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Have you noticed the transformer cores on modern switching PSUs are a lot smaller, as well? My understanding is that's because the voltage across the 2ndry winding is proportional to not only the number of turns (as you say), but the rate of change of magnetic flux in the core, as produced by a...

One advantage of DC is that it can easily be supported by batteries. In the days before large power distribution networks, a single factory or a (very) large house might have a private generator, driven by a steam engine. With AC, there was no way to store the energy, so you had to have a very...

I suppose that makes your neighbour rather like Schroedinger’s cat... ...both live and dead.

Resistance is futile!

Because it needs Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses?

Well, the standard was simplified, but in the process it diverged from reality! Regardless of what politicians and paperwork say, the electricity supply in most British homes is 240V - often more at low load. ...but that's getting off-topic.

Behold: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In If IMDB reviews are to be believed, this new series owes little more than a few names to Pratchett's work?

Thanks for the review! It makes the device seem more real, and I'm very glad to hear most of the rough spots are in software. We can fix those! I'll be interested to hear how the keyboard is after you've used it for a while. Does it wear-in? (or wear-out?) Does your opinion of the layout...

Oh no, it's not that "Music-with-rocks-in" again, is it?

How about cat-toast levitation? A falling cat will always land on its feet, and a slice of buttered toast always lands butter-side down. From that one can easily see that, if a slice of buttered toast is strapped to the back of a cat, there is no orientation in which it can land while obeying...

No, no, no. Real programmers use butterflies!

I think there is a genuinely tricky problem here. Pretty much all FOSS enthusiasts would agree that the long-term goal is to put open-source code everywhere. to make it possible for anyone, buying any sort of computer, to modify, audit, and maintain it themselves. Crucially, that means...

Do US houses generally have 220V sockets? The impression I get from the far side of a rather broad pond is that a few large heaters (cooking, washing, etc) are hard-wired, and everything the consumer can easily plug-in has to be 110V.

Supposing there are system-wide definitions for (say) mouse mode and gamepad mode. Then suppose the user wants to rearrange the ABXY button map, so edits the system definition of gamepad mode. Should a full-screen DBP game override that config when it starts, or adopt it? It seems anti-user to...

How did the haggis get down there? I thought they could only walk in circles around mountains, because their right leg is shorter than the other two?

I think this depends entirely on the reason you take photographs, as you suggest If your purpose is to objectively describe the world for the benefit of other people - photojournalism - then editing is definitely wrong. If you aim to produce attractive and interesting works of art, then go...

You can't simply add the DBP repo to the apt-based packaged managers in Debian (Synaptic, Aptitude, etc) - because they're very different systems. Part of the PND (and DBP) magic is reducing installation to downloading and saving a file - and having the OS cope if you later delete that file...

The answer is probably "It depends how much tinkering around you're willing to do!" Both look to be "Display Parallel Interface" devices, with a 3x8bit parallel connection, plus sync triggers, etc. What little experience I have with that kind of display says it takes are fair bit of tweaking...

Congratulations! There must be something fishy going on with VAT/etc. I wonder whose responsibility it is (legally) to pay. Either way, do keep us updated.

At the risk of taking the bait, might I suggest that such a simplification is unhelpful? The first post (and ensuring discussion) clearly cover a mix of strengths and weaknesses. Whether they're cumulatively "bad" or "good" depends on your personal values and expectations. I'm very glad some...