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    Bluepencil's videos thread

    It's audio, but I think it counts. https://ko-fi.com/post/Theres-a-mech-T6T5UERTM
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    Bluepencil's videos thread

    I am experimenting again with things with more generated voice LPs. Unfortunately it turns out that recording a run for a full hour kinda makes it a severe hassle to manage adding audio and subtitles to it. Just less than a minute takes an hour of work. I can understand now why it can take a...
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    So, normal heart rate is 60-100 bpm, right? I was trying out the oximeter I bought for my...

    So, normal heart rate is 60-100 bpm, right? I was trying out the oximeter I bought for my diabetic father and realized that while my sitting down resting heart rate is 80, which is fine, as soon as I stand up it goes to 110. Shit.
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    Bluepencil's physical artings

    Merry Christmas, FiC!
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    Bluepencil's physical artings

    Planning. I heard somewhere that, like the Mona Lisa, if you want to make the eyes look like they are following you around no matter the angle you are viewing the image, put one of the eyes right at the centerline of the frame.
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    Bluepencil's physical artings

    I be starting making things. Physical art. Manilla paper for paper mache is cheap. Paper mache takes so long to dry. Adding cloth mache for strength. Yes, that is actual canvas bag. Acrylics. [edit] On one hand, polymer clay is expensive. On the other hand, acrylic paint is...
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    If I write literature, I can still pretend I am smart while doing research. Coding rapidly...

    If I write literature, I can still pretend I am smart while doing research. Coding rapidly reacquaints me with how much of a dumbass I be.
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    Statistically, programmers have lower rates of depression than the norm. So trying to code is...

    Statistically, programmers have lower rates of depression than the norm. So trying to code is helping. Unfortunately it is now replaced by sudden impulses of nigh murderous anger when interrupted. FUCK THE THING, THE THING THAT I HAD ALMOST SOLVED. THE FUCK WHAT WAS I GOING TO DO? AAAAA.
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    My fingers just have stupid autocorrect. Sometimes I write 'and' for 'an', and just now...

    My fingers just have stupid autocorrect. Sometimes I write 'and' for 'an', and just now 'sometimes' autocompleted as 'something' and I had to backspace to fix. My eyesight is already super bad to the point that anything beyond arms-length is blurry, so me missing text if the monitor isn't right...
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    So I noticed I tend to walk with raptor hands now. Maybe the time I started doing this is also...

    So I noticed I tend to walk with raptor hands now. Maybe the time I started doing this is also around the time my memory, pattern completion, and visual recognition started to be be shit. I'm starting to skip letters and need to edit all posts twice to make sure. ... Although I still prefer to...
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    Insh'duckie, Indonesia orders 42 Rafale as eighth foreign customer of the plane

    There are two types of wars that an archipelagic country has to plan for - The external one. And the internal one. So while I think that Indonesia has far too many different types of kit and is complicating their maintenance and supply, it does mean they are not completely left high and dry...
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    War in Ukraine

    It occurs to me another thing that makes lasers better than guns, apart from lack of ammunition, is that lasers are mostly silent. I thought you were talking about Shahed-style drones not little quadcopters though.
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    War in Ukraine

    DEWs do have degraded performance depending on atmospheric conditions and need more power. They need to have kilowatts of juice behind them, orangey electron goodness they would have share with the radar. Certainly a more complex system than chucking a pair of machine guns on a Toyota...
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    [ATTACH] Yet another typhoon that barely missed. update: Ok, pasting to an image program then...

    Yet another typhoon that barely missed. update: Ok, pasting to an image program then pasting it again here means it will upload as a historical record.
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