#garfield Logs

Jun 18 2022

12:25 AM rue_mohr: oh no, i have to sleep
04:33 AM polprog: rhubarb pie is quite good
04:34 AM polprog: just dont eat it everyday, contains a fair amount of oxalates which makes kidney stones
09:55 AM aandrew: rhubarb pie is great. it's not super well known
09:55 AM Tom_L: it's an 'old lady' pie
09:55 AM aandrew: my omi used to make some kind of rice and strawberry and rhubarb thing. I didn't like the texture that much because of the rice but she also made a rhubarb cake which was pretty great
09:56 AM aandrew: raw rhubarb was kind of neat to nibble on, it had a kind of dry/bitter flavour that was unique. apparently the leaves aren't good to eat because they're toxic but both my grandmothers had HUGE rhubarb patches
09:57 AM aandrew: my mom grew horseradish too, and that shit is almost as bad as mint to try to get rid of
09:57 AM Tom_L: yes it is
09:57 AM Tom_L: i grew some once
10:00 AM aandrew: she used to make her own horseradish, I remember when she was making it not even the cats or dog would stay in the house. she'd be stirring the pot with tears just running down her cheeks and a big smile
10:00 AM aandrew: people used to beg her to make extra for them. Never liked it much myself except for a bit in my caesars
10:57 AM rue_mohr: aandrew, do you remember what light/water condition the rhubarb patch was in?
10:57 AM rue_mohr: full sun/partly shady dry/wet?
10:58 AM Tom_L: It performs best in full sun. Avoid shady sites near large trees or shrubs. Rhubarb also requires fertile, well-drained soils that are high in organic matter. Sandy and clay soils can be improved by incorporating large quantities of compost or other forms of organic matter into the soil before planting.
10:58 AM rue_mohr: huh
10:58 AM rue_mohr: I'd swear mine is burning
11:39 AM Tom_L: https://github.com/terjeio/ioSender
11:49 AM aandrew: rue_mohr: it was fairly wet and shady / part sun
11:50 AM aandrew: omi's patch was in a corner of the garden by some tall trees, grandma's was beside the dog house which got a fair amount of sun
11:50 AM aandrew: both were decent soil though and lots of moisture
11:59 AM rue_mohr: Tom_L, huh, I wonder how it compares to mine lowly one
12:00 PM rue_mohr: oh thats more complex for sure
12:00 PM rue_mohr: I wonder if it WORKS
12:00 PM rue_mohr: (which is the reason I wrote mine)
12:02 PM rue_mohr: oh useless, windows only
12:04 PM rue_mohr: oh I found an awesome new cpld yesterday!
12:04 PM rue_mohr: 95xc144!
12:18 PM aandrew: oh?
12:20 PM rue_shop3: nortel phone card
01:41 PM aandrew: I'm surprised you have a nortel board with a recognizable part number on any of the components. they love their custom part numbering
02:42 PM rue_mohr: good point, I will have to note the board, I bet they ran out of custom labeled parts
02:46 PM aandrew: hm. FT2232H-56Q is unobtanium ($50/ea pricing). FT4232H-56Q is pin compatible and available at $8/ea (normal pricing). Do I bite the bullet and order like 100 to hedge my bets for future or just get what I need right now and hope they'll not disappear too?
02:46 PM aandrew: I did that the last time I found 25 FT2232H-56Q at $20/ea and now they're not available
02:47 PM rue_mohr: you doing a run of 100 something?
02:51 PM aandrew: no, but I have a half dozen boards that use these and will probably use 30 easily without thinking about it
02:52 PM aandrew: and moving forward I will always end up using these, making me think to get the 100 right now so I don't have to worry about it for a while, at which point hopefully things stabilize in the market
06:07 PM polprog: now i got me thinking if i can use a coldfire cpu to make an amiga cpu accelerator
06:08 PM polprog: its basically a board that plugs in place of the original 68000 and is just faster
06:08 PM polprog: sometimes you could get a 68010/020/030/040/060 etc
06:08 PM polprog: but ive never seen a coldfire board
06:13 PM polprog: night
07:23 PM rue_mohr: -g, --swap=<int>
07:23 PM rue_mohr: Reverse every n bytes before scanning
07:23 PM rue_mohr: binwalk
10:11 PM rue_shop3: ok, I'v turned 3 of the bearing collars for the big cnc
10:12 PM rue_shop3: I'v cnc'd 1.9 of the back ends for the pneumatic actuators
10:12 PM rue_shop3: I'v squared a bunch of pvc pipe
10:12 PM rue_shop3: made a few bearing things for the suit
10:14 PM rue_shop3: I made an error in the cnc file and set the feed rate to 15mm/min instead of 90
10:14 PM rue_shop3: so, its taking a while (4 hrs)
10:14 PM rue_shop3: this one is almost finished, when its done I have a new file
10:44 PM Tom_L: busy
10:52 PM rue_shop3: found a Z motor
10:52 PM rue_shop3: started making up some brackets
10:52 PM rue_shop3: the big machine would probably get used a lot