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    The whole interview is worth a watch, but I’ve time stamped this to start at where you’ll get the most context.
    Sir Ian McKellen performing the speech against the mob who are rioting against the “strangers” coming to London and England, as written by William Shakespeare in the play Thomas More.

    I often find Shakespeare to be overwrought, overdone, and poorly adapted or performed.
    But good Shakespeare performances?
    They are truly something special.


    View: https://youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?si=-AojQx59kJnbwtsV&t=1251
     
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    Let Jim Butterfield Instruct You on the Commodore 64!


    All 1Hr56min of it; mind the tape hiss.

    This video is about as old as I am. I totally missed out on the heyday of microcomputers like this, closest I got was an Apple IIe in the early 90s for "computer class" at an extension campus learning program. Our first family PC was a more powerful IBM PC-compatible with a graphical interface on top of DOS, and after the Apple IIe all school computing was done on Windows machines of some type with a minimum of 3.5" disk drives instead of the 5.25" floppies our Apples had. Watching him reel off about the workings of the tape drive to keep the video lively while it copied a list of five names to tape was something else.
     
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    Wheels Of Confusion said:
    Let Jim Butterfield Instruct You on the Commodore 64!


    All 1Hr56min of it; mind the tape hiss.

    This video is about as old as I am. I totally missed out on the heyday of microcomputers like this, closest I got was an Apple IIe in the early 90s for "computer class" at an extension campus learning program. Our first family PC was a more powerful IBM PC-compatible with a graphical interface on top of DOS, and after the Apple IIe all school computing was done on Windows machines of some type with a minimum of 3.5" disk drives instead of the 5.25" floppies our Apples had. Watching him reel off about the workings of the tape drive to keep the video lively while it copied a list of five names to tape was something else.
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    A screen from the game "feudal" me and my brother played to death on the Sol 20, rockin' the wood side panels and the cantankerous serial connection. I think I ended up salvaging about 30 switches from some old piece of shit to get someone to help modify the cable so it wouldn't choke mid-connection. "Make sure all the switches work!"

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    fitten said:
    RAI wheeled bipedal robot. Reminds me a little of a scout walker


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    Hobbyists have put together bipedal/wheeled robots for a while, though without quite the sophistication this one needs.

    One YTer I sometimes watch despite his constant shilling/product placements does delve into things like the concepts of inverse kinematics and PID control schemes for his projects. He made a 4-video series about a "Sonic" two-wheeled/legged robot a few years ago.
    Here's the playlist:

    View: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpwJoq86vov_tZ3rsMCH5sylqGT5s9TcU


    Another YTer did a slightly more ambitious design with more leg articulation. His video also explains the PID control concept and is less than 20 minutes long:

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIU8gnqQJJM


    Obviously the more degrees of freedom a leg has and the more tricky you want to get with balancing, the more complicated the math and implementation get, but in broad strokes both of these robots cover the same kind of challenges.
     
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    Wheels Of Confusion said:
    Obviously the more degrees of freedom a leg has and the more tricky you want to get with balancing, the more complicated the math and implementation get, but in broad strokes both of these robots cover the same kind of challenges.
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    The big problem with robots like these (and pretty much everything with overlapping degrees of freedom) is that they're not analytical, there's no nice formula or principle you can fall back onto. From a control perspective, you have to divide up the control space into little chunks that all get their own rules, so it gets complicated quick - especially if you don't have the kind of tools typically used to do that kind of control engineering (e.g. simulink, etc.).

    (edit: that also goes into my eternal frustration with James Bruton and similar youtubers - they just keep banging their heads against the wall instead of using tools that have been designed ages ago to solve all of these control problems)
     
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    Hap said:
    Was it? Honestly missed it if that was. My apologies if so. What I get for randomly scrolling YouTube when so tired.
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    At the very least the thumbnail is. It turned me off of watching the video too.
    Also, I thought it was pretty much an open secret these days that TTI Milwaukee+Ryobi+Rigid under one roof.
     
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    Don't know if someone has posted this one before, but I never knew the story behind Prince's famous shred-tastic Supersolo at the Concert for George induction of George Harrison into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until now (pay no attention to the clickbait video title--he wasn't disrespecting George's memory. It’s worth knowing the story–essentially Rolling Stone had dissed Prince and he wanted to prove them wrong.):


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfb1eY4BFE


    If you actually watch a video of the performance BTW (YT will likely autosuggest it), you can see Dhani Harrison look over at Prince with a grin on his face right before the latter starts the fireworks.
     
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    ok, I am glad you clarified the issue with the title. I had been seeing that video for awhile now on my suggestions. I almost hit "don't recommend channel". That is because I have seen people in comments in other videos suggest that his solo performance was disrespectful to the other musicians and to Harrison. When that is clearly not the case.

    Harrison is having a great time, Petty is as well. You see it in their faces. Especially Harrison, he was looking over at Prince nodding and smiling in anticipation. And there is a big high five by the drummer at the end as well.

    What I was never certain of, was whether this was planned with them all before that performance. Or ow much was planned. He clearly had a solo planned, but I was never certain if they all knew it would be that.

    I don't know how legitimate this video is, the story he is telling, but yeah they all clearly enjoyed what was happening.
     
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    BTW, I've been informed that I messed up there. The "Concert for George" was a posthumous event in 2002, and the Prince's famous guitar solo took place at a separate, later event where Harrison was being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I could swear I've heard people refer to that event as the Concert for George but officially it's the earlier event.
     
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    "Things change around the fish. Temperature, water chemistry, physical water level, flow rate, even oxygenation to name just a few. [...] The tricky thing about air pressure is that it really is seasonally dependent. That's not something we can control because we can't control the weather, right? Well ordinarily I would say no, you can't. But if you turn your tank into a vacuum chamber you can get pretty close."

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3jw3VKSnU


    So basically he set up a system that can independently change things like the atmospheric pressure inside the tank, water temperatures, water level, rainfall, conductivity, light level, etc. and has been able to get more consistent spawning behaviors out of fish originating from seasonally-flooded regions in South America. All controlled through a few basic components, straightforward plumbing, and some Wifi-enabled timers.
     
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    Tom Scott is back to making videos for a new series. Episode 1 is visiting a bell foundry to see how they make big church bells:

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpaNijzRaJI

    The two guys he spends most of his time with are a delight.

    Question of the day: What cheese would you be?
     
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