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Happy Pi Day

kmikemoo
kmikemoo over 5 years ago

Ah-h-h!  A day to celebrate being mathematical. image    I jumped on to see what other have posted and...  Hello?  Hello?  Is this thing on?  I must be on the wrong frequency.

 

Actually, this fits with my observation.  Last year at this time - when we were heading into lockdowns and social distancing, local businesses made a bit deal about Pi Day.  One of the local gas station/convenience stores was selling pies for... you guessed it, $3.14.  This year, with the prospects of vaccination and less restrictions, we have heard almost nothing.  Could it be just my area?  We are having unseasonably warm weather.  Is it that we aren't doing in school learning - so the Raspberry Pi isn't getting into the hands of budding young scientists, engineers and makers?

 

For me, I'm eating pie today as an act of defiance to those who won't celebrate.  My fork shall be my instrument of rebellion against apathy and indifference!  imageimage

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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 5 years ago in reply to kmikemoo

    kmikemoo Thanks for opening the challenge to find/make a Boston Cream Pie. So far I only knew about Boston Cream Donuts and they always had not enough filling inside. I hope to unlock this achievement very soon.

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    And you'll have to forgive me here, but that logic would need to be 8-bit....as you'd need to take a whole byte image

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago in reply to ralphjy

    Ah, OK....that makes sense. I'm sure the one you've ordered will be worth the wait image. It's amazing how the entire supply chain across many different areas has been upset by this pandemic. The house build/sales I'm assuming are where people are moving away from the cities?

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  • ralphjy
    ralphjy over 5 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    My comment about Samsung was not about preference or quality - there a lot of this brand in stock locally and we could have had an oven immediately.  It may not have lasted very long, but nothing does nowadays - even high quality brands.  And a lot of stuff as you point out is delivered broken.

     

    There is huge demand for higher quality appliances because the pandemic has caused a surge in new house building/sales.  So, these are in short supply.

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago in reply to kmikemoo

    Wouldn't that be AND gate dinning ?

     

    Or maybe a concat function?

    char *whoopie = "whoopie pie";
    char *apple = "apple pie";
    char str[80];
    strcpy(str, "Mike's Pi Day: ");
    strcat(str, whoopie);
    strcat(str," and ");
    strcat(str, apple);

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    A vegetable pie sounds very nice - you may have helped me decide the menu for the week.

     

    I'm thinking once a pie is cut the volume of pie is not longer proportional to the remaining pie's surface. There's always a natural amount of filling oozing out and, I for one, always make sure I clean that out along with my slice image

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago in reply to ralphjy
    maybe should have bought a Samsung

    Maybe I had bad luck, but I had a setup with three cooking appliances from this manufacturer and they all developed several faults - those in warranty were repaired for free, those outside I repaired. This included missing thermal wadding causing the chipboard kitchen carcass to char, a succession of 1/4 stainless blade connectors becoming loose/heating/burning through the attached wire, a relay sticking on, glass bulb protector shattering and a large drop resistor cracking in half. Had I not been able to repair myself they would have been expensive repairs or thrown out a long time before.

     

    When I'd finally had enough of things breaking, including the door seals also failing, I decided to replace all three with a well known, high quality German brand, complete with a dedicated Pizza setting image

     

    Regarding pie...I'm getting very hungry with all the talk of nice pies.

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 5 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    In fact, we made a vegetable pie, then at the end, only remained less than Pi image

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  • kmikemoo
    kmikemoo over 5 years ago in reply to kmikemoo

    And what category does a Whoopie Pie really belong?  I had one of those today also - along with the apple pie.  OR Gate dining.  No XOR on Pi Day.

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  • kmikemoo
    kmikemoo over 5 years ago in reply to wolfgangfriedrich

    wolfgangfriedrich  2 cake ≈ 2π   Close enough! One of my favorite pies is Boston Cream Pie - which is pretty much a cake with custard filling. image

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