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Aaaand thats going on my To Listen list.

Kind of hungering for new podcasts right now, and this sounds like one I didn't know I needed.

Thanks!

Well written.

I think an important concept to introduce is Pulse Width Modulation, or PWM for short.

Normal AC Power coming out of wall looks like a sine wave, in that it smoothly cycles between +110/240V and -110/240V. This means that 50% of the time the voltage is positive and 50% of the time the voltage is negative.

PWM usually deals with signals which are either entirely on or off, with no transiton between them. This way, you can vary the amount of "power" delivered by varying how much of the time the signal is on and how much of the time it's off.

Dimmers usually modify the sine way in a way that tries to accomplish the same thing, by chopping up the signal to make the effective "on" time be shorter than 50%.

With non-dimmable LEDs, this messes with the AC to DC circuitry in the lamp in the way slazer2au says, because the lamp doesn't retain enough power between two on-cycles to stay on.

I'm gonna need a link for this.

I'm having a shitty morning and this sounds like just the thing to cheer me up.

Agree, with arguments: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school

The verticality is absolutely the best part. My biggest gripe with Elden Rings world is that it's an "open world" game in kind of the same way Ubi games are. Traversal is largely trivial, so you stop paying attention to the map after you've reached major areas.

In my opinion, Dark Souls I is also an open world game, but instead of a 2D map all the zones are tangled up together in a confusing but interesting web.

Shadow of the Erdtree brought some of that back by having zones stacked on top of each other to a much heavier degree than the base game, while also segmenting off geographically close regions.

I wanted to be a level designer for a lot of years, so this is admittedly a bit of a soft spot for me, but I absolutely loved having the game world come at you as as a challenge, almost a character to be fought and bested, outside the legacy dungeons.

Arm is worth 5.3bn USD and employs just over 8000 people. Intel is worth just over 100bn USD and employs 124,000 people.

Nvidia is worth 42bn USD and employs 30,000 people.

That makes Intel over twice as valuable as Nvidia with over four times as many employees.

I definitely think that Harris has a better chance than Biden, but I agree. The current surge in optimistic articles about Harris feels like it's riding a wave of elation following Biden's withdrawal.

People want to be reaffirmed in their belief in Harris, these articles feed that need.

Erdogan is a whole new level of grifter.

Actually, I'd love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?

It is. I still wish it "Politics" would default to WorldPolitics" and USPolitics was it's own thing, instead of the other version where Politics and News is US stuff and the general topics need the "World" prefix.

Not really playing a lot right now, but that's normal.

Played a ton in the months leading up to the expansion to get all the loot I wanted before it was too late, got all the triumphs, etc. Then the expansion dropped, played throughout the campaign on legend with my friends and promptly burned out. Just in time for the Elden Ring DLC.

Its the same thing that happens to me every year. I'll come back when were a few seasons in and all amusement park rides are running again.

... Generating buy-in? I'm sorry but what?

"It seems the things I do on the job translate well to my gaming tables..."

What is this, /linkedinlunatics?

If you're trying to push free advertising on a fedi board then please, leave that at the door. I play D&D to get away from my job, not to optimize engagements and maximise profits.