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by femto 2y ago
> “These rainforests were historically neglected by tourists and walkers in favour of supposedly more ‘Australian’ eucalypt forests,” I don't think that's correct. Lamington National Park, one of the mentioned rainforests, was
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by femto 2y ago
Most of Tim Minchin's stuff is pretty good. He makes you laugh and think at the same time. The first couple of minutes of that video plays with anagrams of "ginger" and gives a second layer of meaning to the video. A bit m
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by femto 2y ago
> People will be more and more lonely. Or people might be less lonely. There will come a point where the online experience becomes worthless and people will place greater importance on face-to-face interaction. That's how it was 2
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by femto 2y ago
Probably because they are too polite to call you ginger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw&t=159s
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by femto 2y ago
I just got what looked like an accident scene from a South East Asian country. A body with a head injury lying on a road with police standing around and a crowd of onlookers behind tape.
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by femto 2y ago
Men's Sheds if you're in Australia. https://mensshed.org/
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by femto 2y ago
But if the resistors are constrained to fill the area of the entire painting everything cancels out, reducing to: R = resistivity * (length of painting) / (width of painting * thickness of conducting paint). An example: If you have N p
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by femto 2y ago
If you made the Piet painting from a substrate with constant resistivity, and put wires between each area, you would end up with a working circuit with all the calculated resistances. This then leads to the insight that it doesn't mat
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by femto 2y ago
Potentially the processor has Built-In-Self-Test (BIST)? Connect up the JTAG bus, send the right commands and the chip tells you that it is okay.
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by femto 2y ago
Typo? "ZIP DIP socket" should be "ZIF DIP socket", as in Zero Insertion Force?
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by femto 2y ago
What about ion implantation? Any hope there?
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by femto 2y ago
The BladeRF and ADALM-PLUTO are cheaper alternatives to the entry level (B2xx) USRPs. They use the same Analog Devices MIMO chip as the USRP, so are similar in capability.
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by femto 2y ago
It's 19km from West Ryde to Central by rail. In the 80's there was still a modicum of infrastructure available for steam locomotives. I've a memory of their still being a water standpipe at Central. These days you would ha
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by femto 2y ago
It's not installed by default, but the BSD (lp) interface is still available in Debian with $ sudo apt-get install cups-bsd
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by femto 2y ago
A similar thing happened here in Australia (New South Wales) in the mid 80s. I was part of a rail preservation group and we were taking a stream locomotive with an empty train from West Ryde Station to Central, from were we were going to d
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by femto 2y ago
Interestingly, the same effect shows up in communications systems. The more efficient an error correction code (ie. the closer it approaches the Shannon Bound), the more catastrophically it fails when the channel capacity is reached. The
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by femto 2y ago
Having digitised a few VHS tapes, the (personal) time consumer was verifying whether the capture was successful and of acceptable quality. Is anyone aware of a way to automate the quality control?
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by femto 2y ago
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) The first reference in the Wikipedia article is to the original definition in the Oxford English Dictionary. Dating from 1613, it refers to a person.
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by femto 2y ago
Thanks.
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by femto 2y ago
Perhaps the code associated with the touchpad has a priority greater than that you used to run cyclictest (80?). Does it still happen if you boost the priority of cyclictest to the highest possible, using the option: --priority=99 Apply pri
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by femto 2y ago
It's every so slightly slower, but the difference is negligible and won't be noticed on a desktop machine. These days, I just run the (Debian) real-time kernel as a matter of course on my everyday machine. I haven't objectiv
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by femto 2y ago
If you want to see the effect of the real-time kernel, build and run the cyclictest utility from the Linux Foundation. https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howt... It measures and displays the i
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by femto 2y ago
A nice video, though it missed one of the most interesting aspects of BGA packages: their ability to self-centre during soldering. If the misalignment is less extreme than in the video, surface tension will pull the BGA package into alignm
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by femto 2y ago
Looking at this picture (assuming it's of one of the actual radios): https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/09/18/17/walkie-talkie... and a picture of the main board on page 5 of the Icom service man
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Australian 'mastermind' charged over global crime app(ia.acs.org.au)
1 points by femto 2y ago|0 comments
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by femto 2y ago
> I wonder how sensitive these are to EMP... Potentially "not very". Their small size means you would need higher electric field to get decent voltage difference across the device.
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by femto 2y ago
I was on the 'net pre-WWW and wrote my first web page in 1992. The thing that strikes me in hindsight is the hope everyone had. I looked forward to the things the Internet might enable. I looked forward to whatever was going to replac
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Red eyes flashing on the GIMP logo?(old.reddit.com)
5 points by femto 2y ago|2 comments
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by femto 2y ago
It's alive! master ell-gh committed Apr 1, 2018 https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/commit/fd6d4931c8184825d642bfe...
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by femto 2y ago
> I once looked at it as a possible input language for an animation program. You might be interested in some of the work by Don Herbison-Evans. He lectured me in Computer Science, was a bit of a dance nut and into animation for choreogr

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