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You know you might have had too much beer when regular water starts to taste like beer.
... Or maybe this is beer... ... Well it is in a spa bottle, and I believe in the label...Monday, 29-Jul-19 23:29:44 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Brainfart If you are the only person playing 15D chess. Are you then the best in the world who is playing it, or the worst in the world ?
Monday, 29-Jul-19 16:52:51 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony C'mon, by the time you play 9d chess you're already hyperaware that all consciousness is one eternal vibration, anyway, maaann....
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@scribus Typen while totally fubar
To quote someone and I am not sure if that made any sense but
"I do not think you can prove, even mathematically, that anything above the 13th dimension even exists, since the 12th dimension is effectively EVERYTHING"
Buuuuut, yeah, I think generally people just think that you can add D's to the chess and make it sound smarter for smarter people.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Semi related note I have never been in a supermarket that was above 295 degrees K. I guess this is somehow a requirement when you have a lot of products on the shelves that can possibly spoil ?
That and to offset the heat that some of the fridges emit on the backside.
But I guess it would be really entertaining to watch coca-cola bottles violently explode when someone leaves them out in the unloading section for too long.
Its probably not going to affect consumers in a big way.Thursday, 25-Jul-19 11:48:16 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Ah yes, an app developer
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@adiwan Talk French for instant +5 modifier on your roll.
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@drinkingpony Il y a une petite chance que je connais un peu de français.
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I have gotten my hands on a 'toy' that someone did not want to play with anymore. Said he did not care anymore since he thought it was broken since it would flash but not boot through afterwards. Or something like that.
Well I am going to give it a go, probably when I get back home, flash it myself ( or whatever it is you need to do ), whack it a few times. If nothing else I will just re-use the heat-pads and project-box. Also use the board components for desoldering practice.
Pretty sure this is the datasheet of the product http://rainbowdash.net/url/874964 ... If only there was some video showing how to do a simple project from point zero onwards. You know, like with all those Raspberry Pi YouTube video's out there.
Alternatively my Google-Fu is worse than terrible since I am at Camp.
Alternative to the alternatively alternative, I am too FUBAR to recognise that I am too drunk for any of this schtuff RN.Friday, 26-Jul-19 21:54:09 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Did I mention that I was at Camp during this heat-wave ? ... Taking a shower now that the temperatures have seemed to 'normalize' felt like the coolest hug I ever got.
Friday, 26-Jul-19 21:47:28 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Guess who's fired! :(spoiler - it me)
Friday, 26-Jul-19 13:07:17 UTC from web-
@scribus I work in land registration - for the past two years I've just been updating existing registers (registering/removing mortgages, adding/removing proprietors, noting changes of name, updating property addresses, so on), but starting next month I'll be triaging first registrations, meaning I actually get to look at 200 year old leases and title plans and stuff and decide what should/shouldn't go on the register. It sounds more interesting than it actually is but as far as careers go it's somewhat interesting and viable (also we literally hire more people a year than we have work available for lol)
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@scribus it's decently comfy, great atmosphere too so I can often get away with doing dick all and just talking to people
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Out of curiosity looking for used Nvidia GTX 1080 and they still cost more than I want to pay.
Thursday, 25-Jul-19 20:12:26 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan I'll play that game with you
What is 320 Euro's ?
[ Looks it up ] Well, used ones are more expensive than new ones, I am about right on the price though. Not that I would pay that for that.
[ Looks further ] ... I think I would buy an RX 5700 if pressed to buy one RN. Way more umph en par to a RTX 2080, However it is team Red.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@adiwan Used 1080Ti usually under 600 USD.
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@oracle For that amount (+ a bit more) I'd buy a RTX 2080
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Do not apple with me, my bibliography includes a cracked.com article about why recycling is bad, actually
Sunday, 21-Jul-19 23:29:02 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser ... How about Biodegradeable Plastics ?
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@drinkingpony I don't know enough about them to say, but I would be concerned about them being prone to allowing gunk to grow on food more easily and breaking down on the shelves. That would be a terrifying mess.
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@thismightbeauser This is unlikely since room-temperature is too low for most if not all biodegradeable plastic to actually biodegrade ( Room temperature is about just short of 300 Kelvin, compared to 325 at which most biodegradeable plastic I know needs to start degrading ).
I guess the biggest caveat is 'is it actually better in the long run ?'. People more read in on this topic than I am are still fighting amongst eachother on that.
My biggest gripe is that biodegradeable plastics will do NOTHING for the ocean-problem, even if all the plastic that is currently in the ocean were to change into some sort of biodegradeable plastic over night ( by means of magical fairy, genie, monkeypaw, time-travel-shenanigans, quantum-flux-destabilisation, or unexplainably )... The oceans are too cold to decompose that mess.
Other problem is that if you were to just throw biodegradeable plastic on a landfill it is actually more toxic for the environment due to methane-emissions.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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New insult unlocked : "Go put some pizza in your oreo-hole and complain about it"
Thursday, 25-Jul-19 11:13:26 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Would you call a ship with the callsign BLCKDCK-001 a "She" ? I mean the Captain just did and I think laughter killed the Science-Officer.
Weird quip to put in your game, but I guess I can see what they were going for.Tuesday, 23-Jul-19 23:11:00 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Excuse you, it's a new millennium, shes can totally have black dicks now.
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@scribus Yeah Yeah, that is why I did the eyebrow thing. I mean, Cmon, I can imagine a big strong black woman packing all sorts of heat and being really hot in the process.
Then again I can also see a guy being a total C-word ( which is not an offensive word in Australia ) ... I can also imagine that being hot
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me at the start of the battle pass : "Oh I wonder if I can get enough free Rubies together before the battle pass ends in 75 days, and also get 100 levels"
me 25 days before the new battle pass : "Well, I did all that, got the prize at the end... Do I now just keep playing for the daily gold rewards ?"Wednesday, 24-Jul-19 18:20:28 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Who’s the retard that put shampoo in a drink cooler! Might as well come forward now cuz I’m gonna find you and you will be banned from my store
Wednesday, 24-Jul-19 02:09:41 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation For putting down something in a store while you look at some other products and then possibly forgetting about the first product ?
Does that mean if it were up to you I would go to jail for that one time I accidentally left a can of beans in a open-top fridge ?
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@mrmattimation Maybe he had dibs!
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Only question I have left on my mind is whether to pack a Beamer/Projector or not. I mean the thing is pretty old and I will not miss it if it dies. BUT it is pretty useless untill it becomes dark enough outside. I could just pack a monitor I won't miss if it dies.
What am I going to use it for ? Well Jackbox of course. As well as whatever else that can be played over HDMI with a somewhat large group of idiots.Monday, 22-Jul-19 21:49:18 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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This week will be unbearingly hot. 35°C (95°F) around Wednesday/Thursday.
Monday, 22-Jul-19 18:09:20 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan I am going to camp on those days :D
If I was not so terrified about the possibility of people dying when they put up their tents I would be making a joke about it :D
I also have to 'survive' there for some 11 days.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony My condolences. I'll rather stay at home, shut everything down and not sweat to death or die of a heat stroke. I just used up all my rescue blankets and decorated every window I can with its silvery reflective goodness to keep the heat outside.
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@adiwan Condolences ? Nah this is going to be great. Unless if people actually die that is. Probably fine, I mean it worked last year.
Though I did had the idea of iso-blankets like 3 months ago but I never actually ordered any. Too bad, I could have used like a hundred or so. Ahwell pretending to be a plant and squirt myself will have to do, especially at siesta time.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I am thinking of stylizing this in a cartoony style and burn it on a piece of wood using a laser that I nicked from a CD player. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874953
Monday, 22-Jul-19 12:17:22 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I did some dailies in a game that is all about big stompy mechs. What I got for it was a Lanner Falcon to sit on top of my comm-terminal.
... Why would any mech warrior take a bird into his cockpit ? At least yesterday I got an oscilating fan as cockpit item. Now that has some uses, I mean it does not do anything for the game as far as game mechanics go, but at least it oscillates... Menacingly... Mostly when I fire too many weapons and my vision becomes blurry, too many alarms go off, and my butt gets too hot.Sunday, 21-Jul-19 22:48:16 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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It is called Unstable Unicorn, it is not that hard, you start your turn, do all of your ongoing events, grab a card, play a card, end of turn.
Please stop obsessing over my amount of unicorns, I only have 5. I need 7 to win. Stop overanalyzing what I am doing, heck I might have to sacrifice them to Cthulhu before your next turn for all you know. You have been taking like 10 minutes on this one turn. THIS IS NOT YU GI OH AND YOU ARE NOT THE PHARAOH !!! Neither is this an interactive spreadsheet on what COULD happen. ARGH, play a card already.
- Me just a couple minutes ago while playing a cardgame
This guy who was obsessed with the prospect of me winning did not even get to see me win.Saturday, 20-Jul-19 23:46:05 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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After several encounters with my most recent enemy (electricity-eating fungi) I've decided to study the damn things and figure out how to eradicate them.
They're not actively harmful, but colonies form in low-current circuits, and cause devices to stop working. Phone lines and tv remotes are the two places I most often find them in, and even though I fully clean the devices, after a while the fungi shows up again.Thursday, 18-Jul-19 08:18:40 UTC from web-
@scribus @drinkingpony Sub-zero doesn't kill them, considering they made a colony on the phone line box thing outside despite a week of antartic wind consistently dropping the temperature below 0ºC
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@nerthos Here is a stupid idea... Try hairspray.
Nono, not on them, remove them first and then see if hairsprayed components inhitbit their growth.
Also, have you considered that it is not fungus you are dealing with but some form of oxydation ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I'm 100% sure it's not oxydation, copper is intact and copper oxyde isn't gooey and transparent
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It is constructed! However it is too late to power it up. My eyes are tired enough. First impression: It's cheap and it shows at every corner. Despite the "Pro" in its name it feels far from it. The front (and back) plate where the rods and screw rod for the table are attached to is made of bakelite. I expected aluminium. On the other hand it seems to be thick and sturdy. The only real bummers are the plastic spindle holder and the plastic holders for the bushings for sliding on the rods and the plastic screw rod nut holder. I'll test it tomorrow or so before my complaints get any validity. I mean I got what I paid for: A cheap CNC for cheap money. Baby's first CNC. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874944
Thursday, 18-Jul-19 19:00:30 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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@adiwan I do not know what bakelite is. Nor do I know what that circuit boards looks like but I guess that is where the pro comes from ( picture please )
Now you might want to check before you begin if the thing is 'smart' enough to not go out of bounds and destroy itself. I did a little bit of reading on them machines.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Bakelite is a type of plastic. Many products were made of bakelite until modern plastics like ABS were invented. And it will destroy itself because it lacks any endstop switches but I will install some that I have laying around. The pro aspect of it is that it has support for lasers and the spindle is a bit more precise. I will test it when I come back from work.
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After 2016 I wanted some fresh faces to show up in the Democratic primary but after having seen Marianne Williamson for a few minutes I think we need to go back
Friday, 19-Jul-19 00:55:47 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Pretty sure if I got to vote either her or Carly Fiorina from the 2016 elections, Marianne Williamson would get my vote. However these are not the insanity-elections.
But they will be known that way by half the country or more if 'he-who-shall-not-be-named' gets a 2nd term.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Shakes head
You know, I was just thinking ? Can we get some sort of system that we can designate something as spam ?
Oh and it would obviously be logged who designated something as spam so we could not supress eachother without a mod lurking over would-be-abusers.
Yeah, no idea if that can be implemented, if someone wants that implemented, or even if it is a good idea in the first place. But I swear if I see advertisements about the paleo diet again I am going to scream like a caveman.Wednesday, 17-Jul-19 10:06:40 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@thismightbeauser Hmm, good thinking there spider.
Wait a second, spider ?
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@drinkingpony *Taps feet excitedly and makes cat-like screeching and hissing noises*
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"How awesome would it be for Rose Leslie to play Ariel ?"
Oh yeah I can see that work
"How awesome would it be for Ariel to go 'You know nothing about snow'?"
... Oh no you didn't ...Wednesday, 17-Jul-19 08:17:16 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I couldn't resist any longer and I bought a small CNC router.
Tuesday, 16-Jul-19 09:36:27 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony And you are right. Any cheaper and they always come from China. I don't want to cheap out and pay what I saved in import duties.
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@adiwan Too bad Prime Day seems to be over. But that looks like a lovely machine. Looking forward to seeing your first acrylic cutout of pony :)
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@drinkingpony And on that day, pony will finally have ponied pony
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Ohkay, so ehh, this looks simple enough http://rainbowdash.net/url/874926
Too bad I have no idea how to find the output or run a .1 microfarad capacitor in parallel with it.
I do not even think it is in the schematic that he shows.
Tuesday, 16-Jul-19 23:15:09 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Explain it to me again, slowly.
"A bunch of millennials are going to storm Area 51 in four phases. The first and the second waves consists of 'Naruto' runners who are convinced that they can evade bullets that way. People throwing pebbles, and people who bring specialized gear to break drywall. Finally there is a tunneler team"
And... you do not think this sounds insane ?
"Also Zuckerberg wants his dad rescued"
from area 51 ?
"Yeah"
**drinks straight from the Whiskey bottle without breaking eye contact**
"what, you think I am crazy ?"
Well now that you put it on the table...Monday, 15-Jul-19 09:42:12 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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So China is winning at science now https://time.com/4854718/quantum-entanglement-teleport-space/
Monday, 15-Jul-19 06:31:44 UTC from web-
@scribus Only a matter of time before we start to throw words around like "Transporter Psychosis" ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/874913 )
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The classmate who tried to molest me is in my store right now, and it’s not an experience that was particularly traumatizing because luckily I can say he only “tried” to molest me, but it’s still weird. I gotta look at that guy and go “oh right, you tried to molest me”.
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@drinkingpony I mean a) this was a YEARS ago thing, b) everybody already knows about it, and c) I personally don’t actually care that much
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"I personally don’t actually care that much" - @mrmattimation ... raises eyebrow.
If I were to lower my standard of things that irk me just a Weee-Little-Bit just 1 setting then I would be taking up a neigh permanent 20 out of 30 font page slots on this website. Meaning that everyone has a tresshold that makes something worth posting/dashing about. Which is the long way around to say "Yeah I actually do think you care"
But whatever happens next. Try not to bottle it up if you know that somewhere in the future the bottle might explode. After all you already said it was YEARS ago.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony yeah, the threshold was “he showed up at my store”. I feel like regardless of whether or not it actually affected me mentally, seeing the guy who tried to sexually abuse me is at least a little bit noteworthy.
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Time to play "Is that the melatonin kicking in, or am I just exhausted from a 13 hour night shift!?"
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 16:19:23 UTC from web-
@scribus Wait, Melatonin or Melanin ?
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Oh look, there is drama surrounding 007 again. Not James Bond mind you, just 007. Apparently a woman is going to play the new Bond 007 and not that guy I talked about about a month ago and his unflattering photo.
Does not really help that clickbait articles go with "Captain Marvel Actor Gets 007 Movie" ( no matter which side of the coin you are on, you know Brie Larson is seen as a flawed everything by the haters ).
Look people, I just have one thing to say.
"Make it good, or don't bother" Please, just saying. Noone I know talks more positively about Female Ghostbusters than about Mr Plinket. Judge for yourself what HE is https://youtu.be/AHUV8QLpEAc
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 18:48:58 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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TIL : It is actually really easy to confuse Oxygen for Steam while working inside of a protective barrier of a vacuum.
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