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Something janky about the wheels, smells like AI...

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First computer in about '99, which I'd "built" (I was 8, so I mostly just watched while my dad's friend built it and occasionally let me plug some wires in)

First phone, Nokia 3310 in 2003, with a Simpsons case, I think I've got it in a box somewhere...

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Was about to say the same thing - just annoying it's not all available online in the UK

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I've got two - a potato ricer, basically a big garlic press you put a boiled potato in, instant perfect mash.

And one of those spiral apple peeler/corer/slicers, makes cooking anything with apple in so much faster (it's a fiddle to clean though unfortunately)

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The word "asteroid" literally means "star-like", because when they were first observed, no telescope could see enough detail to know what they were, so they were basically just called "those things that look a bit like stars".

Even when eventually we figured out what they were, they were generally considered to all be spherical like tiny planets (see: The Little Prince) until the 1970s when one of the Mars probes flew close enough to have a look at one.

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A person and a human? So if a legal person like a company pisses it still takes the same time, neat

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Is that 25/80% of men will have thinner hair, or 25/80% of a man's hair will thin?

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This is crazy - we also rented an MG Excite in NZ (but on the north island) with exactly the same issues, maybe it was the same car 😆 was yours blue?

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How would you rate your jumper wire neatness compared with his?

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Maybe my little DIY walnut cased ESP32 universal remote
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/765b57f3-93f6-4582-a113-19d4ad0f8a01.jpeg

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Yeah the battery management board is a bit flaky so keeping it charged is a pain! Yeah it's just doing IR for the various living room devices, sound system, TV etc so I didn't have to keep tabs on 4 different remotes

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Thanks! Fraid not, it came together pretty ad hoc as I was building it.

Essentially the process was breadboarding the major components to get them talking and sort out the software, then built the main board to hold everything in position, then built the box to fit around it all

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Its great to hold! Very chunky in the hand. Functionality wise I only gave it the on/off, volume and input selection from the media devices, and then it talks to another esp32 base unit that controls some lighting over WiFi, but as far as actually driving the media controls I shamefully just use the Google Chromecast controls, I'm not savvy enough to set up a FOSS alternative yet

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Saw a working mercury arc rectifier for the first time recently and those things are wild, definitely don't look "right"

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I can't help hearing it in Matt Berry's voice

Hornéd screaMER

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And it'll only take 10^7 years to pay for itself, bargain!

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Weird coincidence - I had a really good Mexican dinner 2 streets away from there last month

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How do hens all know what size an eggcup is?

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Henderson's Relish - it's similar to Worcestershire but hyper local to Sheffield (and it's vegan cos no anchovies) and we're all weirdly proud of it

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Are we including Jack, Sarina, Patrick and Lauren and their do-re-mi ditty in DS9?

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I agree that porridge is a soup, since it's cooked all together. A bowl of cereal's constituent parts can also be eaten independently so I believe that makes it a salad.

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I thought it was style, control, damage and aggression

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Had a little breakdown, quit a job I hated, started a business, got married. It’s been a wild ride

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Just x²+c, but when you’re integrating between limits the +c doesn’t matter - so you’re just left with the difference between 13² and 10²…

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