@ghalfacree I assumed when I saw this that "serving suggestion" is just some ancient incantation included for superstitious reasons, the meaning of which has been lost to time

@dtl Something about us having email clients that didn't immediately explode their heap to 5 gigs as soon as you run them (he says having spent yesterday evening trying to figure out what the hell Thunderbird is playing at).

@markmoxon
Manual: "Set the station in your sights, and make your approach slow and in the final moments dead slow."
Docking computer: "lay in a collision course maximum impulse!"
🫣

@dtl @ben Oxidiser low. Replace explosion cartridge.

@dtl "look, we know the penny pinchers are going to want to mess about with your BOM. But don't blame us when it doesn't work the way we said."
"Seriously, we even stuck to E3 values for you - you should have them all in stock!"

@jimblimey did you make sure it is all secure? I've been stupidly busy today so unable to perform my usual public service to new tnfsd operators sorry 😄

@Wintermute_BBS Me 😜

@philpem don't release any ancient curses!

@jimblimey and that's one of the other reasons I never get the enthusiasm to finish my spectranet projects...

@jimblimey I'm half tempted to start over in asm and try and cram it into 4k as a ROM module, but I already know I wouldn't finish it 😅

@jimblimey yeah that was further than I got. All the code for drawing and undrawing windows was fun, but then actually implementing stuff to use them seemed like a drag 😆

@jimblimey looking at the code I included a #define to disable them, in a block of stuff marked
/* compile time options to reduce toolkit size */

I think that's about the size of the compiled code rather than memory used by the features.

@jimblimey I was particularly pleased with the drop shadows 😀

@jimblimey That way madness lies... I did something similar once, building a complicated UI framework that gobbled all the RAM that I never ended up finishing/using 😆

@jacksonchen666

@philpem
Last time I was working on a SMPSU I started off by dutifully discharging the ~340V off the primary caps, but later forgot after powering it up to take a measurement, oof!
The zap must have caused negative amounts of learning as I did the same thing three more times that afternoon.
(similar sequence of events happened several years earlier working on a dismantled point and shoot camera)

@gkmac I always assumed it was a rubbish attempt at a rainbow 😀

@dtl remembered I have Open Camera installed

@dtl I thought it was rather clever, but now I'm itchy and have the sneezes from disturbing the thick dust on the shelf where they live 😆

@dtl that's a slightly better photo than I managed...
I couldn't work out how to get the phone camera to lock focus at infinity and didn't have time to fiddle with settings.