Test Equipment Anonymous

Not sure when they switched (ho ho), but my house electrics haven't been touched since the late 80s.

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094475/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai-definitive-guide/ An interesting article about AI and GOFAI. The article doesn't have any position to push, simply notes the puff and doomsaying but doesn't fall for either. The overall tenor is more "this is...

Pretty sure your dad could count the fuses left in the box, just like my grand-dad did. He probably decided to just let it slide. ;) mnem Thank Ifni for circuit-breakers... :mrgreen: That long ago it would have been merely a piece of wire like this http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/9hW5JjIlnuQ/maxresdefault.j...

The for real, never forget it smell, comes from a dying selenium rectifier. The fact is the chemistry of selenium was held up for many years because the compounds were so unbelievably smelly. Tellurium was even worse. How about thioacetone? https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-w...

If the the cover is off, a bit of hum wouldn't surprise me.

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 5:15 pm Fucking keyboard nerds...

Just get an Olivetti 82 and type all your shit on that!

Back to thump-typing plus key jams? No thanks!

Even the ASR33 doesn't have key jams.

Yeah, glare like that is one of the obvious clues that a keycap isn't double-shot (an overmolding process, see below); The glare is solely a function of the LED brightness (easy to solve) and my eyes/glasses (less easy) or for the camera the contrast (probably solvable if auto exposure wasn't used)...

I understand many keyboard manufacturers use Cherry keys, but this keyboard is branded Cherry.

If they are painted, it is very opaque paint; none of the light (currently) leaks through. There are 10 intensities; I normally have it on 3; 10 is sufficiently bright to cause glare.

I lament the day my HP keyboard finally died when I spilled a glass of red wine over it, and found it had caused all sorts of corrosion which couldn't be fixed. Yeah :( One unimportant keycap is missing on mine, and others fall off if I tip it upside down.You can (allegedly) still get keyboards wit...

My new (i.e. ~2yo) Cherry MX keyboard is irritating me. On of the keys started rocking a bit, then more, then this. IMG_8566.JPG Now I realise I started thump-typing on an ASR33, but I graduated to touch-typing on decent IBM keyboards in the 80s. Now, do I use methylene chloride, isocynate glue, epo...

I see a "Chartwell Ct" with Flowers Close. Since that building is the old Dollis Hill GPO Research Station, it seems to tie together. It's known as the Flowers Estate informally. I suspect many people don't know what the capitalised F represents. There was an informal flowers estate betwe...

mnementh wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:06 pm ...today's phones are smarter than more than half the population who uses them...

That's effect and cause.

I see a "Chartwell Ct" with Flowers Close. Since that building is the old Dollis Hill GPO Research Station, it seems to tie together.

Article headline: "Low-leakage tantalum capacitors for detonating explosives"

To everybody here that headline to an article states the blindingly obvious.

The only surprise is that it hasn't been suggested before :-DD

Even after reading the article, I like the concept

I actually went to TNMOC and saw that first hand back in 2019. Doesn't seem like that long ago but it's half a decade already. Very impressive bit of equipment that and on the day it was actually operational. Certainly agree with the recognition of Tommy Flowers On that, one of his... Screenshot 20...

bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:02 pm Mine demonstrated by the eldest who was doing an impression of a sandworm from Dune at the time

I've been like that in a ridge tent in Iceland

vk6zgo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:29 am That's what we call a "lazy" wind in Oz.
It doesn't bother going round you, it goes right through you.

That's a typically blunt and evocative Aussie concept. I like it

@bd139 I bet it was bloody cold in that van at night, it doesn't seem to have any insulation anywhere. Neither do tents; that's what sleeping bags are for. The van ought to be capable of keeping a howling gale out better than a tent. I remember camping with my daughter in a howling gale at a cliff ...

Ditto in my PM3400. The brightness fell over 15 minutes, eventually becoming unusable.

Yes looked it up. That's a bit sad but that's change for you. Added it to the list of things to go and see when I have F-road capability. Character building is spending two weeks in a tent in Central Asia then two weeks in a van in Iceland with a psychotherapist. Neither a gale or impending armaged...

There's a small cute one on the way in from the car park though :) That just says "Little Geysir", so not really a warning sign per se. Here's another place without railings. (Again, half a stereo picture, so that is an "eyeball-accurate" representation) It fell down in the wint...

Impressive photos. A lot has changed! I had to stick these ones in imgur because they broke the forum. Your first photo reshot in 2023 :). Now with railings of course. Not very high wire ones! (I too had problems, until I enabled cookies) And a tarmac path. Looks like there might have been a erosio...

I wouldn't want to drive anywhere interesting in Iceland: too dangerous. Well, it was in '84 and '90, but they appear to have sanitised the place somewhat since then - safety barriers by large drops FFS. Dangerous: being in a large 4WD coach, fording a river to get to the Þórsmörk campsite, and bei...

I'd forgotten you'd been to Iceland. Azores sounds different and IIRC there are some interesting features. Are there any opportunities for impromptu island hopping? I certainly enjoy that in the Adriatic and Cyclades. I'd watch out for the humidity (and "wet bulb" temperature), and how mu...