Author: Glenn Trigg
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Is it really 4D chess?
You may have heard the comment in reply to someone criticising DJTs decisions or actions, “He’s playing 4D chess”. The implication being that what is happening is beyond the original persons ability to understand. I’m wondering if this is a case of the phenomenon known as the “Pre/Trans Fallacy”. I first read about this phenomenon…
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Bikepacking the Great Southern Rail Trail
I wanted to do a solo bike packing trip, so decided to ride the Great Southern Rail Trail through some of south Gippsland as a way to achieve that. Day 1: Nyora to Meeniyon A hot day. Temperatures reaching mid 30°C. Little to no wind. Day 2: Meeniyon to Port Albert Started raining around Foster,…
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Bikepacking in the Yarra Ranges
When: April 6 to April 12, 2025Total riding distance: 202KmCumulative elevation gain: 2015mApproximate loaded bike weight: ~50Kg Day 1: Mt Evelyn to East Warburton Along the Lilydale-Warburton rail trail. Day 2: East Warburton to near Cambarton Along Woods Point road.First stop to replenish water. Day 3: To Frenchmans Creek camp ground Along Woods Point road…
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Ghostty – Debian/Ubuntu package
I’m really liking this new terminal emulator, ghostty, so while we’re waiting for official deb packages to appear, here is my offering for the amd64/x86-64 architecture. md5sum: c8d2899a54a1349b9b75a8355983a6b6shasum: 41bbf845a40e10b015310ce9c64f20645f7b88e0
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Then and now – 37 years in electronics
In 1985 I completed the final year project for my electronic engineering degree. The project I chose was an ultrasonic level detector. Here is the introduction from my report which explains the use scenarios… Without getting too technical, the solution involved using a special purpose ultrasonic transceiver integrated circuit (LM1812 by National Semiconductor) surrounded by…