ThePyroPython
@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 1 day ago:
Lower Decks! Lower Decks!
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 days ago:
Or jumper cables.
- Comment on And black gloves of course 1 week ago:
Gimp Hackers for a Cyber Goth Mistress?
Why do I feel like this already exists as some obscure web comic?
- Comment on Thames Water boss defends bonuses as sewage spills soar 1 week ago:
Fucking ridiculous.
Jail that fucking boss and board of directors, let Thames Water fail, and bring it back into public ownership. Then, just to prove a point, throw them into stocks and dump Thames Water sewage onto them.
- Comment on Life goals 2 weeks ago:
Oi, how did you take those pictures without me noticing?!
(stress eats)
- Comment on Meal prep 3 weeks ago:
There’s literally the handle of an electric kettle on the left side.
No this is something far worse: someone in the UK whom has strayed from the light and committed heresy!
May the Tea Gods have mercy upon them, for I shall have none!
- Comment on circuits 3 weeks ago:
The post-grad assistant helping me with that assignment night before it’s due:
“Oh that’s easy, just apply Kirchoff’s Gambit. Here’s the solution because the lecturer hasn’t changed the assignment questions since they started here 20 years ago.”
Me, wide eyed: “You are an angel amongst demons!”
- Comment on circuits 3 weeks ago:
How the university lectures go:
“Here’s a design theory, here’s another, and another, and another. Be sure to master these techniques for the exam, because they’ll be with you for the rest of your career.”
How the industry design practice goes talking with the senior electronics design engineer:
“Whilst I was high/drunk/sleep deprived from insomnia/all three at the same time, I drew up this circuit schematic last night and finished at 6am then got into the office for 8.
The calculations for these resistor and capacitance values? Idk, they just feel like the right values based on what I read in the data sheet. If they’re wrong who cares, we’ll stack SMDs on top or just respin the boards because PCBs and passives are cheap and we’ll (read: you’ll) desolder and reuse the more expensive ICs.
My design justifications notes? Haha that’s your job, silly junior engineer. Oh by the way, I’ll make value changes to 80% of these components fixing my mistakes, also known as ‘tuning the sensor circuits’, before I update the schematic. Even after it goes into production I’ll just pinch boards off the line and change some things in the BoM without writing an ECO because I don’t have time for that.
Yes I do still prefer to use leaded solder without an extractor fan, why do you ask?”
That engineer will either be the most liked person in the company or the most hated person in the company, yet either way are clearly un-fireable.
- Comment on circuits 3 weeks ago:
My circuit design lecturer: “If you dig down deep enough into the theory, every component from resistors to microprocessors are analogue and complex.”
Me: (internal screaming intensifies)
My plug: “Here, smoke this doob.”
Me: (inhales deeply) It all makes sense now.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 4 weeks ago:
Elon Musk: now singlehandedly responsible for the US falling further behind China in innovation and research (for the record, fuck the CCP).
I seriously hope the UK takes advantage and offers visas and funding for the research. We’ve already got a good research sector though it took a hit from Brexit. Taking in these US scientists, even if it’s only for four years, would accelerate the UK’s growth, suck it Yanks!
p.s. also the EU would love to have them as well.
- Comment on Marine Scientists 5 weeks ago:
[History Channel Gesture]
Rare Earth Nodules
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
That moment when you take a drag of your Blue Raspberry vape and the dosimeter next to you maxes out.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Taste: slightly metallic, not great, not terrible.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, it comes off as petulant and is really grating when fellow supporters get all smarmy when said individual/group doesn’t immediately adopt the next thing in progressive politics the nanosecond it enters public discussion.
- Comment on lab toys 1 month ago:
Yep. Ghosts in Machines are real.
I have witnessed it first hand multiple times.
At university there was an old 1st gen Makerbot 3D printer and if you took away one of it’s prints that were displayed around it, all of your prints would fail, even if you replaced it the printer held a grudge. And never EVER say a 100% certainty statement that the print would succeed like “it is printing ok, it will be finished in an hour”. Only say things like “the print is doing ok so far”.
The electronics lab was throwing out five old Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes so our little maker group took them in and two were working fine. The other three weren’t displaying the trace on the screen. One of our members, a chap from Romania who in his youth spent his time fixing old TVs in his home country, said to let him have a look. I swear down he plugged them in, leant his ear against it, said to the scopes “shh it’s ok, we’ll look after you”, and gave them gentle taps on top just behind the screen, and all three jumped back into life in perfect calibration.
And finally, my girlfriend at the time had a 1st gen iPod that would, at the most inopportune moments randomly wake itself up, play a few seconds of a random song, then shut itself down.
- Comment on Capsaicin 1 month ago:
My new recipe book:
A Taste of Fire and Ice.
Just don’t expect the sequel to be released anytime soon.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 1 month ago:
I would hypothesise now that the UK has left, France’s proposals for a closer integrated EU standing army and two-speed EU are much more likely to go ahead.
Because of that I see a future in 20 years for something like a three-speed EU:
- Full integration.
- Free movement of goods and people.
- Mutual recognition of qualifications and frictionless framework for EU standard goods back and forth across the boarder. With a seat but no voting rights for the discussion of said standards.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 1 month ago:
Prime cut of gammon there.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 months ago:
LiberalsAll authoritarians left AND right. Please learn your political compass so you can have grown up conversations.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Depends if the current british owners are emotionally abusing their nephew by keeping him there.
- Comment on Pay us, or let us sell your info to 1200 partners 2 months ago:
The Mail has less utility than toilet paper.
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 2 months ago:
I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 2 months ago:
And the Americans give us shit for our food, the fuck is this? America, explain!
- Comment on "English" 2 months ago:
Fair point about interesting, I will say the variety of different American slangs and vernaculars are bordering on being classed as distinct dialects which is fascinating. Not to mention niche culture terms like “based” becoming mainstream amongst the Anglosphere.
Which is one of the things, biased as I am about my native language, I like about English: it will accept any commonly spoken enough words into the dictionary.
So in that respect, I propose an exchange of terms that I think Americans might enjoy using:
“Naff” - lacking in style or good taste: vulgar and unfashionable. I think this would be great due to the distinct difference in the ‘AA’ vowl that would be delightful in a southern drawl. It originally came from Polari and Carnival Speak and has fallen out of fashion (ironically) but I think could see a new lease of life on your continent.
“Mithering” - To make an unnecessary fuss or moan. Since I’ve seen a lot of clips from Game Of Thrones around Americans liking the use of “Whinging” over “Whining” I think y’all would like an alternative to “Bothering”.
“Bodge / Bodged” - to do something clumsily or quickly as a temporary measure. I think this one would be excellent as an alternative to “Jerry-rig / Jerry-rigged”. Especially as an enjoyer of high-quality “Redneck-engineering” which I occasionally come across on my feeds. Because there’s an art to throwing something together based on experience and guesswork that somehow just works beautifully right when you need it to.
Especially with America’s history of large and successful inventions spawning from garages much like in the UK coming from small garden sheds all starting from barely-working prototypes.
- Comment on "English" 2 months ago:
*butchered it
- Comment on Super Hans knows what's up 2 months ago:
This quote has got to be up there with
“The secret ingredient is crime.”
And
“That crack is very moreish.”
- Comment on This is my hole! 2 months ago:
I’d also like an explanation.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
(looks at arms)
Now listen here you little shit!
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 2 months ago:
It’s ok, not every social event is going to go well and most of the time it’s nothing personal, we’re all just kind of bumbling along through the confusing and absurd reality that is life.
May I join this group hug?
