Wow. That's intense and specific. I can't say that I have
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I once wondered aloud how they get tanning beds to emit vitamin D. I then immediately corrected myself by saying that it was photosynthesis, which is technically correct, but doesn’t sound right in the context of animals. I did not feel smart.
Not that I recall, but I feel you have a story you're not telling us?
No, but I have done and said stuff that gives me an intense feeling of embarrassment when I recall the event.
No, but I have done and said stuff that gives me an intense feeling of embarrassment when I recall the event.
Wait, this isn't a daily or near hourly occurrence? The longer you live you even have a longer list of these to recall intrusively when you're doing completely unrelated things.
This may happen to me once a week.
And the worst thing about age-related memory loss is that those fucking moments are stuck like glue forever! Can't remember my phone number but will never forget the stupid thing I did/said that one day
I've forgotten how to spell "of" before because I couldn't sound it out. Not my proudest moment.
Uv. Obviously.
One funny quirky part of English is that many people (primarily phonetic sight readers) literally won’t notice if you substitute “ov” for “of” in the middle of a sentence. Sort of like how you can add the word “and” on both ends of a line break, and people won’t notice until you point it out. Their brain just sort of passively filters out the second “and”.
And I bet a significant portion of people reading this comment went back to see if I intentionally added either of those to my comment.
English orthography is pretty dumb, TBF.
I built a solar tracking system with light sensors for a solar cooker. It worked beautifully on a cloudless day but sometimes got confused when there were some clouds. Some weeks later I realized that my glorious invention was trying to find something we know the position of at any time during the day. Considering the time and money spent and how smart I had felt for building that monstrosity made me feel very dumb afterwards.
A non-optical sensor based solution would require other sensors to calculate the relative position of the solar cooker oriented to Earth as well as calculate the elevation. Your solution is turnkey that you just slap down and it does everything needed without external input beyond solar radiance.
Also, a whole bunch of your approach has many other applications with only very minor tweaks. I like what you did.
If you replaced it with something that requires connectivity, then your first approach may have been a better design if even if it didn't work out quite right the first time.
If it were able to retain coordinate tables, then after a sunny day calibration it could use that as fallback. And make limited micro adjustments and table updates as-needed.
For a moment I thought a motion-activated sink garbage disposal would be convenient so I wouldn’t have wet hands flipping the switch and dripping all over the counter.
Heh.
Ever want to recreate the sensation of blindly sticking your hand in a bag with an angry wolverine?
ooo has just the thing for you!
Honestly, this isn't a horrible idea. If the motion sensor is in a different location than the actual disposal,, Like a motion sensor under a black panel instead of the light switch to remove the electrical hazard chance
I don't recall my thoughts, but sometimes it goes trough my mouth. I once ask why bloody sunday was not a sunday on the calendar this year. Yeah because, you know... a date isn't on the same day each year...
I was there thinking of the bloody mary, didn't understand at all ..
I mean lots of holidays are on the same day each year though, like good friday or easter sunday or Thanksgiving so i think thats kinda excusible.
Every god damn day of my life
Don't be so hard at yourself. We all have dumb thoughts here and there. It doesn't look like so because people usually only externalize the good ones.