Posts by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
(DIR) Post #AYpq87ttKtXXD0Cp60 by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2023-08-17T18:24:01Z
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And also in NL a new #covid wave has started - see the wastewater surveillance data in this logarithmic graph.If things continue at this rate, wave 13 will reach the height of the previous wave (wave 12) by mid-to-end-of September.https://mstdn.social/@roelgrif/110905179500597242
(DIR) Post #AZEsPD7EFyhPAMiUGe by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2023-08-29T14:29:13Z
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@cstross @Annalee @kittylyst When I left academia (after several years as a post-doc) my first industry job wanted a copy of my PhD diploma.Sure, I’ll photocopy this nearly A2-sized thing (with any available photocopier only being A3-sized), with a big wax seal attached to it. It’s in Latin. Good luck with it.
(DIR) Post #AarbzuDg0BPfUipw80 by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2023-10-17T14:02:08Z
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@quixoticgeek @th Even better than the time I was stuck at Schiphol Airport railway station, between 03:00 and 03:00 on a last Sunday in October…(The hands were stationary for an hour! Aaaah!)
(DIR) Post #AhuDjNs5yyZLSgHCxk by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2024-05-15T05:39:42Z
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@foone e-ink m500, want!
(DIR) Post #AhwFhVLtmqcQJ9MtTU by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2024-05-16T05:10:22Z
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@foone Can you get a bright enough scene so you can stop down the camera to get a big enough depth-of-field?
(DIR) Post #Aidi4YDv7PGi0jx2vo by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2024-06-06T04:21:50Z
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@foone My grandfather had one of those…
(DIR) Post #AjRY0f5Vq0ltSi7HhA by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2024-06-30T05:24:30Z
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@foone We’re going back to blazoning…
(DIR) Post #AoA0dUCZDKgBvG2Jk0 by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2024-11-18T07:38:54Z
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“You are scheduled to expire!”“EXPIRATION NOTICE! We need your immediate response!”“You are now at risk […]”And how is _your_ inbox this morning?#Paranoia(I’m starting to suspect Friend@Computer may have a hand in writing these emails)
(DIR) Post #Apx3dFXbSozfvXMMm8 by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-01-10T21:22:08Z
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@ikanreed @Computer Cogito ergo seditiosus sum.
(DIR) Post #Aw4YAJRXAEkv5iey3s by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-07-12T18:46:56Z
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@cstross Steganosaurus, you say?Here’s one I prepared earlier (2008), for b3ta.(Re-using and modifying somebody else’s staggersaurus-gif)
(DIR) Post #AwvnAtaB3vzjnrEuZc by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-08-07T15:44:09Z
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@foone Given that I have a cursèd cable that is USB-A on one side and simultaneously micro-USB and Lightning on the other (no, not a Cerberus-style multi-head: somebody intersected a micro-USB and an 8-pin in CAD and thought “that’ll do, ship it”), why not both (simultaneously)?
(DIR) Post #Ay3iEM84U4y2VC7Q5w by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-09-10T09:26:16Z
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@foone Psssh, given PoE and EoP, at home we’ve rationalised and now have PoP and EoE, depending on the order of plugging the various doodads in.
(DIR) Post #Ay5cb8IdrCpyrWSbxY by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-09-11T07:34:17Z
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@foone You don’t speak fluent Middle-Endian?
(DIR) Post #AyIKRM5UbpSoqBpY1Y by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-09-17T07:35:53Z
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@foone Are you working on DDaaS, Distributed Doom as a Service?
(DIR) Post #AycXt2mfxsnZ3lO8O0 by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-09-27T04:18:13Z
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@foone We know you’re never gonna give it up, we know you’re never gonna let us down when it comes to wildly wacky Dooms, DDaaS, etcetera. You’re not gonna make us cry, we’re not gonna say goodbye.
(DIR) Post #AymzcVJDOhW6u06ovQ by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-10-02T05:44:50Z
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@foone The JUICE spacecraft is currently a planet (I think - I’d need to confirm its current orbit is indeed heliocentric) (we’ve imaged it during its gravity assists), and will become a moon later, and then become a moon-moon. Sadly, we won’t be able to image it at that point, or it would’ve become a planet again!
(DIR) Post #B2Hz1oWaGgewUZ0dEG by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-14T16:52:42Z
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@jon *And* completely managed to forget about axle loads in NL, despite having meant to use these for DE <> NL as well…(Still can’t get over the single-axle Jacobs thing. Feels like such a “I have a hammer! Therefore *that*’s a nail and *that*’s a nail and *that*’s a nail and […]”)
(DIR) Post #B2Hz1qFzpKZxrhGPeS by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-14T17:30:17Z
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@jon I can entirely understand the attraction of only having to gauge-change a bit over a quarter of the axles compared to conventional bogies.(BRB, I foresee a passive tilting explainer rabbit hole)
(DIR) Post #B2Hz1r3Gs7ziKWJlSK by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-14T17:43:34Z
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@jon Talgo’s own material on https://www.talgo.com/en/technological-principles is entirely unsatisfactory. Lots of claim, no explanation whatsoever. My engineering BS sense is tingling.
(DIR) Post #B2Hz1sQhkUKibUHzcW by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-14T19:50:58Z
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@jon The latter is true for any Jakobs bogie, no? Doesn’t need to be a single-axle for that (plus more beneficial coupled-body dynamics at higher speeds, IIRC)