ThePyroPython @ ThePyroPython @lemmy.world

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"Do you even know how to use that thing?" 🤨

"Yes.... The pointy end goes in the other man." 🤷‍♂️

Excellent, thank you! I just had a quick flick through and found several that I love so I'll be saving them for when I next do some interior decorating when I get my own place, that Solar Butterfly will definitely be going where my houseplants will live 😊

And we've lost another to the plastic crack... In other news the GDP of Nottingham went up another percentage point today.

This is really cool, a mixture of steampunk autometa and solarpunk vibes. Excellent work OP, do you do prints?

(quickly hides cape and twirly mustache)

I have no idea what you're talking about officer

Well is this about permanent magnets loosing their functionality or the whole concept of magnetism just vanishing?

One puts us back to a steampunk technological ceiling the other means the universe pops out of existence; electricity, magnetism, and light are closely linked so removing one is likely to just break reality.

As en electronics engineer I'm going to "Yes But..." this and say that the lower the voltage/current you're trying to manipulate the more concentration it requires to do it without over-voltaging the components you're trying to manipulate and frying the circuitry.

So whilst this would be possible you'd have to:

1. Hold all the cores, ALU, etc. in the CPU at the current state that they're in
2. Then spend time flipping the bits (not one at a time but like a whole 32 bit number) required to represent your instructions.

With enough practice and meditation you get a "feel" for the instructions and can do this but it takes time. I think this is fair as once you've learnt a CPU architecture most of the machine instructions are the same and it's just a matter of getting them to run in the right order.

This way you don't start out overpowered and there's a high skill ceiling.

(I may or may not be writing a book around this already and have thought about it a lot haha)

Rather than listing all of the ways modern life and society would collapse it'd be easier to just say this:

Your ability to understand the world would in an instant be limited to the people that immediately surround you and you'd better quickly think of a way to find a clean water source, some land, grab an "Agriculture for Dummies" book, and some form of weapon to defend your new homestead with your new tribe.

Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to "hack" computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and "wishing" the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.

I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.

Honestly the Bell Riots look tame in comparison to what's already happening.

Such a fun way for the artist to flex their detail work, see also Flies being included in paintings.

Finish indie dev: You fix car, get drunk, drive car, run over pedestrian, get arrested, serve time, get out, fix car, get drunk, have piss but don't piss on TV because then you die.

THANK YOU! I'm slowly getting a widow's peak and desperately want the full Riker beard before I lose my hairline. I'll see if can get some of that stuff!

Oh that sounds so much better, saying females makes you sound like a Ferengi but saying females makes you sound like Antonio Banderas, and I know which I'd prefer.

Nope, far too few IBM mainframes in this picture.

Does the Alucard at least say "Bitches love cannons"?

Honestly, pass me a shovel, we're gonna make lending money to this bastard the most profitable decision she ever made!

Peter Kay: I'M READY BRING THE TRAIN ON!

Come up to Manchester, it's Big Coat season so everyone will be dusting theirs off or showing off their latest purchase.

Hang around Northern Quarter for the trendiest part of the city.

It's also the Rochdale Herald.

Rochdale makes Northern Post Industrial Shitholes look like Star Trek San Francisco.

Source: grew up around there, the trains(and then Trams) run twice as fast through there.