We brought the Citroën home for a few days.
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We brought the Citroën home for a few days. #citroen #citroends #cars #classiccars
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We brought the Citroën home for a few days. #citroen #citroends #cars #classiccars
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We brought the Citroën home for a few days. #citroen #citroends #cars #classiccars
evan@cosocial.ca nice ride!
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We brought the Citroën home for a few days. #citroen #citroends #cars #classiccars
@evan Does it have that neat suspension where you can escape assassins while driving in flat tires...and also change a flat without a jack?
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We brought the Citroën home for a few days. #citroen #citroends #cars #classiccars
@evan Lovely!
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@evan Does it have that neat suspension where you can escape assassins while driving in flat tires...and also change a flat without a jack?
@Infoseepage yep
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@evan Wait, you've tested it against assassins? Jealous.
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@mauriciobc agreed!
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@evan Wait, you've tested it against assassins? Jealous.
@Infoseepage lol
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@julian thanks!
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@mjg how dare you reject Mr. Cerf's generous offer!?!?!
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How A Failed Video Format Spawned A New Kind of Microscope
The video cassette tape was really the first successful home video format; discs just couldn’t compete back in the early days. That’s not to say nobody tried, however, with RCA’s VideoDisc a valiant effort that ultimately fell flat on its face. However, the forgotten format did have one benefit, in that it led to the development of an entirely new kind of microscope, as explained by IEEE Spectrum.
The full story is well worth the read; the short version is that it all comes down to capacitance. RCA’s VideoDisc format was unique in that it didn’t use reflective surfaces or magnetic states to represent data. Instead, the data was effectively stored as capacitance changes. As a conductive stylus rode through an undulating groove in a carbon-impregnated PVC disc, the capacitance between the stylus and the disc changed. This capacitance was effectively placed into a resonant circuit, where it would alter the frequency over time, delivering an FM signal that could be decoded into video and audio by the VideoDisc player.
The VideoDisc had a capacitance sensor that could detect such fine changes in capacitance, that it led to the development of the Scanning Capacitance Microscope (SCM). The same techniques used to read and inspect VideoDiscs for quality control could be put to good use in the field of semiconductors. The sensors were able to be used to detect tiny changes in capacitance from dopants in a semiconductor sample, and the SCM soon became an important tool in the industry.
It’s perhaps a more inspiring discovery than when cheeky troublemakers figured out you could use BluRay diodes to pop balloons. Still fun, though. An advertisement for the RCA VideoDisc is your video after the break.
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See, this is what I hate about Dallas. People are opposed to HEB, one of the best things about Texas, opening a store here, and I just can't with these people.
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Abbattere il patriarcato, frantumare i generi, liberare i corpi. Anarchia e transfemminismo
@anarchia
Anarchia e transfemminismo ABBATTERE IL PATRIARCATO, FRANTUMARE I GENERI, LIBERARE I CORPI Il movimento transfemminista che da alcuni anni è emerso prepotentemente nella società ha impresso una svolta assai significativa al femminismo storico ancorato
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Good day all! Fireside Fedi episode 43 starts NOW! With me today is @reiver . If you don't know Reiver, go check him out. He works on TONS of projects such as #GreatApe , #SpaceHost , #HootSuite , #CrowdBucks , #Fedicon , etc.
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In a continuation of the sustained adventure with cellular/telco providers, a new cell number has been allocated with a pretty good combination of digits for memorization purposes. Cool, ok, moving on.. sometime today a text arrives from the telco looking for feedback.
> 1 of 4: How satisfied are you with Aliyah's ability to assist you during your interaction?
> 1 = Very DISSATISFIED
> 2 = Dissatisfied
> 3 = Neutral
> 4 = Satisfied
> 5 = Very SATISFIEDDid someone really name their child Aliyah? Is the simulation just messing with me — not more than one day after discussing the concept in seriousness several times again, just like six months ago, and before and before... 🤔
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@julian thanks!
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Our next DWeb Virtual Meetup is in one week!
On The Present and Future of Funding Open Source — a focus on the current, shifting landscape of financial support and sustainability in open source development.
When: TUES Sep 30, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 19 CET
Featured speakers: Brian Behlendorf @brianbehlendorf Zenna Fiscella @zelf & Alexander Sander @fsfe
