Notices by smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social), page 2

Wee bikes oh my heart

Some really amazing seats. I was particularly impressed that the skelly one was $20. But I do not need it.

I absolutely do not need another unicycle. Particularly not a tall one.
Nor do I need a lowrider or oil slick pedals.

All that is amazing and astonishing: a Blacksheep truss fork 36" wheel. James Blacksheep is a genius at titanium welding and this is flawless. absolutely otherworldly. It was a giant among the other bikes.

@ATLeagle Out of curiosity, what makes you like them better than helmet cams?

@futurebird He's building something expensive and flashy to suck up lots of money that would otherwise go to actually effective, real-world public transit. It's infuriating.

@WarnerCrocker I think it's a movement: there is a wu tang forever sign near where I work, with a pretty funky top hatted skeleton behind it

@Gargron also the case with dogs and parrots, at least.

Portland cat statue, one of a series. I like the rose irises.

@WarnerCrocker evil, stupid, and very ambitious.

@Bronwyn I'd talk to BB and ask if it's ok to bring it back without the mass storage card, and then take the card and smash it.

Another swallowtail, but this one has better tail colors.

@adwright I think there is a serious amount of belief and effort to convince people that the outcome of capitalism is God's will, yes.

@botvolution @MLE_online we need so much more of this

@hobs https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/aircraft-ranked-by-ceiling.php
If the balloon was cruising at FL60, there are a whole bunch of aircraft capable of getting there.

@hobs I'm not sure what the plane is, but the Canberra and the U2 were/are both over 70,000 feet cruising altitude. I think one of the big USAF drones can also fly close to that high.

Some cool cloud diffraction from yesterday. I saw two bald eagles on my way into work today but wasn't fast enough for a pic.

I'm trying to test thermal shutdown on an IC: if it gets hot enough, does its thermal regulation work? It has: an ADC measuring die temp via bandgap, a hardware bandgap that cuts function at a specific temperature, and a write register that you can set a value into so when it exceeds that value it shuts down. The important one, the hardware that should cut the power section, is way off. It hasn't tripped at 200C.
So today I talked to a running chip through liquid solder. That's a first.

@lenaschimmel I had a PC that was behaving really sketchy even considering I had a poorly performed gentoo install on it: the keyboard had gone flaky, the monitor was wonky, so I ssh'ed into it sitting right beside it and just after logging in, it locked up and I heard this "tink! tink!" sound. I opened the case and parts had slid off the motherboard. It tried its best...

@MLE_online @realtime any game can be zero sum if you're mad enough.