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sports posted:ahh yes, lockjaw and laxatives... the great creature comforts of pre-apocalypse arkansas nah we'll be posted up in the rockies when the end comes i am killing myself asap but if you idiots want to hang around i will post my address via deadman and you can come raid my poo poo. no bigs, enjoy your nightmare hell on earth
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:i literally dont even know what to type into google 1) google up any local catering company 2) phone them (or email them if you're a huge goon) n ask where they usually buy their CO2
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any welding supply shop will have co2 that will suit your needs
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if you're going to a welding shop get a bottle of hydrogen instead and see if you can make that dissolve in the water. then when you open the bottle of "soda" light it on fire i would say helium for the voice effects but please dont waste helium
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poo poo remember when i was talking about maybe building some sort of drone with an autopilot thingy on it why would i even bother trying to rig up my own control system when this exists http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/drone-autopilot/ quote:
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yeah the cores of uav's and little flyin things are commodity now. at this point its how you apply them i was sketching out an idea for an indefinite lifespan drone that would seek out power lines and hang from them by a hook thing that was also an induction coil. i think you could steal enough juice to recharge it. imagine swarms of never landing dronebots
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah the cores of uav's and little flyin things are commodity now. at this point its how you apply them The Power Line Urban Sentry (PLUS) program seeks to crea
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Bloody posted:cistps: near-final thesis draft submitted to advisors a good day
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The Leck posted:i read 1493 and found it really interesting, and it sounds like 1491 will be no exception. ps: i'd definitely recommend 1493 especially if you want to learn about lots of kinds of potatos. seconded to the maxxxx 1491 and 1493 are both interesting as hell
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i'm actually halfway through guns, germs, and steel right now; i had watched the pbs documentary version of it but never read it before I just read 'After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405' - if you are interested in the 'why did the West take off' part of Guns, Germs and Steel it works pretty well as a followup. Has good discussions about economic history, economic geography like the influences of geography on political and technological development(Europe being hard up against the edge of the world and cut off from the centres of trade in the world leads to naval development etc), and some of the myths about the state of the world in the period. Its a survey so it misses things but has pretty good 'narrative' continuity with Guns, Germs and Steel.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:also economic history is incredibly loving contentious, nobody agrees on anything, and it gets worse the further you go back because the data is shittier. guns, germs, and steel is probably the worst possible intro to the field since it combines an untrained author, the worst time periods for available data, and some really insane, almost racist euro-centrism. i thought it was not really racist at all b/c they basically said the white man "won" via right place, right time. but i guess diamond also doesn't really talk about china, etc. i could be mixing it up with other books though like 1491
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on this topic i really liked a short history of progress by ronald wright, i did not read his follow up book though
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More bouncing balls crap because im kind of bored with cfd at the moment (though I'll come back to it eventually) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaIKbjQB1rg
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Jet Age posted:I just read 'After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405' - if you are interested in the 'why did the West take off' part of Guns, Germs and Steel it works pretty well as a followup. Has good discussions about economic history, economic geography like the influences of geography on political and technological development(Europe being hard up against the edge of the world and cut off from the centres of trade in the world leads to naval development etc), and some of the myths about the state of the world in the period. Its a survey so it misses things but has pretty good 'narrative' continuity with Guns, Germs and Steel.
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Also I got the balls to cast shadows on each other but it's ridiculously computationally expensive so heres like 2 seconds of 480p video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfmhD0JOQM
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Also I got the balls to cast shadows on each other but it's ridiculously computationally expensive so heres like 2 seconds of 480p video of it this is all in python right?
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dur posted:this is all in python right? Yup Im doing soft shadows now; it looks pretty neat
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ol qwerty bastard posted:More bouncing balls crap because im kind of bored with cfd at the moment (though I'll come back to it eventually) "ball 1080"
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a soundtrack for the other video
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Also I got the balls to cast shadows on each other but it's ridiculously computationally expensive so heres like 2 seconds of 480p video of it well yeah aren't you essentially writing a ray tracing algorithm? if you started messing with refraction you wouldn't be too far off from the state of the art in 1980 computer graphics
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soft shadows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwvhAdgsyc&feature=youtube_gdata_player Im actually still using a sort of 2.5D renderer which only works because I'm drawing spheres (note how there isn't any distortion near the edges of the window) But I've got all the vector stuff required to do some proper raytracing so maybe I'll try that next
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This is all pure cpu stuff that I wrote myself So it's pretty slow, but I feel like I'm learning a lot
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coffeetable posted:1) google up any local catering company this is a good option. you can also just ask the guy you buy the CO2 canister from @ a homebrew shop in general i think most co2 suppliers sell all-beverage-grade all the time, because it's a waste of time/effort to carry multiple uhh "qualities". don't hold me to that i'm not a gas supply expert
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a gas supply expert 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:in general i think most co2 suppliers sell all-beverage-grade all the time, because it's a waste of time/effort to carry multiple uhh "qualities". don't hold me to that i'm not a gas supply expert this is probably true, and for most industrial purposes (welding, chemical plants) you also want high purity, but i'd be more worried about whatever processing or handling they do than the gas itself. like if they use non-food-safe greases on their fittings and stuff. that said eh what's the worst that could happen?
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Sagebrush posted:this is probably true, and for most industrial purposes (welding, chemical plants) you also want high purity, but i'd be more worried about whatever processing or handling they do than the gas itself. like if they use non-food-safe greases on their fittings and stuff. benzene contamination
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it's ok, benzene is organic!!
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i made a bash script that walks you through wpa_supplicant configuration bcuz i was tired of bloated network managers and config files
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Sagebrush posted:that said eh what's the worst that could happen?
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yes  when the two options are "food/medical grade" and "industrial grade" it is a pretty good strategy to only put the first one inside your body eg: nitroglycerin
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"industrial grade" is what you use to get that authentic steampunk feel
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah the cores of uav's and little flyin things are commodity now. at this point its how you apply them patenting this atm
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ol qwerty bastard posted:This is all pure cpu stuff that I wrote myself you go boy
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Rude. posted:patenting this atm Power companies HATE him! One weird tip for stealing electricity with induction coils discovered by a local mom
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Dr. Honked posted:"industrial grade" is what you use to get that authentic steampunk feel the metallic, petrochemical taste just makes it so authentic
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Sagebrush posted:yes lol what do u think we have livers for
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 woo more balls shading on each other trying to make it faster now because i tried to make an animation of this and after five and a half hours it had rendered 30 frames i mean granted half of that is the fault of the python interpreter which by my measurements seems to be running at around 2.5 megaflops; my laptop is old but i'm prrreeeeeettttttyyyyy sure it can go faster than that
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i want to dabble with the nvidia parallel computing library but i dont have any big processing problems to solve crack the neighbors' wifi? is that a thing that you can crack if u give a video card a few hours?
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