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00:00:31 <Halcyon> And because I don't have a sweet tooth, I'm wide awake.
00:03:31 <K> read that as Chocolate Molesters and had to read it again
00:03:45 * Halcyon coffees K
00:03:50 <K> yeah
00:05:38 <Halcyon> How are things in your part of the world K?
00:14:39 <K> kinda calm
00:15:13 <Ampera> this library I am using at work has one of the most insane error handlers I've ever seen
00:15:33 <K> wat it do
00:15:38 <Ampera> if an unhandled rejection happens (I think while loading), it will simply dump its entire minified source code to stderr.
00:15:52 <Ampera> and this is OpenCV.js, a wasm implementation of OpenCV.
00:15:57 <K> bhaha
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00:35:49 <Ohrly> https://something.fromnothing.blog/posts/accidental-antennas/ I came across this blog post while browsing hackaday.com.. Anyone else seen this? Doesn't look like antennas but just dummy loads to my eye and not antennas
00:35:50 <EEVBot> [url] Accidental antennas - something from nothing | something.fromnothing.blog
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04:18:58 <Nothing\> welly welly well
04:19:03 <Nothing\> guess who's on the spectrum
04:19:39 <Nothing\> lol i had 2 different doctors diagnose me completely independently, one unprompted, within a week of eachother
04:20:11 <Nothing\> i suddenly realized "hey, this isn't how everyone else experiences the world" and began thinking more about it, so I asked my shrink and he confirmed it
04:20:49 <Nothing\> then i mentioned it to my methadone doctor and he told me he had a note to the effect of "autistic?" in my file that he was going to talk to me about once he could sus it out more
04:21:07 <Nothing\> and you know what? It fits like a damn glove
04:21:22 <rc-garage> do you think anyone experience the world in the same way?
04:21:38 <Nothing\> every other diagnosis i've had has explained some things but hasn't really felt like it fit right. But this explains SO MUCH it's overwhelming almost
04:21:45 <Nothing\> rc-garage, absolutely not
04:21:50 <Nothing\> rc-garage, i'm colorblind
04:22:04 <rc-garage> wife says I am. but...
04:22:19 <Kuschelpony> nothing, i had already said thislong ago
04:22:21 <Nothing\> which is funny because i remember as a kid wondering if someone else's "blue" might look like green looks to me, but it's still blue, objectively
04:22:34 <Nothing\> or just wondering if other people see colors differently
04:23:01 <Nothing\> then i was found to be partially red/green colorblind at 14, so it turned out that no, I did not see colors the same as everyone else
04:23:06 <Nothing\> lol
04:23:11 <Nothing\> heya Kuschelpony
04:23:21 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, had you? I don't recall
04:23:31 <Nothing\> i have memory issues though, so don't take it personally
04:23:59 <Kuschelpony> somewhen two years ago, cant say well myself, when we started our first longer conversations here it was quite clear for me
04:24:10 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, that doesn't surprise me
04:24:21 <Nothing\> i've always considered it, at least for 15 years
04:24:36 <Nothing\> but i figured "oh i've always had friends and been social so that can't be"
04:24:48 <Nothing\> meanwhile literally every friend for the last 20 years has been online
04:25:10 <Nothing\> and atm i don't even have any close friends
04:26:01 <Nothing\> my irc friends back in the day were all part of a close community. We were all on a first name basis, we dated one another, we fought, we had channel/server meet-ups because everyone was american
04:26:46 <Nothing\> hell, i've known some of them since 1998
04:27:29 <Nothing\> i was just reminiscing about my one friend, Dennis, who was one of the first people wanted by the FBI for cybercrimes
04:27:38 <Nothing\> back in 2000
04:28:01 <Nothing\> smurfed yahoo, and defaced sites like DARE, and RSA Security.
04:28:34 <rc-garage> always knew you were artistic, lol
04:28:46 <Nothing\> rc-garage, lol i was doing that last night in a british accent
04:28:57 <Nothing\> "he's a very autistic artist"
04:29:16 <Nothing\> actually the irony is that i don't get art
04:29:30 <Nothing\> i take it way too literally and have no sense of subtlety when I make my own
04:30:08 <Nothing\> i even remember as a kid listening to the beach boys song "kokomo" and there's a bit where they sing "we'll go out to sea and perfect our chemistry"
04:30:34 <Nothing\> and here as a kid, I'm imagining them on a boat in lab coats doing chemistry experiments in this little lab under the deck
04:30:41 <rc-garage> the waves helps mix stuff
04:30:49 <Nothing\> haha i imagine they would
04:31:00 <Nothing\> i'd love to get a magnetic stirrer just for stuff like coffee
04:31:18 <rc-garage> yep. I also want one, for absolutely no reason
04:31:26 <Nothing\> i'm surprised nobody ever tried to market it commercially
04:31:49 <rc-garage> probably because people would choke on the stirring thing
04:32:00 <Kuschelpony> i have barely friends left, because i do not make so much online contacts to people i cant meet RL, and the people who i could have met RL have almost all disappeared; disconnected whatever
04:32:00 <Nothing\> they definitely would
04:32:19 <Nothing\> dude, there was a bloody warning on a pack of D Cell batteries I saw once saying not to swallow them
04:32:38 <Nothing\> which makes me wonder how the hell many people have actually somehow managed to swallow a D cell
04:32:58 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, it's hard to make friends once you're past 25-30
04:33:33 <Nothing\> all of my friends moved on, got married, started families and are focused on that. Or I've just lost contact over the years, as you do. Even with family members
04:33:34 <rc-garage> in the internet stores, you can get stickers, saying things like "only for rectal use" I saw one of those on a submarine battery...which was interesting
04:33:47 <Nothing\> literally the only person in my life is my mother, that's it
04:34:34 <Nothing\> and it's been that way for about 5-10 years. Plus I spent 10 years living in a city where I didn't know a single person, so I lived completely reclusively.
04:34:56 <Nothing\> Not that i'm not a recluse now. I literally spend maybe 1 or 2 hours away from the house PER MONTH
04:35:04 <Nothing\> mostly out of fear
04:35:10 <Nothing\> fear anxiety, w/e
04:35:43 <Nothing\> my house is my comfy bubble, specifically my chair here in front of the TV. Which I realize could even be an autistic thing regarding predictability
04:36:02 <Nothing\> i become really distressed when I'm away from it. Even just to go to the bathroom.
04:36:18 <Nothing\> rc-garage, that's awesome. I never thought of that.
04:36:40 <Nothing\> I've seen rolls of those holographic "CE" stickers sold on aliexpress lol
04:36:54 <rc-garage> yep, all kinds of stuff there
04:37:06 <Nothing\> that's where I bought 99% of my electronics
04:37:28 * Ampera hugs Nothing\
04:37:35 <Nothing\> almost all of my ICs came from aliexpress. And besides some LM35 temperature sensors that wound up being transistors, I've had pretty good luck
04:37:57 <Kuschelpony> same here, most friends have found their relationship and disappeared, im almost 50 now
04:37:59 <Nothing\> i mean, a lot of them are counterfeit, 100%. But, they work just the same. And near as I can tell, any parameters I could measure were in spec
04:38:06 * Nothing\ hugs Ampera #<#..3
04:38:29 <Nothing\> howsit?
04:38:47 <Nothing\> Kuschelpony, I'll be 41 on Friday
04:38:54 <Ampera> bad heartburn, antacid in car, am at work, don't feel like walking to my car in the rain for it
04:39:53 <Nothing\> Ampera, yeah i used to get by eating tums when i got heartburn, or i'd even take like 1/3tsp of baking soda and belch out a buncha CO2. So satisfying
04:40:23 <Nothing\> I just take one of thoes daily heart burn meds now, a proton pump inhibitor
04:40:33 <Ampera> I take lansoprazole (a PPI), and it sometimes works
04:41:27 <Nothing\> man
04:41:38 <Nothing\> i realized more than 50% of my caloric intake is ice cream bars
04:47:20 <Ampera> how are you doing Nothing\
04:48:19 <rc-garage> pooping cream
05:18:17 * arch gives rc-garage some hemorrhoid cream
05:45:10 * K gives rc-garage some cram
05:45:57 <rust_collector> mmm yummy
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06:59:03 <MrMobodies> https://vintage3d.org/i752.php
06:59:04 <EEVBot> [url] Intel i752 review | vintage3d.org
06:59:37 <MrMobodies> This bit "Maybe the cancellation had something to do with 3Dfx, ATi, and Nvidia suing Real3D."
07:00:04 <MrMobodies> "Intel cut its ties with Real3D and later Lockheed Martin pulled the plug. Intellectual property was sold to 3Dfx."
07:00:45 <MrMobodies> So they sold it to 3DFX and 3DFX sued Nvidia before they themselves became bankrupt.
07:06:23 <MrMobodies> "Texture mapping was beefed up to support multi-texturing,"
07:06:57 <MrMobodies> https://www.gamespot.com/articles/3dfx-sues-nvidia/1100-2464241/
07:06:57 <EEVBot> [url] Just a moment... | www.gamespot.com
07:06:58 <MrMobodies> 3Dfx Interactive announced that it has filed suit against nVidia Corporation for alleged patent infringements on 3Dfx's patented multitexturing technology
07:07:30 <MrMobodies> Interesesting bit of history.
07:09:54 <MrMobodies> So that's how Intel mitigates the problem, sell it to someone else and let them deal with it.
07:11:40 <MrMobodies> These graphics card makers seem to be suing each other in circles.
07:12:09 <K> heh i still have my celeron box with voodoo3 in it
07:17:02 <K> somewhere.
07:22:00 <MrMobodies> I have a box somewhere with a Voodoo 3 2000, a Vooodoo 5 5000 and lots of other stuff.
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07:26:36 <MrMobodies> So SGI and S3 tried to sue Nvidia. Quite a LOT OF THEM tries to sue Intel over it's I740, Intel then sells their patents to one of the bullies, 3Dfx. Then 3dfx sues Nvidia 'YOU COPIED ME' from buying the patents in question.
07:27:13 <MrMobodies> Boils down to three pigeons in the garden, going round in a circle pecking each other from behind over food.
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07:28:07 <MrMobodies> it sounds to me just like little children bickering in a school playground.
07:28:46 <MrMobodies> also sounds comical to me as well.
07:37:30 * arch sticks some needles in a voodoo doll of K
07:37:40 <arch> ARE YOU FEELING IT NOW MR KRABS!
07:38:02 <K> oohh 5000
07:38:14 <K> those were quite rare iirc
07:42:11 <rust_collector> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWW4RagzYM4
07:42:12 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Voodoo | 5m 1s | Channel: Body Count - Topic | 331,617 views | 2015-05-26 - 13:17:53 UTC
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09:03:04 <MrMobodies> I got that in Novemeber 2001. Imported from some place called Tiger Direct.
09:03:36 <MrMobodies> I also found one down a bootsale in 2014 for £3 but not sure if it works
09:04:45 <MrMobodies> These things are in a box, I have no interest at the moment and may never but one day I'll be dead and they'd likely to be dumped in some tip.
09:05:09 <MrMobodies> so if you want them for playing around with you are welcome to take them
09:05:54 <MrMobodies> better you lot use it and have soe fun than it perishing
09:06:28 <MrMobodies> than those who have no clue or the things they need to operate them
09:07:50 <MrMobodies> Maybe Steve30 would like to look at them, he doesn't seem to live far away from me. He could test them and ship them to who wants them.
09:09:10 <MrMobodies> but I don't think they're worth the money they are selling on Ebay unless they are shrinked wrapped and opened in a box since they left the factory in terms of collectors items.
09:10:31 <MrMobodies> aaah Steve30 isn't here
09:12:05 <MrMobodies> Steve30 has a youtube channel and good at filming so he could make videos out of the stuff that works.
09:12:30 <MrMobodies> and maybe pass them onto whoever if they pay for the delivery.
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09:33:40 <MrMobodies> Not looking forward to copying these fliers things for a Church down the corner.
09:34:24 <MrMobodies> I have a few templates that were easy, the next one was done in some Adobe package and was able to convert it in word but have to respositon and scale the elements.
10:07:06 <arch> Halcyon, https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1rlmyp5/petah/
11:08:11 <Halcyon> Hahahah oh dear
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