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  • KlausK Klaus

    @jon-nyc said in Hey guys:

    @Jolly said in Hey guys:

    Religion and culture have their advantages. πŸ˜›

    So do hotter and younger chicks.

    I'm dying πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚

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    Jolly
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    #16

    @Klaus said in Hey guys:

    @jon-nyc said in Hey guys:

    @Jolly said in Hey guys:

    Religion and culture have their advantages. πŸ˜›

    So do hotter and younger chicks.

    I'm dying πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚

    Yes, we are all born that way.

    β€œCry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". β€” Buck Sexton

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    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

      @Klaus said in Hey guys:

      @jon-nyc said in Hey guys:

      @Jolly said in Hey guys:

      Religion and culture have their advantages. πŸ˜›

      So do hotter and younger chicks.

      I'm dying πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚

      For Christ's sake don't ask Jon to post a picture of his robot contraption.

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      Jolly
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      #17

      @Doctor-Phibes said in Hey guys:

      @Klaus said in Hey guys:

      @jon-nyc said in Hey guys:

      @Jolly said in Hey guys:

      Religion and culture have their advantages. πŸ˜›

      So do hotter and younger chicks.

      I'm dying πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚

      For Christ's sake don't ask Jon to post a picture of his robot contraption.

      Not sure if I would call that a robot...

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      β€œCry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". β€” Buck Sexton

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      • M Moonbat

        Hey @Aqua-Letifer, i'm good dude - hope you are too.

        Hi @Horace, @taiwan_girl πŸ‘‹

        @Klaus yep still exist. Although i'm on my second bloody cold of the last 20 days. Respiratory viruses hate me. I'm moving South again so next time you're in the capital send me a bell.

        Hello again to all.

        I've been periodically checking in on you guys, sometimes to get the American perspective on some political event or other. But haven't really had the urge or time to jump in. Somehow that 2007 comment got me.

        To give you all some kind of update: I got married last year - it was an amazing day. You know people say that the day they got married was the best day of their life, i just thought it was something people said because they were supposed to. I mean in this day an age you live with your partner for freaking ages beforehand, in my social circle marriage has no religious significance, and so.... i don't know, i didn't think it would be a big deal. But it was amazing! It was the best day. I wish i could relive it and spend more time with different sets of people during the day.

        Then... what else I've been an researcher in a big-tech company for the last 6 years working mostly on ML. Jumping from academic life to industry was... interesting. Office politics.... suck. I was totally defenseless to manipulation from self-interested parties. A particular technical lead passed off everything i thought of and did as his own creations and deliberately sabbatoged me because he was scared if higher ups interacted with me it would be clear who was running the actual show. But i eventually figured it out, and gratifyingly he fucked so many people off that he eventually had to leave the company because no one would work with him.

        Right now i'm on sabbatical as i decided in a moment of foolishness to try and help my father digitise his museum collection of 4000 items of fencing history. So for the last 6 months (minus the month i was obligated to spend on honeymoon) i've been building a a robotic digitisation booth where I can hang objects and have them rotate. Then i have a shelf that is able to move up and down via some ballscrews and motors, and then on the shelf there is a camera that is attached to a ring flash on a gimbal that allows the camera and flash to look up/down. So with this setup and the ability to control everything with software i'm building a pipeline that for any object you hang in the centre, the camera will take multiple pictures of the object with varying degrees of cross-polarised light, then the pictures will get fed into some other software that will build 3d assets of the objects. I've just been finishing this beast and will start the initial digitisation process in the next few months before rejoining the world of gainful employment.

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        @Moonbat

        Thanks for the update, great to see you. Congrats on the wedding! Your contraption seems really great.

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          Moonbat
          wrote on last edited by Moonbat
          #19

          Thanks all,

          This is a picture of my gizmo as requested.:PXL_20240912_130553648.jpeg

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            Moonbat
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            #20

            Also since once upon time this was a music forum, when I was figuring out the motor controllers I spent a day in order to do this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y2ltshr9px5px69ahy5mo/PXL_20240702_221257789.TS.mp4?rlkey=cn1vem7aclbo3k7zd5g42zl45&st=w82plzqi&dl=0

            I confess I did find it quite fun.

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            • jon-nycJ Offline
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              jon-nyc
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              #21

              Ha. Nice.

              Only non-witches get due process.

              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                jon-nyc
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                #22

                I’ll bet that’s nicer than Horace’s gizmo, but no where near as nice as Arnold Palmer’s.

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  Mik
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                  #23

                  That's pretty impressive.

                  β€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    Tom-K
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                    #24

                    It is impressive. It looks like it can walk too.

                    Maybe Moon should be President of the United States.

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                      taiwan_girl
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                      #25

                      I agree. Quite impressive.

                      Next, we need a movie of it in action.

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                      • 89th8 Offline
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                        89th
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                        #26

                        That's great! And I chuckled at the video... went on longer than expected. Again... your gizmo, not Palmer's.

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                          taiwan_girl
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                          #27

                          Just realized the video. That was awesome!!!

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                            Horace
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                            #28

                            Such a great song. Good rendition of it.

                            Education is extremely important.

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