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timonoko
3y ago
BTW Micropython has regular file system. If you want some shit be permanently remembered in ESP you just file it. There was some problem with the filesystem getting corrupted, but I dont remember how it was. It may have been that I just wro
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timonoko
3y ago
The characters {|}[\] can be interpreted as letters, these are frequently used as "national replacement characters" especially in the Nordic countries -- Character set known as Ö-ÄSCII. May those days never return.
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timonoko
3y ago
I once replaced a battery, not by breaking the device (ebook) in two, but by making a battery sized hole in the backplate. I knew approximately where the battery was and there was not much danger drilling in to the dead battery. Now, this i
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timonoko
3y ago
I knew that. I had great success using aluminium matrix in fiber glass rudder blade. The idea was it would be like aluminium, easily to hammer back in shape. But it was better than that -- more springy and forgiving when meeting an underwat
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timonoko
3y ago
Yes. There are already two solutions. Slippery Shoes and Large Ball . In both cases the person needs to be tethered on one place. Ultimate solution is of course "Mirrored Legs". Camera sees when the subject is moving its foot a
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timonoko
3y ago
15 minutes of CounterStrike is marvelous remedy for afternoon drowsiness.
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timonoko
3y ago
Somebody should make Coltrane AI-generator. I once tried script that plays random 30 second snippets from 20 albums. Quite entertaining but little too jerky.
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timonoko
3y ago
Hey ChatGBT, can you make a python-program that implements the finnish word "putoamaisillaan"? ChatGPT Certainly! I can help you create a Python program that implements the Finnish word "putoamaisillaan". However, it
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timonoko
3y ago
"Vatnik" seems to mean anything Pekka does not like: -- Pro-Trump, anti-NATO and anti-Israel propaganda, as well as conspiracy theories regarding WEF, Klaus Schwab and COVID-19 .
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3y ago
This was of course the Freedom to Publish domestic news in Swedish . Minority languages in Sweden-Finland had no such freedoms for 500 years . Luckily Russians liberated Finland and first real Finnish newspaper was published soon after
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timonoko
3y ago
I googled myself and found lively discussion on my naval exploits of 1991. https://github.com/timonoko/sextant
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timonoko
3y ago
In the true Murican spirit you can compensate natural abilities with "hard work" -- for a time. But the final failure is more colossal and brutal. This seems to be behind most "burnout"-issues. For years you have to fake
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timonoko
3y ago
Interesting Elon-experience. You learn no amount of shit posting gets you canned, so you grow tired of it and start to behave.
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timonoko
3y ago
Incredibly crappy. It is obviously constructed by asking countries themselves about the languages.
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timonoko
3y ago
"Wait till you are actually hungry" seems to work fine. It is extended version of @Jack's "I eat only once a day", except there is no rules. Interestingly first thing they teached to American Injuns, was "warm
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timonoko
3y ago
Art Bell explained it all. Those bloody aliens can distort time and space. Aliens are everywhere but we cannot see them. But cats can see them. Cats often stare intensely in to empty space. The remote viewing expert in Art Bells program (ma
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timonoko
3y ago
Quite useful "How to urinate in Public"-video by lovely and talented Gavin McInnes has been totally cancelled from internets. It was transphobic, of course, by assuming certain anatomic appendices are common among masculines.
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timonoko
3y ago
Apropos. I just invented 3D-way to implement color laser printer. Firstly you have enclosed chamber with transparent top. Then you blow some color powder in the chamber. Maybe you apply some electrostatic forces to speed up the process. Whe
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timonoko
3y ago
Alien meat farm. (We might be too). https://www.scribd.com/doc/100964572/Larry-Niven-Bordered-in...
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timonoko
3y ago
Feel free to use any two letter acronyms for those perceived qualities. GD for General Dumbiness might be good, because it recognizes the subjectiveness of the measure.
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timonoko
3y ago
We can all easily recognize lower IQ-levels. But anything higher than our own is an abstraction and if used against me an insult. Except in Software Engineering. One day you just realize, that some fucking dude can see the problem and it
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timonoko
3y ago
Elon is also liberating banned & locked accounts. Worth a try if you have one. European moderation was defacto run by Ruzzians, so russophobia was main reason for banishment. They are all gone now, thanks to Elon.
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timonoko
3y ago
Vikings did not discover America either. It was Finns. http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/uini-seagoingskinboats.html Short Summary: Global Nomadic sea-going nation on Arctic Ocean.
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timonoko
3y ago
Yes. But what is the point of this ship if not fully restore the original look-and-feel of the era. Satellite antenna in the mizzen mast is also an abomination. They should have dirty drawings from France instead of Pornhub.
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3y ago
Swedes are cheating as they always do. This sailship has a motor in it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/mXX4YiQ3u455YNni8
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timonoko
3y ago
Magnetic mirror bounces back enough particles so that chain reaction can happen. And that mirror needs electricity -- so when bad things happen, it ceases to be nuke plant automagically. Regular Nuke Plant works the opposite -- the nukular
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3y ago
It took only 3 guesses for ChatGPT to get close to the correct answer. Google was hopeless. -- I believe the correct translation for "sissimajoite" from Finnish to English is "guerrilla camouflage". "Sissi" mea
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timonoko
3y ago
As luck would have it, I took pictures of last ever homeless abode in Helsinki 2005. It was destroyed soon after. It is totally functional all-year-round, with good sleeping bag and oil-lamp quite comfortable. https://photos.app.
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Why nobody else understands the ingenuity of Giant Space Carousel from Seveneves. Central mass can be at any orbit, not only 30 000 kilometers away at geostationary point. When rotation is synchronized with earth, and spokes almost touch th
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timonoko
3y ago
Or maybe simple firefighter Palahniuk did not even know what internet was. Thus it was indeed a "surprise" when his book was suddenly accepted. Anyways. The original short story was published in some shitty literary magazine, whe
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