#general-chat | adafruit | Page 196

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 10:48 PM

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A rainbow light

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 10:48 PM

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fun!

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I own some rainbow filament but I haven't tried it yet to know if it's worth it for this

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 10:49 PM

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Mine will have RGB led strips to light it up 🙂

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 10:50 PM

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ooooh

tardy badger Oct 19, 2021, 11:51 PM

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Enhanced design

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 11:57 PM

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Oh that is super nifty are the files available to print one for my lab?

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I would probably just print in white with a thin patch where the LEDs are and line the inside of that thin patch with RGB LED strips

lusty fossil Oct 19, 2021, 11:58 PM

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I have a friend with an interest in rainbows, I would love if the were online

quartz wren Oct 19, 2021, 11:58 PM

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(use the plastic for diffusion)

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But that's just me

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Ooh so I just realized what the technical term for the laser display I was working on is

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It's technically a single source persistence of vision display

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Which in principle applies to any CRT as well

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With the caveat that it's a single source per color channel, which is also technically true if I were to make an RGB version of the laser thing which is absolutely possible with the design I'm working on

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Imagine RGB display that looks like a monochrome CRT

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That is, no lines or dots

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 12:02 AM

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I’m probably going to publish the files

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 12:05 AM

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So I just had a thought... What if you used a combination of phosphor charging and quenching with different wavelength lasers and a phosphor that has multiple colors all mixed together as one

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To do color modulating

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It may not give a full color space but you would have a range of colors on a phosphor without the need for a grid of different color dots

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So your resolution comes down to how tight you can focus the beams

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And how close together they land

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Otherwise it would behave similarly to a monochrome CRT

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That is, no separation of phosphor colors just one panel of it

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I bet you could do something similar with a CRT but you would need several different energy level passes

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 12:27 AM

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Wow 16hrs to print all but one of the pieces for this light lol

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 12:37 AM

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There were "penetron" CRTs that had two phosphor layers and could modulate the color by switching the acceleration voltage so the beam excited one or the other or both layers.

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 12:39 AM

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Okay that's kind of what I was thinking but with lasers you would modulate what wavelengths are coming in which would have the effect of charging any phosphor with a lower energy color than the laser and quenching (after a short brightening during the initial discharge cascade of the quenching process) any higher energy color phosphors

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So if you had a spot that had its green phosphor lit, swiping a red laser across it would brighten, then darken that stripe

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In the green

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But would charge the red

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So it's similar to a blitting operation but very messy and directly in the phosphor just about as analog as possible

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 12:43 AM

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Can you buy small jet engine exhaust cones that have been taken out of service? Like truly small, 1-2 inch diameter

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 12:44 AM

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I'm not sure if you can get them used but I know you can buy jet engines in that size range on the internet that are brand new if you got the dough

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I'm sure if theres a new-stock market there must be a used parts market

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Like it only makes sense

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:06 AM

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lusty fossil Can you buy small jet engine exhaust cones that have been taken out of service? ...

You can buy real jet engines lol

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:06 AM

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Lol

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:06 AM

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Tiny ones that run on kerosene

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:06 AM

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Ooh

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I'm looking for something interesting to rotate and drizzle ferrofluid onto

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:07 AM

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https://www.jetcat.de/en/products/

Products - JetCat

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:07 AM

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Possibly just drizzle

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:10 AM

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There are lots of objects besides jet engine exhaust cones specifically that might suit such a purpose. https://www.topstreetperformance.com/single-groove-aluminum-alternator-pulley

Single-Groove Aluminum Alternator Pulley with Nose Cone Cover

TSP's aluminum pulleys are precisely machined for a perfect fit and unbeatable reliability. Available in multiple finishes, TSP's got v-belt pulleys for small and big block Chevy and small block Ford.

	Fits Chevy small block applications
	Nose cone available in natural, polished, and black finishes

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:11 AM

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Ooh

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:11 AM

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I built a model jet engine once

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:11 AM

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I'm considering also laser sintering a simple cone

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:13 AM

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Lasers is magic

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:17 AM

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Agreed.

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:20 AM

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late fulcrum Agreed.

Laser tubes? 😮

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:22 AM

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Love when someone is illegally off leashing their dog, who's head could fit in your dog's mouth, and makes no attempt to stop their dog from harassing yours

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:22 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/angry-fist-angry-fist-arthur-arthur-fist-anger-gif-7354160

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:22 AM

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"Oh he's friendly!"

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:23 AM

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keep yer dog away from unknown dogs

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and on a leash

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:23 AM

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Yuuuup

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 1:23 AM

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yeah. lemme see if I can find that picture

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lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:25 AM

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I'm in this picture

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My dog does great at the dog park but thinks the park by my house is her property

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:26 AM

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tardy badger Laser tubes? 😮

Yes, four HeNe tubes (in picture) and an argon ion (out of picture but beam visible)

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:26 AM

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I'd say that's as bad as people who run up to random animals, but especially service animals, and immediately try to pet without asking

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:27 AM

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I treat my dog as seriously as I'd treat a weapon

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:27 AM

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I'd keep my cat on a leash, as he'd walk right up to cats/dogs/people and say hi otherwise.

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:27 AM

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Because she has some serious chompers

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:27 AM

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lusty fossil Love when someone is illegally off leashing their dog, who's head could fit in y...

I deal with a similar situation daily in my complex

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:28 AM

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Every cat I've had has been instantaneously disabled by a collar or harness

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:28 AM

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People with semi aggressive breeds who let their dogs off leash.

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:28 AM

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Sammy wasn't. It took him a few seconds to figure out that he had to wear the harness to go outside, then he was fine with it. He was an unusually intelligent and laid back cat.

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:28 AM

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Mine has a bite in her history so I have to be extra careful

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:29 AM

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My dog doesn’t like other dogs

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So I exit stage right as fast as possible

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 1:29 AM

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skerr yeah thats why that graphic is perfect

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own dog being friendly dont mean others are

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 1:29 AM

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I should post it in my park

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 1:30 AM

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nice idea

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:30 AM

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It irritates me to no end because these people think “my dog is friendly” or “my dog stays with me off leash” forgetting that dogs are animals who can be overcome with adrenaline and not listen

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:30 AM

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All my cats have also been indoor cats... my current cat will look out the open front door, but run away if a car passes

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:30 AM

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Lol

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 1:30 AM

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lusty fossil I should post it in my park

Make sure to laminate it!

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:31 AM

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My dog is great off leash, honestly a great dog off leash. But people think their dogs are “so good!”

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:31 AM

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Most of the cats I've lived with have been uninterested in going outdoors, but Sammy liked to go on walks. I'd only let him out with supervision, however.

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 1:31 AM

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I don’t trust my dog enough to not be on a leash in public

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 1:31 AM

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And yes, supervision was leashed as well. He was fine with it.

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 2:16 AM

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It turns out 5 lbs is more than I thought

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delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 2:20 AM

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Oop

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 2:34 AM

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Not a bad mistake

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I like apple rings

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Peach rings are good too

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 2:42 AM

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I also got some turkish delight and brought it in to work

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Was popular

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 2:42 AM

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😮

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Homemade Turkish delight??

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Or store bought?

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 2:44 AM

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Store bought, amazon

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But there's a new place in town that does fancy fancy ones

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Too rich for my blood but they look tasty

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Like apple turkish delight with apple chunks in it

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Can you search for new discords on the discord Android app?

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 2:51 AM

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Sure lol

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 2:51 AM

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Huh

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Can't find the button

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Ope

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It just looks diff

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No thats the create server button

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 3:04 AM

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Should be a magnifying glass?

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Maybe at the bottom when you look at your server list?

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 3:04 AM

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That mag glass leads to

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Which only searches servers I'm already in

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 3:06 AM

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What about the little tree thing?

fiery quarry Oct 20, 2021, 3:06 AM

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I can't find it either

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 3:06 AM

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Nvm

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That’s for school stuff

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Weird right?

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Yeah

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 3:07 AM

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It's a deliberate design decision

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Looks like you have to have a link

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The voice of Frieza, Christopher Ayres passed away 😭

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 3:22 AM

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oh noooo

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:14 AM

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well...

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I may have broken my arm

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:15 AM

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what happened?

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:16 AM

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I was banging on the bottom to chase a turkey away from the work zone

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and I was really angry

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because the turkey just kept coming right back to pester us as soon as we went back to work

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and on one of the swings I hit the rim of the bottom of the bucket before my hand hit the flat bit

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with my forearm

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it didn't hurt too bad and I went back to helping pour concrete after my middle finger stopped being numb

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but then later in the day the pain just kept ramping up

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so my mom had me try to hold it in different orientations and bending back at the wrist sent a sharp pain up to my elbow

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and down to my pinkie

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so I have it in a splint now

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I took it off a bit ago to let it breathe

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and that was a mistake

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very pain

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much hurtful

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good thing most of the construction work on my lab is done and I don't have to lift any more 20 foot long steel panels onto the roof

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actually they're probably closer to 15 foot

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:21 AM

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ouch heh

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i broke 5 bones across my life so far, 2 times on 2 bones

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thankfully not rib, that one was once

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:22 AM

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this would be my first that I have confirmed if I go get it xrayed and it turns out to be broken

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well

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that is

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normally I get buckle fractures

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and there isn't much they can do

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and most of the time the doctors miss that it's broken entirely

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but this does not feel buckled, maybe hairlined?

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maybe worse

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but

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it doesn't feel like a clean break either

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because nothing is wobblin

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like a goblin

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spoopy

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:23 AM

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that just means heal will be longer

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:24 AM

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but able to be worked through

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:24 AM

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keep it well secured so it heals well.

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:24 AM

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yeah, unfortunately I can't take bed rest so I will be working through the healing process

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and by "can't" I mean I would go (even more) insane

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however unless I learn to draw better with my left hand art is on hold for a bit

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:26 AM

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doh

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:27 AM

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I hate how fragile this meat prison is

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:28 AM

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sadly we are of too early generation to transfer brains to robot bodies or something

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:28 AM

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I'm working on it

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😉

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oh boy

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making coffee is going to be fun

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why am I even up

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it's 3:30AM

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:31 AM

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dunno heh i dont know why im up either

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:35 AM

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just modified a sweat shirt so I can wear it over the splint

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just a slit up the sleeve so it fits better

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:36 AM

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nice, though cant do it to too many shirts 🙂 or have to replace a bunch

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 10:36 AM

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yeah well

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this one is Romney branded

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don't feel too bad about cutting it up

real falcon Oct 20, 2021, 10:38 AM

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that guy who worked with trump and are sentor, or was senor?

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 12:26 PM

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These lenses give nice closeups

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 12:36 PM

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delicate stream These lenses give nice closeups

Nifty

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 12:37 PM

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Indeed :D I shall order more

subtle fable Oct 20, 2021, 12:48 PM

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real falcon i broke 5 bones across my life so far, 2 times on 2 bones

I haven't broken any unless you count a skull fracture caused by a can being thrown into my head, resulting in me needing to have it stapled together

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 12:55 PM

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Hehehehe https://youtu.be/h91EGnpd7Tk

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subtle fable Oct 20, 2021, 1:37 PM

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Gonna try my hand in casting stuff

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 1:48 PM

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real falcon that guy who worked with trump and are sentor, or was senor?

yeah i got the jacket for free to take on hikes and do grungy work in

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 2:08 PM

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Happy International Pronouns Day!

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 2:33 PM

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Pronouns, woo!

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So is this a celebration of the existence of pronouns, or a day for announcing them?

stoic mesa Oct 20, 2021, 2:58 PM

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For creating new ones!

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 3:02 PM

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:0

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 3:05 PM

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stoic mesa For creating new ones!

Wait... Is it really?

stoic mesa Oct 20, 2021, 3:12 PM

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no, just joking

late fulcrum Oct 20, 2021, 3:13 PM

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I'm still fond of the Swedish gender-neutral pronoun "hen", but it's not much used in English speaking countries.

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 3:19 PM

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Would that go in the place of he/she/they or him/her/them?

crystal ore Oct 20, 2021, 3:23 PM

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delicate stream Would that go in the place of he/she/they or him/her/them?

Looks like it's a "he/she/they" case. The "him/her/them" equivalent would be either henom or just hen. It's a relatively new word, so usage isn't completely nailed down yet.

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 3:25 PM

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Ahh, gotcha... So could be hen/henom or just hen

wooden schooner Oct 20, 2021, 3:29 PM

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I hereby pronouns you... xem and xir

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(wrong because people choose their own pronouns, but the joke was bad enough already)

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 3:43 PM

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What are those ones for? I’ve seen them but can’t recall

vagrant sonnet Oct 20, 2021, 3:52 PM

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Tell me how you really feel, Visual Studio Code.

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 4:56 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/lRsKTwEh.jpg

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umm..... no preview?

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 4:57 PM

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Link is broken it seems

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 4:57 PM

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I have it open in a tab in my browser

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 4:58 PM

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Ah works on PC

wooden schooner Oct 20, 2021, 4:58 PM

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vagrant sonnet Tell me how you _really_ feel, Visual Studio Code.

dw, there is an analogous one when you delete tracked files.

This will DELETE 5 tracked files!
This is REVERSIBLE!
These files will be HIDDEN BUT RETRIEVABLE.

wooden schooner Oct 20, 2021, 5:01 PM

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delicate stream What are those ones for? I’ve seen them but can’t recall

idk. My understanding (please correct if wrong) is that beyond they, she, he, there is not much consensus about what class of people the pronoun is supposed to be used for or what meanings it carries, so it's up to each individual

vagrant sonnet Oct 20, 2021, 5:03 PM

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wooden schooner dw, there is an analogous one when you delete tracked files. ``` This will DELET...

Neat

wooden schooner Oct 20, 2021, 5:07 PM

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vagrant sonnet Neat

(joking)

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 5:18 PM

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wooden schooner idk. My understanding (please correct if wrong) is that beyond they, she, he, th...

I guess it’s like micro genders? Honestly I don’t really understand gender as a whole, so… that makes things hard to figure out

wooden schooner Oct 20, 2021, 5:29 PM

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I'd say for these pronouns that are just recently coming to be established, there's probably not a consistent correspondence with gender (which indeed is complicated).

vagrant sonnet Oct 20, 2021, 5:55 PM

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wooden schooner (joking)

Oh 😖 Sorry still sleep deprived

honest jolt Oct 20, 2021, 6:12 PM

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vagrant sonnet Tell me how you _really_ feel, Visual Studio Code.

Lol
You can undo almost everything in Pycharm - I've undo-ed git rollbacks even

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 6:28 PM

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Pronouns also kinda confuse me

sick adder Oct 20, 2021, 8:07 PM

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🎉 🎁

tardy badger Oct 20, 2021, 8:08 PM

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Ugh… I hate US healthcare…

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My premiums next year are rising $46 a paycheck 😓

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:14 PM

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This splint is really inconvenient...

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But it really hurts to have it off

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I hate injuring myself because it's never doing something cool. It's like I regularly scale large objects usually with scrapes to show for it even in near death situations and I end up getting really injured banging on a bucket to chase off a turkey

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:25 PM

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sick adder 🎉 🎁

I dunno what this is, but congrats!

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:27 PM

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subtle fable I haven't broken any unless you count a skull fracture caused by a can being thr...

I'd say a skull fracture falls squarely under the "broken bone" category

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:28 PM

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I broke my skull/face once

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I was attacked by a tree

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:29 PM

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this is kind of gross (just medical gross not offensive) but ||when i shattered my collarbone they took a piece of my hamstring and used it to replace all the torn ligaments|| It was the most metal thing I've ever undergone

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:29 PM

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I had what doctors could only attribute to a birth defect that required me to get C1 and C2 fused together in my spine

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That was a fun recovery

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:30 PM

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lusty fossil this is kind of gross (just medical gross not offensive) but ||when i shattered...

My dad had some cancerous skin on the side of his face, and they ||cut it off and used some skin from under his arm to patch it||

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:30 PM

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surgery is so metal

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:31 PM

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Ultimate hacking

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:31 PM

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it's like 50% saws, chisels, and hammers

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ever seen how they put in a hip replacement?

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It's not that different from driving a post for a fence

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:31 PM

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Yes I have

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:31 PM

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I've seen a lot of medical procedures

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:31 PM

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even the sanitized animation I saw in college gave me the squicks

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:32 PM

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The way they fixed my neck was by cutting a piece of bone from my hip and wiring / screwing it in for my vertebrae to fuse to

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:33 PM

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not that far removed from the ancient egyptians drilling their teeth. The mechanics of the human body remain unchanged

wary herald Oct 20, 2021, 8:33 PM

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What's the chances that the Adabox is a LED glasses kit?

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Imma say pretty high

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:34 PM

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I'm going to take the baesian approach and say that I can't help because I have no priors

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:34 PM

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wary herald What's the chances that the Adabox is a LED glasses kit?

Greater than or equal to 0% and less than or equal to 100%

wary herald Oct 20, 2021, 8:34 PM

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Vacay's over

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:35 PM

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This range sounds reasonable

wary herald Oct 20, 2021, 8:35 PM

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delicate stream Greater than or equal to 0% and less than or equal to 100%

https://tenor.com/view/extremely-enlightening-colby-denim-richards-yellowstone-impressive-gif-18035739

Tenor

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:35 PM

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You are now equally as uninformed on the subject as me

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Or greater informed

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But not less

wary herald Oct 20, 2021, 8:36 PM

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Hehe - I'm a 3 Adabox veteran

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:36 PM

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lusty fossil not that far removed from the ancient egyptians drilling their teeth. The mechan...

Unchanged in basics, yeah... Shapes and stuff have changed. And some organs are different. But compatible

wary herald Oct 20, 2021, 8:36 PM

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My computer's battery's dead - TTYL

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:37 PM

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Oof, bai

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:37 PM

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Typing is annoying with a splint, on a phone or PC lol

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But everything else hurts so today is mostly going to be resting

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Tried to sweep for a while and that turned out to be a bad idea afterwards

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But I did get a lot of cleaning done

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In only 25 minutes

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Which may be my problem... Maybe I should slow down more

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Brain: "nope"

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:40 PM

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You should sleep, healing is energy intensive

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:42 PM

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Sooo I had a bad thought earlier... I was coming to a roundabout while driving (BTW a manual is also annoying with a splint) and an older gentleman was coming to it at the same time. We both stopped and as I'm waving him through I was thinking to myself "I can wait, my time wasted to time left ratio is lower"

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Dude straight up looked surprised I didn't just rip through the roundabout

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Guess I look like a hooligan or something

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:56 PM

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if they were on your right, you had right of way

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 8:57 PM

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If you're under 40 you're probably a hooligan

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:57 PM

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And should have gone instead of allowing them

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:57 PM

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Nah they were on my left

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 8:57 PM

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ah

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 8:58 PM

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Took right of way in another roundabout on the same trip because in that situation they were on my right

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And technically (at least locally) the law states that whoever is in the roundabout has right of way but last I checked doesn't say anything about who has right to enter based on people at other entrances

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Basically just if you can safely enter and you get hit by someone entering then they are at fault

sick adder Oct 20, 2021, 9:01 PM

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delicate stream I dunno what this is, but congrats!

It's "hacktoberfest", do things on GitHub and get a Tshirt

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 9:01 PM

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sick adder It's "hacktoberfest", do things on GitHub and get a Tshirt

Ohhh, cool!

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 9:02 PM

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But there was also an update to the laws about roundabouts that dictated use of turn signals so that may have changed

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(as part of that update)

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Used to be none were required now I'm not sure what the exact rules are but I'm pretty sure there's at least a few situations where they are now technically required

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But nobody uses them still

wooden schooner Oct 20, 2021, 9:29 PM

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quartz wren And *technically* (at least locally) the law states that whoever is in the round...

The supposed rules about who has right of way when you arrive at stop signs at the same time are kind of ridiculous imo, clearly this is a situation where a quick negotiation is warranted

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Also I think the rule varies by state

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 9:31 PM

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Yeah most I've seen is first there has right of way but if arriving at the same time, furthest left has right of way and if all 4 arrive at the same time it's ambiguous

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(for a 4 way stop)

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But roundabouts usually have their own set of rules and are usually an n-way yield

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Yielding to traffic already in the roundabout

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Basically it's treated as its own road that because you are always turning right when exiting you will always have right of way to leave but because it isn't something that will get constant traffic (just frequent) you just have to yield to enter

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And usually there's laws about the number of loops you are allowed to make before you are required to take an exit (locally it was 3 last I checked)

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To prevent people from jamming it up by just getting enough people to fill the roundabout and going in circles

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Though that doesn't stop people from jamming up a whole overpass with roundabouts on either end of it by getting a slightly larger number of people to loop between the two

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Note that this is a terrible idea to participate in because you're putting the overpass under constant full load...

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So please don't get any ideas

blissful roost Oct 20, 2021, 9:48 PM

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I have many ideas.....
You can't stop me!! 🤪

quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 9:48 PM

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My therapist hates it when I say that...

blissful roost Oct 20, 2021, 9:48 PM

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Lol

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I had an amazing idea earlier..

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quartz wren Oct 20, 2021, 9:50 PM

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Oh boy!

blissful roost Oct 20, 2021, 9:54 PM

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😁

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 11:28 PM

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I'mma wait until after people have them in-hand, just to make sure there aren't any first batch issues

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 11:29 PM

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Anyone else excited for Dune?

blissful roost Oct 20, 2021, 11:29 PM

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I've booked to see it on Friday, but.. I'm not hyped.

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 11:29 PM

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awww

crystal ore Oct 20, 2021, 11:30 PM

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IMAX ticket for Monday here. 😁

blissful roost Oct 20, 2021, 11:30 PM

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At least the poster looks cool.

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I'll grab a few, obvs

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 11:31 PM

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I think my friends are I are gonna HBO MAX it

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Can anyone recommend mustache wax? Mine is getting unruly

blissful roost Oct 20, 2021, 11:42 PM

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I recommend trimming.

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 11:42 PM

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nah, it's gotta be in its full glory. Wayward strands get nipped but the whole must remain

delicate stream Oct 20, 2021, 11:54 PM

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lusty fossil Anyone else excited for Dune?

Looks good, i want to see it, but I can't bring myself to go to a theater

lusty fossil Oct 20, 2021, 11:55 PM

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if you or someone you know has HBO max, it's on there too

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 1:01 AM

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Adding the brains to the clouds for the rainbow

late fulcrum Oct 21, 2021, 1:02 AM

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That is not a sentence I ever expected to read. 🌈

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 1:07 AM

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lol, same

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 1:09 AM

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It does read weird lol

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 1:55 AM

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delicate stream lol, same

Only know what I know from news alerts, but Bill has always creeped me out and therefore he is guilty

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 1:56 AM

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I know next to nothing about him

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 1:57 AM

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He was kinda sketchy and very cutthroat in the business world, but has sanitized his image with his work

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 1:57 AM

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Like...

Founder of Microsoft
married Melinda
does a lot of great-for-the-world things with the foundation they started
wears glasses

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^ what I knew

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 1:57 AM

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But there are downsides to the way Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation approaches charity

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I'd have to relisten to the podcast about it to be more informed

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 1:57 AM

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massively helped research on maralia

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there is vaccine for it now.

stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 1:57 AM

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yes

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 1:57 AM

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Oh he definitely did good

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 1:58 AM

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yes. vaccine for parastes

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a first.

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 1:58 AM

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But there are valid criticisms of his charity work, but I was only half listening to the podcast discussing it

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I'd link it but it's really far from appropriate for this place

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 1:59 AM

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ok, in least from what youre discribing its more than 5g vaccine is bad stuff crap i see from people related to bill gates

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:00 AM

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Oh yeah

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no

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I'm not one of those people

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:00 AM

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I'll take your word for it... Everything is shades of grey, and there are a lot of good things with dark sides and bad things with bright sides in the world. I'm good not knowing all the details of everything, there's so much more to worry about

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:00 AM

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I'd have gotten two covid shots if they let me

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I had an Uber driver once explain to me how Bill Gates is gonna decimate the population with the Covid vaccine. It was a tough 30 minutes

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smile, nod, smile, nod, repeat

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:02 AM

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Oof

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:03 AM

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lusty fossil I'd have gotten two covid shots if they let me

Wait, I did get 2 covid shots, oops. I'd have gotten 3!

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:03 AM

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modernia vaccine has been approved for booster

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if im within age range, ill take it

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:04 AM

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I saw! I got pfizer, I'm due for a booster soon

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These MRNA vaccines are truly amazing, how lucky are we that we started working on them 20+ years ago

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:05 AM

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yeah theres hiv vaccine as result too

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no more hib

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:05 AM

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I saw!

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It's not out yet right?

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HIV is much more manageable than it was in the past, and we have PrEP too, but it would be so cool if we could be vaccinated against it

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:06 AM

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yup

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while im extremely low risk for hiv, id take it in case i ever have emergacy blood transfusion and it has hiv

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:07 AM

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Looool the former President launched a Twitter rip off

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:07 AM

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I'd take it just for a chance to be a part of eliminating that awful scourge

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:07 AM

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Well, it’s not launched yet

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February 2022

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:07 AM

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tardy badger February 2022

I'm on tenterhooks waiting

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:07 AM

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It’s called..

stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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last year one of Twitter accounts published the schematics of the chip which -as was claimed - they inject you instead of vaccine

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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TRUTH social 😂😂😂

stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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it was a good laugh

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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I think Pfizer was approved for a booster? Not sure if I'm eligible for it

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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stoic mesa it was a good laugh

Wasn't it the design for like a TV remote or something? And was immediately debunked?

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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It was a guitar amp

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Lol

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:08 AM

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delicate stream I think Pfizer was approved for a booster? Not sure if I'm eligible for it

It is. My mom has researched this endlessly and called me to let me know that I'm eligible soon

stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 2:09 AM

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important part of design were couple of op-amps and the foot pedal

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:09 AM

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thought he already did

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then it got shut down

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:09 AM

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No, that was a blog

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This one is a literal Twitter rip

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825

App Store

‎Truth Social

‎Follow the TRUTH!

What exactly is TRUTH Social’s “Big Tent” approach?

Big Tent is a new way to describe “inclusivity” in America. Think of a giant outdoor event tent at your best friend’s wedding. Who’s there? The combination of multiple families from all over the United States, and the world. Unc…

weary fiber Oct 21, 2021, 2:09 AM

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lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:10 AM

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weary fiber

pretty!

weary fiber Oct 21, 2021, 2:10 AM

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am modding my turbofan model to have a hidden 14mm stepper, powered by pogo pins in the stand

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so it'll just be a model engine you can pick up... then it automatically starts slowly turning when you put it on the stand

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idk, just sounded like a cool idea

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:11 AM

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Impressive CAD

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that took patience

weary fiber Oct 21, 2021, 2:12 AM

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ngl I have no clue how people survive fusion360

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I was spoiled on Inventor from the beginning lol

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:13 AM

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I'm forced into it because work doesn't want to pay for an EDA program and a solid modeling program when you can have both in one. I don't mind it actually, it's a little odd sometimes but mostly fine

weary fiber Oct 21, 2021, 2:13 AM

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EDA?

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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Why not put in a cylindrical magnet with North and South perpendicular to the axis of rotation then use electromagnets in the pedestal to spin it?

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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eletrical design something

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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No need for pogo pins

stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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inventor has a steeper learning curve, afaik

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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stoic mesa inventor has a steeper learning curve, afaik

It wasn't bad coming from SolidWorks, works very similarly

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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big tent lol

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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tardy badger https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825

starts taking bets on how long it'll take to either be DDoS'd to death or shut down for being a terrorist haven or something

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:14 AM

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They must have found some hosting partners willing to take a big PR risk

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:15 AM

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"Let your voice be heard. Sign up, join the conversation, and share your unique opinion by posting a TRUTH, Re-TRUTH, photo, news story, or video link to communicate with your friends, customers, and the world. Stay informed about breaking news while staying directly connected with the people who influence you – don’t be shocked if they take your TRUTH viral!"

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re-truth....

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:15 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/winston-schmidt-max-greenfield-new-girl-puke-vomit-gif-17408230

Tenor

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:16 AM

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i have to ask a question

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TRUTH is always in all caps there. it is normally used for summary like MS for microsoft, etc

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so, its not truth but rather 5 words

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:17 AM

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It reads to me like an MLM pamphlet tbh

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:17 AM

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Lol. It's stylization, like SPAM. Which, fun fact -- SPAM's trademark only applies to all caps, not lower case, which is why Spam/spam is used for things like spam email/mail and stuff

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:18 AM

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THANK YOU! I couldnt remember the darned word

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:18 AM

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Remembering hard XD this morning I spent 5 minutes trying to remember the word "index"

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:20 AM

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Lol

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 2:21 AM

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Yeah index. Spelled "i"

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Or maybe that's just in my programs

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:22 AM

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Lol. I seriously thought about all sorts of associated things -- index cards, Valve Index, the index at the beginning of a book... But I couldn't think of the WORD

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:22 AM

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brains are funny huh

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 2:23 AM

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delicate stream Lol. I seriously thought about all sorts of associated things -- index cards, Va...

Index is at the end of the book, ToC is at the beginning

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Source: read a lot of indices

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Usually the best part of the book

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:28 AM

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quartz wren Index is at the end of the book, ToC is at the beginning

I sleepy and forgetful. Also just fuzz brain

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~~I also don't touch many physical books anymore~~

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 2:32 AM

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I don't read many physical books now but I didn't have unfettered internet access until the mid to late 2000's

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So I used to have my nose in a book more often than not

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:33 AM

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I had a dedicated phone line for internet in the dial-up days

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Although finding information back then was usually harder than just grabbing a book...

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:35 AM

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Anyone have thoughts about the f-150 lightning? I want to start saving for one.

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 2:35 AM

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Yeah and because I was usually just trying to find bits and pieces from each book at a time the index became my best friend

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:35 AM

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lusty fossil Anyone have thoughts about the f-150 lightning? I want to start saving for one.

If I was looking for a work truck I'd consider it

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:35 AM

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My commute is short enough that I can easily do it on the range and long enough that it's expensive in a gas car

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But I think I would keep my gas car for road trips

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:39 AM

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If you can afford to keep both vehicles and have the space, there's not much reason to get rid of your working gas car. Advantages in both. Although in 5-10 years we may see better ranges

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:42 AM

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I'll have to budget and see if I can do insurance/registration on both

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But this is a dream I have and I'm gonna fantasize about it a bit more before letting it go

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:42 AM

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Arguably most important is making sure you'll have sufficient charging opportunities for your planned route

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 2:43 AM

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Wait, charging is cheaper than gas? (Complete ignoramus here)

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:43 AM

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It depends

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There's a lot of factors that go into cost benefit/potential for EVs... Right now one of the biggest reasons to go for an EV is the environmental impact. Although if you're, say, generating enough solar power to charge your vehicle enough to offset a good amount of your travel, you can save a lot

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Your entire life can be "free" depending on how much power you can generate and what you consume

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:47 AM

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I'm planning on negotiating for mileage at my next opportunity so hopefully cost isn't an issue going forward

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:50 AM

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You've got a lot of spreadsheets to make to figure it out :D

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:51 AM

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Lolol

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:52 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/spreadsheet-everybody-gets-a-spreadsheet-oprah-gif-19094233

Tenor

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:52 AM

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We must not forget about the environmental impacts of mining rare earth metals for bodies, batteries, etc..

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:52 AM

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This is true

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:52 AM

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Lithium mining is very environmentally destructive

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:52 AM

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But we're getting better and better at recycling

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:53 AM

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And tapping lithium brine reserves is too prohibitively expensive and dangerous

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:53 AM

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tardy badger We must not forget about the environmental impacts of mining rare earth metals f...

Yeah. There was a report that showed that the production of an EV can be the same or worse as a gas car in terms of environmental impact; it's after production where you see the massive difference. As such, it's better to use your gas car until it's no longer usable or is a MASSIVE polluter [like a really really old car]

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:53 AM

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Under Rock Springs, Wyoming is what may be one of the biggest lithium reserves on the planet

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If you get your electricity from renewable sources I could see how the impact would be greatly reduced

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But if you get power from coal power facilities, it probably isn’t much better than driving gas

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:55 AM

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There's a new one in CA that was just found as well

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:55 AM

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scientists just proved that recycled lathium ion works well

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:55 AM

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Out in the desert

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:55 AM

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companies might finally start using recycled ones

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:55 AM

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But where I am in CA a lot of our power is dirty and I can't go solae

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:55 AM

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Yeah, lithium is proving to be a lot easier to recycle than they previously thought

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Which is good

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:56 AM

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And other battery tech continues to be worked on

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:56 AM

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That lithium reserve in Cali is a lithium ore mine I thought

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The one Musk is trying to speed up development on

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:56 AM

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i hope iron oxide batteries will be a successful. it will provide huge gap between renewable power and downtimes

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sure its huge and heavy, but who cares? cheap and land can hold em just fine

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:57 AM

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Mechanical storage for infrastructural energy storage!!!

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:58 AM

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oooh

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 2:58 AM

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theres that too, though dunno also

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:58 AM

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I had a professor who talked about how his wife had to insist they NOT have a flywheel on their property to store power

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 2:59 AM

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Lol

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Anyway, lots of liquid lithium reserves in the world but no cost effective way to extract it

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:00 AM

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lusty fossil I had a professor who talked about how his wife had to insist they NOT have a fl...

Man, she was a buzzkill!

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:00 AM

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I think I would have showed him a video of a centrifuge ripping off its axle and crashing through a building

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 3:02 AM

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Hahaha

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:02 AM

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real falcon theres that too, though dunno also

One of the huge benefits of mechanical storage is that there are many ways it can be done, it can be highly tailored to a particular place, capacity, etc. -- like, one storage system had a crane that would lift weights and stack them with excess power during the day, and then would use gravity to generate power at night for a solar installation. Or pumping water to a reservoir up a hill and letting gravity turn turbines. No one way to do it, can really go anywhere

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:02 AM

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lusty fossil I think I would have showed him a video of a centrifuge ripping off its axle and...

https://tenor.com/view/showme-show-me-morpheus-gif-5144220

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:04 AM

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Not quite as fantastic as ripping a building apart, but very persuasive

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:06 AM

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F word warning

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:06 AM

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OH!

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let me delete

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Sorry

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I had the sound off

late fulcrum Oct 21, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Adam Savage has a video about flywheels, where he calls them "terrifying"

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Oop

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Apologies all around

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:07 AM

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Eh, I'm fine, just figured I'd mention for the sake of others

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:07 AM

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I appreciate it

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:07 AM

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flywheel eh it loses power across time

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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But yeah, flywheels can be very terrifying. But there's a lot of safe mechanical storage

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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id prefer systems where theres no loss while its not being used

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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I guess the only thing that doesn't is pumped hydro?

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That I can think of at least.

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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theres also train track thing

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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Pumped hydro, stacked weight towers

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Anything involving gravity

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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Geez

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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Gravity safe

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:08 AM

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it hauls up heavy "cab" with power, gets it back by letting it go back down

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:09 AM

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1000 ways to peel a potato

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:10 AM

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This is neat

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:10 AM

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oh fancy version https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11524958/energy-storage-rail

Vox

The train goes up, the train goes down: a simple new way to store e...

A new company stores energy using high-tech solutions, namely rocks and gravity.

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:13 AM

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I've considered building my own gravity-based energy storage

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Was thinking of having a tower attached to the side of my house that I can pump water into from a low, wide vat

crystal ore Oct 21, 2021, 3:18 AM

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Definitely do the math on that before building it. I think you'd need 10,000 gallons of water raised 10 meters to store 1 kWhr of electricity, which costs pennies from the grid.

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:19 AM

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id go for something far heavier

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like lead

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:19 AM

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Osmium bricks

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:20 AM

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crystal ore Definitely do the math on that before building it. I think you'd need 10,000 gal...

Heh, it would be proof of concept. I can't generate any significant power here

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:23 AM

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well cool thing about lifting is that it takes very little power to start lifting

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it could slowly recharge then have it power house till its spent, then start again

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 3:24 AM

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trickle charging

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:24 AM

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I mean, even if I covered every surface possible with solar here, I could only generate like... 2% of my power?

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Not much space, too much draw

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I'll do the concept for like, a Pi running sustainably

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:25 AM

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clearly you need to dig a big 'ol hole and do geothermal

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:25 AM

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Lol, if only

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Too bad that's not legal to do here

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Or feasible

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:26 AM

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you get so little sun?

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or would your electric bill cause me to have heart attack?

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:26 AM

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I don't have enough space for panels... And... also that

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~~Let's just say the electricity bill for a month is more than some of y'all spend on Adafruit in a year~~

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:28 AM

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I don't have the right to put stuff on my roof, and too many trees. Otherwise solar would be perfect

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:29 AM

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any stream?

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:30 AM

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There's a man made rivulet in the local park but it's unseasonably dry

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I'd be surprised if you could get a Watt out of it in normal times

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:32 AM

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too small then. hmm

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wind?

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:32 AM

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Not feasible

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I'm stuck with dirty power unfortunately

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:33 AM

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sucks

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:34 AM

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I want to live on a ranch and do a big solar field

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I shall farm the sun

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:36 AM

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why not do both?

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theres some farming that have solar panels above plants

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_wo57QowQk

YouTube

Arirang News

Solar farming is growing as option for producing renewable energy

농지에서 전력 생산? 전기농사, 신재생에너지 새로운 방안으로 떠올라

The need for clean, renewable energy is ever increasing.
That's why a growing number of people are trying to convert their land to solar farms, generating power instead of produce.
Oh Jung-hee brings to light the benefits reaped as well as the side effects and the challenges faced by farmers who try thei...

▶ Play video

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:37 AM

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Because then I'd have to do the plant stuff XD

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Houseplants and hydroponics are sufficient for me

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:38 AM

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🙂

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:39 AM

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I'd need a lot of solar panels to keep my machines running >~>

real falcon Oct 21, 2021, 3:40 AM

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lol

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:41 AM

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I've been looking into licensing to handle nuclear materials to build my own reactor

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That's super expensive too though DX

burnt tendon Oct 21, 2021, 3:44 AM

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That's a project where it's critical to get everything right.

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:44 AM

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Indeed

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Ugh, I need to go to sleep but now I'm hungry

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:47 AM

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For uranium?

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:48 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/cat-annoyed-annoyed-face-upset-look-at-us-gif-21260676

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 3:49 AM

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That's not a "no"

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:50 AM

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I hunger for bacon and rum

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I sleep... night night

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 4:09 AM

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What is a good way to gently squeeze water out of a wet garment without creasing it much?

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What I'm currently doing is rolling it up (by hand, imperfectly, esp because it's wet) and then squeezing the roll. This does wrinkle it a fair bit

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Thoughts that have occurred to me include rolling it around a rolling pin instead of just around nothing (though not sure how exactly that would work), or pressing it in some kind of fixture that looks like a grill press

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Suppose I did have a rolling pin. Once rolled, how do I squeeze?

crystal ore Oct 21, 2021, 4:12 AM

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I'd fold the garment semi-flat and use the rolling pin like you would on dough.

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 4:12 AM

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Oh and just knead the water out with the pin itself

crystal ore Oct 21, 2021, 4:13 AM

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Yup

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 4:13 AM

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That's an interesting idea. Though I would need at least one clean surface in my apartment...

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Nah jk, I can put some curtain liner scraps on a dirty surface

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Thanks for the suggestion! (Also I'm still interested in other creative ideas, even ones I can't use)

crystal ore Oct 21, 2021, 4:17 AM

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I always prefer the lazy approach... hang it up and go to bed. It'll be dry in the morning. 😁

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 4:17 AM

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I've gotten mildew that way

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This is a preprocessing step before I hang it outside to dry. Leaving wet stuff inside in this humid apartment is risky

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Though the situation seems to be improving as we move out of summer

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 6:41 AM

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So normally I hate ads, but I just saw a flawlessly executed one

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It was nice and short

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It was a therapist talking to a couple and she leads with "and how does that make you feel" and in a chipper tone the wife says "oh I feel moisturized" and then it cuts to the husband and he's crying and he says "that's what it does" and then it had the placard for old spice body wash with moisturizer. Then it was done. Well executed, got me to laugh, and made me talk about it. Marketing done right

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 11:15 AM

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Old Spice ads are by and large funny, I like them. Not gonna buy their products, but I like the ads

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 11:15 AM

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wooden schooner What is a good way to gently squeeze water out of a wet garment without creasing...

You can layer it between towels and compress. Might use a good number of towels to get it anywhere near dry tho

vagrant sonnet Oct 21, 2021, 12:14 PM

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This is legendary https://youtu.be/2ddFrmOcT50

YouTube

WhiteHoodHacker

I hacked and rickrolled my entire high school district

This senior prank involved controlling every single projector and TV in my high school district. This video only demonstrates one of the six high schools in the district (all of them were hijacked).

Here's my blog post explaining how I did it: https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick

Original video by my brother: https://youtu...

▶ Play video

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 2:49 PM

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delicate stream You can layer it between towels and compress. Might use a good number of towels ...

yeah, I'm only aiming for dry enough to be able to then hang-dry without growing mildew. Currently I squeeze the garment and then burrito it inside a single towel, but that towel gets really wet by the second or third garment.

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 2:50 PM

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wooden schooner yeah, I'm only aiming for dry enough to be able to then hang-dry without growing...

I often take for granted living in a dry climate

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 2:51 PM

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wooden schooner yeah, I'm only aiming for dry enough to be able to then hang-dry without growing...

Yeah… towels aren’t as absorbent as you’d hope DX

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 2:52 PM

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the fact that it gets wet means it's too absorbent, right?

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or that I just have too much water :p

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:01 PM

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Maybe that the wrong word, I mean not enough capacity XD

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:24 PM

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Why is it that the ESP32-S2-WROVER is a big canned package, but the regular ESP32-S2 is a relatively small chip?

stray wind Oct 21, 2021, 3:37 PM

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delicate stream Why is it that the ESP32-S2-WROVER is a big canned package, but the regular ESP3...

Antennae/radio, I believe. The nRF52840 is the same way, there's a bare chip, and a larger full package.

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 3:38 PM

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Ahhh, that makes sense…. The can just seems HUGE, but I guess it probably does have most of the things that the FeatherS2 had all squeezed in there

stray wind Oct 21, 2021, 3:39 PM

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delicate stream Ahhh, that makes sense…. The can just seems HUGE, but I guess it probably does h...

Plus antennae need to be a bit away from other signals, etc.

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 4:10 PM

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Fair... Should have thought of that, lol

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 5:37 PM

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OMG I am so excited for when I have room to prototype a PCB etcher out of 3D printer components

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I'll be able to test out all sorts of ideas that were too expensive before

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 5:38 PM

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Yay!

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 5:38 PM

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Nice!

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test

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:39 PM

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how did @fair summit make a code block that contains triple backquotes in #welcome message ?

fair summit Oct 21, 2021, 5:40 PM

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there are zero-width spaces between the backticks

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:40 PM

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in ordinary (I think? at least in GH-flavored) markdown, this can be done by delimiting the outer block with five backquotes

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oh hah

fair summit Oct 21, 2021, 5:40 PM

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there is no way to escape them

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:40 PM

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I love that character. It's my last name on google

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 5:40 PM

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fair summit there is no way to escape them

There is no \

fair summit Oct 21, 2021, 5:40 PM

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\ doesn't work in that case in discord markdown

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it does work to escape single backticks

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 5:41 PM

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I was just making a pun

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:41 PM

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what's the pun

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 5:41 PM

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"there is no escape"

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:41 PM

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oh heh

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also @fair summit while I'm pestering you, I have to ask. Do people ever pronounce your name "danch," similar to how people pronounce tanh (hyperbolic tangent) as "tanch"

fair summit Oct 21, 2021, 5:44 PM

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The "h" is just the first letter of my last name. No one ever pronounces my username

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i have never heard tanh pronounced that way either 🙂

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:45 PM

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ah, so adafruit doesn't have a "call me by my handle" culture 🙂

stray wind Oct 21, 2021, 5:45 PM

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Well, I will be now. 😄

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:45 PM

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fair summit i have never heard tanh pronounced that way either 🙂

I think physicists do it maybe?

fair summit Oct 21, 2021, 5:45 PM

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stray wind Well, I will be now. 😄

you'll be sorry

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🙂

stray wind Oct 21, 2021, 5:46 PM

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fair summit you'll be sorry

Bring it 😛

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:46 PM

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sinh -> "sinch", cosh -> well, just "cosh" actually

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people also say shine and coshine, but there's not an obvious parallel for tanh

stray wind Oct 21, 2021, 5:46 PM

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I've been so confused by esoteric pronunciations of physics terms at uni.

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 5:47 PM

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their notations were enough to keep me away

stray wind Oct 21, 2021, 5:47 PM

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A friend of mine acted as a translator, basically.

honest jolt Oct 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

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https://www.howtogeek.com/763328/the-chip-shortage-is-so-bad-raspberry-pi-prices-have-gone-up/

How-To Geek

If there’s one thing the Raspberry Pi is known for, it is being affordable. However, this chip shortage is causing problems for everyone, and the Raspberry Pi will see a price increase.

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:(

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 6:04 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/nooooo-adventure-time-jake-no-disbelief-gif-8025383

Tenor

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:18 PM

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called it

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

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At least it’s temporary…. And not like GPU prices that are like double or more

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

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Glad I bought one 2 months ago, even though I have yet to use it for anything...

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

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now were paying for exclusitivity

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

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pats Pi pile

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

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And 45 for a Pi4 with 2GB is still a VERY reasonable price, considering the alternatives

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

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Yee

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:21 PM

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If anything, I think the original price was set way too low...

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 6:21 PM

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Honestly more surprised the 1GB came back than that the 2GB went back up

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:22 PM

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Relatively speaking, sure. It's a pretty good move on their part, since there still exist a fair number of applications where 1GB is more than enough, niche as they may be.

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:22 PM

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bananapi m2z for the exact same price of a pi zero.
i get 4 cores and more ram.
i get very little support.

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https://tenor.com/view/its-a-double-edged-sword-bricky-it-has-its-drawbacks-there-are-disadvantages-gif-22613797

Tenor

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:23 PM

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As long as I can get an OS and a pinout, I'll take it.

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:24 PM

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i got a OS but that os cant resolve DNS

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or lacks gpu drivers

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:24 PM

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Looks like there's some thermal issues as well...

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 6:24 PM

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thick wind Relatively speaking, sure. It's a pretty good move on their part, since there st...

Most things I do can do 1GB, lol… I only have a single 8GB because it’s doing heavy stuff

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:24 PM

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or cant keep it's wifi stable

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ect ect

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:25 PM

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Anything that doesn't involve graphics or large databases should handle with <2GB

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:25 PM

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thick wind Looks like there's some thermal issues as well...

you want a fan on it

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:25 PM

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That's lame, if I need a fan I lose the original benefit of the tiny board...

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:25 PM

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it's like expecting a device that small not to get hot at that speed

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like laptops being made so thin there is barely a heatsink and they wonder why it throttles

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:26 PM

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That's a great lesson in moderation. Too bad, though, I'm in the market for something that can run linux and fit inside an existing handheld device...

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:27 PM

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it runs quake 2 like a beast

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like i can say when it works

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it goes like a bat outa

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:29 PM

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Maybe I should just make a new enclosure. I do have extra displays...

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:29 PM

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could be fun

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:30 PM

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If only these boards had a 40-pin LCD output.

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All of these mini-HDMI ports make me sad.

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:32 PM

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spi

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fbtft

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sorted

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:33 PM

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I still need hardware to convert that to TTL RGB though

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Unless I want to buy more displays

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Trying to save money by reusing engineering scrap here...

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:34 PM

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https://youtu.be/Tgic1jY1bhw?t=21

YouTube

Slayer Leo

Yes this is a display for mice, ssd1331 96x64 oled XD

▶ Play video

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:35 PM

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thick wind Trying to save money by reusing engineering scrap here...

ahh yes.

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:35 PM

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thick wind Trying to save money by reusing engineering scrap here...

this is the way

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https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian-star-wars-gif-18467370

Tenor

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:36 PM

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Oooo but they do have schematics

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Praise Open Source, maybe I can spin my own board with this...

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:37 PM

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👍

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:37 PM

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Just need to see what chips are available for HDMI decoders...

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:40 PM

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dusk oracle it runs quake 2 like a beast

Actually, have you tried the Android image for this?

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 6:40 PM

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Yeah the older one had boot issues.

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there is a new one

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always check the checklist

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some barely have drivers

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like i said support is bad.

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but there are other sources you can use

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like the orange pi has a board with the same chip

thick wind Oct 21, 2021, 6:57 PM

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Hm. Maybe it's easier to just make a Pi Zero carrier board for now...

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Hope it'll fit though

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 8:11 PM

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dusk oracle like laptops being made so thin there is barely a heatsink and they wonder why i...

External fans for 5 bucks work well - ||that's what I use||

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My laptop's really thin - I've got an old laptop though'

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 8:22 PM

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tfw all you need is a pencil but no one has one

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 8:25 PM

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What's a pencil?

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 8:33 PM

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it's an apple product 😛

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jk I need old fashioned wood and graphite

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 8:37 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/computer-whats-a-computer-tablet-gif-11564169

Tenor

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Apple says forget the past

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 8:43 PM

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stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 8:44 PM

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lusty fossil jk I need old fashioned wood and graphite

I am still using chalk and blackboard, no computers in the calssroom!

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 8:44 PM

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And above all, no whiteboards!

stoic mesa Oct 21, 2021, 8:44 PM

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yay!

delicate stream Oct 21, 2021, 8:45 PM

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I let computers do all the maths

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 8:59 PM

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it's funny how many seinfeld-isms (or larry david-isms) have made their way into common parlance without people knowing the source
e.g. re-gifting, double dipping, others

vagrant sonnet Oct 21, 2021, 9:05 PM

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Wait that’s where those are from?

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Wow

lusty fossil Oct 21, 2021, 9:05 PM

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yup! IIRC, more of Curb person myself so I haven't watched much Seinfeld

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Larry David's attitude towards life is honestly goals

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 9:15 PM

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@wary herald yes, but i believe developers should not be selling devices that need extra's to work properly. it should not be crumbling under it's own heat.
We will see when apple bring out the next models and if they plan to keep a cleaner profile.

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If i buy a product that expensive it should be prefect in every way and be functional without 20 attachments or complications.

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 9:20 PM

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dusk oracle <@!746175873203437652> yes, but i believe developers should not be selling devic...

I agree

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 9:20 PM

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just give me hdmi

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 9:20 PM

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Right

dusk oracle Oct 21, 2021, 9:21 PM

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i dont need to go thunbolt then disp port and finally hdmi

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just add a hdmi.. everyone has one

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gimme me a headphone jack.. everyone has one.

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and it's really a good example of how they milk the ignorance of rich spenders

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because if they add their own types of ports i'm forced to buy into more and more for stock features other lesser devices just have already.

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 9:43 PM

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wooden schooner And above all, no whiteboards!

I love whiteboards, I'm considering getting whiteboard paint for some sections of my lab walls

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 9:44 PM

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Me too

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 9:45 PM

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that's fine

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 9:45 PM

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dusk oracle gimme me a headphone jack.. everyone has one.

I've got a headphone jack and Micro HDMI on my 10 year old computer

wooden schooner Oct 21, 2021, 9:46 PM

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you can like whiteboards, but when you enter the domain of sliding blackboards and thick chalk, you must leave your whiteboard at the door

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 9:46 PM

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Blackboards are real messy tho

wary herald Oct 21, 2021, 9:47 PM

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delicate stream I let computers do all the maths

Me too

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https://tenor.com/view/im-lost-formula-confused-calculate-gif-9919713

Tenor

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 10:24 PM

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Crispy Mountain View’s

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 11:05 PM

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wooden schooner you can like whiteboards, but when you enter the domain of sliding blackboards a...

Oh if I didn't need it to be a low dust environment I'd be all over blackboards

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So whiteboards it is

tardy badger Oct 21, 2021, 11:07 PM

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White boards produce dust too

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Not in the same way but they do

quartz wren Oct 21, 2021, 11:09 PM

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Yeah but it's more manageable and drops to the floor more readily

weary fiber Oct 22, 2021, 12:18 AM

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Modified the design of my model turbine to support a hidden stepper, powered by a quick-disconnect magnetic usb cable!

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(featuring an Adafruit usb breakout, naturally)

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 12:30 AM

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Is that an "organ pipe" style noise reducing nozzle?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:21 AM

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wary herald I've got a headphone jack and Micro HDMI on my 10 year old computer

"What's a headphone jack?"

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:22 AM

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The phone I'm building has one...

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:22 AM

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wooden schooner you can like whiteboards, but when you enter the domain of sliding blackboards a...

Smartboards are better, you can have INFINITE spaces and no dust!

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:22 AM

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late fulcrum The phone I'm building has one...

https://tenor.com/view/give-me-give-it-to-me-now-gif-6486247

Tenor

give me

▶ Play video

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:24 AM

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I'll always appreciate a Colbert gif

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:26 AM

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They're still available (and they'll throw in another $120 kit) https://circuitmess.com/ringo/

Circuitmess

Ringo - Circuitmess

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:28 AM

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Ohhhh

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:28 AM

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lusty fossil I'll always appreciate a Colbert gif

It's one of my favorites, hehe

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:32 AM

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late fulcrum They're still available (and they'll throw in another $120 kit) https://circuit...

Not sure if that will work on my network, need to see... What kind of hackability does it have on the hardware side? They seem to really only discuss software on the page

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:33 AM

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I'm working on that. Apparently there's a 2G version and a 4G version. I got this one cheap from a European seller, but it's a 2G. I got a 4G module for it to retrofit, but then was told the 4G modules won't work in the 2G boards, although peering at the schematics gives no clue why.

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Main CPU is an ESP chip

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:34 AM

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Oh boy, yeah, that 2G radio isn't gonna work much longer

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The page touts "compatible with lots of hardware expansion modules", "meant to be hacked", and "is fully customizable", but that seems to be the only mention of hardware outside of the specs

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:36 AM

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It looks reprogrammable, but I'm not seeing a lot of options for hardware hacking.

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If I can't make it fly, I may pick up one of these https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/06/22/esp32-board-features-mini-pcie-sim-card-sockets-for-4g-lte-connectivity/

CNX Software - Embedded Systems News

ESP32 Board Features mini PCIe & SIM Card Sockets for 4G LTE Connec...

LilyGO has launched yet another ESP32 WiFi & Bluetooth IoT board. As its name implies, TTGO-T-PCIe board includes a mini PCIe socket that coupled with

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:37 AM

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Looking at the pics, it looks highly modular, but it also looks "proprietary" -- no headers for expansion, just connections for the rest of the parts

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:38 AM

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late fulcrum If I can't make it fly, I may pick up one of these https://www.cnx-software.com/...

That looks similar to the "brain board" they have

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:38 AM

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Yeah, just a little wider, a different pinout, and a PCIE connector onboard.

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:38 AM

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We should design an AdaPhone

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:40 AM

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I did design in a SIM808 module I got from AdaFruit onto a board once

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:40 AM

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Nice!

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I feel like so much more could be fit in the footprint of that Ringo phone

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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It's a somewhat odd design, admittedly

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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The 11+ and messaging makes me feel like it's really targeted at children and not, like.... us

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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Unrelated tangent, for a laser tube, are there serious safety concerns with those?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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Blindness

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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There's that

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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Like there are any 11 year olds that even remember T9 messaging

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:41 AM

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Or at least eye damage

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:42 AM

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late fulcrum Like there are any 11 year olds that even remember T9 messaging

https://tenor.com/view/tom-hanks-sully-serious-gif-14124418

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:42 AM

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delicate stream https://tenor.com/view/tom-hanks-sully-serious-gif-14124418

My joints have started going, it's only a matter of time

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:42 AM

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lusty fossil My joints have started going, it's only a matter of time

Mine started going decades ago

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:42 AM

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Depends on the laser tube. Almost all of them are high voltage, some are high current, most are glass, and then there's the laser beam. The low power ones (0.5mW) are considered "eye safe".

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:43 AM

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Hmm are the eye safe ones still cool looking?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:43 AM

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Fun fact: any level of laser light will temporarily blind me, and is intensely painful.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:43 AM

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Ouch

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:44 AM

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[normal light is also painful and can be used to blind me.]

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shadow noises

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:44 AM

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Now i know what to do if we become enemies fated to duel

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:44 AM

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This Spectra Physics 156 is eye safe and I think it's cool looking.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:44 AM

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Can you get them in arbitrary shapes? Seems like that would get expensive

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:44 AM

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lusty fossil Now i know what to do if we become enemies fated to duel

I'll have my duel goggles on for that [they reduce light by as much as 90% to prevent light-based attacks]

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:45 AM

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Ooof countered!

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:45 AM

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I've never lost a duel... Mwahahahaha

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:45 AM

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Most of them are basically cylindrical. They do come in colors: the camera doesn't really show it well, but this a green, yellow, orange, and red tube.

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:46 AM

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late fulcrum Most of them are basically cylindrical. They do come in colors: the camera doe...

I swear you're a 1950s super-science person who came to 2021

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:46 AM

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Super mad science?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:47 AM

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late fulcrum Super mad science?

That's a nice power cell you have there

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:47 AM

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Bwahahaha

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:47 AM

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Now do they emit a magnetic field that could harm someone with a pacemaker like my short lived ferrofluid idea?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:48 AM

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late fulcrum Bwahahaha

The more photos you show, the more I want to live in your lab.

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:49 AM

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Most such lasers don't have much of a magnetic field to speak of, but some have internal magnets to encourage lasing on the desired wavelength. These small ceramic magnets are unlikely to pose a risk to a pacemaker.

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:53 AM

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I did a dumb

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:54 AM

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Hmm I'm searching for the spectra physics 156 and not finding it, do you have a link handy?

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:55 AM

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delicate stream I did a dumb

As bad as me putting a connector on the wrong side of the board?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:55 AM

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lusty fossil As bad as me putting a connector on the wrong side of the board?

Mmmno, I just assumed that UnexpectedMaker's FeatherS2 would be fully drop-in compatible with a Feather RP2040.... it is not.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:55 AM

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Oooh

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:56 AM

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Also I mixed up the FeatherS2 and Feather Bluefruit

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:56 AM

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About as bad as when I didn't resize the pad hole on a part library

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I'd only feel even a little bad about mixing those up if I worked for Adafruut lol

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:57 AM

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Ugh, I have choices to make

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:57 AM

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Look up the Spectra Physics 155 or 155A, they're much more common. I had one of those but it broke, and I ended up replacing it with the slightly more powerful 156 because nobody was searching for that oddball model so it was actually cheaper.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:57 AM

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Ahhhh ok

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:58 AM

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Here's the poor dead 155

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 1:59 AM

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Huh I'm only finding manuals for the 155/155A

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 1:59 AM

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Yeah, that's the common one.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:00 AM

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Ah sorry I meant I'm not finding a product listing. Are they only available on sites like eBay?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:00 AM

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So I'm building something of a smart watch. Originally it was gonna be the Feather RP2040 with GPS, battery monitoring, sensors of different sorts... Was going to switch to the Bluefruit, grabbed the FeatherS2 by accident. So either I dunno if I want to stick with the RP2040 where it was working and stay offline, or go to the Bluefruit and try to get it to work with a phone, or use the FeatherS2 and have it connect to WiFi when I'm home or use my phone's hotspot to give it some online functionality...

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:01 AM

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They're not currently produced, so yeah, places like eBay.

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You can still get a MetroLogic helium neon laser in kit form: http://www.kitsusa.net/phpstore/html/Fiber-Optics-ML-801-He-Ne-Laser-Kit-0.5-mW---Class-5540.html

Fiber Optics ML 801 He-Ne Laser Kit 0.5 mW / Class

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The MetroLogic lasers were made in huge numbers for classroom use, so they're good to look for, as inexpensive used lasers.

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:02 AM

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[plz gib ideas what do]

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I hate this stalled feeling

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:03 AM

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I'm a little conflicted. I had a frustrating time with a Nordic chip, so I avoid them now, but there aren't a lot of other options for Bluetooth.

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:04 AM

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I grabbed the Bluefruits without thinking much

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:05 AM

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late fulcrum You can still get a MetroLogic helium neon laser in kit form: http://www.kitsus...

Ooh can you get differently shaped tubes?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:05 AM

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Think I should go with the FeatherS2? I mean, there's not really a downside, right?

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There's certainly no lack of features

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:05 AM

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lusty fossil Ooh can you get differently shaped tubes?

Not really, light mostly goes in straight lines, so laser tubes do too.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:06 AM

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Qhh ok I was hoping to make an interesting curiosity with 3-5 of these but it's probably cost prohibitive.

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:10 AM

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If you want interesting shaped glowing tubes, there are some surprisingly affordable Geissler tubes made these days. https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/geissler-tube-set-4722358333.html

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:13 AM

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Ooooh are those filled with gas and then excited?

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:14 AM

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Yes.

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:14 AM

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I think a Chem teacher in HS had those

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:14 AM

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They're really pretty

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:15 AM

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This is better than laser tubes!

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:15 AM

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(not my tube, that's from this eBay auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/363139940457)

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:15 AM

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Also is your username a reference to the Mad Bomber?

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 2:16 AM

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No, a "bodger" is someone who makes slapdash electrical constructions. It's also, amusingly, the name of the dog in "The Incredible Journey". As I like to think of myself as sort of a mad scientist (and "bodger" was taken), I went with "madbodger"

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:18 AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

YouTube

Tom Scott

The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard

http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - Here's the behind-the-scenes "how I made the emoji keyboard" video! If you haven't seen the original: http://youtu.be/3AtBE9BOvvk But the thing is, the truth is basically just "I bodged some stuff together". Which gives me the opportunity to tell some stories...

AUTOHOTKEY: http://ahkscript.or...

▶ Play video

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Tom likes bodges

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:19 AM

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Looks like at least the geisler tubes in the eBay link are not meant to be on for extended periods

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I could do it with those side light fiber optics

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It being something cute and interesting to look at

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:26 AM

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delicate stream "What's a headphone jack?"

One of these ancient things that we used to have before BLE

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You actually used a physical cord

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:27 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-pokemon-shock-surprised-pikachu-gif-15357817

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:27 AM

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covers child's ears and eyes

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:27 AM

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LOL

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 2:28 AM

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Do kids still know who Pikachu is?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:28 AM

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Yes, Pokemon is still incredibly popular. There are a lot of new Pokemon and new characters, but Ash and Pikachu are still common

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:29 AM

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I think they just came out with a new set of trading cards or something

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:29 AM

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I think Ash, Pikachu, and Jessie and James are in all iterations of the show? If not other characters?

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But Ash is always 10

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:30 AM

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They just opened a card shop near me - I didn't know people still did trading card games

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https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-nine-nine-millenials-youths-eye-roll-cant-gif-10463893

Tenor

can't deal

▶ Play video

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:31 AM

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Yup, I don't think physical cards and games will ever totally go away. There's just something about having a thing you can hold and keep that I think will always have an audience

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:31 AM

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delicate stream Yup, I don't think physical cards and games will ever totally go away. There's j...

Right....

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NFTs are getting more popular

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https://tenor.com/view/nft-nfts-blockchain-games-blockchain-gaming-nft-pump-gif-20518836

Tenor

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:32 AM

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Yeah, digital stuff will probably become dominant going forward, but just because there's technical betterness, that doesn't mean the old thing will disappear. I mean, manual transmissions still exist despite automatics showing up and making cars easier to drive

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:32 AM

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delicate stream Yeah, digital stuff will probably become dominant going forward, but just becaus...

I agree - TC fam forever LOL

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:33 AM

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Online poker didn't kill casinos (mostly because they bought the sites), so physical trading cards will probably be around a long while

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:33 AM

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You just can't beat the feeling of slamming down that powerful card that wins the game

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:34 AM

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I mostly collected, never got into the play

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Pokeymans

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:34 AM

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lusty fossil Online poker didn't kill casinos (mostly because they bought the sites), so phys...

Casinos will always be about the whole experience -- if they didn't have music, drinks, food, shows, and other stuff, and it was just tables with poker and stuff, online would probably murder it

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:35 AM

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delicate stream You just can't beat the feeling of slamming down that powerful card that wins th...

Yessss

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:35 AM

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I'm a terrible gambler so I don't do it. I've been considering for years getting a low stakes game together but I obviously don't want to do it too badly.

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:36 AM

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I dunno what to doooo

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:37 AM

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lusty fossil I'm a terrible gambler so I don't do it. I've been considering for years getting...

https://tenor.com/view/what-is-this-whats-happening-gif-14760168

Tenor

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You don't have to have a prize

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:37 AM

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I think we're gonna do an adafrut poker game. Cables for small chips, Breakouts for medium, and boards for big bucks

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:38 AM

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Yes, that's a great idea

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:38 AM

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I'll pitch it in the next stream

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:39 AM

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lol

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We could have poker chips that have NeoPixels and change colors depending on value assigned in play

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:39 AM

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Ooooh

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:39 AM

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The projects grow

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:40 AM

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The table could be a wireless power mat, the chips are powered from there, and when you tap them on an NFC pad for a particular value, it changes the chip's color. The chip stores the value in non-volatile storage in case it moves too far from the mat

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:41 AM

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Dang, y'all are really invested in poker LOL

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:41 AM

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I just like poker chips XD

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I like the weight and feel of them

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Not good at poker tho, lol

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:42 AM

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Yeah I am OK at RDR2 poker but that's about it

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:42 AM

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lol

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:42 AM

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I rely on others not knowing how to react to my lack of understanding

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Actually I rely on that pretty heavily IRL too

wary herald Oct 22, 2021, 2:43 AM

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delicate stream Not good at poker tho, lol

https://tenor.com/view/travis-fran-healy-band-music-pocket-aces-gif-22464711

Tenor

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 2:43 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/mel-gibson-stupid-looking-shocked-gif-12130977

Tenor

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If anyone bets a MagTag I'm going all in

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:47 AM

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Maybe I should build my watch around the ESP32-S2-WROVER module I got...

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:48 AM

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Would be neat (also biggin’)

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I have like.. 5 or 6 modules

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:49 AM

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I got 1

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:50 AM

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Thinking about making a WiFi LED controller that runs on batteries, has intelligent charging, level shifting for neopixel. Maybe a light sensor to turn in when the lights go off

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:50 AM

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I dunno what to dooooo

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Feather RP2040, FeatherS2, Feather M0 Bluefruit, something else... bleh

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:53 AM

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I just am not sure what to make or do lol..

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Maybe I’ll add a TFT display too

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:53 AM

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I'm stuck on this watch project now

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:54 AM

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I want to do my watch project but I can’t get parts 😦

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:54 AM

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Really thinking I might just keep it offline because I don't know how easily I'd be able to connect to a phone with Bluetooth, and if I'm out and about WiFi might not be so useful anyway

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:54 AM

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I just need an nRF52 and a round TFT display

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And a few extra passives

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But that’s it

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:56 AM

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What's the difference between nRF51 and nRF52?

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Bluefruit is nRF51

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:58 AM

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Better and newer design

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:58 AM

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Ah

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 2:58 AM

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Yeah

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I’m trying to use the nRF52811-caaa-r7

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 2:58 AM

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I've heard hooking into time services and stuff on Android is hard with the nRF stuff?

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 3:00 AM

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I don’t see why it would be?

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I think Tile uses nRF52 chips and those seem to work decently

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:01 AM

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Hmm

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Ah ok this is what I was thinking about

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So I guess just HID devices have that issue?

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Bleh, do I want to get back into Android app development...

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I think I'mma just do it with the Feather RP2040 and if I want to do Bluetooth or WiFi I can either add a module or do a V2... does that sound reasonable?

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 3:10 AM

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Huh, they should support it on newer android phones though

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:11 AM

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I'd still have to make an app probably

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 3:12 AM

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/cei38r/some_android_manufacturers_still_dont_have/

r/Android - Some Android manufacturers still don't have support for...

26 votes and 15 comments so far on Reddit

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It’s a matter of it being enabled. Go figure

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Lol…

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:12 AM

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Interesting...

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Still need to make an app XD

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 3:13 AM

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Yeah

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Good practice though 🙂

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:13 AM

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But more wooork...

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I think I'll go the add-in module or V2 route

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 3:15 AM

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V2?

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:16 AM

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Make a second version [this one being V1]

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 3:18 AM

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Ah okay

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Wasn’t sure if you were talking of something else

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:19 AM

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Lol, fair

vagrant sonnet Oct 22, 2021, 3:52 AM

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:D

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:57 AM

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Yay data!

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I made an ItsyBitsy RP2040: Breadboard Edition

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And now I sleep, night night

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 1:00 PM

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The dancing Nicholas cage looked like a dancing Elvis

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:08 PM

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Lol

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I just recognized it as some mutated version of Party Parrot

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 1:13 PM

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Well now I need party Elvis

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 1:15 PM

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Lol

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 2:59 PM

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Moin

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Sealing the seams in the lab side floor today and then tomorrow we can paint the floors with waterproofing paint

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Then I just have to put in the doors, cover up the rest of the small holes around the paneling, add 2 windows, and it's ready to start doing interior work

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Sheetrock, insulation, and building desks

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Though, not in that order

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Might be hard to insulate with sheetrock in place

dusty citrus Oct 22, 2021, 3:19 PM

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;)

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 3:42 PM

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Please enjoy

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 5:47 PM

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what did the professional mourner say after the funeral?

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"I had a wail of a time"

dusty citrus Oct 22, 2021, 6:01 PM

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From #help-with-arduino
Most CE-marked products can be placed on the market subject only to an internal production control by the manufacturer (Module A; see Self-certification, below), with no independent check of the conformity of the product with EU legislation; ANEC has cautioned that, amongst other things, CE marking cannot be considered a "safety mark" for consumers.[7]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking

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http://www.anec.eu/attachments/ANEC-SC-2012-G-026final.pdf

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lol
As so often, the Romans had words for it. Caveat Emptor – or ‘Buyer Beware’ - is
an appropriate tag for CE Marking because it offers no assurance to consumers that
a product is safe, or compliant with other legal requirements (e.g. Ecodesign
requirements).

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For many consumer products, CE Marking is no more than a claim from the
manufacturer that the product meets European legislation. Not only that, but the
manufacturer does not have to provide an independent confirmation of the claim.

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That's a pretty low standard. ;)

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With Bicycle (and motorcycle) helmets, if you don't have a Snell sticker on it, it's probably never been tested properly.

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Snell will go into retail stores, buy samples anonymously, and test them.

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https://smf.org/faq

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Snell is an independent, third-party, non-profit helmet standard and testing organization serving public safety interest for over 60 years. Both DOT and ECE are government minimal standards that rely mostly on helmet manufacturers to police themselves.

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Voluntary Snell Standards are the most stringent for impact protection. After passing certification testing, every Snell helmet model in the retail market is randomly purchased and tested continuously at Snell lab to ensure premium protection. Riders can verify each Snell certified helmet by model and size on the Snell website.

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Last time I looked (8 years ago) 'Specialized' was the only easy to find helmet in my retail area (northeast USA) that had Snell stickers on every helmet sold under that brand name. Nobody else did.

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I think CPSC was the common mark found on other helmets. (See a lot of DOT references online, though).

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 6:46 PM

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Anyone having issues with the YouTube Android app? Videos freeze and buffer forever when using wifi, fine on mobile data

crystal ore Oct 22, 2021, 6:49 PM

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lusty fossil Anyone having issues with the YouTube Android app? Videos freeze and buffer fore...

That smells like a home-internet issue of some sort, perhaps?

lusty fossil Oct 22, 2021, 6:50 PM

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I think so, too, I just wanted to see if it was affecting anyone else

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 7:34 PM

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They've done the impossible https://twitter.com/LucasOfSunshine/status/1451376018963537920?s=20

Lucas 🧡 (@LucasOfSunshine)

This is the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen from Twitter

Retweets

1047

Likes

15023

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 7:54 PM

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Lol

dusty citrus Oct 22, 2021, 7:54 PM

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I bought a shortwave radio (Eton 750).
Runs on D cells.
Turns out: they make .. get this .. spacers! .. to convert AA cells for a device that wants .. D cells!

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So I use four AA alkalines to keep the radio happy (for many hours at a time) while the D-cell NiMH's are charging.

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That radio will also run on a flat 5.0 VDC on the jacked input (2.1 mm barrel jack on the radio) though it is advertized more in the 6 VDC range.

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When you plug in an empty barrel plug it blinks the battery icon indicating 'no battery' which is suggestive that it won't try to apply DC power to alkalines in the radio.

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I'm thinking there's a switch in the 2.1 mm jack that cuts off internal battery power when you jack in.

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 8:06 PM

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I've seen a lot of those in various devices I've taken apart with non rechargeable batteries and a jack, it's a super easy thing to manufacture into the jack

subtle fable Oct 22, 2021, 8:07 PM

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quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 8:09 PM

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Oooooooh noice! Halloween costume?

subtle fable Oct 22, 2021, 8:10 PM

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Maybe, if i can find a coat

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 8:14 PM

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dusty citrus I bought a shortwave radio (Eton 750). Runs on D cells. Turns out: they make .. ...

I've also seen adapters that let you use a LiPo instead of D cells, so you can make your retro tech rechargeable without any mods!

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 8:18 PM

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I mean there's also the possibility of just using rechargeable D cells

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And charging them outside the device in a dedicated charger

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 8:19 PM

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Well, higher capacity rechargeable, lol

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 8:19 PM

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I wonder if there's any adapter designs to let you use 2 18650 or 20650 cells in place of 4 D cells...

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(for a 2x2 receptacle design)

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If not I can think of a printable design that only needs a spring besides the cell and the printable piece

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 8:21 PM

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EZ print!

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 8:23 PM

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Might need to integrate a 3v regulator on each side but should work fine

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(since a dead lithium cell still has more voltage than 2 full D cells in series)

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And it's actually fairly easy to do a bar graph voltage tester with passive components and not have it draw passive current by only activating it with a button

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Basically just a multi node voltage divider that makes it so that each voltage level you want to check for divides out to the voltage drop of the LEDs so that as each voltage you're testing is passed, the system then has enough voltage at that point to trigger the LED to light because it's able to start drawing current across it

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And if that voltage drop is too imprecise then just turn the activation voltages into a log scale by adding diodes in series to each LED so that each one has twice the voltage drop of the next, then the differences between each activation range is much larger than the error bars

thick wind Oct 22, 2021, 8:35 PM

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If you're really committed to using LiPo or Li-ion cells in place of alkalines, you really should incorporate actual protection circuitry. A voltage divider alone will sip power when off, and can potentially overdischarge cells.

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 8:39 PM

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That's why I said only activating the LED bar when the button is pressed but yeah protection circuits are always recommended

late fulcrum Oct 22, 2021, 8:55 PM

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Back in the day, voltage testers worked that way, but with neons instead of LEDs

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 8:56 PM

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The one adapter I saw had a boost and buck converter and a low power MCU to control stuff. Buck converter would do 1.5v/3v, boost would do 4.5v/6v/7.5v. You'd switch to the appropriate voltage, and use blanks/spacers to fill in however many slots [it was a single D cell device]

quartz wren Oct 22, 2021, 9:20 PM

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Yeah that's basically how I'd do it if I were going activate rather than passive for sure lol

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You can get some pretty energy dense lipos if you know where to look

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I however am not much help there because I haven't looked that deep into the subject

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Not sure if I already said it here but likely no broken arm. Seems to be a bruised nerve cluster or something and the splint was just keeping enough pressure off of it to not scream in pain from being stressed

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Because yesterday and today I didn't need the splint just have to be careful not to use it too much or let anything hit the bruised spot

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But at worst it's a minor hairline though so good news

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That kind of thing heals quick for me as long as I'm careful for a couple weeks

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Looks like I cut up a sweatshirt sleeve for nothing lol

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Good thing I've been using needle and thread since I was a wee lad

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 9:39 PM

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oof

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Random question... VDD is V+ and VSS is GND, right?

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 10:15 PM

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delicate stream Random question... VDD is V+ and VSS is GND, right?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/142412

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange

What is the difference between \$V_{CC}\$, \$V_{DD}\$, \$V_{EE}\$, ...

I've seen lots of schematics use $V_{CC}$ and $V_{DD}$ interchangeably.
I know $V_{CC}$ and $V_{DD}$ are for positive voltage, and $V_{SS}$ and $V_{EE}$ are for ground, but what is the

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 10:15 PM

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delicate stream Random question... VDD is V+ and VSS is GND, right?

Yes

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Voltage Source Sink

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Can’t remember VDD

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VCC is voltage controlled current

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 10:16 PM

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the SE answer does the homework on this

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(and explains VCC differently)

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 10:17 PM

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I was taught differently

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 10:18 PM

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yeah, I've also heard the explanation of VCC you described (which means it's right, in at least some circles)

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 10:18 PM

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Just shows you how schools throw their own spin on things lol

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 10:19 PM

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I've heard something like, VCC is the operating voltage of the chip, whereas VDD is the power input to the circuit, or something

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so for an arduino, VDD would be the voltage of the input power supply before regulation, or something

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or maybe I have them backwards

tardy badger Oct 22, 2021, 10:19 PM

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But in terms of transistors I did see VCE, VDS, VGS, VGD, etc..

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These terms were pretty consistent in my VLSI course

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But Vdd was used a lot in VLSI lol…

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It’s definitely not ubiquitous

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 11:12 PM

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Ah, cool, danke!

wooden schooner Oct 22, 2021, 11:18 PM

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Preview box reinterprets latex as markdown. Classic

delicate stream Oct 22, 2021, 11:31 PM

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lol

subtle fable Oct 23, 2021, 12:09 AM

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quartz wren Oooooooh noice! Halloween costume?

Better pic

delicate stream Oct 23, 2021, 12:53 AM

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Are you going to be a game squid?

late fulcrum Oct 23, 2021, 12:56 AM

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I always figured Vcc was collector voltage (bipolar, like TTL) and Vdd was drain voltage (FET, like CMOS). Similarly with Vee (emitter) and Vss (source). But it's just guesswork on my part.

jovial path Oct 23, 2021, 1:42 AM

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subtle fable Better pic

PLA?

subtle fable Oct 23, 2021, 1:43 AM

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jovial path PLA?

PLA and Low quality settings

wary herald Oct 23, 2021, 2:33 AM

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delicate stream Are you going to be a game squid?

Wut's that