Apparently you can donate a boat (or car, or pretty much any other vehicle) to the #EFF:
Tim Hunkin is starting a 'secret life of components' series; for those who don't know him, he's a nicely crazy artist/mech hacker who does weird automaton/games, and has presented a series on 'the life of machines' (mostly home white goods) many years ago. Recommended.
Hmm, my Sammy ML1640 printer is getting touchy - it seems to be USB resetting and dieing after the 1st page; someone seems to have made Splix patches for my new M2026 that I'd bought ~3 years ago and been leaving on the side after finding splix didn't work for it; seems worth a go, especially since the fixer references my G+ moan about it not working ago!
So the reason I kicked off this poll was that for a long time I'd been using bc; had considered using python from time to time, but I'd started using gdb in the last few days - it's nice short command name, does FP by default, but you do have to 'p ' for each expression.
Physicists cabling are always crazy; look at all that twist&flat...
https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2021/02/Seaquest-Fermilab_3.jpg
from : ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/protons-antimatter-revealed-by-decades-old-experiment-20210224/ )
#science #electronics
People have asked me about the difference between plugs for solid and stranded cable (normally plugs only go on stranded). I've updated my blog post with pictures.
https://www.revk.uk/2021/02/rj45-crimp-tool.html
This obit was an interesting read; a crazy explosives expert with a bizarre career path; Doctorate with no degree, studied fatty acids in the brain, interpreter for a Japanese emperor visit, and disarming bombs; not a bad life I guess!
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sidney-alford-obituary-262tcr08l/
#covid19 sigh, while the UK averages are going down nicely; hear in north #manchester it's cooking away; about 3x the national average.
Nice article about the field of valvometry, which we are developing with the Biosphere clams!
https://hackaday.com/2021/02/18/internet-of-clams/
Number validation & limits: '..an NHS error mistakenly listed him as just 6.2cm in height Liam Thorp was told he qualified for the jab because his measurements gave him a body mass index of 28,000.'
Interesting.
"The million-year-old genome is here. Mammoth teeth preserved in eastern Siberian permafrost have produced the oldest ancient DNA on record, pushing the technology close to — but perhaps not past — its limits."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00436-x
More detailed write-up of the paper at [ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00348-w ]
RT @Lord_Arse@twitter.com
Happy 30th birthday to Lemmings! Dundee based DMA Design's classic puzzle game was released for the Commodore Amiga on February 14th 1991.
But did you know that there's a Lemmings statue in Dundee?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1361027434561245190
#covid19 15M vaccinations in the UK; OK, good - still only about 1/9th the way there, for 2 doses for everyone, and that's before we have to deal with SA variants. Says he impatiently waiting for his.
Hmm, so I wonder how this relates to oddball cabinets like mine and @mansr where they're shit cabinets compared to the rest of the echange:
https://digitalwholesalesolutions.com/2019/10/the-bt-openreach-pstn-and-isdn-2025-switch-off/
Chocolate eating computer geek, Manchester, UK