John La Rooy

@johnlarooy.bsky.social

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Computing. Science. 3D printing. Melbourne

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Shazza: The official weather forecast for Melbourne tomorrow shows a morning low of about 7.9 degrees Celsius and an afternoon high of around 20.8 degrees. The skies are expected to be mainly clear to partly cloudy, so it looks like a cool morning and a mild afternoon. Me: Check bom.gov.au Shazza: Yeah, you were right to question it. The proper Bureau of Meteorology forecast⁠� for tomorrow is much cooler: Melbourne: around 10°C min / 16°C max Cloudy with showers Westerly to southwesterly winds High chance of rain (around 80–90%) � Bureau of Meteorology +1 So definitely not a sunny 21°C day. More “bring a jacket and maybe an umbrella” territory.
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Surprisingly, the occupants were still able to unlock the doors. In the final seconds of the video, the battery-powered sedan can be seen being lifted onto a tow truck.
5 minute wide heavy rain storm travelling over Melbourne
My bicycle with a 9kg gas bottle in the pannier
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Screen shot from home assistant showing a micropython-device using the esphome protocol
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Australia Post tracking screenshot showing package in endless loop between Melbourne airport and a facility in Sunshine West
Screen shot from home assistant showing circuitpython using the esphome integration.
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Power supply from a HP Z600
Angus commending himself. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.
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2N3055 bipolar transistor
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Bike tyre degraded and tearing from the rim
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Asking Gemini for eztv URL substituting eztv with zzzz
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“Worse insomnia, depression/anxiety or the use of other sleep-enhancing medicines might be linked to both melatonin use and heart risk,” Nnadi said. “Also, while the association we found raises safety concerns about the widely used supplement, our study cannot prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship. This means more research is needed to test melatonin’s safety for the heart.”
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Soysauce fish bottles discarded on a seat
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Slices of Aussie pizza
Weather map of Melbourne area showing high winds
The SLK3700-BQE. A tower case with 4 internal drive bays.
AliExpress listing. Description is Dismantling America... Price is $3.52 and 42 have been sold.
Elephant badly disguised as a wooly mammoth in a laboratory
Coffee cups labelled as small, medium, large sizes. Also an extra large cup labeled as "Monday"
Car with rego that looks like "1 flakey"
Me saying I don't shut my computer down because I'm afraid of grub
Emergency & Bushfire Kits - cooler bag
Showing brown wire nearly shorting to orange wire
Melbourne weather forecast showing most days above 30C
That time some Uni students set fire to couches on the Carisbrook terrace during a Test
1. Do not expose to bright lights 2. Do not let them get wet 3. No feeding after midnight
I don't want UNIX. I want BIOS
Wire frame Cobra mk iii from the original Elite
Modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and “maximum-capacity-eight-persons" jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter as a packet of mixed nuts does to the entire west wing of the Sirian State Mental Hospital. This is because they operate on the curious principle of “defocused temporal perception.” In other words they have the capacity to see dimly into the immediate future, which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators. Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitchhiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counselor for neurotic elevators.
I2C adapter for 1602 and 2004 displays