#factoid — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #factoid, aggregated by home.social.
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It looks like the best connected station in Britain is Clapham Junction, followed by Manchester Piccadilly. For a given value of "best connected".
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Just a brief #factoid to perhaps save other #electronics #hobbyists some time.
#BigClive frequently uses a particular type of crimp-contact-and-housing as a universal socket for LEDs and other leaded components. Not just any such connector will do; various #JST, "#Dupont", and others won't work, because they only grasp pins of one particular size and/or shape. If the lead is too big, it won't go in, and if it's too small, it won't stay in.
If you want to use these connectors - and note you can get the housings with more than 2 contacts, so you can use them for transistors or weirder things too - the magic search term is "KF2510".
The reason these work as universal sockets for leaded components is because the contact is a spring that pushes from only one side of the housing, pressing the inserted contact or lead against the far side of the housing, and therefore provides a friction fit for any size lead (within reason). Most crimp connectors instead have particular shapes for their contacts and will only "grab" something the right size and shape.
#KF2510 #CrimpConnector #crimp #socket #component #leaded #connector #solderless #universal #contact #housing
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Factoid of the day: Did you know Sir Keir Starmer's dad was a toolmaker?
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Dear Friends of the hapless, 🦞
This morning I have already terrified a cat, 😮 rescued two large #snails for later consumption. :ablobcatgoogly: Not by me, incidentally. Put my garbage out. Saved the world. ...wait go back... :gi:
I did not save every multiverse world. Only mine. 😮
In #factoid, the world takes care of itself, it is the #tweaking, tweeting and #gibbering/#chattering classes that think it is their task. How many of them know what they are doing? I don't. And at least 99.9% (verified by Domestos) of the world's viral people have no idea either. You knew that? Along with 99.99% of the #whirled... :ablobcatbongokeyboard: -
After several meetings on DH #infrastructure (e.g. how to organise shared access to GPU-clusters?), supervising two #PhD candidates (on #distantviewing #Newsreels and on interdisciplinary #digitalScholarlyEditions, preparing for a presentation on #srmanticweb and #regesta if #medieval #charters (#diplomaticsrulez), teaching #Persona methods to a DH course on the example of #endangeredlanguages #digitalarchives and conversion of book #indices into #factoid #prosopography I finally conclude my #dayofdh2023 #dayofdh with bottle of beer ...
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"Finding out that the #Nazis #privatized #industry at a time in which such a thing was unheard of until decades later with #neoliberalism has had my brain on fire. I already knew #fascism was #capitalist but this is the most capitalist.
as mussolini himself said #corporatism is more accurate name for fascism.
“No other country in the world would privatize its public works until the Nazis in #Germany did it between 1934 and 1937, a rhetorically useful #factoid if ever you are caught in a discussion with someone claiming that the Nazis were #socialists.”
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everything-must-go-wimbish
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/nazi-billionaires-businesses-denazification-de-jong-interview/
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/erica-x-eisen-nuremberg/
https://www.tumblr.com/161afa1312acab/714324335299526656?source=share
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The world's oldest tree is a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains, estimated to be around 5,000 years old. It has survived in dry, rocky soil and extreme temperature fluctuations, protected by the Inyo National Forest. #oldesttree #bristleconepine #California #nature #conservation #trivia #facts #factoid #interesting #neato #funfact #funfacts