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Simon

01:10

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David Freitag

02:03

It's going to be a loooooong night

Also it's supposed to get down to -40°C tonight

WELCOME TO WINTER

cc:\ @schroeder

LOL

Google Music has a Valentines playlist called "Feeling Mopey" under "Being Single"

Mark Buffalo

02:30

@Simon lulz

@DavidFreitag ...insanity

schroeder

02:43

@DavidFreitag woot! finally!

David Freitag

EEVblog #850 - French Wattway Solar Roadways BUSTED!

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Mark Buffalo

03:14

@DavidFreitag Solar Roadways are awesome

Said no one ever

Journeyman Geek

Also the idea isn't ludicious efficiency

Its "Lets increase surface area"

David Freitag

03:37

@JourneymanGeek Yeah at 6x the cost plus a stupid amount of maintenance

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Jeff Ferland

07:00

Holy shit time zones.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

David Freitag

07:16

@JeffFerland Time zones?

Jeff Ferland

@DavidFreitag I'm in Kiev. I'm usually in San Francisco.

David Freitag

@JeffFerland Ooooh nice, opening a Facebook branch in Russia? :b

Jeff Ferland

@DavidFreitag Left them a year ago. Tubular Labs has an office out here.

David Freitag

@JeffFerland Interesting. You permanently in Kiev or just on holiday?

Jeff Ferland

@DavidFreitag I wouldn't call it holiday, but just a week here.

David Freitag

07:20

@JeffFerland Haha, yeah I was kidding. I don't know that anyone would go to Russia on holiday. I'd be interested to go, but given the choice I'd go somewhere in the Caribbean.

Journeyman Geek

....

Kiev is not part of Russia

Jeff Ferland

@JourneymanGeek Crimea today, old USSR tomorrow... depends on if you ask Putin, really.

David Freitag

@JourneymanGeek LOL so it isn't

@JeffFerland So is it -40°C there like it is here?

Jeff Ferland

@DavidFreitag High of 12C, I think today?

5 outside right now

OK, high of 9C.

David Freitag

There's a high of -5°C today with 30 kph sustained winds and 40 kph gusts. Oh, and snow.

Jeff Ferland

07:32

That's not -40

David Freitag

It's 2am right now

The high for today will be in 14 hours or so

Journeyman Geek

@JeffFerland this seems plausible. Yes

David Freitag

08:25

EEVblog #716 - Raspberry Pi 2 Xenon Flash Problem Explained

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Rоry McCune

08:40

morning all

@DavidFreitag go to sleep, it's Monday morning!

David Freitag

@RоryMcCune Sleep? What is that?

Rоry McCune

phhbt

David Freitag

Interestingly a Raspberry Pi 2 is vulnerable to xenon lamps

Rоry McCune

@schroeder to give you some comparison on Scotland england house prices ros.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/34195/… is for scotland Average property price in Edinburgh (the most expenseive part of scotland) £234k , in London average property price is £643k

Journeyman Geek

@DavidFreitag meh. You shouldn't be running a SBC naked anyway

Rоry McCune

08:43

and if you like scottish Islands, the average in the Western isles is £100k

David Freitag

There is a chip scale voltage regulator on there with an exposed die which is susceptible to IR band light

The regulator drops out for 170us, but the CPU locks up and doesn't reboot gracefully

Rory Alsop

@RоryMcCune morning

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop mornin'

David Freitag

@JourneymanGeek It's just a really funny issue. Some reporters were taking photos of a board running and connected when suddenly it locks up and the screen goes black.

Rory Alsop

@DavidFreitag hahahaha

Journeyman Geek

08:46

You should silk screen on little sunglasses on the chip ;p

David Freitag

@JourneymanGeek The part in question is 1mm x 0.5mm

Journeyman Geek

and I see you found dave of the EEVblog. Aka the king of electronics dumpster divers

David Freitag

@JourneymanGeek I have known of the EEVBlog since episode 1

Journeyman Geek

(Its a joke ._.)

Rory Alsop

@DavidFreitag very small sunglasses, thn :-)

David Freitag

08:48

@JourneymanGeek You say electronics dumpster diver like it's a dirty word

Journeyman Geek

On the contrary

especially not in his case ;p

David Freitag

However I do have to admit it's a skill set in its own to know when to throw something away

Journeyman Geek

Oh hell, I ran a dumpster dive system for a bit

David Freitag

I imagine there are certain areas in Singapore that are very awesome for divers

Nothing in my area though

Journeyman Geek

Need to know where to look

Actually singapore's pretty well designed for dumpster diving

David Freitag

08:51

Augh I need a new mouse (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Journeyman Geek

UK's better for "Hey, I have a bunch of old shit I want to throw out, anyone want it?"

Least in my day

David Freitag

The scroll wheel on my first generation Naga is getting dicky

Any mouse similar to the Naga that you know of @JourneymanGeek?

Journeyman Geek

Nope

I don't do MMO mice

David Freitag

I don't really want to get a new Naga since they work differently from the old ones, IIRC you need software to map the keys whereas mine just uses keyboard interrupts

Journeyman Geek

Oh, most new mice are like that

David Freitag

08:53

Also I think the new ones only have 9 buttons instead of the old ones which had 12

M'vy

Arperum

Morning all!

David Freitag

$80 for a bloody mouse

Journeyman Geek

lol

My favourite mouse ever was a roccat kone XTD

Damned things are horribly unreliable tho

David Freitag

My naga was $49

That's ridiculous

amazon.com/Logitech-G600-Gaming-Mouse-Black/dp/B0086UK7IQ

That looks pretty promising

David Freitag

09:14

amazon.com/Upgraded-Version-UtechSmart-Venus-Precision/dp/…

Wow it has adjustable weights

16400 DPI is freaking insane

AviD

09:28

@DavidFreitag yeah, we're having a rough winter too. it's like, 22C and sunny right now.

David Freitag

@AviD Woo yeesh that's a bit balmy

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Adi

11:54

@DavidFreitag I have 0 clue what that means when it comes to computer mice

David Freitag

@Adi It's basically the distance on a monitor per inch traversed by the sensor on the mouse

kalina

bonjour

so I'm in the UK

I was greeted by a freak rain storm that lasted for the time it took for me to get from the airport to the car

Journeyman Geek

Or so you want us to think.

kalina

and now it's sunny but cold

and I'm officially a year older

David Freitag

@Adi Although depending on the OS your mouse driver might support acceleration independent of DPI.

@kalina Ooooh yay, cake?

Adi

11:57

@DavidFreitag So, more mouse DPI = better?

kalina

there was cake

actually there probably is still cake

the downsides of knowing somebody who makes cakes

David Freitag

@Adi More DPI = cursor moves faster. Depends on what you're doing. For gaming more DPI is better, but too much can also be bad. Really it depends on whether you prefer a really fast mouse or not.

kalina

I am today being reminded why I'm not going to reproduce

whose idea was it to allow children time off school

woken up by being poked in the face and then children's TV and screaming

David Freitag

@kalina That's what happens when you fall asleep in the park

kalina

pls it was more like a sleeping bag on the floor