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tuyop posted:I'm building a cloud chamber and I'd love to have a radioactive source that I can hold up near it to observe the particles it emits. Will a smoke detector work for this? If not, is there anything a civilian can get that will do that?
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Dawncloack posted:^^^ The ones that are online with pretty GUIs, yes. https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/ That's if you want to access the trained model in your application. It works basically the same as the chat bots, just letting you talk to it with code. If you just want the code for gpt3 to try to roll your own: https://github.com/openai/gpt-3 Of course, that doesn't come with the absurdly large model with absurd amounts of training put into it.
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When I'm stirring jam into my yogurt in the morning, every time the spoon hits the bowl I can feel a twitch in my left ear, like my eardrum flinched or something. What's up with that?
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alright i was reading something about the alphabet layoffs and they showed this pic of the ceo (nice cord management btw). where is the "foot" for the right leg of the desk? you can see the other leg has oneby the window
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Jan 20, 2023 17:42
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actionjackson posted:alright i was reading something about the alphabet layoffs and they showed this pic of the ceo (nice cord management btw). where is the "foot" for the right leg of the desk? you can see the other leg has oneby the window If I had to guess I'd say that the foot at the base of the window is bolted down and the free-floating leg is just there for stabilization
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:When I'm stirring jam into my yogurt in the morning, every time the spoon hits the bowl I can feel a twitch in my left ear, like my eardrum flinched or something. What's up with that? There's a muscle in your middle ear called the tensor tympani that reacts to loud sounds to reduce possible hearing damage which tenses the eardrum, so it really is your eardrum flinching. The spoon hitting the bowl could be causing that reaction even if isn't actually particularly loud.
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Jan 20, 2023 17:53
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actionjackson posted:alright i was reading something about the alphabet layoffs and they showed this pic of the ceo (nice cord management btw). where is the "foot" for the right leg of the desk? you can see the other leg has oneby the window It's a convertible standing desk. The circled part on the right leg isn't the end of the leg and its reflection, it's where one part telescopes into the next.
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^^^  blechactionjackson posted:alright i was reading something about the alphabet layoffs and they showed this pic of the ceo (nice cord management btw). where is the "foot" for the right leg of the desk? you can see the other leg has oneby the window
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i am so confused now
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actionjackson posted:i am so confused now That sliver of post you can see between the keyboard and his knees is the other leg, it's hidden by his legs. Then in the bottom right of the picture is a sliver of the foot of the near leg.
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actionjackson posted:alright i was reading something about the alphabet layoffs and they showed this pic of the ceo (nice cord management btw). where is the "foot" for the right leg of the desk? you can see the other leg has oneby the window it's behind his leg, you can see the top part of it 
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XenoCrab posted:There's a muscle in your middle ear called the tensor tympani that reacts to loud sounds to reduce possible hearing damage which tenses the eardrum, so it really is your eardrum flinching. The spoon hitting the bowl could be causing that reaction even if isn't actually particularly loud. Oh, neat! Thank you. Kinda weird that it only happens in the left ear. Next time I notice it, I'll have to try intentionally tensing that muscle (which creates a rumbling sound) and see how it affects things.
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actionjackson posted:i am so confused now  though there's probably a bit helping it not fall backwards as well that's behind his legs
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I have that desk (or one made by the same company) It's this one (or one like it) https://www.friant.com/tables/my-hite-3-stage/
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Does anywhere in the forums have a thread about lighting for filming simple videos? I’m trying to make a stupid thing, but I want it to look professional. Which means I want better lighting that, “Guy taking a dump with his laptop webcam” quality.
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Incoming weird question: I have two birds. I love them a lot. It's to an almost unhealthy level. Because of these two goobers, I've automated a bunch of stuff in their room, mainly the blinds and the lighting. It's one less chore for me to manage and it means I can be out of the home and still have the blinds close at sunset and the lights dim in the evening. I usually wake up in the morning and get them up with me, and our morning routine consists of breakfast as a gang and then I'll put some chill music on and leave it playing all day whilst I'm at work. At night time, I'll turn the music off and they'll go to sleep. Here's where I need help, for this next month, I'll be up and out the house by 7am each morning, and I won't get home until 9pm each day until mid-February. How can I automate the music on my laptop to only play between certain times? Cause right now I have an old laptop and it's on 24/7 on the chill music youtube page and I just pause / play it as I need to. But now I won't be able to start the music as I'll be out the house before the birds are up. Is there a program that lets me tell youtube when to pause / play a video? Should I just get an Alexa? It's not the end of the world if I can't figure something out, but I don't like leaving them in a quiet apartment all day for a month straight.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Sort of like this i'm still baffled by the closer leg. you can very clearly see it touching the floor without any feet.
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Qubee posted:Relaxing music for sweet birds.
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wait i might have figured it out now that little line in the bottom right is part of the foot
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Trapick posted:A Google home mini/Alexa will certainly do this, can I also offer the low-tech way of making a playlist that has silent videos throughout as needed? Like you could have chill music for six hours, then John Cage 4'33 seventeen times in a row or whatever. Does Google Home / Alexa let me set routines where I can say "At 9:30am, play youtube video so and so"? Your playlist idea works in the meantime.
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Jan 20, 2023 21:15
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Play music 24/7 through speakers you power on and off with a clock.
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Qubee posted:Does Google Home / Alexa let me set routines where I can say "At 9:30am, play youtube video so and so"? Your playlist idea works in the meantime. Edit: ^^ yeah classic solution to this is radio + plug timer thing.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Play music 24/7 through speakers you power on and off with a clock. This, use a basic light timer (the kind with the little tabs you push in / pull out) on the plug for the speakers. Also might I recommend somafm's many chill music channels, including Drone Zone (possibly too chill??) e: or an actual radio tuned to your local classical station
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It's weird how by combining just two requirements that should be absolutely trivial for a computer to fulfill, you can end up in a niche where it's difficult to find software to do it.
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You could also almost certainly do some command line stuff with a scheduler. Look up the command to launch VLC playing the URL of a chill music stream, have that run at 8 am. At 8 pm run a command kill all processes named VLC. Something like that. As usual the answer is Linux 
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teach the birds to turn the music on/off by sitting on the spacebar, let them choose when they want to jam
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Captain Log posted:Does anywhere in the forums have a thread about lighting for filming simple videos? But just watch a few youtube tutorials, there's a ton of content from aspiring future hollywood filmmakers, e.g. if you want to talk into the camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0xcKoE1P8 Qubee posted:Incoming weird question: I have two birds. I love them a lot. It's to an almost unhealthy level. Because of these two goobers, I've automated a bunch of stuff in their room, mainly the blinds and the lighting. It's one less chore for me to manage and it means I can be out of the home and still have the blinds close at sunset and the lights dim in the evening.
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Yeah you’re not going to find a program for this because it’s basic OS functionality already.
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With all these people lining up to defend fossil fuel interests from those who are pushing for action on climate change, are there any cartoons or memes that capture that idea?
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Bucky Fullminster posted:With all these people lining up to defend fossil fuel interests from those who are pushing for action on climate change, are there any cartoons or memes that capture that idea? Sorry but no, I don't think that anyone in history has made a cartoon or a meme about such a major topic.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:With all these people lining up to defend fossil fuel interests from those who are pushing for action on climate change, are there any cartoons or memes that capture that idea? I bet you could make your own pretty easily using the "Apu jumping in front of a bullet" Simpsons meme template. 
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El Jeffe posted:I bet you could make your own pretty easily using the "Apu jumping in front of a bullet" Simpsons meme template. Yeah thanks, I guess that's the basic idea:  But I was kind of thinking of like a proper political cartoon, or a "fellating satan's throbbing cock" type situation. alnilam posted:Sorry but no, I don't think that anyone in history has made a cartoon or a meme about such a major topic. ok so where are they
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Bucky Fullminster posted:ok so where are they Supressed by Big Oil!
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Yeah thanks, I guess that's the basic idea: in here
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Qubee posted:Incoming weird question: I have two birds. I love them a lot. It's to an almost unhealthy level. Because of these two goobers, I've automated a bunch of stuff in their room, mainly the blinds and the lighting. It's one less chore for me to manage and it means I can be out of the home and still have the blinds close at sunset and the lights dim in the evening. When I needed to remotely connect to my home PC from work, I bought a VNC licence - I believe RealVNC's VNC Connect even prevents you needing to the diddle around with dynamic DNS like I had to for my one https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/ Just connect to your PC, do what you need to and then close the VNC connection.
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Tesseraction posted:When I needed to remotely connect to my home PC from work, I bought a VNC licence - I believe RealVNC's VNC Connect even prevents you needing to the diddle around with dynamic DNS like I had to for my one https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/ TeamViewer is free for personal use.
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When you suck on hard candies, they have a tendency to develop sharp edges. Why is that?
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Tiggum posted:TeamViewer is free for personal use. Isn't that only the viewer side of things? Looking at the remote access software it says free trial / buy now.
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Tesseraction posted:Isn't that only the viewer side of things? Looking at the remote access software it says free trial / buy now. Also, while I'm thinking of it, in Windows you can use https://ninite.com to install it and keep it updated, along with a bunch of other stuff you probably use.
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Tiggum posted:https://www.teamviewer.com/en/info/free-for-personal-use/ Well waddaya know. Nice.
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