@ross Yikes. Do you have a lifeboat for the fish?

I just went to JLC to order five credit-card sized PCBs ($5 total, including a stencil) but it now costs $43 to ship them. I mean, this is still a bargain by any reasonable measure and nobody in the US can do it for that price, but still. That's more than twice what it used to cost.

@alexelcu It always seemed to me that the idea of serializable classes with inspectable metadata was inspired by VB's UI builder, which worked amazingly well using these ideas and was totally dominant at the time.

@ross @zachmccoy What is this, a Buc-ee's for ants?

My D&D group often complains that most of my dice are too unreadable. So I had this idea for a custom die. It is extremely machine-readable, error-correcting and able to be read from any orientation!

@thalia It's worked great for me thus far, but @TechTangents recently posted a video about long-term damage, so definitely check that out.

@thalia this'n https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0782YY5RD?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

@thalia It’s essentially a fabric typewriter ribbon sewn into a loop, which one can make, they say, but I haven’t tried it. Seems messy. The ink I found works well though. I’ll get you the Amazon listing.

@thalia The 733 ASR is really something, wow. Great collection! I look forward to updates as you find more room.

I have a handful of 3D models for Model 43 parts that were broken on mine, just FYI in case yours is similarly broken. https://github.com/tpolecat/3d-models/tree/main/TTY%2043

A film about robots and manufacturing? From the 70s? With DEC hardware and clunky early CAD? And wall-to-wall bangers? In this economy?

It's all you could ask for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkEMcnb25BY

@d6 Amaze. I love it.

@zachmccoy !! Is that a legal card?

@deech Yeah now that I know a little bit about programming languages I really appreciate the thought that went into Pascal. It’s very good.

@d6 Winter storm coming. We all remember the one a few years ago when most of the city lost water and power for a week.

gosh

@deech On the plus side this totally resolves the dilemma of whether I should build a home server or not.

@arosien I saw that, and I have no idea what he is talking about. I want nothing to do with any of this.

@paulrickards Thanks for sharing your progress on this, it’s a really fun project.

@NicolasRinaudo The whole point of functional programming is to make that refactoring always work.