|
Aaron Kimball@gremblor.bsky.social |
60 followers 139 following 72 posts
I like circuitry (synth DIY), software, bio stuff, and sailing. Roar!
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I designed this automatic gain control (AGC) circuit for a DIY synth filter I'm working on and wrote up how it works for you. (Based on the LM13700)
blog.gremblor.com/2024/06/grem...
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's baffling. The store location is super convenient! I want them to succeed! But they made it impossible to actually shop there. They could hire more staff just to unlock the stupid cases and they'd pay for themselves! Or they could remove the locks. I don't get it - a store that hates sales.
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
There's a Walgreens super convenient to my house, a few blocks away. I visit every month to refill my rx, and I always used to buy toothpaste or other sundries too... But now I just pick up the meds. And for the rest I use Amazon, often while in line at the pharmacy counter.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
My wife also objected to me bringing the label maker into the kitchen or taping out the storage locations for key cooking implements but it doesn't mean I can't try to keep the right tools within arm's reach.
1 replies 0 reposts 15 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
LEAN / 5-S methodology works at home, too!
1 replies 0 reposts 6 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Not quite that but my camping spork also doubles as a hex driver and this pleases me /way/ disproportionately to how often I need to turn a hex bolt while camping. Only a flathead bit for screws tho.
Still, the eat'n'tool is a great stocking stuffer - www.amazon.com/CRKT-Tool-Ou...
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm pretty sure his dad owes him a piranha now, sorry, I don't make the rules, it's just how it is.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I just converged on that outcome by misplacing the nail clippers fourteen times.
0 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Adam Savage's book "Every Tool a Hammer" explicitly gives you permission to get a second x-acto knife and a second pair of pliers and leave a set at each spot you need them rather than wander around looking for where you last left The Tool and omg it is LIBERATING.
12 replies 14 reposts 174 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Local theater just held a screening of UHF. Still holds up. Today's movie scene involves way too many sequels but I'm still waiting for "Ghandi II".
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I mean, I currently have about 7/10 of a synthesizer. So, is not /enough/ synthesizers an option? Oh, and it will have a wood case when it's complete.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Almost.. It's one "symbol"/sec. Early modems just used frequency A for 1 and B for 0. 1 symbol = 1 bit. There's a speed limit there (phone is about 4kHz bandwidth), so they defined four frequencies for a modem to hum, those could represent 00, 01, 10, 11 and send 2 bits at once. And so on...
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
My wife asked me what I want for my birthday. I said: a new digital calipers that can do metric, to replace my dial calipers, I'm sick of needing the calculator at the same time. Replacing prev most-dad thing of "stubbornly using a 'perfectly good' SAE dial calipers for years of work in metric."
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
OAKCDROM.SYS
@xar.ph
[ View ] |
Wake up babe new billionaire submarine lore just dropped. www.wired.com/story/titan-...
4 replies 27 reposts 74 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Sir, they're not buying the ten dollar pasta sauce. Customers say it's too expensive for a jar of blendered tomatoes." "What if we just /tell/ them it's a low price?" "Goddammit Jerry, you're a genius!"
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hell, that could be an "interesting consequence" of a conviction, too.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Are jurors allowed to take written notes during the trial / instructions and refer to them during deliberations? What's the rationale for not giving them written copies of information to reference?
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Ooh, neat - The oobleck of condiments!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"technical papers about mayonnaise" is not a phrase I've heard before, although it now occurs to me that food scientists have papers and technical datasheets filled with all sorts of graphs and parametric data on ingredients I never think about and this eldritch knowledge can never be unlearned.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
How does this work with other ingredients? eg I usually start spaghetti sauce by sauteing onions, then add mushrooms, other stuff and eventually the jar of tomato sauce. Shrooms first (dry), then add butter/oil + onions? What about cooking wine or soy sauce?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
(Also I have no idea what their measurement methodology was. I assume they had pretty good telemetry though - part of his job involved talking to folks at ISPs, who presumably have pretty good endpoint traffic inspection tools.)
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I used to be friends with a network engineer at Netflix, who one day triumphantly told me that they were serving more bandwidth than "bulk undifferentiated video" (apparently their euphemism for porn..?) That was in, like, 2012 or so.
1 replies 1 reposts 6 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Ok so now we are onto a second insurrectionist flag at a second property. If movies taught me anything, there's a third house, with a room in the basement containing some AWKWARD world war 2 memorabilia.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Between this and Menendez's bribery defense that it was his wife's gold bars and he didn't know how they got there, today is an awful chickenshit day for men in American politics.
0 replies 1 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Regrettably, while the cat is small and not incredibly loud, something about the frequency of her cry just drills through everything and is impossible to shut out. No matter the relative locations of you and cat in the apt. It's inescapable.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
In our house, one of the cats sounds suspiciously like Milo: she has a piercing yell that goes straight into your brain, and deploys it ~30 mins before sunrise. It's all for attention. The food dish is still well stocked when we wake up. Some cats are just evil attention whores.
1 replies 0 reposts 7 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
DARPA taking notes on how to up their PowerPoint game
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"SOON"
0 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
... $11MM is not that much money for a company. A marketing campaign backfiring and costing $11MM happens every week. I've worked at a *startup* that bought a $5MM machine we never needed, much less a nat'l chain. If the shrimp pushed them over the edge it's only bc they were on life support.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Wait, how does that even work?! They search you at the courthouse! With a metal detector! (at least where I live?) Did he... Leave court, get his gun from a car, and come back?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Dunno if it still holds up but Brave Little Toaster was a kid friendly cartoon about anthropomorphisized electric household items we watched on repeat when my younger brother was about 3. The car junk yard scene was the scariest part.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So the law is stupid, but as a point of food for thought: in a volunteer role I fill which sometimes involves being near law enforcement as they're making an arrest, we are trained to stay 35' back, which is the max range of a taser, and that way you can't get hit if they aim poorly.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Bless the Maker and his Waters
1 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
CEO at the annual strategy meeting: "we need a disruptive new business plan that..." Marketing dept, high on cocaine: "--say no more fam, I'm on it. Vegan. Spam. The future."
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Jjinandtonic
@jjinandtonic.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is incredible
3 replies 25 reposts 62 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That is an awesomely tense mini movie for being shot entirely inside a midsized car
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
OH: "Some days it's it's a good day to die. Some days it's a good day to finish the Wordle in 6."
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Also an open-ended question like this also gives an interesting insight into what the candidate considers "worst" - security issue, performance issue, ethical issue, UX issue... Depending on the role you're hiring for, you may want someone with a particular lens.
1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Why is Twitch now showing me banner ads? When did that become a thing? More importantly, why are they trying to sell me a new garage door spring?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Its been a while since I saw it but I think in The Matrix, Switch was canonically trans-coded. Any others? Some of the other crew were, at least, somewhat genderqueer. Also by the Wachowskis, didn't sense8 have multiple trans characters?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Satya Nadella
Eric Schmidt
will.i.am
Nancy Pelosi
Bill Nye
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Whoa, how does that work?! Like is the shell thin and translucent and they change skin pigment underneath like an octopus? Or can the chitin itself be modified in real time in some way...?
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
You don't say?
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Assuming it's the chicken's own bones tho... Thus, a turducken is a sandwich, right?
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
darth™️
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
[ View ] |
ok just ordered
special.usps.com/testkits
12 replies 148 reposts 388 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Only the NYT could make it seem shocking and controversial that the greatest sin against a nat'l leader is (checks notes) leading an armed march to the nation's capital.
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/o...
Putin's no hero but, like, is anyone actually surprised here? Did Prigozhin need an apologist?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Fwiw I have found toothpicks to be too blunt... You do have to be careful and avoid scraping the actual metal contacts inside, but I find a tiny safety pin more effectively gets between the center contact bits and the outer edge to remove the pocket lint. Just aim the pokey bit away from the middle.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
the forbidden avocado
4 replies 2 reposts 69 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We could have had a protected shoulder lane on Valencia St for bikes, but instead we got this innovation. If you feel the need to mail a full page of instructions to everyone within a mile of the street explaining its safe use... Maybe rethink your plan?
0 replies 2 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Looking stylish, Daisy! Potato just got one this week too. The back half of the dog doesn't work so good anymore and he needs a hand getting up the stairs to the apartment.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes