What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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i was looking up how we ended up calling connectors male and female

The Talmud describes arrow heads and mating shafts as potentially being either male or female, depending on their construction, i.e. a prong on a male arrow head fits into a hollowed out shaft and vice versa. This is owing to a prohibition on a female shaft, from its susceptibility as a receptacle for impurity, for use as s'chach.[4]

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explaining the shitpost

@s0s0 Traingirl Era @rotopenguinROTOPE~1 :yell: @whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧
1: powerlock is a 5 cable three-phase connction system for high power applications, e.g. 3 phase 100 amps
it features mechanical interlocks to ensure that ground and neutral are connected before the phases

2: in grid applications, fuses are coupled so that if a single phase trips, the other two phases will trip as well. In higher voltage (e.g. 11kv) lines, this may be done e.g. with springs and explosive charges. if a fuse trips, that releases a spring, that hits a primer and fires some charges to cleanly separate the other two phases

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Hi, I'm Ridley!

I think a lot about building healthier online communities. I'm interested in distributed computing, consent-focused design, privacy, and object capability programming.

I am currently working on a Dart-based implementation of ocapn.org which I hope will make it easier to create distributed and federated applications.

I am very grateful to have @nlnet sponsoring some of this work.

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Tonight’s movie… Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Had the 3D Blu-ray so bit the bullet and risked all my fears coming true that keeping my old Optoma projector around would turn out to be a waste of time as I’d be so used to the quality of the new Sony I couldn’t bear to watch with the old one and have to upgrade that too at some point. I am super thrilled to report it’s still a great 3D projector and that fact has saved future me 2.5 grand.

Ian McShane with a long beard and a pirate hat stands on a ship.
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