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by niccl 3y ago
And then there's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IgF6_jVaj8
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by niccl 3y ago
numerically, quite low, but given the number of people on the internet, it happens routinely. I'd guess most English speaking people have used <internet_search_of_choice> for their name and found duplicates So: guess maybe 100 mi
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by niccl 3y ago
and possibly slightly relevant,: Not the Nine o'clock news seleling/buying hifi equipment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvswW6M7bMo
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by niccl 3y ago
linked from https://spectrum.ieee.org/dark-matter-data-recovery . I thought the actual details were more interesting than the IEEE spectrum story, although less graphically appealing
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Data Downloaded via Parachute from a NASA Super-Pressure Balloon(mdpi.com)
1 points by niccl 3y ago|1 comments
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by niccl 3y ago
yup. and back in my rock'n'roll days, we used to toast bread for breakfast using two of the 1kW lights that are in the maxibrute
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by niccl 3y ago
no paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20231026105511/https://www.nytim...
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by niccl 3y ago
yeah, but... It's not as much _fun_ as making an obvious circuit board do Stuff (tm). There's a very tactile satisfaction about making an RPi or similar go. YMMV, of course
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by niccl 3y ago
My single most important thing when starting is Don't ignore compiler warnings. Aim for zero warnings. Not always practical, but definitely investigate each one and be sure it doesn't apply in your case
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by niccl 3y ago
I used to have the equivalent job for a Rock'n'Roll lighting company. I always went to work with my passport in my pocket, and more than once hit the airport for a trip that would last a week with nothing more than a toolbox and a
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by niccl 3y ago
the video embedded in the page says over 230 discrete logic and memory devices. All SMD. So the key, as someone else commented, is that there is a _lot_ of stuff going on in the eeproms. I don't think it means this is any less of an am
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by niccl 3y ago
For _extreme_ engraving, check out the guy who, among other things, engraved the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-12403014
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by niccl 3y ago
I thought that had a really promising start then lost the plot and the finish had very little relation to the premise of the start
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by niccl 3y ago
I'm guessing a language issue, though. Since it's a .ch site maybe their first language isn't English
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by niccl 3y ago
Reminds me of the Len Lye sculpture broken by someone climbing it then hanging off the spinner. I get someone sitting on a thing that looks like a seat, but that seemed way out of the range of things you could reasonably expect to cater for
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by niccl 3y ago
Maybe they're really just different manifestations of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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by niccl 3y ago
Tangetially associatied: what happens when you 'think' about something? I don't mean consciously deciding to imagine something. I mean something like (perhaps) thinking about an algorithm for a computing problem, or consideri
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by niccl 3y ago
I think the BBC used a version of the mellotron with sound effects instead of instruments, so they could quickly access effects during a radio show
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by niccl 3y ago
yes, but postmaster is still running to roll back the transaction. If you crash a single multi-threaded process, you may lose postmaster as well and then sadness would ensue
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by niccl 3y ago
> and maybe once they're old enough it could make sense to buy a 20th century edition ... Always supposing you _can_ still buy a 20th century version. Maybe I wouldn't feel so ambivalent about this editorialising if the editors
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by niccl 3y ago
As I understand from the article, you can cook them live, provided they're stunned first. Still seems barbarous to me but ...
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by niccl 3y ago
There might be a selection bias there: the ones doing uber are the ones it works for. I only use taxis and several times I've had drivers who've been uber drivers and gone (back) to taxi for various reasons. Of course that's
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by niccl 3y ago
also Tide Predicting Machine No2 in use in the US from 1910 to 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-Predicting_Machine_No._2
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Tide-Predicting Machine(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by niccl 3y ago|1 comments
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by niccl 3y ago
If you haven't come across it, I recommend you check out 2D-goggles [0] for what might have happened... Sydney Padua is an animator and she's created some 3d animations of parts of the analytical engine. [1] [0] https:/&#x2F
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by niccl 3y ago
Easy. bankruptcy. Well, not quite. I got my first lot from a crowd called Top Up indstries in Taiwan ( http://www.top-up.com.tw ). I think they were around $12 in 2017. I got the next lot as a good deal on Bourne faders from digik
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by niccl 3y ago
What gratifying interest. to anyone interested in chatting about this, my email address is in my profile, so drop me a line
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by niccl 3y ago
there's more to it than just pounds per square foot. speed over the bridge matters too, which is why you get speed restrictions on some bridges
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by niccl 3y ago
Not sure if this counts: A lighting desk for my hobby of lighting live music. For reasons I like doing live control along with the music (known as busking). Existing things are either limited and can't control moving lights, or don&#x2
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by niccl 3y ago
Stella Gibbons is basically only known for Cold Comfort Farm, but IMO many of her other things are better, although in a different way. My favourite is Pure Juliet, which is a beautifully gentle portrayal of someone who is on the Autism spe

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