GOTSpectrum

Do you have the fluffiest cat on the planet?

CAT!

On 4/21/2024 at 11:06 AM, GOTSpectrum said:

She's so pretty

Plotting... plotting... plotting...

Any particular reason that ship in particular?

My interest in WW2 era warships started since playing Azur Lane. Only visited HMS Belfast so far but will try for more when the chance presents itself.

1 hour ago, porina said:

Any particular reason that ship in particular?

 

My interest in WW2 era warships started since playing Azur Lane. Only visited HMS Belfast so far but will try for more when the chance presents itself.

I just love the fact that it's the least battleship to be commissioned by the US and the fact she's been reactivated and modernized.

2 hours ago, Senzelian said:

To this day I have no idea how they managed to do this.

Lots of bigger companies work their warehouses late into the night. If you catch the right courier pickup within their distribution network it can happen. I've had several <12h non-local deliveries before from similar.

Best delivery speed (distance/time) I had was ordering from UK late on a Friday night to a west coast USA company. It arrived Monday 9am. Must have got just the right flights.

3 hours ago, Senzelian said:

To this day I have no idea how they managed to do this.

sounds like driving overnight would be it, some drivers drive during the night

6 hours ago, Senzelian said:

I once ordered a PSU from Mindfactory at around 20:00. Their distribution center is in Wilhelmshaven, which is one of the most northern cities in Germany. I on the other hand live near Karlsruhe, which is about 600km away relatively close to the French border. It arrived the next day with DHL at around noon. To this day I have no idea how they managed to do this.

 

Change UPS sign with DHL, and black car color with yellow.

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

Interesting, so she just shakes a bucket of RAM and they come to her? 

That's how I imagine it.

Btw, I do imagine da na has the same giggly happy tone when inspecting the HW though, just like the vid you linked.

edit: I probably need to hide now, you know... before da na throws a 23kg laptop aimed at my cranium.

2 hours ago, Poinkachu said:

Btw, I do imagine da na has the same giggly happy tone when inspecting the HW though, just like the vid you linked.

Oh you're totally right about that

2 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Interesting, so she just shakes a bucket of RAM and they come to her? 

That's just how it happens. Every morning I set out a plate of fruit for the crows and a plate of jumper caps, CMOS batteries, and solder balls for the computers.

Wording?

Yo it's the Lego Island guy.

7 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

240 pennis

Somehow I read penis.

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

See I'm the opposite, I like to see the infrastructure for what it is 

Wind farms are the worst offender IMO

Hey wanna travel to the Windows XP background IRL? Too fuckin bad mate, it's full of big poles

Wanna see the gorgeous coastline in Western Australia? Well, it's already teeming with fans.

Mountain? Sure, put em there too, who gives a damn

I hate to cite Grand Theft Auto V as a source in my argument but... they really did a great job of satirizing wind farms

I'm not anti-clean energy by any means. I just wish there was a way to make these a little less ugly

3 minutes ago, da na said:

Wind farms are the worst offender IMO

 

Honestly, I have found wind turbines beautiful since I was a wee kid 

3 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Honestly, I have found wind turbines beautiful since I was a wee kid 

I'm right, you're wrong, clearly you know nothing here.

/s

This goes along with it.

Alright, I'll join in. I taught high school physics for 10 years and during my first year, they had just "renovated" my classroom. They put in a bunch of computers and caged off the lathe, drill press, and whatnot but put just a bunch of random stuff in there too. Included in that list was a glass Hoffman electrolysis apparatus and a bunch of 12V lantern batteries. You shouldn't leave stuff like that just lying around for me to find.

Not that it had anything to do with what I was teaching at the time (kinematics or something, but I decided to hook up two of the batteries in series and ran it for a while. It produced quite a few bubbles and filled up the hydrogen side pretty quickly. I then showed my class what happens when you put a burning splint at each of the two valves (O₂, H₂). They thought the 12" tall flame on the hydrogen side was pretty impressive.

What I DIDN'T show them was when I hooked up eight batteries in series (96V DC) during my off period, switched the polarities halfway through the process (producing O2 and H2 in the same container), and then held the splint to the valve and opened it. Luckily the electrodes were attached to rubber stoppers because they absolutely blew out the bottom like a gunshot rather than the glass exploding into my face. There was water all over the batteries (but didn't short them out somehow) and the aluminum electrodes that had been in the glass chambers had completely vaporized.

When I told my students the story, they asked why I hadn't waited for their class period to do that 

I have seen a 50ft 4/0 cable make a 60hz sine wave...

Don't cross phases kiddies.

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