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[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 77 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Relevant XKCD:

Title text: Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.

[–] turnipjs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

test: e: you can link them directly

[–] degen@midwest.social 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well obviously the robots would be good instead of evil that way

[–] Malgas 2 points 1 day ago

Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn't going to be evil. Come on!

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

adding to abnorc's excellent answer - circuit diagrams are all drawn as if charge carriers are positive (this is called "conventional current"), but because electrons are negative, this can get very confusing when you're dealing with components where the flow of charge is one-way only (diodes, transistors, batteries, photometers...)

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

In Benjamin Franklin’s experiments, he came up with the convention that we use today to define a “positive” charge. As it turns out, electrons, discovered much later, are negatively charged according to the convention. Lots of chemical and physical reactions involve electrons as charge carriers, so lots of physical phenomena have this weird opposite thing going on. E.g. electric current or “conventional current” flows in the opposite direction of electron current. Chemical reactions are also weird. Reduction reactions involve a reduction in electric charge, but gaining an electron. The model works just fine, but it can be tricky and/or annoying at times.

[–] vakbrain@programming.dev 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Negatrons and Positrons would have been so much better names

What if we just assume current flows from negative to positive?

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Electrons are considered positive in cars.

[–] dwemthy@lemdro.id 1 points 2 days ago