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Sandeep Mewara19-Sep-20 5:50

Sandeep Mewara

19-Sep-20 5:50

honey the codewitch wrote:
Where I live, the sky looks like murder and the trees tremble in gales you could cut with a knife. The smoke makes all of the weather actively malignant.

Unable to interpret it! D'Oh! | :doh:

honey the codewitch wrote:
look outside my window for inspiration.

Awesome weather? Smile | :)

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DRHuff19-Sep-20 7:06

DRHuff

19-Sep-20 7:06

honey the codewitch wrote:
The smoke

Do you live in Portland or Minneapolis?

Big Grin | :-D

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honey the codewitch19-Sep-20 7:26

19-Sep-20 7:26

heh

near Seattle actually

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BillWoodruff20-Sep-20 10:58

BillWoodruff

20-Sep-20 10:58

for poetic similes ! A good friend of mine near Ashland (Oregon) had her house burned to the ground 2 weeks ago; she was out of town; had no chance to save anything.

I was planning to leave Thailand for Ashland next year ... but, now ?

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honey the codewitch20-Sep-20 11:00

We need bigger 3D printers!

20-Sep-20 11:00

Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that. At least she didn't get hurt. Sigh | :sigh:

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CodeWraith19-Sep-20 2:40

CodeWraith

19-Sep-20 2:40

You guys print a few of these[^], while I design the 120 mm BB gun. Don't forget to print enough ammo. This will be fun.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

Re: We need bigger 3D printers!

Richard Andrew x6419-Sep-20 10:18

Richard Andrew x64

19-Sep-20 10:18

How long do you think it took to print that whole thing?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Re: We need bigger 3D printers!

CodeWraith19-Sep-20 11:00

CodeWraith

19-Sep-20 11:00

More than 1200 hours: BIG 3D PRINTED TANK - THE CHASSIS - YouTube[^]

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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OriginalGriff18-Sep-20 20:05

OriginalGriff

18-Sep-20 20:05

It be Talk Like a Pirate Day today, lubbers, so break out yer grog, screw on yer hook, and run up the skull'n'crossbones - we got merchantmen to board and dubloons to bury!

And where be Bob's Pirate Hat?

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RickZeeland18-Sep-20 20:13

RickZeeland

18-Sep-20 20:13

Off to treasure island then $Shucks | :-\$
But first visit Pirate insult generator[^]

modified 19-Sep-20 2:19am.

OriginalGriff18-Sep-20 20:20

OriginalGriff

18-Sep-20 20:20

XMarks th' spot, matey!

Sandeep Mewara18-Sep-20 23:58

Sandeep Mewara

18-Sep-20 23:58

Aye! R'ya Captain Jack Sparrow?

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Genetic Engineering in the UK

DRHuff19-Sep-20 3:31

DRHuff

19-Sep-20 3:31

Griff. Ye May be made to walk the plank here ya scurvy dog. This place is supposed to be KSS and here ya be makin it ‘ Aaarrrr’! rated!

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W∴ Balboos, GHB18-Sep-20 9:21

W∴ Balboos, GHB

18-Sep-20 9:21

I've heard that in Whales they've done some Eweman experiments !

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Re: Genetic Engineering in the UK

jeron118-Sep-20 11:33

jeron1

18-Sep-20 11:33

That pun was totally lamb!

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Adventures in Overengineering: MIDI 2

honey the codewitch18-Sep-20 8:38

18-Sep-20 8:38

Outside of SGML, and maybe including SGML, MIDI 2's complexity and scope is one of the largest I've seen for what is essentially a wire protocol.

It's so over engineered it's probably unrealistic to implement all of it, and while I'm sure nobody is expected to, I can't imagine writing software that allows you to control even most aspects of it.

Maybe I'm just picky, but I believe things like this should be as simple as they can be and no simpler.

For the 1980s MIDI 1 fit the bill nicely, and is still in use today which speaks to the overall quality of the design. It's easy to implement in hardware and software.

It could stand some improvement, certainly, as it is basically a 7 bit protocol @ 9600 baud (IIRC) max which leaves something to be desired but MIDI 2 is no longer even remotely simple.

I'm really disappointed about that. If I were to write software from what I can tell I'd maybe have to make it work with only a particular instrument or class of instruments instead of being able to interface with just about any MIDI device.

I don't like overengineering. It's one of my peeves, whether it's cars (I'm looking at you, Germans! Laugh | :laugh:

) or software or protocols.

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Gerry Schmitz18-Sep-20 8:50

Gerry Schmitz

18-Sep-20 8:50

I'm not a fan of over-engineering, but after having successfully replaced the left set of switches on the steering column of my "German" car, I'm conflicted.

(This involved pulling the air bag, steering wheel, etc.)

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honey the codewitch18-Sep-20 8:54

18-Sep-20 8:54

Gerry Schmitz wrote:
This involved pulling the air bag, steering wheel, etc.

And you were fine with that? Laugh | :laugh:

Or are you conflicted because having done it you feel some pride in the accomplishment?

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Forogar 18-Sep-20 9:01

Forogar

18-Sep-20 9:01

Apparently the Germans lost WWII because they over-engineered their Tiger tanks. it seems they haven't learned...

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

honey the codewitch18-Sep-20 9:03

18-Sep-20 9:03

They overengineer their mercedes cars, that's for sure. It was a nightmare working on the S-class I used to own.

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dandy7218-Sep-20 9:38

dandy72

18-Sep-20 9:38

I thought given the price Mercedes sells its cars for, it was to ensure you'd never have to work on them yourself.

And if saving money was a goal, how is Mercedes even a contender?

honey the codewitch18-Sep-20 9:43

18-Sep-20 9:43

I didn't work on it myself, but I had to find a mechanic that could fix it in a little town - hard enough as it was, and every part had to be ordered online which made the whole process take longer.

I wasn't trying to save money. I originally bought it to convert it to run on waste vegetable oil (it was a diesel) but I ran into too many problems with the car and got rid of it. It was just too much of a pain to get it worked on.

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dandy7219-Sep-20 2:37

dandy72

19-Sep-20 2:37

honey the codewitch wrote:
I originally bought it to convert it to run on waste vegetable oil

So many questions...but I'll just go with this one:

How much vegetable oil do you go through in a week to make it worth trying to convert a car to run on it?

honey the codewitch19-Sep-20 2:55