bryndos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know about supplies in rest of the world, but typically the rpi "kits" that include the book seem to be very limited and rarely in stock.

  I think the book, at least older versions, can be found on ebay though.
  I think its just a basic into to python and GPIO so the earlier editions are probably fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Go Go Gadget Eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently even Tacitus said it was a made up name. It seems like it might have originally applied to lands west of the Rhine, or some tribe living there in Roman times. So it might have applied to as much of modern Netherlands and Belgium as to modern Deutschland.

  Don't forget the 'Heiliges Römisches Reich' though - that always seemed a bit contrived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holding down a b-17 flying fortress?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's why true audiophiles only listen on phonograph cylinders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hold on a second...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Min Plank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely there can't be that many sheep on Soay to come up with such an estimate.

  I suspect the scientist got a bit lonely out there doing the fieldwork, tried something that he'd normally get away with on a domestic ewe, got rebuffed, and wrote this paper to slander the whole species as revenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of sense NYE party glasses make has rapidly declined.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say 2002 was peak, best since 1001.

  I'd give it to 2007 if the 2 and 7 were written to have rotational symmetry and it were motorised to spin around the bridge.

  8008 (with motorisation) will probably be the true peak though, and it's the only compelling reason to suffer through and try to prevent collapse of this civilisation - or at least save this calendar system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to a werewolf in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it ever gets close enough to Pluto that a full Pluto is the brightest light source, it'll turn into an orange dog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if /dev/null is fast and web-scale, i will use it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you might want to link the psu to a bunch of relays that controlled by the gpio, and use it to deliver medium amounts of power to various peripherals. i guess lots of motors or maybe fairly powerful led lighting arrays, or weak heaters , comes to mind.

  So what seemed most daft to me is exposing the 3v and 5v lines on that breadboard like thing, but not using the psu's +/-12v lines - that could let you run 12 and 24V stuff. plenty of space to allow for a bunch of relays and some connectors.

  But even so its a strange form factor for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  feckin feck, gaerruls , erse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't tall people also wider?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All humans should evolve into spheres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  parrot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The op webshite required lot's of logins; and less said about the date format for the age verification . . .

  redacted seems way less bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a place you can gamble on if it rains tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bet on "will England manage to draw the test."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  shooting fish?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose you think mega shark vs giant octopus was a "failure" too.
  I'd hate to live in such a picture of success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Belief is power.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntG50eXbBtc

  spoiler-title

  no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ad companies often mark their own homework.
  Sales directors are more often gobshites than scientists.
  Competition doesn't really drive out inefficiency very well, or very quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I Ai a whole video?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This post made me realise that the community I actually want is "stupid question, stupid answer"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fuckerborg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was brought to to spell truely differently and not to swear.
  So truely fucking no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does "activist group" not have soulseek?
  smh

  Honestly thou i don't really know what a spotify is, sounds like a dogging app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, spent too much time recently trying to get a "modern" database to accept one of out transactional systems' dummy EOT value (3456-02-01).

  Took far, far too long for me to realise that it only wanted to store date/time in nanoseconds !? Fuck me, you'd have to be dumb fuck computer to want to measure every date in nanoseconds - even oracle wasn't that dumb, oh hang on we're "upgrading" to MS.

  There must be a joke in here to do with dates that only last a nanosecond, I think it's to do with pandas' breeding rates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In UK I've mostly have heard 'naughties' for the decade sine about 1999.
  But I rarely heard "naughty X" as a year name unless someone was being even more deliberately daft. I'd say "oh" would be most common here after "two thousand and X" too in my experience.

  I always thought that "'aught" was an American contraction of 'naught'.

  "aught" in old timey-English can mean "other" or "else" or even "anything". In my local dialect we still say "owt" meaning "anything" as an opposite of "nowt" nothing".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Can unsubstantiated rumours?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But isn't half the point of cutting edge tech news to echo hype louder and louder until investors pile in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A penis has the "second-most" microexpressions, compared to a face⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that's why I've never got the hang on sign language; I've not been using the 11th finger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The last person on earth might think they're not alone because they might text with chatbots and think they're real people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Keanu Reeves pass the reverse turing test?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it's not actually "half life three".
  It's (half life)^3.
  One of the hardware constraints is that has to be played on something cubic.