monotremata

I was always so frustrated in college when I'd run a load at the laundromat, and then discover I'd missed a dryer sheet someone had left in the dryer. I'd be itchy all week.

Fair enough. I know that style can be polarizing, it's why I put that caveat in there.

I really enjoyed Ys VIII ("Lacromosa of Dana"), if you can tolerate the kind of anime-ish story. It's an action RPG. It's not especially immersive (very game-y), but it's got pretty good level design, and the combat is pretty fun, if not particularly challenging (a little button-mashy).

They can't really keep them in stock, though. I was checking on them shortly before the sale started and the refurbished 64GB LCD models were all out. Now all the refurbished models are sold out.

It's just as well, though. Between the Switch 2 and the Deckard, I've got some other stuff I might want to waste money on this year.

The one I thought was a good compromise was 14 years, with the option to file again for a single renewal for a second 14 years. That was the basic system in the US for quite a while, and it has the benefit of being a good fit for the human life span--it means that the stuff that was popular with our parents when we were kids, i.e. the cultural milieu in which we were raised, would be public domain by the time we were adults, and we'd be free to remix it and revisit it. It also covers the vast majority of the sales lifetime of a work, and makes preservation and archiving more generally feasible.

5 years may be an overcorrection, but I think very limited terms like that are closer to the right solution than our current system is.

Sean Duffy is the transportation secretary.

It's a British TV anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone, but most of the episodes are about technologic dystopias

It was in Black Mirror years ago.

I assumed the stunning part was this:

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

It's just pretty blatant.

I feel like there's a buddhist lesson about impermanence here.

Thanks, Stefon.

I think so? It's section 3.2 of the paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17452759.2024.2404157#d1e604

They don't talk that much about current in particular; figure 5 only shows the resistance in the regulated output path as a function of the voltage on the control path, which isn't enough to actually say whether there's specifically current amplification. (Also, the gain would be negative; does that matter?) But they do discuss the fact that the output channel is much wider, which strongly suggests it's able to pass more current (since they mention the resistivity drops as the cross-sectional area of the trace increases). The wider trace is one that wouldn't have the fuse behavior on its own, because the resistivity is too low for it to heat up enough to trigger that at the voltages they're using, but the close proximity of the very thin fusing wire of the control signal is enough to cause a nonlinear resistivity change in the output path as well. I think that means they're using a single voltage for both kinds of path, and that the control current is thus lower than the output current because the resistance on the control path is higher, but I'm not certain. I am not an electrical engineer, just an enthusiastic amateur.