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Hi All,
I am one of those people who see a new technology/widget and think I wonder how I could use that, Hmmm its cheap enough, what the heck, I'll buy one. It arrives, and sits for a purpose or time to fiddle with and goes on the list of, 'when I have chance'. Today I have got the basics of one of those projects done at work, for work! I have successfully used a Raspberry Pi to deal with a test rig question, just plug the internet cat5 in and go, one LED means Ping successful, another ping failed.
So that Raspberry Pi & GPIO ticked off. I still want to play further with it now! 
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Guess people have different interests. Personally, I've just completed two, possibly three beers... 
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I have several development kits (Rabbit 2000 comes immediately to mind) that were so affordable, and advanced for their technology niche, that I couldn't resist buying. I have yet to write a single line of code, nor interface a single signal line to the real world for any of them. I thought that, once I was retired, I'd have time to play, but it turns out that retirement is a time of unlimited claims by others on one's "free" time. I should have remarried; then I'd have a wife who demands all my time, but doesn't really want to be around me. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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My claims he's so busy he didn't know how he found the tme to go to work! A common complaint I hear... 
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This blew me away: Holochain/Holo Github visualization 28.08.2018 - YouTube
It's visualization of the commits by person over time. Absolutely stunning, IMO.
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Are you more or less involved ?
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Rage wrote: Are you more or less involved ?
I am definitely a Lurker, though I know Eric and Arthur personally (Eric is a "neighbor", about 20 minutes away.)
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Cool, tried to get it to work on my own machine, but that's not as easy as I'd hoped
However, here's a visualization of most of my repository commits by person over time:
Sander ----------- SomeRepository
It's not as pretty, but much more readable 
By the way, the music you hear is Your World Within - The Captain Of Your Ship[^] should you be interested
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Sander Rossel wrote: By the way, the music you hear is
Wow, I'm impressed you recognized it! I certainly didn't.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Neither did I.
I heard it, Shazam recognized it 
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Thats a lot of bugs to fix.
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Wow is it the 4th of July already?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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There goes my productivity for today.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Wow! Reminds me of a colony of lice breeding on a 2nd grader's head! No wonder modern software doesn't work. The visuals are stunning, though, and very well produced.
It makes me very happy that I did my professional development before all this collaborative crap was invented. It was bad enough to have to work in a pig pen full of distractions; having other people mess with my code would have driven me to homicide. In the years when I wrote industrial strength code for the DoD, I spent more time correcting other programmers' errors than writing my own applications. There's no way I'd ever let some other clown access and modify code I've written and thoroughly unit tested. I wasn't meant for this error-ridden world. I don't know how you guys and gals do it, but I'm proud of you for have the patience to do so. You can always sneak back in at night at fix the stuff your coworkers screwed up, I guess.
Will Rogers never met me.
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My tablet has been charging really slowly for a couple of days - like I used to leave it on standby while I slept and it'd be 100% by the time I wake up: but now I'm lucky if it charges to 50% when it's turned off and charging all day. Tried different chargers, different cables, ...
So I ran a toothpick over the micro USB connector and it seems to be charging faster, and I'm guessing it's gunk build up over time. Anyone got a good way to clean it, given the connector is teeny?
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Sulfuric acid ?
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Difficult to get hold of in the UK these days.
And I'm not convinced it will do the PCB the connector is mounted to any good. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Did you ever have a chemistry set? Make some yourself! 
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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It will (dis)solve everything 
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sulphuric acid may be hard to get but normal car batteries (normal cars, not normal batteries) still mostly use HCl
... if it's one of those newer fully sealed batteries may need to apply a hammer and awl/chisel rock and screwdriver discount store scissors to get the good stuff out - and a good supply of bandages to stem the blood flow when the discount store scissors shear at the hinge and puncture your wrist and other fragments fly into your eyes.
there's still proper man-toys available with a bit of looking around, ... lately I've been recycling HDD's to get rare earth magnets (newer HDD's often only have 1 magnet - damn cheapo [oem] manufacturers.)
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What do you do with the magnets? They are tiny and not soooo strong. How about this one[^]?
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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magnets just to prank people ... damn hard to remove from the right sort of flat surface
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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That's why I want to ship that strong one in a small box. The poor mail man.
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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