@brouhaha SLIPPERY WHEN WET

@MLE_online @mcdanlj unsolicited advice: copper needs to be fired in an inert atmosphere to stay conducive. For atmosphere containing oxygen, use silver or gold. A typical formula is 75% powdered metal, 5% glass frit, 20% organic goo to make it stick then burn off. The paste works great for circuits, and the first electronics applications used existing pottery materials and methods.

@MLE_online Protanopia filter applied to original image. Choice is good, it follows the "change two things" idea. In this case the dots are a more meaningful contrast.

@kwf it needs to be possible and commonplace to go out for food and drinks with pocket change.

@kbob The challenge with splines is that when they are used on time domain or frequency domain data, they tend to have too much overshoot. Other interpolation functions are generally quite a bit better.

@kwf my electrician called this “the European plumbing look” when he installed some on my house.

@kwf I used to sit next to that guy! You want I should tell him you are thinking about him? (Actually he has retired, and I am unlikely to run into him).

@MLE_online sugar is retail $8.00 for 20 lb, which ferments to 3.5 gallons of vodka. If the energy source is retail propane, the cost to triple distill 3.5 gallons is about $10. So, grocery store vodka is inherently worth about $1/fifth, federal tax on it is $2.70, California state tax is another $0.66. So even for the cheap stuff, price is dominated by packaging and distribution.

@tubetime even a big dish antenna has enough sidelobes such that detection of high power pulse transmitters is easy.

@tubetime This type of pulse is easy to detect in the time domain with a diode detector and an oscilloscope. Throw in a log amp after the detector to be fancy about it.