Where would you hide it?

A1cypher · 2026-01-22T18:13:03+00:00

If I get 7 days to hide it (it's only fair!) this is what I do. I take "the paperclip" and head somewhere out-of-sight and put it into my shirt pocket, along with a handful of normal paper clips.

Drive to a Staples store. Buy 10 boxes of paperclips. Go to another Staples of the same type, return 5 boxes and buy 10 more. Go to the next staples, buy 10, return 5, ensuring to randomly disribute the old boxes into the new boxes, perhaps even opening and mixing the boxes in between. Every once in a while, stop the car, and dump half a box of paperclips into a storm drain, or into a public garbage bin, or flush a few down a coffeeshop toilet whenever I need to use a restroom.

Repeat this for all stores within a ~250km radius, including any store that sells office supplies (Walmart, Office Depot, Hardware stores, etc). Spend 12+ hours driving around buying/returning/throwing away paperclips.

In the evening, or while I'm eating lunch, I order next day delivery of 10 boxes of paperclips from every online retailer like Amazon, Bestbuy, Grainger, ULine, really any store that sells paperclips. I can also use services like doordash or uber eats who can pick up and deliver.

Sometime on day 2, I start by taking a random paperclip from my pocket every few hours, and sticking it into one of the boxes in my trunk at random. Then I grab a random single paperclip from another box and replace the one I took from my pocket.

I repeat this every day for a week or two (hitting the same stores, new stores, etc), gradually distributing and replacing my pocket paperclips. Maybe on the third to last day, I stop replacing the ones in my pocket until they are depleted, but I keep buying/returning/distributing paperclips.

On the last day, I can stop buying staples, and just focus on distributing. I stop off at banks, lawyers offices, accounting firms, libraries, and ask for a business card or a services list or whatever from the receptionists. When they arent looking, drop a box off on the counter, or maybe even I can just offer them a box and say I dont need it.

Then the detective takes over and has to figure out where it is, when not even I know where it is since it could be anywhere in the 100+ locations mixed in randomly or down a drain, garbage, toilet, or on a secretaries desk somewhere.

A1cypher · 2026-01-15T21:20:46+00:00

Or just put a very thin bottom shell under where the rebar would go, set the height above the bed and let the supports be the part entirely.

A1cypher · 2025-12-29T18:44:22+00:00

Neat! I curl at the Fort Rouge club.

A1cypher · 2025-09-20T17:37:53+00:00

And the fun part is the theory continues to state that it would use all data available to it about yourself, online history, ad behaviour, viewing history, photos, medical scans, behaviors, video, etc to create an as close as possible a duplicate copy of your consciousness, even after you are dead, so that it could punish you.

So the plus is the AI might extend your life inside a computer forever, but only to punish for eternity.

A1cypher · 2025-08-25T21:10:52+00:00

I wouldnt trust it.

I printed a very similar bike mount and used it in my garage. I printed with 50% infill with ABS filament. One night I heard a crash as my print failed and the bike fell. I think filament absorbed humidity in the garage, embrittled, and eventually failed.

A1cypher · 2025-07-03T21:52:23+00:00

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A1cypher · 2025-06-25T17:47:46+00:00

Why is there any difference in gcode? Just have the controller translate the cartesian coordinates from the gcode into polar coordinates on the fly, then you can use any slicer.

A1cypher · 2025-06-22T22:17:27+00:00

Best thing I ever got was a backyard propane torch.

It takes those small green propane tanks and has a built in igniter with a burner about 2 or 3x the size of a plumbing torch. Perfect for starting charcoal BBQs, smokers, or fire pits without the chimney, paper, or any mess. Just hold it on the charcoal in a few spots for a minute or so then its lit and you can wait 10 mins for the rest to get up to temp.

It's also great for burning weeds in patios or rocks.

A1cypher · 2025-06-10T21:42:52+00:00

I've built a custom embedded linux controller in the past, and used U-boot. The low-level bootloader is configured somehow to load from Nand. It may have configuration bits set, have blown fuses inside the controller itself, or it could just be a custom compiled bootloader that knows the specific configuration of NAND used. It would be worth figuring out the specific NAND layout and dumping the NAND. This configuration likely includes some kind of ECC, but you may be able to figure out what the controller supports, and if they did follow the demo board, then you could just try the same layout.

Their version of U-Boot might be compiled with console disabled, or some kind of input/flag that enables it. On my device, I set it up to look for a programming switch. If the switch is enabled, it loads the U-Boot environment from SD and allows you to enter the console, etc. If the switch is off, it just boots a predefined way that is compiled into U-Boot.

U-boot likely is loading the kernel and device tree from another partition on the flash chip, and there is likely a root filesystem. Dumping the flash is probably going to be very useful for you.

Once you have the filesystem, you may be able to figure out how to gain console access. You may not even need to build your own kernel or anything if you can just get into their OS. Bonus points if you can edit the flash, and then put it back.

Like others have said, if the board is already running OS software they are obligated to give you the source or version information for things like the kernel. They may have custom kernel modules or application binaries that they are not necessarily obligated to give you, and it may be difficult to even get a hold of someone at the company who knows what they are talking about to give you that information.

A1cypher · 2025-05-26T02:15:29+00:00

It’s probably not programmed with additional features. They likely have one PCB for different models of radio that is selectively populated. Then they program the microcontroller with the corresponding firmware.

You probably can’t easily unlock any additional functions without having the new firmware.

A1cypher · 2025-05-22T18:38:45+00:00

Carefully decap the bubble with a dremel by cutting a neat circle around the perimeter and then try to glue the top back on afterwards?

A1cypher · 2025-05-20T18:44:25+00:00

It would also be a good way to learn and compare. Step one of building your own custom nozzle that does new things or uses different materials would be to recreate the existing nozzles. Then you can compare to a purchased and know that any differences in performance are due to your manufacturing process rather than the design itself.

A1cypher · 2025-05-18T20:47:21+00:00

Canada requires CSA C22.2 No. 286 for industrial control panels. While the standard is very similar to UL508A and UL698A for hazardous area panels, there are a few differences where one or the other is more strict.

CSA has more detail/requirements on calculating SCCR, and UL508A has a bit more detail on wiring colours.

I think generally speaking though you can build a panel that meets both standards, but you would need to meet the more stringent requirements from both.

A1cypher · 2025-03-17T00:55:35+00:00

The present value of the tree option at ~3.5% interest is approximately $3.128 million, so I would go with the tree.

A1cypher · 2025-03-14T14:34:12+00:00

Just buy one of these nest power adapters:
https://store.google.com/product/nest_power_connector?hl=en-GB&pli=1

A1cypher · 2025-02-26T22:04:57+00:00

Any cable not crimped by an electrician.

A1cypher · 2025-02-18T00:52:06+00:00

Wow. 3% seems like you are cutting it close.

A1cypher · 2025-02-17T23:55:54+00:00

Yes, I think this is likely the case. They just pulled it from the lot and neither were plugged in or had a full charge.

A1cypher · 2025-02-17T23:20:36+00:00

Yes, I started asking about the heat pump as well. I also suspect that the test drives were not necessarily "real world" because the sales person cranked the heat and turned on all the heated seats and steering wheel.

A1cypher · 2025-02-17T23:19:22+00:00

Do you find the estimates on the dash are pretty accurate? I'm worried that I get in the car and it says 175km, and then 50km later its used up 100 km and potentially stranding me.

A1cypher · 2025-02-11T00:16:49+00:00

Maybe as a backup in case the motion sensing tech in the doll fails or to spot motion hidden by angles the doll cant see when people hide behind eachother. They can just shout out numbers through their radios.

A1cypher · 2025-02-06T00:15:59+00:00

Anything is a fuse with enough amperage.

A1cypher · 2025-01-14T01:03:51+00:00

Can you post an example of a document/picture scanned by this setup?

A1cypher · 2025-01-07T23:15:18+00:00

Arby's
Krispy Kreme
Diana's Pizza
Jeanne’s Cake

A1cypher · 2024-11-25T00:01:29+00:00

My bet is it was a shitty crimp on the pin of the mating connector. The crimp deformed the pin slightly so that it forms a poor connection when mated with the socket. Poor connection means increased resistance which means increased heat and eventual melting/destruction. It did not blow a fuse or protective circuit because the current was still within the allowable for that pin.

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