general-chat

[tardy badger]

There’s a nice “Adam Ruins Everything” episode about this

Unless it’s a bug based meal company

[delicate stream]

I don't think anyone is gonna eat mosquitoes

[tardy badger]

Some people might lol

[delicate stream]

Crazy people, lol

[tardy badger]

People eat weird bugs all the time

Some cultures, bugs are quite the delicacy

[jovial path]

I never ate then, it is disgusting.

[delicate stream]

Disgusting?

I don't want to eat bugs either, lol

[jovial path]

I respect these people.Oh... Let me tell you, I remember! There is a rain season in small cities in my state that people collect a bug called "Tanajura" and they ate them. A colleague offered me when I was a kid, I think ,but I could not eat it because it looked disgusting.I'll never eat this thing. Ever.

[tardy badger]

Ew

I have a slight bug phobia

When they’re alive that is

If they are dead not a problem

Or if they are contained where there is distance between me and them or they can’t fly at me or hurt me

I flinch at the slightest buzzing of wings if something is flying around my head

[jovial path]

I took out the photo because those insects were giving me freaks.

[honest jolt]

Some animals and pets eat bugs (idk if this has been mentioned before)

[delicate stream]

I mean, yeah, people do eat bugs... But now all kinds and all of them

[jovial path]

My mother ate it a long time ago, she told me now that it tastes like peanut. She doesn't eat it anymore.

[wary herald]

I mean the latter - the key for the up arrow on the keyboard

[dusk oracle]

esp now is so crazy easy to use

i setup a mesh of three esp32's in 60 min with very little code the setup a struct with 3 players data and a map buffer for each player.

[supple surge]

It took my tired brain a good 10 seconds to realize I was in Target and not online, and that Adafruit hadn’t started selling window box fans IRL 🤣

[delicate stream]

Haha

[median viper]

I love my raspberry pi portable screen w case

[delicate stream]

I got a Pi-Top [4] and haven't done anything with it yet... partly because of the weird power requirements

[jovial path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1yuTk2G0A

[delicate stream]

I zapped myself with 440VAC for the first time when I was 12 >~>

[jovial path]

It looks like a Google Science Fair's project. This boy should subscribe.

[median viper]

@delicate stream I got Ubuntu-mate working on it, with VS-Code and miniconda

[delicate stream]

On your portable Pi? Nice

[median viper]

@delicate stream yeah it crashes on big datasets but I reduced my dataset to program the logic which is fine

[delicate stream]

Gotta keep projects small for Pi XD

[median viper]

Well they gave me an algorithm dataset of 10,000 rows and it crashes the pi

[delicate stream]

oop

[median viper]

So I reduced it to 100 rows just to program

[delicate stream]

I need to actually do stuff with things

[static flare]

I zapped myself with 250VAC at the age of about 11, doing some... unauthorised rewiring of a fan while it was still plugged in [Do not do this at home]

[delicate stream]

Lol, 440 is like... twice as bad. But all bad

[static flare]

Oh yeah definitely

[delicate stream]

And yes, do not do unauthorized rewiring of fans

[median viper]

Does anyone know how to install Google play store on raspberry pi?

[median viper]

discord working on pi

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/party-gif-9959268

[wild temple]

it might be possible with box86

in the end, doesn't seem too impossible to have discord on a raspberry pi

https://github.com/atlx/discord-term <-- there is this, which may be possible to run with box86

[static flare]

I mean, I can use Discord on my Pi with Raspbian

Cause of the browser version

[wild temple]

true

but it's a browser version

that's like almost cheating

[delicate stream]

Native app or bust

[wild temple]

discord isn't a native app

it uses electron, i think

but it's basically a webpage

[delicate stream]

I know, but you know what I mean XD

[wild temple]

yes, i know what you mean

have it work outside the browser

[static flare]

I mean, a lot of apps I use nowadays are browser based

Makes it easier to switch computers

[wooden schooner]

ok @wild temple, I have to comment on the fact that you have a smooth breathing mark on the epsilon

ancient greek aficionado?

[wild temple]

no, i just copied it

[wooden schooner]

ah got it 🙂 I took ancient greek in college and loved it

[wild temple]

but i know it is related to cupid

[wooden schooner]

(oopsie, why did I say rough when I meant smooth lol)

[wild temple]

i don't know

i don't know greek at all

for all i know, it could be saying "lettuce"

but i took it from somewhere that wouldn't have such weird "things"

[median viper]

I used “Pi-Apps” scripts to get it working

[wild temple]

and it works?

[median viper]

yeah

[dusk oracle]

thats a lot of isa's

[blissful roost]

There's only one ISA. 😛

[dusk oracle]

oh wait yes

and a whole slew of pci's and agp's

how to crypto 1995?

[blissful roost]

Fire up your i740s, boys!!! 😛

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/stevenuniverse-star-gif-4782048

I desire this artifact

https://tenor.com/view/give-me-give-it-to-me-now-gif-6486247

[blissful roost]

lol

[delicate stream]

Seriously, where did you get that?!

[blissful roost]

Found it on another Discord.

[delicate stream]

Ohhh, so you don't have that device...

I think that might be from one of my favorite tech joke channels

Ah, yes, it is his doing, I thought I recognized it, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmcZsQXOKEA

He must have tweeted a pic or something

[blissful roost]

😄

[delicate stream]

I wish I could make crazy fakes like those. It's super impressive how they look like real cards, fans spin, things light up..

[late fulcrum]

It's similar to building movie props: it just has to look good, which often boils down to exactly that: some motion from spinning fans, a few LEDs, etc.

[delicate stream]

He has a lot of fine detail, too -- those look like he sent off to have a PCB made and then soldered the parts on

But yeah, def like movie props, it's all about the impression, no matter how much is being held together with paperclips, gum, and hopes and dreams in the background

[late fulcrum]

Oh, I've been known to have custom PCBs made and populate them to make movie props (and I'll do it again)

[blissful roost]

Think, McFly.. Think!

[delicate stream]

That's a little different, still actually a real working thing XD I mean, aside from time travel

[assuming it's all just for show]

[late fulcrum]

La la la...

[delicate stream]

Mmmm

I'm trying to design what I think Loki's scepter would look like if it were made with Stark tech

[late fulcrum]

Awesome! I did a last minute Loki cosplay for a local theater, and whomped up a completely random sceptre. It looked neat, and most people liked it, but some folks were unhappy it was completely wrong.

I went down into the basement and took a pic so you can see it. The orb can light up with a constellation of LED lights, but I didn't put batteries in it for the pic. Handle is a pool noodle with a PVC pipe in it for additional rigidness. Angular piece is just foam board spray painted silver. The paint partially dissolved the foam, which gave an unintentional rough look to it that I find appealing.

Oh, I do have a pic of it lit

[delicate stream]

I've got glass bits I'm going to use to make a glowy bit, NeoPixels to animate it... Only have a couple days left DX

[late fulcrum]

I know that feel. That sceptre was thrown together in a few hours. The flux capacitor was a one-day build. The time circuits, however, were an on-and-off project for years.

[delicate stream]

I also need to print up some gauntlets... I was originally just gonna be Iron Man, but decided a Loki variant would be more topical and easier, since it isn't a full suit

Probably just gonna have an Arc Reactor chest piece, gauntlets, maybe thruster boots, mask/crown, and scepter

Scepter... Sceptre....

[late fulcrum]

I like it! I made an Arc Reactor out of a stick on LED light and a needle holder once.

[delicate stream]

Hehe

Going to try to get an Asgardian vibe

[late fulcrum]

Check out these instant gauntlets 🙂

[delicate stream]

XD

Too many fingers :P

[late fulcrum]

That was a last minute hack. Now I'm making more authentic ones.

[delicate stream]

Noice

[late fulcrum]

Like many costumers, I have a real fondness for PVC pipe.

[delicate stream]

Is there anything you can't do with PVC?

[late fulcrum]

While it seems like it would be great for a weatherproof antenna housing, it turns out PVC tends to absorb RF energy.

[delicate stream]

oop

Hmmm.... Remotes into my main workstation from a laptop (first time ever remoting into that machine) and iCUE apparently stops working when you remote in

[tardy badger]

Drew this 7 years ago

[delicate stream]

birb

[limber jackal]

I couldn't draw that well if you gave me 7 years!

[delicate stream]

XD

I can kinda draw sometimes

[limber jackal]

Who has 2 thumbs, nearly failed art class but did great at tech/shop?

This guy! 👎 👍

[delicate stream]

Can NOT draw on paper

[limber jackal]

What I can draw, is a card when playing "Go Fish" with my kids

[delicate stream]

I should say... I can't draw freehand stuff like that. I do like doing basically diagram art -- like taking a PCB design stencil and drawing patterns of nonsense circuits

Or complex geometric shapes and such with a ruler and/or compass and/or protractor

[tardy badger]

Yeah, I’m not sure I can draw that again

I can free hand copy images decently

I do this for my son when he wants a picture of a character and I don’t want to waste printer ink

Did this for my daughter

[delicate stream]

D'aww

[tardy badger]

Her version of coloring at the time was a few pen strokes lol

[delicate stream]

Hehe

[tardy badger]

Kind of disappointed, I ordered another reel of sk6812mini from where i ordered before and they are just taking their sweet time to ship it.

they've got 2 business days left to ship according to Aliexpress so i'll probably end up getting my money back. I even paid extra for UPS shipping 😛

[delicate stream]

Oof

Well, money back is good

But the best is when they ship a replacement and the other one shows up later XD

[tardy badger]

I have a feeling they don’t have the parts and are scrambling to find them

[delicate stream]

Possibly...

[tardy badger]

Printing out a spring box I found on ThingiVerse

I tried it a few months ago with wood PLA but the wood PLA was a bit brittle and it didn’t work

[delicate stream]

Spring box?

[tardy badger]

It’s a box with a spring loaded lid

[delicate stream]

Hehe, that sounds fun

Touch the box and SPROING!

[tardy badger]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4382544

[delicate stream]

imagines in TPU

Wonder if that would work...

[tardy badger]

Maybe

[delicate stream]

I might try it

[stoic mesa]

Impressive

[tardy badger]

Thanks 🙂

[jovial path]

https://tenor.com/view/spock-star-trek-live-long-and-prosper-leonard-nimoy-vulcan-salute-gif-5964662

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/riker-star-trek-smiling-jonathan-frakes-gif-5500533

[limber jackal]

Queue up the "Fire at Will" GIFs! 🙂

[tardy badger]

My dyslexic brain read “Live Prong and Losper”

[median viper]

hey

howisit going

i love my portable pi

converting a kindle book rrn

[static flare]

i love the idea of prop making and want to get into it

[static flare]

Like if Loki stole the iron man armour?

[static flare]

saaame

[delicate stream]

More like if Asgard had a queen, who then fell in love with Howard Stark, who brought him to Asgard with her, he starts developing tech like what Tony did in the MCU to mix Asgardian magic/tech and human technology, then they find Loki and raise him to use that magic/tech combo, and he makes Iron Man like things. But also I'mma have cat ears because I am cat

I just bought 7 yards of fabric

[burnt tendon]

I am supposed to be photographing Asgardian / Valkyrie mermaids soon.

[delicate stream]

Noice

[delicate stream]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNN8qkftKAk

Mr. Clinton has a lot to say

[static flare]

Neat! And the cat ears are a mood

[delicate stream]

Meow meow

[topaz juniper]

I'm doing this: https://learn.adafruit.com/macropad-2fa-totp-authentication-friend but sending the time over USB serial so I don't need an RTC

I was originally going to do it over midi, but then I went to the store and bought a brain lol

[delicate stream]

Time over MIDI? XD

[topaz juniper]

Yeah, it was a nightmare...

It's possible, though

[delicate stream]

Sounds like something MIDI wasn't meant for, lol

[topaz juniper]

No joke

[delicate stream]

If you lose your mind again, certainly sounds interesting... I like weird, "wrong" implementations of things

[topaz juniper]

🙂

[delicate stream]

I've thought about trying to make physical audio storage by converting data into sound and storing it on something like a record XD

[topaz juniper]

🧠 🐡 (mind blown)

[delicate stream]

This is how data lives forever

[limber jackal]

I've heard of those. Opinions are mixed, so I'm waiting for a coupon or one to show up on Craigslist at a discount price before getting one!

[topaz juniper]

Nah, the chip shortage is really affecting the supply of 'em, ya just gotta get them when they're on the shelves

[limber jackal]

Pretty sure TP is a safer and more sound investment! 😉

[zealous ermine]

just went paintballing for the first time

i love it !

[delicate stream]

Did you win? :O

[zealous ermine]

yes and no

[delicate stream]

lol

[zealous ermine]

i did really great in 1v1s but not so much teams

[delicate stream]

Teams just drag you down :P

[zealous ermine]

nah i would get swaped lol

it also didn;t help that I was using a pump action marker and everyone else had semi-auto

[delicate stream]

Ha, I didn't know that was a thing

[zealous ermine]

yep! they can be fun

but they are slowwww

also if ur wondering, getting hit doesn't really hurt

[delicate stream]

I kinda want to go paintballing, but I'm afraid I'll end up hurting myself [and not from the paintballs]

Last time I did Laser Tag I was sore for a few days and walked with a limp >~>

[zealous ermine]

oh, thats not good

[delicate stream]

Sadly, I am old, and get a bit carried away

[zealous ermine]

that's not great....

i'm still young so i can walk it off

[delicate stream]

Lucky XD Treasure your youth

Sadly I've always been old and in pain DX

[zealous ermine]

😦

[tardy badger]

Same

[late fulcrum]

For me, getting hit with a paintball really hurt. I had welts for days. Now I just call it "painball"

[tardy badger]

But that comes with fatherhood

[delicate stream]

lol

Babies are painballs

[tardy badger]

Yup

[jovial path]

https://youtu.be/57wj8diYpgY

I bought the premium version of Sketchpad. I feel so proud :).

[median viper]

I am still shopping for a fat arduino kit

adafruit even have agood kit?

[median viper]

gitg is a Git repository viewer for GTK+/GNOME

anyone know how to use?

[jovial path]

https://youtu.be/B2PZZP06XCw

Good day ✅

[vagrant sonnet]

You might like http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/

Logging thermometer confirms my fridge doesn't reach a safe temperature on the door's bottom shelf

(40 is FDA's maximum)

[jovial path]

I love ONU, my parents educated me to love ONU a lot since I was born. As I said, I have very great, smart,and infinite others similar qualities parents.

[late fulcrum]

@median viper I'm not quite sure what you mean by "fat Arduino kit", but AdaFruit offers several nice kits aimed at building robots: https://www.adafruit.com/category/34

[delicate stream]

YES I LOVE THIS

[topaz juniper]

Concept: RP2040+Stemma QT+ESP32 on a breakout board with USB-C = Stemafi-ify anything!(stemmafi = stemma qt wifi)

For lack of anything to do, I'll configure my macropad to have KiCad hotkeys and I'll give Stemmafi a shot(now not sure if I can call it that because Stemma QT is an Adafruit thing)

[delicate stream]

RP2040 for heavy lifting and ESP32 for communications? Could be fun

[jovial path]

3D printed webcam protection.

[median viper]

I am still looking

[delicate stream]

TIL you can copy a folder/file from within RDP, then go out and paste onto your local machine

[delicate stream]

Sitting down to enjoy a good Moyo Ket Fon

[tardy badger]

I thought it said Malo Ket Fory

[delicate stream]

lol

[median viper]

that looks like a hot dog

[delicate stream]

It's actually a cheese steak XD

[tardy badger]

Yum

[delicate stream]

XD

[median viper]

Lol

[tardy badger]

I made that meme because it’s a daily struggle lol

[delicate stream]

Do you have a Meme Creator License?

[tardy badger]

Yes

[delicate stream]

Ok, carry on

[tardy badger]

It’s called being a millennial 🤕

Lol I have enough trauma to go around 🥳

[delicate stream]

.... my uSD card for my baby printer lost everything after 2019

[tardy badger]

Uh oh

[delicate stream]

Time to try Recuva

I just... have no idea what happened

Like, a few directories just poof

Normally when I see cards fail it's a total failure

[tardy badger]

Yeah, partial failure is odd

[delicate stream]

Just... Gone

Very concerned that the card is dying, as this printer is INSANELY picky...

[delicate stream]

So there's a weird file I can't delete, taking about 1.3GB of space... even the DEL command says it couldn't find it

MacOS doesn't even see it

[tardy badger]

Weeeird

[delicate stream]

Very

[vagrant sonnet]

I saw a weird MicroSD failure in a Pi - I can only mount it with other Pis.

I don’t trust the things. Too small.

[delicate stream]

The other really weird thing is that as I started deleting things, more things showed up in recovery

[median viper]

I am trying to install ARM electron

I got electron installed but I can’t install nativefier

[delicate stream]

What's ARM electron?

[median viper]

electronjs

a UI programming front end language for native UI apps that are cross platform including ARM chips

https://www.electronjs.org/

[delicate stream]

ah

[median viper]

it runs discord, messenger, and VS-code

facebook messenger

some of the most popular apps there is

[delicate stream]

Oh, that Electron... I didn't realize it was ARM related, lol

[median viper]

well I can't get netbeans running on the pi

so it's the only way I know of to make UI's

[delicate stream]

I only do UI in ASP.NET, lol... Need to learn newer things for cross platform

[median viper]

yeah I dont know ASP.NET

and I don't care because I have such a bad taste in my mouth from those people

ok so I got an .rpm file but that only works in redhat I am guess?

[delicate stream]

I only learned ASP.NET because I grew up with C/C++, so when I went to school, and it was all C# stuff, there didn't seem to be much choice. Just haven't spent the time to learn the new stuff, even tho it's better in ways

I do indeed think .rpm is redhat only

[median viper]

is raspberry 4 arm7hl or arm64

[late fulcrum]

You can unpack an .rpm file and get at the files if you wish. I usually use the rpm2cpio tool and then unpack with cpio, but there are other options.

[median viper]

https://github.com/electron/fiddle/releases/tag/v0.26.0

trying to get this electron template UI working on the pi

i got it working

this is awesome I just can't use my touchscreen to use it

[median viper]

Fix

Electron with raspberry pi dual display

[delicate stream]

Ohhh fancy

[median viper]

you can make a lot of money off of just javascript lol

it's a six figure skill

[delicate stream]

I don't think I could handle it XD but it is good money

[honest jolt]

At this point, I would copy everything off and reformat

If that doesn't work I would pull out diskpart lol

[delicate stream]

Did exactly that. I just wanted to see if I could recover the disappeared files

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-cpu-button

[tardy badger]

🧐

I mean, I kind of did the same thing with a samd21

[delicate stream]

Lol

How's that?

[tardy badger]

Just poll the internal temperature

[delicate stream]

Ohhh, I didn't know you could do that on those chips

[tardy badger]

Yeah, microcontroller.cpu.temperature or something like that

[delicate stream]

Noice

[tardy badger]

https://www.oakdev.tech/tutorials-new-products/tutorial-slow-tech-temperature-sensor-and-indication-using-the-cp-sapling#/

[delicate stream]

Maybe I'll do that XD

[delicate stream]

Last night I discovered ironing in Cura, and am abandoning 3.4.1 for the baby printer because of it

[tardy badger]

Lol

[delicate stream]

I just wish I could get the glassy look on both sides

[thick wind]

Print two half-thinckness pieces and stick them together with superglue 😉

[delicate stream]

I wish I could get the glassy look on both sides without printing two half pieces and glueing them together :P

But I might actually do that for an awesome coin look

[real falcon]

if parts are complex id add 1.75 holes so you can easily align em

[thick wind]

Or at least some aligning geometry, if you're making your own 3d models.

[delicate stream]

Just discs for tokens/coins

Gonna make money for D&D, I think it'll help everyone keep track of funds instead of just writing them down. Plus more immersive!

[wooden schooner]

How much of that money comes from JavaScript itself vs. keeping up with all the (ignoring backend/node for now) UI frameworks? My impression was that being a js developer is basically a journey in which one spends a few minutes in one framework before moving to the next

I imagine that after one or two frameworks they start to look the same, so it's probably not total whiplash

[thick wind]

I thought about getting a resin printer to make some really nice figurines or textured coins, but then I realized I wouldn't use it all that often

[delicate stream]

Lol

[jovial path]

https://youtu.be/fvCSP6ng-N8

When I make an eletronic engineering presentation and there is a bug it is similar to this video.

I think it is natural for human being biology to do this.

Like "hiding" mistakes.

Sometimes I say that clearly there is a bug,it depends on the situation, I know a person that do this too.

[median viper]

I can’t answer that question nobody pays me to develop software between my classes, and landscaping I don’t have the time rn. But JavaScript is totally worth it to learn

[late fulcrum]

I learned javascript but loathe it and strongly prefer other languages.

[median viper]

@late fulcrum you have to use it there is no other language that is readable on all platforms “ECMA” script European Computer Manufacturers Association.

[late fulcrum]

Pfft, that's errant nonsense. For cross platform use, I normally turn to bash, Python, or Java.

[median viper]

At least windows knows bash now

Python is slow, and java is slow also

JavaScript is fast like C++ but it’s not multithreaded

Cython hehe

[late fulcrum]

Java is a compiled language, and is fast like C++. Javascript is an interpreted language, and is, of course, slower.

[median viper]

You can’t do graphics in java

Everything is webGL nowadays

[late fulcrum]

More nonsense. I'm out. Bye.

[delicate stream]

It only took 2 years, but I finally wired up the NeoPixels for my Arc Reactor

[median viper]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/algorithmic-performance-comparison-c-javascript-java-malyshev

[wooden schooner]

what's not to like about a language that was designed in 10 days and released so that something worse wouldn't become the standard?

[wooden schooner]

"performance in languages" is not a coherent concept

there are very performant JS runtimes, just as there would be very performant Foo runtimes for any language Foo that had that amount of market share

Facebook created an extremely performant PHP VM so that they wouldn't have to rewrite their entire codebase. Then they designed a language that was basically Java but was also backward compatible with ordinary PHP

[median viper]

Let’s just break this down into logical statements. 1. Java outperforms JavaScript in GPU programming [T/F]? 2. O [n] time complexity is incoherent when looking at the same algorithm in different languages [T/F]. Ok…

[wooden schooner]

1. performance is a property of the program + runtime pair, not just the language
2. not sure what you're asking

[delicate stream]

places punch cards on table

[median viper]

shrugs I just say what I was taught from doctors in computer science what do I know

[delicate stream]

I was taught C#/ASP.NET was the way to go and what the industry loved

[wooden schooner]

I'm sure you're saying something coherent and true, with implicit context that I don't have. I probably shouldn't have been so normative above when I stated "X is not a coherent concept," it's perhaps more that "I don't have the implicit context necessary to understand that statement"

[tardy badger]

You can do graphics in Java

JavaFX, Android relies heavily on Java driven graphics

[delicate stream]

You can do graphics in anything if you're crazy enough

[median viper]

From what I have been told [Dr. zhang@Winston-Salem Stste] for stand-alone runtime C++ is the GPU programming language. For anything that is not a standalone app do not use java or C# use webGL with Maya that what’s I was told

WebGL is JavaScript

[tardy badger]

That would still be a matter of opinion though

[median viper]

The article I linked surmised with the build times witth what she was saying it happened to coincide

With the O[n] time derivatives

[tardy badger]

I went to NC A&T and I could find plenty of professors with opinions otherwise.

And performance is heavily based on the system something is running on

[median viper]

I went to NC A&T too but I didn’t study computer science I was at JSNN and I bombed it hehe

[tardy badger]

Another factor to consider is that JS is very resource heavy

[median viper]

Discord is written in Js

[tardy badger]

It often requires a much higher resource load than other languages

And discord uses a lot of memory

[median viper]

Microsoft teams, slack, and

[tardy badger]

I often have to close my discord desktop apps because they use a lot of resources

[median viper]

How much ram you have?

[tardy badger]

16GB

Which is more than fine

Discord surprisingly uses more RAM than chrome

Gmail web client uses significant amounts of RAM

A single gmail web page can use as much as 1GB even idle

Whereas local mail clients performing the same tasks use significantly less

[median viper]

I wonder how much money Google makes off of G-suite

It’s all JavaScript

[tardy badger]

Backend is LAMP though

Only the front end and top layer backend of gmail is Js

[median viper]

LAMP I know how to use it

I am learning more lucee too

Lucee is free now

[tardy badger]

Facebook is a php monolith

Dang, discord bot won’t let me insult the Facebook stack

[median viper]

Look how much money they making off of PHP

It’s 30% of internet traffic

[tardy badger]

and the developers who write in PhP make a lot of money because no one wants to use the language

[median viper]

I can do it

I learned my first web Class that’s all I learned was XAMPP

But yeah JavaScript is a neccesary evil to do DOM scripting

[tardy badger]

Yeah, JavaScript is useful but it is process and resource intensive. That’s why datacenters are expanding so much

Also Facebook makes a lot money leasing the infrastructure it built to speed up traffic

Like.. they own a huge chunk of the fiber backbone of the US

[median viper]

Wow

[tardy badger]

They also own the fastest fiber corridor in the US

[median viper]

One guy from Winston-salem state got hired as facebooks North American salesperson

As their sales director

[tardy badger]

Nice

[median viper]

And T-Mobile and the bank employees

That’s all JavaScript and python

All the banks use JavaScript

I just don’t like react that much I really like electronjs

I have to learn react more

Like webworker and all that stuff

[tardy badger]

You’d be surprised that a lot of banks still use heavy C++/Java programming

I say this from experience

[median viper]

COBOL

[tardy badger]

Sure it’s still in there

But JavaScript is still mostly used on the front end

[median viper]

Yeah graphics and UI

I know java too

[tardy badger]

Most banks are using more robust backends that use Java, C#, and C++

[median viper]

Wells Fargo uses python

[tardy badger]

And that backend work is actually a bulk of the work done

That’s why Wells Fargo’s banking services are slow 🤣

[median viper]

Hehe

[tardy badger]

I have a loan through Wells Fargo and their apps and website are horrendous

Not user friendly at all

The second you memorize where something is, they move it

[median viper]

Visual studio-Code was written in electronjs

GitHub is in ElectronJs too

[delicate stream]

I hate Wells Fargo

[median viper]

Interesting electronjs runs without apache2

You just type “npm start” and it goes

[delicate stream]

MS BASIC web server

[median viper]

Now I am going to try to combine a react app with electronjs for standalone react app

[median viper]

Lol I had ram problems installing

[median viper]

It’s on the pi hehe

[median viper]

https://github.com/ludiusvox/electron-react-boilerplate#sponsors

it won't work on the pi though

i need to wrangle it more

i gotta get node to update

trying again

looks like I will have to get it on the main comp, I am sure the apps will run on the pi but actually building them on the pi is very difficult

gona try wrangling some more

can't' get box x86 or box x64 compiling from source and I am not sure why

[median viper]

Got it working

The react in electron

Native App! Now I just need to control IO with it

[jovial path]

I was thinking: credit cards from banks should automatically generate an electronic spreedsheet(Excel) with everything that you bought, separating months, weeks, year, or even category, etc. It would make things so much easier.

[median viper]

you canget ank statements

[delicate stream]

Some even do CSV exports

[vagrant sonnet]

PNC does

[delicate stream]

Need better diffusion! GET ME MORE MILK JUGS STAT

[pure bluff]

ping pong ball

[dusk oracle]

Today i managed to setup a sever using esp now,
and a player 1 and player 2 game client for each player.

the one client is using composite out to a tv
the other one has a lcd.
right now the 3 different player input options are.

1 usb otg using a max3xxx host chip.
2. bluetooth android gamepad.
3. the pins for my input board.

the server is now starting to get the game logic and a SD card has given the server 2GB of texture, sound and data storage.

Each esp is being flashed with not ota or spiffs to make as much resources open to each device.

i'm nearly done with the textures and sounds

so construction of the game server is going fast now.

[late fulcrum]

For LED diffusion, I'm fond of the Lee filters "Zircon" line of plastic diffusion sheet materials.

[delicate stream]

Oh yes, there are certainly good options out there... but this is "I need this done TONIGHT, what do I have on hand?!" cosplay

[late fulcrum]

Parchment paper, waxed paper, or fabric often can help

[delicate stream]

Ah, parchment or wax paper would have been easier... I cut 4 layers of milk jug

I haven't sealed it, lemme try parchment paper...

[median viper]

So I learned some stuff last night

About ARM emulators to x86 and x64 and how it selects weird GCC from source to compile binaries

I got the x64 emulator working still working on x86 emulator

[delicate stream]

Ohhh yeah, some parchment paper is WAY better than 4 milk jug bits and isn't as thick

[wild temple]

if you can't afford/find any of that, try ducttape

for people who can't find "weird" stuff, like me, there's ducttapes that aren't clear

and they are easier to find

if you don't have any other use for that paper (like me, who doesn't cook), this can also be an option

[delicate stream]

Lol, I have plenty of parchment paper

[wild temple]

i have none, and have no use for it

[delicate stream]

I just didn't think about it

It's a must for cookies

[wild temple]

i don't bake, at all

only premade pizzas

[delicate stream]

lol

[delicate stream]

Is it weird that I'm using a pair of antistatic tweezers as wire strippers?

[wild temple]

if they work, no

[pure haven]

I used to strip that old bell wiring with my fingernail.

[delicate stream]

I can do it with my nails too, but the tweezers are faster

[blissful roost]

You don't use your teeth??

WUT?

[median viper]

Yay just learned how to make swap file

In linux

[blissful roost]

*partition?

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/gag-gif-4452320

[fair summit]

I was stripping some phone wiring with my teeth while fixing the wiring at someone else's house, and the phone rang while I was doing that. I have a small notch in my tooth from that.

[delicate stream]

oof

[static flare]

i swear i once saw a guy get a custom tooth for wire stripping (as like, a denture) but i can't find it

[scenic oak]

that sounds like a great way to "strip" your cheek or tongue or lips

[blissful roost]

I have flat spots on two teeth, from years of opening beer bottles. 😂

[stoic mesa]

this one?
https://tenor.com/rHhV.gif

[real falcon]

mythbuster busted

[late fulcrum]

Let's see, what do I have in my box of random keycaps?

[delicate stream]

You have plain ones? Ruined

[wild temple]

swap files have been used more and more instead of swap partitions.
it is a lot easier to change the size of a swap file than a swap partition.
ubuntu, for example, uses swap files by default: https://askubuntu.com/a/1234843
(cant find a better reference)

[slim shard]

a paws button

[static flare]

i have lots of plain ones, i prefer the look to some of the custom symbols on some of the set I used for my keeb

[dusty citrus]

Boop

[tardy badger]

Me: spends one whole day at the office wearing a mask all day
My nose: (read as Korg) “yeah mate, we’re just gonna have bad allergies today. Okay?”

[delicate stream]

Lol. Nothing wrong with plain ones, I just wanted to give him a hard time :P

[delicate stream]

Beep boop?

[delicate stream]

If you can get an N95 grade mask, it really helps with allergies and pollution! Not 100%, but better than without -- the surgical style mask just lets all those allergens in easy

I printed my own with an adapter to use the same HEPA filter as my CPAP [~N95 protection]

[tardy badger]

I have a double layer cloth mask

I rarely ever go to the office, I just had to put some time in the lab so unfortunately I spent most of my day behind a mask

My place of work just said that everyone has to wear a mask inside regardless of vaccine status

[vagrant sonnet]

Thank you for introducing me to calling it a keeb. I enjoy that very much.

[vagrant sonnet]

Seems relevant to mention https://microclimate.com/pages/detail-1 exists

[static flare]

I know someone who is really into keebs that uses it a lot

[tardy badger]

I thought that said “McClimate”

[jovial path]

I bought this book for my sister, it is intedeed for 1th to 5th graders. It is from the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Science Research Institute. There are a lot of very special interesting math problems and situations, some of then may guide you trought the direction of International Math Olympiad's problems. This book is amazing. Situations takes time to really understand in this book.

[delicate stream]

Well that doesn't look right

[tardy badger]

Oof

[blissful roost]

That sounds like a great way for people to wear out SSDs. 😂

[tardy badger]

Duct tape should fix this

[blissful roost]

That's not a Fujitsu laptop, is it.. ?

[jovial path]

If I was a math teacher it would be so fun to talk to my students about this book. I would make them see all the amazingness of it.

[delicate stream]

Acer, lol

[blissful roost]

Dang.

[delicate stream]

Yeah, if you run out of RAM it's rough on SSDs -- that's why my workstations have dedicated pagefile drives

[blissful roost]

Yeah, I always set up mine on the HDDs, but my rigs barely touch swap.. if ever.

[delicate stream]

I don't have HDDs in my workstations anymore, but even when I did, I had a pagefile SSD -- Cheap 120GB SATA drive. Performance pentalty is too great if it needs to hit an HDD

[wild temple]

swap partitions are worse on ssds

[delicate stream]

Does it actually make a difference? I wouldn't imagine writing a file to the main partition or writing it into the swap partition would make a difference, it's the same amount of data

[wild temple]

at least for old ssds

it made some difference

[blissful roost]

All storage devices have wear endurance.

[wild temple]

https://superuser.com/a/1081730 <-- it seems i may be wrong

i would expect a partition to be worse

[blissful roost]

Shouldn't make even the slightest difference.

As far as the device is concerned, writes are writes.

Uuuughhhh... 9.6GB update for PUBG.

[wild temple]

true, but doesnt a swap partition causes a bit more writes?

[blissful roost]

If it's actively in use.

[wild temple]

i know they are better for hdds, because they can be physically placed closer to the center of the hdd

which i think is where it is much faster

on ssds, i would assume that the difference it makes is on metadata, but i dont know if a swap file and a swap partition write any metadata

[late fulcrum]

A swap file would have filesystem overhead while a swap partition would just do direct writes

Outer circumference has the higher read/write speed for HDDs

[wild temple]

i always mess up where it is faster

dont know why

but does that swap file overhead translate into more writes?

i presume you can say to do not write access and modified times on some directories

[dusty citrus]

boodle boop hello humans

[late fulcrum]

Ever since the without updating access times, there will be filesystem overhead

*even without

[jovial path]

Zvedelina Stankova suggested me these series of books, from the MSRI and AMS. They are great.

[jovial path]

She told me it would not be any harm in me if I read this one 1th to 5th grade math book. There's no danger in doing this. It was very funny.

[median viper]

What is the best IDE for 4 gb raspberry pi?

Those react apps were crashing my computer

Shouldn’t require 8Gb to run an ide and compile an app but it does right now

I could write for gtk probably more lightweight but not cross compatible

[knotty canyon]

What about Visual Studio Code?

[median viper]

It just crashes on the pi because I run out of ram I only have 4gb ram

[blissful roost]

Real men code in $default_text_editor

[median viper]

Someone smart answered my question on Facebook

I am going to use their suggestion for vim or gvim

It uses gtk because ide have a lot of stuff going on

[wild temple]

gedit? geany?

[median viper]

I am gonna try vim

[wild temple]

good luck

it runs great on the console

the problem is writting and exiting

(yes, i hate vim)

[median viper]

Yeah I will see

Gvim

Runs in a window

[wild temple]

from what i found, seems like vim with buttons

[late fulcrum]

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

[wild temple]

110 baud? :/

[late fulcrum]

I have used computers at that speed. I used my first computer at that speed. Then again, I still have that computer, but now I can use it at 300 baud (since I upgraded its terminal from a modified Flexowriter to just using another computer as a terminal [yes, I'm aware of the irony of using a 2200MHz 32-bit computer with 16GB of RAM as a terminal for a 1MHz 8-bit computer with 768B of RAM])

[wild temple]

must be horrible

[burnt tendon]

I mean, it's not baud.

[ancient kindle]

My smoke alarm confuses me so much

It's past midnight, it starts beeping for a new battery

I replace it with one, starts screaming like it's possessed or something

Measured battery voltages with my fancy precise multimeter

The """dead""" battery is 8.964v and the one that made it sound possessed is 4.840v

[honest jolt]

LOL

[tardy badger]

Aliexpress: “you have a shipping update!”
UPS Tracking: “looks around for package yeah it’s somewhere but we can’t tell you exactly where…”

[late fulcrum]

The phenomenon of smoke detectors beeping in the middle of the night isn't just bad luck, it's physics: batteries are chemical, and therefore their voltage depends on the ambient temperature, which generally drops at night.

[median viper]

wow

i just got twisteros working with pi-apps

also box86 so i can use limited windows apps on the pi also

python and java ide complete

now just need a good javascript ide

[burnt tendon]

Okay, now explain why, when I've been on call, giant systemic issues suddenly come to a head in the middle of the night and page me...

[late fulcrum]

If you check, you'll find out that happens on nights with a full moon.

[spice moss]

once in the blue moon

[wooden schooner]

This seems consistent with it thinking the new battery is actually no battery at all. Smoke alarm beeps for new battery when there is still lead time, and screams when it enters a state such that, if you left it at that state indefinitely, it wouldn't protect you from a fire.

[jovial path]

This is 1 real, it is the brazillian currency. This one is very old. They do not circulare 1 real anymore and the drawings changed. There is a bird behind.

Each value has an animal, generally it is a rare brazillian animal. (The bed is like that because Torricelli bites it)

[blissful roost]

I have two moody bunnies. 😂

At least they have good reason to be moody. 😁

[tardy badger]

Nice

Just needs cheese

[blissful roost]

I lack cheese supplies.

[tardy badger]

[in death Vader voice] I find your lack of cheese disturbing

[blissful roost]

[in disposable lackey voice] It's older cheese, but it checks out...

[jovial path]

Cheese makes food better.

Brazillians never eat ham without cheese. Ever. If I did/do this my mother would argue badly with me.

[tardy badger]

Cheese has good health benefits

And lots of studies aren’t able to conclude whether there is even a such thing as “too much cheese”

[jovial path]

But I do not know about other states too much. I know the northeast of Brazil is like this. The southeast too...

[blissful roost]

The first calzone I ever had was definitely too much cheese

[jovial path]

Everything that is too much is too much.

It can be bad for healthy skerr.

[jovial path]

I was chocked when I discovered cheddar was british, I always tought it was american. We like provolone cheese, cheese of the kingdom. Brazillians like cheddar a lot, it is the best cheese for a lot of people here, we also like prato cheese, Minas cheese, mussarela cheese, some healthy people like ricota cheese. I like ricota cream cheese, minas cream cheese, it is good.

[blissful roost]

Cheddar Gorge. 👍

[crystal ore]

I'm a fan of asiago, though it's not always easy to find.

[thick wind]

Nah, we have American cheese, and we call it that because we wish we could call cheddar our own LOL

[jovial path]

My father's favorite cheese is Trança cheese, my mother's favorite cheese is Netherland's Edam cheese and mine is Minas cheese.

Edam cheese is very good with french bread and butter.

Trança cheese you eat without anything else.

Minas cheese is very good for cheeseburguers, bread and butter...

[jovial path]

I do not care if the food is made by my father or by my mother really.

[tardy badger]

I love a good Parmesan

I’m a cheese connoisseur

[blissful roost]

I've only found one place nearby that sells provolone

[tardy badger]

You’re talking like uncut logs of provolone?

[jovial path]

It is expensive like a bamboo. A small quantity is so expensive, a big quantity is way more expensive.

[blissful roost]

Yeah, imports aren't massively expensive... But no-one stocks it.

[static flare]

We moved into a new place with a smoke alarm that just... won't stop beeping randomly... it also seems fused to the ceiling because we can't remove it to get to the battery

[blissful roost]

Probably mains powered

[static flare]

it's just beeping less than a minute apart all day without fail it's driving me insane

[honest jolt]

Rip

bring out the hammer
(Although if it's powered by mains, if you break it you might get shocked)

[honest jolt]

No hidden screws or anything? Even if was directly wired, you should still be able to remove it in case you were to say, change it out for a newer one

[scenic oak]

belatedly: there's probably a little latch or something along the edge you need to press (or a hole you need to poke with a paperclip) to let the thing spin

[blissful roost]

I would be inclined to reset the breaker that it's on, but.. anyone's guess which that might be. 😛

Assuming that it's on the mains

[wooden schooner]

I hope fire code requires smoke alarms to have a backup battery...

[blissful roost]

If you were really a "connoisseur", you'd say Parmigiano-Reggiano. 😄

trollololol

[static flare]

We've tried getting it down and removing it but it's like, 10-11 feet up

[tardy badger]

Any other variety isn’t real Parmesan

[blissful roost]

"Parmesan" is the fake stuff. lol

[tardy badger]

When I say Parmesan I only mean Reggiano.

[blissful roost]

Terminology, innit. 😉

I only use "Parmesan" when I'm talking about sawdust.

[tardy badger]

Preference of terms doesn’t matter as long as you’re talking about the same thing

[limber jackal]

Not to be confused with Parma-John, who is some dude named John, from Parma, OH.

[stray wind]

Post in #help-with-circuitpython. You'll get better assistance there.

[zealous umbra]

@stray wind sorry - didn't even see I was in the wrong channel 😦 I am old.

[stray wind]

No worries!

[median viper]

Yay I really like TwisterOS for raspberry pi

I can run windows apps easily!

And with only a 10% performance hit!

I got zoom working and all these programs through “pi-apps” and even steam is working on pi4

I got pycharm and IntelliJ and notepad++

[median viper]

https://instagram.com/p/CSMncX2rHxg/

ludiusvox1

Progress on pi. TwisterOS with x86 crosscompile emulation working for graphics and apps. Compilers IntelliJ, PyCharm, notepad++

Instagram

[jovial path]

I think it is so pretty those japanese bathroom technologies. Has anyone here ever did an electronic project for the bathroom?

I was thinking in a pretty temperature sensor with pretty display and LEDs for the shower.

Or some sensor in the place I put the shampoo to detect if there is a shampoo or even the shampoo weight and tell me if it needs to change the shampoo.

[late fulcrum]

Like this? https://www.opensky.com/interlink/product/dreamspa-all-chrome-water-temperature-color-changing-led-shower-head-3-colors

[jovial path]

It can be this. My original idea is to make the LED interact with water's data.

Also a decibel sensor to detect the sound of the water that touches the ground.

[late fulcrum]

I like that it's water powered, and indicates the water temperature by color

[jovial path]

It could tell something like "danger the ground is wet", it could put a limit in the water to not open too much.

Maybe a DC motor to move this.

[jovial path]

It could detect if there is someone, if there is not the shower turn off or an alarm would ring(a parent could choose it). It could have something like detect the weight of the soap if you did not used enought for a bath it would appear an alarm.

[jovial path]

There could be a lot of projects about parents fiscalazing kids in the bathroom like if they use too much soap, too few shampoo in a week, if they touch protections in the bathroom, etc... There is a lot to think about this.

[arctic spire]

Do anyone know where I can find a Sparkfun Discord server?

[tardy badger]

🤷‍♂️

[arctic spire]

It's not a typical product, RedBoard Red-V

[obtuse harness]

What are you using to program it?

[arctic spire]

Freedom Studio

Hate it

[obtuse harness]

Why don’t you give zephyr a try?

I believe it is also a supported option

I use it on some other boards and I found it works well although difficult due to my lack of familiarity with c and c++

[stoic mesa]

I should be sound asleep by now - but I still haven't finished putting together my new Prusa 3d printer, given to me as a gift...

[blissful roost]

Very nice. 😄

I could do with one myself.

[stoic mesa]

this was a gift from some graduating students on our robotics team

[blissful roost]

Nice gift. 👍

I really need a cheap (enough) 3D printer, but not some prebuilt jank.

[vagrant sonnet]

This one is neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ses9MctnMrA

[tardy badger]

Ender 3 Pro or even the Ender 6

Cheap enough and great for learning on

[blissful roost]

Still ain't cheap, are they?

I suppose the only things that get real cheap, are so for a reason..

[tardy badger]

Ender 3 Pro is < $300

[blissful roost]

I do have some older Reprap controller board, but I'm not sure if it's worth building around.

[blissful roost]

Cheapest I saw was around £170 GBP, so.. a little prohibitive.

[tardy badger]

I mean, they have smaller ones

[blissful roost]

Aye, but ROI disappears when they get too small.

[tardy badger]

Creality Cr-100 Mini 3D Printer with Fully Assembled and Intelligent Leveling, Best for Kids Children Beginner Students STEM Educational Toys https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851F9SJK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_0HVNT6PWHJXPEYPMK8D4

[thick wind]

Do you have a particular price range and size you're targeting?

[blissful roost]

Honestly, no idea.... I'm a bit lost in that respect.

Less money = good, but... Ehh...
There are limits to the usefulness of anything excessively cheap.

[thick wind]

Going too cheap on a 3d printer is less of a tool and more of a learning experience, tbh

[blissful roost]

I think I'm leaning more towards DIY, especially as I have two control boards already.

And I certainly enjoy building.... anything. 😂

[thick wind]

Control boards with stepper drivers and display output?

Well, that is a good upgrade to some of the cheaper kits

Assuming they're decent boards.

[blissful roost]

Not sure.. I'll try digging it out soon.

Ahh, there we go!

Hiding in my old pics. 😁

[thick wind]

Are those TMC2209 stepper drivers?

It's hard to get excited for an 8-bit controller board these days, but perfectly acceptable for an entry-level printer.

[blissful roost]

"498SET'"?

I think.... ?

[thick wind]

My money's on A4988

Which is a pretty standard entry-level stepper driver that should work like a charm

I probably wouldn't put more than $200 into building a printer around these boards though

[blissful roost]

Should be ok to throw together a decent (enough) machine then..

Yeah.. less is better. Lol

[late fulcrum]

Amusingly, the Monoprice Mini Delta entry level (~US$127) printer includes a 32-bit controller, but delta printers do require a lot more math than Cartesian ones

[blissful roost]

Yeah, that's definitely too small

[thick wind]

Most newer printers will have 32-bit controllers though

[blissful roost]

Should be fairly trivial to replace a controller though.. no?

[late fulcrum]

For you, yes. For people who don't want to do reading and experimentation, less so.

[thick wind]

https://www.voxelab3dp.com/product/aquila-diy-fdm-3d-printer is available for $170 and looks pretty solid for its price

Cheaper than my old Anet A2 and looks a lot nicer

[late fulcrum]

You can also look at the Railcore type designs, which lend themselves to DIY.

[thick wind]

There should be a good number of open-source designs if you do want to really build it from scratch

[blissful roost]

I'll smash the ol' laptop keyboard later. 😁

[thick wind]

I don't think it's a whole lot less money for the labor involved, but the options there are pretty well-developed.

[blissful roost]

👍

[zealous ermine]

Got some new brakes for my motorcycle!

Finding OEM parts is really difficult though...

[median viper]

I just worked all night cleaning data

[tardy badger]

Wow, the smoke from all the fires is really thick today

You should be able to see mountains that way

Like smoke is affecting visibility as close as 1/8 mile or ~200m

[topaz juniper]

Will the adafruit discord server be getting threads?

[wary herald]

That looks sick!

[wary herald]

Not melted cheese - Saru/Captain Kirk

[wary herald]

I was wondering that too! I know others do (e.g. the Kaggle server, the Sublime Text server), but I don't see it on this one.

Happy CP Day!

[blissful roost]

Quite a view. :)

[jovial path]

In the Star Trek discussion server I started asking about cheese and Captain Kirk and people started to discuss about cheese.

I really do not understand why go so deep into this.

In these situations I think I'll think in what Spock would do. He just would not care at all.

[late fulcrum]

In one of Becky Chambers' books, there's a scene where an alien child asks if cheese is real. Apparently aliens find some human customs inexplicable.

[blissful roost]

Nanu nanu! 🖖

[jovial path]

But melted cheese is cheese but just better.

[blissful roost]

Depends on the cheese....

[jovial path]

"brazillian corndog" with melted cheese.

it makes it better.

[late fulcrum]

It also depends on if you have access to a Fondoodler

[jovial path]

the "charge" of it must be expensive, like those Nestle Coffee machines that you have to buy those specific cups with coffee flavors.

like this.

one of these cups must be the same price of one big Starbucks coffee (at least goes in this direction).

(it is completelly less expensive than a Starbucks coffee, but for it's quantity,size, and how much it produces it is expensive)

[late fulcrum]

Nah, you fill it yourself with your cheese of choice

[jovial path]

we used to have two of these for ketshup and mayonese. But I think using this a lot of cheese would remain in the botton stucked.

[jovial path]

It would be nice to make an electronic project in this. I dream that in the future all of these products will be fully electrical, with a lot of displays showing data in the inside, if it is good to eat, what it is the product inside, you press buttons to make the food go out...

[late fulcrum]

Like an I-Extruder for food?

[jovial path]

Yes.

[wary herald]

Melted cheese is cheese but just worse - except for Brie, then it's better 😉

🧀

🧀

[jovial path]

https://youtu.be/v34AMLYNZa0

Father's day is on 8th of august. I hope you'll like the song.

[wary herald]

19th of June for me 🙂

[jovial path]

I just read the text behind the video now.

[wary herald]

I like it 🙂

[jovial path]

Yes I liked it too. I searched a bunch of songs about fathers today. Both in portuguese and in english.

I have a very big playlist of all songs that my father and my mother likes, today I started this playlist of songs about fathers and mothers. Mostly because of these songs that I found beautiful like you did.

[tardy badger]

Fried chicken nuggies (homemade) and homemade chips 🙂

[blissful roost]

Noice

[median viper]

Is anyone any good at regex?

I have to use it a lot and it’s difficult

[blissful roost]

Regex is dark magicks.

[median viper]

Trying to find website for it I found regex101 for test box and a cheat sheet

[proven olive]

Every time I have to use regex, I'm glad I don't have to use regex often. It's powerful but also complicated.

[wild temple]

i think regex are pretty cool

it's not that hard

[late fulcrum]

Regex101 is useful for chasing down stuff. I use regexes a lot, as my job involves a lot of parsing/transforming data.

[wild temple]

yes, and they support multiple regex engines

i find it more useful to keep on the pcre engine, as it shows a lot more information, even if you have to port it to python or ecmascript later on

[jovial path]

Has anyone here ever ride a bicycle in New York for long distances (more than 2000m or 1.24 miles) ?

[blissful roost]

Not in NY.

[thick wind]

I’ve walked longer distances than that in NYC.

[late fulcrum]

Heh, me too. More than once, my friends have given me strange looks when they say we can take the subway and I point out "it's only eight stops, we can walk that". Don't get me wrong, I love the NYC subway, it just seems silly for short trips.

[wooden schooner]

is it a hot take if I say regex is a bad language for many of the use cases it's employed for?

[wild temple]

not at all

people try to shoehorn it into many things

sometimes, it is the only option

[jovial path]

https://youtu.be/Ur9mn5qGc0I

[jovial path]

Riding bicycles there in New York looks like a lot of fun.I saw the prices for bike rent in New York, not bad. Things here in Brazil are way less expensive but the prices for bike rent are relativelly low to New York and the bikes looks great.

[median viper]

Why would you rent a bicycle or buy an Uber

It’s too expensive

[jovial path]

My father wants me to visit New York. When I go probabilly I will not buy rich things. Bicycles are great and are not rich.

[stoic mesa]

just be careful - car traffic in NY can be crazy and many drivers completely forget that they are expected to share the road with bicycles. I have a friend in NYC who rides the bike daily and I heard many horror stories from him

[jovial path]

https://goo.gl/maps/FBm1BZrm4Dn yes, it would be nice to follow this route, it looks calm, there are no dark places and there is light everywhere and a lot of people and cars, it feels safe. The cars do not drive faster than 60km/h in this route I think(I am not completelly sure).

[jovial path]

In this cycling route I pass in front of the brazillian consulate in New York. Nice. It would be so nice to buy a support for smartphones and film my cycling travel so my father and my mother could see.

[late fulcrum]

If you don't feel like buying a support, you could also consider making your own (this is the path I take because my phone is not one of the popular ones, and I enjoy making things with whatever features I like).

[jovial path]

I can 3D print it.

[hasty quarry]

Why are drug doses measured in milligrams per liter?

Does it mean per liter of blood

[static flare]

I still need to figure out how to mount stuff to my wheelchair, hopefully not too destructively

[static flare]

Usually I find them either measured by the dose in milligrams or cubic centimetres, sometimes millilitres

[hasty quarry]

Cubic centimeters?

How? That’s volumetric, not quantitative

Or am I not understanding something

[static flare]

Usually it's a particular concentration

[hasty quarry]

Ah, then mg/L of blood sounds logical

[static flare]

For example epinephrine, 1cc is 1mg at 1:1000, but you can also have 5cc as 0.5mg at 1:10000, and both are valid doses

Honestly, drug measurements are a mess

All the pills I have are in mg though, except for a few which are IU (which is annoying and makes no sense as a unit)

[dusty citrus]

I don't know.

I assumed it was an absolute quantity.

325 mg of asprin seems entirely deterministic.

Where are there any variances there.

If you had a mountain of asprin you could manufacture only n (and no more than n) 325 mg tablets. End of story.

[zealous ermine]

The regulator in my motorcycle overheated.... more things to replace :(

[blissful roost]

https://youtu.be/hpkMrKyOX90

😁 👍

[zealous ermine]

Also i have a question. I replaced the seals on my engine block but one oc them is still leaking. Its a lot better then it used to be, but I'm still finding a thin line of oil on the two mating surfaces. Should I just leave it be or should i try to fix it again

Before i fixed it, i was finding puddles of oil under the bike btw

[blissful roost]

Better now than when it's kaput.

[dusty citrus]

I rode my Bonneville into Texas and all of a sudden I have a lot of oil all over my right boot.

I rode home 50 miles on the remaining cylinder. ;)

I got rid of it a few months later, and never did resolve what happened.

I was outprocessing the Air Force and didn't have time to figure it out.

[hasty quarry]

What are laws around cyber attacks from one country to another?

Say a DDoS is subordinated in europe, towards an American network. What happens if American authorities find who was responsible? The other way around?

[dusty citrus]

maritime law ;)

they send their navy after 'em

didn't you ever notice StarTrek's federation has a strong naval tradition?

[proven olive]

In many cases, countries have treaties to cover this. "Hey, we found this info, can you take a look?" "Sure!"

Depending on things, the home country often deals with it since they have laws about those sorts of things. But there's also going to be cases when they're extradited.

[blissful roost]

Extradition treaty.

Or you can be charged with crimes in your home State.

Sorry, Andon... That was just restating your point.

Never mind me. Lol

[burnt tendon]

Also, note that in a lot of cases it's "Oh, yeah, that's coming from <country> and we already know we're going to get nowhere with them, so let's not bother with attacker attribution"

[burnt tendon]

I'd say probably 3D printing because then you can make a clamp that's perfectly optimized with the right angle and dimension of the tube or tubes that you are clamping to. Failing that, hose clamps with a layer of neoprene to protect the underlying tubing.

[burnt tendon]

My uncle, who is a chemist-turned-software-engineer and uses a wheelchair does have a setup so he can sit in one wheelchair and repair the other wheelchair, but he's never seemed to get motivated to do wheelchair mods. A lovely model I photographed who uses a wheelchair, on the other hand, bedazzled their chair non-reversably, with a zillion rhinestones.

[proven olive]

The person I'd point to in this server is @ATMakersBill#7759 who does tons of stuff with making things accessible. But to echo @burnt tendon, so much of it is done with 3D printing

[median viper]

My friend told me about Manhattan food is like $25.00 in Manhattan for work lunch

[blissful roost]

Is that all?

[median viper]

The currency is inflated there because it’s so close to the printer

Like I just got a full plate of mei fun Chinese food for $8.00

[late fulcrum]

The best deals for Manhattan food are the food trucks, but there are good affordable meals all over, even in the financial district (where my company's HQ is)

[median viper]

Yeah my friend told me he used to subway from brooklyn

He told me to come up there but I am not sure about it

[terse estuary]

that's about half of my weekly groceries in the midwest 😶

eating at a restaurant is more expensive regardless but still

[median viper]

@terse estuary exactly

[blissful roost]

I'm definitely getting haggis and gnocchi on Monday. 😄

[jovial path]

I do not like mobius strip neither klein bottle.

[tardy badger]

It’s funny because there is a Character in Loki named Mobius who works for the Time Variant Authority

And Tony stark in that scene used a Möbius strip to figure out quantum time travel

[jovial path]

This is an easter egg, for sure.

[tardy badger]

Yes

[jovial path]

Did you noted by yourself?

You should be hired to work in the next Turing Machine.

[terse estuary]

every time i saw advertising for Loki i processed T.V.A. as Tennessee Valley Authority

[jovial path]

Happy father's day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVD7PYE7_mM

[jovial path]

Brazil got 12th place in the Olympics 🙂 I'm so happy with this position, it's pretty great.

[jovial path]

https://tenor.com/view/claire-dancing-baby-sunglasses-toddler-gif-11410651

[tardy badger]

I found a great snack. Fresh homemade spaghetti sauce with lasagna noodles. You take the cooked lasagna noodle and roll it up on itself and dip it into your sauce. Yum.

I’m sorry to the Italians on this server lol

[wild temple]

does it need to be cooked? :/

[tardy badger]

The noodles are cooked

Sauce is cooked too

[velvet pelican]

Now i dare you to try that but with raw ramen noodles

[proven olive]

Would that make them raw-men noodles?

[tardy badger]

I’m the monster who pours a seasoning packet onto raw ramen and eat it

[late fulcrum]

I too am that monster. Team raw ramen munchers!

[velvet pelican]

Been there lots of times. When i need food faster than water can boil

[terse estuary]

I like to eat the broken bits that are in the bottom of the bag while i'm waiting for the rest of the noodle brick to cook

[jovial path]

In my childhood I met kids that liked to eat raw ramen-noodles with the sause powder and drinking limon soda. Today this is still incomprehensible to me.

[tardy badger]

Me: posts on LinkedIn about a PCB I designed
My connection requests:

https://tenor.com/view/explode-explosion-boom-gif-12472767

[wild temple]

well, i have to admit that with the powder, it is not fun to eat :/

[wild temple]

i eat the packets raw but without the powder

[wild temple]

that's good, right?

[tardy badger]

Uhhh most of them are spammy

Some are legitimate people looking just to connect

A lot are PCB fab workers trying to sell me on their fab service

[dusty citrus]

You could get a lime rickey at the restaurant around the corner from where I lived, n years ago.

[jovial path]

I ate a bit with then, as far as I remember they told me it's like eating cookies?

[wild temple]

with the powder? i can't do it with the powder

without powder? eh, it's alright, depends on the brand

[jovial path]

Nissi Lamen. I think that was the brand.

In this USB-C what is this black box?

[thick wind]

Could be anything. Given its length, my guess is a repeater junction.

[wary herald]

US got first - beat China by one 🥇

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:127124 - super cool design

[wary herald]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:360571 - actual Nerf projectile on the grappling hook

[fiery quarry]

Is the end not a DP?

[jovial path]

What is a DP?

[fiery quarry]

Display Port (kinda like HDMI)

[jovial path]

No. I think the end is like those that goes into external HD USB 3.0

[fiery quarry]

Oh like this

[tardy badger]

Do you ever find the USB interface they made for external hard drives interesting?

I never paid attention to it until a few years ago I noticed part of it was similar to micro usb

[jovial path]

It is very beautiful indeed. When they anounced USB 3.0 the thing that most called my attention(in design) was this new USB interface, in Dimitri's photo. And the blue color of course.

[static flare]

It's USB Micro B 3.0, which you can technically use regular Micro B with, just only at 2.0 speeds max, cause the extra thing is the other 2 differential data pairs

[tardy badger]

I know what it is, it’s just fascinating

[steel river]

i need to stop buying these things....

any md nerds here?

[static flare]

Gods I'm so jealous! I had one but it broke basically as soon as I got it so I have a lot of MDs but no player

[delicate stream]

What no I'm not dead shhhh

[delicate stream]

I am not human :O

[delicate stream]

Danke :D I didn't get to finish the costume tho DX

[delicate stream]

Oh hey, you have dupes, I can take one off your hands...

Unrelated to anything, I got to photobomb Jesus

[tardy badger]

The most underrated part of that photo is Danny deVito Jesus

[proven olive]

So you're saying this photo of Jesus is... Doctored?

[delicate stream]

Yes XD

[jovial path]

I bought chocolate with passion fruit. Let's check the flavor.

Really great. 9.8/10 I am surprised.

[spice moss]

ok think how to capture your surrounding and make it a 3d enviroment https://youtu.be/2fddvn16WIw?t=2508 might be nice with some m5stack cameras too perhaps

[hasty quarry]

I explained something to my friend preceding it with "to put it really basically for you:"

And he told me it's actually "basic", not "basically"

Who is right?

"To put it really basic for you" does not sound right

[delicate stream]

Neither sounds right, either "basically, explanation" or "to put it simply, explanation" sounds right

[late fulcrum]

I read "basic" as an adjective and "basically" as an adverb

[delicate stream]

"To make it basic for you" sounds better

or "To make it really basic for you"

But language is also subjective, and shifts, and the most important thing is that you're understood

I only correct someone if they're nowhere near any structure of grammar I'm familiar with

[jovial path]

Basically is a mode adverb in portuguese.

[late fulcrum]

I would expect something like "basicamente" 🙂

I remember in one of Richard Feynman's books, he explained about lecturing in Brazil. He would lecture in his fairly poor Portuguese, but the students didn't have trouble understanding him, as native speakers have little trouble getting around awkward usages. Similarly, they would ask their questions in English, for similar reasons. As a bonus, they'd all get some language practice in.

They would end up using simple phrases like "goes up a little" instead of hunting for exactly the right words for "increases slightly", which works just fine.

[delicate stream]

Mhmm, precise wording isn't critical to understanding. There are many ways to say the same thing, particularly in English, and while some don't sound right, they get the idea across

[tardy badger]

“Your package is out for delivery”

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-waiting-still-waiting-gif-13052487

[dusty citrus]

My UPS guy is more predictable than any other courier service so I always try to receive a shipment only via UPS ground.

Once in a while it's 2 or 2:30 p.m. and every so often before 10:45 a.m. but not often.

Usually 11:00 a.m. to maybe 12:59 p.m.

And the telemetry update is fast. Within 2-5 minutes I'd say.

could be even sooner.

amazon - fuggedaboudit - they send a photograph ;)

and show you a moving map with their truck on it.

(stop n shop's peapod-like service has that as well)

I just don't want much that amazon carries ;)

[wary herald]

UPS is ALWAYS late for me, so I always try to receive packages via USPS, because they're always early.

like 1-3 days late

[dusty citrus]

;) my post office courier normally doesn't deliver before 3-5 p.m. drives me a bit crazy(er) than usual.

[wary herald]

between 10-12 for me

[dusty citrus]

the substitutes deliver during normal hours because they haven't learned to do it the .. way it's usually done here.

When I was a kid the postman showed up while the sun was still a low angle in the morning.

[wary herald]

UPS always delivers between 5-9 PM for me

[delicate stream]

I generally go for USPS because it's cheaper and I just want it here eventually... UPS if I'm worried about tracking

[wary herald]

Me too

[delicate stream]

Cheep cheep cheep

[wary herald]

https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bunny-looney-tunes-cash-money-counting-money-gif-17544086

https://tenor.com/view/cheap-money-cute-bird-gif-14407449

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/poor-empty-wallet-no-money-cell-phone-chris-jobe-gif-11218815

[tardy badger]

I used UPs international because it was 5-8 days and it’s been almost 10 so far

[wary herald]

Yeah - did you have DHL as an option

[tardy badger]

It just got to Anchorage yesterday after being in limbo for 7 days

DHL was expensive

$35 compared to $24

[wary herald]

More than UPS International!!

[delicate stream]

oof

[tardy badger]

I usually use FedEx

[wary herald]

oof

Yeah, if I have the option internationally

[tardy badger]

FedEx has been reliable for me internationally and DHL always gets my address wrong

[wary herald]

Really

I've never had any problems

[tardy badger]

Yeah, they don’t like that my apartment number is I201

It gets changed to 1201

😛

[proven olive]

DHL has never given me issues, and is usually ahead of schedule.

[wary herald]

UPS gets my address wrong all the time too

to the tune of 3-4 days late

[tardy badger]

Back East, FedEx was the worst of the carriers and UPS was great. In Utah it’s the opposite

[proven olive]

Ooof, yeah, whoever decided to put letters in your apartment number probably didn't even think about those things

[wary herald]

Yeah

[proven olive]

Over the years I've watched FedEx and UPS go from one being great and the other terrible, to flipping, and now they're both perfectly fine.

[tardy badger]

Post office has been pretty good for me here

[proven olive]

I know some places the post office is terrible, but here's it's fantastic.

[tardy badger]

I usually don’t mind DHL other than it’s usually $8-10 more than FedEx

[wary herald]

Here too

[tardy badger]

Speed is a little slower than DHL but I’m a little cost sensitive as a business.