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Geometry, Physics, Art, Math.

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You ever have one of those days where you discover that work's u-matic deck is dead, and you're gonna have to lug yours out of storage just to play a u-matic tape?

Does that happen to anyone else?

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@foone @NanoRaptor
Back To The Future was released in 1985. In it, the protagonists travel 30 back in time to 1955. The modern-day comparison would be someone traveling from 2024 to 1994.
#justsaying

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I did some pre-build planning for another Terrible Keyboard and in the process discovered that you can buy uranium ore on amazon.

maybe I should scale this one back a bit

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@foone I've had this idea for a long time so now I'm giving it to you in the hopes that someone less lazy than me might actually bring it to life: a one-button keyboard that emits the character corresponding to the ASCII code of the current outside temperature. You have to get up in the cooler parts of the day to type an "A", most of the capital letters are available year-round in southern California, if you want lower case letters you'll have to go to Arizona.

This is a Good Ideaᵀᴹ.

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The problem with being a weird geek like me is that I've seen the coolest thing I've seen in years and it's a DIY pie launcher

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@foone
Do they give you one or do you have to buy one when you become pope?
@chipperdoodles

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we need metacomputers.

one of the big features of computers and how they improved productivity was how they let us automate a lot of things that we had to do by hand before.

well, most of the things I have to do by hand these days involve badly designed software.

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@foone The VNC protocol basically lets you do just that...

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The only cyborg I've seen get it right is Inspector Gadget.

Because I can probably name ten people right now who would go for the "motorized screwdriver in the finger" surgery, yet it so rarely shows up in fiction.

But that's the transhumanist future I'm waiting for

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foone , an Random Englisch
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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

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@foone @The4thCircle I'm almost certain for the money you're spending on multiple cameras and 3d printed gadgets you could just hire a couple poor slobs on fiverr and make them take the pictures by hand...

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Personally I only use the most legitimate of software.

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@foone Ohhh... you have disk 8 and 9. I think I have 3,4,7 and 11. Now we just have to find someone who has the other 5 ...

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The four most used operating systems:

  • windows
  • apple macos/ios
  • linux (legacy, deprecated, not for new projects)
  • systemd
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@foone I don't think android uses systemd (?) in which case android/Linux would be the first entry in the list, no?

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