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Manuel Calavera posted:I think the title of this kickstarter says it all better than I could even hope to describe. Unsurprisingly, the funding has been suspended, and thankfully. It's a tiny detail in the sheer brain-bending horror of it all but check out the sizing - Medium is up to 42" waist. There is no Small.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:Yahtzee was a known YCS poster at the time, he had a thread in there when his reviews blew up and everything Lowtax offered him some tiny amount of money to do his reviews for the front page.
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Nintendo Kid posted:The Russians will do anything for enough foreign hard currency these days. Yeah but that costs probably 10 times what they're asking for. Also the Russians turned down Larry Flynt when he asked to make a porn movie on Mir, and they were even more desperate for cash then. Alan Smithee posted:I'm actually curious since I imagine someone has to have had sex in space. It's probably a closely kept open secret at Nasa or the CCCP Allegedly the Soviets ran quite a lot of experiments on it.
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Funnily enough I used to work with a guy who wrote an app to remind himself to *stop* working. It would just shut down his work VPN access for ten minutes every two hours, as well as for a lunch hour and 8 hours sleep. He was a home worker who lived on his own and loved his job so much that I don't think we'd have had to pay him in anything more than food and shelter. He had on more than one occasion worked himself to the point of collapse and had to be threatened with disciplinary action to make him actually take some time off. (Then the poor bugger died of a heart attack while on one of those app-enforced breaks  )
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Truck Stop Daddy posted:For some reason facebook keeps suggesting awful kickstarters to me ...you don't CNC machine carbon fibre.
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senrath posted:You can totally use a CNC machine to cut parts out of carbon fiber composite. It's not even remotely uncommon or stupid to do that. The belt is still stupid, but that's not why. Do you mean using a cutter to cut out the substrate, prior to adding the epoxy? I mean technically yeah that's "CNC machining" but that's not really what people think of when you talk about machining, particularly the reasons why you'd mill something rather than moulding it. By that measure almost every item of clothing I'm wearing is CNC machined. I think they still use dies for leather, but cloth-cutting is almost entirely CNC nowadays, and nobody claims that their cheap chinese knock-off jeans are CNC machined.
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Paladinus posted:Imagine a virus that can tear off every anime lover's penis. That already exists but unfortunately it's sexually transmitted so it's on the verge of extinction.
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Cockmaster posted:Someone's trying to take the hemp crusade to new heights: The fibres in composites are already mostly recycled and their carbon footprint and general badness for the environment is absolutely dwarfed by the exotic nasties used to make the polymer. It's like using your old bong water in the windscreen washer of your Hummer and claiming it makes it eco-friendly because you're not wasting potable water.
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May 3, 2016 12:11
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Cockmaster posted:I've often wondered how the name "hoverboard" first got attached to a cheap Segway-scooter hybrid. No big mystery, they first started getting popular in the run up to Christmas 2014 and lots of people were talking about Back To The Future 2, with 2015 coming up.
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May 24, 2016 23:40
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The Glumslinger posted:For reference, AC units are frequently described by the Tons of Refrigeration they provide, which is the cooling that a 1 ton block of ice would provide in 24 hours. Just use that to put in perspective their couple pound ice block The first "air conditioning" was literally just a huge block of ice plonked in the middle of the room, which may be the basis of that measure.
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Jun 9, 2016 07:58
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RandomPauI posted:I for one miss the days of the fuckham kickstarter. I thought David Cameron was independently wealthy, why on earth would he need crowdfunding?
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Platystemon posted:lol if you think tape measures have 0% error The point of a tape measure though is that it's error is consistent, and I seriously doubt this is the case here - and that's because they almost certainly use the same mechanism as a digital micrometer. The problem with that is that it sets a pretty hard speed limit on how fast you can measure something - if you spin the tone wheel so it's passing the sensor faster than the measuring resolution of the circuitry it'll under-read, and slop in the gearing means inconsistent speed can cause it to over-read. That's why, for sensitive measurements, you always close the micrometer afterwards and ensure it returns to zero. If it doesn't, you zero it and try again. Now obviously for tape-measure duties they can get away with much lower gearing because they don't need to be measuring to fractions of a mm so those issues won't be quite as critical, but against that you've got no reliable way of re-zeroing. Also the string method will suffer from the inconsistent gearing ratio of a piece of string wrapped around a bobbin without something to lay it and pay it out consistently, and the wheel method is entirely reliant on someone being able to push something along a perfectly straight line. So like you say, sure tape measures can be pretty inconsistent, but if you use the same measure for everything then you're only dealing with the sub-mm fluctuations caused by temperature. This thing will never be able to measure the same distance twice, so it's useless. I kinda like the idea of a tape measure with a voice memo function though.
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mobby_6kl posted:Skully is dead! After collecting a cool $2.5m on igg and apparently failing to deliver anything, they're closing shop ASAP. It actually seemed like a pretty reasonable product, by igg standards, but was probably mismanaged horribly. Still it's weird that none of the established helmet manufacturers wanted to pick them up for cheap, it seems inevitable that AR/HUD helmets would be a thing eventually. Maybe their tech was poo poo/non-existing, who knows. Their tech, as described, was impossible. As dispatched, it was basically useless either as a crash helmet or a HUD. It was far too heavy, poorly and cheaply built, and relied on binocular rivalry which doesn't work for ~30% of the population and is distracting and nausea-inducing for a fair chunk more - particularly with the rear camera. It also - presumably to fill out the spec sheet - did a load of stuff onboard that could have been farmed off to a phone app (because there's literally no way people buying this wouldn't have a smartphone). This bulked out the onboard electronics and batteries which made the thing even heavier and less protective than it needed to be. It didn't fulfill any needs that a biker has that can't be fulfilled much more cheaply and reliably with a good quality helmet, a bluetooth headset, a phone mount, and some half-decent mirrors, and none of these things are likely to snap your neck in a crash.
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Non Serviam posted:Without using a coolant, what are chances this could actually go as low as 44f or 6C? Without a way of venting air to the outside it's going to heat the room up. e: It *does* come with an exhaust hose. It's still insanely impractical, just on energy density alone. Air conditioners are insanely power-hungry. goddamnedtwisto has a new favorite as of 22:12 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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fishmech posted:Literally any phone that's capable of running any sort of downloadable app is capable of calling 911 and other country emergency numbers, at any time. You'd have to still be using some phone from like 1992 that doesn't run on modern networks in the first place, to not be able to call 911. Fairly sure it came in with the GSM standard (including being able to make an emergency call without a SIM) so I don't think you can buy a phone that *can't* make an emergency call now.
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Guy Mann posted:It's the "I put 'I don't own this' in the YouTube description so I'm good" school of copyright law. If you are affiliated with any government, anti-piracy group or any other related group, or were formally a worker of one you CANNOT enter this web site, cannot access any of its files and you cannot view any of the HTML files. If you enter this site you are not agreeing to these terms and you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and that means that you CANNOT threaten our ISP(s) or any person(s) or company storing these files, and cannot prosecute any person(s) affiliated with this page which includes family, friends or individuals who run or enter this web site
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Phanatic posted:The people behind Titan Note, a blatantly fraudulent dictation device, get kicked off off of not just one but two crowdfunding sites, and then start filing DMCA takedown notices against tech sites covering their product, for things like using their own publicity photos (to comment on the device) and using the product's *name* in their reviews. Needs a touch more Arkell v Pressdram Solicitor (Goodman Derrick & Co.) posted:We act for Mr Arkell who is Retail Credit Manager of Granada TV Rental Ltd. His attention has been drawn to an article appearing in the issue of Private Eye dated 9th April 1971 on page 4. The statements made about Mr Arkell are entirely untrue and clearly highly defamatory. We are therefore instructed to require from you immediately your proposals for dealing with the matter. Mr Arkell's first concern is that there should be a full retraction at the earliest possible date in Private Eye and he will also want his costs paid. His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply. Private Eye posted:We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: gently caress off.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Or loving smear Vaseline on the lens like the fuckhead you are. Christ that photo sucks. It's not even a good pinhole photo, one advantage of pinhole photography is that most things come out relatively sharp as long as you get your focal length right within a few percent. This suggests they've deliberately made their lovely thing shittier on purpose. e: it *might* be motion blur but it hadn't occured to me anyone would be stupid enough to try and handhold a >1s exposure.
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Phanatic posted:The membrane the pinhole is in has to be very thin. Pinhole shots never actually get sharp because you can't focus without a lens, but if the hole is very small and the membrane is very thin, you wind up with practically infinite depth of field and diffraction doesn't blur things too much. So black paper makes a bad pinhole camera but gold leaf makes a good one. I'm guessing this one falls closer to the black paper side of things. Well I did say "relatively sharp". Also have no idea whatsoever why I said "focal length" because the whole point is that it's got an infinite focal length (well not really but YKWIM). I think I knew in the back of my head something had to be right and focal length was the only thing that came into my brain, you've filled in the right info. Anyway I get sharper focus than that with my cheap little cardboard-and-wood actual pinhole camera, which is the real point I was trying to make. e: "infinite focal length" is also not at all what I meant to say but I can't remember what the actual term is and I think I'm going to go and lay down for a little while.
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muscles like this! posted:Says a company that's only connection is that they bought the name. In fairness that is a very Atari user experience.
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Rapulum_Dei posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spyassociates/spyfinder-pro-hidden-camera-detector-spying-preven But do the existing products have a "Maxi-Boost Light Controller Button"?
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Mr.Radar posted:Do you remember the ZX Spectrum or Timex Sinclair? Apparently enough people did to fund an Indiegogo campaign to the tune of $650k to make a portable handheld version of them which ended up devolving into a total clusterfuck (to the point this video summarizing the whole situation is 82 minutes): I mean it's not surprising it got funded, particularly in the UK but across most of Europe it was easily the best-selling of the 8-bit home micros and probably outsold most consoles of the era too. Certainly any nerd of a certain age east of the Atlantic would have at least used one if not owned one, and nerds of a certain age are the main market for this sort of thing. However there are a million and one Speccy emulators out there, I had one on my S60 mobile in like 2006 and of course there are dozens of Android-based handheld consoles out there mostly used for MAME and console emulation that you could have used for this, so I can't really find any sympathy for the people scammed.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Seems like it would be real easy to keep people in a loving WW1 trench from getting cigarettes if the government decides it wants them to quit smoking. Just, like, stop putting cigarettes in the ration packs. The world would definitely be a better place if that happened, because there'd definitely been a revolution along the entire Western Front.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Reminds me of the old Spike Milligan gag where every time a soldier lit a British cigarette they would get hit by German artillery but if they lit a German cigarette they would get hit by allied artillery instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Vg2S3S8W0&t=287s "...any questions?" e: It's years since I've listened to the Goons and I'd forgotten just how demented they were, that's my listening for the next few days sorted. goddamnedtwisto has a new favorite as of 12:43 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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Phanatic posted:It's also an obsolete notion in a world where cigarettes themselves emit light. If there's a sniper around walking around with a stick in your mouth that has a little glowing ember on the end of it's a good way to get shot regardless of how many cigarettes you lit with that match. On a moonless night, with night-adjusted eyes you can see a candle flame at over a mile away; a cigarette ember's going to be visible out to probably at least a couple hundred meters to the naked eye, let alone someone with an optic. One of the UK's (many, many, *many*) class shibboleths was that someone holding a cigarette between their fingers was officer-class, and someone holding it between thumb and forefinger, especially cupping their hand around it, was working class/other ranks, because soldiers and sailors on guard duty/stand-to/deck watch (inevitably ORs) were taught to cup their hand around their fag both to help disguise the glow (from the NCOs as much as the enemy, because yes, smoking on watch was forbidden as far back as the Boer War) and to protect their night vision.
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Yes you are right, though things you listed are produced and tested by actual engineers who kinda know what they're doing. It's a literal off-the-shelf component (that probably explains the bulkiness of the power supply).
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Collateral Damage posted:My favorite part of that PokeMMO campaign (disregarding "blockchain" and the ton of copyright bricks falling towards his head) is how he goes into detail of how various tiny aspects of the game will work while glossing over how he has no qualifications for making a game in the first place. He's not said Creative Commons or let a million virtual bunnies starve to death yet so it's hard to tell for sure.
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Don Gato posted:Are you saying the medicine founded by a guy who claimed to have gotten the details of chiropracy from a ghost is not a real treatment option? Depends - what were the ghosts medical qualifications?
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Fools Infinite posted:Physicists have a favorite no energy transportation solution: dig a straight tunnel between any two points on the surface and it will be downhill for the first half of the trip and leave you going fast enough to make it up hill for the second half, minus loses to friction and air resistance. And the fact nobody has bothered to do this is final proof that the globe earth is a myth.
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Jerry Seinfeld posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1320153245/arebo-the-one-touch-body-dryer This one's definitely been done before, I'm sure I remember it being discussed ITT. e: it was in the yospos thread *six years ago* goddamnedtwisto has a new favorite as of 17:55 on Apr 18, 2020 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:Okay, that's just wash cloths with extra steps. Usually I use warm water, not tepid room temperature water. Is there something in their cleaning solution that will prevent the clothes left soaking for days from getting mildew or rot? Bleach. Sorry, "Patented antibacterial oxidising surfactant solution", probably. Possibly one of the pricier ones that don't smell as much as normal bleach to avoid giving the game away, but probably just normal hypo, dilute enough that it's not going to damage skin/household objects, with a tiny bit of detergent and a shitload of perfume. You know, exactly what's in every single wet wipe container.
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The Lone Badger posted:Bleach isn't very stable though, if you let it sit around for days afterwards the chlorine may all dissipate and then mildew sets in. Box looks airtight and the initial soaking will take care of anything on the cloths when you put them in, I'm willing to bet it'll stay clear for a good few weeks as long as you don't open it. Or like I say they might use one of the fancier bleaches which might be a bit safer as well, but it's Kickstarter so they probably just raided the nearest pool supply place. Actually, as they mention tablets, it might be one of the solid bleaches, so they might have had to splash out to buy a load of whatever the local equivalent of Miltons Tablets.
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Mujaji posted:It will probably be Benzalkonium chloride I don't know what this is but I'm hyped for any chemical name containing both "Benz-" and "Chloride" and definitely want to use it instead of toilet paper.
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Hub Cat posted:Lots of pissed off backers on their first version Vertical washers need a lot more water and detergent (I still don't understand why they're so common in the states), so they don't get to tick off their "saves water" box. Besides if you want a vertical version, a bucket and a broomstick is a shitload cheaper.
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theironjef posted:I used to play a game on Wikipedia when I was bored at work called "how long til soccer" where I'd hit random until the article was about soccer. Since every flat patch of europe has 200 years of history as a soccer pitch it was usually six clicks or less. I wonder if it still works. That's just Six Degrees of Hitler* with a different target but the same basic trick. * Itself a variant of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which I think predates IMDB but was of course primarily played there because until IMDB how were you supposed to verify anything?
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