The Tech Random Crap Thread
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GasBandit
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Almost a year later and I'm STILL using the Christina Aguilera GPS voice. It still makes me cackle when my state-of-the-art EV sounds like a vacuous sophomoric starlet trying to sound like an entry on "I'm 14 and this is deep."
Man, I like the cool beat I get when I brake and accelerate like a complete fucking dipshit. Holy shit, pedal to the metal ruUUUUUUUUUUUUUULES!
Fast music already makes me want to drive like an idiot.
God damn it, I just watched the video, he shows directly how cool swerving like a dipshit would sound.
Yeah, that was the other thought I had, things that encourage you to alter the way you drive can be dangerous and lead to accidents
GasBandit
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Groundbreaking solar panels are 1000x more powerful than traditional panels
Solar cells currently in use are mostly silicon-based, but their efficiency is limited. This has led researchers to explore new materials.
www.thebrighterside.news
Obstacles are inefficient
Follow your intuition, free your inner soul
And break away from tradition
We burn it 'til it's burned out
Turn it 'til it's turned out
Act up from north, west, east, south
Everybody, everybody, let's get into it
Get stupid
I am 100% behind anything that reduces an individual's need to rely on some kind of resource that might be subject to shortages, either natural OR artificial.
--Patrick
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Incredibly misleading title though....It's 1000x more efficient than using pure barium titanate. It's not 1000x more efficient than using modern silicon based solar panels. More efficient, yes, but not by that degree.Groundbreaking solar panels are 1000x more powerful than traditional panels
Solar cells currently in use are mostly silicon-based, but their efficiency is limited. This has led researchers to explore new materials.
figmentPez
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Couldn't get the gallery to embed properly, but this was posted to Imgur with the title "Dear Bad Dragon R&D department.."
I am so close to getting everything protected so that all they need to do is Press Button 1, Press Button 2 and Press Button 3 and the only order that matters is to press 3 last!!!
Dave
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So you already know what's going to happen.
Yeah, Homer cornflakes.
figmentPez
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TL;DR Square (the credit card reader company) used the headphone jack as an interface as a workaround to Apple's restrictions, and that's probably part of the reason that Apple killed off the headphone jack.
Truck Fleet Owner Installs GPS Devices on Police Cars to Track and Avoid Them
The owner of a trucking company in China landed in hot water with law enforcement after she admitted to installing GPS tracking devices on police cars
www.odditycentral.com
--Patrick
Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day
"We'll add it to our Outlook reminders..."
arstechnica.com
--Patrick
But Y2K didn't exist and was a hoax I tell you!Paging r/softwaregore!Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day
"We'll add it to our Outlook reminders..."
--Patrick
Always wear a condom.
What VPN do would you recommend?
GasBandit
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Since you're mostly concerned with security and privacy and not the ability to obscure piracy, I'd say either ExpressVPN or NordVPN, or if you're not looking to pay money, ProtonVPN.
I've recently started doing a bit of ebay selling on the side and for the first bit was just printing off my labels via inkjet but eventually, I grabbed a little shipping label printer and it's been great for that but also the typical this thing didn't fit/wasn't what I was expecting return. It was only like 100 cad and then 500 labels was 25$, granted I had a business use for it but still it's been a life saver a few times already.
GasBandit
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Auuughhh
4 billion if statements
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.
andreasjhkarlsson.github.io
Senior Request Incoming.
I have 80 pictures of various sizes and aspect ratios.
I need to print them all on 2"x 2" squares(so 15 to a page I guess).
In Excel I can figure out how to resize them all to 2" by 2", but that ruins the aspect ratio. Or I can lock them all to either 2" height or width, but that means some will still be either too wide, or too high, to fit. Plus, I have to manually get them arranged.
I assume I should be able to somehow get them to import into Excel as one picture per cell, and then lock the cell sizes so the images auto-resize to fit in, but I can't figure out how.
Alternatively, if someone has an easier way of doing this, feel free to tell me.
I'm sure I should be able to do this but I'm sick as can be and it's 1 AM and my brainpower is gone.
I have 80 pictures of various sizes and aspect ratios.
I need to print them all on 2"x 2" squares(so 15 to a page I guess).
In Excel I can figure out how to resize them all to 2" by 2", but that ruins the aspect ratio. Or I can lock them all to either 2" height or width, but that means some will still be either too wide, or too high, to fit. Plus, I have to manually get them arranged.
I assume I should be able to somehow get them to import into Excel as one picture per cell, and then lock the cell sizes so the images auto-resize to fit in, but I can't figure out how.
Alternatively, if someone has an easier way of doing this, feel free to tell me.
I'm sure I should be able to do this but I'm sick as can be and it's 1 AM and my brainpower is gone.
Does it need to be Excel? It sounds like you need a program that generates contact sheets. I found one mentioned on DPReview called FastStone that might work.