It’s not like the WHO is known for actually following scientific consensus.

You’ve got it. Since LEDs are diodes they only allow current in one direction. The flickering is caused by the LED responding to only one phase of the AC current, in this case 60hz.

The conversion actually happens with a rectifier circuit often using diodes. A transformer will convert voltage and current, but not it’s polarization. Transformers are a fascinating use of inductive coupling. 

I always assumed that LEDs would never burn out myself, but that was based more on anecdote than evidence. When I started seeing LEDs fail in lighting systems, such as traffic lights, my first thought was planned obsolescence. Oh great, now they make LEDs that purposefully fail, I thought. So, I decided to do some…

Not to be a semantic nitpick, but LEDs can and will burn out if they are over driven and their heat is not properly mitigated. They also diminish in efficiency over time. While a properly powered LED with good heat dissipation should last an incredible amount of time, modern LEDs are driven at increasing currents…

Actually I just bought the PC copy when it went on sale on Steam.  Now I can be in two palaces at once.

Yup. I sure did.

Yup. I sure did.

Really? The apple keyboard? It’s one of the most uncomfortable keyboards I’ve ever used. Seriously, it’s form over function, just like their shitty mice. Is it popular because it’s an Apple thing and it looks nice? The damn thing makes my wrists ache and it’s awful travel distance on the keys means constant typos.…

Really? The apple keyboard? It’s one of the most uncomfortable keyboards I’ve ever used. Seriously, it’s form over…

I will also be playing Elite, and almost every other night too. Still navigating chapter 4's bugs since the console release basically our version of the beta.

And that’s what everyone wanted right; more freaking Thargoids? I’m over Thargoids, almost everything new is about Thargoids, the weapons, the moduals, etc... It would be great if there was something more about the Guardians, but almost everything related to the Guardians is about Thargoids. Here was a chance for a…

Just steal them from your respective girlfriends (or boyfriends if that’s your jam) vibrator. ;-)

It’s currently $83

It’s currently $83

Welcome to the US where people view gun ownership as a human right, but not healthcare.

Or it’s slowly becoming obsolete with the release of the streaming app on Android and it’s current availability on Smart TVs. Though, if they did come out with a new one it might be to bump it up to 4K, I understand the steam link app for Samsung’s QLEDs can max out at 4K. I haven’t tried it myself.

“Are the IHOP burgers better than Applebees or Friday’s or Chili’s?”

Aren’t they all equally terrible at making burgers?

I’m still a skeptic.  It’s not like IHOP was ever renown for making stellar breakfast, or even fantastic pancakes to start with.  Maybe some people like it, but I’ve never cared much for what I would…

At least they look nicer than the majority of Elite Dangerous’s flying Dorito chip shaped space crafts. Not that the game looks bad.

When Bethesda announced it’s new Wolfenstien game titled Youngblood with the playable characters being twin sisters, in co-op mind you, killing Nazis, I started my timer to see how long it would take for bitchy white racist misogynists to freak out.

Exactly my thought.

That canopy on the Challenger though... Let’s see if its got a better jaw than the Chieftain.

Back when I was a kid I was watching movies at a friends house on a VCR and he had a really bad roach problem. VCR’s pull the tape media around a set of cylindrical spinning read/write heads. Well, the little roaches were inside the VCR seeking out that warmth when one got onto the tape media and was instantly crushed…