@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

darryl_ramm

@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io

Nerd.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

mattblaze, to random
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

Had dinner with a group of highly accomplished people in a field I know little about who mostly talked shop. That sounds like poor etiquette, but I love listening to experts talk shop, especially when they tolerate my occasional dumb questions.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@robpike @mattblaze As long as it's not a poker table.

tubetime, to random
@tubetime@mastodon.social avatar

fun fact! the numbers in coin cell part numbers are dimensions. a CR2025 is 20mm diameter and 2.5mm thick!

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@tubetime What is all this God damned metric shit? 😉

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@tubetime

Say no to metric. A good American S6 1.5 volt dry cell battery is 2 1/2 inch diameter and 6 inches tall. What else could y'all need?

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@tubetime Yep it's a resto mod with alkaline inside. Easiest photo I could find.

Remember these being around for real in the 1970s.

NanoRaptor, to random
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar

Realising it’s likely technically possible to share a production press, a six metre long print machine, as a LaserWriter on .

It would be a bad idea as it’s not mine and damn it could chew through some stock in minutes.

But thinking of the how anyway.

But not.

But I am really.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@NanoRaptor Yes please, hope it can do varnish. 🙂

AbandonedAmerica, to random
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social avatar

A snow-covered stage in an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium's theater.

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/undercliff-sanatorium

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@AbandonedAmerica Imaginary actor walks onstage, "Now is the discontent of our winter..."

darryl_ramm, to random
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

Pet peeve: movies and television shows that have people in falling elevators who fall to the floor and appear to be struggling against positive G force. Can we at least get a little partial weightlessness. Yes looking at you X Files S1 E7 Ghost in the Machine.

molly0xfff, to random
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

my life changed for the better the day i realized you can put tortellini in your minestrone instead of plain pasta

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff It was a good day when the owners of a local Asian family owned dumpling restaurant took pity on me, after eating there for a few years, and pointed out I could order any type of dumpling in the dumpling noodle soup.

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

Like fucking Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal in the US but these death trap tech fetish and design vanity cars aren’t?
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112067487437700821

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@thomasfuchs @edinel While I sympathize I am not sure that this Darwinian culling to help emphasize the importance of reading the fucking manual is entirely a bad thing 🤷‍♂️

danderson, to random
@danderson@hachyderm.io avatar

Ridiculous thing that I want in The War On Right-Handed Things: a left-handed lathe.

You have no idea how annoying it is to have the spinny chuck of death on the side of your dominant hand, it's like a constant 20% brain tax on "no, use the other hand, rotate your body so you're not reaching across the spinny death zone" that dexters just never have to think of.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@danderson All you need to do is get a mill, and then you can use it to customize the lathe to be left handed... 🙂

tubetime, to random
@tubetime@mastodon.social avatar

a story in three parts (1)

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@tubetime

stshank, to internet
@stshank@mstdn.social avatar

Bluesky usage dropped steadily after the huge spike that occurred after it opened to the public. But today it went back up a little, so perhaps it's reached its new membership/usage level for now. From https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@stshank More importantly very annoying “do you want an invite” spam has vanished.

molly0xfff, to random
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

weapons grade mansplaining reminding me why @danhon made these stickers, lordy

(source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danhon/albums/72177720314761105/)

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff @danhon Using those stickers is bound to just confuse dudes who are sure women don't know what they want.

danderson, to random
@danderson@hachyderm.io avatar

Car battery died so I went on the local facebook (don't judge me it's where the people are around here) to see if I could borrow a jumpstart off someone.

Then I got lost and wandered into marketplace.

...

So anyway

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@danderson Adding DRO will be another project now. 👍

AbandonedAmerica, to random
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social avatar

The control room in an abandoned power plant

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/richmond-power-station

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@AbandonedAmerica What a fascinating, beautiful set of photographs.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@AbandonedAmerica The kuula immersive photo was a nice treat. Your "neoclassical cathedral" description of those turbine halls is spot on.

NanoRaptor, to random
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar

The iPod mini, Power Mac G5 and Xserve G5, 20" iMac G4, Aluminium G4 PowerBooks, eMac and iBook G4 were all released closer to the original Macintosh than to today.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@NanoRaptor Where is the dammed content warning for this?

tubetime, to random
@tubetime@mastodon.social avatar

stylish blue IC marking. it's Italian, natch.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@tubetime

Società Generale Semiconduttori

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societ%C3%A0_Generale_Semiconduttori

Now that is a great name for a chip company.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@flameeyes @tubetime

Ya’all gave us in the United States Olive Garden, so there is that… 🙂

(Used to love my business trips to Milan.)

petergleick, to Futurology

I've worked on issues for literally decades and it's only now that I'm trying to figure out why it isn't spelled "wauder" since that's how we pronounce it.
💦

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@robpike @adrianco @petergleick

Trying to say some people or place names for US Telephone operators with a thick Australian accent was tough when I first arrived in the USA. I remember trying to spell out a name with an "A for Apple" in it multiple times before finally the operator (with a strong southern accent) tells me "Honey, Apple does not start with an I".

molly0xfff, to web3
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

darryl_ramm, (edited )
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff I want to block Chris not a blockchain. 🤷‍♂️

molly0xfff, to Dogs
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

genuinely incredible how perceptive are. mine has somehow picked up that the gesture of me reaching up to turn off my bluetooth headphones often means a walk is coming

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@molly0xfff If I move shoes, place them on the wooden floor even fairly quietly a dog expecting a walk appears. Pick up car/house keys and he goes wild until I let him know “Car drive” at which point he wants nothing to do with that (car drive could mean vet visit).

danderson, to random
@danderson@hachyderm.io avatar

Watching laser cutter youtube is sometimes a mistake.

"Here's the sensor to tape down if you want to be able to fire the laser with the enclosure open!"

(while cutting acrylic) "this stuff stinks when you're cutting it"

nononononono, do not allow the invisible beam of blinding out of the enclosure, and if you can smell the cutting fumes you need so much more ventilation and extraction, pls, stop

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@danderson I was bemused with The Repair Shop, a corny BBC show that just about every time somebody is handling volatile solvents, spray painting, or working with lead they are wearing disposable particulate filter masks. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Still better than some of the woodworking power tool stupidity on YouTube.

dave_andersen, to random
@dave_andersen@hachyderm.io avatar

Hmmm. Well, now I know that at least one of our thermometers is horribly uncalibrated, but I have no idea which, or if it's both. 🤣

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@dave_andersen Here you go... 🙂 https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/mat/m16c-r8c-fousbuart-debugger-users-manual-additional-document-notes-connecting-r8c3xc-group-r8c3xd

tubetime, to random
@tubetime@mastodon.social avatar

cross section of a high power electric car charging cable. the electric current is so high that the copper wires would overheat, but coolant flows through small tubes in the center of each wire.

darryl_ramm,
@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io avatar

@tubetime sweet sweet ethylene glycol…

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • everett
  • osvaldo12
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • Leos
  • rosin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tacticalgear
  • InstantRegret
  • anitta
  • modclub
  • mdbf
  • cisconetworking
  • ethstaker
  • cubers
  • megavids
  • tester
  • normalnudes
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •