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Haven’t had a chance to read it yet but had an interesting article come in related to what we were discussing: https://futurism.com/the-byte/biologist-says-sun-conscious

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It’s possible that some of the data could be cached but I haven’t the foggiest idea where to find it. Too bad Windows doesn’t have a ~/.cache folder 😛

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Going to be a bit slower than usual. I was making sauerkraut yesterday and sliced my thumb when the knife slipped so things are a bit difficult at the moment. It was a pretty deep cut and took an hour to stop the bleeding but nothing requiring a hospital visit. However, I currently have no feeling in the tip and need to keep it from too much activity until the tissue heals (it’s going to leave a nasty scar).

On the bright side, I can’t feel pain so I was able to finish the job of preparing the sauerkraut! 😛

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Oh, no. They were really quite forceful with this and with little notice. Unless I missed it, I don’t think they sent me an email as the organization head. Very disappointed in Microsoft 🙁

Fortunately, we’ve been able to rebuild most of our conversations even though it’s taken us almost a year of cranial digging.

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Over the course of the last few months, it looks like the seed for the random number generator in Master Duel is set on load instead of being randomized before each round. Could be wrong and just be incredibly unlucky but I have had days where I get awesome hands each round for the session and other days where I get zilch each time. Generally, this pattern means the seed isn’t changing. It gets rather frustrating as you can generally predict how things are going to go after the first few rounds. It’s also a weird design choice for a card game

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Sounds good. Will look at it when I get the opportunity! 🙂

One day, I should probably sit down and explore Reddit some. May find something that interests me on it 🙂

Yeah, a diagram is probably a good idea. We’re also going to need CAD for if I get a 3D printer online for the times when we don’t have a premade object file. My diagramming and CAD skills are terrible but I’ll take a look around the Awesome List and the Arch wiki and see what appeals. There was a CAD program that let me do things in a C-like language that did help some even if I still had trouble with the visual side of it

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Went ahead and moved this thread to the public area 🙂

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Yeah, he will be missed 🙁

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Just realized that I haven’t shared Hammerfall in close to a decade. Need to fix that!

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Yep. Would have to go back and check my notes but I’m pretty sure it was due to it sharing some of the same selectors as the avatar section so I’d have hidden both. Or something like that, at any rate

Yeah, I’ve been planning to look at some of the plugins that let you add code snippets without editing the template files directly. One big concern with those would be security so we may wind up doing it the old fashioned way anyways but it doesn’t hurt to look!

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Sounds good. Will grab them! 🙂

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But he’s susceptible to songs! 😛 At least, according to my version. Granted, mine is based on the Roman versions of the stories so there are definitely some changes (Bulfinch).

Definitely worth looking into. 🙂

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Haven’t been idle on this, just haven’t had much to report. I’m leaning towards starting off with an actual board, diving right in (figure a challenge would be good for me), and keeping the Arduino around for other projects so I’ve been attempting to track down a decent board but got a bit overwhelmed. As a result, sent it to Reddit.

With regards to the amount of motors:

Four of them would be for the arm joints. We need another two for the front and back wheels and one for the camera. We may need an additional motor for another set of wheels in the middle to provide better off-road traction.

Regarding the arms, I have no idea how to do a ball and socket joint so my design plan uses hinge joints. Bit limited but I’m not a mechanical engineer (but my mom is!). 😛

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Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRobotics/comments/1bj93le/robot_controllers/

I had specified the torque requirement as that affects the power requirement of the motors so I wanted to make sure the controller board would be able to provide adequate output. Haven’t looked at specific motors yet

Will explain the amount of motors in our thread soon 🙂

Yeah, the account that spammed itself was suspended before I got the notification but the moderators left the link for whatever reason. Probably should have reported it.

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Blech. Broke down and asked Reddit for advice on robot controllers as the API may differ from Arduino (first time posting on Reddit). The very first bit of activity? A spam post trying to get new members to click a malicious link. The first response to my post? A crack about my phraseology. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

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Yep, get the same thing with Google when it comes to some newsletters. Sometimes they’re let through, other times they’re not. Really don’t understand it. And sometimes, the newsletters wind up on Spam a few days after coming through 😛

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Saw The Driller Killer yesterday and it was pretty ho hum. I disagree with the reception on that and the categorization as a black comedy. The slasher aspects and the basic plot were only loosely linked together and there was no fanfare at all with the slasher bits, just people getting drilled up for no apparent rhyme or reason. They also overdid the quantity of kills by doing one right after another in a sort of montage scene while upbeat music was, incongruously, playing.

Still haven’t played Dragon’s Dogma yet even though it’s been on the wish-list for years. Really need to change that 🙁

I’ve heard pretty good things about Sex, Lies, and Videotape. It has come up OTA periodically but I just haven’t had the opportunity to watch it. Maybe one day!

Looks great! Reminds me of Adam Savage’s Tested! 😀

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Tardigrades are near indestructible! 😀

Yep, many different possibilities that definitely need consideration. Take Venus, for instance. There are some theories that microbial life could be living in its clouds. Fortunately, this is a planned mission but by a private party. We need more publicly funded missions to keep the private sectors from laying exclusive claim to any findings but I digress.

This could very well be extended to stars and gas giants, as you mentioned. In Skyward Sword, we had this lovely fellow. May sound a bit farfetched but it’s quite possible! Who knows what lies beyond our understanding?

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I’ve seen a variety of flavored soaps, too! Used to be pretty popular but that trend seems to have waned 😛

About half the cost is for the grading and cover price. The grading service is 15 – 20 USD depending on outfit and the cover price is 6 – 7 USD. Looks like it’s also signed so that adds additional value. Personally, though, I wouldn’t pay more than 10 USD for an issue 😛

I wouldn’t have minded if it weren’t such an odd one. Yeah, I’m sure they could have trained it with enough data entry (not sure how those things work).

Interesting article in the most recent issue of Nature. They’re talking about how things keep falling down the digital memory hole and need to be better preserved. Haven’t read it yet as I’m still a few weeks behind but the Internet Archive definitely needs continued support so we don’t lose all of this important stuff!

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Yep! Got them the other week 🙂 Haven’t had the opportunity to do much with them yet, though. It’s either been pouring rain or too humid 🙁

Yep, got a multimeter but I may need a new one. This one is ten years old and was a freebie from a discount store so I’ll need to test it and even then its accuracy may be rather questionable 😛

Cool! I’d start with a bit of polish and see what it looks like after the dirt and grime comes up. Found a slab of marble buried in my garden bed under a few inches of dirt when I was digging one day and it cleaned right up!

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Another thing I’m going to add to my to-do list is that I’m going to see how big of a deal it is to activate the FSE support in the style pack to allow us to add more features to the forum index such as the topic activity list that we’re used to with IPS. That’ll be after I get the theme updated as I recall that it wants us to add some stuff to one of the theme files (granted, I think it’s just the bbPress files but better safe than sorry). 🙂

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Bender is now in service!

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