The Official Cool Stuff Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I wonder if I could get a modern Windows environment to function
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@loopback0 Do they make one with a ? There's one switch in my entryway that I still haven't figured out what it controls.
This Reddit user had a more original idea though:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I wonder if I could get a modern Windows environment to function
Oh, it'll function just in the same way an inanimate carbon rod functions.
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@dcon Store your dead trees in dead trees which look like a tree.
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@PleegWat thats 3 trees
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@PleegWat thats 3 trees
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A group of people with type 1 diabetes created software to interact with blood glucose meters and insulin pumps. And their "product" seems better than any commercial product...
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@BernieTheBernie The key thing open source can offer which commercial products cannot is anything which hasn't been FDA approved yet. Last time I read about this access to jailbroken sensors and/or pumps was a key bottleneck.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@BernieTheBernie The key thing open source can offer which commercial products cannot is anything which hasn't been FDA approved yet. Last time I read about this access to jailbroken sensors and/or pumps was a key bottleneck.
Yeah, the same thing for the software "hack" that turned CPAP machines into partial BIPAP.
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A new kind of molecular motor which works due to special interaction with a surface:
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First of a series of 5 videos (the others are linked in the description)
(Adam Savage touring the Sun Princess)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IBJwcvjZIY
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Birds build "music instruments". It's parrots from Australia.
The article seems to be freely accessible:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1271And there is a youtube video linked in editorial in Nature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaauMYHluc4Have fun!
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@Tsaukpaetra Interesting. From Iona's product page:
When a preset voltage is exceeded, the Band emits an audible alarm indicating that it is unsafe to handle sensitive electronics or travel in explosive environments.
Actually sounds useful if you work with electronics, although I would tend to consider it unsafe to travel in explosive environments, regardless of whether I've built up enough of a static charge to generate a spark.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Actually sounds useful if you work with electronics, although I would tend to consider it unsafe to travel in explosive environments, regardless of whether I've built up enough of a static charge to generate a spark.
Yes, but people still have to work with powdered flour and sugar anyway.
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
No surprise wrt plants, bacteria and arthropods, but that viruses have twice the biomass of all livestock among them, and more than an order of magnitude more than all wild mammals, whow.
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@LaoC said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
No surprise wrt plants, bacteria and arthropods, but that viruses have twice the biomass of all livestock among them, and more than an order of magnitude more than all wild mammals, whow.
Of those categories, one refers to a single species.
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@Watson said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@LaoC said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
No surprise wrt plants, bacteria and arthropods, but that viruses have twice the biomass of all livestock among them, and more than an order of magnitude more than all wild mammals, whow.
Of those categories, one refers to a single species.
OK human
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I thought about posting this in the "Random but not dumb videos" thread, but it's very much not random:
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@HardwareGeek heavy Stephen Wolfram breathing
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/?mode=screensaver&color=true&word=wtf
or just https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/ I guess.
Ooh, someone show this to @nikitonsky
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After 34 Years, Someone Finally Beat Tetris
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@TimeBandit the save icon from Word as a table, whatever next?!??!
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@TimeBandit bonus if there's a cutting hazard due to being spring loaded.
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@Gustav said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
After 34 Years, Someone Finally Beat Tetris
I didn't pay attention to this story when it first came out but watched this now. It's cooler than I thought
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Science can be fun, and so let watch this odd kind of robot move along:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666998623003666?via%3Dihub
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
odd kind of robot
I could have sworn they already made a better worm...
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What do you think of a "christmas tree" made of empty wine bottles?
Winery Hermannshöhle used some 500 bottles for this one.
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@TimeBandit Property lines just ain't what they used to be...
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Only Five People Know The Secret To Making Zildjian's Iconic Cymbals | Still Standing
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Not sure if Cool or Nope - so it goes here.
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@dcon Toronto's tower has a glass floor ~300 meters (is that already 1 kft?) above ground. My first steps on it were a little shaky...
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@dcon Actually... The idea to be questioned is having such glass floored bathrooms for all floors which were accessible from the elevator.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@dcon Actually... The idea to be questioned is having such glass floored bathrooms for all floors which were accessible from the elevator.
I dunno, someone might get some enjoyment from the view.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
What do you think of a "christmas tree" made of empty wine bottles?
We call that a 3-Day Weekend, son
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@Gern_Blaanston Some 500 bottles of wine (0.75 liters each), 3 days,...
How many persons?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston Some 500 bottles of wine (0.75 liters each), 3 days,...
How many persons?
Yes
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@dcon Toronto's tower has a glass floor ~300 meters (is that already 1 kft?) above ground. My first steps on it were a little shaky...
You might enjoy this then:
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