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Selfie, ec, that 2009->2019 thing, kinda joking but only kinda 

Sure, here ya go!

Man, 10 years really does make a difference, huh?!

(You should see what I looked like 20 years ago! /s)

edit: edited caption on 2009 pictures to clarify that I was only 10

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"I don't know why they have a pizza place in France"

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Dark Patterns darkpatterns.org/

“Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use them.”

#ux

Hat tip to @rebutte

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proposal: constructions such as "45 out of 10" or "-8 out of 10" do not merely represent hyperbole, but a reimagining of the scale from 0 to 10 as the scale of normalcy instead of the scale of possibility

instead of asking, "how cool is this compared to the coolest theoretically possible thing?", such phrasings ask, "how cool is this compared to what one would expect if something was supposed to be cool?" and express how far beyond that threshold the thing goes

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I want more .txt websites. Human-readable text-only websites. The only allowed interaction, is scrolling.

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Also by this logic: if someone gets a full-ride scholarship for, say, comp sci, then why are they not prohibited from creating a profitable startup and taking VC money?

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"They get a full-ride to $good_school, that's payment enough"

Only the greatest of the greatest players get full-ride scholarships. The majority of 60 or so people on a college football team pay for their own schooling.

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College athletes should be able to make money; the only people who say otherwise are racist fans and racist school officials.

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Re: Runes (Anglo-saxon) 

In case you're curious as to what it says...I mean, one, if you have the spoons, learn anglo-saxon runes! They're fun! And learning any form of runes allows us to take them back from the nazis!

But, if you don't have the spoons or must know right now, it says "Runes belong to the people, nazi scum!"

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Runes (Anglo-saxon) 

ᚱᚢᚾᛋ᛫ᛒᛁᛚᚩᛝ᛫ᛏᚢ᛫ᚦᛁ᛫ᛈᛁᛈᛚ,ᚾᚪᛏᛋᛁ᛫ᛋᚳᚢᛗ!

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@ed_packet That would seem to make sense, and would explain why it's spot on the pcb is marked "FR1". Thank you!

@Felthry Like I said, you never really know with cheap electronics. That said, you're probably right about it not being one.

Also, it's not a capacitive dropper. It's using a transformer to step down the voltage

@Felthry No, there's not temperature measuring circuitry there. It's literally just sitting between one of the mains inputs and the bridge rectifier. The only reason I can think of that it'd specified the tempco is because it just happened to be the resistors they had lying around (which, in a cheap power supply, I suppose you'd never know)

Any of y'all know what's going on with this resistor? Brown black gold gold black is a bit unusual. From what I've found I'm pretty sure it's a 1 ohm resistor (±5%), but I'm unsure about that last black band. From what I've found, it's either the temp. coefficient, the reliability, or it's telling me it's a wirewound resistor. Given this is a generic 5V power supply, I *think* it's the last one, but can anyone confirm?

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