Gordonjcp

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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade...
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> threatening to have him deported to China while specifically calling out his public criticism of the CCP with a disgusting "who knows how he may be received" I think you're overstating it a bit. How about you tell the wh
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Well, it still seems to be sitting up top, so I had to pick on this comment when I made a demo of the proggy: https://youtu.be/jDwy8Js4FiU
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
If you think they're really going to do that and not hand over keys, I can give you a great price on this bridge I'm keen to move.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
About 15 years ago I was using telephone banking, when you had to put in a 4-digit PIN to access banking. I could still hear background call centre noise so I asked the operator if they were still on the phone when I put the PIN in, and he
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
There was a *phenomenal* series called How To Be Cool in the mid-80s, written by Philip Pullman, about a rather disturbing group called The National Cool Board (a play on words from The National Coal Board), profoundly weird shit. Unfortuna
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You own a bunch of high-def video cameras already. Go make it.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I wonder how hard it is to get at the bit that drives the screw pin, and just wind it back with a wee battery? You know, the way you get the "security locked" electric handbrakes on high-end cars to release, when the electrics are
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
A roughly fist-sized lump of your brain seems to be responsible for all the vision processing. It is as power-hungry as its size suggests. Ever wonder why you can't really seem to read properly when you're hungry and tired? That p
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one [citation needed] The font looks good but I find it really hard to read C code with the ligated symbols.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You also get Shinty/Hurling matches between Scottish and Irish teams. If you don't know what Shinty is, imagine if you took Ice Hockey, got rid of all the ice, allowed people to swing from as high and back as they like (golf swing
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
If you look at this the opposite way round, then you discover why the Apple II and Sinclair ZX Spectrum had such a bonkers screen layout. The 4116 DRAM chips were arranged as a 128x128 grid with seven-bit row and column addresses. By scatte
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
What was the climate you grew up with, and how long ago?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> I'd expect self driving cars to have much better sensors and reaction times than we do That is never going to happen.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Maybe so that if you live in a house where the "street address" doesn't actually match the street you're on, because 1950s town planning conflicts with 1590s town planning, the delivery driver can phone you before your &
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Your reward for shovelling the most shit is a bigger shovel. Frankly, it sounds like you're the problem here.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
How well do they conduct? At the moment aluminium is kind of the "sweet spot" between weight, cost, and conductivity.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> In actuality, the reverse is true — Disney, Target, and Bud Light being examples of where catering to that mythical minority power cratered a company. Oh yeah because Disney lost all its money and went out of business because they deci
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Can you give an example of that?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Ooops, triggered one of the last dozen or so folk still using EMACS.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
There used to be a black first-gen BMW X5 that parked up near my partner's house in the Glasgow's South Side. Scuffed 22" alloy wheels, mismatched half-bald no-name tyres, bubbly black window tint film, bubbly Gucci-print gol
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Your home is private . You have an expectation of privacy there. Yeah, but if you put your illegal drugs and illegal guns right there in the window where everyone can see them - be that on the dashboard of your car or on your front roo
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Given that it's an idea that has been in production vehicles for 40 years, I doubt you'd need to spend $1.2M to "develop" it.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> There is value to developing the entire system... to ensuring the keypad mechanism is reasonably robust and tamper proof. There is value to understanding the vehicle as a system and reasoning out this defense strategy. There will be va
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You'd have to eat a lot of solder. Metallic lead reacts with fuck all, basically, which is why it's such a good material for things like roof flashing. It doesn't even react particularly with the hydrochloric acid in your sto
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Yeah, they don't really have crumple zones, that's kind of the problem. "Look at how strong this truck is, it survived an accident with barely a scratch!" just means it transferred all the energy to the wet squashy piles
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You know what EMACS stands for? Eight Meg And Constantly Swapping.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Isn't it a problem that carbon is mostly one of the things you make nearly every resistor out of, instead of wires?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
How would it become aerosolised?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
The CDC believes a lot of fairly bonkers stuff that does not match up to reality. If you heated solder up to the point that lead was boiling off, your circuit board would be on fire. You cannot get lead poisoning from using leaded solder.

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