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Dirty_habiT

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  1. This is a cool project ( @craig) . Uses an FPGA to "emulate" hardware of old gaming systems. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel I have already built one of these things, it works fantastically well. The reason I say "emulation" in quotes is because it's not taking system calls from old gaming systems (processor specific instructions) and translating them with software (to x86 like your computer uses). An FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) can be reconfigured in real time with a set of software instructions to effectively behave EXACTLY like some piece of hardware. So a 555 timer is a really common integrated circuit used in all kinds of electronics. An FPGA can easily just "turn into" a 555 timer without doing any certain kind of translation of instructions. In this way, it can also "turn into" a Super Nintendo, a Neo Geo, etc...... and you can load the same roms you'd use with your emulators, except on the FPGA they look and behave flawlessly and exactly like the original hardware would have run them. It's a no BS no fuckery solution to playing retro games.
  2. I see.... so it's like a shelf that is a book then? What I accomplished yesterday/last night other than taking a nap: I got awoken from my nap by my gf calling me saying her car just "blew up" in the line at Freddies. Welp, great. I get dressed and go over there to pick her up, some people had helped push her car into a parking spot. Coolant is on the ground and of course the first thing my mind races to is the headgasket is fucked and the motor requires major work (that i'm not excited to do) if she didn't shut it off quickly after it was running hot. Well, the lesson, before I go on, if you don't watch your temp gauge on your car like a hawk, I suggest you start. I learned this over a decade ago owning the DSMs. I was constantly popping headgaskets on those cars for various reasons, all of which were always my fault. Anyway, I can't find the leak after looking over quickly but what I did find is that the connectors that plug the car's harness into the radiator fans was hanging close to the power steering pulley. The pulley had rubbed through the wire insulation and severed the wire completely..... meaning at highway speed the air passing over the radiator was keeping the car cool. When she stopped and sat in the line without fans running, the temp creeped up high enough to pressurize and explode her radiator. I didn't find the break in the radiator, I'll probably do that today at some point. So we drove back home and, fortunately, I own the exact same kind of car.... and had my radiator out on the garage floor because of a motor swap i've been in the "middle of doing for ~10mo now". (aka laziness) So, I take all the "non engine" cooling components that are already connected together in one piece (radiator, fans, hoses, sensors).... put that in the truck, put a 3 gallon container of water in the truck, my small jack, and my bag of tools. I had her radiator swapped out in less than 30 minutes. I saw bubbles in the coolant which tells me it likely suffered damage to the headgasket and will likely need to be fixed the way I really didn't want to have to fix it (engine removal). Anyway, not a big deal.... it was able to drive home just fine and held the proper temperature. You'll be in a MUCH better situation if you turn your car off when you notice the coolant temp gauge going over the halfway mark..... much better than if you let it peg hot and find the weakest link. My guess is one of the plastic end tanks is cracked now. She can keep my radiator setup and I will just buy a Koyo radiator for my car and install her stuff on it from her radiator once I fix the wiring. That was my night last night, woken up from a nap that I needed after only 20 minutes...... to go fix a crappy unplanned car issue. DHABZ express radiator replacement service $960 in 2h or less or your radiator service is FREEEEEEE.
  3. Gotta figure out how to make income without big brother knowing..... and no I'm not talking about selling drugs. crypto and cash both could handle this problem.
  4. That's pretty legit. Is the angle bracket so it can be screwed into the back of the book case or something?
  5. Strong enough to do the job hundreds of times over. The part that takes the stress is an oem gun part. Nothing is in danger of breaking catastrophically or exploding. Im sure if you don't know what you're doing you could easily assemble something unsafe to shoot.
  6. Lol. Because the stupid reporter made herself a meme? Makes sense in leftsy turvey land.
  7. I see. That makes sense to work towards that herd immunity.
  8. Awesome work! I think there are likely some standalone applications that could process and display this data. I hadn't considered using the easy answer of apple or google maps..... however, my concern here is, not that anyone else cares, that it'd be easy for any of these orgs to set up a fingerprint of people pasting this info and then linking it to their accounts. The only way it'd be "safe" IMO is to use a vpn + private window + a not logged in acct on google/apple to view the maps. This website probably has a forum somewhere that people are talking about applications that can consume the CSV files and display them. I think what you did works great though. I found this with a quick search, it seems pretty cool and you can try out some code in the process. https://blog.hugo-larcher.com/flight-data-visualisation-with-pandas-and-matplotlib-ebbd13038647
  9. I still haven't had time yet to figure out how to display the data in the repo but it's for lack of effort not talent. it should plot on a map all the places and flight paths those jets took.
  10. Git allows you to have "version control". So now at any time you can go into your directory you cloned and type git pull and it will pull in any new changes. You can also see all the history of what changes happened previously. On this repo it probably won't ever be updated or added to so in this instance using git to clone is just an easy way to pull a copy of files that exactly matches what the creator of the files had. Http downloads can corrupt or files can fail but still look ok. Git ensures that what you have matches what is in the GitHub repo. Super cool that you did this and if you learn git and some software dev stuff you are well on your way to financial independence. Please ask any questions. The only dumb question is one that wasn't asked.
  11. You don't have to subscribe to the ideology to display all the tell tale signs of being a leftist. You pretend to be centrist by saying you denounce all forms of government or you don't agree with any certain side yet the actions and words you speak say that you adhere rather strongly to the left side. I hold no reservation against telling you I'm a conservative.
  12. I would say props but I can't help but to think you've relinquished control over some aspect of your life (that most others handle for themselves). it's important to control your own upward momentum. Nobody cares about you getting ahead in life as much as you do. id ditch the union fuckery because they're not actually providing you anything that you cannot do yourself. I know that's some hard pills to swallow if that's mostly all you've ever known with all kinds of friends and family working for unions. I associate unions with mob faggots like the greasy wop Italians trying to control all the plumping and electricity jobs in all the pizza pie shops. Didn't pay your dues. Would be a shame if Luigi didn't show up to fix your leaky pipes that Mario came by and tapped with a hammer to crack over night. It would be a reallll shame.
  13. Just remember guys that when you say let's go Brandon that you're a far right wing conspiracy theorist labeled by your own favorite lefty news orgs. The left are easy to trick.
  14. I also think when you have kids at a young age your upward momentum in life instantly stagnates. Your focus becomes raising children and less on doing more than you did yesterday. I am not knocking anyone with kids, I've just watched most acquaintances I knew in school come to a hard stand still in career and money growth after having kids. They all say the same thing too. "Kids are so expensive". I wonder if in their limited thinking on that subject if a person that has worked to make a million or millions of dollars considers a pack of diapers to be expensive or daycare. Or new clothes. Fuck no they don't. The problem comes in when young parents feel personally attacked by this idea. They had the same ability to get ahead in life as anyone else. Working more hours isn't the answer to more success. It's figuring out how to make more money in less hours of work. People need to understand that.
  15. Dude this idea of luck is stupid. Luck doesn't exist at all and it's not a good word to use. It sounds like you believe in unicorns and fairies whenever I hear someone talk about luck.
  16. this describes a neighbor I have. Society didn't choose this life for him. His choices did. I'm not in the group of people that feels sorry for someone else's choices when it causes them pain. It's not revenge for nobody ever caring (outside my family) of poor choices I made. That's just how life is for some people. you've got to run your own race. Unionized labor doesn't allow you to be an individual. You will go as high as the union lets you and you will be stuck swinging from the nuts of sucking on the tit of the union for a raise. You guys ever notice this from watching the wire? The police union and how the polish enacted nepotism within the union? Fuck. All. That. If you are letting someone else be in control like that then you deserve only what they give you. I absolutely t bag the shit out of probably 98% of all union salaries. I start working at 10am and stop at 3pm with a two hour break in which I play battle field in between. my point is that nobody handed this to me. I've poured concrete. I delivered and repaired maytags. I was a diesel mechanic in the cold winters of north Texas, blah blah blah. I say the same thing about someone's job that they complained about that I say about complaining in jail. if you don't like it then bond out. It's obvious to the experienced what has to happen. It's lost on the person that thinks they enjoy complaining or that complaining is the actual solution to anything. Fuck unions. Fuck Kellogg too. Run your own race. Don't be a pussy and expect a union to care about you for anything outside of serving their own best interests. The only reason anyone is employed by a union, just like any other job, is because it benefits the union. When it doesn't your head rolls or you get stuck in that floor mopping union janitor position for eternity. If you want to control your life and pay you do what's best for you. Nobody can do that for you. Most people just have to stop being a pussy. Same with homeless. There are other ways but not for those that are limited in their thinking. Most union and homeless people are not actually limited they're just lazy. Easy to let someone else do the thinking for you. The difference for me is that I do the work AND the thinking for myself because most people cannot do this for me better than I can.
  17. Merry Christmas y'all. I've been driving all over Texas like normal. Went to San Antonio Friday and then Dallas Saturday morning then to Fort Worth then back to Austin a few hours ago. That's about 11 total hours of driving. We took one of the cars instead of mi troka. Hit 120mph on the mexican highway several times. Watched a ford st and Camaro hitting 140'ish mph and they just stayed in it cresting hills and going around sweeping corners. Really kinda impressed they didn't find the police. I couldn't go that fast with good conscience because I had precious cargo. Pretty sure everyone that met BB, our new puppy, is going to end up having to get a puppy soon. Dhabz and the boys/fam went to the gun range today and I casually asked the range master if anyone ever brought any 3d printed guns in. He said no he never saw anyone bring any. I asked if there were any rules against people bringing them and he said no it's fine. I asked, then, if he wanted to see one and he was like heck yeah. Lol. I ended up letting him and some other guy in the next lane over shoot it. They were both looking like little kids in a candy shop. Big eyes. All impressed lol.
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