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I have identified some very specific black holes in my mental conception of math. Things where I will mentally perform an operation or I have to convert a fraction into a decimal. I have a bunch of mental heuristics that I want to erase and have a more concrete conception. Enter The N-902 ES simplex trig slide rule  I'm a very "physical" person, always using my hands and seeing how things move and relate Eg I always have enjoyed building model planes and the like I'm interpreter level competent in sign language Doing perspective based art etc etc My hope is that by spending a few afternoons working through some high school math problems , having the my slide rule round the house for random nerd-snipe style math problems I'll have to slow down my mental processes and utilise my manual learning tendencies I will fix these problems. As well as learning an entirely useless skill in 2020
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ynohtna posted:
My metal shop teacher taught me how to get your second decimal place from vernier calipers when I was like 14 and a few years later my physics teacher happened to be moving a decades on display slide rule to be thrown out and kinda gave me the last lesson ever taught on it before it was tossed. Seeing the physical relationship between what was previously cold digital numbers on an LCD screen was powerful and really stuck in my craw I should get a nice pair, my current set are 3 dollar plastic calipers that are more accurate than they have any right being , if a little flimsy
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Aug 16, 2020 12:46
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why do people keep saying that when they merely built a computre inside the case of a pregnancy test. It's like saying someone is playing Doom with literal Altoids. In this case it was an overly engineered pregnancy test with a digital output. While the game isn't running on the pregnancy test hardware I think it's still arguable to say he's playing doom on a pregnancy test. To use your metaphor, it would be like if altoids time had low cost eink displays that could be hijacked Edit: unless this is some copy pasta that got me
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Sep 7, 2020 21:52
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mobby_6kl posted:They're running doom in a pregnancy test. The OLED isn't original either, so this is like putting a phone on the dashboard of an old car and saying it runs Doom now. Ahh, me culpa Then I am completely incorrect
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Sep 7, 2020 22:47
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I have a need to drill some small holes to build a chicken coop Old tools are very cheap and I don't like relying on electrons and batteries because I have strong memories about getting half way through a project and having batteries run out I got these for 15 dollars and they should suffice for my job and I have access to a work shop so I'm gunna make a new handle and an adaptor for a keyless chuck to mix the old and new 
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Sep 29, 2020 04:08
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Strongly remember the flash game where you have X ray specs and it's foul af And the matrix side on brawler was pretty dope
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Oct 28, 2020 12:17
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 Quite literally out dated, it only goes up to 1999
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