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Pixelbrickon CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

I'd of said I had limited appetite for April fools gubbins this year too but this still made me smile :)

Pixelbrickon Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died

I used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.

Pixelbrickon Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.

Pixelbrickon Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

Isn't that what parallel construction is for?

Pixelbrickon First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

Can't think of a way that brains doing this is adaptive in an evolutionary sense.

Pixelbrickon One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm

Banana!

Pixelbrickon The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir

Too right. Never trust someone who thinks they have all the answers.

Pixelbrickon Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat

Dirty money for dirty deeds...

Pixelbrickon Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam

You've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle of Sodor.

Pixelbrickon The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron

As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(

Pixelbrickon The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s

Inspiration for Bruce Sterling's short 'Jim & Irene!'

Pixelbrickon Permutation City (1994)

If you enjoy the 'cute bugs doing science' SF subgenre then his incandescence is definitely worth a look.

https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/Incandescence.html

Pixelbrickon Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration

Awesome find, the author is lucky indeed. I've got a 2465 (no B) that I love dearly & have spent too much time & money on.

Pixelbrickon Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home

The same way it used to be done before we had LSI/VLSI!

Pixelbrickon Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

Another one from the Center for the study of the Blindingly Obvious.

Pixelbrickon Building a new ZX Spectrum from all new parts

There's also the superfo harlequin that disintegrates the ULA into 74 series logic:

https://www.bytedelight.com/?product_cat=harlequin128

I'm currently building the 48k version

Pixelbrickon A species of deep-sea squid has the world’s biggest light-producing organs

https://web.archive.org/web/20230607012046/https://nautil.us...

Pixelbrickon BeaglePlay from BeagleBoard brings fun to building with computers

Take another look at the spec, looks like it has the dual core PRUs, an R5 & the A4 - whoops M4

Pixelbrickon The Case of the Dead Mini5SX

Thanks OP! That was a lovely writeup.

Pixelbrickon The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)

Measure the voltages on the connector. There's a pinout diagram further down on this page:

https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...

I've seen a bad power supply kill one of the two CIAs, the color ram & damage the SID on a C64C

Pixelbrickon Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot

Better they keep a cadre of smart people who can do this stuff than lose the institutional knowledge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank

Pixelbrickon Why does anything exist?

A concise treatment of all of metaphysics... :)

Pixelbrickon Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body

Well this is a pretty big deal if it works. Ischemic injury being the thing that actually kills alot of trauma patients.

Pixelbrickon I fixed my broken monitor with a hair dryer

Replacing electrolytics that'd gone bad was my entry point to electrical engineering.

Pixelbrickon Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (1991)

I think 2C-B varies in its effects from person to person a bit more than some of the others. What you describe sounds like what's happened to me when I've pushed the dose a bit high.

I've friends who swear by taking it when coming down from MDMA; where for me doing that always ends up with large chunks of my visual field being replaced with oozing neon magma & me needing to go & have a "lie down..."

Pixelbrickon Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

Well said. Also fair play to you for being prepared to openly identify as who you are, in a part of the world where it's not necessarily as easy to do so as it is for many of us.

Pixelbrickon The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06232003

Pixelbrickon Analog Devices AD1139

Great write up - thanks OP, I'd not seen a hybrid torn down like that before.