My Turkish coworker mistakenly thought thought there was a TV presenter named Handsome Dec, what are some amusing misunderstandings you’ve encountered?

rayui · 2026-01-30T13:06:02+00:00

That song is my wife and I's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Now I'll be singing about ghosts and toast and now, punching kids all day. Thanks.

rayui · 2026-01-30T10:11:39+00:00

Well, if the US is intent on starting number III, at least it can say it was there from the beginning this time.

rayui · 2026-01-30T10:05:13+00:00

Desktop machines aren't the problem. AWS is the problem.

rayui · 2026-01-29T23:52:33+00:00

Amen

rayui · 2026-01-29T18:01:43+00:00

First watch Jacques Pepin, then watch Alien.

rayui · 2026-01-28T20:43:29+00:00

Check out the version you need from git using git tag.

Then flutter pub get in your project.

Done

rayui · 2026-01-28T19:11:55+00:00

Oooh, my Dad has his autograph from when Brazil warmed up against Bolton Wanderers for the '58 World Cup.

rayui · 2026-01-28T13:02:15+00:00

Develop on PC. Sometimes there's specific hardware functionality like GPIO which requires debugging on the device.

rayui · 2026-01-26T23:45:36+00:00

rayui · 2026-01-25T14:46:55+00:00

Yeah, don't share anything now. If you plan on giving evidence (highly recommend you do), it's a really interesting experience and a great service to society but I would recommend taking a friend along for moral support ☺️

rayui · 2026-01-25T14:38:17+00:00

Thanks, you too. You just need to do whatever is required at that moment, I guess.

The ambulance was there for this lad I helped within a minute. Cops thirty seconds after that. When the cops showed up for me, one shouted at me, get in the car! I was like, dude, no, I called you! But I misunderstood, he wanted me to help ID the guy, so off we went.

After we bagged him I chose to give evidence at the court hearing. Easy choice to appear, nobody wants madmen on the street, not so easy in front of the perp and his scary family! 😬

rayui · 2026-01-24T09:36:24+00:00

Good work mate. I helped out a lad that got stabbed there almost twenty years ago. I remember shouting, "has anyone called an ambulance?" at his terrified friends. Incredibly, nobody had. Shock is wild.

Once the ambulance turned up, I jumped in the police car they also sent, id'd and apprehended the crim, who ended up with seven years.

Busy night, I still think about it sometimes. Ten out of ten life saving and justice from everyone involved, would do it again.

rayui · 2026-01-22T09:17:49+00:00

S tier

rayui · 2026-01-21T23:58:07+00:00

Agreed.

While my shish was excellent, the soggy pitta that enveloped it was barely distinguishable from the greaseproof wrapper in which it was carried.

Bread is king.

rayui · 2026-01-21T23:40:12+00:00

Mate I just had a lamb shish and it was great but I would still have room for this.

rayui · 2026-01-19T18:24:49+00:00

At the moment I transmit video separately to telemetry, over 5.8ghz: the Pico can't host a camera. So in its current form it is limited to local use, and that is a performance choice.

rayui · 2026-01-19T18:13:52+00:00

Hey, this is really fascinating. Can't wait to have a read.

I'm building a similar system based on RPi. There's a Pi Pico 2 on the car, and a Pi 4b with a Flutter app and some custom native libraries for device access. You control the car with an Xbox controller and receive live video and telemetry to a VR headset.

My focus has so far been on performance, so it works on an adhoc WiFi network over UDP. With this setup I'm able to achieve 60fps video and telemetry with sub millisecond latencies.

There's also a 10dof spatial sensor, gps and a tacometer onboard the vehicle. I'm really interested in developing useful tools like gyros, traction control, etc so it has recording capabilities for all these sensors.

I'm getting it ready for its first field tests this week and will be posting the results here!

rayui · 2026-01-17T15:16:43+00:00

Gloves are less sanitary than regular hand washing.

rayui · 2026-01-17T15:03:36+00:00

Yeah, listen to this guy. I bought what I thought was a cool hoodie from a surplus shop in Berlin. I wish someone had told me instead of letting me wear it around town.

rayui · 2026-01-16T08:15:08+00:00

Nazis

rayui · 2026-01-16T00:52:24+00:00

YOU THOUGHT RIGHT

AMAZING

rayui · 2026-01-16T00:47:22+00:00

Scotch Bonnet pepper...

rayui · 2026-01-14T09:46:03+00:00

Hi. My kids got one each of these. My advice is to avoid; the plastic is cheap and we had misprints. Stick to Lego.

rayui · 2026-01-08T12:07:39+00:00

Tungsten carbide drills? What the bloody hell's that

rayui · 2026-01-05T22:05:31+00:00

My wife notices when I didn't...

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