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Y'all I'm so proud of my wife's pottery. Take a look at some of her recent work.

Julian: Don’t worry. I’ve still got a few forks up my sleeve
Kira: You mean cards?
Julian: I do not

🚗 TIL: Before GPS was fully operational, Honda built a car navigation system that used zero satellites.

In 1981, the Honda Electro Gyrocator debuted as a dealer option on the Accord. You placed a transparent plastic map over a small CRT screen and marked your starting point.

As you drove, a helium gas-rate gyroscope detected turns: helium flow shifted between two heated wires, creating a temperature difference the computer read as direction. A transmission sensor tracked distance. A 16-bit computer combined both to move a dot across the map showing your position.

Not perfect. Wheel spin and drift compounded, so you could pull over and manually realign. The IEEE designated it a Milestone in 2017 as the world's first map-based car navigation system, 14 years before GPS.

The catch: it cost about $2,746 (nearly a quarter of the car's price). It only lasted one year.

Read more:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-mapbased-car-navigation-system-debuted-14-years-before-gps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator
https://global.honda/en/heritage/episodes/1981navigationsystem.html

#TIL #Honda #engineering #history

How to know an anime stars a trans woman, in their creator's synopsis:

ministry of silly walks sleeps

i'm not picking who in the triad gets left out of legal marriage, i'm picking the one most likely to enjoy introducing herself as "the concubine" at parties

"Win32 is the stable Linux ABI", or so the shitposting goes

ever wanted to take that idea and run with it?

here are some demonstrations of the mechanisms by which a process running in Wine can access native Linux code, in case it's ever useful for performance or for something which Wine doesn't emulate (well)

https://arcanenibble.com/how-to-call-linux-code-from-a-wine-process.html

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/wine-linux-calls

only a mild amount of coding crimes were committed in the making of this post

Varför ökar elnätavgifterna så mycket?

Jo för att den statliga myndigheten Energimarknadsinspektionen tillåter att monopolföretagen använder "nuanskaffningsmetoden". Detta innebär att de får ta betalt som om alla ledningar var nya. Som exempelvis den här:

I am going to need security bloggers who clearly understand why the AI-in-everything push is a problem to stop using diffuser-generated images to illustrate their every single fucking article.

Go and use woodcuts by 15th century printmaker and all-round pretty boy about town Albrecht Dürer instead if you're running out of ideas.

https://picryl.com/collections/albrecht-durer-woodcut-prints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer

exclusive ticket stock for interrail paper passes issued for t4t purposes just dropped

bicycles are insane. you just take a mammal that’s very good at long distance running and put a wheel adapter on it

what is happening ??

(8万円 https://www.e-girotokyo.com/?mode=grp&gid=3040130 )

I haven't watched the Tour de France in probably 15 years

Cyclist and bikes come straight from SPACE now !