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  • masterspace@lemmy.catoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3142: -Style Pizza
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    21 hours ago

    I seriously doubt it’s the most common pizza sold.

    It’s thin crust nature makes it economical for selling hot slices, but horrible for delivery and for reheating.

    I personally consider New York pizza to be A tier; S tier I reserve for pizza with a slightly thicker, slightly sour, focaccia-like crust, and regardless, the baseline should be B-Tier.







  • Nope.

    Those numbers are funding from all sources, not just government funding. None of the private funding sources in the US have disappeared.

    Secondly, while the US spends the most, even as a percentage of GDP, it does not spend that much more on a per GDP basis that places like Germany and Korea. i.e. as American GDP and global power decline and other nations’ rise, their biomedical r&d funding will too which will make up for the loss of American government funding.



  • masterspace@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.worldMicrosoft doesn't understand the Fediverse
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    7 days ago

    This is honestly a dumb post. It doesn’t say anything about “Microsoft” understanding or not understanding anything.

    It just shows them using an automated system to try and take down an account that they think is infringing on their trademark. There are legal protections for parody accounts, but they are not absolute and it’s possible that Microsoft could get a court order compelling the owner to cease control of the account.




  • masterspace@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat do you call these?
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    8 days ago

    Technically they are power supplies.

    A transformer can be a power supply, but on it’s own it can only transform AC power between two different voltages, so it can only be an AC:AC power supply. The number of windings on one side vs the number on the other, will determine the ratio of your voltage change.

    But a pure transformer AC:AC power supply is not particularly efficient. A transformer’s power rating is based on the overall number of windings it has, and on the power frequency.

    So if you’re lowering the voltage, it’s more efficient to use mosfets to chop up your voltage at a very high frequency, then run that high frequency voltage through a smaller transformer.

    And with DC power supplies, they not only need to lower voltage, but also smooth it out to a single unchanging value, and this results in an even more complex circuit where you first rectify the wave so that it’s all on one side, then you chop it at high frequency then transform it, then smooth it out.

    So transformers are still involved, but typically they’re just one part of a larger whole with these.


  • masterspace@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat do you call these?
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    8 days ago

    Wall voltage = 120V and Wavy.

    Old USB = 5V and Not Wavy.

    These adapt the two. They’re also known as power supplies. The bricks in laptop cables are also power supplies, they can just handle more power. Modern high speed USB just has a whole conversation with the plug where they agree on whether to use Not Wavy 5V, 9V, 15V, or 20V.


  • They may just have a different perspective then you.

    It’s like celebrating that the Death Star workers lost healthcare so the Empire could pay for a second Death Star.

    This is a fundamentally flawed analogy because America is not the Empire that is in charge of everything.

    This would be like if The Empire coexisted and traded with a plethora of other nations and now decided to build a Deathstar 2, while simultaneously stopping to pay for all the best scientists and engineers and doctors to leave those other nations and go to live in The Empire. Instead they will stay in their own nations that aren’t run by an evil emperor and will instead help build them up and keep more wealth and innovation at home.