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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Gibbs is better than Kroil or WD-40

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i watched one of that guy's videos that was like 20 minutes to explain something that should have taken 90 seconds (don't remember the specific topic, they're all audio/video something-or-others) but yeah aside from the drawing-out they're pretty good content

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

nobody writes g-code by hand. i mean yeah you technically can but there's zero reason to any more except for testing and maintenance. every real operator just uses CAM software

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

gods are always knocking up all sorts of weird stuff, it's kind of their thing

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

echinopsis posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv0

eh this was just a curiosity watch but was far more intriguing. paging sagebrush

tyvm echi this was very cool and actually sorta related to some research i'm doing. appreciated

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

reading about those mega grognard games, and imagining playing them, gives me the same dull sense of panic you get when your car starts making a bad noise

this is the best turn-based strategy game anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_Green_Things_from_Outer_Space

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

rotor posted:

some of it is neat but the thing where he's constantly falling all over himself to substitute malapropisms and double-entendres like EVERYWHERE really grate on me, it's like this weird OCD thing and I hate it.

Yeah he tries way too hard.

Also he's not as smart as he pretends. Knows a lot about some things and very little about others, but doesn't know the difference and when he should just keep his mouth shut

It's too bad cause I liked him at first when he was more genuine but now he's jumped the shark 🦈

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Just your average friendly Canadian machinist, selling rulers graduated in "oval office hairs"

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

you've obviously never been around a machine shop

:allears:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

new lazy blender tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58lc8sLpJzY

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

yeah, you wouldn't believe how small the levers need to be to direct the electrons mechanically

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

good sphere is about one week away from inventing a perpetual motion device

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Jonny 290 posted:

we know how to generate electricity, we know how to consume it, how to regulate and control it

but we still don't know what it is

according to rabbinical law it's fire. what more do you need to know?

(shrugs in yiddish)

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i've been watching this series of 1950s lectures on aerodynamics called "the secret of flight." it's really cool stuff. everything is done with physical models and smoke tunnels and it's immediately clear what is going on. the lecturer is a weird old german guy but he's very good at explaining what's happening. i think for the first time i genuinely understand how lift is formed -- not just the high school "air travels faster on the upper surface" but also why the air goes faster and all the phenomena that that entails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oCDR3DBbo



favorite bit so far: a brief film is shown depicting an experimental nazi rocket plane taking off and the host says "now this is the 163A, which i designed in 1938" because he is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lippisch

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Nov 6, 2019

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

it's arbitrary in every possible way

it's (mostly) arbitrary to decide which direction the charges flow
it's arbitrary to decide which direction of charge flow is positive
it's arbitrary to consider positive flow to be an increase in some measured value
it's arbitrary to use a + for positive and a - for negative
it's arbitrary to use the word "positive" and "negative"

nothing really exists, the entire universe is only as real as your perception

arbitrary

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


me watching this video:
(whispering) what the gently caress what the fuuuck

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

toiletbrush posted:

was glad to see this guy back again but he's giving off some major gammon/chud vibes since his return

He always gave off a bit of a chud thing imo. "I'm going to install fifty kilowatts of industrial electrical equipment into my townhouse's attic for no reason other than I feel like it" requires a bit of a libertarian mindset, I think, and then he ends up with not one but two mail order brides, and you're just like eeeeeehhhh

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

as is convention when a headline asks a question, the answer is no.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

that can't be that man's real voice

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

https://i.imgur.com/jRw6LaL.mp4

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Sweevo posted:

I don't think he's gone full chud. Most of what I've seen has been the kind of standard anti-Chinese stuff that's common in Australia, coupled with the usual techie view that everything Chinese must be poor quality fake poo poo (he constantly refers to Chinese products as "Wun Hung Lo" branded like it's hilarious,

"standard anti-chinese stuff" is more than enough for me to quit watching him. and my ears thank me too

the youtuber -> chud pipeline is a pervasive problem though. automotive insanity has a thread dedicated to just reporting on which car channels are nazi-adjacent so people can avoid them. at this point it may be easier to make a list of tech channels that aren't nazis, tbh.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

the ones that i watch regularly that i am pretty positive are not nazis are electroboom, bigclive, thisoldtony, and uri tuchmann.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrnCDKB1hE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOTiQKkQMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XOM4E4RZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecp_NDDNIVA

I don't think that clickspring or my mechanics are chuds, but nothing they have said indicates one way or the other. they both focus entirely on the tools and techniques, so their personal attitudes don't enter into it. please don't let my mechanics be a chud because his channel is probably my favorite on all of youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOw9WqMOHjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jNeObHnZY

the smarter every day guy i don't think quite hits the chud line, but he is seriously christian and a big military booster. getting close. i don't watch his stuff.

nilered is probably not a chud but is likely to be a credulous tech shithead. wouldn't be surprised if he gets into bitcoins and such. i don't watch his stuff either. (i prefer extractions & ire)

it is known that EEVblog dave and AvE are both chuds, a hundred percent of the way.

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 31, 2022

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

rotor posted:

he built himself a huge new shop with kickass giant cranes and a big fuckin lathe and cnc poo poo that he must have gotten basically for free and all the content now is super boring cause who the gently caress wants to watch a guy teach himself cnc programming?

AvE also got a giant cnc and was going the same way into irrelevant "look what i can do with my $80,000 machine" territory even before he showed his whole rear end with the canadian trucker protests.

but i knew he was a turd from the beginning when he was selling those rulers graduated in c**t hairs.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

in some of my classes i teach about splines in the computer sense, and in other classes i teach about splines in the woodworking sense. then i get to explain the connection between them and the history of how engineers reproduce complex curves. :eng101:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

echinopsis posted:

i wonder if splines are real or much like maths it’s just some idea humans thought of and has questionable utility but doesn’t really exist

splines are absolutely real. this is one:



back in the day, when the most advanced technology on earth was sailing vessel design and the science of hydrodynamics did not yet exist, naval engineers needed a way to accurately reproduce the curves of a ship's hull in technical drawings. this was done by defining a series of points for the curve to go through, which can be easily done with just x,y coordinates, then bending a thin wooden strip (the spline) using those hooked weights so that it passed through each point. because of physics the spline would naturally take the smoothest, lowest-energy path through the points, and this curve could be accurately recreated by anyone with the point list as long as they used the same size and shape of spline to do it.

"spline" has the same etymology as "splint," as in the small wooden strip you put on a broken finger etc.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i am mesmerized by the configuration of this machine.

https://i.imgur.com/D8K4rUt.mp4

the obvious way to scan a book would be to start at the beginning and scan each page one at a time, right? easy, logical, just need a camera and a robot arm that makes the same page-turning motion over and over? maybe some sort of smoothing thing that ensures the page lies flat?

gently caress no. start at the back of the book, vacuum up two facing pages, scan the insides of each one simultaneously with a linear array then flip them to the side and repeat. it's better for the book, it doubles your scanning rate, and there's only one moving part.

that's some sewing machine "what if we used two threads and put the eye of the needle in the tip" poo poo

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

quantum effects. too complicated to explain right now

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I installed s-tube on my Chromecast and yeah it really is.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

idk if these are really "educational," but it's nice to remember that no matter what offends you about the current young generation and their shocking vices, every other generation was equally crude and horny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbM4WjjGZEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJbDHw_qsFs

that last one slaps btw

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I didn't watch the video but why don't they just make a different sound mix intended for playback on TVs or phones or whatever

If the director insists on not doing this because it's a violation of his vision or whatever, he sucks rear end and he should be overruled by the studio. You need to accommodate your users' use cases even if they aren't using your product "right."

E: yeah

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Achmed Jones posted:

that was the longest youtube video i've watched in years. it was good

his other two are equally good.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

A four dimensional being can also add or remove objects from a closed three-dimensional space without passing through its walls. So the next time something in your house goes missing, look around for signs of four-dimensional interference, like books that have had all their text mirrored

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Apr 18, 2023

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i absolutely love all the ingenious little explanatory models they used to make for old educational films. that colored rope on a drum thing is fantastic and communicates the idea of rasterization and serial transmission perfectly. today it would just be a dull CG rendering.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


[image of that meme drawing guy with the grim exhausted expression and burned out eyes]

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Short and to the point, good explanatory graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zdHsb2pWU

idk how much time you're meant to have between 'Oops the rocket is going to explode' and it actually exploding, if it doesn't just go BANG unexpectedly with no warning tho.

Interesting video but boy that guy's voice is annoying. Why does he talk like that?

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Beve Stuscemi posted:

This rules and the fact that he made a giant model is awesome

Yeah that video is a real pro click.

Even if he does pronounce silicon "silikin," which drives me nuts :manning:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

We could probably solve income inequality a lot faster if we took a lesson from the monkeys and started ripping off penises and eating faces.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

spankmeister posted:

2000mSv as in milli not micro? as in 2 whole Sievert? :pwn:

I mean yeah. You have to literally kill the cells in the tumor. They need to get a demon core level of irradiation.

The placement and targeting of the beam makes all the difference

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

NinetySevenA posted:

did the cymbals video have captions? i watched through awful.app and had no option. i just want to know the material used. i assuming steel because of the 800 degree furnace. i always thought cymbals were made from brass or bronze.

It's gonna be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_metal

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

PIZZA.BAT posted:

pierogis, mostly

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