Chris Jones

Martin-Jones Technology Ltd, technical problem-solver, electronics, software, hacking, making it work, from gigabit serial to EV charging.

[Chris Jones @mjtech01]

@MolloyLaurence @markessien Hear hear. I'm still the person delivering the code and I'm still responsible for it, however it was generated.

[Chris Jones @mjtech01]

@MolloyLaurence @markessien Never let the AI agent run for long enough to create more trouble than you can fix.

[Chris Jones @mjtech01]

@furan @blind_via Every pin is a power pin if you have faith in your clamp diodes.

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@Tedisiek @POkwiet99195 At least there if you try to drive 140km you'll end up in the sea...

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@tomfleet That dialog box that asks "regenerate code?" whenever I breathe near the IO map always makes me nervous.

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@OwenBrakes Interesting, it doesn't say anything about how they achieved the FM chirps. Does the nRF52833 have PLLs that you can play tricks with?

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@Tedisiek @HullTeslaModel3 Modern Talking, if I'm not mistaken. There are parts of central Europe where the 1980s never finished.

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@Tedisiek I wonder how Poland managed at all before the invention of the SDS+ hammer drill.

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@OldManThatGames Oh yes! I remember their shop in Cambridge. I bought a 3.5" floppy drive and a copy of Windows 3.0 there. That dates it!

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@BitBangingBytes @mikelectricstuf It does indeed - thank you for the link. I asked Vision Engineering if they could supply spares and they said no, but that someone was 3D printing them. I'll look into it. I'm a bit scared about the strength of a printed part - it's under a lot of stress!

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@BitBangingBytes @mikelectricstuf This bit, and a pic of the Mantis+stand for context. It's ancient (probably 25 years old) but the optics are still great.

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@mikelectricstuf @BitBangingBytes I miss my Mantis since the part holding the head to the stand has crumbled. Need to hack together a repair.

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@Gammitin Those MO discs were like alien technology at the time. I remember using 5 1/4" ones in the mid-1990s, about 600Mb capacity, speed almost like a hard disc, and rewritable! I used to use them to bring home drivers and files I'd downloaded from the internet at work.

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@Tedisiek Double points for tiling/rendering!

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@RetroNora7734 Now all you need is a program on the host computer that sends the same stream of garbage and you can declare it working. Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

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@80s_Kidz My children would 100% still do this today...

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@spenley You're right, that's a great point! The em-dash is not only difficult to type on a regular keyboard, it's a sure-fire sign that the text was written by an LLM. 😅

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@JohnBrown4x4 That'll last literally for ever!