        it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous!

        It takes hundreds of ms for a signal to go from your brain to your foot. Electricity on wires travels several times around the world in that time.

        But for most of the distance the signals do travel as electricity. (At least the ones that get to be electricity, our brain has several kinds of signals.) It’s just a particularly slow form of electricity.

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    Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.

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      Clarke’s Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

      Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

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      I mean, yea. The people designing the AC to DC power supplies often don’t care what you use them for, why would they bother putting schematics for a real load on their diagram?

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      That’s what someone who doesn’t understand magic would say.

      Follow the spell incorrectly and that is indeed all you would get.

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      That’s what I was thinking. Depending on the supply that’ll start a fire.

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        It’s a basic AC rectifier, the resistor represents an arbitrary DC load. You use similar circuits all the time, though generally with additional failsafes and some mechanism of smoothing out the rectified current.

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      That’s not a resistor it’s actually a BIG LOAD. The diagram would better show it as a reactive load (usually just a rectangle) since most real loads are reactive. Get it?

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      In any case, it’s powered with electricity.

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            But if you turn it back on the conscious doesn’t return. Electricity is the energy conscious runs on, but it’s not consciousness.

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              The trouble is that even the consciousness maintenance needs power. If the power is out for too long the infrastructure is too damaged. So it actually does return when you turn it off. It just has to be done quickly enough.

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                That’s why electroconvulsive therapy uses pulses of about a millisecond. But, then, it’s not actually turning the power off, ECT is more of a warm reset of consciousness.

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            Apparently stops existing, to outside observers who’ve never been able to see it anyway.

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    That summoning circle is gonna need some filtering… Jus sayin…

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      While it helps the ritual it isn’t strictly required, so it can be easier for an apprentice to achieve.

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    The mages of Electrical Engineering reseach the tools and formulars to control the magic. The mages of Hardware Engineering develop under great effort the sigils and rituals of how the rocks must be processed. The Warlocks of the CPU use the near infinit possibilities of algorithms and the power of the evolved rocks to create worlds nobody could ever have imagined (in exchange for the ability to go outside).

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      (in exchange for the ability to go outside)

      Real

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    For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like … what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?

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      That’s… huh…

      Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???

      (Unless you’re a physicist, in which case… fuck)

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        I mean, imagine if friction worked like this. You’d push a heavy object … and it would move to the left (or maybe the right?) like it was on ice.

        FWIW I do have a Physics undergraduate degree. It doesn’t help in this case.

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          Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but… I don’t know much beyond electrons moving between their shells

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        Yea I only have a bachelor’s in physics, can’t explain the black magic fuckery that is electromagnetism. Go find someone with a PhD, I bailed to be an engineer

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      Why in hell would the universe be this way?

      Bcz it’s a simulation, or god is fucking with us. Who knows which one it is 🤷‍♀️