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Luke Weston

@lukeweston

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Electronic engineering, physics, biomedical engineering, plasmonics, using nanotechnology to manipulate light. He/him. Favourite programming language is solder.

Melbourne, Australia
Joined April 2009
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@lukeweston
Luke Weston
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“Identification is quietly becoming the default requirement for access to the internet. No ID? No entry. No selfie? No account. This is how KYC culture has expanded, moving far beyond finance into social platforms, community forums, and dating apps.”.
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RT @boxcardavid: Briefly during covid shortages we got STM32s for our motor controllers by desoldering them from Lucira at-home molecular c….
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Luke Weston
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I think the right answer here has to be “do not give anyone, any service, any business, any app, photos of your identity document.”. Just stop the normalisation of this. In some cases you might allow *human inspection* of your ID, but do not upload it, do not let anyone scan it.
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There is “I fucked up”. And there is “I built an app and accidentally leaked the drivers licenses of thousands of women on the internet” level of fucked up . RIP
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Luke Weston
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RT @VaxxersAnti: Crunchy moms are starting to think that maybe. just maybe. fluoride could actually be a good thing for their children'….
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Luke Weston
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RT @eevblog: Woah, I didn't know this. Your Favorite YouTube Channel is (Probably) Owned By Private Equity.https:/….
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Luke Weston
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RT @aussiewongm: Back in 2007 the state government was spruiking the things that you' be able to use Myki on in the future - vending machin….
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Luke Weston
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Goddamn Omnetics connectors, glorified pin header for $100 each.💰It is hard to find better options though, with the same small size and and pin density, especially if it needs to fit on a mouse wetware. 50 thou pin headers can be good, not ideal and bigger, but 1% of the price.
@eigenlucy
lucyꙮѺ𒄊
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Biotech electronics are fucking insane. This 36 pin connector used in a popular head stage acquisition board and nothing else costs $170 each. And don’t get me started on how much 64 30ksample ADC channels cost…. I am going to open source an RHD2000+ alternative Soon™️
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RT @lukeweston: Putting 0603 SMD LEDs onto a mirror so I can easily see the orientation marking on the bottom when picking them up and plac….
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RT @kane: Fun fact: the blue paint increased frictional heating so much that the operational speed of the Concorde was reduced 20% when it….
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Luke Weston
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Silver-plated steel bolts are good to prevent 304SS galling. More expensive, but good where lubricant or compound can’t be used, inside vacuum. For bolts that go straight through (not threaded into stainless) silicon bronze nuts on the stainless bolt are good to prevent galling.
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Luke Weston
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It’s a nice expensive apparatus, so if the bolts come out feeling rough, or any galling, don’t be afraid to scrap the bolts and replace with new. Nickel antiseize such as Loctite 771 may be used but it gets on everything and it’s messy, so be careful near clean vacuum internals.
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真空容器のVF300アクリルフランジ止めてたM12SUSボルトが12本中2本も齧りやが���た。どうにも外れなくてこりゃグラインダーかな思ってたら、学科の技術員の方に良いスプレー貸して頂きなんとか外れた!しかしそんな大した力で締めてない箇所なのにそんなことあんのね…外せたネジも気持ちガリを感じる。
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RT @jonathanstea: Not all opinions are equally valid when it comes to scientific expertise.
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Luke Weston
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“. Sigma Building at the opposite end of the Los Alamos Tech Area from the S building where the Sausage’s Brobdingnagian schematic drawing was laid out.”. Brobdingnagian?. Occasionally, Dick Rhodes pulls out something from his toolbox of literary mastery that you need to look up.
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Luke Weston
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Captain Obvious desk at The Age getting a workout here.
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Luke Weston
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RT @purplepingers: Still just wanna chat about this rental you’ve got listed for $550pw Ray White - feel free to email or call anytime http….
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Luke Weston
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A page from a commercial colour laser printer. Many modern high end printers have a shifty little secret, if you look closely. A UV light makes it easier to see.
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Luke Weston
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RT @28Cooker: Typical cookers no one can break the law except us. Your kooky wife is banned from giving health info because it is dangerous….
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Luke Weston
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And this is assuming existence of working DT fusion reactor with a Li blanket for self-sustaining T breeding and assuming it has *neutron economy left over* to irradiate targets. And chemical conversion and enrichment of Hg at massive scale is going to end in a superfund picnic.
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Luke Weston
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5000 kg of Au would require 5000 kg of Hg - and that’s pretending 100% conversion. 5000 kg of highly enriched 196Hg would require at least 3,000,000 kg of natural Hg, assume perfect enrichment, which is more than global Hg production for all uses. How would you even enrich it?.
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