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Dtl

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Great Science Done Cheap
#Bones #Teeth #Heritage #XRays #Tea
#DailyTeddy #z80
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Astrophotographer
Sleep enjoyer.
Yak Shaver.
Occasional pearl barley influencer.

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ferret chloride

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@gsuberland that's probably just tar.

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This cartoon is true.
I've been squeezing my toothpaste tube for months now. It still makes toothpaste. The pressure inside the tube is now high enough that it's probably fusing together the raw granules of spacetime to make the toothpaste. I should check if the ICECube neutrino detector sees a signal every time I brush my teeth. #wondermark #toothpaste #HighEnergyPhysics

A very flat, very squished tube of Colgate toothpaste

Dtl, to random
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No foxes on the foxcam last night, just a cat.

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It's horrible out. Must be a bank holiday.

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@johncarlosbaez east London, just passed through a downpour that was dumping a lot of rain. It's calmed down a bit now.

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@johncarlosbaez they say there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes. The only clothes that would have worked for that rain, would have been a duck's.

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A small yellow flower and a fly hiding from the rain.

Dtl, to science
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Does your turbo pump overheat because your x-ray gun is outgassing?
You need Dr Dave's patent pending fan-in-a-retort-stand.
Guaranteed to reduce the pump temperature by as much as some amount! Or your broken pump back!

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Playing with and loading a local CSV.
I've got data from several sources in the file, the source name is in the first column of the CSV, how can I get grafana to plot four different plots, one for each source name?

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Made From Junk will no longer be making stuff from junk - or anything at all.
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/farewell-mfj/

Dtl, to random
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Looking at the has anyone wired up the GPIO and done bit banged video from that rather than use the built in video stuff?

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The chip that changed my world – and yours https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/opinion_z80/

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Made a pilgrimage to see this gallery at the science museum before it closes.

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Teddy and his carrot.

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I've run, cycled and done science today. I'm done. I need food and a beer now.

Dtl,
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@eclectech that definitely deserves a gin. Perhaps two.

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Last few weeks to visit – Science Museum to close its domestic appliance gallery https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/last-few-weeks-to-visit-science-museum-to-close-its-domestic-appliance-gallery-71905/

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On the way to work today I was mentally cataloguing the litter I saw in the streets and working out when some of it went from high-value materials to literal rubbish.

The most obvious were all the Aluminium cans, just dumped, but ~180 years ago would have been worth more than their weight in gold.

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@Theorem_Poem @cunobaros Melting down the cans won't care about the plastic, it'll burn off quickly.

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@Theorem_Poem @cunobaros There's a fun demo you can do where you take a sealed can of coke or similar, put it in HCL or NaOH and eat away the metal. The drink is left inside the can in the plastic coating.

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@dgerard @mii the There is no Antimemetics Division series is particularly good.

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"I want to make my own resistor": get a piece of wire. you are now done. this will perform perfectly well.

"I want to make my own inductor": get a piece of wire. wrap it round a stick. you are now done. this will perform perfectly well.

"I want to make my own capacitor": here is a twenty page essay on building a foil capacitor. follow these steps. it will perform like dogshit.

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@Extelec Do you want an x-ray PSU to play with? Would have to collect from London - it's 60kg or so.

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@Extelec I'd rather it go to someone I know can handle it. I have someone else in mind who might be able to use it.

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What playing football taught me about hacking – Part 1

This is a two-part blog post about rewriting the rules.

I hated playing sports as a teenager quelle surprise. In a vain attempt to get me to love the beautiful game, a PE teacher once made me team captain for a kickabout. My rival? Sporty Dave. Head boy, house captain, and conqueror of puberty.

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https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/04/sports-hacks-part-1/

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@Edent it was decided that because I was tall and could run I must love rugby (I don't). The only way I could get out of playing was to chase and bring down the school rugby captain, they didn't want him hurt, so I got to go sit inside and do sums or something more fun.

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