#general-chat | adafruit | Page 195

wooden schooner Oct 15, 2021, 1:06 AM

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(end of thought)

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:06 AM

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lol

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 1:22 AM

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I need to grow some love handles...

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 1:24 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/phineas-and-ferb-arent-you-a-little-young-love-handel-gif-15576112

Tenor

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Couldn’t resist the reference

wooden schooner Oct 15, 2021, 1:25 AM

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quartz wren I need to grow some love handles...

Sadly they are non-transferable

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:27 AM

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quartz wren I need to grow some love handles...

Step 1: stop exercising
Step 2: eat EVERYTHING
Step 3: ????
Step 5: PROFIT!!!

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 1:29 AM

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delicate stream Step 1: stop exercising Step 2: eat EVERYTHING Step 3: ???? Step 5: PROFIT!!!

Not sure this is actually profitable

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Lol

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:30 AM

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tardy badger Not sure this is actually profitable

Shhh don't question it

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 1:30 AM

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But Bill Nye said question everything

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And I can’t let bill nye down

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:30 AM

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If you question everything, you have to question Bill's command to question everything

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:O

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 1:31 AM

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I did, and I then could only continue to question everything lol

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:31 AM

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lol

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~~but you missed the question you should have asked about those steps~~

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 1:32 AM

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I respect the fact that language changes and the dictionary should reflect modern usage, but if they ever add a note to your saying see: you're, I will explode

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:33 AM

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It's only wrong until it isn't

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 1:34 AM

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I haaaaaate thissssss

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:35 AM

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Sometimes it really do be like that

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 1:37 AM

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see that kind of usage I have no problem with, I can totally understand it

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But when someone misuses your/you're it's like my brain has to screech to a halt and figure out what they meant!

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:38 AM

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Honestly my brain auto-corrects a lot

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 1:47 AM

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delicate stream Step 1: stop exercising Step 2: eat EVERYTHING Step 3: ???? Step 5: PROFIT!!!

If I stop exercising I don't get hungry...

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And I'm already doing basically minimal exercise to keep me hungry enough to stay at a healthy weight

wooden schooner Oct 15, 2021, 1:48 AM

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don't stop exercising yo, unless there is serious medical reason

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 1:48 AM

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I don't intend to, I just keep it light. Walking, building things, a bit of climbing on stuff

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 1:50 AM

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I was 100% joking

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 2:22 AM

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I know, just a serious subject to me ;P

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 2:28 AM

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Fair

vagrant sonnet Oct 15, 2021, 6:58 AM

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0 In Stock
Manufacturer Standard Lead Time 24 Weeks

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 10:57 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-house-burning-okay-gif-5263684

Tenor

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 11:11 AM

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wow imagine in just a few years i will be able to choose between buying a pc and a house.
so the plan is to buy the pc and live in the cardboard box till i can afford a delux dog house.

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 11:16 AM

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PCs will be houses

static flare Oct 15, 2021, 11:16 AM

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Howdy frens!

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 11:16 AM

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hello

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the reason i'm saying this is that i havent been able to afford a upgrade for 10 years

static flare Oct 15, 2021, 11:17 AM

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I mean, rent is usually cheaper than computer parts

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 11:18 AM

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rent here is the price of a gpu

static flare Oct 15, 2021, 11:18 AM

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That's totally fair

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 11:19 AM

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ohh wait if your talking about a 3090... you can rent a mansion for a month

static flare Oct 15, 2021, 11:19 AM

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I was talking about my 2070 tbh, it's about a fortnight in rent for me for that piece alone

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5 weeks of rent for my entire PC

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 11:59 AM

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static flare Howdy frens!

Hewwo! I almost didn’t recognize you :0

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 11:59 AM

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dusk oracle ohh wait if your talking about a 3090... you can rent a mansion for a month

Haha, I wish… even 3 of them does not mansion rent make

static flare Oct 15, 2021, 12:00 PM

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Yeah! Server profiles are neat~

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 2:04 PM

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delicate stream PCs will be houses

Computers the size of a room will become popular again

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so you can live inside of it

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self-heating

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 2:29 PM

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Lmao, I have thousands of watts of computer heating from 2 desktop workstations, a whole room would catch fire

blissful roost Oct 15, 2021, 2:34 PM

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Venom 2 is really good 👍

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 2:37 PM

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random thought

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could milk be considered albedo juice?

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albedo comes from the latin "albus" which means white

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which just made me realise

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dumbledore is literally named "white"

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but in latin

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 2:41 PM

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Lolwut

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 3:12 PM

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"Albedo (from Latin albedo 'whiteness') is the measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation and measured on a scale from 0, corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation, to 1, corresponding to a body that reflects all incident radiation. Surface albedo is defined as the ratio of radiosity J e to the irradiance E e (flux per unit area) re..."

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-Ratio of reflected radiation to incident radiation-

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 3:14 PM

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I know about albedo in that context, just did not expect musings about milk being albedo juice and Dumbledore just having "white" in Latin as a first name XD

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 3:20 PM

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https://overlordmaruyama.fandom.com/wiki/Albedo

Overlord Wiki

Albedo

Albedo | Overlord Wiki | Fandom

wooden schooner Oct 15, 2021, 3:21 PM

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I mean it was intentional

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Voldemort as well

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 3:24 PM

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Whaaaa

wooden schooner Oct 15, 2021, 3:25 PM

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You thought it was a coincidence that he has "mort" (death) in his name?

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 3:27 PM

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... My brain did not separate that part out

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 3:40 PM

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Yeah I got the voldemort one but I didn't make the albus connection until today

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When I was watching an Anton Petrov video and he said "albedo means whiteness in Latin" and then my brain went on a tangent and I'm like "that makes milk albedo juice" and I got curious so I looked up the etymology of albedo and saw albus and I'm like "holy Dumbledore batman!"

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 3:45 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/gandalf-happy-dance-lord-of-the-rings-lotr-gif-3551563

Tenor

gandalf

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wooden schooner Oct 15, 2021, 3:47 PM

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yeah I wouldn't expect most people (i.e. who haven't studied latin or whatever) to know what album means

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(and the english word "album" doesn't really help imo...)

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closest actually useful english connection would maybe be albino

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 3:47 PM

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Me: hits F12 on my keyboard
Missouri’s gubner: “OMG you’re a hacker!”

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 3:53 PM

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tardy badger Me: *hits F12 on my keyboard* Missouri’s gubner: “OMG you’re a hacker!”

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-face-palm-seriously-exasperated-gif-7304550

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 3:56 PM

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payday donuts were a hit, thanks for the suggestions folks!

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 3:57 PM

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Yeet!

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 4:00 PM

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I got lemon and raspberry filled, those were popular

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 5:02 PM

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Hehehehehehehe, I love having many many many tiny things

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 5:17 PM

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wooden schooner closest actually useful english connection would maybe be albino

This is the one that came to mind when I started thinking about English words using the albus root

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I mean... Albumin

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But that's not as well known

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Most people just say "egg white"

delicate stream Oct 15, 2021, 5:19 PM

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I had to count the one kind of headers 5 times before I was able to count properly XD although the first 2 times I had dropped one and not realized it

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 5:28 PM

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Anyone ever ship in (to US) kangaroo meat?

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Oh maaaaaan California doesn't allow it.

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That's a crummy rule

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 5:35 PM

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Supplies for my next project have shipped, it took forever to find what i needed because of the pandemic

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 5:35 PM

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Waffles r delish

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 5:36 PM

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I hope you’re using blueberry syrup

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 5:36 PM

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Nah, but the waffles have chocolate chips in them

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 5:37 PM

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Nice

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 5:37 PM

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And they're gluten free and still taste good 😄

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 5:38 PM

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You know how i made shells for potato guns?

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I’m gonna push them to the limit, i wanna see how fast i can make them go without them basically shattering upon launch

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 5:53 PM

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I love when I remember how much I like a band, and dive back in. (Belle and Sebastian)

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 5:54 PM

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subtle fable I’m gonna push them to the limit, i wanna see how fast i can make them go withou...

Are they 3D printed? If so try 3-5% cubic infill. Should bring the strength up significantly without too much mass increase

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(redistributes surface forces so you don't get hot spots of stress)

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A square or hexagonal lattice on the inner wall might do the same with even less mass increase

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But to a lesser degree since to transfer force from one side to the opposite side with a lattice requires passing through lattice on the whole interior face of the object, but with cubic infill it gets transmitted across the volume

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 5:59 PM

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quartz wren Are they 3D printed? If so try 3-5% cubic infill. Should bring the strength up s...

Yep

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 6:01 PM

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Also with cubic infill it's basically a multidirectional hexagonal lattice that spans the interior

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 6:01 PM

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I mean it's going to have to withstand being fired from a shotgun so i need all the strength i can get

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 6:02 PM

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So I would say 3 walls, 5% cubic infill as a starting point

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Then if that survives you can start reducing wall thickness and infill percentage to tune to the requirements

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Or you could do a full dynamic structural analysis and have an optimal projectile before you even print

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But I don't have solid works so I work with solids instead

subtle fable Oct 15, 2021, 6:05 PM

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I mean i'm probably gonna increase infill until i reach 100% and if it still works i'll go with that

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 6:13 PM

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Just an FYI, one month and 4 days until the Wheel of Time TV show comes out. Get Hype.

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 7:50 PM

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Home made French bread

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 8:18 PM

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Yummm

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velvet pelican Oct 15, 2021, 9:12 PM

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tardy badger Home made French bread

Your french too? Man is there any nationality you aren’t? 😂

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My favorite bread for garlic bread. But beer bread thus far is most liked in general

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 9:26 PM

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I’ve not tried beer bread

velvet pelican Oct 15, 2021, 9:38 PM

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Its amazingly good. Typically tho we buy a premix and brew and then make it. Havent made it from scratch yet

dusk oracle Oct 15, 2021, 9:53 PM

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https://hackaday.com/2021/10/15/heres-a-100-mhz-pin-compatible-6502-replacement/

Hackaday

Lewin Day

Here’s A 100 MHz Pin-Compatible 6502 Replacement

The MOS Technology 6502 CPU was a popular part in its day. In various modified versions, it powered everything from the Commodore 64 to the Nintendo Entertainment System, and showed up in a million…

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awesome!

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 10:28 PM

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How much? I may need to switch how I 6502 in my game console

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 11:20 PM

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Can someone try clicking a (safe) link for me? https://docs.oshpark.com/design-tools/eagle/design-rules-files/ Please click on oshpark 2layer.dru and let me know if it downloads a file or just opens a browser window with text in it

OSH Park Docs ~ Eagle ~ Design Rules Files.

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 11:28 PM

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Final loaf of the day

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 11:33 PM

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I've been meaning to get into bread for a long time, I want to be at least partially useful when the apocalypse comes and being good at hand soldering MCUs becomes a useless skill

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I love rye, so learning to make a nice rye would be nice

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 11:36 PM

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Bread is fun but kneading takes some elbow grease

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 11:37 PM

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better than being the guy who has to dig ditches because his skills no longer have value

quartz wren Oct 15, 2021, 11:37 PM

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I just learn all the skills I can

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To some degree of proficiency that's useful

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I mean really I just learn to learn but I learn best by doing

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Also digging is a skill that I'm very proficient in lol

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Had to dig stumps out when I was suspended in middle school

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And I got suspended a lot

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Now digging is just second nature and I can crank out holes and trenches like it's nobody's business

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Also a rather fun thing that I enjoy lol

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Maybe that's what I should do with my anger today... I have digging that needs doing

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 11:42 PM

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I think if you had to dig trenches for 30 years you would start to dislike it pretty quickly

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 11:49 PM

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I’ve got a lot of useful end of world skills

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Wood working, hunting, cooking, baking, horticulture

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 11:50 PM

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I have in the past been able to play instruments, and I can make funnies. Maybe I could be a bard

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https://tenor.com/view/lute-el-dorado-guitar-playing-gif-15717054

Tenor

tardy badger Oct 15, 2021, 11:50 PM

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Lol

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Society needs those who make art

crystal ore Oct 15, 2021, 11:55 PM

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lusty fossil Can someone try clicking a (safe) link for me? https://docs.oshpark.com/design-t...

Opens in a browser window as text for me, on Firefox. You should be able to save it from there if you want, though, or right-click the link to download it.

lusty fossil Oct 15, 2021, 11:55 PM

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Ahhh ok

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I ended up copy/pasting into a blank text file and saving as .dru

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Don't know why I didn't think of that right away

subtle fable Oct 16, 2021, 12:08 AM

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Making onigiri

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 12:08 AM

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Oh fun, I remember seeing those on Pokemon and really wanting them

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Then I made friends with a kid who's family was from Japan and my dream came true!

subtle fable Oct 16, 2021, 12:09 AM

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Making them with kombu

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 12:12 AM

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Ohhhh

vagrant sonnet Oct 16, 2021, 12:33 AM

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This YouTuber’s videos are really interesting but at the same time if they die in an accident by their own hand I will not be even remotely surprised https://youtube.com/shorts/r28xQDiAnqU?feature=share

YouTube

styropyro shorts

which laser is the strongest? #shorts

The strongest laser isn't always the brightest! #shorts

Social media sillyness:
main channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/styropyro
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/styro.drake/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/styropyro
backup channel and b-side videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-3epzOdIyu-aXdeUaVP1A
discord: https://discord.gg...

▶ Play video

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 12:33 AM

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TIL that washing synthetic fiber clothing leads to microplastics in the ocean!

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and lakes and streams and such

vagrant sonnet Oct 16, 2021, 12:33 AM

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Oh crap

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Welp time to go back to wool and cotton then

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Maybe hemp?

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What does polyester even do? Be cheaper?

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 12:34 AM

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and better and cooling you I think?

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It wicks sweat I think

vagrant sonnet Oct 16, 2021, 12:35 AM

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Aaah okay

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 12:35 AM

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And it's tougher IIRC

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Whoever figures out how to filter out microplastics from our water systems before they return to nature, for an economical price, is gonna get one of the most deserved Nobel's of all time

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Is it weird to have 40 degF swings in outdoor temperature across a day?

quartz wren Oct 16, 2021, 1:02 AM

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lusty fossil I think if you had to dig trenches for 30 years you would start to dislike it pr...

nah, I just moved about a pickup load's worth of dirt and it made me feel better afterward

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always makes me feel better after I dig

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and now I have a better profile to the edge of my pull in for my lab

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so I don't end up sidewalling my tire on the edge

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like my siblings and I used to dig 5' deep holes just for fun as kids

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one time we found a tiny underground stream with super clean water coming out

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but most of the time the water that comes up is just muddy

supple surge Oct 16, 2021, 3:15 AM

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subtle fable Making onigiri

Is that some Furikake on top? ☺️ onigiri 🍙 is such a tasteful and convenient treat! Itadakemasu 🤩

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Wahoo!! achievement unlocked been moving from place to place for a while but finally was able to move into my Hacker HQ and get the soldering iron out! (For the first time 😝) wanted to practice on a test PCB before just “going ham” on my nice Ada gear 😅😆 Successfully pulled a tiny SMT from this PCB I got off of a high def tv - this PCB seems to transfer video and voltage to the individual pixel scan lines and runs along the entire bottom of the TV enclosure, and gets its feed signal from the main “logic board” of the tv (which I also recovered hee hee!) - the “2000” labeled spot in the second pic is where I pulled it from - kinda guessing it’s a transistor because it has 3 legs (BCE? 🤨😄) - dunno if I’ll ever use it but I’m super proud of myself for lifting it without breaking the pins 😁 method used was the soldering iron, solder and wick from my LadyAda Electronics Toolkit and some lovely no-clean flux I grabbed on Amazon ☺️

idle iron Oct 16, 2021, 7:36 AM

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halo 3 mod tools on steam finally... I've been working on campaign playing as a grunt... pretty hard game play, im like 1 shot and everything else isnt

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the tag test tool is so amazing, you can be playing and testing tag changes in real time

dusk oracle Oct 16, 2021, 8:31 AM

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biggest mistake developers ever make.. no mods.

dusk oracle Oct 16, 2021, 9:15 AM

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you want your creation to live on then let others create

spice moss Oct 16, 2021, 9:45 AM

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nasa launch was successful

slim shard Oct 16, 2021, 10:03 AM

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what did NASA launch (ignoring the whole "launch america" silliness, thats a lot of mass, and probably ignores things like maintaining an atmosphere)

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and if I have to hear another half hour of "meatball versus worm" banter, Imma punch an RP2040

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 3:59 PM

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Anyone know if "biogas" here would work on a propane grill? https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-4/#tab-1666faq
I suspect not or they'd call it out

HomeBiogas

HomeBiogas 4 - HomeBiogas

Our medium-sized biogas system is easy-to-install and use and perfect for a backyard or small farm. Visit to learn more.

late fulcrum Oct 16, 2021, 4:00 PM

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You may need different spuds/burners, but you might be able to adjust the air/fuel mixture so it behaves

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 4:01 PM

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Interesting

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When I make it big I'll buy one of these for my friends with a big back yard

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We grill constantly and it would be cool to turn our food scraps into gas

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we could even donate the excess fertilizer to the local community garden

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 4:45 PM

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Seeing an ad for a new Mythbusters variant makes me miss Grant even more 😢

dapper hatch Oct 16, 2021, 5:24 PM

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My brain reads Bogus when I see Biogas : D

supple surge Oct 16, 2021, 5:28 PM

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Me while unpacking at my new spot, very much wanting to know the outdoor temp “aw rats, I forgot - I slammed the lead for my outdoor temp / humidity sensor in the door of my van, it’s busted!” 🥲 looks over at LadyAda Electronics Toolkit, heavy breathing OR IS IT?! 😈 after flowing some solder for my first time during the SMT pull, also now have my first solder repair under my belt ☺️☺️ bonus - turns out it was a REALLY good idea for me to sharpie one wire to track polarity - the sensor won’t work if they’re backwards 😁

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 6:38 PM

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Pumpkin carving

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 6:39 PM

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spooooky

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 6:43 PM

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My best attempt at Oogy Boogy

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I free handed the sketch

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 6:46 PM

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I thought it was something else at first, but it only took 1-3 seconds to figure out, and then it looked exactly like Oogy Boogy

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Negative space in 2 colors threw me off, but that's pumpkins for ya

wooden schooner Oct 16, 2021, 7:57 PM

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Is there a standard pronunciation for 18650?

late fulcrum Oct 16, 2021, 7:58 PM

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I just call 'em "eighteen six-fifties" , but I have no idea if there's a standard

wooden schooner Oct 16, 2021, 7:59 PM

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in my head I say "one eight six five oh"

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come to think of it, that is probably partly because I'm reading it as a zip code

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lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 8:04 PM

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Should visit and thank the locals for the steady current flow

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:46 PM

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Got a new iPhone

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 8:47 PM

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“New”

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:47 PM

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New to me XD

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 8:48 PM

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Hey, it’s new so someone lol

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Also, I wish I could share this board I’m working on.. dang.. it would be so cool

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Unfortunately it’s sealed under NDA 😟

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:48 PM

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F

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 8:49 PM

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It’s proprietary hardware I’m developing for a startup I’m part of

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It’ll be open source soon though

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:49 PM

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Yeet!

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 8:49 PM

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Like in a year or so

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I’m pushing for open source

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Mostly because a bunch of our perspective customers greatly benefit and contribute to open source tech

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:50 PM

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I feel like starting in secret isn't a bad idea if it ends up open source -- like, if you have a good idea and share and someone makes it faster, you might not get a chance to make it... but if you make the thing and then everyone else is just building, you'll have established yourself already [I mean, they can still potentially outcompete you, but not keep you from getting off the ground]

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 8:52 PM

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Yeah, exactly. Our goal here is we are developing a proprietary hardware and software stack for VLC communications. Parts or certain platforms associated with it will be open source with more advanced closed source/enterprise offerings. Sort of like the Arduino approach

wooden schooner Oct 16, 2021, 8:53 PM

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delicate stream I feel like starting in secret isn't a bad idea if it ends up open source -- lik...

welcome to (the ideal version of) patents

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actually sorry

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patents are ideally supposed to let you share your tech and have a temporary monopoly

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(but in modern day they work absolutely nothing like that)

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:55 PM

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Patents and copyright are totally not what they started as

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 8:56 PM

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Thanks to companies like Disney and Apple

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:57 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-house-burning-okay-gif-5263684

Tenor

wooden schooner Oct 16, 2021, 8:57 PM

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delicate stream https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-house-burning-okay-gif-5263684

was this animation created after the fact based on the comic strip?

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:58 PM

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wooden schooner was this animation created after the fact based on the comic strip?

https://tenor.com/view/shrug-jakethedog-adventuretime-idunno-idk-gif-7391243

Tenor

wooden schooner Oct 16, 2021, 8:58 PM

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looks like it

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 8:58 PM

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Probs

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Anybody know of a higher resolution eInk display that's MCU compatible? Like, closer to VGA resolutions?

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 9:21 PM

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Hmmm

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Not sure

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You could try Aliexpress

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 9:23 PM

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Seeing a lot that are like, Kindle and Nook displays, or smaller ones like Adafruit sells

crystal ore Oct 16, 2021, 9:31 PM

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Here's a decent selection of some intermediate resolutions: https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm

e-Paper, Eink Display, EPD

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 9:33 PM

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Good displays also sells EPDs

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 9:35 PM

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crystal ore Here's a decent selection of some intermediate resolutions: https://www.waveshar...

Ah, perfect! I want to have some informational displays that can tell you way more than something like a MagTag just because there's not enough space

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 9:37 PM

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tardy badger Good displays also sells EPDs

Ohhh, they have full color displays...

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 9:37 PM

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Yeah 🙂

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 9:37 PM

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Those are beautiful

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Oh wow, this one is HD and getting to TV size! https://www.good-display.com/product/403.html

Color 31.2 inch large eink/ epaper display with 1280x720, GDEP312TT...

Color 31.2 inch large eink/ epaper display with 1280x720, GDEP312TT2-C-e-ink display-Good Display

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sees price, immediately dies

lusty fossil Oct 16, 2021, 9:40 PM

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Oooooof

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It would be hard to write software to work with one of these right?

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 9:44 PM

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I would imagine not too hard? But that would need a lot more memory

crystal ore Oct 16, 2021, 9:47 PM

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The panel itself looks fairly difficult... it's got like 200 pins of connectors and needs high-ish voltage drives to flip the pixels. They have a USB-interface development board for it, so you could probably drive that with a Pi without tooooo much hassle.

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 9:48 PM

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Maybe hard XD

weary fiber Oct 16, 2021, 10:30 PM

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decided to make a slowmo of myself

delicate stream Oct 16, 2021, 11:26 PM

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Hax!

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I wish I could do that XD

tardy badger Oct 16, 2021, 11:53 PM

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I’m thinking about making a subnet for my tiny RPi rack which has my RPi for coding funz, and my OctoPi instance

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Just need another managed switch to physically isolated it 😛

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Also contemplating making another subnet for a guest router lol

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 12:35 AM

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I continue to toy with the idea of building a Pi cluster to practice cluster stuff

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Unrelated, my air conditioner just started making death noises

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Do y'all like my new wallpaper? :P

proven olive Oct 17, 2021, 12:50 AM

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delicate stream Do y'all like my new wallpaper? :P

I would end up losing this.

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 12:50 AM

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Lol, why, because it would get lost in your pile of perma-proto boards?

proven olive Oct 17, 2021, 12:50 AM

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Among a pile of other things, yeah

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 12:51 AM

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XD

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 12:53 AM

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Lol

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I 3D print boxes very well

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 12:53 AM

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I hate when I lose piles in other piles

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 12:53 AM

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The real challenge will be the 2mm posts lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 12:57 AM

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wooden schooner I hate when I lose piles in other piles

I hate losing pylons in piles

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https://tenor.com/view/lindy-ford-filmd2bepic-cone-random-crazy-gif-9533864

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 12:58 AM

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we must construct additional pylons.gif

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 12:59 AM

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I printed a test case for my one SHARP Memory Display and one of the posts immediately snapped, lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:00 AM

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https://youtu.be/G2-TgQJamu8

YouTube

AgentXRifle

The Knights Who Say Pylons

Donate Here: paypal.me/agentxrifle
Ni=Pylons
Shrubbery=Vespane Gas (missed it once)
Nu=Supply Depo

enjoy and comment

▶ Play video

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A classic

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:02 AM

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lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:05 AM

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Dang, I guess that’s not a safe word

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YTP, I guess I’ll use the abbreviation of the video type

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 1:05 AM

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ah yes

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classic that

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I have many channels coming to mind, none of which can be posted here lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:06 AM

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Lol

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Yeah…

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A favorite of mine is Simba and Nala go to White Castle

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:06 AM

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YTPs are classic

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 1:07 AM

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my dog does this thing when she wants to play tug of war where she brings me her toys. Great right? Except she then plays keep away with the toy while you're sitting on the couch and can't get up easily. It's mildly annoying

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:07 AM

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Waxinator was a true genius of his time

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:08 AM

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I kinda miss early YTPs

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But there's so much amazing content now

weary fiber Oct 17, 2021, 1:08 AM

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printing model turbine parts!

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:09 AM

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The rest of us: talking about culture
Trili: “I’m making something cool!”

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Just kidding

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:09 AM

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Trili is on another level than us lazy folks

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:09 AM

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I had a turbine model I printed out

weary fiber Oct 17, 2021, 1:09 AM

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that's pretty much how I use offtopic chats lmao

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feel free to continue your topic, I don't wanna interrupt ^^

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:09 AM

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Lol

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All good

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I’ll sometimes post in the middle of Scribble’s musing

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:10 AM

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I propose a topic chance to Trili and how we think they may take over the world :P

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:10 AM

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Which makes me want to make a live stream platform but for text

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Just a huge run on sentence for people to get their thoughts out

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:11 AM

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lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:11 AM

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Most of their content is good, it can be disorienting sometimes logging on to a novel though

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It’s usually a lot of information to parse at 5:30am 😅

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:12 AM

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Random cool video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIQwDEZDyvA

YouTube

Hydraulic Press Channel

Crushing Heat-Sensitive Steel Pipes with Hydraulic Press | Thermoch...

Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring today’s video. Go to https://curiositystream.thld.co/HPC_1021 and use code HPC to save 25% off today, that’s only $14.99 a year.
Crushing steel pipes that have thermochromic / heat sensitive / color changing paint. With this cool reaction we can see how steel heats up when being crushed by our 150 ton hy...

▶ Play video

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 1:13 AM

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love his accent

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:13 AM

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He's fun

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:14 AM

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Heat sensitive smoke, don’t breathe that!

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:14 AM

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I need a hydraulic press

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:14 AM

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tardy badger Heat sensitive smoke, don’t breathe that!

Yeah XD

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:20 AM

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Have you ever seen where people can spy on communications just by looking at and measuring the flickering of the LED on a speaker

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 1:20 AM

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nice video

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:20 AM

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And get a pretty clear audio of the conversation

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 1:20 AM

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skerr or napkin thrown on floor

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yes really

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:21 AM

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Smol vibrations of a window with an invisible laser...

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 1:23 AM

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Yeah, this requires just seeing the power led of a speaker lol

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 1:24 AM

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Sound oscillations, light oscillations... Same thing, right? XD

vagrant sonnet Oct 17, 2021, 2:16 AM

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Wiggles are wiggles

late fulcrum Oct 17, 2021, 2:20 AM

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I remember seeing a modem in a bank and wondering if I could read the data from the LEDs on it.

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 2:22 AM

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Any apple users? I had to sign in to Itunes in order to get to the appletv+ page on firefox on my windows machine (trying to sign up). When I try to agree to the terms and conditions by clicking continue I get a message saying I need to agree to the conditions!

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I tried "reading" the T&C by scrolling down thru it and it didn't help

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I find this convoluted and confusing and I doubt apple support will care

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maybe I should just by an iPad so I can be in their little ecosystem officially

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 2:28 AM

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delicate stream Sound oscillations, light oscillations... Same thing, right? XD

Could you point me in the direction of figuring out a .tech email?

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 2:30 AM

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lusty fossil Could you point me in the direction of figuring out a .tech email?

First, you need to buy a domain -- I use Namecheap. Doesn't really matter where. Easiest way to get email set up is to pay for [or sometimes they have it for free] email hosting with the registrar you get the domain from

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 2:30 AM

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ohh ok

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is the .tech domain taken then?

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 2:31 AM

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.tech is like .com -- there's an "infinite" amount of domains, just gotta see if what you want is available

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 2:31 AM

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ahhhhh

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so the domain I want is for my last name? if available? So it becomes oats@honey.tech and honey is the domain?

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 2:32 AM

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honey.tech is the domain

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But yeah, if you can get honey.tech, you can make your email whatever you want @honey.tech

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Although a lot of single words are taken, so you might need to get like oatsnhoney.tech

crystal ore Oct 17, 2021, 2:42 AM

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Why am I tempted to register it real fast and resell it for a 1000% markup? 😅

stoic mesa Oct 17, 2021, 2:42 AM

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too late, I already did:)

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 2:42 AM

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crystal ore Why am I tempted to register it real fast and resell it for a 1000% markup? 😅

Because you're a horrible person? :P

stoic mesa Oct 17, 2021, 2:43 AM

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seriously though, honey. tech seems to be availae at premium prices

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 2:43 AM

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Namecheap did have them at reasonable prices when I got mine

stoic mesa Oct 17, 2021, 2:47 AM

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it is just this particular one, other .tech domains are available cheap

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I managed to register [mylastname].org for cheap 15 years ago... haven't made too much use of it yet - but I can always leave it to my sons in the will

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 2:53 AM

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Ahh, yeah, certain things are super marked up

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:01 AM

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stoic mesa I managed to register [mylastname].org for cheap 15 years ago... haven't made t...

Lol

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:14 AM

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I was dumb and got firstnamelastname.tech, so unless I name a child after myself... it ends with me

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:15 AM

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lusty fossil so the domain I want is for my last name? if available? So it becomes oats@honey...

I'm guessing you prefer to keep secret what the N in Oats N. Honey stands for?

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:15 AM

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It stands for Nunya

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:16 AM

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lol

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:16 AM

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ah, a popular choice

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:16 AM

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Oats Nunya Honey... interesting name

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:16 AM

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It's traditional, my people are a cereal people.

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:16 AM

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lol

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:16 AM

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Old man Bran Flakes was always telling stories around the fire

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:17 AM

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XD

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:17 AM

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is there some kind of regulation on domain name price increases? I recall ICANN having some kind of requirement, but uh, the price of my domain name has gone up

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I'm trying to figure out if I should be concerned eventually that I'll get priced out of a domain that I use for my email

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:18 AM

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Hopefully no one with my real name gets famous

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Because we're all related and mostly trash

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:18 AM

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ah yes, the Honeys

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...ok that's enough of that

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:21 AM

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I'm glad it's so relatively painless to get a custom email

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Any reason not to just go thru Google business and only buy one user?

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:23 AM

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I went for Google because I like Gmail. If you're already using Gmail for personal... Then you're obviously not worried about the privacy stuff some folks are worried about, so... no downsides I can think of

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:27 AM

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wait what

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what's the price of 1 user account in a google enterprise org?

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:27 AM

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OatsNHoney, for some reason I always read “Hall and Oats” when I see your name.

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:27 AM

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current price, that is

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:28 AM

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tardy badger OatsNHoney, for some reason I always read “Hall and Oats” when I see your name.

Lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:28 AM

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Great band btw

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:28 AM

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I'm more of a Simon and Garfunkel guy

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:28 AM

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Simon and Garfunkel are great too

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:28 AM

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Well more Paul Simon but if we're doing duos

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:29 AM

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I do like some ELO from time to time

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:29 AM

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I had a google org when it was called Google Apps (and smartphones were not ubiquitous). Now I'm grandfathered into the free plan, and apparently could sell it off on the gray market for about $600

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but all the features are now paywalled, iirc including changing the password of an existing SMTP configuration

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which is not a feature, it's maintenance

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:29 AM

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I feel like a neopixel display timed to ELO - Mr Blue Sky would be perfectly in order

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:30 AM

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tardy badger I feel like a neopixel display timed to ELO - Mr Blue Sky would be perfectly in ...

https://tenor.com/view/katerina-kathie-katu-do-it-now-rosa-gif-23001669

Tenor

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:30 AM

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If only I was that smart (or had that money, it’s more of a money thing)

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:31 AM

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Oi, you's smart enough

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:31 AM

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https://tenor.com/bgGft.gif

Tenor

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^ me discovering the /tenor slash command

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https://giphy.com/gifs/foxhomeent-hello-friday-mrs-doubtfire-28GHfhGFWpFgsQB4wR

Giphy

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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Wait, there's a command for GIFs?

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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wait, the whole reason I looked for it was because I assumed you were using a slash command

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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https://tenor.com/bpH4I.gif

Tenor

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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and that's how you always got those gifs

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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seems so

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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Lol, no, I use the GIF button

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:32 AM

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i also use gif button. no reason not to

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:33 AM

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wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:33 AM

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aha

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there are /tenor and /giphy slash commands it seems

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:33 AM

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Gah crap I'm bleeding DX

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:33 AM

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https://giphy.com/gifs/originals-animation-kitten-logo-l41YcyioPFUXejz0c

Giphy

Originals

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:34 AM

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I like the way Slack's /giphy shows a little annotation of the phrase you searched to get the gif. That way the translation from text to gif doesn't have to be lossless for the message to come across

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:35 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/chiaki-nanami-danganronpa-cat-gamer-gif-19296430

Tenor

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This is a cute gif

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 3:36 AM

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I hope we get bored of this soon rather than having ushered in a permanent era of high-volume gif

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:37 AM

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I wish blood wasn't a thing

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:37 AM

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wish granted! everyone dies

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:38 AM

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dear god

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:38 AM

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real falcon wish granted! *everyone dies*

https://tenor.com/view/dies-cat-dead-died-gif-13827091

Tenor

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:38 AM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/746923700573569186/899138908443541504/IMG_20211016_233646492.jpg

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4 hours of soldering

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:39 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/kermit-freaking-out-crazy-gif-8832122

Tenor

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Not a bad first try

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You should have seen mine

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:39 AM

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24 out of 56 segments in my backpack do not work

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i dont know how im going to fix this bc i definitely cant buy a new one

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:39 AM

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oof

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:40 AM

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what could have gone so wrong

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:40 AM

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Solder wick, flux, and a good hot iron

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:40 AM

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tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:40 AM

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Lots of the pins don’t look like they got a good solder joint

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:40 AM

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Solder plate!

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:41 AM

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the knife was for separating them when they clumped up

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:41 AM

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So, you should be able to just slowly drag the iron through bridges to cut them

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:42 AM

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Have you watched Collin's guide to soldering? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKbJxytERvg

YouTube

Adafruit Industries

Collin's Lab: Soldering

Learn the basics of soldering from Collin Cunningham!
Adafruit guide to excellent soldering: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-guide-excellent-soldering/
Entry level soldering iron: http://adafruit.com/products/180
Hakko FX-888 soldering iron: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1204

More Collin's Lab:
Breadboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

▶ Play video

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:42 AM

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But it looks like your biggest issue is uneven heat

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:42 AM

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i havent! ill check it out tonight

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:42 AM

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tardy badger But it looks like your biggest issue is uneven heat

how so

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let me get a better picture brb

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:42 AM

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Lots of cold joints and no solder on the pads

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:42 AM

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tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:43 AM

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late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:43 AM

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i dont know how to remove the huge clumps of solder

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:43 AM

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Solder wick

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And flux

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https://www.adafruit.com/product/4456

Solder Wick - 0.8mm wide and 1.5m / 5 feet long

Used along with the solder sucker to clean up soldering messes. Wick really comes in handy when soldering or desoldering surface-mount parts. Even if you don't have the best iron for SMT ...

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:44 AM

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whats flux

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:44 AM

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https://www.adafruit.com/product/3468

Chip Quik No-Clean Liquid Flux Pen – 10ml Pen w/ Tip

The Chip Quik No-Clean Liquid Flux Pen is great for all rework, solder, de-solder, and reflow applications! In particular this one is from the rework-champs at Chip Quik.Liquid ...

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It’s a solderers ductape

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:44 AM

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this is life saving stuff

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 AM

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Ideally you want to have this sort of cone shape and solder all around on the pads and pins

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 AM

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think i could get one at my local hardware store instead?

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i dnt have time for another shipment

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 AM

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Maybe?

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 AM

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delicate stream Ideally you want to have this sort of cone shape and solder all around on the pa...

that looks very neat

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 AM

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A lot of the stuff at hardware stores is for copper pipes

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 AM

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late moat that looks very neat

20 years of practice will do that XD

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Actually not sure how long I've been soldering, lol

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A long time\

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Practice makes perfect

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:46 AM

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tardy badger A lot of the stuff at hardware stores is for copper pipes

i did get an okay solder wire and iron

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i also got heat shrink that turned out to be too small

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:46 AM

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late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:46 AM

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👀

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:47 AM

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Lots of good joints there

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:47 AM

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the amount of solder per pin is very inconsistent on mine

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i dont know how i can solve that

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:47 AM

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A certain person here has that board in their possession looks at Doctor

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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late moat i dont know how i can solve that

So when you're soldering, are you just globbing it on the tip and touching to the pins/pads?

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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meelo, best thing is to watch that Collin video

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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tardy badger A certain person here has that board in their possession *looks at Doctor*

Yes :D

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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He covers it sooooo well

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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delicate stream So when you're soldering, are you just globbing it on the tip and touching to th...

...yes

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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Collin's video covers literally everything I'd say

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:48 AM

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ill watch the video

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thanks guys

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:49 AM

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np

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:49 AM

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ill be back later maybe but i have a lot to clean up

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😰

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:49 AM

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I usually get a nice little ball on the tip of my iron and then place the tip to the pad with the solder touching the pin

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I then slowly feed a little more solder until this joint is nice

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And forms a nice little pyramid

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 3:49 AM

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what light source do you guys use when soldering?

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:50 AM

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I use a magnifying lamp

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:50 AM

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tardy badger I usually get a nice little ball on the tip of my iron and then place the tip to...

I do that too, a little to make good contact with the pad and pin to heat it up, and then touch the solder on the opposite side

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:50 AM

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Yeah

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:50 AM

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I don't use any particular light for thruhole soldering

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:51 AM

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I also practice my free diving by holding my breath instead of using my clearly working fume extractor

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:52 AM

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I stop breathing while soldering because I can't be bothered to buy or make a soldering iron >~> plus I'm generally only soldering for 1-2 minutes at a time

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If that

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:52 AM

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Yeah

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I mostly am doing SMD work

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Much less fumes

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That I can see anyway

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coughs

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Lol

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:53 AM

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leaded lungs

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:53 AM

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Leaded solder, yuck

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:53 AM

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Tinned actually, with a little Bismuth

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:53 AM

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99.3% Tin/0.7% Copper

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:53 AM

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Low temp to avoid worse fumes

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:54 AM

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get air sucker thing

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:54 AM

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My wire solder is 99.3%/0.7%

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:54 AM

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or build one

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:54 AM

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I have a fume extractor

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:54 AM

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I have no idea what temps I solder at XD

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:55 AM

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Dang, I am fat fingering my keyboard tonight

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:55 AM

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lol

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:55 AM

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I tried to type fume twice in two sentences and got file and something else

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:56 AM

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I have a super-fine spool of Chipquik solder for SMD stuff, 0.38mm Sn96.5/Ag3.0/Cu0.5, but I haven't used it yet

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:56 AM

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Silver solderer

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:57 AM

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Nyoom

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:57 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/silver-surfer-surfing-fantastic-four-gif-16035455

Tenor

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 3:57 AM

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typoing fumes constantly makes you fuming? 😉

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:57 AM

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Exactly

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 3:59 AM

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Need sleep... night kids

late moat Oct 17, 2021, 4:00 AM

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the fumes always go right into my nose

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night!

real falcon Oct 17, 2021, 4:05 AM

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later

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 5:25 AM

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So I had a really rough day yesterday mostly due to poor design of electrical boxes + outlets + ground crimps, and ended up running out of material because of it, got access to more wire (what I ran out of due to having barely enough and breaking a wire too short to use) so today I did all of the work I possibly can without laying more wire this evening 😄

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Which means I just have 4 sections of wire and 3 outlets to connect (2 are half connected so I'm counting them as one)

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Plus 2 light sockets and 4 switches

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(already connected one light socket, so 3 light switches and one for the fume hood fan, and this switch will eventually be replaced in its box by a power relay)

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(to be controlled by external logic circuitry with lower power inputs)

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Anyway I'm almost over the electrical wiring frustration hurdle so the next step is figuring out financing insulation and sheetrock

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Well not the direct next step... The direct next steps are to seal all the holes in the paneling (walls can be done during the first of the annual monsoons we get here but I have to wait for a break in the rain to do the roof, which needs to be done before the next step) and then sealing the floor, and painting that. Then I'll be ready for insulating and sheetrock

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Then I can put the floor tiles in and start building the interior of the place

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That's when things get real because I'll be able to set up my whole array of lab spaces that I tend to have crammed into a single table in my bedroom at once without overlap

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Because I'm making most of the wall space into desk surface with shelves above and the tall wall will have a 3D printer filament extruder

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And my brother is building a plastic shredder so we will be able to recycle plastic into filament so I can print out whatever I want at very least carbon neutrally

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(once I have the printers on renewables)

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(and the recycling stuffs)

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But eventually I want to branch out into making construction materials from the miscellaneous plastics so they aren't landfilled but they are still locking carbon

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To work towards being technically carbon negative

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Because the carbon would be being sequestered before entering the environment and locked into something that's meant to last

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The way I see it is that landfills are the equivalent of misusing antibiotics. You're producing a hostile environment that breeds things capable of surviving that environment and so what we should expect from them is several bacteria evolving independent mechanisms for breaking down plastics and if they come into contact with one another via landfill consolidation or some such then they may share those mechanisms with each other and eventually plastic will just rot like wood. Just a matter of time for evolution to figure out anyway but landfills just accelerate it. The immediate danger of that is actually not plastics rotting eventually. The problem is that when that happens, landfills will become methane time bombs. It's fine if something rots in an aerobic environment but when you take away air things can get dangerous.

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Plastic being able to rot is actually a plus from an environmental standpoint

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Might be cool to build a 2m x 2m x 2m hang printer in a frame that sits in the corner of my lab with a dual nozzle design, 0.4mm and 1.2mm

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Could print some freaking HUGE stuff with that and using both nozzles in tandem could do it quick but with a nice detailed outer layer

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And use the large nozzle for big structural interior bits

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Then the small one for the details

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Might just do a 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m frame as I have limited space... Or I could build it in one if the empty spaces on the filament extension machine wall

vagrant sonnet Oct 17, 2021, 6:28 AM

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TIL drinking demineralized water is considered harmful https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf 😬 I've been optimizing the wrong metrics. :(

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The final report, published in 1980 as an internal working document (3), concluded that “not only does completely demineralised water (distillate) have unsatisfactory organoleptic properities, but it also has a definite adverse influence on the animal and human organism”. After evaluating the available health, organoleptic, and other information, the team recommended that demineralised water contain 1.) a minimum level for dissolved salts (100 mg/L), bicarbonate ion (30 mg/L), and calcium (30 mg/L); 2.) an optimum level for total dissolved salts (250-500 mg/L for chloride-sulfate water and 250-500 mg/L for bicarbonate water); 3.) a maximum level for alkalinity (6.5 meq/l), sodium (200 mg/L), boron (0.5 mg/L), and bromine (0.01 mg/L). Some of these recommendations are discussed in greater detail in this chapter.

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In my defense, my mom raised me to consider reverse osmosis water the best to drink.

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 6:36 AM

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Yeah from what I remember reading or hearing about it, I can't remember where (I think it was something a psychiatrist was explaining or something like that) is that it creates an osmotic gradient that pulls useful minerals from the body

vagrant sonnet Oct 17, 2021, 6:36 AM

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That makes sense

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 6:37 AM

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So demineralised water should have some kind of mineral pack after the demineralisation step

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Though don't ask me to remember the specifics on that

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Lol

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This would have been a conversation a few years ago with a psychiatrist about how ion charge gradients work in cells with lithium salts and it went on a tangent haha

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Turns out most of my therapy sessions around that time went on wild tangents (not sponsored)

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https://www.mobygames.com/images/i/22/24/448274.gif

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For reference

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has early 2000s flashback trip

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Thems some childhood memories right thar

vagrant sonnet Oct 17, 2021, 8:12 AM

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oh man you gave me vivid memories of this terrible Fairly Oddparents game about racing around a computer or something

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I remember the high scores being Very Hacked

blissful roost Oct 17, 2021, 8:13 AM

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Pepperidge Farm remembers..

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:22 PM

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Are in flight disturbances more common these days or am I just hearing about them more because they tend to be pandemic related and my news apps know what I read about?

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Seems like air passengers are getting rowdy

crystal ore Oct 17, 2021, 3:28 PM

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According to several news articles I've seen, they have indeed been getting more frequent.

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 3:29 PM

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well, the pandemic finally justified US Marshals on domestic airlines.

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probably the most action that Air Marshals have seen

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:44 PM

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Well I guess a lot of people are gonna learn the relative power of the 1st amendment as well as of the no-fly list.

wary herald Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/no-fly-list-airline-airport-travel-stewardess-gif-19976776

Tenor

wary herald Oct 17, 2021, 3:45 PM

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lusty fossil Well I guess a lot of people are gonna learn the relative power of the 1st amend...

Alvin and the Chipmunks would agree

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:47 PM

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Considering an iPad, 256 gigs should be enough if it's just for documents and drawings and the occasional picture right?

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They make up to 2 TB

wary herald Oct 17, 2021, 3:47 PM

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Oh, yeah

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IMHO

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 3:47 PM

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Ok I can always use cloud sharing to store files

vagrant sonnet Oct 17, 2021, 4:19 PM

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I made a breadboard diagram and schematic like a Real Project! :D https://github.com/Thynix/tds-qtpy#layout

GitHub

GitHub - Thynix/tds-qtpy: TDS Meter -> OLED and NeoPixel

TDS Meter -> OLED and NeoPixel. Contribute to Thynix/tds-qtpy development by creating an account on GitHub.

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 4:23 PM

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Did a trip to the only Asian market in my town, grabbed a bunch of red bean mochi and a DBZ themed energy drink :D

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They know they're the only one too, everything is at least 50% more than it would be in a place like SF

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Even with SF prices

hard mica Oct 17, 2021, 5:26 PM

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slow descent

wary herald Oct 17, 2021, 5:51 PM

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vagrant sonnet I made a breadboard diagram and schematic like a Real Project! :D https://github...

You're a full fledged maker now 😄

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 5:53 PM

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👏

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 5:56 PM

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Is applecare still worth while?

dusk oracle Oct 17, 2021, 6:11 PM

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well see if it is now that right to repair is reinstated

late fulcrum Oct 17, 2021, 6:13 PM

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I generally get applecare on stuff like laptops that are expensive and likely to get knocked around.

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 6:51 PM

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This iPad was not cheap so I went for it

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I have reentered the apple ecosystem

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 7:29 PM

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I feel like "ecosystem" implies a mutuality that doesn't exist in the apple estate

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 7:37 PM

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Interesting I don't have experience with Apple products younger than about 10 years ago, but it seems pretty tight knit

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 7:38 PM

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wooden schooner I feel like "ecosystem" implies a mutuality that doesn't exist in the apple esta...

curious what you mean?

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there's great tangibility between all my apple devices (sans like.. my apple TV but i use that for.. TV lol)

blissful roost Oct 17, 2021, 7:44 PM

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I have everything Google for that.

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 7:46 PM

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Even my Apple TV though is still very tangible

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I just mostly use it for watching shows

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 7:47 PM

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lusty fossil This iPad was not cheap so I went for it

"Apple" and "cheap" are mutually exclusive terms

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 7:47 PM

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This is true

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 7:47 PM

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tardy badger there's great tangibility between all my apple devices (sans like.. my apple TV ...

oh I see -- the devices themselves are the ecosystem.

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 7:48 PM

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But I'm hoping it'll be useful for hand doing drawings that would be hard for me in CAD, then I can write it off as a work expense

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 7:48 PM

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Apple has a pretty strong ecosystem, so long as you stay in it...

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 7:48 PM

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I thought the idea was that users and vendors operated in some kind of intentional collaboration

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at most, the collaboration is between Apple and people who sell apps on the App Store. Definitely not meaningful user participation, from what little I know (because I stay out of it)

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 7:53 PM

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Eh, that point is pretty subjective

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I worked as an apple care rep and the process is super interactive

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Unless you’ve worked “inside apple” you simply don’t understand how important user interactions are

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 7:54 PM

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The Apple ecosystem can make things super easy. Like, I got an iPad Mini, and it automatically got stuff like my passcode, WiFi info, Apple ID info, etc. from my phone when I started setting it up

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 7:59 PM

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Yeah, plus sharing that information with contacts if they visit and have apple devices

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When my family comes I can easily get them on my Wifi

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Without having to actually share the password

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:17 PM

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And you can answer on any Apple device you own if you have an iPhone

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 8:18 PM

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Also a good point

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I don’t mind android, I’ve had them before. I tend dislike the tribalism behind both brands tbh

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I tend to be more fussy in the MacOS vs Windows debate though. But I use both daily and MacOS is just easier for me.

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 8:20 PM

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I am an android guy because it was cheaper at the time. Now I'm an android guy because I'm used to it

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:22 PM

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I don't like iOS enough to use as my primary phone, but I do like the sync between my Apple devices

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Android tablets are no bueno

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I'm transitioning to Linux primary, MacOS secondary, Windows when required after Windows 10 is out of support

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 8:27 PM

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One thing android doesn't seem to have that iPhone has: when you disconnect from a car Bluetooth, it drops a pin in Maps.

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I'm considering learning how and writing a background app to do that

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:29 PM

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I wish the Apple Watch could work fully with Android

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 8:30 PM

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Yeah I doubt it ever will

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They want you to buy their expensive phones

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:31 PM

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Yee

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Although their phones aren't really that expensive compared to top line Android phones...

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 8:34 PM

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That's true

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I'm typing from a phone directly competing with iphone

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:35 PM

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I have an iPhone in my left pocket and Android phone in my right pocket XD

wooden schooner Oct 17, 2021, 8:40 PM

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@tardy badger yeah, that makes sense. Apple operates an empire structured around the idea that one day, it will be the only player in the industry, and tries to imitate that ideal to the extent possible in the present day

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I'm not doing a great job of articulating my beef, but it's somewhere in that neighborhood

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in the ecosystem metaphor, Apple basically positions itself as god

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:44 PM

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Apple is all you need

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 8:48 PM

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I have an iPhone 12 Mini which is honestly super nice compared to price point

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I think i opted for 128GB model which was $799, but I also traded in my iPhone 8 Plus and was paying like.. $599 for the mini.

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:50 PM

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Pixel 6 Pro is purportedly going to be like $1200, which is about what I spent on my Pixel 2 XL back in the day

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 8:51 PM

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i got my wife the iPhone 12 (standard) and that wasn't bad at all

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 8:52 PM

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It's also not as bad when you're keeping a phone for 3-4 years. It's insane for yearly replacement, assuming you don't trade it in (I keep my phones forever)

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 8:53 PM

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i'm glad that the argument for iPhone vs Android is more coming down to preference rather than "you can't do this on iPhone" or "Androids get way too many viruses and zero day exploits"

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the devices tend to be pretty similar anymore

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at least in terms of overall reliability and features

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 9:32 PM

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I think in my cartoon I want to have a background bad guy character whose name is "Bond Villain" and when he introduces himself it's like "The name is Bond. Bond Villain"

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 9:36 PM

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It's pretty neat that AirPlay just works with my cheapo smart TV

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 9:46 PM

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Oh status update, all of the outlets are connected in the lab

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I have one switch and one light socket installed still have 3 switches and two sockets remaining to install and that task will be complete

dusk oracle Oct 17, 2021, 9:58 PM

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noice!

quartz wren Oct 17, 2021, 9:59 PM

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Then I have a monumental clean up task but I can handle a little cleaning

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Then I can patch the holes in the metal walls and it's just a waiting game for this dang rain to clear up... It had been raining nearly nonstop for a week which I should be used to by now because this happens multiple times every fall but every time it puts a damper on my plans lol

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Once it's clear I can patch the holes in the roof and then I wait for the floor to dry so I can seal the seams with silicone and by then I just need to figure out how to finance insulation and sheetrock and I can get to the point of moving in lab equipment and building work spaces

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I may even build a 2 tier 3D printer space so I can fit twice as many printers as I have... Just in case designing a new one takes up half the spaces so I can still print with the ones I have

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Probably have the more "permanent" printers at eye level and the workspace for building new ones on the desk

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You know how there's a tiny home movement that people are getting in trouble for in a lot of places? Well I'm making a tiny lab and I'm not living in it so it's legal 😄

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And I'm cramming as much generality into the capability of it that it will be the most useful 150 square feet I've ever seen

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Less. Actually, the total building size is 196 square feet and I have just over half of the space so about 110

lusty fossil Oct 17, 2021, 10:27 PM

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Foundation is pretty dang good so far

fiery quarry Oct 17, 2021, 11:03 PM

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lusty fossil One thing android doesn't seem to have that iPhone has: when you disconnect from...

Google Maps with location history will record your parking location

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:28 PM

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Google Maps with location history records your every move

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:34 PM

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Google tracks you regardless it’s okay

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Even through 3rd party mail apps

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:34 PM

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Google knows all, Google sees all

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:34 PM

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Apple knows all and apple sells all to those willing to part with 15-30% of their in-app revenue

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Jk, apple only sells analytical data to trusted advertising partners

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Funny enough, apple doesn’t make all that much money on ads

umbral phoenix Oct 17, 2021, 11:38 PM

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every release Apple gets better and better at keeping data on your device, and keeping different data sets separate, and distinct from your account. Not many companies have that mindset, which is why, for example, I’ve blocked Facebook properties and others completely from my network.

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:38 PM

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Nice

umbral phoenix Oct 17, 2021, 11:38 PM

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If you come to my house and want to use Facebook, you’ll have to use a VPN

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:38 PM

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Lol fair enough. I currently only have Instagram

umbral phoenix Oct 17, 2021, 11:39 PM

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same thing really, I block that too 😉

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:39 PM

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Which they can’t garner much from that because I don’t search, I rarely interact… lol

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To show you it works, I almost never get ads for things I’m actually interested in lol

umbral phoenix Oct 17, 2021, 11:40 PM

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there’s occasionally a news article that embed some Instagram stuff and they just come up blank for me, I just move on it’s not that important

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yeah I think it’s somewhat universal that ads aren’t really all that good despite the hordes of data that are collected

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:40 PM

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Twitter ads also are also not relevant to me either because of cross site tracking disabled

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Facebook when using mobile browser was okay

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I got off mostly because it was turning into an antivax cesspool

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And all the misinformed posts and comments

umbral phoenix Oct 17, 2021, 11:42 PM

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yeah browser is the way to go, not logging in if you can avoid it, and keeping Tracking states clean

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:44 PM

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Yeah

balmy dirge Oct 17, 2021, 11:44 PM

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Can one use Tor when running Tails to access Facebook? Ah, I'd still not want to be there...

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:45 PM

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I am starting to dig deeper into protecting my network

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:45 PM

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I haven’t used Facebook in like 10 years

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:45 PM

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Currently I have IPS/IDS running on my network server

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:46 PM

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I have a network in my house that can’t be hacked

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:46 PM

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It’s generally not a big threat since my wife and I know safe browsing and the only significant threats I saw were from my family visiting

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:46 PM

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Family is danger

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:48 PM

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I want a good honeypot to put on my security app

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:51 PM

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Mmm honey

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:54 PM

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Honeypots allow your threat Software to detect malware, Trojans, and other threats more easily

delicate stream Oct 17, 2021, 11:54 PM

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I know XD just an easy joke

tardy badger Oct 17, 2021, 11:56 PM

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The last bad thing my network detected

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delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 12:01 AM

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:0

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 12:03 AM

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someone was trying to leak information onto Medium?

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:04 AM

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No

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Lol…

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Data leaks are considered medium level network threats

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Different topic, I’m making a little jig to hold a PCB I can’t share

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This is just a prototype to see how the edges and sizing works out

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It will essentially be a snap covered jig to protec the PCB

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 12:18 AM

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tardy badger Lol…

the joke seems to have worked too well

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 12:44 AM

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I need geeky, but classy, neck ties, preferably wide ties

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Not skinny ties anyway

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I got a new job and to wear a tie XD

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I should specify that by “classy” I mean subtle, classy was the wrong word

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:55 AM

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delicate stream I should specify that by “classy” I mean *subtle*, classy was the wrong word

WeiShang Lot 6 PCS Classic Men's Silk Tie Necktie Woven JACQUARD Neck Ties https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G9M4QRU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_J0P4G2635X9PF438MYJ7

WeiShang Lot 6 PCS Classic Men's Silk Tie Necktie Woven JACQUARD Ne...

WeiShang Lot 6 PCS Classic Men's Silk Tie Necktie Woven JACQUARD Neck Ties

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Support a Chinese reseller and our Amazonian overlord

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 12:56 AM

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Those are nice, but not geeky XD

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But $22.99 for 6 ties sounds good, lol

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 1:17 AM

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Oh geeky

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@delicate stream geeky neckties are expensive 😳

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$34 for a PCB print one

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 1:18 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/faint-fainting-fall-dramatic-gif-8405096

Tenor

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 1:18 AM

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Sorry $21

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Computer Geek Gifts Computer Tie PCB Techie Gifts for Men Coding Gifts STEM Gifts Cool Tech Necktie https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QY1XHMH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_SX7YMPQRZGH00K6D94RY

Computer Geek Gifts Computer Tie PCB Techie Gifts for Men Coding Gi...

Computer Geek Gifts Computer Tie PCB Techie Gifts for Men Coding Gifts STEM Gifts Cool Tech Necktie

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This is cool though Uyoung Legend Symbol Green Men's Woven 2.5" Skinny Tie https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C5WAJ2E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_508TMB9TM7FDDRCX9YAT

Uyoung Legend Symbol Green Men's Woven 2.5" Skinny Tie

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 1:27 AM

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Amazon seems to be my best bet, but they need moooore

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 1:48 AM

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delicate stream I got a new job and to wear a tie XD

lookin' for that zeugma emoji

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 2:10 AM

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❓
to applaud you for your use of zeugma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis#Type_2

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:13 AM

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Ohhh... It was entirely accidental, lol. I meant "I got a new job and need to wear a tie XD"

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:32 AM

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delicate stream I need geeky, but classy, neck ties, preferably wide ties

Something like one of these?

stoic mesa Oct 18, 2021, 2:36 AM

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tardy badger $34 for a PCB print one

eh, just order flexible pcb from JLCPCB

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 2:36 AM

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Lol

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:37 AM

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balmy dirge Something like one of these?

Yeah, although the one with the tower and CRT monitor might make kids ask me a lot of questions and make me feel old DX

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I'm gonna be teaching kids STEM classes :O

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:41 AM

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Cool, a friend from my retail gig has just started that at the HS level, after some years as a closet Maker. Best of luck to you! 👏 And let them ask!

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:42 AM

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I just don't want to feel like a dinosaur, lol

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:43 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/be-yourself-retouching-funny-gif-12523207

Tenor

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:43 AM

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XD

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:45 AM

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Really, dude, I'm new here but my heart is full for you. (...this is assuming this is something you've worked for for some time now, as did my colleague... if this is just a way to eat, then good luck anyway... )

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Just remember you're swimming in a school -- an angry school of pirhanas. Don't be nervous. 😆

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:46 AM

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The teaching wasn't in my vision of my future, but it's part of a regular IT job, and should be a fun and interesting challenge

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I get to teach kids electronics, so it'll be fun! I shall try to bring as many Adafruit products into my job as possible, of course...

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:49 AM

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Lucky kids!

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:49 AM

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They shall know the joys of the 'fruit!

stoic mesa Oct 18, 2021, 2:49 AM

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how old are the kids?

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:50 AM

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K-12

stoic mesa Oct 18, 2021, 2:50 AM

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all grade levels??

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:50 AM

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Gonna go for a single lesson plan, or face reality?

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:50 AM

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Well, according to the contract? But I think it'll mostly be like 6-8? Not really sure

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Lol, if it IS K-12, I certainly will not be teaching kindergarteners any programming, and the 12th graders can probably handle more than TinyBits

stoic mesa Oct 18, 2021, 2:51 AM

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kids love blinky things, so leds are good

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and robots

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:52 AM

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It sounds like I'll be given some sort of a plan to start with

balmy dirge Oct 18, 2021, 2:52 AM

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...and things that mess up their faces...

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:52 AM

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lol

stoic mesa Oct 18, 2021, 2:52 AM

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blowing up 1000uF electrolytic cap is always popular, tested many times

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 2:53 AM

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I might not be allowed to do that on purpose XD

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Onoes, I get paid biweekly instead of weekly :O

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Gonna have to be more careful with money XD

stoic mesa Oct 18, 2021, 2:58 AM

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if you need ideas, i can later share some of the things we do in summer camp

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 2:59 AM

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If you need börds, I mights can help

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:00 AM

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Y'all will certainly be my biggest resource!

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 3:00 AM

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Be sure to contact PT about education resources from Adafruit 🙂

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:01 AM

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Ohh, yes! I definitely need to let my new boss know about Adafruit if he doesn't already

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:05 AM

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delicate stream Yeah, although the one with the tower and CRT monitor might make kids ask me a l...

DX or DX2?

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:09 AM

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late fulcrum DX or DX2?

I had a DX, couldn't afford a DX2, lol

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... oh wait, you were making fun of me, weren't you? :P

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:21 AM

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Just seeing if you were old enough to get the reference. This 486 is a DX2, as it happens.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:21 AM

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Still jelly of that

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Remembers playing on an 8086 machine

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:22 AM

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Looks like the seller has more, if you want one of your own. https://www.ebay.com/itm/253919763564

eBay

Vintage Intel 486DX2 CPU die: Dies were miscut and never packaged ...

First photo shows die and gold plated back. Second detailed 80486DX2 photomicrograph by Pauli Rautakorpi is shown for reference only.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:23 AM

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Ohhhh

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I shall obtain one!

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I kinda want to put one in a prop of some sort...

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I have to wonder... If you had the right equipment, could you package these and have them work? Or would they have been damaged from the way they were cut?

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:37 AM

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It might be possible to attach bond wires, I'd have to take a closer look with a microscope to see if the bond pads are intact.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:37 AM

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Would be super cool

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:37 AM

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The seller has some other IC wafers that would make nice props as well

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:38 AM

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I see a good many things there!

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I would love to get my hands on one of the Apollo guidance computer bits, but... that's a bit out of my "collect because I want it" price range, lol

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Eyeing up these wafers because they're still cool and more affordable https://www.ebay.com/itm/262486491857?hash=item3d1d6a02d1:g:CekAAOSw~QVeRsem

eBay

10 assorted four inch silicon wafers - All printed, All American, c...

This sale is for a quantity of ten random wafers similar to the samples shown. All will have circuits etched on them. Modern wafers are so dense they have almost no recognizable features except under very very high magnification.

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:40 AM

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While I don't have any cool Apollo stuff, a surplus agency was selling off some old space components cheap so I bought some, and get some Telstar, Landsat, and Mars Observer parts.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:40 AM

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Ohhh, those are still cool

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Are those parts that went to space, or parts for those things that weren't used?

real falcon Oct 18, 2021, 3:41 AM

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nice

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:41 AM

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I assume they're unused spares

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:41 AM

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Still cool

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:42 AM

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You can get some nice customizable repro switch panels here https://www.concordaerospace.com/collections/project-apollo/products/copy-of-customizable-apollo-command-module-triple-switch-panel

Concord Aerospace

CUSTOMIZABLE APOLLO COMMAND MODULE TRIPLE SWITCH PANEL

All the fun of owning a spacecraft panel designed by YOU! Personalize your Apollo Command Module Switch for every occasion and setting of your choosing. Going to the Moon is complex but designing your custom Apollo Switch is not rocket science. It is simple and easy. Just enter the text you would like on your switch

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 3:42 AM

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Nifty

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:42 AM

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Also useful for art/props: https://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G24595A

G24595A - (Pkg 2) Beautiful 200mm Silicon Wafer

This is a very unique processed 200mm silicon wafer by Great Wall Semiconductor. Its next stage of production would have been adding solder bumps, however this was not done. These are great for study, experimenting, object of art, etc. Sold in a package of 2. Brand new.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:43 AM

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Imagine building a replica of all things Apollo related

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:43 AM

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late fulcrum Also useful for art/props: https://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?...

Ahh! That's WAY cheaper than the ones I was looking at!

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:44 AM

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Also bare wafers https://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G18079

G18079 - Highly Polished 4" Diameter Silicon Wafer

These are brand new highly polished silicon wafers that were purchased by a company that made solar cells (which is now closed down). Each wafer is polished on one side and has a flat edge as shown. Great for studying, experimenting, or just as an "art object". May

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:45 AM

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I shall own these

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:45 AM

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And this oddball which apparently just has the solder bumps https://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G24544

G24544 - Very Unique Great Wall Semiconductor Solder Bumped 200mm S...

Very unique, solder bumped 200mm silicon wafer made by Great Wall Semiconductor for the manufacture of high power FETs is new. This represents one of the latest technologies in semiconductor manufacturing and these new wafers are fascinating to study. Each 200mm wafer is covered

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:45 AM

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Weird

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:46 AM

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That site sometimes has IC fabrication masks as well, they're good looking, precision glass panels with metallic patterns on them.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:46 AM

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I just love the idea of framing and hanging these

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 3:46 AM

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If you're going to build an Apollo guidance computer, you only need one kind of chip, a dual 3-input NOR gate.

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Not much to it

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delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:48 AM

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Man, tiny things are so pretty up close

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Oof, almost midnight... I need sleep. Night folks!

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 3:59 AM

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late fulcrum If you're going to build an Apollo guidance computer, you only need one kind of ...

My digital logic professor told us all the time that everything was built with NAND gates or NOR gates because they were easy and cheap to implement

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He did say it was far more nuanced than that of course, but the simplification drove home important concepts at least

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 4:01 AM

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I had read that you could build everything out of NAND gates, so I assumed that inside TTL chips were just collections of NAND gates to implement whatever function was required. It wasn't until years later that I discovered that the chips were much cleverer than that (an XOR gate only has 11 transistors, and a 13-input NAND gate is just a NAND gate: an entire TTL chip with only 4 transistors)

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 4:02 AM

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Haha, yeah

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More often complex things we admire are an amalgamation of smaller well bundled simple things

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 4:04 AM

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It turns out that the 8-input NAND gate uses the same silicon with different metallization, so the 13-emitter transistor only has 8 emitters used.

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 4:05 AM

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Yeah, TTL is wild, isn’t it?

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 4:06 AM

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I totally agree

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 4:07 AM

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Anywho! Off to the land of electronics dreams for me. 5:30am comes too quickly

late fulcrum Oct 18, 2021, 4:07 AM

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If you're curious (from the 54/74 project site)

lost rampart Oct 18, 2021, 9:41 AM

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Hi

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What’s the difference between BMS protection board and lithium ion charger self balanced ?

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 11:23 AM

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A BMS (Battery Management System) will keep a battery cell from overcharging or over discharging, whereas a balanced charger will charge multiple cells in series or parallel to make sure they're all at the correct/matched voltage

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:11 PM

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I was reading an interesting article about money illusion. This idea that people plan future money decisions without taking long term inflation into account.

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So for instance, people will plan to retire 30 years from now on say… $50k a year income. But their perspective is $50k a year in current dollars, not inflation adjusted dollars

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I have personally been pretty concerned about inflation. Especially with adjusted inflation currently sitting at 5.4% for 2021 as of September

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 12:13 PM

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I hate money

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 12:13 PM

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I hate that money exists.

spice moss Oct 18, 2021, 12:13 PM

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and not that living cost changes

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:14 PM

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If I adjusted the spending power of my current salary based on January 1, 2021 dollars to now, I make almost $3k less in adjusted dollars

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My current salary is $80,500

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But my inflation adjusted salary is just over $76k

spice moss Oct 18, 2021, 12:15 PM

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some say they win in lottery and go to retire or quit from job

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:15 PM

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I started the year making $79k Jan 1, 2021 dollars

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You know most lottery winnings taken in an annuity grow 5% every year to adjust for inflation

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That’s why I’m always confused when people take lump sum payments on lottery winnings. You lose value taking the lump sum rather than taking an annuity.

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Not to mention the lump sum is always significantly less than the actual jackpot

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The jackpot represents the annuitized value

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 12:17 PM

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“I need to be RICH, and it needs to be RIGHT NOW!”

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:17 PM

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Basically

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People see big numbers and forget that they don’t actually have that great of money habits to manage that kind of wealth

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I like the proverb that things gained little by little last longer than things gained all at once

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 12:19 PM

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Indeed

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:20 PM

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But anyway, inflation sucks and most companies don’t care..

spice moss Oct 18, 2021, 12:20 PM

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not to mention the people start to ask for money as well if they know someone have got lots of money

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:21 PM

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The place I work is “supposedly” working on an equity increase for early career professionals. But given what I’ve seen for annual merit increases and the new college grad program.. I shouldn’t expect more than a 2% raise which still puts me below inflation

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 12:21 PM

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We've got a fat budget assigned for pay reviews EOY, but we'll see what happens there.

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:22 PM

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Meanwhile they’re doing $4-6B in stock buybacks

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 12:22 PM

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I'm hoping I get a push-up to 3rd line, so I don't have to concern myself with it. 😛

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:22 PM

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Good luck

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 12:22 PM

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Thanks

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:22 PM

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I hope you get a really good raise

spice moss Oct 18, 2021, 12:22 PM

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skerr how is your board making these days

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 12:23 PM

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I'd be happy to get the 3rd line role at the same pay, but.. moar = better. 😄

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:23 PM

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I won’t see another guaranteed raise until February

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 12:23 PM

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spice moss skerr how is your board making these days

Well, wrapping up the shop October 31st to prep for grad school in January

dusk oracle Oct 18, 2021, 12:58 PM

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i wish my dad was still around to see all this stuff we came up with.

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 1:56 PM

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tardy badger But anyway, inflation sucks and most companies don’t care..

or are actively driving it

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 1:57 PM

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That too

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 2:00 PM

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I started pre-making coffee for myself the night before

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so I can just heat it up and be ready to go

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my dreams seem to be calming down a lot

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used to be all sorts of chaotic to the point where I never even understood where I really was

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but now I can see it's just a weirdly distorted version of places I recognize

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mostly my neighborhood

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and my dreams are becoming a weirdly distorted version of reality

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I might be losing sanity here

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because sometimes it's hard to know when the dreams end and reality begins

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but one thing I know for sure

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the sun never shines in my dreams

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it's always either night or overcast

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 2:22 PM

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Apparently that's normal for someone with a tumultuous mind... TIL

arctic peak Oct 18, 2021, 2:47 PM

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tardy badger The jackpot represents the annuitized value

Really the best thing to do after winning the lottery is to hire an accountant.

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But also I assume that this year's Salary talks are going to be a blood bath.

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The largest raise I have ever gotten was 6% and with inflation at 5.9%......

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 2:53 PM

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I got a 1.9% merit increase

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The excuse we got for small raises was “well other companies didn’t get raises so be grateful”

arctic peak Oct 18, 2021, 2:55 PM

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Lol, I print out industry wide salary adjustment data and present it to my boss.

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They gave that excuse to our production team two years ago.

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It is really terrible that it usually is easier to make more money by moving companies than by being loyal

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 3:00 PM

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It’s really sad

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My manager told me the best way to get an internal raise is to get an offer elsewhere and see if they’ll match

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But I am not confident that the company I work for would match a $90k offer since they only view me as a recent grad with no experience despite all my previous technical experience

crystal ore Oct 18, 2021, 3:07 PM

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It's also generally considered dangerous to play that sort of game. There's the chance that they'll just say, "Wow, that's a great offer. Good luck, we're sorry to see you go..." and escort you out. Or they'll give you a counteroffer but put you on a "disloyal, expensive employee" mental list, first on the chopping block for the next layoff.

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 3:09 PM

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Yeah… it feels wrong to have to play that game but when costs of living and inflation is growing faster than paychecks, some people are left with no choice

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 3:12 PM

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crystal ore It's also generally considered dangerous to play that sort of game. There's the ...

ugh.

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do managers really still think in terms of loyalty? Everything I've seen written about how today's workplace differs from previous generations says that the notion of loyalty, or of workplaces being like families, has gone out the window

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 3:14 PM

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Workplaces were never families

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 3:14 PM

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agree, of course. loyalty used to be a thing though

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 3:14 PM

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For the younger folks, we saw our parents laid off 2-3 times in the last 20 years for no fault of their own because of nonsense games played with the economy. We're over loyalty

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(Speaking only for myself of course haha)

wooden schooner Oct 18, 2021, 3:16 PM

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yeah (I think the stuff I've seen is mostly about more like 50 years ago)... regardless of whether loyalty used to be a thing, I was under the impression that today it very much is not a thing.

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i.e., the company doesn't treat "loyal" employees better.

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 3:17 PM

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I really like my workplace but if I got an offer for a lot more and they couldn't match, I'd strongly consider leaving

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 3:24 PM

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wooden schooner do managers really still think in terms of loyalty? Everything I've seen writte...

Some places do, but this is rare these days. Employees are often considered disposable. Rare exceptions are mostly smaller companies (re: not global juggernauts)

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My new boss said they’ve been able to give 10% average yearly raises!

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 3:30 PM

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Wooo

tardy badger Oct 18, 2021, 3:46 PM

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Oh wow

arctic peak Oct 18, 2021, 4:20 PM

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I wanna work there.

vagrant sonnet Oct 18, 2021, 4:21 PM

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Any open positions?

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 4:23 PM

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Possibly XD y’all live in the PA/NJ area?

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 4:24 PM

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I'm seriously considering NJ. ^_^

thick wind Oct 18, 2021, 4:35 PM

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PA/NJ? I got family down there...

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 4:36 PM

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I've got family in a few US States, but I'll be looking at east coast when I'm ready to move that way.

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Somewhere between DC & NJ/NY

dusk oracle Oct 18, 2021, 4:36 PM

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story of my life.

delicate stream Oct 18, 2021, 4:39 PM

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If y’all come to the general Philly area I can introduce you to my boss XD

blissful roost Oct 18, 2021, 4:42 PM

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🙂

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I really must visit Pat's again. 😄

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 5:35 PM

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I'm giving myself an infinity percent raise. From $0/yr coming from my business to $0/yr coming in.

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😉

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mumble mumble dang greedy executives mumble mumble

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For real though I'm pretty excited about the idea that depending on how I play things I may be able to employ people within a couple of years

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I maaaaay or may not be her partly as a talent scouting mission

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😄

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But I'm not trying to offer jobs to anyone happy with their current situation

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Because I don't want to make a good thing potentially worse but I know once things can be profitable from one venture or another, it isn't hard to make a bad situation better

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 8:24 PM

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The only way I gamble: playing the game of "Is this supplier's chat support function garbage or not?" The stakes are my patience and sanity

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 9:14 PM

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I should design a CPU architecture that is also a CTF using cleverly implemented undocumented opcodes

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Would need to figure out some kind of hardware simplification that allows all of the opcodes that are documented to function in a logical way, but if you break down the bit structure of each you can begin to understand how the actual hardware sees the instructions easily enough to construct undocumented opcodes using unlisted bit patterns

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It would have to be a super simple documented set that gives enough examples of how the system is structured to allow informed guesses but not an outright brute force solution

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But make the undocumented opcode set much larger than the documented set by approximately a square growth rate if you were to graph the number along any given axis if functionality within the full opcode set space

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Who wants to explore a potentially infinite opcode set space with just a few leads to go on? Sounds like a puzzle game to me

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The fun part is that as you discover new undocumented opcodes you could give them mnemonics and write your own assembly language along the way

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Then when you load up code others have written it will only let you load it if you have discovered those opcodes and it will convert it to your mnemonics so you aren't confused

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But here's the fun part

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 9:27 PM

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sounds expensive, even if you value your time at $0 per hour

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 9:27 PM

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I can probably find a way to make an opcode set that is capable of having arbitrary bit lengths for opcodes... So if you want more advanced stuff you will have to figure out how the encoding works to add more bits and see what kind of things they do

real falcon Oct 18, 2021, 9:34 PM

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make program to test all of it for you

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 10:27 PM

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favorite part of my job is when I get to run the label maker. It makes very pleasing mechanical sounds

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 11:34 PM

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Eeeeeeeelectricity! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/879830312111181886/899801578511429692/20211018_160122.jpg

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Erm

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Wrong mesage

quartz wren Oct 18, 2021, 11:37 PM

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real falcon make program to test all of it for you

What if the pattern has recursive self-construction of definitions based on bit patterns that way there are not a finite number of opcode lengths?

real falcon Oct 18, 2021, 11:40 PM

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fun heh

lusty fossil Oct 18, 2021, 11:58 PM

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Any idea why a Burger King drive thru would have a piece of paper taped over their display screen? It's weird

crystal ore Oct 19, 2021, 12:03 AM

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Heh, they probably did that after the 20th customer helpfully told them "Hey, do you know your screen is showing 'System Error 1168'...?"

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 12:12 AM

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I don't think so? I can see around the edges it seems to be working as normal

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I really should have asked

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 12:15 AM

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Probably short staffed

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 12:21 AM

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Could be

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I've gotten fries and drink from the same worker for the last week? I don't think BK is usually that nice about your scheduling

velvet pelican Oct 19, 2021, 12:47 AM

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quartz wren Erm

were you sure to ground that tin roof? lol

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 12:54 AM

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New Apple stuff looks nice

velvet pelican Oct 19, 2021, 12:58 AM

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especially the carmel

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 1:04 AM

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velvet pelican were you sure to ground that tin roof? lol

Not yet, but there's insulation between the wiring and the roof and I intend to ground all of the metal paneling eventually for... Radio reasons...

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Just not there yet

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:08 AM

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lusty fossil Any idea why a Burger King drive thru would have a piece of paper taped over the...

If there wasn’t an error on screen, there may have been an incorrect price or something they needed to fix but didn’t have someone to change it. Or there may have been a message in thin pen saying so,etching was out (I’ve seen this before, notes you can barely read or can’t read at all because the pen is so fine)

velvet pelican Oct 19, 2021, 1:08 AM

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lol lightning rod and batteries so you can harness the power of the storm

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:08 AM

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delicate stream If there wasn’t an error on screen, there may have been an incorrect price or so...

Ahhh all good ideas

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:08 AM

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And things I’ve actually seen XD

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:09 AM

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Lol

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I'll just ask tomorrow when I get my fries and frozen fanta

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:09 AM

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Smort

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:09 AM

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Although this place uses paper straws smh

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:10 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/cat-vomit-luvicat-stupid-funni-gif-21439008

Tenor

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Paper straws are an abomination

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:11 AM

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When I consume a cylinder of frozen corn syrup, I want to know that the waste is gonna choke a turtle

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You know?

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:13 AM

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….

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:13 AM

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Sorry I'm secretly the son of whoever captain planet's nemesis is. I never knew my dad though

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:13 AM

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I just want biodegradable straws man, but not paper

subtle fable Oct 19, 2021, 1:23 AM

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My boss is letting me dress up for halloween, i should not be given this power in the workplace

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 1:24 AM

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Making a new RGB LED light

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 1:30 AM

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delicate stream I just want biodegradable straws man, but not paper

What about use straw?

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Impregnated with beeswax

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:31 AM

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I mean, the paper straws I’ve had were impregnated with wax, but they still get goopy and/or collapse with a thick drink

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 1:32 AM

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I was just being facetious, saying to use what straws are named after

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:37 AM

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I wish we could just have people not litter and learn to recycle properly

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:42 AM

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subtle fable My boss is letting me dress up for halloween, i should not be given this power i...

I'm going as Randall Flagg (antagonist in a number of Stephen King books) I don't think anyone will get it

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Especially because I can't wear one of his identifying plastic pins to work lol, too innapropes

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:43 AM

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404

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:44 AM

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He's a really good bad guy. If anyone hasn't read The Dark Tower they should ideally get the audiobooks from their library. So. Good. Life changingly good

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Ditto for Wheel of Time. Fantastic audiobooks.

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:46 AM

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Need more time, too many things

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 1:46 AM

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If you're not into reading/listening to 14 books, there's a WoT showing coming out in a month

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:49 AM

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I like listening, but I have dozens of dozens of hours of podcasts to listen to DX

stoic mesa Oct 19, 2021, 1:52 AM

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time to start working on new version of my persistence of vision staff

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 1:55 AM

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~~looks like a Sith weapon~~

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 2:14 AM

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@delicate stream I've started the process of commissioning a painting!

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 2:24 AM

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lusty fossil <@381566293368897537> I've started the process of commissioning a painting!

Huzzah!

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 2:25 AM

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I have to recharge the old bank account after buying an iPad lol. But I'm pretty sure I can find enough work uses for it to be tax deductible

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Not for the painting though

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 2:27 AM

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What's the painting gonna be?

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 2:28 AM

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Scenes from Neil Young's After the Gold Rush

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Super worth a listen. Some people really don't like his singing voice but I personally love it

vagrant sonnet Oct 19, 2021, 4:14 AM

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subtle fable My boss is letting me dress up for halloween, i should not be given this power i...

Reminds me of a coworker of mine who wears a fursuit to work on Halloween. He takes off the head during meetings at least.

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 4:22 AM

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Yip

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Ok, getting this when it tries to grab time

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But I need to sleep, so... Leave answers for the morning XD

vagrant sonnet Oct 19, 2021, 5:22 AM

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Yikes, I feel like that error ought not to be a RuntimeError, assuming it’s a library raising it.

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 10:52 AM

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I re-copied the libraries from my working MagTag and still got the same thing...

subtle fable Oct 19, 2021, 2:00 PM

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I forgot that metal printing is expensive unless you make a ton of said part

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 3:52 PM

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Eventually I'm going to have an SLS printer

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Though I'm going to make a variant I like to call "SMDLS"

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For selective material deposition and laser sintering

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Which means placing down patches of different materials and selectively lasering them into place with one another

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I'm thinking mainly ceramic and copper

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 4:34 PM

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(for 3D printing volumetric circuits)

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I would have been conked on the head many times this summer if not for the roof of my lean to

thick wind Oct 19, 2021, 5:01 PM

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subtle fable I forgot that metal printing is expensive unless you make a ton of said part

You could perhaps look into using metal or even resin/wax printing as a means of generating an initial cast for molding small quantities?

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Pretty sure you get better print resolution that way too

subtle fable Oct 19, 2021, 5:03 PM

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thick wind You could perhaps look into using metal or even resin/wax printing as a means of...

I don’t know if the geometry would allow me to cast it

thick wind Oct 19, 2021, 5:06 PM

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Well, wax/resin definitely can if you use one-use molds, but that can get expensive quickly...

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 5:09 PM

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Pixel 6 Pro weeeee

burnt tendon Oct 19, 2021, 5:24 PM

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Yah, I wouldn't wax poetic about the price.

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I think there's a whole world of truly interesting things to be done with 3D printers, tho.

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The problem, I think, with SLS printing of metal is just that it's really really really hard to make that not a giant sparkler ready to go off with the metal powder and all and so a lot of places have fairly strict regulations on those things.

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But, like, it's probably ripe for opportunity for someone to cook up a good FDM-but-with-a-MIG-welder setup that hits the right set of problem spaces for home such that you just have the usual MIG welding hazards that we all know how to deal with.

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And, likweise, SMDLS and other... dono... next level stuff... sounds really cool because it's less "Maybe we just need to get a 6-axis CNC mill cheaper" and more literally-impossible-on-a-CNC-mill.

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 5:45 PM

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I mean... I'll have lab space to experiment with metal printing soon

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Knew that concrete tabletop would be handy for something

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I just need to get all the pieces I have left on this chessboard of life into place so I can fund all of this stuff

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But every day I'm closer to the goal

blissful roost Oct 19, 2021, 5:51 PM

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delicate stream Pixel 6 Pro weeeee

GIVE!

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Lol

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 5:51 PM

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blissful roost GIVE!

No u

blissful roost Oct 19, 2021, 5:51 PM

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When I get one, I'm keeping it. 😁

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 5:52 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-patrick-star-mr-krabs-thumbs-down-boo-gif-5292619

Tenor

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 7:56 PM

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I need to get the door on my lab but I have to trim it first

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I want as wide of a door as the framing will allow so we intentionally picked a door with wide solid beams around the side that was bigger than we needed to make that easy

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For the storage side of the building we went with a door that is smaller than the frame but big enough to be usable and we'll just frame it in as needed

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I also need to put up a panel on one of the window bays that we didn't have enough to fill with the widows we had, which will also be where the outside light comes through

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I also need to rerun some lighting wire so we can add an internal door between the sections in the future

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Just one of the wires needs to be replaced, the other one is going the same distance, just the one to the switch actually needs replacing

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But from the switch to the light is going the same distance just along a different path

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Just have to make sure to shut off the breaker before I start working on it

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 9:35 PM

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what causes email spammers to know how to find you? Giving your email to unscrupulous sites that sell it on to scammers/spammers?

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 9:42 PM

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Sometimes that, but also data breaches and random email campaigns

stray wind Oct 19, 2021, 9:43 PM

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Even "upright" sites will sell your info. There's a lot of money to be had in selling info, and many places do it.

delicate stream Oct 19, 2021, 9:43 PM

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Also that

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But sometimes spammers just email every fistnamelastname combo with numbers

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Or a random mix of names... Statistically they're likely to find someone using common names

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 9:44 PM

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we need GDPR

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in the US

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 10:25 PM

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Ooh just got an alert that a corrupt local official who has been indicted is more corrupt than previously known (spending money illegally) that's always fun!

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 10:37 PM

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heh

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I just found my shirt that says in big bold letters readable from a distance "if you can read this you're standing too close"

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 10:48 PM

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Transformation Tuesday?

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 10:48 PM

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is it gonna be a rainbow?

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 10:48 PM

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I need to adjust the right side to be more uniform

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Yeah