I think they will got a few friends that do framing and they said what i have there is overkill
#general-chat
dusty citrus
I want to go 50 percent but that's a pipe dream. 15 percent'd be a good accomplishment.
I'm going to have to pay someone to shred documents.
I have way too much that never got shredded and just takes up storage.
I bought 60 milk crates (6 gallon crates, rectangular).
Didn't take long before I had no empties.
Five orders of one dozen crates. ;)
I can just about hide five dozen of them from completely taking over the place.
But a sixth dozen: nope.
The promise (and theory) was: when I don't need them anymore (some of them, that is) they will be very easy to get rid of .. put them out, someone will take them; tell a friend, they'll come right over to take them away.
Like that.
Only oh .. 10 crates? have dense collection of paperwork of any kind, I think.
velvet pelican
I'm going to have to pay someone to shred documents.
I use a 55 gallon drum and burn any sensitive docs then stir the ashes real good let them cool and garbage bag them
Ive also used a blower in the past and there was no ashes left due to things burning so completely
dusty citrus
@velvet pelican I can't resort to fires of any kind, here, well within city limits (and other factors) but I do need to solve this. Been meaning to check prices on 'professional' shredding; I think the government also periodically offers some kind of service as well.
Iron Mountain seems to have retail partners for residential shredding; there's a link to Office Depot, with retail prices, for example (the link takes you to office depot's website, when you click on it from the Iron Mountain page):
So if I want to stay below the $90 to $120 range I need to do some presorting (which is a time consuming task).
velvet pelican
Lol i would buy a burn barrel in the country and go camping or make friends with someone that has one.. but i get your point it may cost just as much to do that in the end
dusty citrus
What are 'friends' again? ;)
cursive mural
_What are 'friends' again?_ ;)
Good question
dusty citrus
;)
I certainly 'have friends' especially ones I haven't heard from in a very long time.
limber jackal
@dusty citrus - if you look around, there are usually "community shred days", like a churches, community centers, etc. Otherwise, FedEx, UPS, Office* stores, have options. I think typically by the pound
dusty citrus
@limber jackal Oh thanks!
idle iron
?whois
solar ridgeBOT
hexthat#2155
idle iron
?whois @idle iron
solar ridgeBOT
hexthat#2155
idle iron
🧐 no join position?
ocean sigil
Congratulations NASA! Successful flight of Ingenuity helicopter on Mars! Wow!
jovial swift
Amazing, can't wait for briefing at 11AM PDT
How perfect was that altitude profile!
ocean sigil
That was incredible -- great to see the video as well!
jovial swift
wish some of my pulses were that square 🙂
bandwidth from Mars certainly has improved
ocean sigil
It was fun to see the control room erupt at the sight of that simple line plot!
jovial swift
more than any data, eruptions like that tell the tale
wonder what is used to measure altitude @ 1% earth atmosphere...
must be mems, don't think there is a radar on board
notice the landing legs in the corners of that still?
looks like it went straight up
ocean sigil
yes -- it will be great to get more details but it sure looked like it performed well.
jovial swift
I'm sure they'll have more by this afternoons (ET) briefing
think I'll decline any 2PM meetings at work today 🙂
too bad Igor Sikorsky isn't around...
I know we aren't supposed to get political in here but to my fellow citizens, Democrats didn't just fly a helicopter on Mars, Republicans didn't just fly a helicopter on Mars, Americans just did.
slim shard
sounds like a roundabout apolitical thing, unless you're hinting the [insert random third party] is responsible :-)
actually, this is more a score for cellphone powered robots flying on mars, until the robots take over the UN to gain political recognition, apolitical ;-)
I understand it was designed for 5 flights over about 30 days, and cost $80 million + $5 million anticipated operation costs, or using globally recognized currency units, 1494.6 bitcoin (or 15% the cost of pizza in 2010)
slim shard
bitcoin should never have gone this high, transaction fees are unacceptably high, investors have made it into a failed currency
stoic mesa
I know we aren't supposed to get political in here but to my fellow citizens, De...
This is technically true, but I would really say "we the humans" have flown a helicopter on Mars...
slim shard
Take a bow Qualcomm 801-chan!
hmmm, wanted to talk about how far away we are from personally flying anything over there, but part of a thing flown by humans has been attached to the Ingenuity, I'll leave it to Vision to debate the identity of the original airplane and Ingenuity
velvet pelican
@jovial swift got texture paint and almost the entire ceiling done. Man i am sore.
jovial swift
a lot of overhead work!
zealous ermine
Good pun
dusty citrus
I like how you folks hand out credit as if it was your place to do it. ;p
Obviously it was Jules Verne.
tardy badger
bitcoin should never have gone this high, transaction fees are unacceptably high...
This is why DOGE is hilarious to own
It’s the troll coin that will possibly and ironically be the real currency
Full disclosure I bought 100 DOGE this weekend 🤣
stoic mesa
@tardy badger can you buy some pizza with them?
wild temple
Full disclosure I bought 100 DOGE this weekend 🤣
my friend bought 420 when they were at 0.05€, now he doesn't want to sell at 0.35€
he uses me as an example because i paid for my pi stuff with ~0.012 bitcoins, when they were at 13500€ each :/
now, they went to almost 50000€ each
o.O the bot ate my message O.o
fluid mirage
stray wind
o.O the bot ate my message O.o
I think it was the lengthy series of periods. The bot isn't smart, and assumes you're repeating yourself. The bot's there for a reason, but sometimes it gets involved when it shouldn't. Apologies.
wild temple
oh, that makes sense
but at least dyno is somewhat sensical
mee6 gets really annoying sometimes
proven olive
mee6 gets really annoying sometimes
Being in a server that uses mee6, I... definitely agree there. Dyno's filters are so much better than mee6's, and also seems to work better at catching more of the obvious "Haha I'm avoiding the filter!" ones. But that said, it's not perfect - obviously!
wild temple
yes, but hopefully they get better
tawdry reef
https://youtu.be/QNpNVscpN3E
Did you all see they use a lidar from sparkfun?
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3791
zealous ermine
WHAT
jovial swift
I wondered what they were using to measure altitude, that woulda been my 14,000th guess...
pearl vigil
I wondered what they were using to measure altitude, that woulda been my 14,000t...
Dont get caught in a sandstorm
And agreed, I would have thought electrostatic
jovial swift
surprisingly little dust kicked up by 2500rpm blades
pearl vigil
Sure, surprising lot of it in the wind, tis mars after all
jovial swift
speaking of electrostatic, that was an x factor with rotors whirling thru the dry air
pearl vigil
Hm, interesting. Thats true most electrostatic systems are on fixed wing craft
Im going to guess thats why
Plus having a larger surface area for measurement is a plus, and larger gradient between sensors during maneuvers
stoic mesa
How do you measure altitude using electrostatics?
orchid zephyr
Maybe atmosphere thickness? Like a lower voltage discharge with a thicker atmosphere? Seems like it would be inaccurate, I doubt that that is how it works.
ancient rivet
w.r.t. question above about ingenuity altitude sense...
it's a PID 4058 🙂
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4058
garmin blog:
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/general/garmin-on-mars/
photo:
https://mars.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/25526_PIA23969-1200.jpg
limber jackal
So, just curious about naming things... why are "Time of flight" sensors called so, if they're not actually used for flight?
umbral phoenix
RF flying in the ethers?
weary fiber
second draft of my 3D-printable & fully-alignable laser projector assembly!
blue part is yaw-adjust, yellow part is pitch-adjust
the L-shaped bit is the mount for the mirror assembly
ancient rivet
@limber jackal Time of Flight of Light i.e. how long (time) it take light to travel (fly) back and forth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight_camera
limber jackal
That seems to be a peculiar use of the word "flight" though, doesn't it? Or maybe it's just me?
ancient rivet
given how crazy fast light is, i'm sure there are "details", but that's the jist
it's a general term used for any such similar scenario
what's "flying" doesn't have to be light
limber jackal
Right, and maybe it's just me, but how often is the travel of light called "flight", as compared to "objects" (larger than photons) which "fly" - plane, bird, Arthur Dent, etc
ancient rivet
probably a lot of history to the term.
just think general and look at that cartoon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight_camera#/media/File:20200501_Time_of_flight.svg
you want d, so you send out some yellow stuff that moves at c, measure the time t, and do the math
and the yellow stuff is "flying" between the points
could also be "traveling", "round trip", etc.
but someone back in ancient history referred to it as "flight", and the phrase stuck
the yellow stuff is moving through air ~= "flying" 🤷♂️
worn pelican
second draft of my 3D-printable & fully-alignable laser projector assembly!
wich program
and can you 3d print in fusion 360
limber jackal
Fair enough. my brain's "tl;dr" of it is: "Language is weird"
Thanks for the enlightenment @ancient rivet 🙂
(no pun intended, but taken none the less)
ancient rivet
it is 🙂
limber jackal
Seem to be a recurring theme in this channel! lol
stone orbit
So, just curious about naming things... why are "Time of flight" sensors called ...
I would guess it is from radar where the range to an airborne object which would be "flying" was determined by how long the pulse was "flying" to and from the object.
idle iron
One of my raspberry pi zero's 2306 is dead 
heady kindle
Sooo does this mean we might eventually use find my with BTLE devices like the ESP32? https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/07/apple-officially-opens-find-my-network-to-third-party-products-as-airtags-launch-looms/ making our own custom tags? That would be sweet.
wild temple
oh, you're making a clock?
tardy badger
Without context. I just want to say thank goodness
real falcon
technology connections video? 😉
tardy badger
Sure 🙂
zealous ermine
technology connections video? 😉
yeah
real falcon
lol winner
i love that server
im also in discord for that
permission to paste that picture there?
zealous ermine
yes!
real falcon
thanks
zealous ermine
no problem
real falcon
30 flips?
real falcon
nice 🙂
zealous ermine
it's going to be powered by a 28byj-48 stepper
and if i'm feeling extra fancy, i'll see if i can get my 4-bit CPU to drive it
real falcon
🙂
oblique holly
Can someone suggest a good multi meter
stoic mesa
But not cheap
slim shard
I have one by Amprobe, that I rarely use, but seems to work.
late fulcrum
Extech, Amecal, and Uni-T make some good cost effective ones. Realistically, even the cheap $10 ones aren't bad (just don't trust them with high voltage or current)
slim shard
I got a $10 one for the center I work at, it seems to have gone batty (useless readings)
hasty quarry
Okay, not gonna lie
This is fun
I'm enjoying more advanced algebra, I wonder if calculus will kick my butt
slim shard
2 3, or not 2 3, that is the question
late fulcrum
I made the mistake of taking calculus before trigonometry. I do not advise that.
hasty quarry
I'm taking calculus over this summer
And the syllabus says we'll learn trigonometry in the first half of summer before calculus
late fulcrum
Ah, so it will be fresh in your mind. That's the way to do it.
slim shard
Uni-T has the 890D+ for $21, I might get it to complement my $40 meter...
slim shard
pictures I see at least show it isn't one of those bulk cheapies, I can't measure a battery with the one I have here :-)
grave crest
I have a handful of Harbor Freight "free after coupon" multimeters. I wouldn't trust them with anything precise, nor anything above 12v -- but yeah, they do the job for basic things or as a sanity check.
Make no mistake, they're not good by any means. For stuff I care about, out comes the Fluke.
lapis bluff
When I saw this I had a flashback to an 8 question test that was going around when I was an undergrad or so (probably mid 70s). It was a multiple choice test that tested your ability to take multiple choice tests. All the actual text of the questions and answers was complete gibberish (but in coherent patterns). I sure wish I could find a copy now, but if it's on the net, my google-foo is not enough to find it.
velvet pelican
I got a 20 dollar multimeter from Home Depot and it works rather well and doesn’t take oddball batteries
idle iron
I like my harbor freight multimeter, it does; Lux, dB, TEMP, Hz Duty, and normal multimeter stuff.
grave crest
@lapis bluff If you can dig that up, or someone can find that, I'd be interested in seeing that.
hasty quarry
I'm making a Linked.in
Having trouble telling....what kind of job I'm looking for
I have skills, certainly, but I'm not sure what exactly to answer that
grave crest
As much as I'm not a fan of Linkedin, you can always keep it generic.
Are you looking for full time? part time? Internship/co-op?
Which field (IT, engineering, design, etc)?
Some folks are incredibly specific, and that's fine too 🙂
hasty quarry
Well, I'm kind of scared of working in general. Not gonna lie to you. It's scary
Like, I'm just 16 and all
I'm so scared of messing things up
While people depend on me
grave crest
You've got a lot of time to focus on that. And I won't lie, you'll absolutely 100% mess something up. Just like electronics, you'll let out blue smoke for something -- it's not about doing everything perfectly. It's about how you handle it when things don't.
hasty quarry
I've learned through my mistakes over and over, but on a job it doesn't feel the same
grave crest
I see where you're coming from, but learning doesn't stop (or even slow down) once you start collecting a paycheck 🙂 And if you're in a place where you're not allowed to make a mistake -- ooo. I'd have second thoughts about the culture fit.
It's one thing to make a mistake, not learn from it, and keep repeating it.
And you'll always find people (in academia, workplace, personal life) who search high and low for you to make a mistake....then hold that one gaff over you forever.
Those people are unkind, and we don't base our life choices from their opinions 🙂
hasty quarry
I can agree with that, actually
The context here is that I got these to show for myself a little bit ago
And on the page it said I could "Show them on Linked.in" and I was like "Oh, that sounds cool"
But now I'm being asked some tough questions
grave crest
Very nice, congrats on earning them. 🏆
hasty quarry
Thank you
Not sure how valuable they are. For someone with no formal education in these topics I'm sure it shows self interest
grave crest
Tough questions are good, they make you think. And "I don't know" is always, always a valid answer. And it's 100% fine -- encouraged even -- to change your mind, especially if you learned something new.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." ~Emerson
hasty quarry
Good quote
grave crest
And as to "how valuable they are" -- I think learning of any kind is valuable -- if it's a badge, certification, formal class, an afternoon deep diving into a project, or just meandering through random topics that catch your attention.
You made the effort to better yourself. No one can take that away from you.
hasty quarry
Yeah, but I'm trying to ask it from a more objective standpoint. I didn't study for those at all
I know what you mean, though, that's true
grave crest
Objectively -- generally, anything that's a badge/certification isn't a bad thing. At 16, that shows you know something (even if you guessed, you guessed correctly which means you have enough info) -- and it shows you have interest and drive.
I've had job interviews that put down my formal resume, and asked me about personal projects. Like what I did last weekend, or an Eagle Scout project, or why & how I have my own customized domain + email address.
Places are sometimes more concerned with your motivations more than which technical certs you hold. [unless required by the position or by law, of course]
As time goes on, you'll acquire more formalized certifications for your specialities, if needed or required. I wouldn't worry about that now. But if something catches your fancy, by all means and pursue it.
....I didn't have anything like those when I was 16.
hasty quarry
Interesting
Man, this is so annoying, I don't know what to enter still. Software Developer, Software Engineer, a developer for a specific language?
Why don't I know the differences between these. Darn it
I could just say "Developer"
But then I'd also be willing to do more than what a "Developer" would do. For example, I probably wouldn't mind teaching people
Even "Developer" feels too specific. I haven't made that decision yet. I thought I had, but now that I'm asked it, I'm frozen
grave crest
There are differences between those job titles, but in the real world, those lines get blurred.
I wouldn't fret too much about it. Choose something close, and if it comes up in a conversation or a cover letter, you can mention the nuances.
wild temple
sorta, wasn't really into it, but was pretty cool
crystal ore
Back when "competing with Yahoo" was a thing they worried about, heh heh.
umbral phoenix
Google Reader was the thing, the world changed when that got canned.
that marked an inflection point from the open internet to the silos we have today
(oversimplification, of course, a lot corporate strategies were shifting around at that time)
wild temple
i dont remember google reader, but do remember the annoying ie toolbars, google desktop and messenger
slim shard
I still miss Wave
slim shard
if only MS would compete with itsself. Back in my day when I told a machine to sleep or hibernate it would stay that way until I poked/woke it. Now the stupid things just pop on willy nilly....
slim shard
sometimes, sometimes it isn't
for example, in my view, a PC should NEVER wake itsself in hibernate mode
alas it does on W10
wild temple
that's because the hybernate is an hybrid between suspending and having a backup of the memory contents into the disk drive
slim shard
hybrid sleep is a hybrid, plain hibernate isn't
or at least in my weird wacky world the two don't collide like that
wild temple
yes, but when you click the "hybernate" button, it does that
it does the hybrid approach
slim shard
I've seen that sleep does hybrid automatically, I'd have to relook at explicit hibernate though
wild temple
its super useful for laptops
slim shard
it drove me nuts when I'd wake a PC and it'd sleep again in short order, as I figured out later, because its super useful for laptops
TL;DR I want Microsoft to get off my lawn.
wild temple
there is a lot to be said about microsoft vs linux
slim shard
:)
wild temple
but whichever you pick, you will always choose right and wrong, so
linux can be very cryptic sometimes
each distro is a different beast
even debian detivated distros are super different
it works better, but when stuff goes belly up, the average person cant fix it
on the other hand, windows just works
slim shard
when windows goes belly up, nuke and pave tends to be the only option, or when it slows down over time
wild temple
the secretary of company xyz will want to turn on the pc, type her document and move on
and not always
i have a windows install that started out as windows 8
then 8.1
then 10, through 3 different major upgrades
stuff went belly up a fair bit
on 2h20 or 20h2 or whatever, the mouse was lagging and the sound was all stuttery, bluescreens everywhere and was unusable
updated the bios and done, everything works
not perfectly (that update is crap, 1903 runs much better) but they work
slim shard
ignoring how quickly web browsers age, its quite nice to have the option to not update on someone elses schedule
randomly having to wait on an update on shutdown, and occasionally get prodded to set up a MS account on startup, is quite obnoxous
particularly when it happens to be public guests being asked to set those up.... ... ..
wild temple
yes, but just ignore it once every year and its "fine"
but on the other hand
linux handles a lot better the 50 tabs, 30 documents and all the crap people open and dont close
as long as it has swap, its happy
slim shard
I've seen web browsers swapstorm, because apparently they need to touch all their ram most of the time, also I suspect linux support, even for the big free browsers, is secondary
wild temple
linux support is secundary because the userbase is smaller, because support for linux is secundary
weary fiber
Wavelength-specific laser goggles are fun to play with
vestal pier
anyone know where one could buy the bare LED star PCBs?
late fulcrum
Like Luxeon star style PCBs, but unpopulated? Or something else?
vestal pier
Yeah, unpopulated star pcbs
late fulcrum
It wouldn't be tough to just have those made, but it does seem like there would be a ready made supply somewhere. Taobao?
vestal pier
Good suggestion, I'll check
spice moss
spaceX crew dragon crew-2 less than 2hour to liftoff
ocean sigil
They make it look easy... Congratulations SpaceX and NASA
spice moss
ESA first astronaut with spaceX crew dragon too
spice moss
soon there is 11 crew members on International spacestation
jovial swift
Congrats SpaceX & NASA, also to Ingenuity for a successful second flight!
hasty quarry
I can't tell you how many times I've spoken Spanish to my family or others casually
And then sat down, and reflected on it, like
"Man...fluency is so cool"
burnt tendon
When we were in Prauge and my wife didn't have any sort of grasp on the language for the first time, she looks at me and asks "Wait, is this what it's like for you?"
(She speaks several languages and I suck at anything other than English)
cursive mural
I dont know where to put this but can the new Neo Trinky run any kind of block based programming language? Like scratch?
Can it be used in the maker.make code as the trinket M0?
Also could you mine crypto on a trinky
grave crest
Free Game Alert: https://store.steampowered.com/app/351510/Quiplash/
Fun party/zoom game, absolutely worth the price of "free" -- available until April 26 @ 1pm eastern.
hasty quarry
Clicked a phishing link out of curiosity
I died laughing when it took me here
“Please verify your age to enter this site. How? By entering your credit card information, obviously”
wild temple
the sad thing is that people fall for it
hasty quarry
Yeah
It’s rather convincing, in the shoes of someone unknowledgeable
It’s strange though
If a bartender asked for your credit card to verify your age, you’d be extremely confused
It just doesn’t make sense
tardy badger
Made a simple little pinout card to go in with CP Saplings when I sell them
It needs some improvement but I have time for that still
limber jackal
Nice!
lapis bluff
<@!481746084272668673> If you can dig that up, or someone can find that, I'd be ...
Yeah, I really want to find it, but it's really hard to google for. As a taste, I do remember what the basis of the first question was. So here's a sample:
- When the scross embels there is usually an
A. ambil
B. gronell
C. kronk
D. maldriod
Does anyone see how to answer that? It's the first question and should be pretty easy.
crystal ore
I vote B. The A and B options are similar to each other, so they probably include the correct answer plus a decoy. And "ambil" is too close to "embel", so it's unlikely to be correct, leaving B as the most likely option.
Actually, I'm changing my answer to A. The question ends with "an", so the correct continuation has to start with a vowel.
stoic mesa
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe"
lapis bluff
Right the second time. All the not-really-a-word things were completely made up on the fly as I was typing. I probably should have done a once over for similarity, since that was the trick on one of the other questions.
But the one where similarity was the point was much more similar. The question part had an obvious noun and obvious verb, and the right answer just verbed the noun and nouned the verb. (IIRC)
storm pewter
DaBaby convertible
spice moss
soon as hatch opening is next on crew2 mission the spacestation have 11 crew members
slim shard
...but a penguin has hitched a ride...
spice moss
zero G indicator penguin yeah
slim shard
it breathes, do they have the oxygen to survive? or am I trying too hard for a weak joke?
tardy badger
So a thought that might make you think differently about the origin of the universe.
We know that black holes exist and that basically nothing escapes the monumental grasp of a black hole SIC gamma radiation spray.
Overtime as black holes feed, they accrue mass. But at what point does a black hole become so incredibly massive and dense that it collapses?
From what we understand about the origin of the universe, we started at a singly massive singularity event where ALL the mass of our known universe existed. So how did it obtain this mass? Well... I would posit that the mass singularity event was in fact a super massive black hole that collapsed on itself spewing matter at increasing rates of acceleration.
I assume but can’t prove per say what happens when matter is consumed by a black hole. But assuming the massive gravity and pressure reduces material down to base materials for elements, initial collapse would provide enough reason to think the release of pressure would reform our elements, thus creating a means for new stars, galaxies, planets, etc.. to form.
All of this happening endlessly over time
crystal ore
One correction is that a black hole basically starts out already "collapsed". It's the end point of some other object like the core of a massive star, which already got so big that it couldn't hold up its own weight, and collapsed into a black hole, with associated singularity.
tardy badger
I’m sure other people have thought of this before
But we don’t know what happens when a black hole gets too big
We’ve never see it happen
crystal ore
So far as we know, there's no "too big" for a black hole, since it's already as collapsed as anything can get.
tardy badger
I don’t think we will ever see what happens when a black hole gets too big
And I don’t think we can definitely say they can’t get too big either
crystal ore
That being said, the overall idea that the singularity inside a black hole might be the seed for a Big Bang of a new universe has been tossed around before. We just don't have the physics to really understand that sort of process yet.
tardy badger
Because our knowledge and ability to deduce outcomes is limited by what we can observe
Yeah, very true
Our physics standard model is on the verge of being rewritten
Or so popular mechanics and a number of journal articles tend to suggest
Apparently in 2008 a Yale study concluded that there is an upper limit to black hole size
Suggesting that is about 10 billion times the mass of our sun
This based on the study of radiation streams coming from black homes compared to the mass intake of said black holes
crystal ore
Ah, that's a bit different, yeah. It's not that the hole itself gets to some maximum size, it's just that the mass-accretion process gets less efficient.
tardy badger
The study suggested that the amount of radiation release would ultimately disrupt the intake of mass around it which would slow the growth as it became more massive
But it looks like quasar TON-618 has an estimated mass of 66 billion times our solar mass
It’s the largest black hole we’ve observed
So kind of 6.6x larger than that 10 billion times figure from 2008
crystal ore
There'd be nothing stopping two 10-billion holes from potentially merging into one 20-billion hole, for instance.
tardy badger
They say there isn’t really a chance if a runaway mass event for a black hole since generally galaxies are moving apart
grave crest
Just a heads up - the nordic ppk2 low power board is back in stock at Digikey.
32 in stock. Wait...31 after my order 😉
tardy badger
Lol
limber jackal
Just a heads up - the nordic ppk2 low power board is back in stock at Digikey.
...
Beats "29 after my order. Wait, WHAT???"
tardy badger
😆
limber jackal
Not that anything like that has EVER happened to me, or learned from experience
grave crest
Hahaha....I've done both -- "oops, too much" and "oh drats oops, I didn't get enough or forgot to apply a coupon."
But anywho, I know some folks were looking for the Nordic PPK2, and it's been out of stock for ages.
[I've been looking through the past chats, because I recall someone was very much looking for one, but I can't find it ... so hopefully they see this before it's too late 🙂 ]
tardy badger
This is really nice
wild temple
that looks really amazing
velvet pelican
Im sore from it. Still have flooring and trims to do. And thanks all
limber jackal
Today in Canadian technology news...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/beaver-internet-down-1.6001594
weary fiber
In my freshman electronics class, I was assigned the project of “make a too cold/perfect/too hot temperature reader that only turns on when it’s exposed to light”
And the project has pretty limited parts available
This is what I could come up with
I'm gonna put it in LTSpice tomorrow, this is basically a napkin estimate
limber jackal
Glad to hear it @spice moss. Hope the side effects are mild to non-existant for you!
spice moss
well i have other things so pfizer sideeffects are like what are those
https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1387030524993150989?s=20 other news when Crew1 coming back
weary fiber
what an absolute madlad
(fr tho, madbodger is a great guy & they've helped me out with a number of projects in the past)
burnt tendon
So, funny story. A long time ago, I had some friends over and they tried to sailor moon shame me. Because there was, in our rack of DVD's, one of the Sailor Moon collections. And they were all like "Well, that's your wife's sailor moon DVD's aren't them?"
Obv you can't marry the sort of sailor moon fan who has artbooks and the DVDs without picking some up, but this definitely meant that I needed to watch every single episode of Sailor Moon which, because I can't sit still, has taken years.
weary fiber
Sailor Moon pops off though
burnt tendon
A friend has an amazing Sailor Jupiter cosplay with LEDs and I would have photographed it by now except for plague.
weary fiber
Please do get a pic sometime! I'm desperate to start putting lights & electronics into cosplay, but I'm kinda running low on inspiration ;;
burnt tendon
YAH!
It's sad because light-up cosplays are hard to photograph so even if you get the cosplay going, getting a good photo isn't always easy.
static flare
I'm planning a light up cosplay for PAX this year! I'm very excited
weary fiber
anthro fox linux mascot
anthro fox linux mascot
:DDD
fr though I loved that design & it's so rare to see people who even know what it is lmaoo
static flare
yeeeeeee
burnt tendon
There's probably an alternative quantum reality universe where the anthro fox was the mascot instead of tux and it's probably a better one. 😦
static flare
Nice!
static flare
I'm ashamed I haven't gotten more into Linux
burnt tendon
Yes, but https://xkcd.com/456/
static flare
I'm mostly going to get into it using my Raspberry Pi
I have a project using it I want to do, but I just wish I could find a way to integrate a cassette deck into a project easily without getting a cheapo one from eBay or Amazon
have been told I have an old soul
late fulcrum
I've been eyeing one of the miniature cassette decks that were used for dictation.
static flare
I have a micro-cassette recorder! I like the sound they have, because of the size of the tapes and the limits of the format
Planning on using it to add the right sound to music
late fulcrum
Good use of the medium!
static flare
I'm gonna use it to add purposeful degradation to my music! Might find a way to make the project I'm building a MIDI controller, as a fun side part to it
I love electronics and music and I really want to combine the two
burnt tendon
I know too many people who are doing homebrew musical things. I'm eventually going to succumb to temptation and make something.
burnt tendon
Hm, so Google indicates that most folks have been using regular sized cassettes so now I wonder what a tape echo made out of a micro-cassette recorded would be like.
late fulcrum
Or build one out of a wire recorder
burnt tendon
That would be eerily on-brand for me.
zealous ermine
micro cassettes are neat
limber jackal
That would be eerily on-brand for me.
Nothing wrong with being in tune with who you are
tardy badger
radio heads are in tune with who they are
zealous ermine
the puns...
tardy badger
wire heads, they need to be induced 😛
limber jackal
the puns...
p.s. when in doubt, just look at people's roles - like Wirehead's 😉
tardy badger
my roles.. they won't show or tell you very much
burnt tendon
Well, clearly I don't want to be too helpful lest I lose my punster role in favor of something more important.
limber jackal
my roles.. they won't show or tell you very much
They at least show that you show!
zealous ermine
i applaud you
static flare
Ooh, split flap display
zealous ermine
yes!
static flare
I love them!
zealous ermine
yeah they are very cool, too bad they are so expensive
burnt tendon
They represent a real turning point for digital displays tho
zealous ermine
so i decided to build one myself
static flare
I've seen a heap about them recently
zealous ermine
yeah they are making somewhat of a resurgence
late fulcrum
I love 'em too
static flare
oooh
zealous ermine
you have one?
static flare
I personally don't, sadly
late fulcrum
I've got a few, along with a couple of the control boxes
late fulcrum
No CPU, all electromechanical – these are old
static flare
ooh
zealous ermine
ahh, very cool!
static flare
I'm curious to see how big practically the memory in a Feather 32u4 is, for programs and such, would it be possible to fill up the memory and if needed would it be possible to add more
late fulcrum
It's not a lot of memory, and it's not difficult to use it all up (without even trying). Adding more is not easy.
You can add an SD card or flash chip, but those aren't like RAM, more like a filesystem.
static flare
:/ well thats fun
I wanted to use it to get data from peripherals and display them on an LCD so I could offload the programs and processing to the peripherals and use the 32u4 just to control the LCD and read button presses and the heartrate sensor... Might actually be good to get something for logging the data on the sensor...
late fulcrum
A 32U4 can do that, depending on the LCD, sensors, and libraries used.
drowsy light
image-drawing-with-python
good night I would like you to help me to show images in 32 x 32 and 64 x 64 thanks
pixel_pin = board.D18
pixel_width = 32
pixel_height = 32
https://learn.adafruit.com/easy-neopixel-graphics-with-the-circuitpython-pixel-framebuf-library/image-drawing-with-python
limber jackal
SAMDwich?
spice moss
@limber jackal think my second dose of pfizer is on 26th of july
limber jackal
<@!361158808501747735> think my second dose of pfizer is on 26th of july
Cool. Hope the first one was kind to you as far as side effects
spice moss
all the pfizer sideeffects, all i can sense is some warmer headache than usual
as normally i have those sideeffects what pfizer give as normally so too
limber jackal
Doesn't sound pleasant, but fortunately, not too bad either
spice moss
I felt that warmer neck area and back of the head after shot without those effects what i got that feeling too so luckily i have the mRNA than those other way
static flare
i can't get the jab until at the earliest like... January next year it's predicted
we're going really slowly here on it
spice moss
well some say they got tinnitus after second dose of pfizer but was it time also what affect to it but for me it was after 84days from first but still I have had tinnitus from younger age it comes and goes
stoic mesa
@static flare where are you?
dapper hatch
I see some chatter on side affects from covid jabs. I've had my second jab a week ago. The affects I had were less than the first jab. Just felt a bit under the weather for a few days. I have CF and so living in the UK meant I got it early. I also get Flu jabs every year and Pneumonia jabs every five years. The affects I have had from the covid jab are very similar to what I have had in the past for other jabs and don't concern me at all. Not sure how many of you normally get Flu jabs, from my experience is all normal and expected.
stuck moth
dapper hatch
Going to give it another week then hair cut time! 🙂 Normally I have my hair cut to number 2 (very short), helps me to optimise my time in the bath. Hair auto drys. But currently it's way down my back and I hate it. Getting it cut is my independence day 🙂
Been nearly 16 months since last cut.
spice moss
i got some headache with warm feeling nothing more right now
grave crest
First jab of Moderna wasn't too bad. Mild localized tenderness, about 36 hours of very mild body aches, tiredness, and hot/cold feeling. Slept for most of it, stayed hydrated.
I've had worse aches from head colds. Perfect opportunity to take the day off, watch some TV/play some games/read a book. Catch up on some rest 🙂
And such reactions are actually good -- means you're developing an immune response. Some folks develop an immune response that's not as apparent either, and that's fine too 🙂
umbral phoenix
There seems to be a lot of variance in side effects. I didn't notice much after dose 1, but slept in the next day. Got dose 2 last Friday morning, had strong side effects Friday evening and all Saturday, easing a lot Sunday, mostly gone by Monday. (Pfizer)
grave crest
Seems to be the case from my observations too -- family got Moderna and Pfizer, and it was a mixed bag ranging from nothing to pretty strong.
I figure, it's better than the alternative.
wild temple
im actually scared of the pfizer vaccine
did they say anything about the blood clots on the other vaccine?
spice moss
mRNA is different what pfizer and moderna use so its better as this seems to go more wider range than what using adenovirus delivery method do what is linked to blood cloths
tardy badger
It was a very rare allergic reaction
spice moss
astra and jj and more covid vaccine use the old method for delivery
tardy badger
I’ll probably opt for J&J because I have a history of vaccine reactions and I’d like to reduce the risk to just one shot
Though admittedly I do like the mRNA method better. I just wish it could be done with one shot
spice moss
where i got warm first was there where blood cloths happen so it would be different as better in wide range
yeah oneshot would be great
but hey its first time mRNA tech used
tardy badger
Yeah
spice moss
well its good that those blood cloth cases comes so medical science and engineer start to think of delivery methods
on this week in science when JJ had those as astra had cases so something common of delivery way was think what should we do in the future of vaccine delivery
wild temple
i mean, the janson vaccine, according to what ive read, it had caused very few blood clots
i am fine with those odds
the pfizer vaccine caused 2 deaths in around 42000-43000 tests done
that is scary to me
spice moss
some of that risk comes from your DNA so it can come from your blood line
wild temple
i honestly have absolutely no idea
i am licky enough to have avoided the need for any medical treatment
dapper hatch
@spice moss On April 3rd the BBC reported that In the UK 30 people out of 18 million vaccinated had an issue with blood clots. The numbers here are so low it would be fair to ask would they have developed them anyway. Remember, correlation is not causation. 🙂 Last time I checked the US numbers it was quite literally one in a million chance. At the same time I read here in the UK 33% of people admitted to hospital with covid developed some kind of blood clot. To me the choice is clear. But of cause it is a personal choice. I know one person that has a very real phobia of hospitals and jabs of any kind.
spice moss
@dapper hatch also what is measured on it as there isnt global wide baseline what is measured for it
dapper hatch
Yes, there is so much to learn from this virus. I've still not heard any reasonable explanation why some have no symptoms and others have it really bad. A friends daughter had covid for a month, took another two months to get over it. Shes 21 and as fit as a butchers dog.
spice moss
countries have different metrics for it
static flare
<@!247638987441831936> where are you?
Australia
limber jackal
One possibility, about the blood clots, is if people have been much more sedentary the past year, particularly working from home, or reduced physical activity, that DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) could have been a factor. That's the thing - we really can't tell if it's any of the external factors, the vaccine alone, a combination, or even just a genetic predisposition, or combination.
tardy badger
One possibility, about the blood clots, is if people have been much more sedenta...
They have attributed a bulk of blood clotting due to reactions to an ingredient in the vaccines that have caused clotting. Not all but a lot of the cases.
static flare
I mean, I have an increased risk naturally of DVT so that's fun
burnt tendon
At least the plus side of things there is that at least Australia is an island and therefore y'all have not had nearly the degree of biblical plague we've had in north america.
But, like, the mRNA thing is absolutely fascinating to me because both it's silly and absurd that a little strand of genetic material wrapped in some lipids is all you need but also because it's the closest thing to Dr. McCoy or Dr. Crusher whipping up a cure within the confines of a 60 minute TV show episode we've yet achieved.
"island"
spice moss
with mRNA what a modern computing power can help to get that development faster
burnt tendon
Yeah, that's what's so science fiction about it.
static flare
Yeah, but the issue is that we're currently really disconnected from everything else and I have a partner in the Phillipines I really want to visit but I can't
stray wind
Yeah, but the issue is that we're currently really disconnected from everything ...
I'm really sorry to hear that. I ended up stranded in another country for 9 months at the beginning, but I was with my partner. I can only imagine spending all that time separated.
static flare
I'm really sorry to hear that. I ended up stranded in another country for 9 mont...
it's been 1 3/4 years since we've seen each other
stray wind
That's rough.
static flare
yeah...
real falcon
in least using video phone calls to see each other?
static flare
yeah, we do
she's busy with her college work a lot sadly
so I don't see her a lot
real falcon
yeah. in least can see each other once a while though 😄
15 years ago would be able to send pictures but essentally all
static flare
yeah... if it weren't for the internet we never would have met
She does digital art, she actually did the art I put on my PCBs
real falcon
🙂
burnt tendon
Yah. I miss my best friend besides my spouse really bad but that's still not quite the same.
static flare
we were planning to see each other again in June last year but that fell through obviously
burnt tendon
Yah, I figure I can't get my quarantine hair whacked until she's had a chance to do something silly with it.
tardy badger
i gave my wife two hair cuts since covid
one was just a trim a few months back
and then i also cut her hair the other night. did an under cut that she wanted to try and it came out pretty good. i'm still alive so i'm guessing she still loves it
burnt tendon
It might have been a close shave tho
I dono, my wife doesn't mind it that much as long as I put it in a ponytail and hers just keeps getting longer and I feel like I'd probably just make it worse.
A friend from high school's dad was a rock'n'roll drummer in the 60s.. his band opened for Jefferson Airplane.. and then he went professional and opened a pizza restaurant and when he did, he cut off his ponytail and kept it in a bag.
I'm basically daring fate that I won't have enough hair to keep the ponytail.
static flare
my roommate has dyed my hair but other than that i haven't had it cut in like, over a year and a half
tardy badger
my wife cuts my hair every few months
burnt tendon
Also, I'm trying to see if I can make it through quarantine on a single ponytail holder.
I'm probably approaching the year-and-a-half mark.
static flare
I wanna grow out my hair, I had to cut my hair short as a kid but now I'm older I can do what I like
burnt tendon
Totally! It's your hair, you get to do what amuses you most with it.
I didn't intend to have a ponytail for the first time in my life, but I'm amused it happened.
static flare
yee! I love how free I feel about my look now I'm out and transitioning
tardy badger
i cut my hair short
but i have always had shorter hair and never looked terribly great with long hair
burnt tendon
I had a vague mullet in high school. It wasn't good, mostly because mullet.
tardy badger
people are trying to bring mullets back
burnt tendon
I'm not signed on to this mailing list and don't want to be.
Although if they brought back 80s teased big hair, I'd be OK with it.
static flare
Mullets are a big thing here
burnt tendon
Yah, like my friend from the early days of the Internet in Australia seems to have me thinking that Australia kinda wants to be more like the US in the worst possible ways.
burnt tendon
Yeah, and that can't be good for trans rights, given what they've been doing here. :/
static flare
Yeah :/ an senator is trying to get all LGBT issues banned from discussion in schools completely
real falcon
jeez
static flare
yeah, he's fun
it would also stop schools and school councillors affirming trans kids
Oh sorry, it's aimed specifically at trans and gender diverse people, not all of the LGBT community
One fun part of it is this:
The Bill requires schools to present discredited counter narratives when teaching classes like science or history. For example, discussing creationism when teaching evolution, raising anti-vaccination theories when teaching about immunisation, or raising racist ideologies to explain the over representation of First Nations people in prison.
burnt tendon
Yeah, and it's always the thin end of the wedge. Not enough people get angry over trans rights specifically so they then use that to glob more onto it. I compensate by getting rapidly angry about trans issues these days.
burnt tendon
Also, can't have electronics without Lynn Conway.
static flare
I love hearing about trans people in tech, it's always inspiring to hear about, considering I want to be a trans person in tech myself
burnt tendon
Well, Coraline Ada created the Contributor Covenant that is on all of the Adafruit github repos.
static flare
:D
static flare
Fran Blanche was the first trans woman in tech I knew about, she's lovely from what I've seen
burnt tendon
I didn't realize she was a trans woman in tech actually.
short pulsar
Spent all day trying to get a code package to build. Dependency this, install old version that, hack this Makefile, change this #define. And arrived at same point where I started, with nothing built. Is this the life of a coder trying to install code?
static flare
gdi my computer just randomly bluescreens
it's been happening a lot
and it happened again
burnt tendon
Well, on the bright side, once you switch over to Linux it won't bluescreen.
....it'll kernel panic.
static flare
i don't even know what's wrong
slim shard
could probably patch linux to bluescreen of you miss it, that would be a funny patch
stoic mesa
slim shard
smells like the xscreensaver module
stoic mesa
something like that
slim shard
I don't use it as much as I'd like, worried someone would restart my workstation
burnt tendon
For a period of time, I totally had a random set of xscreensaver hacks on my computer and it was great because the bsod would pick a random smattering of operating systems and literally every operating system I'd ever used would have me cursing at it.
Like, I'd get the Amiga Guru Meditation and I'd cuss even though I haven't used one in decades.
polar bloom
Oh man I would freak out if the screen suddenly went black and a red bar at the top starting blinking at me.
wild temple
to be honest, i probably would feel my heart drop to the stomach
i already had 1 gpu die on me
getting one at this time would be a nightmare
tardy badger
The fact that you can ping another network device and not get pong back is probably the reason our world is crumbling today
wild temple
receiving a pong would mean wasting 4 bytes :x
burnt tendon
It stopped being legit network advice um like maybe 2 decades ago, give or take a few years?
wild temple
yes, when pcs were tanks
polar bloom
I love hearing about trans people in tech, it's always inspiring to hear about, ...
Have you heard of Sophie Wilson?
polar bloom
She's one of the inventors of the ARM processor, so that's a pretty big deal.
static flare
Yeah!
burnt tendon
Also, Wendy Carlos.
burnt tendon
Also, like more recently, Kris Nóva has had a giant impact on the kubernetes world.
late fulcrum
Fran Blanche comes to mind as well
burnt tendon
Also, Liz Fong-Jones in the SRE world.
polar bloom
Someone else from the pioneering days of computer games is Danielle Bunten, who designed the classic game M.U.L.E.
Once lockdowns etc are over, I suggest going to tech conferences and meetups. You'll meet plenty of trans people there.
static flare
Fran Blanche comes to mind as well
Yeah! She was the first trans woman in tech I saw online
static flare
Once lockdowns etc are over, I suggest going to tech conferences and meetups. Yo...
hopefully there's some interesting ones in my neck of the woods, considering the borders are very closed for the next seemingly like forever
burnt tendon
I mean, at least some of the better tech conferences have made efforts to set up programs to bring people from under-represented groups to come to the conference.
Because there's a lot of person-to-person networking that happens at a tech conference beyond just sitting for the talks and the virtual conferences are great but it's still really hard for them to do that person-to-person networking in the same way.
Also, we've got our very own Stargirl with her amazing set of synth projects.
static flare
Ooh, synths! I've always had my eye on them, as a musical girl myself, especially how to generate audio, but I've never gotten around to actually figuring out how to do that
burnt tendon
OMG, Stargirl has absolutely amazing write ups on her blog.
Feast your brain upon this: https://blog.thea.codes/the-design-of-the-juno-dco/
limber jackal
That's what browsers with 100s of tabs and oodles of RAM are for!
hasty quarry
slim shard
off topic, in spaaaace!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxkRKZ34yo
sharp grove
hey it works
shame all the analog tv stations got shut down a long time ago
if i tried to broadcast my own the FCC would send their headhunters after me
slim shard
broadcast on 2.4GHz :-)
sharp grove
oops no wifi
slim shard
honestly don't know the channel width on analog tv
static flare
i have a CRT that size (just the tube and driver board)
sharp grove
I want to use the tube for something but something tells me if i pull the tube out I'll end up never getting it to work again
static flare
you'd just need to know where to plug the right signals in, and remove it without damaging anything
Also discharge the crt first
slim shard
flyback capacitor? or does the tube also hold charge?
late fulcrum
Many CRTs have a conductive coating on the inside connected to the second anode and the screen aluminization, and a conductive coating on the outside, generally grounded, to use the CRT glass as a capacitor dielectric for a high voltage filter capacitor. That thick glass dielectric can hold charge for weeks.
slim shard
there is no "the more you know" emoji available....
late fulcrum
I have a fondness for small CRTs
slim shard
🏳️🌈 ⭐ The More You Know.... :-)
real falcon
i saw video of someone making really small crt tube. it was size of flat side of regular pen
i couldnt find it since
slim shard
hmm, I recall there were portable tubes
late fulcrum
I think I've seen that one, a cold cathode one
To give an idea of the scale of that 2" Sanyo receiver
crystal ore
I think there were some small tubes used as camcorder viewfinders, for instance.
late fulcrum
The center TV in the top photo uses one of the viewfinder tubes as a small direct-view CRT. It's also on the left of this pic, showing the lense that it came with to make its 1-inch CRT look like a 2-inch one.
real falcon
drat hoped one of you guys knew about that tiny crt project lol
static flare
I have a fondness for small CRTs
i have the CRT out of the one on the left
so I've been told, at the least
late fulcrum
They are cute little CRTs
static flare
I'm just perpetually afraid of accidentally potentially killing myself with the one I have... is that a big risk?
late fulcrum
The little one? Those only run on about 600 volts.
The bigger ones have higher voltage. There are procedures to safely discharge them so you can work on them without getting zapped.
grave crest
@limber jackal By the way, I nabbed a Keychron C1 with a wood wrist rest -- red keys, white backlight. ⌨️
limber jackal
<@!361158808501747735> By the way, I nabbed a Keychron C1 with a wood wrist rest...
Nice! As in received, or waiting for it to show up?
grave crest
In my hands right now
It's much different than my laptop's keyboard (Macbook Pro 16) and the external Apple wired keyboards I have (the slim profile ones).
I think I need to force myself to use it for a week before I pass judgement on it, because I'm so ingrained in what I've been using.
limber jackal
Oh yeah, that's a MASSIVE change in format. Hands and muscle memory are stubborn
grave crest
What started this was getting an Anker (I think? Maybe something similar) mechanical keyboard on Amazon. Then Walmart had a few Razer mech keyboards on a fire sale (normally $60/100/150.....marked down to $10-13.)
Thing is, none of them hit the spot. Too big -- like a surfboard. Too inconsistent of a feel (the spacebar sounded like a baseball bat hitting a 55 gallon barrel's worth of bubble wrap....but the other keys were quiet). Another had green backlighting that wouldn't turn off. They're great backup keyboards in a pinch -- certainly better than the "free included with computer" boards.
But the little voice in my head said "you need to get something decent."
plus the mac keyboards are starting to fail after a decade of service, for one reason or another. which is fair.
short pulsar
After a day of finagling, I finally vanquised my make file and it compiles! Just the same as it did before I rearranged everything. Gotta break (and fix) things to make them better organized...
limber jackal
What started this was getting an Anker (I think? Maybe something similar) mechan...
And keyboards that work or support Mac keybindings natively are quite rare - or just done poorly
grave crest
That's what got my attention with Keychron -- they have a mac & windows physical switch. That was very nice to see.
For my windows boxed, the wired apple keyboard works -- even if the windows/alt keys are incorrect. A small concession I can make.
And I use both platforms about equally, so....I wouldn't mind something I could use everywhere
From my initial use -- the reds trigger with far less force than I'm used to using
Though i bottom out the MBP 16 & apple keyboards 100% of the time, as they're a super thin chiclet-style
stoic mesa
@zealous ermine hope it is not your car
stoic mesa
☹️
at least no one hurt?
zealous ermine
No one was hurt
midnight tree
dusty citrus
Finally found out they have a waiting list for covid shots where you get to stay in your car, in places that don't normally do this. ;)
limber jackal
Common sense prevails! Hopefully you've been able to sign up for that list
dusty citrus
I'm dragging my feet, but it's got to happen pretty soon.
dusk oracle
@late fulcrum Here i can agree with madbodger small crt's are a vision to see in action.
The green florescent glow of glass tubes and the distinct sound the EHT makes
static flare
I really should find a way to mount mine in a case and experiment with it
late fulcrum
I couldn't resist this rack mount array of 7 CRT scopes on eBay
stoic mesa
looking at one of the repos in github i plan to fork, found this
@copyright MIT Lesser General Public License
😆
delicate stream
Lesser? Is it less important?
stoic mesa
there is a real license LGPL which at different times meant either Lesser or Library
it does differ from usual GPL
real falcon
theres site that have basics on all those licenses
stoic mesa
and MIT Lesser GPL never existed
limber jackal
theres site that have basics on all those licenses
This one?
https://opensource.org/licenses
stoic mesa
does it mean i am free to choose whatever clauses i like from these two licenses?
real falcon
think so, currently too tired to really think
static flare
I couldn't resist this rack mount array of 7 CRT scopes on eBay
oooh, that looks so cool
the only other CRTs i have are an array of 3 medium sized ones
delicate stream
I have various computer CRTs and a couple TVs still
late fulcrum
I may have a bit of a problem...
delicate stream
I see no problem here
static flare
I need to get a proper colour CRT at some point, I wanna get into NES Tetris
delicate stream
hehe
late fulcrum
I do, however, get around to using them eventually
delicate stream
I love tubes
late fulcrum
That makes two of us...
static flare
Although, I'd never get into any tournaments or anything, my coordination isn't great, and also PAL is a lot more common here over NTSC, which the standard tournaments use
delicate stream
I'm not great at Tetris either XD but it is fun
late fulcrum
I did buy a PAL-NTSC converter as one of the games I wanted to play was only available in English in PAL (there is a Japanese NTSC version, however)
static flare
yeah! and im really interested in the challenges that NES Tetris brings over a modern version
delicate stream
Is NES Tetris a lot different than Game Boy Tetris?
static flare
Japan is weird when it comes to both power and TV stuff
delicate stream
yeah
static flare
And yeah
delicate stream
hmm... I need to get NES Tetris
static flare
Although, it's why some older japanese stuff is more usuable than other similar era stuff from other places
late fulcrum
There are special argon ion laser tubes made for the Japanese market, which can operate on lower voltage than the common ones designed for 120V or 230V mains.
static flare
cough cough US cough cough
delicate stream
lasers!
static flare
Lasers are fun
late fulcrum
Agreed!
limber jackal
I may have a bit of a problem...
I have the same problem with getting organized
delicate stream
Organization hard
limber jackal
Organization hard
Stacks and piles... good?
delicate stream
That's kinda what I do XD but bins seem more effective
static flare
I find the small storage containers with the segments (difficult to say with words) to be helpful
thing I have the resistors in (thats from when I bought 192 resistors in packs of 8)
A digikey order would have been cheaper but Jaycar was easier
late fulcrum
I've gone this route, with partial success
static flare
These are also good
I've tried them, but to less success
delicate stream
I've gone this route, with partial success
That's way better than my pile, lol
static flare
Hah, I can buy 5000 of the resistors I wanted for about $30
Which is about how much I paid for 300
delicate stream
noice
limber jackal
Sometimes, you see an offer you just can't resist
delicate stream
At least you didn't buy 5 for $10
static flare
gdi
static flare
At least you didn't buy 5 for $10
It was 8 for $0.85
delicate stream
Sometimes, you see an offer you just can't resist
I dunno if I should laugh or be angry
delicate stream
I have, on occasion, purchased things at much higher prices for convenience... like, 10 for $15 of something that's usually like 20 for $20, if the higher count isn't available and I need it now, or if it's brick and mortar and I can't wait for shipping
static flare
that's basically been what i've done
delicate stream
Unrelated: Adafruit breadboard PSU drops the raw voltage into one set of rails, which is like 20v for the adaptor I'm using... so in order to keep myself from exploding something, I covered those rails in Gaff tape XD
delicate stream
Yeah, I'd imagine having the regulated on both sides would be more useful
Unless you're using, say, a 12v adapter and need 12v and 3.3v/5v/other lower voltage
late fulcrum
For some projects, I'll use the low current regulated voltages for the logic, and the high current higher voltage unregulated power to run loads like lights and motors.
delicate stream
Hmmm.... dual regulated breadboard PSU? that'd be cool
velvet pelican
Do not plug the blue zone into the red zone
tardy badger
But get in the zone, autozone
short pulsar
Took me half a day to realize 0x0F is 0x00001111 and not 0x11111111. 🤦
delicate stream
Oops…
I think we all do things like that, lol
Table + table + table == shelves!
late fulcrum
Sometimes sign extension can add more 1 bits than you expect
Are those "Lack" tables? They're popular for 3D printer enclosures.
delicate stream
Yes they are! $5 each, I’ve gotten 12 so far!
delicate stream
burnt tendon
I'm deeply disappointed that they theorized it instead of doing it.
Then again, I'm twitter mutuals with this lovely collector: https://blog.pizzabox.computer/
real falcon
dunno, but may be nearing burnout
delicate stream
I think it might be thermal? It happens after a while, gets progressively worse with on time, and resets after cooldown
real falcon
that is possible. check case temperate around it as its flickering
delicate stream
Gotta fix my CAT phone, lol
tardy badger
Facebook Reminded me that Osama Bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces 10 years ago
To this day
mortal oar
Table + table + table == shelves!
noice
wild temple
My halogen lights do this… any idea why?
are they on a dimmer? i heard something about those not playing well with dimmers, but i may be wrong or it may be outdated info
slim shard
I couldn't resist this rack mount array of 7 CRT scopes on eBay
I need to know when you visualize a .mod playback on it.
delicate stream
are they on a dimmer? i heard something about those not playing well with dimmer...
Nope, straight switch
delicate stream
I keep thinking about buying a thermal printer but I have 0 reasons other than I want one
polar bloom
Very old school tech those thermal printers, I remember by friend having one in 1986 or so.
delicate stream
Yeah, and still incredibly common. I love old school tech that sticks around forever
static flare
I keep thinking about buying a thermal printer but I have 0 reasons other than *...
saaaame
delicate stream
Toys for the sake of toys XD
static flare
i literally had to tell the person i was on call with when i first saw them to firmly tell me not to get one otherwise i totally would
I'm not the most model example, considering I bought 10 NeoTrinkeys just so I had 10 of them
delicate stream
lol
I'm buying 1 Neo Trinky just to have them... but the printer is a lot more money
static flare
that's valid
I wanted to potentially add it to a project but then I decided that was a little much
but now I'm considering it again
for cons and such
delicate stream
Plus the printer consumes over time, Neo Trinky does not consume anything, therefore lifetime cost is only the initial investment cost
The Neo Trinky or the printer? lol
static flare
The printer
Print off business cards and the like
it definitely would be noteworthy
delicate stream
Ah... There are some cool projects with the printer, like basically a Pi powered polaroid instant camera, but I can imagine building it, taking a few pictures, then never using it again
static flare
I wonder what the character width is
static flare
just curious to see if i could fit 20 characters across
i could use this to print out stuff for a project
delicate stream
Looks like 30+?
delicate stream
I think you could easily print anything you'd put on that LCD, lol
burnt tendon
Honestly, I keep feeling like what I really want to do is to get a dot matrix printer.
delicate stream
Mmmmm, good ol' dot matrix...
delicate stream
How many NeoPixels would be equivalent to a 60w lightbulb?
flat elbow
Random q - Why don't all GPU manufacturers water cool their GPUs by default? Wouldn't that let them all report better performance numbers they can brag about?
delicate stream
Water cooling isn't as simple and robust as air cooling -- pumps in the AIO units can fail in 3-5 years or less, whereas a fan/fans may work for 7-10 years. It's also more expensive -- more material and manufacturing costs, more packaging; they usually reserve that fancy stuff for top tier chips, so you'll see much more expensive units with a waterblock or AIO sporting the fastest speeds possible
Plus an AIO water-cooled card is a bit harder to install and won't fit in all cases, and the ones with only a waterblock require the rest of a loop, which is pretty expensive and also requires skill and time to make happen
burnt tendon
Yah, like I've followed extreme cooling rigs since the days when someone put a Peltier on a 486 in the days of yore but I have like zero interest.
You can say that I'm just not that pumped about them.
delicate stream
I have an AIO on my 7900X to try to keep it from catching fire
burnt tendon
mid-90s me, who worked doing web design as his summer job so he could get a Voodoo Rush, is very disappointed in present-day me for using the integrated Intel GPU.
burnt tendon
I blame cryptocurrencies.
delicate stream
coughs in multiple milti-GPU systems I... I didn't buy that many... and I don't have a problem, you have a problem D:
continues plotting next build
burnt tendon
Yeah, like, I don't really game anymore so it's just what I need to do Blender and FreeCAD and stuff
delicate stream
I'm doing video editing, 3D modeling [learning Blender], and messing with simulations
static flare
Got my keyswitches and sockets today!
dusty citrus
Unrelated: Adafruit breadboard PSU drops the raw voltage into one set of rails, ...
I look at VUnreg as a required breakout. It's not always used, but when it's wanted, you need it.
dusty citrus
Took me half a day to realize 0x0F is 0x00001111 and not 0x11111111. 🤦
I don't know the markup for binary.
1111 is 0xF
1111 1111 is 0xFF
1111 1111 1111 is 0xFFF &c.
dusty citrus
-1 may also be seen as 0xFFFFFFFF on a 32-bit MCU, in some contexts.
2147483647 + 1 = -2147483648
dusty citrus
ok .s <1> -1111111 11111111 11111111 11111110 1 -
ok .s <1> -1111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 1 -
ok .s <1> -10000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 1 -
ok .s <1> 1111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 1 -
ok .s <1> 1111111 11111111 11111111 11111110
(If it's wrong don't worry about it; still working on this one)
Here it is for 64 bits in gforth:
$ gforth
Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
Type `bye' to exit
HEX ok
7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF .s <1> 7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ok
2 BASE ! .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ok
1 - .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110 ok
1 - .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101 ok
1 - .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100 ok
1 - .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011 ok
HEX .s <1> 7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFB ok
2 BASE ! .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011 ok
1 + .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100 ok
1 + .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101 ok
1 + .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110 ok
1 + .s <1> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ok
( tipping pt ) ok
1 + .s <1> -1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ok
1 + .s <1> -111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ok
1 + .s <1> -111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110 ok
HEX .s <1> -7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFE ok
(EDITED):
1 + .s <1> 1111111 ok
1 + .s <1> -10000000 ok
1 + .s <1> -1111111 ok
That seems to be how it devolves. Stripping out the same number of bits from each term.
That'd be 0x7F, -0x80, -0x7F I think. ;)
delicate stream
I'm on the phone and there's a loud rooster
static flare
Shipping with ordering stuff from the US is annoyingly expensive good lord
static flare
I wish, sometimes
delicate stream
might be easier to move you to the US
thorn lintel
It wouldn't help, I'm in the same state and still pay almost $20 for shipping small items lol.
delicate stream
oof
static flare
Does it take at least 3 weeks to arrive at that price?
Cause it's $20 for like, 3 weeks, if I want it any sooner, it's like, $50-$100+
thorn lintel
no, usualy 1-3 days once its shipped.
oh dang. well i guess my $20 isnt that bad after all.
static flare
And like, I want to get into NES Tetris but I have none of the stuff I need and everything involved is expensive and the price of shipping is also expensive
thorn lintel
i'm coming to the end of my current project and already wondering what i can work on next
static flare
valid
thorn lintel
And I need to clean up the rats nest of wires lol
static flare
i can relate
velvet pelican
@thorn lintel cable ties do wonders for that
thorn lintel
<@452973999329116182> cable ties do wonders for that
that looks great! once I mount everything back on their stand-offs it does look a lot cleaner, just cant have the cables too short that wont allow the lid to open all the way. Also i moved all the battery, temperature, and solar monitoring to the tiny2040 to reduce the power load consumption of the pi because it would reboot during cellular file transfers due to low voltage.
delicate stream
Cable ties can be expensive :P
static flare
Depends on the type, really
velvet pelican
Harbor freight is like 5 bucks for a hundred
delicate stream
I was joking, but I have had really expensive ones -- I had a pack of 25 ties that was $40, but they were a steel weave reusable type... crazy
static flare
I've found the reusable ones to be fairly expensive, same but to a lesser extent with the twist tie type, but the use once cut off type are cheap as chips
delicate stream
They were also like 2' long
static flare
it's knowing how to actually use them that's a big issue, I have no clue how to cable manage, even with cable ties
delicate stream
I'm the crazy person who will try to unlatch non-reusable ones, lol
I like velcro
thorn lintel
i like to use reuable zip ties for all kinds of stuff. i keep a pack in my truck and they come in handy. I also have a bunch of small ones i keep with my electronics lol
static flare
I usually cut off excess tails so reusing then is less possible
delicate stream
I like duct tape
thorn lintel
i do that on the non-reusable ones.
static flare
yeah that's what i mean
delicate stream
I may or may not cut off tails, depends on what I'm doing
Sometimes it's just not visible and/or I don't care and leave the tails
static flare
yea
stoic mesa
And I need to clean up the rats nest of wires lol
Nowadays, I commonly deal with it by designing my own PCB for mounting everything - one PCB can replace an incredible number of jumper cables. And producing a PCB costs $2 (plus $12 or so shipping from Shenzhen), or if it is a small PCB, OshPark gives free delivery in the USA
thorn lintel
Nowadays, I commonly deal with it by designing my own PCB for mounting everythin...
i've looked into that a few times. but as soon as i start i get lost on doing it
static flare
I love designing and making PCBs
I mean, I get them made, mine are coming like, in 2 weeks (it takes a while :/)
Everything is more expensive in Australia
delicate stream
I've only ever hand made PCBs
static flare
I tried to make them myself back in highschool but I never got them right
I can design circuits well, just... handmade boards aren't my forte
delicate stream
I always make pretty simple boards
static flare
Heck, I've messed up simple H Bridge circuits
static flare
valid
delicate stream
flop, exhausted groan
delicate stream
Person I owe money: payment due Friday
spice moss
https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-day that day of the year
delicate stream
I have burned myself on my MacBook Pro
zealous ermine
how?!?!? @delicate stream
delicate stream
I put my finger on the center above the touch bar... Oww
delicate stream
Yeah, towards the screen/hinges gets pretty toast
zealous ermine
does it have active cooling?
delicate stream
Yup, but it always leans towards warm and quiet
zealous ermine
hmm, is is possible to change the fan curves?
delicate stream
I think kinda? But it still gets hot when at full force
delicate stream
Uhoh
tardy badger
oh no
zealous ermine
Oh nooo
delicate stream
dusty citrus
More binary foo-fa-fah in gforth:
https://github.com/wa1tnr/gforth-exp/tree/main/binary-limits
Simulating other machines with MS bit set for a negative integer.
delicate stream
Japan thought the trailer for the new Resident Evil game was too scary... So CAPCOM made this: https://youtu.be/Gx4tDiKNNJU
tardy badger
Classic
I have a Christmas shirt that says “I find your lack of presents disturbing”
spice moss
starwars drink you know well in other version but i going for with blueberries
@limber jackal I like my coffee drink from Kyloren helmet mug on starwars day
limber jackal
starwars drink you know well in other version but i going for with blueberries
I was thinking maybe Klingon blood ale, but doesn't seem right. Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?
delicate stream
tardy badger
Do you ever think about how bad life would be for people with glasses if the world engulfed in war and basically every part of modern civilization is destroyed and we had to completely rebuild society
Like in a situation like The Walking Dead, you can’t just order a new prescription or go to the eye doctor
At some point you’re just visually impaired and dependent on people who can actually see
grave crest
As I've heard said by AT Makers -- "We're all temporarily abled."
static flare
Just put a bid in for a C64
zealous ermine
How much?
static flare
$350, for the C64, datasette, power supply, paddle controllers, 2x joysticks, a set of programming books, some game cassettes and booklets, composite RCA video and RF cables for video
and 5" monochrome CRT
late fulcrum
That's a nice retro setup
There was a Twilight Zone episode where this person who just wanted to be left alone and read books got his wish – until he broke his glasses.
static flare
Sorry, had to rush and get ready, it's first to collect, and I believe they were kinda rare here
And the collection seemed a good price
late fulcrum
I have an old Commodore monitor, but it would cost considerably more than it's worth to ship it to you.
static flare
I can imagine, given the fact it's a CRT, although I am looking for a CRT that is desktop sized, for my NES setup, but I might see if I can find something here
late fulcrum
The Commodore 1802 monitor was really common in the US, and it's fairly iconic, so you see them on TV shows a lot as props.
Amusingly, I bought it because it had Y/C video inputs (this was in the days before S-video), and made an adapter cable to use it with my Atari 800.
static flare
ha! I'll look into seeing if I could get one
although getting it shipped is expensive
probably
i should mostly be fine with what I have right now
late fulcrum
It'll work fine with a monochrome monitor, but to experience its full capabilities, you'll want a colour one.
Oh yay, I found a downloadable copy of the 1802 monitor service manual!
static flare
absolutely, i want a colour one for my whole setup
zealous ermine
$350, for the C64, datasette, power supply, paddle controllers, 2x joysticks, a ...
wow yeah that is a good setup
i bought my c64 for $200 around 5 years ago
it was only the machine and the datasette though, nothing else. had to get the power supply separate
slim shard
yeah, not sure what monster sets up a C64 with a B&W
its not an Apple][ or anything silly like that :-)
slim shard
two shades of blue!!!!
zealous ermine
amazing!
slim shard
!!1!!!!
zealous ermine
i'm working on designing a monochrome display driver for my homebrew computer
it's going to be somewhat awful
slim shard
eh, Ben Eater just got a keyboard working on his, hasn't integrated his worlds worst graphics into it yet
zealous ermine
ye, it's very impressive
but i'm trying to have it display on an oscilloscope, not VGA
so i need to generate my own scan lines
slim shard
going to try to surpass the jetsons?
zealous ermine
but that also makes it a lot easier because I dont have to be too precise with timing
zealous ermine
going to try to surpass the jetsons?
loll
i got a prototype of it to work a few years ago, but it was only 64x64. the new one is going to be a lot better
slim shard
huh, another starlink mission, Musk will be able to walk along LEO if he gets his way....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpl_JnG7rcg
slim shard
yeah, IIRC they're all long boards, never had a 64C before (had a 128 though, didn't blow me away)
late fulcrum
I'm also looking at a goofy scanning display, so I'll be curious how yours goes.
static flare
For the C64-C, the first ones had the long board, but most of them from what I've seen have the short board
The long board is the same one as the "breadbin" C64
Which uses the same case as the VIC-20
(that's not actually true, the 64 breadbin sits lower)
slim shard
TIL
burnt tendon
I want a person with a short case and a loooooong board.
slim shard
I want a board with uninterrupted power supply.
static flare
Considering getting a new version of the 64C case to make mods with and such to the case
slim shard
was going to muse about making a dual core C64, but thats what happens when you plug in a disk drive anyway.
static flare
I don't have a floppy drive, sadly, but I do have a datasette player
I'd be curious about acquiring an Amiga, I like the look of them
(a 500 or 600)
slim shard
grew up on one, was good learning
also fragile in several ways, I'd probably stick to UAE nowadays
static flare
My first computer was an XP machine
slim shard
I moved to Windows 2000 from my Amiga, and after having to reinstall that a dozen times I dove into Linux and keep trying to avoid going back
static flare
I have spent most of my computing life either using MacOS or Windows 10
I learned to program on a Mac, but I mostly use Windows 10 nowadays, and I'm moving into Linux
slim shard
Windows 10 makes me want to run around immolating people
my mind is blown that this is the pinnacle of a billion dollar company working for what seems like half a century
when I hibernate a W10 machine I need to unplug it to keep it from turning on again (on its own, because I must be some sort of idiot for wanting a machine to be off), they want money for that?
orchid barn
started using Linux back in 2000 when Windows crashed and literally ate 4k mp3s, ah napster and morpheus what fun you were
slim shard
on linux, EXT3 surprised me by making files nonrecoverable, oh, and I met reiserFS :-)
orchid barn
Just wandered into the raspberrypi world back in March when I bought a pi400
slim shard
I should buy one some day
orchid barn
waiting for a cyberdeck and a 2.8" ttf to show up any day
slim shard
I have a bunch of other pis, but not the omage to my childhood 64
orchid barn
it is a neat little system
static flare
i just spent the past bour trying to figure out how to charge my phone
slim shard
beware heavy electrons