Had a LAN (10BASE2 iirc, maybe 10BASE-T) party with friends that evening. Good times.

One friend showed off his graphics card that came with a special edition of magic carpet and 3d glasses.

I’ve done it a lot to add

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

Bend it straight, then measure

At least none of the people I personally knew played it wanted to play it. Might be due to the marking though. I really enjoyed it, it played like GTA with fighting mechanics similar to Batman Arkham Asylum etc and I also thought the story was pretty neat

Are cats weak? I’m always impressed by their abilities. They sleep all day and only do like 5 minutes high intensity training a day max.

Sleeping Dogs

I understand. However, I’ve had very similar experiences with industrial cameras and sensors in a research setup.

Taking snapshots was ok, once you had setup everything (it only worked with GigE Network cards supporting jumbo packets and some other specific settings) and used their “acquisition” software (which could be automated). However, triggering multiple cameras at once at the exact same time was a similar experiences with additional trigger lines and multiple discussions with the manufacturers application engineers.

Even worse where non standard sensors line photosynthesis sensors or other industrial sensors used in a non standard setup. For the lidar I also had to read their hundreds of pages long documentation of their serial interface but send it via TCP in special packets which had almost no documentation. Depending on the command the byte order also had to be swapped which was not documented at all and I had to find it by trial and error.

For a different laser sensor that produces point clouds there was a simple interface to get preprocessed images but we wanted the raw point cloud data which also required to download the files from an on-device FTP server which also required so some guess work.

Later I worked in industrial settings with PLCs and these guys sometimes also go overboard with complex setups (I’m looking at you, Siemens RFID reader…)

So I’m not sure if it’s the military grade that makes it such an experience. Industrial grade seems like a similar experience. I guess a lot of consumer devices also do shit like that under the hood but hide it in firmware and drivers.

Is called progressive muscle relaxation

I once made one for a friend’s birthday. The present was inside and she had to smash it open to get it

A tasty looking muffin made of cement and painted

Little bags of powdered sugar?

Oh, 😱

Pescetarian

I believe you but can you explain why?

Just searched for some of his works, I totally agree. The colors, style and themes match.

Beautiful image

Sorry for my reaction, I wasn’t thinking right.

It’s very specific (not parents losing children), repeated twice (green and white text). I’m a father of a daughter. The thought of something happening to her made me not think right and write it.

Yeah but the green text said something like: “There is no better food in the world than pancakes”

It was super specific - twice (green text and white text). Why not “a parent losing their child”?

You are right to call me out but as a father of a daughter I felt a bit attacked and just thinking about the combination of her and suicide made me not think right. I’m sorry.