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Re:CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:29AM (#47601437)
I'd of said I had limited appetite for April fools gubbins this year too but this still made me smile :)
Re:Aldus PageMaker Founder Paul Brainerd Has Died
on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:38PM (#47280769)
I used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.
Re:Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:55AM (#47072017)
I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.
Re:Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:11AM (#46453492)
Isn't that what parallel construction is for?
Re:First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memor...
on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:53AM (#45798106)
Can't think of a way that brains doing this is adaptive in an evolutionary sense.
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:40AM (#43793472)
Banana!
Re:The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir
on Friday April 04, 2025 @02:02PM (#43585825)
Too right. Never trust someone who thinks they have all the answers.
Re:Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:14AM (#43570006)
Dirty money for dirty deeds...
Re:Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam
on Friday July 05, 2024 @12:19PM (#40884000)
You've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle of Sodor.
Re:The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @01:40PM (#40868239)
As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(
Re:The 'Pay Phone Bandit' Who Baffled the FBI in the '80s
on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:05PM (#40832406)
Inspiration for Bruce Sterling's short 'Jim & Irene!'
Re:Permutation City
on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:19AM (#39316372)
If you enjoy the 'cute bugs doing science' SF subgenre then his incandescence is definitely worth a look.
Re:Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration
on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:20PM (#37614811)
Awesome find, the author is lucky indeed. I've got a 2465 (no B) that I love dearly & have spent too much time & money on.
Re:Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home
on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:11PM (#37548861)
The same way it used to be done before we had LSI/VLSI!
Re:Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience
on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:10AM (#36893830)
Another one from the Center for the study of the Blindingly Obvious.
Re:The Mystery of the Largest Light in the Sea
on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:54PM (#36222303)
Re:BeaglePlay from BeagleBoard brings fun to building with computers
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:05PM (#35074702)
Take another look at the spec, looks like it has the dual core PRUs, an R5 & the A4 - whoops M4
Re:The Case of the Dead Mini5SX
on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:36AM (#33229847)
Thanks OP! That was a lovely writeup.
Re:The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)
on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:58PM (#32869742)
+1
Measure the voltages on the connector. There's a pinout diagram further down on this page:
https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...
I've seen a bad power supply kill one of the two CIAs, the color ram & damage the SID on a C64C
Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot
on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:43PM (#32461739)
Better they keep a cadre of smart people who can do this stuff than lose the institutional knowledge.
Re:Why does anything exist?
on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:16PM (#32417811)
A concise treatment of all of metaphysics... :)
Re:Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body
on Sunday August 07, 2022 @02:18PM (#32378446)
Well this is a pretty big deal if it works. Ischemic injury being the thing that actually kills alot of trauma patients.
Re:I fixed my broken monitor with a hair dryer
on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:52PM (#31372428)
Replacing electrolytics that'd gone bad was my entry point to electrical engineering.
Re:Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (1991)
on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:57AM (#30865481)
I think 2C-B varies in its effects from person to person a bit more than some of the others. What you describe sounds like what's happened to me when I've pushed the dose a bit high.
I've friends who swear by taking it when coming down from MDMA; where for me doing that always ends up with large chunks of my visual field being replaced with oozing neon magma & me needing to go & have a "lie down..."
Re:Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube
on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:45AM (#30098790)
Well said. Also fair play to you for being prepared to openly identify as who you are, in a part of the world where it's not necessarily as easy to do so as it is for many of us.
Re:The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)
on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:35PM (#29865447)
Re:Analog Devices AD1139
on Saturday November 20, 2021 @03:33AM (#29286514)
Great write up - thanks OP, I'd not seen a hybrid torn down like that before.
Re:Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:43PM (#28108535)
This will come as no surprise to FE/HE lecturers the world over...
Re:Blue Origin first human flight
on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:11PM (#27897156)
Obligatory XKCD
Re:Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?
on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:22PM (#24228425)
Totally agreed re: the necessity of doing what can be done [i]now[/i] within existing regulatory frameworks.
If & when we get round to allowing more exotic stuff to be used I like the look of this one.