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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 188 points 1 month ago (2 children)

looks at schematic

FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!

eyebrow dance

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

it gender transitions the AC to DC

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] abcd@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago

And in this specific application (simple resistor as a load) you could even save all the diodes and generate even more heat in the resistor alone instead of also „heating“ the diodes. *

This my most favorite circuit. It’s a very simple and elegant solution doing its job in silence without getting the kudos it deserves.

  • I know RL is just a simple generalization for a load.
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[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I heard the "OUTCH!" In this image.

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lightning would be wild magic

[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Makes sense. Could be harnessed to do something probably but incredibly dangerous to do so.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

And some people are wild mages

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Said it before and I'll say it again: just because you understand the magic doesn't make it any less magical. A wizard may know the ins and outs of their spells, but they're still spells. Our entire universal is fucking magical, we just happen to have a decent understanding of why (some) of it functions the way it does. Jiggle a quark here and another may jiggle the same way somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, that's fucking wild and magical and incredible, and just because we have some level of understanding behind the mechanics doesn't make it not magic. It just makes it a hard magic system.

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Squint at this (from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia) and these might be either ancient sigils or electronic symbols*.

EDIT: Fixed a typo

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This one's a bit interestingly shaped...

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

An actual textbook cover. I mean... An ancient grimoire of the dark arts

Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.

Also, that's a control spell, not a summoning one.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Listen here witch!!

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clarke's Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That diagram is just heat with extra steps.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, yea. The people designing the AC to DC power supplies often don't care what you use them for, why would they bother putting schematics for a real load on their diagram?

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

You think a rectified transformer is a magic circle? Get a load of the Smith Chart

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That summoning circle is gonna need some filtering... Jus sayin...

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don’t know what the fuck consciousness is.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In any case, it's powered with electricity.

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[–] this@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Um akshually, that's a rectification circle.

[–] BlueKey@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The mages of Electrical Engineering reseach the tools and formulars to control the magic. The mages of Hardware Engineering develop under great effort the sigils and rituals of how the rocks must be processed. The Warlocks of the CPU use the near infinit possibilities of algorithms and the power of the evolved rocks to create worlds nobody could ever have imagined (in exchange for the ability to go outside).

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah but it's too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔

No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

When we figure out how to manipulate elctro-weak at scale, it will be magic.

Electro-mag is pretty crazy already, I agree. The ICP can't even figure out how they work.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like ... what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Full bridge rectifier¿

Thick eye brows intensifies!

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But the summoning circle doesn't do anything on its own, you have to build it and then go and find the electricity to plug into it yourself

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure that’s how it works in a lot of fiction. You draw the circle then activate it by putting in mana.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many summoning circles require a sacrifice, and this one is no different. This one requires a sacrifice of AC to summon DC.

[–] Starf4rged@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago

The law of equivalent exchange...

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

I'd expand it to electromagnetic fields or something instead of just electricity.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hm, the stuff in wires is electrical current, but the stuff in nerves is static electricity based on an electrochemical gradient. Yeah i guess that all falls under the heading of electricity. No quibbles, carry on.

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

current does flow in nerves

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

The spice must flow

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While I fully agree, I thought the distinction was unbreakable rules.

The laws of physics can’t be broken, even, under any circumstances, everywhere, at any time.

Whereas magic is more like there is an exception to every rule kind of deal. It’s far more like software, as in it’s mostly fully logically consistent except for random spots where devs took some shortcuts to make life easier.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think the “exception to every rule” part is really dependent on which type of magic the writer is using. Many writers do establish hard rules for their magic. In those cases, it’s less “magic is the exception” and more “magic is engrained into the laws of physics.”

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[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, there's actually a sourcebook for Arcane Engineering

Small tiktok video from the author

[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

the diagram is an AC to DC converter.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's the motive force! Not some heretical warp magic.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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