The Unqualified Expert
@unqualifiede.bsky.social
Computer guy, mad scientist and tinkerer, anarchist, 11C in pre-history.
Hair thickening goop.
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Hair thickening goop.
Youngest moved to Massachusetts, has described their barbecue as "chicken tenders in ketchup".
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Youngest moved to Massachusetts, has described their barbecue as "chicken tenders in ketchup".
Curious about paste and artificial paste and how I can get some.
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Curious about paste and artificial paste and how I can get some.
That was exactly my read.
December 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
That was exactly my read.
Pre-pandemic we were most of the way into printing one of those 4x8 CNC router setups. I've got the controller and printed most of the hardware. Then my brother's router fell in our laps.
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Pre-pandemic we were most of the way into printing one of those 4x8 CNC router setups. I've got the controller and printed most of the hardware. Then my brother's router fell in our laps.
He's doing the van life thing, it's as good as mine.
I don't use it that often I need to be more organized.
I don't use it that often I need to be more organized.
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
He's doing the van life thing, it's as good as mine.
I don't use it that often I need to be more organized.
I don't use it that often I need to be more organized.
I think it's one of the smaller shopbots, 24x36in.
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I think it's one of the smaller shopbots, 24x36in.
What have you got? My brother's shopbot sits in my garage.
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
What have you got? My brother's shopbot sits in my garage.
You use a CNC router for that?
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You use a CNC router for that?
Things in it include atropine and scopolamine, it was used to cosmetically dilate pupils when that was fashionable.
But like Badger says, mostly poison. Or for summoning man eating textile machinery in Stephen King stories.
But like Badger says, mostly poison. Or for summoning man eating textile machinery in Stephen King stories.
December 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Things in it include atropine and scopolamine, it was used to cosmetically dilate pupils when that was fashionable.
But like Badger says, mostly poison. Or for summoning man eating textile machinery in Stephen King stories.
But like Badger says, mostly poison. Or for summoning man eating textile machinery in Stephen King stories.
Is that a chrome era M16 bolt?
December 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Is that a chrome era M16 bolt?
Spreading cold peanut butter is hard.
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Spreading cold peanut butter is hard.
She failed to realize when you're headed to fire caves with the Emissary of the PahWraiths you are going as the sandwich.
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
She failed to realize when you're headed to fire caves with the Emissary of the PahWraiths you are going as the sandwich.
I think the references have shifted a bit: in the last 35 years I've gone up two sizes of Converse, but only one size in running shoes.
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I think the references have shifted a bit: in the last 35 years I've gone up two sizes of Converse, but only one size in running shoes.
It never ends... just slows down.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It never ends... just slows down.
Little smoked plastic window on the back of laptops, an inch square. The idea was you just set your laptop next to a matching port and you don't have to click in a cable.
Then Wi-Fi became ubiquitous.
Also, from an age with significantly less bandwidth.
Then Wi-Fi became ubiquitous.
Also, from an age with significantly less bandwidth.
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Little smoked plastic window on the back of laptops, an inch square. The idea was you just set your laptop next to a matching port and you don't have to click in a cable.
Then Wi-Fi became ubiquitous.
Also, from an age with significantly less bandwidth.
Then Wi-Fi became ubiquitous.
Also, from an age with significantly less bandwidth.
You remember IR ports on laptops? Lots of people have had Bright Ideas in this space.
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You remember IR ports on laptops? Lots of people have had Bright Ideas in this space.
Sounds like the kind of analysis you could do with a graphics card, parallelize the analysis. The expense would be in the development.
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sounds like the kind of analysis you could do with a graphics card, parallelize the analysis. The expense would be in the development.
It needs ultra high framerate video though. They can do some stuff with lower frame rates, but it sounds a bit dodgy...they're guessing at number of people and gender.
It seems to me you could also discern audio at the location of the camera, from the vibrations of the sensor.
It seems to me you could also discern audio at the location of the camera, from the vibrations of the sensor.
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It needs ultra high framerate video though. They can do some stuff with lower frame rates, but it sounds a bit dodgy...they're guessing at number of people and gender.
It seems to me you could also discern audio at the location of the camera, from the vibrations of the sensor.
It seems to me you could also discern audio at the location of the camera, from the vibrations of the sensor.
[Flailing intensifies]
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
[Flailing intensifies]
Always seemed that way to me doing the training for this, on the bottom.
On the positive side, you don't commit a war crime.
On the positive side, you don't commit a war crime.
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Always seemed that way to me doing the training for this, on the bottom.
On the positive side, you don't commit a war crime.
On the positive side, you don't commit a war crime.