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

@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.

It's extremely windy outside, and they're forecasting up to 100mph gusts across the whole metro area. After the Marshall Fire in 2021, where several fires, one possibly from a downed powerline, swept through the western suburbs of Denver, driven by 70mph winds, it appears that the power company may be cutting power to some of the area, including where I live. This'll be interesting. Right now it sounds like a jet aircraft is running at idle just over the hill.

If you look at wind records for this area over the last 100 years, getting >80mph winds used to be a once every 25 years event, and only just outside Boulder on one ridge. Now it's something that happens multiple times a year across a much broader area. This is the first time I remember seeing a prediction of gusts over 100mph for the area I live.

@GustavinoBevilacqua I had a coworker who is as unwise as I am, and we'd take off in a 60mph wind day and ride right into it until we were physically unable to continue, and then coast back. I have several local records on a bike tracking website because I averaged just shy of 100 km/h on the way back.

@geekmomprojects I feel like a tendency to explode might be a plus in a fighting robot.

@botvolution @threatresearch @MLE_online Gonna go brew up some fosgene!

I'm eating lunch and in theory she's supposed to clear out of the kitchen when someone's eating. You notice how the back third of her is in another room?

Why do they call it dog agility training not barkour?

@babe duolingo pigeon

This girl has a mouse clamped firmly in her right foot, directly outside the window of my office.

@Swede1952 I just taught a 20-something friend how to drive, from scratch, in a manual transmission car because she thought it would be a better way to learn. (I don't think it's a particularly useful skill anymore but it was fun.)