This is just, like, the Counterstrike loadout store but in real life.

When I’m king, my army is going to work on Gun Game rules. Whenever our guys cap someone on the other side, their gun randomly changes.

In defense of Raiden in MGS2, though, I submit to you: But that backflip he does when you hang off of railings.

It’s worth a try.

Maybe later I’ll post a picture of my gimcrack contraption.

In theory, yes. But those usually have electronics in them in an attempt to save you from yourself. So it’s unlikely that the thing would fire when you wanted it to without being fooled into believing it was hooked up to a 12v battery in some way.

You can get off brand motorcycle batteries online for like $20. The quality is irrelevant for this application, especially since you probably won’t be welding hundreds of battery tabs in a day. The point is that they can reliably deliver enough amperage to weld the tabs while having a low enough terminal voltage to be unlikely to deal either yourself or your cells a mischief.

I made my own out of a motorcycle battery (which I have lying around in abundance), a length of jumper cable, a starter relay off of I think a 50cc scooter with a random salvaged microswitch as the trigger, and two short lengths of sharpened 10 gauge Romex as the probes. It works a treat. I haven’t fried a single 18650 with it yet.

I think my total net bill of materials was about $12, not including the junk I already had lying around, the majority of which was the relay.

I don’t know if Japan of all places is ready for it. We’d better hope the zombies are vulnerable to airsoft BBs.

The WTF here is not necessarily that some component on the circuit board failed, but that the manufacturer charges $400-$1000 for it with a straight face and gets away with it when they undoubtedly have that board made in China for about $4 per unit.

In terms of raw horsepower as well as storage, probably. People were already doing audio fingerprinting in the early '90s on, like, 386 hardware. It ought to be trivial for anything even vaguely modern. The entire fingerprint data for a 2 minute chunk of audio is 3-4 kB or something. I don’t even think the size of the database will be hugely onerous.

Interesting. Well, if I ever want to get into any of that I’ll look into it. For now, the stock firmware is doing fine by me.

How bizarre. I have noticed similar things in the past, in particular when lemmy.world was having federation difficulties (there was a pinned post about it a few days ago). Randomly posts of mine as well as others that were months old would show up interspersed with normal results when sorting posts by “new.” I wonder if this is a related bug.

I think I fixed a typo in the Kalashnikov post the other day, though. I’ve been going over some of the oldies and cleaning things up now that they’re all linked on my website as well.

All stock. What limitations are those? I haven’t run i to any that have impacted me as far as I can tell.

Patrick Stewart’s one man performance of A Christmas Carol, in 1994.

A) This is indeed a thing that happened and absolutely was not some kind of hallucination, and B) obviously I don’t go to shows very often, do I?

The users who downvoted you were [email protected] and [email protected]. I’m sure it would make their respective day(s) if you asked them.

I’ve given up trying to make heads or tails of downvoters’ behavior. I am convinced that some people here either think there is some “algorithm” that will magically stop showing them some type of content if they downvote it (I can’t imagine I’ve pissed in that many people’s cornflakes, so that’s my theory anyhow) and others who don’t quite understand that there’s no such thing here as reddit style karma.

I dunno. It is what it is. I think fewer people realize than they should that votes are publicly accessible on Lemmy, though.

(Don’t look at me. I haven’t downvoted anyone in four months.)

Nice try. I have the video ID memorized.

Sounds plausible to me. On reflection, I think I’d just run off a wooden box on my table saw if I need a cube to sit on.

My problem, as I’m sure many others have, is admitting when 3D printing something probably isn’t the best solution…

I meant to reply to this earlier but I forgot. If you’re getting at what you think you’re getting at, I in fact did not create [email protected]. Surprising, right? I simply tripped over it in my feed one day, make a couple of comments, and subsequently insinuated myself and took over the joint. The user who created it has been inactive for something like two years at the time of writing.

As he told it, Paul hated Christians and then had a vision of Jesus who told him off about it, and then he had a big change of heart and invented (modern) Christianity.

I think the main impact here is that there are plenty of embedded system-on-a-chip sort of things specifically designed for industrial applications not only still out there in the world, but still being actively manufactured that are based on the 486 architecture.

For retro gaming nerds, their 486 machines would all be running some variant of DOS anyway.

Arguably they didn’t. The modern trappings of Christianity were invented out of the whole cloth from Paul of Tarsus, when he had a “vision” of Jesus conveniently not seen by anyone else purportedly while he was traveling on the road to Damascus. Notably, all of this went down some decades after big J’s death.

It was Paul who discarded the bulk of the Jewish stuff, either out of desire to make it more palatable to his Roman peers or, possibly, simply because he was a raving nut. Paul was a self-described persecutor of the existing Christians, so he would have been in a pretty good position to know what their beliefs were to use as a starting point.

Could constitute war crimes

Blowing up a school and murdering 168 schoolchildren is absolutely a war crime. Journalists need to grow a spine and stop trying to spread uncertainty by soft-pedaling this shit.