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The CO2 day balloons are gonna suck. They just lay there on the ground.
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you know, you really are a moron
usually puts a damper on all future interactions with those kind of people.
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It's not.
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2d ago
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Easy credit has taught them to deny themselves nothing in the moment rather than to plan for the future.
Ok, boomer.
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Not to defend TD in any way, but those staff members know that reporting the crime will get them at best nothing and at worst fired. Taking the bribe gets them 28500 Tim Hortons coffees.
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I'm surprised he isn't sending out Tim Hortons gift cards at this point.
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PM puts focus on Conservatives
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Nice, it wasn't as bright today but still pretty clear.
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Canada learns about clickbait. Only 20 years behind this time!
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You can just see it by eye in the burbs, if you can get a a little bit outside of town it should be easy to spot.
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By 8pm the sky was just dark enough that I could see it by eye in the burbs (lots of street lights). If you can go anywhere the slightest bit dark it should go well.
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Both are shot on a Sony a7r (2013), the first was on a 35mm lens at f/4, ISO 640, 10s exposure. The second was with a 400mm lens at f/6.5, ISO 6400, 2s exposure. Both images were processes using RawTherapee to fix the contrast, colour, etc.
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Crooked politicians?!? In Canada!?!
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When my gf buys a new laptop she hands it to me and says:
Linux this
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5d ago
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Until dick in an emotional support truck runs you down while rage tweeting. Or a soccer mom driving a road-condo turns you to paste as she TikToks about how hard her life is.
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Not so bright but still pretty amazing for Waterdown: https://i.imgur.com/Z0V1Ynt.jpeg
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Market share. I know it's a meme but seriously, push Linux on people who will benefit from it.
My girlfriend is totally non-technical but I set her up with an old laptop running Debian and after a few months she loved it. No ads, no popups selling cloud storage, no forced reboots, and it doesn't crash. That's one more browser hitting websites without Windows in it's useragent string.
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Oh, I'm stupid too but only in ways that make me difficult to relate to, work with, or really just know at all.
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I'll have to try again, the last time I tried was close to the Index Launch.
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Just like popups about cookies!
Using a vinyl cutter and mini-sand blaster I made some alternate universe corporate schwag! I like the idea that someone might have swiped these during an interview before both companies had their 'accidents.'
I got my hands on some really weird EL panels and did a little dive into how they work. I still have no idea where to get more but I think they may be DIY-able.
www.thingiverse.com
I was gifted an unused Ender 3 Pro two weeks ago and managed to model and print an adapter to connect Sony E-Mount cameras onto a 42mm dovetail used by microscopes. Bed adhesion, leveling, stringing, clearance issues, blobs and permanently welded supports, I got to battle it all but thanks to the massive volume of community support I worked my way though.
I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!
imgur.com
I learned this week that many high speed CD-ROM drives used balancing balls on the spindle to stop discs from vibrating at 10Krpm. Between the platter that supports the CD and the motor there is a puck with a toroidal void containing a few ball bearings. When an out of balance CD is spun up the spindle and disc together rotate around their common center of mass, some point between the spindle and the edge of the disk. This means that the void containing the balls no longer rotates around it's center, it spins like a hula-hoop around the spindle/DC center of mass. With the "lighter" side of the system being farther from the center of rotation the balls roll 'down hill' towards the side of the void that is experiencing more centrifugal force. Eventually enough balls will collect on the light side to perfectly cancel out the heavy side. If there are too many balls they will distribute themselves inside the void until they cancel out each other's weight! The link leads to a scaled up demo of this using an empty water bottle and steel BBs.
// Randomly spawn drops // Take a random fraction of each cell move it down, or down and to the left or right // The remainder of the fraction stays where it is // Subtract a constant small value from all cells to prevent rain from accumulating
// Randomly spawn drops // Take a random fraction of each cell move it down, or down and to the left or right // The remainder of the fraction stays where it is // Subtract a constant small value from all cells to prevent rain from accumulating
I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum's basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it's never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005. Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn't want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience. Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn't have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz). So what were your favorite games from the 90's and early 2000s?
> In the ruling, the judges argued the application could not be successful because of a new law, Rebuilding Ontario Place Act, 2023, that the government passed days after the court application was filed last November. wow
Made with Processing.org
Repaired some broken solder joints, sanded out the biggest scuffs and polished most of the scratches out of the screen. Oh yeah, and the paint job.
I tried to go for an 80's NES theme. Not perfect but not bad.
The two hemispheres are electrically connected to each other and to an AC power supply, the ring is connected to the same AC supply but 180 degrees out of phase. Particles are charged and then injected into the trap, they are then alternately attracted to the ring and hemispheres causing them to oscillate and become trapped! As the voltage is increased lighter particles pick up more speed until they are finally thrown free from the trap. In ideal conditions ions are all charged the same amount allowing the trap to sort the ions from lightest to heaviest, allowing you to determine the atoms that make up a particular substance. In this model I can not control the charge on the particles but it is possible to roughly sort them from smallest to largest. Notes: This trap is scaled WAY up, the ring had a diameter of about 24mm. I'm trapping non-dairy creamer not individual ions. The frequency this trap runs at is WAY lower frequency than that of a real ion trap. This trap runs at a much higher voltage than a real trap. Otherwise them mechanism of operation is identical to the real thing.
So I bought 2 sets because it looked like one set was briefly lost in the mail and this past week I got an email from Amazon that said one set I bought were “fakes.” - Both sets have printing that matches legitimate manufactures. - The “legitimate” set have all black filters (not the metalized filters I am used to like Thousand Oaks Optical) the “fakes” have the metalized filters. - Both sets of glasses have the same transmittance as the Thousand Oaks filter material I use on my telescope and cameras. - The build quality of the “legitimate” glasses is quite a bit worse than the “fakes” with the two layers of paper being misaligned So, what I suspect is that I actually received a crappy set of “real” glasses and a well made set of counterfeits, this seems in line with the press release made by the American Astronomical Scociety.^[0]^ > Some of these newly identified counterfeits are indistinguishable from genuine Qiwei products and appear to be safe. Others look like Qiwei’s eclipse glasses, but when you put them on, you realize they are no darker than ordinary sunglasses. So, these products are not just counterfeit, but also fake –– they’re sold as eclipse glasses, but they are not safe for solar viewing. So, did anyone get unlucky enough to get some ‘real-fake’ glasses? An did anyone get a set of legitimate glasses with the non-metalized filter? ^[0]^ https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
So I bought 2 sets because it looked like one set was briefly lost in the mail and this past week I got an email from Amazon that said one set I bought were "fakes." - Both sets have printing that matches legitimate manufactures. - The "legitimate" set have all black filters (not the metalized filters I am used to like Thousand Oaks Optical) the "fakes" have the metalized filters. - Both sets of glasses have the same transmittance as the Thousand Oaks filter material I use on my telescope and cameras. - The build quality of the "legitimate" glasses is quite a bit worse than the "fakes" with the two layers of paper being misaligned So, what I suspect is that I actually received a crappy set of "real" glasses and a well made set of counterfeits, this seems in line with the press release made by the American Astronomical Scociety.^[0]^ > Some of these newly identified counterfeits are indistinguishable from genuine Qiwei products and appear to be safe. Others look like Qiwei’s eclipse glasses, but when you put them on, you realize they are no darker than ordinary sunglasses. So, these products are not just counterfeit, but also fake –– they’re sold as eclipse glasses, but they are not safe for solar viewing. So, did anyone get unlucky enough to get some 'real-fake' glasses? An did anyone get a set of legitimate glasses with the non-metalized filter? ^[0]^ https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
In the ten years since I took this photo the trail has been abandoned and the tree has rotted away.
This will be the only chance I will have to see a total eclipse so I slapped together all the gear I own and made a dry run today. There were some wispy clouds that made things a little soft but it's better than the 400mm I used in 2017.