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thor, to random
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My neighbour in the condo is from Poland, and he was having a loud phone call on the balcony right next to mine. Again.

Seeing as this somewhat irritates me, I stepped outside to wave and say hello to him. I don't usually attack what irritates me. I try to examine why it's there first.

He said "ja halo for broke ribben".

Kinda half Norwegian - half English.

"Yes hello four broken ribs."

Then he walked inside again.

grant_h,
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@thor was that the cause of the conversation, a threat to you, or a memory of your last interaction?

grant_h,
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@thor one would think that the 4 broken ribs only happened once. Unless they are a common occurrence in Oslo? 😜

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    grant_h,
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    @thor campuses

    elizabethtasker, to vr
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    This week, we're hitting the shop floor for a big design that (I hope) will ultimately become a space for a conference.

    So far... it's a doughnut.

    Is this to remind attendees that they better getting running around this track to burn off eating too many pastries? We shall see...

    grant_h,
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    @elizabethtasker very cool. But I want the planets to move as you walk around the railing! It seems they are static (scared I'm missing something in all this cleverness happening here!)

    mxtthxw, to random
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    The downside of working analogue is having a cat keep pressing PFL on the mixer.

    grant_h,
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    @mxtthxw never mute during a take?

    thor, to random
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    grant_h,
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    @thor the importance of meaningful work. I never managed perpetually meaningless stuff. Every job has its schlep bits, but. The overall balance must be positive.

    franco_vazza, to Astronomy
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    #academic #academicchatter #astronomy #astrodon

    So I am teaching a master level course in astroparticle physics, which has about 15 students.

    One of them consistently shows up, put his head on the desk during the break, and never lift it up for the full second hour.

    😴
    At least, he does not snore, and he's getting something useful out of my bla about cosmic rays.

    Did anything similar happen to someone else? How did you deal with that?

    grant_h,
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    @franco_vazza I was on the other side of that 40 years ago. Five of us had a quantum course that was always after lunch. The lecturer would stare over our heads, and lecture in a pretty solid monotone.
    I was the only one who wrote the exam. I got 17% ...

    grant_h,
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    @franco_vazza I am now a high school teacher. I ask lots of questions as we go along, and encourage them to be asked. In small groups that can work? That said, some classes are like teaching polony, others so engaged that I struggle to finish the syllabus. Might just be the group?

    grant_h,
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    @franco_vazza The recordings are a real issue. School doesn't allow the skipping part, but I know at UCT, it's a thing.
    My classes are also recorded, and getting told by parents about hearing my voice coming from their kids rooms is ... creepy!

    AshleyMarineP, to random
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    Potentially unpopular opinion: SD cards don't need to be so small. We were fine when they were all 24mm. We gain nothing by storing data on these microscopic pieces of plastic that would just as soon become lost forever down the floorboards after an ill-timed sneeze.

    grant_h,
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    @AshleyMarineP Seconded.
    Have you just some time looking for precious shots?

    gutenberg_org, to books
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    German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born 300 years ago!

    Kant’s most famous work, the "Critique of Pure Reason", is often considered one of the most significant works in the history of philosophy. In this book, he introduced the concept of a priori synthetic judgments, arguing that our ability to perceive & understand the world is shaped by the ways our mind structures experiences.

    Books by Immanuel Kant at PG:
    The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

    Cover of The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. "The Critique of Pure Reason" (Kritik der reinen Vernunft), published in 1781 and revised in 1787, is Immanuel Kant’s seminal work and one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. In this book, Kant endeavors to analyze the faculties of human reason and to establish the capabilities and limits of pure reason.

    grant_h,
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    @gutenberg_org foreshadowing of Godel's incompleteness theorem?

    thor, to random
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    Testing a PCB. 8 faders being read by a Nucleo F030R8 board through a 4051 analog mux.

    video/mp4

    grant_h,
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    @thor first time?

    thor, to random
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    I seriously need some better feet for this...

    grant_h,
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    @thor I don't recall seeing the screws in the CAD spec ;)

    grant_h, to southafrica
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    The Palmiet River, just outside Kleinmond in the ,

    https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/Paths-in-a-valley-1041994819

    thor, (edited ) to random
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    STM32F030 (small ARM processors) in the box they came in. Pen for scale.

    grant_h,
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    @thor somehow I thought you were only buying 1. More makes sense

    thor, to random
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    I'm not finding many common roots between whatever language the neighbours are speaking and what I am speaking. I can't even wave a hand. How do I approach?

    grant_h,
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    @thor Avian or human?

    lukemgraphy, (edited ) to photography
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    William Eggleston said in the 2009 episode of BBC Arts' 'Imagine' that he has personal discipline of taking one picture of one thing. Otherwise he would have been confused about picking the better shot later.

    Of course I never listen to the more experienced. I took two attempts at the same idea and now I don't know which one I should keep. I dunno, I'll toss a coin maybe.

    I'll never learn. 😓

    grant_h,
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    @lukemgraphy nah, I take lots. Often it's the first one that makes the grade though.
    In this case, I like the descending diagonal of the second shot.
    My R0. 02

    elizabethtasker, to random
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    I’m in the Science Museum in London… searching to find the tiny asteroid grain I smuggled in from Japan last summer!

    … this is somewhat of a challenge. Grain is small. Museum big.

    grant_h,
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    @elizabethtasker That box is not small!

    PhETsims, to random
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    Circuit Construction Kit:DC
    Build with batteries, light bulbs, resistors & switches, experiment with conductors & insulators, take measurement with lab equipments.
    Learners will explore the relationship between , and
    phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc/latest/circuit-construction-kit-dc_all.html

    video/mp4

    grant_h,
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    @PhETsims @edutooters Science and Maths teachers, if you haven't tried the PhET Sims, you are missing an invaluable resource. Particularly if you don't have all the resources you might wish for (and even if you do!)

    junesim63, to ukteachers
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    "How did Estonia, a small country that is relatively poor compared with most of the EU, become an educational powerhouse? In the OECD's Pisa rankings, which measure 15-year-olds’ abilities in maths, reading and science, the top spots are held by a handful of Asian countries, but Estonia ranks next – the best in Europe"

    Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe | Life and style | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/27/free-lunches-brain-breaks-and-happy-teachers-why-estonia-has-the-best-schools-in-europe?CMP=saturdayedition_email

    grant_h,
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    @junesim63 @edutooters a solid good news story of how it can work.

    thor, to random
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    Hausmania, Oslo, Norway. One of the few spots in town where chaos is still allowed to reign.

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    grant_h,
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    @thor Norwegian chaos: Some random paint. Not a broken window in sight! ;P

    thor, to Electronics
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    3D turnaround of the oscillator control panel board in its current condition. This is the first time I've shared a 3D video of anything from the synthesiser project.

    video/mp4

    grant_h,
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    @thor Love the diagonal mount of the SoC.
    Is the lone slider a master volume? Looks like a left handed operation then?

    grant_h,
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    @thor Ah! That makes perfect sense.
    PITch?
    DET??
    NOIse?

    grant_h,
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    @thor Continuous tuning option between the two oscillators sounds funky. DETune makes some sense. I think I would need to understand what the whole system will do to get it properly. I shall wait for that day!

    elaterite, to Astronomy
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    A waxing gibbous moon framed in the fork of an eroded branch of a Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine) at ~3,048m (10,000ft) in the White Mountains of California. (This is a single frame photo made by a human, #notAI.)

    #BlackAndWhite #Moon #Botany #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Trees #Photography #Darktable

    grant_h,
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    @elaterite I shall have to look up parametric masks. I have found the curves tool very powerful. Along with a post-process red filter applied before desaturating. This was a classic film trick to get white clouds on a dark sky.

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