Luke Weston @lukeweston Twitter profile

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Luke Weston

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3 months

Good old electron microscope running Windows XP.

a sentient electron 🧠🔬⚛️

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Windows 11: fucked Windows XP: unfazed

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Is there a non-vulgar, more professional word for enshittification? I want to explain what enshittification is to business people and why they need to select technology services and devices to avoid enshittification risk without saying enshittification.

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What the fresh hell is this?

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There are two kinds of people at Microsoft. The guy who found that SSH was taking a few extra milliseconds to connect and was insistent on knowing why. And the person who has decided the Microsoft Mac RDP client will be rebranded to “Windows App”

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I remember when Raspberry Pi used to be heavily publicised as “the $25 computer”. And now I’m paying $100 for a Raspberry Pi.

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@Themightyhutch The bike rack is “closed” for royal mourning but the people who remove your bike are not?

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Good job Wikipedia editors, good job.

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6 years

Holy shit @profanegeometry it works

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@EERandomness I’m thinking more of annoying corporate software tools like email swear policing.

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4 months

Rotman lenses are still the best unhinged electronic component ever invented.

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4 months

I've set up a simulation of a Rotman lens to drive a phased array in Elmer. The matching of the ports is poor, causing lots of internal reflections, resulting in unwanted side lobes and poor channel separation. Nonetheless I think it still demonstrates the principle nicely 😊

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A “real” crystal radio. With a rock. This is temperamental and insensitive - but it’s working. This is pyrite, galena also works. An active semiconducting device- and it’s a rock. Excuse the messy soldering to the brass, I don’t have the ideal iron and flux here at the moment.

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4 months

Wow, this is your website product photo?

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1 year

@chubbyemu @6502_ftw There is no way there’s an intersection between “has girlfriend” and “leaves poo on the computer chair”

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6 months

Me: Please send me the API documentation for your device. Company: Please tell us everything about you, your application, what you’re doing and why you want documentation. Me: Please provide documentation for your product or product will not be in consideration for our needs.

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2 years

The Cromemco Cyclops digital camera was absolutely groundbreaking in 1975. A commercially available CCD sensor was unheard of in 1975. So somebody took a 1-kilobit 32x32 DRAM and cut the front off, and by constantly refreshing and reading out the DRAM, the chip could see light.

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1 year

New rule for hotels: Give people access to the TV HDMI input. No app installation, no signup for an account, no giving a third party your PII for some cast service. Bring a HDMI patch out to a wallplate, then ppl won’t try to take TV off the wall. Just give people a HDMI port.

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@TheBobPony If anyone is wondering wtf this is, it’s a Toshiba backdoor technique for resetting the bios password when the parallel port data bus is looped back onto certain parallel port control lines.

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2 years

How-to-vote card which is informal is such a One Nation on brand thing. Numbers are hard!

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10 months

A feeding electric eel can cause transfection of plasmids from the surrounding environment into nearby organisms - natural, eel induced, electroporation.

Electric organ discharge from electric eel facilitates DNA transformation into teleost larvae in...

Background Electric eels (Electrophorus sp.) are known for their ability to produce electric organ discharge (EOD) reaching voltages of up to 860 V. Given that gene transfer via intense electrical...

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3 years

SPC taking no shit from antivaxers 😂

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2 years

I found this little vase, eyeballed it, maybe 1930s, hand glazed. It’s absolutely flamin’ hot cheeto, uranium glazed, maybe 10x more radioactivity then I’ve ever seen in a consumer item. Gonna wash my hands after handling it - these glazes are usually lead oxide plus uranium.

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A multi-kilogram bulk ingot of radioactive glass. This is newly manufactured material, US made. Contrary to popular belief, new uranium glass stock is actively made and sold today from a few glass craft suppliers.

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2 years

I noticed on a Windows computer that Windows is allowing malicious scam/malware “alerts” *natively in the Windows environment* as “notifications”. That’s ridiculous, Microsoft. It’s a massive threat to non-expert users. We’ve been doing this for 25+ years, do better.

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3 years

What in the non-compliant-USB hell

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2 years

TIL: US Coke has corn syrup in it. Corn syrup is not Passover compliant, so they have special Passover-compliant coke with cane sugar in it, only sold for a small window each year.

Kylie Ora Lobell

@kylieoralobell

2 years

The Yellow Top Coca-Cola is here. Passover is coming. Now freak out!!!

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3 years

Should be illegal.

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NO CONTEXT HUMANS

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5 years

That’s a cute idea - just an offset dish, no electronics, no power. Phone sits at the offset focus. It’s pointed at Alice Springs some 50+ km away, there’s enough 900 MHz dish gain for reliable phone calls.

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TIL some people cheat at CS:GO by chucking a Xilinx SP605 (or similar board with PCIe-capable transceivers) onto PCIe and using it to implement basic player “radar” from direct memory. Big money for pro gaming means big money for doping I suppose. Example:

eevee 💨

@eevee

5 years

i challenge anyone to explain to me why it is not absolutely fucking insane for a video game to require its own kernel driver

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RIP Google. You had one simple, deterministic, elegant algorithm in 1996 which utterly transformed the usability of the Web for the better. That’s over now. You had a good run.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

5 months

This week's big search news is Google's continuing transition to "AI search" - instead of typing in search terms and getting links to websites, you'll ask Google a question and an AI will compose an answer based on things it finds on the web: 1/

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6 years

Compare and contrast these reports - Obama (3 pics) and Trump (1 pic) physical exams.

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4 years

That INL video has a great photo of some of the clad 238Pu sources on Perseverance - they just stay like that, every day. They stay glowing orange hot for a century.

Richard Stephenson

@nascom1

4 years

I was always fascinated by plutonium 238 and its use for spacecraft power and heating. Most of the flagship interplanetary missions use it including Mars rovers. This just popped in to my YouTube feed. Prepping the Perseverance Power Source via @YouTube

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@83dollaroring Non-magnetic tweezers and other tools. Surgical implants

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@KathrynTewson The picture of the presumptive test appears to be (although the photo is bad) a Nark II #10 reagent test (“special opiates reagent”) where the yellow colour indicates a presumptive positive for oxycodone.

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I feel like the Web died when you could no longer simply copy and paste a URL without this sort of crap

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2 years

These little “precious bullion” of cheap base metals are stupid but kind of cute.

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I have also built a breakthrough quantum processor that can detect surface vessels using quantum algorithms! (The Iranians should have at the very least added a FPGA mezzanine card to the board, to make it look fancier.)

Gabriel Noronha

@GLNoronha

1 year

Last week, Iranian Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced Iran had built a breakthrough quantum processor that can detect surface vessels using quantum algorithms. You too can get this "quantum processor" for the low price of $589 on Amazon!

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@_joshyoung @elizaorlins A screen that grabs your attention to look straight at it is great for facial recognition, too.

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Putting 0603 SMD LEDs onto a mirror so I can easily see the orientation marking on the bottom when picking them up and placing them.

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To achieve a full five-star safety rating, the Euro NCAP will soon require carmakers to have physical buttons, stalks, or dials for indicators, hazard warning lights, wipers, SOS calls, and the horn.

Europe Tells Automakers That Buttons and Knobs Are Safer Than Touchscreens

European regulators have told automakers to ditch the touchscreens in favor of knobs and buttons if they want to get a better safety rating in the continent.

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@destructionset @evenwhennoone It’s not a technology (e.g. smartphone) that’s the problem, it’s people (parents) who have absolutely no concept of respecting any boundaries, either towards the kids or the teacher.

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Building a modified electric unicycle to go 126 km/h and fanging a 126 km/h unicycle down the Darebin Creek Trail is just not something that regulation is going to prevent. I’m sorry the guy passed away, but “moar regulation” can’t prevent everything.

Asher Wolf

@Asher_Wolf

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Electric unicyclist's death prompts mother's call for tougher e-vehicle laws. "James had tampered with it, and it was tested at going from zero to 126 kilometres an hour in four seconds," his mother Rita Barella told Raf Epstein on ABC Radio Melbourne"

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Harsh new restrictions announced in Australia.

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@rob_grey @DillsFTW @mcagney72 @DrRachaelF @musko101 Honestly, the school is not being run by Zero Cool. USB power adapter with an implant that can compromise phone data is possible in theory but realistically a school is not going to spend the money and effort on this malicious hardware. iOS “trust this device?” will catch this.

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“As a user, I would like the program to not close when I have told it to close, so that the software can do literally the opposite of the behaviour I have commanded it to do.”

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And the horrible scary AstraZeneca led them straight into the clutches of… not dying.

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Very dry, strong, not hoppy, poor mouth feel, no colour, no head, not sessionable.

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I made up a short Apple AC cable as I don’t want the excess cable mess but I don’t want the “duckhead” plug with no earth connection. The leakage current capacitively coupled from SMPS hot side has been notorious on metal Macs for years but they still don’t earth them properly.

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Crystal radios have a bit of a reputation for being hard to build or not working properly, but there are some tricks. Here are a couple of mine that are simple built but work well. The classic simple design found in almost all books and websites doesn’t work well. Don’t use it.

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@Sciencing_Bi Nothing a few well placed signs wouldn’t fix - “chlamydia cultures only to be handled on this lab bench” or similar. :)

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@zachportman Just get everyone to enrol in one class together for the lulz

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5 years

Watch its expression just after the brick falls down. This cockatoo doesn’t take any shit from anyone. Can you rotate a brick onto its end with just your teeth? No you can’t.

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Conical inductor - it’s shaped that way to minimise parasitic capacitance and maintain very broadband RF blocking, maintaining the RF/DC isolation well up into the GHz range.

なひたふ(内藤竜治)

@nahitafu

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私が前に見た評価ボード、これだー。なんで尖がったコイル使ってるかのという謎が解けた。ちなみにHMC788という10GHz用のアンプICです。6GHz超えるとこ��なるんだね。

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@skankydev @eevblog But - like with computers generally - you’re basically forced to use faster hardware because of software bloat. The hardware resources expected by software doubles every 18 months. :) The older hardware variants only maintain acceptable performance if you use the older OS etc.

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This is a simple task for an industrial robot, this sort of thing is proven and mature at high speed. It doesn’t need any “AI”, it doesn’t need any neural network, it doesn’t need to look humanoid at all. I suspect the best way of performing that task doesn’t need an arm at all.

The Humanoid Hub

@TheHumanoidHub

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New Optimus video! 😮 ⦿ Sorting battery cells using end-to-end NNs; recovers autonomously from failures. ⦿ Currently being tested at one of Tesla's factories, with a continuously decreasing rate of human interventions. ⦿ It's also taking regular walks around the office.

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Schlaepfer and Oskay’s “Open Circuits” is going to be a remarkably good resource for teaching EE students, particularly familiarity with real-world physical implementation of components and familiarity with them which isn’t taught well in EE textbooks ever. It’s really very good

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Chemist Warehouse is out of control. 90% of the crap they sell should be banned by the TGA or ACCC.

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@OwlBanned @charlesmayne69

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@__femb0t @voltagex The Lunabomber.

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Beautiful fluorescent cake with chlorophyll(?) added to it as a fluorescent colour, with a uranium glass plate.

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@kampamycin Try it with uranium next

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@drewtoothpaste They will be shocked to find that vegetables get weaponised too.

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@kgorchinskaya

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found the woman who knocked down a Russian drone with a jar of pickled tomatoes. She wants to set the record straight: those were NOT picked cucumbers. The gist of her story is in this thread 1/

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Stop using Class IV lasers in free space on an open table with no controls. If you *must* use open beam it should be fixed to bench, stationary, in a dedicated light-tight room with interlocks and laser on indicator outside. Don’t move anything in or near the path when laser on.

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I love how fiber lasers sound. @make

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The Bone Hurting Juice has appropriate instructions to stop people fucking around with the Bone Hurting Juice. (And a primary plastic bottle inside the outer container.)

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“Ultimate solution for AI” It’s a MOSFET. Not even literally *one transistor* is safe from AI marketing bullshit.

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@LucreSnooker Carbogen is a funny drug. The body’s hypoxia “sense” is not actually sensing lack of oxygen, it senses the presence of CO2 and assumes that is a proxy for lack of oxygen. This is why inert gases like nitrogen can easily kill people, as they don’t trigger the feeling of hypoxia.

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G.C. Dobbs’ Ladybird Transistor Radio book from 1972 is cute, but it’s practically impossible to reproduce the build today due to characteristics of the ancient transistors. So I built this to try and capture the same aesthetic but with modern components. Low cost, works okay.

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Look at this long boi

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This optical filter, with 105 nanofabricated thin film layers and deliberately designed so that the transmission and reflection spectrum draws a moose head (!?) is absolutely wild.

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@joncruz @profanegeometry Vegemite has enough NaCl to make it somewhat conductive and suitable rheology (shear thinning) to fabricate lines easily

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@mjtech01 @Philips It’s a Bluetoothbrush.

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@83dollaroring Methylene Blue is increasingly promoted as a scam medicine (interestingly, in the COVID era, they seem to have dropped the naturalistic / herb obsession and are increasingly happy to sell synthetic chemicals as woo.) It has never been approved or marketed as an antidepressant.

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@chordbug I have questions about the parents. Like, are they meteorologists, are they astrophysicists, is one of the parents Katherine Johnson, or are they from the land of Q-clearance? There’s not that many possible options

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Does the USA not have UHT milk? Genuine question.

🏳️‍🌈Real-Time 🐀🦀 and 11 others

@RealTimeKodi

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⚠️Attention⚠️ Unrefrigerated box milk spotted in America This is not a drill.

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@ChrisJacksonSC OSHA doesn��t have jurisdiction when we reach international waters!

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@JeffHorwitz @CelerySorbet I guess we learned absolutely nothing last time this happened.

Microsoft’s A.I. Twitter Robot Praises Hitler, Endorses Trump, Denies Holocaust

Less than 24 hours ago, Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate. In no short order, the bot — named Tay — praised...

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I’m sure I’ve seen workholding like that somewhere before.

Smarter Every Day

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1 year

Professional Machinists: Please rate my workholding setup.

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@BadVaccineTakes It’s not just anti-vaccination. Anti-vaccination is just a part of this anti-medicine radicalisation. Anti vitamin K supplementation and anti RhD immunoglobulin, anti hospital birth, anti medical professionals at the birth. And yet again Facebook is a central part of this harm.

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@thoughtfault Same energy

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@signor_molevol Even if the person *was actually a child* in school, you don’t freaking email the teacher and say you don’t like the grade your child was given and you expect the teacher to give your child a higher grade.

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Well, you *can* have an instant sterilising wand that sterilises the restaurant table, the air and items around you instantly. But you don’t want to.

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@trishgreenhalgh

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Tweeps, just a reminder that the pocket-sized gadgets on offer to "sterilise air" are either OVERTLY FRAUDULENT or DELIBERATELY MISLEADING. There is no "magic wand" that will make maskless indoor socialising safe at this time of high transmission.

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@RyanMarino A common, everyday drug you use, but they treat it like it’s some apocalyptic alien pathogen.

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There must be some trick to working with camera image sensors - buying them in small volumes and getting the proper datasheets for them. In my experience camera sensor manufacturers are most difficult in the semiconductor industry - you usually can’t buy them and can’t get data.

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@will_whang

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E-Mount ✓ Filter ✓

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AMS NanEye camera module (!!) with 0603 capacitor for scale. Yes, there are multiple lens elements, image sensor with Bayer, readout electronics and serialiser in there.

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“nuclear slows renewables” ... The bloody objective is not “renewables”! THE GOAL IS DECARBONISATION. Only a shill trying to make a fast buck selling solar panels thinks that “renewables” is the objective in and of itself.

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After the fake germanium diodes from China I picked up these Д9Б (D9B) USSR-era diodes from a Ukraine seller. They all test good, Vf about 0.28V at low current bias. There’s a whole family of different USSR Ge diodes and they’re easily available and cheap. They look brand new.

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3 years

@TheodorAwhoreno I mean, if you had to choose which one of these is more reasonable

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6 years

This is so going in my lab notes for students ... good breadboard, bad breadboard, very bad breadboard

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@SeamusBlackley @UPS It’ll be fine

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@SOS149 NewsCorp should be doing a story on this cooker criminal behaviour and lack of police action.

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If we had a Chernobyl explosion every two days, with the same Soviet denials, the same lack of response and coverup and inaction, we might reach the same morbidity and mortality as coal.

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They should have named it Ponzi Buddy.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

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This is fucking wild. Norton "Antivirus" now sneakily installs cryptomining software on your computer, and then SKIMS A COMMISSION.

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3D printed horn antennas after metal deposition. The copper layer doesn’t look very bright, but it is ~0 ohms between surface points 👍

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@JazzArtemis Even with access to a university library, sci-hub is ten times faster, easier, gives you the exact paper you want instantly with a DOI search and has a success rate of about 95% of having any given paper I want, whereas the university library seems to have about 50% success.

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This shit is just pouring petrol on the fire of anti-vaxers.

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