The Official Cool Stuff Thread
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@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I've seen that article before but I was curious how it worked so I looked up a video.
It seems to require manual loading with blank cartridges, although it does offer them in a little strip:
Belt-feed is a solved problem, wtf.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
enjoy the game again
That would require that it had ever been enjoyable. == OTOH, a nap on a quiet weekend afternoon is enjoyable, but explosive golf clubs make it difficult to sleep. OTOOH, generous use of high explosives might be just the thing to make golf not the most boring thing ever.
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@HardwareGeek I enjoy my work's golf tournament once a year, but not enough to start doing it on my own time
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I enjoy my work's golf tournament once a year
Because you get a day off?
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@TimeBandit And free drinks on the golf course and dinner afterward. But it's a nice change of pace to be outside and swing golf clubs for a few hours
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
it's a nice change of pace to be outside and swing golf clubs for a few hours
Do you get to swing them at your boss and cow-orkers?
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@coderpatsy said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
And all the colors are completely imaginary, btw.
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@coderpatsy said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Some of the replies included a link to the creator's page:
https://gaelmcgill.artstation.com/projects/Pm0JL1
A more detailed, interactive version:
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Thousands of glasses, a closed model train museum and a very long train track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBNHmUT3GPg
EDIT: Backstory:
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The real heroes are these researchers who can keep a straight face no matter where these things go flopping about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevIIQHrJZg
(Betteridge's law of headlines applies, but this invention does keep going for a while)
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
A crow taking a ride on an eagle's back.
PS: this belongs here too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtS52lqL5w&feature=youtu.be
Sooo satisfying
Now:
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
A crow taking a ride on an eagle's back.
PS: this belongs here too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtS52lqL5w&feature=youtu.be
Sooo satisfying
Now:
So gullible.
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@Carnage I sea what you did there.
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@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Thousands of glasses
Keeping that tuned must be a bitch, what with water evaporation...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Thousands of glasses
Keeping that tuned must be a bitch, what with water evaporation...
You use a neutrally-humid room, at 98% or so saturation. Bad for wood. Good for... that, that's about it.
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Cross-posting because on second thought this is where I wanted to post it.
@Zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Thousands of glasses
Keeping that tuned must be a bitch, what with water evaporation...
It's in Germany, not Arizona. Humidity is naturally much higher there, and I think it was done in the Spring so there's no problem with summer heat.
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@dkf said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Thousands of glasses
Keeping that tuned must be a bitch, what with water evaporation...
It's in Germany, not Arizona. Humidity is naturally much higher there, and I think it was done in the Spring so there's no problem with summer heat.
Choice of wood also can help a great deal.
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It looks like it's just a stock photo in the banner but part of it's an editable textbox.
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@loopback0 As for why, it changes on every refresh. Un-blurring it, I've seen:
- code snippets in various languages, including BASIC
10 PRINT "BBC Developer Portal" 20 GOTO 10
- the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adventure game
- a recipe for "Fibonacci Numbers with Caramel Sauce"
- code snippets in various languages, including BASIC
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@loopback0 I was about to snark about how uninteresting the code was, but then I realized the code in your screenshot was not the same as the code in my screenshot, so it looks like they're loading in different snippets from their own repos.
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
As for why, it changes on every refresh.
It does but they didn't need to make it editable for that.
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
so it looks like they're loading in different snippets from their own repos.
Yeah, it changes on refresh.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
As for why, it changes on every refresh.
It does but they didn't need to make it editable for that.
Your tax money at work!
Filed under: Can I see your TV licence, sir?
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@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
As for why, it changes on every refresh.
It does but they didn't need to make it editable for that.
Your tax money at work!
Filed under: Can I see your TV license, sir?
It looks effective to me. If something stops moving I figure it's dead.
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@loopback0 As for why, it changes on every refresh. Un-blurring it, I've seen:
- code snippets in various languages, including BASIC
10 PRINT "BBC Developer Portal" 20 GOTO 10
- the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adventure game
- a recipe for "Fibonacci Numbers with Caramel Sauce"
Also this classic:
C:\> C:\> DOS C:\DOS> RUN RUN, DOS, RUN
- code snippets in various languages, including BASIC
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@dkf said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@loopback0 As for why, it changes on every refresh. Un-blurring it, I've seen:
- code snippets in various languages, including BASIC
10 PRINT "BBC Developer Portal" 20 GOTO 10
- the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adventure game
- a recipe for "Fibonacci Numbers with Caramel Sauce"
Also this classic:
C:\> C:\> DOS C:\DOS> RUN RUN, DOS, RUN
Which is bs. There was no DWIM for unrecognized commands in any
command.com
,command.exe
, orcmd.exe
, ever. Maybe a TSR is to be assumed? But aside fromhimem.exe
what kind of sense is it supposed to make to assume a TSR?I guess you could assume maybe aliases or batch files but, same question. Iirc DOS was retarded enough to let a batch change the path.
- code snippets in various languages, including BASIC
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@Gribnit said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Iirc
DOSjust about everything was retarded enough to let a batch change the path.The Current Working Directory can be polluted in nearly every system that has that concept.
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transform: translateY(-175.021px) scale(0.256924) matrix3d(1.77764, -0.61685, 0, 0.00018, 0.749355, 1.91938, 0, 0.000069, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1944, 967, 0, 1);
They’re using a matrix, fair enough, but also a straightforward translation and uniform scaling? C’mon, have some mathematical pride! Go all in!
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@boomzilla AIUI, it doesn't stiffen on impact, but rather on demand. Basically, it can be switched between comfort (flexible) and protection (rigid) modes, but it takes an action to do this (although no information on how long it takes). It can be stiffened to protect you in a situation in which you expect an attack, but won't offer much protection from an unexpected attack if you haven't prepared for it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
AIUI, it doesn't stiffen on impact, but rather on demand.
The headline agrees with you!
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@boomzilla My first interpretation of "on demand" in this context was "in response to a stimulus such as impact", rather than "in response to user input". They're both "on demand", and they're both useful, but the former is, ISTM, a little more useful, because attacks may occur unexpectedly, and the demand may be extremely urgent. I was merely TL;DRing the nature of the demand to which it reacts.
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@HardwareGeek From TFA ():
The team's octahedron-shaped particles are 3D printed with nylon plastics into a chain mail-like arrangement, which is then encapsulated in a plastic envelope and compacted using a vacuum. This increased the packing density, pulling the carefully designed particles in and increasing the points of contact between them, resulting in a structure that is 25 times more rigid.
Looking at the illustrations, it's clear that, at least right now, the stiffening is obtained by putting the chain mail in a vacuum pack similar to e.g. those that are used to store blankets and duvets (well, similar to a food package given the size of their sample, but it's easy to imagine extending it to that kind of setup). At this stage, this means the stiffening definitely won't happen instantaneously () and to do it quickly on a larger sample you'd need a pretty strong pump.
That makes it a bit difficult to imagine using it as is in e.g. a bullet-proof vest, but of course this is just a lab sample and it's not hard to imagine improvements or special uses that could work with little additional work. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be too hard to design some sort of reverse-airbag where a one-time mechanism causes the material to stiffen when a likely impact is detected, somewhat similarly to how there are horse or motorbike airbags that are triggered when they get disconnected from the saddle.
Other uses could be pretty straightforward, like they mention making a temporary bridge. It would probably be a lot of work to make a version that really makes a full bridge as shown in the mock-up picture, but it might work as quick replacement for small spans or holes in the road -- easier to store and move around in non-stiff state, plug a small vacuum pump to quickly stiffen them, reverse when no longer needed.
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Need to stop inattentive drivers from driving into your tunnel? Large overhead signs telling them to stop not working? How about projecting a massive right in front of them. Simple but ingenious.
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@Deadfast Especially as it's not immediately clear that this is just a waterscreen - so drivers will be doubly deterred from driving through it.
And I also like the aspect that it does not prevent emergency access.
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Also free "wash".
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@boomzilla ant tunnels, obey physics. Film at 11.
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The embed in @boomzilla's post should have said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
the technique could eventually be harnessed to develop ant-sized robotic mining machines
I for one I'm feeling extremely itchy thinking about our new mechanical ant overlords.
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On the other hand, this could be groundbreaking.
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
On the other hand, this could be groundbreaking.
Definitely foundational research.
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@Gribnit Pretty sure the researchers are full of schist.
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@TwelveBaud Did you have to dig deep for that pun?
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@TwelveBaud Did you have to dig deep for that pun?
I doubt this vein is even close to mined out.