/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>752167
>>752656

>>648675
Once a year whether we need it or not, OP?

>>599342
>>599344
>yfw they already do this on a much bigger scale with telescopes in space

>>547714

>>450822

I had this cool idea once.
I was like.. What's the smallest number of digits we could encode information in? Well.. Let's see we would obviously need more than 1 digit or else all the info would be the same... Can I do it with just 2 digits?

Turns out you can, for fun I called them true and false.

So I played around a bit and make all this cool with it. People thought I was crazy and were all like "The Arabics already have this cool system that works really well cause it has the same number of digits as we have fingers."

But whatever haters gonna hate.

Fast forward several hundred years.

I had another idea based on my old idea (yes I was still alive but that's another story all together and I don't want to get off topic.).

I was like... What if I could encode an electrical signal.. Like a radio wave in my two state encoding system. I can have it describe the amplitude at a certain point... I'll have to work out a good clock system to make sure the frequencies don't get skewed but wow... Now I can potentially make music with nothing but true and false.

Then they later some people made these mechanical machines that worked on some strange new alchemy called semiconductor doping. But it turns out it worked perfectly with my encoding system.

So I told some people about my idea and they were like "I bet we can put it on some wavy reflective shit and it'll make all kinds of cool rainbowy colors and be totally rad." (it was the 80s by this time so I was like whatever).

Then they had these amazing beams of light and would tell if the wavyness was there or not. It was like a super thin phonographic record.

But pretty soon after that, people decided they didn't need the wavy rainbow phonograph they would just write down all my true or falses all in a row and have these little overpriced white fruit music players read it really fast.

I can see a lot of interesting applications for this.

>>433472

More than 15x

>>378885
are you a wizard?

>>287344
You can't be serious.

Yeah no need to outsource at all.

>implying the Chinese haven't been imported to do everything(Goldrush, Canada's Railroads, Canada's OilFields, Australia's mining boom etc)

>implying tons of companies aren't just sending their factories overseas for foreign 'tradesmen' to do work for pennies

>>274613

I heard that article on NPR yesterday, about an hour after watching the YouTube videos for 'the nuclear boyscout' that were posted here.
The best part is where the interviewer asks him what he does for fun. He says something along the lines of:
"Oh, I do what any normal kid my age does. Hang out with my friends and gf, walking around the desert, looking for radioactive ores or remnants of long lost nuclear weapons."
>any normal kid
>searching for radioactive ores
mfw

ok DIY, so I'm finally moving out of my parents basement and I need a good DIY computer desk for my new pad. Corner would be great. I'm really looking for any that you /diy/kes have or are still using.

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be completely full of shit and study marketing
that's always a great start