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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’m going to say something controversial:

    IMO, Game of Thrones is massively overrated (even without the terrible later seasons) and is just an excuse for a porn and gore fest. I put it in the same category as shows like The Boys.

    If you like it, fair enough, you do you, but nothing about that show resonated with me in any way.




  • It’s not an expensive hobby to get into, I did my first game in about 10 years, enjoyed it so much that I got hyperfixated and went all in because I know I love this hobby.

    £110 for Airsoft rifle

    £180 on starter clothing (undershirt, shirt, trousers, imitation plate carrier, ammo pouches, pistol holster, gloves, mesh eye mask, and large bag to shove it all in)

    £40 spent so far on BBs

    £40 for first site session (outdoor woodland)

    £20 for second site session (indoor CQB)

    £40 for third site session (outdoor abandoned base)

    £50 on a piccatiny rail mounted torch with pressure pad

    Petrol costs travelling to sites, food, drink not included, I’ve so far spent £480.

    Having said that, I have nothing else to buy right now so that’ll last me a good while.

    Whilst I’m not in the shit financially from this spending spree, DON’T DO WHAT I DID, that was a bit reckless of me.





  • Mathematically yes. Practically, right now? No.

    So you need a resistor of this value for your widget.

    For that many places of precision you’re looking at a potentiometer with a 10 nano-ohm precision.

    I am not aware of any commercially available resistor that can do that but you could create one using microelectronic structures used for ICs and derive a 10 nano-ohm resistor by design and then chain enough of these elements into a resistor network or potentiometer to create the super precise resistance value you want.

    Cool, congratulations.

    Now how are you going to use this 10 nano-ohm resistor? What voltage will you be applying across it? What current do you expect it to handle? And therefore what are your power requirements? What are your tolerances, how much can the true value deviate from the designed ideal?

    Because power generates heat through losses, and that will affect the resistance value so how tightly do you need to manage the power dissipation?

    How will you connect to this resistor to other circuit components? Because a super precise resistor on it’s own is nothing but an over-engineered heating element.

    If you tried connecting other surface mount devices (SMDs) from the E24 or even E96 series to this super precise resistor then the several orders of magnitude wider tolerances of these other components alone will swallow any of the precision from your super accurate resistor.

    So now your entire circuit has to be made to the same precision else all of your design work has been wasted.

    Speaking of which, now your heat management solution now needs to be super precise as well and before you know it you’ve built the world’s most accurate widget that probably took billions of dollars/euros/schmeckles and collaboration from the worlds leading engineers and scientists that probably cost more time and money than the Large Hadron Collider.