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The flagship Moulton NS D-Pylon bicycle in polished stainless steel. It's proportioned like a folding bicycle and, rather than the currently fashionable large tubular members, the frame is a complication of small-diameter zig-zagged trusses.
ANYWAY he just baps the shit out of it like a paddle ball Wait wait bigger question What happens if you sound Rayman Does it bottom out or come out the other side or just disappear
When Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Vikings published his autobiography "Carrying the Fire" in 1974, a contemporary Time Magazine quoted the following passage: "Imagine a spacecraft of the future, with a crew of a thousand ladies, off to Alpha Centauri, with two thousand breasts bobbing beautifully and quivering delightfully in response to their every weightless movement ... and I am the commander of the craft, and it is Saturday morning and time for inspection, naturally". The magazine followed this up by (end of excerpt)
The same Beovision as previous pictures. The PCB Fortress is, as it turns out, designed to open like a beautiful butterfly spreading its wings, allowing much easier access to the parts side of each board. The butterfly in this metaphor is also caked in the worst dust you will ever encounter without someone in an NBC suit pointing a rifle at you.
Screenshot of a chain of Discord messages from op: well i was operating the beovision (still not in greggs) and i got annoyed because it's a bastard piece of shit made by danish lunatics for rich freaks so i put it on standby and an hour or two later something went pop in the back and filled the room with smoke
A Retro Remake SuperStation One (a MiSTer-derived FPGA console) sitting on the accessory shelf under the Beovision. It has been there for a few hours and has become quite dusty in that time.
The AC input board from the Beovision shown in the previous post. In the centre of the photo is a grubby translucent cuboid with a yellow label reading "250V-SH". It has visibly exploded on one side, spraying some kind of brown dielectric gunk across nearby components. A small flap of foil hangs out of the exploded side, shorting against a nearby pin connector.
Inside the back of a Bang & Olufsen Beovision LS 5000 CRT television. There is a fortress made of printed circuit boards mounted in frames at various angles, almost all oriented so the components are facing inwards and very difficult to inspect without poking around entirely too close to a bunch of things that might be holding a 30KV charge. It is dusty in there.
crop of the "It was the goose that created value" slide from the above quoted presentation. the text has been edited to replace "goose" with "Jeb!". the goose's posing is reminiscent of jeb bush in that one meme.
partial screenshot of an xfce desktop (signified by the cute mouse wallpaper) on void linux (signified by the "xbps-install" command in the terminal). the active user is "roscoe" and the hostname is "bikestick".
A cartoon mouse (the XFCE mascot) above text in an Impact-like typeface which reads "4.20", the version number of the latest XFCE release. The background is some blurry lime blobs on a dark teal field.
A dog stands in the middle distance at sunrise, silhouetted against a misty golden sea near a wooden pier. A Victorian steel bridge is barely visible in the background through the mist. It isn't obvious, but it's the same gray dog as the previous photographs.
Stock photo of a dog wearing a Maximus PawsUp brace, which uses cords fixed between an ankle cuff and the front of a dog bootie to hold the dog's toes up and help it walk pads-down.
Stock photo of a dog standing on a rug, close-up on the hind legs. The right paw is positioned normally, but the left is curled over, so the dog is standing on its knuckles.
A long fluffy grey dog stretched across a small couch in the belly-down pose commonly called a "sploot" in rabbits. Her chin is resting on the arm of the couch, canting her head back at quite an angle. To read her expression, it doesn't get any better than this.
A medium-sized double-coated dog with a mottled grey and white coat. She is sitting on a snowy hillside overlooking an estuary spanned by a cable-stayed bridge. She is half-rising while looking expectantly at something out of frame.
Screenshot of a tweet from @vonrosceau dated 2014-06-14 12:14 BST: if anyone's been peeking through the tear in my blinds i hope you enjoyed seeing me hamboning to prog rock instead of putting on any clothes
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on dextroamphetamine: The oral bioavailability of amphetamine varies with gastrointestinal pH; it is well absorbed from the gut, and bioavailability is typically 90%. Amphetamine is a weak base with a pKa of 9.9; consequently, when the pH is basic, more of the drug is in its lipid soluble free base form, and more is absorbed through the lipid-rich cell membranes of the gut epithelium. Conversely, an acidic pH means the drug is predominantly in a water-soluble cationic (salt) form, and less is absorbed.
Ray Smuckles, the chubby cat from Achewood, explains with the aid of an abstract diagram the "Isosceles Lock", a technique which enables three dudes to sixty-nine. He says "Invented by the dudes from ABBA, the Isosceles Lock has revolutionized...", but this is the last panel in the strip so imagining what precisely was revolutionized is left as an exercise to the reader.
Screenshot of tweet from @thomas_violence, 2020-07-01 03:31: drinking 5 stouts, posting "I've the beer", getting into my awful Falcon and having one of those car accidents that goes viral because no one can figure out how the car got up there
Stock photo of an Olympus XA 35mm camera (the good one with the rangefinder, not the fixed-focus successors whose existence I consider a personal slight). It's minuscule and a classic of industrial design. The one I decided not to buy also had the A11 flash attachment, not pictured here, which I'm sure is very useful but makes it about 60% less gorgeous / precious / darling.
Series of tweets from @vonrosceau dated 2022-09-11: 12:22 everyone who used a transporter between the 22nd and 27th centuries (when they figured out soul transference) is forced to room with hundreds of progressively later-dying versions of themselves in the afterlife 12:32 this state of affairs persisted until C31, when the Department of Temporal Investigations (under increasing diplomatic pressure from the transcendent manifolds) committed to a project spanning hundreds of subjective millennia to retroactively "bridge" the incomplete transports 15:27 they still sent bones to hell after restoring his continuity, as a bit
a pile of all the shitty consumer grade networking equipment i went through before blanketing the house with extremely cheap slightly out of date Aerohive equipment. pov: I am vehemently flipping the pile off
Object which is supposed to be a helical gear driving a sewing machine shuttle hook but more closely resembles a piece of chewing gum which rolled under the couch
- 500ml can of Evo-Stik 528 polychloroprene contact adhesive - hand and wrist (loosely holding can) - some kind of inquisitive canid
Stack of 3 very exciting binders containing something called "QUEST: ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE". They are printed with cool photos representing the natural sciences.
Mikado (topped with two stripes of marshmallow separated by raspberry jam), Kimberley (marshmallow sandwiched in soft ginger biscuit) and Coconut Cream (topped with one big marshmallow blob) biscuits on a plate. They are all made by Jacob's in Ireland and they are all encrusted with awful desiccated coconut.
Troy McClure with a tattoo of a MiG-21 "Fishbed", in a reference to a gag which ran through The Simpsons S07E19 (aired 29 years ago at time of writing) and does not appear to have been referenced again before the character's retirement due to voice actor Phil Hartman's death in 1998.
Tarot card: 7 of YSPs (Me absolutely twisted coming home with a load of Yamaha Digital Sound Projectors)
i have an exciting new class of problem -> i invent an ASIC for it that massively outperforms general purpose computing -> the ASIC is so good at it everyone starts working out how to transform their problem into my problem -> my problem is now general purpose computing
We should migrate from Vite to Rollup when we can. Reasoning: Vite is heavily slanted towards SPA development in a way that's not ideal for the engine: crucially, its support for multiple entry points is extremely cursory. We need multiple entry points, because we want optimised JS for the core engine and loader stubs. We can supply an array of filenames to the `input` param below, but: - Code which is imported from more than one entry point will be pulled out to a common "chunk" JS file, which the emitted bundles will try to import - not good for embedding. - Rollup (Vite's bundler for production builds) has an option `inlineDynamicImports`, which disables this behaviour - but it can't be used when there are multiple entry points, due to a limitation straddling technical and philosophical ("any piece of code only exists once in the graph", as innumerable GitHub threads where people are begging for this feature will tell you) - Rollup WILL accept an array of configuration objects, each with their own entry point and output, with a minor (for us - build times balloon for larger projects with more than a handful of entry points) performance penalty. - HOWEVER, Vite's opinionated focus means it doesn't accept config arrays in `rollupOptions`.
Screenshot of an Obsidian note. Title: Baby Steps Text: By Bennett Foddy guy (Bennett Foddy). Guy with ass qwops up a mountain (narratively).
Screenshot of an Obsidian note. Title: Baby Steps Text: By Bennett Foddy guy (Bennett Foddy). Guy with ass qwops up a mountain .