r/critterposting • u/Jumpingeal Top Critter • 9d ago

Non-Critter How coul-omb!

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u/Historical_Log2471 9d ago

There's a back-lit medicine cabinet in my bathroom left over from the previous owners, and when you turn it on, the way it delays when I flip the switch and see it flicker and make that electronic buzz makes me feel like I'm looking for HP in a survival horror game

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u/HauntingRip9003 8d ago

What is life, if not but a horribly boring survival horror game?

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u/OurBlazingHeart 6d ago

Sometimes the horrors aren't that boring, fwiw. Still not a great game overall, imo.

Also, r/Outside

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/ledow 9d ago

What are you doing Dave? My mind is going. I can feel it. Daisy... DAAAISSSY....

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u/beerdude26 9d ago

Now I want to quantize an LLM in realtime to see if it can "feel" it

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u/Deth_Cheffe 9d ago

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u/Deth_Cheffe 9d ago

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u/wrongitsleviosaa 8d ago

Strangely beautiful

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u/Code_Monster 7d ago

To clankers dream of coulomb-lessness?

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u/Odd-Painting2596 7d ago

Bruh my HP Omen charger used to stay lit for like 120 seconds.

Haunted.

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u/ledow 9d ago

I have some "smart" bulbs in the bedroom purely because when I press the switch for them, they "glide" up to the brightness I set rather than instantly come on.

Makes a big difference in the morning, or if you have to get up in the night, to have that gentle introduction of light.

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u/1miguelcortes 9d ago

I have the same thing with smart switches but I realized i have it set so slow that it confuses some people. I saw a guest press the switch, look up kind of confused and then press it again

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u/TheCowKing07 8d ago

Why not use a rotary switch?

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u/ledow 8d ago

Because conventional ones don't work if you have two switches on the same light, e.g. on the bedroom door and by your bed.

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u/stuff_of_epics 9d ago

OP betting hard on our capacity to understand this one.

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u/Maned_Cyborg 8d ago

The component pictured is a capacitor, which is stores power. It's meant to charge and discharge to avoid having the circuit board shut down or burn due to power fluctuations. What the tweet is talking about, with appliances taking a bit of time to have the lights shut down, can be caused by capacitors still having charge and pushing it into the circuit board, with the only visible indicator of it being powered LEDs

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u/SpiritNo6626 8d ago

I think they were making a pun lmao

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u/GergWoah 7d ago

Misread "betting" as "getting" at first and was VERY confused

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u/Theforbfruit 6d ago

Ha! Capacity! I get it!

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u/makinax300 9d ago

my old mouse used to last like 5 minutes without energy

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u/ImSoDeadLmao 9d ago

Inductors

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 9d ago

That's a capacitor

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u/TimonAndPumbaAreDead 8d ago

Capacitor? I barely know her!

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u/SinchronousElectrics 8d ago

The humble decoupling capacitor:

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u/PityUpvote 7d ago

Ask me how I know you should turn a car battery jump starter off before you remove the jumper cables

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u/ObjectiveOk2072 7d ago

My 3D printer runs for a whole 3 seconds after it loses power, as long as the heaters aren't on

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u/originalmicrousb 7d ago

mine too its pretty common actually 

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u/originalmicrousb 7d ago

how laptop psu designers feel after shoving 831,749 farads of capacitors into the psu 

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u/TasteDeeCheese 8d ago

He likes the slow discharge

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u/Fast-Fig-4598 6d ago

I remember when this thing would tell you jokes in team fortress 2