pankkake

chicken leg uncurls

The 10 released prisoners are all innocent

"Go fuck yourself and the horse you rode in on"

I don't have much experience with heating elements specifically, but hers what I found;

This type of heating element is called Calrod (a trademarked name). Here's a cross section :

As you can see, there's stuff inside the visible tube. The spiral inside is the actual "wire", through which current flows, and that heats up (see also: Joule's Law).

Then there's a layer of magnesium oxyde, which is an insulator. This is what keeps the current from going away from the wires.

The outside sheath that you see is just some stainless steel tubing that keeps the (powdery) magnesium oxyde in.

why is there no arcing?

On the topic of arcing; an arc is a very specific phenomenon. Usually, air is an insulator. However, under very high voltage, current can start to cross air gaps. In doing so, it heats up the air a lot, creating a plasma. This plasma conducts electricity (at least it can do so better than plain air), so once the air is "broken", current can flow through the air gap. I don't know the exact numbers, and it depends on the gap size, but an arc requires at least a few kilovolts to appear.

Sidenote: when you get a zap when touching something metallic after you've worn slippers, that's because you've actually gained a few kilovolts of charge compared to the metallic thing, and you've made a (very short lived) arc!

Not sure if I'd benefit from an autism diagnosis

IMO, what's important is not the diagnosis. Rather, it's the coping mechanisms that you implement to help you live in society.

But those steps can be learned without the diagnosis; medical help is just a big jump forward in learning what to do.

Everyone has trouble with some things, be it neurotypicals, autists, ADHDers... and everyone has to learn how to live with themselves. Obviously it's easier for some than for others, but it has to be done.

I'm proud to announce that I've made one (1) contribution to curl at work!

From my personal experience:

I'm not a regular coffee drinker. Whenever I do drink one, I get the urge to go number 2 within 15 minutes.

Bonus fact: ${BASH_ALIASES["name-here"]} is a way to get at the contents of an alias without resorting sed or cut shenanigans on the output of the alias command.

Doesn't alias name-here already do that? That or I didn't get what you mean.

From the article:

volunteers from a humanitarian organization

Not exactly tourists I would say

A computer will spit out A, B, a, b

See also: ASCII chart

Ah un français !

Je me suis rendu compte en lisant les réponses que ma question c'est surtout pour ceux qui sont sourds à 100% de naissance, pas malentendants.

Mais est-ce que pour un sourd ça ferait sens que "traîne" et "mène" ça rime ? Parce que mis à part que les deux mots finissent en "ne", est-ce que c'est "logique" que "aî" et "è" fassent le même son ?

I'm very curious about on-paper-only poems

Dangerops prangent sex? will it hurt baby top of his head?