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[–] jlemmy@ani.social 3 points 40 minutes ago

finally something to spark my interest. never let anyone stop your potential

[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Kudos on finding the positive side in current events.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the discourse is usually so charged.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So amped for this to become a trend

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

We may begin to heal from all the hertz we've received...

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ohm i god, I love this thread.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

Me too but I worry we’ll encounter resistance.

[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

...and re-volt

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 24 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: when they were still figuring out electricity they didn't have a proper understanding of electrons so they wrote all electric diagrams with the assumption that something was going from the positive side to the negative side. We've known that electrons have a negative charge and move from negative to positive for quite a while now but conventional electrical diagrams are still backwards to the flow of the electrons to this day.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

We call this "technical" and "physical" direction of flow

[–] Raccoon_Rick@altgag.net 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's funny to think that all electrical components, including diodes are engineered in a way where wiring them up the "wrong way" according to human intuition but correctly according to the schematics, makes the whole thing work. Then we decided to throw negative DC voltages or AC into the mix to make things even more confusing, which essentially just shift the reference point for what we would usually consider as "ground" in a circuit. All of this just to make the math work out in the end, and I think that's pretty neat.

[–] technohacker@programming.dev 1 points 40 minutes ago

Before we had diodes in our curriculum i was curious how one would wire them up or mark them on diagrams considering they were inherently polarized, given how electron flow is opposite to conventional. I was quite delighted to see the P/N semiconductor types making it immediately evident

[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure it's a photo of a negative post.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Well... Potential is relative.