robotguy

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by robotguy 3y ago
>... accused of having "a lot of spare time". I find this rather offensive. isn't strong enough to me. Essentially when someone tells you you have "too much free time" they're saying: "I judge the way t
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by robotguy 3y ago
Much safer to buy Uranium on Amazon. That’s what I did. It really freaks people out when you pull out a small metal can with a RADIOACTIVE sticker on it. You can also get uranium glass beads and radioactive watch hands on Electronics Goldmi
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by robotguy 3y ago
I bought a paperback of this many, many years ago and used it to write a MUD in C. Good times... I think maybe I should get a copy of the new version because I don't understand IPV6 at all.
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by robotguy 3y ago
I worked on an embedded video system once where no one took into account the slight difference between the encoder and decoder clock frequencies. If the encoder was slower, no problem, you dropped a frame every once in a while. If the encod
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by robotguy 3y ago
I mean, that sounds like just a few tweaks to the setting of "Snow Crash"
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by robotguy 3y ago
My metahobby is collecting hobbies. No really, I realized years ago that I had to embrace the change and I try to dip my toe into any hobby that appeals at the time with as minimal monetary outlay as possible. I find interests tend to resur
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by robotguy 3y ago
I have a cuneiform tablet sitting right here on my desk. In English it says: Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye
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by robotguy 3y ago
Not saying this is for everyone and it definitely isn't the way it SHOULD be, but I personally subscribe to the Sangamon Taylor/Neal Stephenson philosophy of cycling: “If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to
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by robotguy 3y ago
Reminds me of a story: I was in college physics in fall '89 and our professor was telling us how he and his son spent the summer in Alaska prospecting for whatever material was all the rage in superconductors at the time. He was explai
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by robotguy 3y ago
Reminds me of a story: I was in college physics in fall '89 and our professor was telling us how he and his son spent the summer in Alaska prospecting for whatever material was all the rage in superconductors at the time. He was explai
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by robotguy 3y ago
I’m still using Alien Blue, which at one time WAS the official Reddit app. It’ll be interesting to see if it actually stops working.
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by robotguy 3y ago
Did the original paper come out before they realized "the hat is actually one of an infinite family of aperiodic tiles"? Because I feel like the team really missed out on a PR opportunity by going with a "hat" over an AP
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by robotguy 3y ago
>I can get really boring on applications of acoustic design I found that fascinating. TIL about the car tire noise. I think you've got the right kind of audience here.
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by robotguy 3y ago
>While “those who can, do; those who can’t teach” is funny, it’s usually so, so wrong. Right? I have found that teaching is a skill like anything else and is usually orthogonal to whatever skill is under discussion. It'd be like say
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by robotguy 3y ago
Back in the late '90s I hacked a Genius NetMouse[1] to have pressure sensitive resistors under the scroll rocker (plus USB instead of RS232). The harder you pressed the faster it scrolled. It worked great. I need to make another... [1]
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by robotguy 4y ago
What I typically tell people is "solder will stick to the part that melts it." If you melt the solder with the iron tip, it will stick to the iron. If you use the iron tip to heat the joint and melt the solder with the joint, it w
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by robotguy 4y ago
Something I've found that helps is to snip off a section of wick and hold it with a pair of ceramic-tip reverse tweezers so you don't have the rest of the roll leeching heat from the section of wick that you are using.
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by robotguy 4y ago
I really love the way Ira Glass puts it: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there is thi
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by robotguy 4y ago
If you liked Edmund Scientific, you might check out American Science and Surplus: https://www.sciplus.com/
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by robotguy 4y ago
Have you seen Yellow Drum Machine? https://youtu.be/_RyodnisVvU
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by robotguy 4y ago
I’m convinced that it’s the hot water on the back of my neck opening up blood vessels and increasing oxygen to my brain.
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by robotguy 4y ago
I keep trying to explain this to my friends in the aquarium and terrarium hobbies. "I want to build a tiny one. It'll be so cute." "It's going to crash in 30 seconds if you so much as look at it funny."
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by robotguy 4y ago
Now I'm picturing a séance and the medium is saying "That's nice Charlene, but this lady would really like to speak to her late husband, Bob, now."
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by robotguy 4y ago
Schematics HAVE TO define which components are in the circuit and how they are connected (unless you really want to write net lists). Schematics SHOULD help readers to understand what a circuit does. Especially in, let's say, "pro
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by robotguy 4y ago
For the Montessori aspect, yes, there are a bunch of “Montessori” schools that don’t really follow Montessori principles (at least there are in my area.) If you want to find a school that does actually implement Montessori principles, you
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by robotguy 4y ago
You could try a Raspberry Pi and some motor controller hats from Pololu. You could then use any language that has a GPIO library.
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by robotguy 4y ago
I would agree that the fun/work line is different for everyone, but I would also submit that a really low bar can also lead to an interesting hobby life over the long term. I would consider that I give up on stuff pretty early when it
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by robotguy 4y ago
>even when it is obvious that the person is faking it (eg. social etiquette), people seem to be accepting of it in general. I have found in my career to hold off judgment of "fake sincerity" for two reasons: A. If the person ca
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by robotguy 4y ago
3-wire is: TACH, DC, GND 4-wire is: PWM, TACH, DC, GND https://noctua.at/en/what-pin-configuration-do-noctua-produc...
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by robotguy 4y ago
Poxy was my first thought also: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poxy Just a data point, you do you.

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