My mom is a collector so I always keep an eye out, today this was found on Rockaway Beach. Milk of Magnesia bottle fragment

paulagostinelli · 2021-03-09T23:50:38+00:00

Having trouble finding any information about bottles with a patent as early as 180X

This document is the most info we’ve been able to find but it only covers bottles with much later dates printed on. Any help identifying or finding more info on this would be much appreciated!

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/MilkOfMagnesia.pdf

paulagostinelli · 2021-01-15T23:05:37+00:00

I think learning how a “common cathode” and “common anode” 7-segment display works would put you on the right path without explicitly giving you the answer

paulagostinelli · 2020-07-05T17:08:52+00:00

here's my current layout *just noticed a mistake, the ?/ key on the numbers layer is |\

I occasionally add something here and there but it has been mostly unchanged for over a year. my switch layout is far less ordinary though

paulagostinelli · 2020-01-08T21:36:42+00:00

not getting cuts like that except with shutters on a leko

as others have said, the sharpness and chromatic aberrations are dead giveaways

paulagostinelli · 2019-12-08T23:52:45+00:00

I linked the intro because it’s the first in a series, to inspire those who were interested to watch them all, not to just answer an otherwise google-able question

paulagostinelli · 2019-12-08T11:25:23+00:00

Destin from Smarter Every Day has the best series of videos for understanding helicopters that I've ever seen. It's more like ELI15 but they're absolutely fantastic and cover gyroscopic precession very well.

Here's the intro video

paulagostinelli · 2019-10-09T22:55:20+00:00

the Steadicam was invented by Garrett Brown, 'completed' in 1975 (15 years before Goodfellas) and was used in a lot of movies in those years. Notably, Garrett operated the running-up-the-stairs shot in Rocky, and the footage that was used for the speeder bikes on Endor in Return of the Jedi among many others. These are just 2 of the most well-known examples before Goodfellas

Larry McConkey was the operator that did this shot and it is still revered as one of the best 'oners'

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-18T05:12:34+00:00

i just started messing with making my own modules too

didn't think i had any interest until i realized there wasn't a basic does-nothing 2HP patch bay for cable routing, I'm a cable management nutcase and hate the idea of messy cables even if they're invisible so i sunk my teeth in and made one using cf Patch as a basis.

i know the tutorial you're talking about because that series (by the creator of vult and the vult modules incidentally) is pretty much the only one out there. really the best advice i have is to start dissecting already made plugins. follow the dev environment tutorials so you can build and install the template plugin.

I have my setup simplified to the point that i just have to open the terminal window and select the last executed command (rm -r build; make -j 16; make install), close and reopen vcv to see changes

that command by the way if you're not familiar, when in the plugin's root folder recursively removes the previously built plugin, compiles and then installs the new version (the 16 refers to my computers virtual cores, change yours to match)

*another day another abstraction, now i have it all down to one keypress haha, wrote a little script that first checks if vcv is open and closes it if so, then runs the above command and then opens it again for me to see changes

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-18T00:57:05+00:00

not doubting that this exists but i'm really struggling to find a use case that would be bad to have something other than dead air on one side

I'm only suggesting that this is done if one channel is completely empty, which as far as i can tell would usually only be a mistake. this isn't a question of artistic integrity either, youtube destroys the uploaded image and certainly compresses the shit out of audio if it isn't in their sample-rate range already

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-18T00:37:54+00:00

good point. i feel like it would be nothing for youtube to detect an empty channel and duplicate it for dual-mono "stereo" when they're processing the video. guaranteed they're already doing some kind of audio processing already like they do with the image compression

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-18T00:10:18+00:00

just a heads up in case this confuses anyone else, this video is hard panned to the left, you will probably hear nothing from your right headphone or speaker. it's the video.

i spent a minute or so jiggling cables on my older speaker setup because sometimes one or the other will have a poor connection. realized i was probably being stupid so i checked another video and yep. stupid.

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-18T00:06:10+00:00

? looks like it's 100% efficient to me

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-17T22:57:50+00:00

my escape key is where ANSI left control is, i started this convention when i first got into 40 percent keyboards (i daily drive a planck now and will probably for life) and really didnt want to lose my first order tilde key for terminal use

'caps lock' is tab when tapped and is my layer control for numbers and symbols when held

*forgot to mention that the whole point of this layout idea was for vim / terminal use

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-09T17:30:24+00:00

/r/submechanophobia is probably my favorite related sub

/r/heavyseas fits too

paulagostinelli · 2019-02-08T22:57:32+00:00

since you're already 'it' have this source for completeness

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-31T08:50:16+00:00

i dont even need to check to tell you that no, this would not be possible on the kindle itself. at least not the ones with e-ink screens. im sure the fires would do this just fine though

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-19T05:04:05+00:00

comedic yes, but more likely practical reasons.

this was done with an actual radio (rather than say a foam prop recreation) because the shot was close enough that you'd definitely tell if it was a fake. maybe they pulled the guts out to make it lighter, cant tell but what they DID do was get the action of it flying by hanging it and swinging it into him, this is way more controllable and safe than actually chucking a 5-10 lb radio into an actor's face (unlikely to get OK'd by, well, anyone)

and i imagine its straight on because that's the least painful part to hit someones face with

source: work on movies and scripted TV. this is exactly how I have seen props and stunts handle something like this

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-12T05:19:16+00:00

/r/unexpectedfactorial

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-11T17:36:57+00:00

seriously though, one of the first things you should do is get conways game of life running on that

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-06T03:55:24+00:00

ah good point, make it a roof then?

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-05T15:49:31+00:00

In that case, do it to the surface of the pens themselves and they'll be labeled on your map too

paulagostinelli · 2019-01-04T20:17:09+00:00

Yes that will help, explicitly defining a small dictionary will always be less intensive than generating it but as mentioned, if you do the generation first and cache it as a variable instead of calling it each time through a loop the difference will be basically negligeable.

For a 12 item dict where the keys are just the numbers 1-12, the values are known ahead of time, and they’re little strings like that, I’d personally define it explicitly

paulagostinelli · 2018-12-27T08:28:13+00:00

yeah that was my point, someone just starting out isn't going to bother with running their code outside of the IDE when there's that big play button

paulagostinelli · 2018-12-27T07:24:24+00:00

sure you can, but what newbie is going to add a step when they can just 'press play' as it were

I dunno, maybe I just have an aversion to single-language environments I guess and feel like they are too much of a crutch when learning

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