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@eevblog And we should also drive in the MIddle of the road!

I've been looking at cars on the road. Why are there no visually asymmetrically designed cars? Apart from functional reasons (exhaust port, side opening tailgate, number plate etc) all visual design elements are symmetrical. Yeah, yeah, I know, humans like symmetry, asymmetry is branded ugly. But why so few examples of it and so many companies unwilling to rock the design boat? Are us humans that wired to symmetry that it's impossible for an asymmetrical design to be successful? Only major production example I can think of is the Nissan Cube, and they only did it because it's part of the functionality of the side opening tailgate.

@nostalnerd And the Raspberry Pi Pico is over 3 orders of magnitude faster and integer operations.

Ladies and gentlemen, The IBM System/360. Launched in 1964; The first family of computers designed for both commercial and scientific applications.

@penkiunas_m @Moonpans They were all in the monolith. "It's full of stars"

@Moonpans Why are there no stars, just asking

Apollo 16 Lunar Rover Onboard Footage HD Longer version in comments This spectacular footage was filmed by Charlie Duke on board the Apollo 16 Lunar Rover using the 16mm DAC Film Camera. It shows the drive piloted by John Young from Station 11 to Station 13. The footage has been upscaled, interpolated to 60FPS and synchronised to mission audio by Moonpans Original footage source : Apollo Flight Journal

@UAVHive Did you tell him... you're a "drone expert" ???

An aggressive ignoramus has blocked me as he couldn't handle a musical reply. Such a shame as music is good for the soul.

@eevblog @geerlingguy Na bro... "inspired by" :-P

What an arsehole. Direct ripoff of @geerlingguy 's thumbnail.

Because we virtually give away an entire hydro-dam's worth of power to Rio Tinto for their aluminium smelter. A huge multinational has its profits subsidised by people who can barely afford their own power newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-ho…

@ValKneitinger @0hour1 @grok Same here... I'm going back to ICQ

@0hour1 @grok The ability to ask Grok or edit my posts is still not enough of an incentive for me to pay to be here.

Hey @grok is this true?

@readswithravi Enid Blyton!

Have you ever read a book by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written?

@wirbel_flak @pshs04 I'm actually looking at dusting off the covers and creating a new prototype. The perfect power-plant for rapid interceptors that can be used against attack drones. I better hurry, I'm 73 and my clock is ticking. Still have to pay the bills though so time is limited.

@xjet @pshs04 Dare I ask, are any X-Jets still for sale? Sincerely interested since there seems to be high potential for demand in the market at scale.

SEG magnetics already has a working model of a free energy device and they lack funding. It fits in a breakfast table. It doesn't take billions of funding or dollars. They've had it for nearly a decade, if not more. They allow visits to see it in person, so people can see it and check if they are lying or not. They are based in California. The company was originally founded by John Searl. They have been ignored. segmagnetics.com Current president: @TheRealVerbz

@davepl1968 Hmmm... memories of hand-coding assembler to hex-codes, with pencil and paper in one hand, CPU instruction manual in the other. That's when you had to be a real man to program a computer!

If you used a compiler, you did not, in fact, "personally build" it. Heck, if you used an assembler, you're benefiting from the labor of the assembler author. Get busy flipping switches!

I'll wait for the sub250g version thanks... youtube.com/watch?v=7pM6EG…

I see that access to read "askGrok" replies is now restricted to paid users of X. That's probably meant to be an incentive to subscribe. Well think again, it makes me reconsider the use of the platform at all. @elonmusk

@camrrowe Didn't I warn about the risk of home-made suicide drones/LCCMs quarter of a century ago? aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.sh…

@camrrowe Hahaha... you sir, must be a drone "expert". Why do all these know-nothings get the same ration of air as normal people?

@tommoor I'm still looking for the "no shorts" option when filtering search results. It seems to be missing. Same with the "No AI" filter. All missing in action. YouTube believes that it knows better than you when it comes to the stuff you want to see.

Could someone at YouTube confirm that this button does absolutely nothing at all

@defnotchiefYTA As a YT creator of almost 20 years I refuse to use mid-roll ads in my videos. Prerolls - yes. Postrolls - yes. However, I value my viewers too much to burden them with the evil that is midroll ads. What a shame more creators can't also show some respect for their viewers.

YouTube is straight up robbing and don't even try to hide it 😂 Monetized ~7 channels last week, activated ads, mid-rolls, everything set up properly as always. Week later I notice ALL 7 channels YouTube "forgot" to activate mid-rolls on the viral video of EACH channel. So, always activate mid-rolls 2 to 3 times per video. Select all videos and reactivate just to be 100% sure it actually saved. (And check your viral video lol) Trust nothing, verify everything.💀

I wonder if all this age-gating on the internet is simply a cunning ploy by VPN companies to boost their own profits :-) Gold, silver, oil, DRAM and VPN stocks -- all headed to the moon!

@Wild_Aussie No, it recognises everyone... just seems to lock on to basic facial features.

@xjet Could you turn that facial recognition into a device such as unlocking the front door or other secure things?

I just bought a cheap (US$10) face-tracking camera mount. How on earth do they make this stuff that cheap? I teardown is coming. Could I use the tracker tech to make a cheap drone with follow-me capabilities I wonder?

@UAVHive Nothing to see here:

Cough, cough, commonwealth tech inside...