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Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

thread in which I talk about why the "wrap your games console in a towel" or "reflow the bga" thing works to fix some consoles, and it's nothing to do with solder balls.

chaos.social/@gsuberland/11308

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vxo

@gsuberland wow! just when I thought I could trust MLCC's

gudenau

@gsuberland This is some really cool information, thanks for sharing!

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

I hope this email finds you living in a shotgun shack
I hope this email finds you in another part of the world
I hope this email finds you behind the wheel of a large automobile
I hope this email finds you in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

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Jon (spelled the cool way)

@gsuberland Outlook does frequently make me ask myself, “How do I work this?”

Earthshine

@gsuberland I hope this email finds you in an average house with a nice hardwood floor, your wife and your job, your kids and your car, your feet on the table, and a Cuban cigar.

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

did you know that the default Windows 10 desktop background is a photo, not a digital effect?

it's a Kvant Spectrum laser projector with Saturn 9000 scanners beaming light into a sheet of transparent acrylic with black cardboard masks.

there's even a short video showing an animated show variant of it here: precisionlasers.com/projects/w

The Windows 10 default desktop background.
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/ h13b /

@gsuberland but this is C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

the upside of having ADHD is that I can complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.

the downside of having ADHD is that I keep putting myself in situations where I need to complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.

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William Pietri

@gsuberland I really appreciate the great conversation you kicked off here. So many good replies!

Echedelle ⚧

@gsuberland@chaos.social the problem is when you burn yourself from that so hard that your average 2 hours work finishes being 10 hours work and there are days you cannot function x3

TTimo

@gsuberland sounds quite similar to one of my former colleagues with narcolepsia. She'd go on a 40 hour+ coding bender sometimes, then collapse and you wouldn't see her for a week.

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

"Karens shouting about masks at people in public" aka Non Maskable Interrupt

Patch Arcana

@gsuberland in the bored tones of someone reciting the responses at a mass take your damn upvote

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

this docker container could've been a shell script

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Christopher Wood

@gsuberland

Is this a Bash shell script, C shell script, Dash shell script, Korn shell script, Z shell script?

Or a shell script written in a specific defunct Unix vendor's custom version of a Bourne shell sold only to our company in 1982 and we can't find hardware for that box on Ebay anymore and the numbers don't work if we budget anything to port this?

Scott Michaud

@gsuberland And sometimes the shell script could have been a python/C#/whatever script.

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

"average GPU spends 70% of its time rendering raymarched stuff" factoid actually just statistical error. average GPU marches 0 rays a year. Shaders Georg, who lives in a demoparty & renders over 400 exegfx prods a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

aldroid

@gsuberland he loves shaders so much he changed his name

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

That the Internet Archive lost their lawsuit only serves to prove that we need more projects like Sci-Hub and Library Genesis to bolster the availability that more mainstream libraries cannot provide due to pressure applied by rent-seekers.

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

I wanted to read a technical book the other day. The publisher was charging $130 for an e-book copy. A physical copy was listed at over $200. Both of the authors of the book have been dead for a decade. It's greed, pure and simple.

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

3D drawing of a Cisco network switch indicating a design flaw. The mode button on the front of the switch is placed directly above an RJ45 port. When a cable is plugged in, the lip of the protective boot (strain relief) that covers the retaining clip on the RJ45 connector presses the button.
Side on drawing of a Cisco network switch indicating a design flaw. The protective boot on the RJ45 connector is pressing the mode button above the port.
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Jacket

@gsuberland Yeah. We had some of those in college. It's a mess. XD

Rudi (ryjelsum)

@gsuberland i feel like if this happened in 2023 they'd just do the apple "you're holding it wrong" thing and tell people to not use the booted cables

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