Random thought of the day
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Imagine Carl Douglas would come out with Kung Fu Fighting in 2019.
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Flat Design was created because CSS is hard.
Edit: to clarify - it appeared around the same time everyone started moving everything to webapps and/or porting things to Node. It couldn't've been a coincidence.
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If your company makes aversive bittering agents for chemicals, "It tastes absolutely awful!" could be a good slogan.
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High end cars tend to have ridiculously marked up prices for components that would be cheap on normal cars, e.g. $400 for some plastic part on a Ferrari that would cost $10 on a Toyota. With the rising popularity and affordability of 3D printing, hobbyist CNC setups and that sort of stuff, could someone who knows what they're doing get a fancy car and avoid having it become a huge money sink?
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@hungrier If the part is small enough to be 3D printed, simple enough to re-engineer a model of it (I doubt Ferrari's going to give you the model files), able to be 3D printed (there can be lots of constraints depending on the model of printer), and you don't mind that it looks like crap (3D printed parts don't look anywhere near as good as injection-molded parts), sure. I actually have a couple of 3D printed repair/replacement parts on the air intake of my truck.
It's a time sink, though. Sure, those parts cost me like 50 cents to manufacture, but it took a few prints and minor redesigns to get things right, and that can sometimes take 3 - 4 days. I could have ordered an OEM part for $20, had it shipped and delivered and installed with no problem during that same amount of time.
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@mott555 If you can get the part for $20 it probably wouldn't be worth it. But say it's something like this gas cap:
I'd say it's probably worth it even if you had to print five of 'em before getting it right.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
I'd say it's probably worth it even if you had to print five of 'em before getting it right.
True. But the danger in this specific case is that gasoline is a powerful solvent. If you don't do your chemistry, and you print with the wrong plastic...$325 will seem like a bargain at that point.
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@hungrier You don't even need 3D printing. If there's enough demand, some other company can and generally will set up a proper manufacturing process for those parts and sell them to you for less (unless they're patented). But now you run into the usual trust, safety, reputation and liability issues... and Ferrari will tell everyone that your parts present a grave risk of accident, even if your part only controls the left wiper.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
present a grave risk of accident, even if your part only controls the left wiper
If your steering is on the right side, driving in the rain could be dangerous
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Aren't Ferraris owners likely to have a lot of money (thus not caring about paying a premium for parts) and/or being car collectors (thus wanting to use only original parts)?
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Just because your ovaries are gone doesn't mean you don't get horny and most certainly doesn't mean you can't orgasm.
Either that or she's faking it to get my attention...
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@Tsaukpaetra Talking about your dog again?
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@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Talking about your dog again?
Naturally. Make of that what you will.
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@mott555 said in Random thought of the day:
3D printed parts don't look anywhere near as good as injection-molded parts
That depends on what you're printing with. I've seen some mighty fine things printed in nylon and titanium. (OK, they were different things…)
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Status: Making you look at balls.
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status waiting for this query to return success .. or fail massively ... anyway waiting ...
time to get
:fa_coffee_empty:
this is taking more time then anticipated ...
oh ... oh ... there it is!
I guess that's success then!
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@Luhmann
woops ... should have gone to the status thread ... well what do you do about that ...
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
I made you look at UR ANUS!I have pictures from my colonoscopy. Much more interesting!
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
I guess that's success then!
Run it again. You can't be too sure...
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
pictures from my colonoscopy
Nope thread
You pushed it that direction.
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Swedish children might not know what cash even looks like.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Swedish children might not know what cash even looks like.
Isn't he dead?
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann
woops ... should have gone to the status thread ... well what do you do about that ...Obviously, copy/paste. It's the way of the world now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Swedish children might not know what cash even looks like.
Isn't he dead?
That's my point. Cash is dead, and so they won't know.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
That's my point. Cash is dead, and so they won't know.
Even worse ... they will think he looks like a Phoenix
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The oldest and most well known example of a time travel paradox is killing your own grandfather. In Futurama, after being warned not to create any time travel paradoxes, Fry becomes his own grandfather. Somehow I had never put together that that's a clear reference to it.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
The oldest and most well known example of a time travel paradox is killing your own grandfather. In Futurama, after being warned not to create any time travel paradoxes, Fry becomes his own grandfather. Somehow I had never put together that that's a clear reference to it.
Which he does after first killing the guy he thinks was his grandfather.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Which he does after first killing the guy he thinks was his grandfather.
Which is double the opposite of Oedipus. Did he also sleep with a woman he thought was his grandmother?
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
That's my point. Cash is dead, and so they won't know.
Even worse ... they will think he looks like a Phoenix
They've both been dead long enough to probably look similar, at least to a casual observer.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
That's my point. Cash is dead, and so they won't know.
Even worse ... they will think he looks like a Phoenix
They've both been dead long enough to probably look similar, at least to a casual observer.
You're thinking of his brother, Fjord Cash.
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Courtesy Blakeyrat:
Wouldn't a fully immersive experience from a toilet be a swirlie
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@Tsaukpaetra That isn't necessarily fully immersive. A few percent immersion is sufficient, if it's the right part. In fact, I've never seen a toilet big enough to provide a fully immersive experience (and I hope I never will).
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I wonder how many people would be eligible for platinum trophy on StackOverflow.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Courtesy Blakeyrat:
Wouldn't a fully immersive experience from a toilet be a swirlie
Only $0.99 on Steam!
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Real life radioactive spiders are very easy to make. Just take a spider and let it sit next to some uranium for a few minutes. I wonder if you could sell those to Spiderman fans.
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@anonymous234 Uranium is one of the worst things you could use if actual irradiation is your goal.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 Uranium is one of the worst things you could use if actual irradiation is your goal.
Even neutron activation looks tricky:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=ijns
Also, I cannot believe there is a paper on this...
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 Uranium is one of the worst things you could use if actual irradiation is your goal.
It works pretty well at irradiating its surroundings if you take a few kilograms and stuff it inside some precisely-shaped high explosives with precision detonators. Put your spider cage on top of that and you might be in business.
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@mott555 said in Random thought of the day:
Put your spider cage on top of that and you might be in business if you can find the spider after the explosion.
FTFY
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Just take a spider and let it sit next to some uranium for a few minutes.
Doesn't the comic prescribe a beam?
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@PleegWat You'd have to be pretty careful not to crush the spider with the uranium beam. Probably easier to just put the spider on top of a rock.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
You'd have to be pretty careful not to crush the spider with the uranium beam.
Unless it's an Australian spider eating a pygmy possum
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@TimeBandit If you're doing it in Australia you have to be careful that the spider doesn't grab the uranium beam and start hitting you with it.
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@mott555 said in Random thought of the day:
It works pretty well at irradiating its surroundings if you take a few kilograms and stuff it inside some precisely-shaped high explosives with precision detonators and if it's highly enriched; natural isotopic mix, not so well.
FTFB
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"Public-key cryptography" should be centred around something called a "public lock".
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