general-chat

[wild temple]

that would be the prefetch service

[quartz wren]

@late fulcrum managed to coat the bottom of a jar in phosphor from a dead CFL

(yes I know, mercury, am being careful)

Soooo... If I were to set that up on my SATA SSD it might improve performance?

[honest jolt]

If you want to set it up on a fast computer, you should run something like a miner or compile a game in Unity while "it checks you computer on whether or not it will benefit from it"

Although 2GB RAM on Windows sounds like a torture method - 8 is the absolute minimum if you want to use it within the next day instead of year

Hmmmm...I wonder if they sell RAM in USB drive form so you can use it like a drive but you then dedicate the entire drive to readyboost

[thick wind]

Specifically ram doesn’t yet exist in usb stick form, due to the fact that usb write speeds weren’t ideal for true ram. However, they used to market some flash drives as readyboost capable…

I wonder if usb c’s extra data lines could get there.

You could use an entire fat16 drive for readyboost though

It’s not real ram, but it does help improve system efficiency when dealing with a series of often repeated tasks

[honest jolt]

I would like to see a product that is basically USB 3.1 RAM that is really big (like 32GB) that is used for fast file storage

[thick wind]

Apparently it’s not enough for actual ram

It has to compete with the growing capabilities of pcie so it makes sense

[honest jolt]

Apparently usb 3.1 can get 10gbps while ddr3 ram can range from 6400 mb to 12800 mb per sec

But a SSD only offers 50-250 mb per sec

So if it used usb 3.1, maybe it might be useful :/

[delicate stream]

I have like 200 Windows open

[delicate stream]

Lol, ancient SSDs... Modern PCIe 4 drives can go over 7Gbps

USB 3.0/3.1 Gen 1/3.2 Gen 1 is 5Gbps, 3.1 Gen 2/3.2 Gen 2 is 10Gbps, and 3.2 Gen 2x2 is 20Gbps

DDR4 3200 is like 27GBps

[honest jolt]

USB naming scheme is all f***** up

And I hate it when companies use gigabits instead of gigabytes

[delicate stream]

I dunno why they thought renaming things was a good idea

[honest jolt]

It hurts my head even if it's mostly dividing by 8

Or 10

Or something

[delicate stream]

5Gbps should have stayed 3.0, 10Gbps should have been 3.1, 20Gbps should have been 3.2

[honest jolt]

Exactly

[delicate stream]

Storage has the issue of being measured differently by manufactures vs. Operating systems, so that's confusing too

[honest jolt]

A kb will always be 1024 b

And it should

If I was president, I would get Congress to force companies to switch to gigabytes and use 1024 instead of 1000

[delicate stream]

Kb is 1024b, KB is 8192b

[honest jolt]

Kilobit and kilobyte????

[delicate stream]

Capitalization matters

[honest jolt]

AHHHHHHHH

kilobits, megabit, and gigabit should not exist

Or terabits eventually 😂

[delicate stream]

Plus everyone is wrong most of the time anyway... The base 10 system is kilo/mega/giga, base 2 is kibi/mebi/gibi, and everyone just uses the former all the time

[honest jolt]

Kibibyte sounds wrong in my mouth 😂

[delicate stream]

Indeed

Which is why I just say kilobyte and live with my sin

[vagrant sonnet]

I work at home and don't have to talk out loud much so I don't have to enact that sin quite so often

otherwise I'd have way more to my name

I do write KiB / GiB and whatnot

[delicate stream]

I'm lazy and just use KB/Kb even if it's KiB/Kib, lol

[pearl rover]

I am oh so mildly annoyed at how operating systems mix the two, but I am admittedly guilty of this sin, I just can't be bothered writing out KiB and MiB instead of kb or mb

[delicate stream]

At the scales we're working with data, it doesn't make much difference anymore at least... It was a big problem in the pre-gig days

[pearl rover]

indeed

[delicate stream]

But I do wish everything was consistent XD

[wooden schooner]

It is a multiplicative factor, so I don't think "scale" is exactly the right word. I think people just give a nebulous wiggle room to any storage size number, to account for several things including file system overhead, G vs. Gi, and probably some other nonsense that comes up when one deploys to a cloud compute service

[delicate stream]

Well, I mean, when we were in K ranges of storage, one file was likely to be a higher percentage of the capacity vs. now; we have a lot of big files, but many many things are far less than 1GB/1GiB, but most systems will have 1+TB/TiB storage anymore

[quartz wren]

The more egregious sin is mixing up Kb and KB

[pearl rover]

kilobits versus kilobytes, eh? lmao

[quartz wren]

yes

I've seen it far too often

[wooden schooner]

For some reason I always see transfer speeds in kbit/s, and everything else in bytes

[quartz wren]

because serial

[wooden schooner]

?

[quartz wren]

when you are transmitting the data on a serial connection, you split it up into a sequence of bits

[pearl rover]

serial connections were bit by bit, so kilobits made more sense than bytes

[wooden schooner]

ah

[quartz wren]

whereas when stored it's represented in its word format

[lusty fossil]

I saw a woman sitting in the park all by herself, surrounded by crows. Halloween is coming, nature is healing

https://tenor.com/view/agnes-agatha-harkness-kathryn-hahn-wandavision-blink-gif-20474213

[dusty citrus]

Doing research for a (nerdy) story that takes place in 1982, makes me realize how extremely powerful modern computers are... and how inefficient modern software is. In the story, the little RK3288 Chromebook I have is the most powerful computer on the planet and all I do on it is write and look at documents.

[delicate stream]

We put incredible amounts of power into watches these days... Processing power that could have changed the world in the early days. It is kinda crazy when you think about it

[pearl rover]

just thinking something like an attiny4 with a few thousand transistors and half a kb of flash in a dual transistor package (sot23) has more transistors/switches than the colossus; miniaturization really is a wondrous thing

[delicate stream]

Indeed!

[dusty citrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_Cyber In 82, the most powerful supercomputer is capable of 400 MFLOPS, the x86 Xeon that I'm using that Microsoft finds "too old" for Windows 11 does 354.8 GFLOPS at base speed.

[delicate stream]

Well, Windows 11 is dumb because they think 1st gen Ryzen from 2017 can't handle it, but yeah, things being discarded today are insanely powerful

[dusty citrus]

exactly

[delicate stream]

My phone from 8 years ago is still 2x+ faster than that CDC Cyber!

[wooden schooner]

There is definitely an economy of software bloat. Part of it is the economic model of planned obsolescence, spearheaded by Apple. And part of it probably has to do with the trajectory of silicon valley / big tech, in that it might be cheaper to develop and maintain a bloated Electron app than to pay people to write small, efficient software.

[dusty citrus]

Yes, definitely more inexpensive to have the end user get something newer than spend a lot of time making more efficient software

[delicate stream]

But also "why bother making it more efficient when it's cheaper to have more processing power?"

[wooden schooner]

Bonus: this gives big tech companies more control of the economy

See also https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

[dusty citrus]

that's why my site is all manually typed HTML + CSS

[delicate stream]

looks at ASP.NET site, coughs

[dusty citrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law just found this

[wooden schooner]

I think there is a common principle underlying both software updates and legislation in the United States. There is "value" to getting one's stuff into the package that will be installed into the public's life, so there is both secrecy and bloat in these packages, caused by the various players vying to push their agendas

No one pretends that statutes are small and focused, they clearly each bear a signature of incidental compromises

[quartz wren]

Por que no los dos?

I mean

If you have the option of being more efficient on more powerful hardware, it's silly not to get as much performance as possible and it's just plain rude to other applications in a multi-tasking environment not to

Part of what put me off about computer science related course work I've seen.

The attitude is "there's plenty of oomph, just write it to work"

Which is fine if your program is the only one running.

But if everyone takes that attitude when releasing for a multi-tasking environment it gets bad fast.

[delicate stream]

Well, if your program uses 0.5% of your target system's resources, it may not seem worth it... Very hard to know what's diminishing returns on optimization -- might be 10% more work for 50% better improvement, or it might be 200% more work for a 5% gain, no way to know, so why bother optimizing if it meets requirements?

[quartz wren]

I guess my perspective is different because I do custom RISC CPU design as a hobby so most of what I target is slower than most modern hardware

[wooden schooner]

it's not clear to me that software companies have much incentive to design "end-user" applications with good performance. If users can't tell which of the many programs running on their machine "causes" it to be slow, it seems like they get off scot free.

in fact, pre-loading their program on startup seems like free money: the application opens quicker, while the load at startup makes other companies' software look slower.

[tardy badger]

Me: looks at chrome and CURA

[wooden schooner]

meanwhile, the user's computer is confusingly slow, but not traceable to a specific company. And the computer vendors like this because it makes the hardware go obsolete faster

[wary herald]

If you were to plug a SD card or a USB drive into it, it might improve performance

[wary herald]

👀

[wary herald]

https://tenor.com/view/idiots-idiots-everywhere-hoc-house-of-cards-kevin-spacey-gif-7325176

[lusty fossil]

nooooooo

wandavision was a triumph

[wary herald]

I agree

https://tenor.com/view/wandavision-agatha-harkness-gif-20434145

[vagrant sonnet]

It's a lot harder to repair stuff

[wary herald]

What's the average DigiKey order price for you - mine's about 10 bucks?

[vagrant sonnet]

I hope right to repair keeps going well

[wary herald]

WDYM

[lusty fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/summer-child-my-sweet-summer-child-old-nan-game-of-thrones-gif-5580217

[vagrant sonnet]

I mean if I have to get out a saw to get into a plastic power supply enclosure, things are starting out poorly.

[wary herald]

A-ha, gotcha now

[lusty fossil]

In the land of always credit card debt, they ride spiders big as houses!

[wary herald]

👀

[wary herald]

Is GoT over yet?

[lusty fossil]

Very

[wary herald]

OK

[lusty fossil]

ASOIAF will only maybe get finished

[wary herald]

2 years ago, I guess

[wary herald]

If you can tell, ||I don't watch GoT||

[lusty fossil]

tbh, with the state of the books, and how bad the last 2-2.5 seasons were, you're way better off

[wary herald]

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-game-of-thrones-khaleesi-yay-happy-gif-5501473

[supple surge]

I feel like there’s a great electronics metaphor in the Frasier episode “three valentines” where Niles can’t stand a crease in his pants before a big to-do he’s hosting, and the sequence of events leads up to him setting the couch on fire 🔥 🤣 if it’s workin’, let it be 🙃😂

[delicate stream]

Might be part of planned obsolescence... Lower end machines will become less usable as they age, and those tend to be owned by less tech savvy users who are likely to just buy a new one

[Although I have 20 year old PCs that still do things daily :O]

[delicate stream]

I have injured myself trying to undo a standard STEMMA connector

Uhoh, one NeoTrellis board isn't working...

[wooden schooner]

either buy a new one if they're rich, or not have one if they're poor.

[delicate stream]

Yyyyeah...

[wooden schooner]

doncha love extortion that costs the poor more than it costs the rich

[quartz wren]

At least you didn't get bruises all over your rib cage and spinal muscles tripping over a bucket of paint onto concrete

[delicate stream]

Big oof

I think I cracked a rib

[quartz wren]

Pair that with a cold and the past week has just been miserable

Coughing against a bruised torso freaking sucks

[delicate stream]

Oof

[quartz wren]

Had to do a compression wrap to ease the strain on my chest several times

[delicate stream]

Pain no fun

I think this NeoTrellis is dead DX

[quartz wren]

Nah, but it's how I know I'm being active in life. The more injuries I have, the more productive I have been

Not as a metric just a correlation because I'm clumsy

[delicate stream]

lol

[quartz wren]

If my hands are covered in cuts, I have been using them...

[delicate stream]

I have pretty consistent damage from doing things

[quartz wren]

Thing is cuts I can do because they don't make me feel like I'm suffocating trying to get enough air in to cough but then also trying to cough to get enough air in

I literally have wraparound bruising

And I landed on my shoulder

Didn't impact where most of the bruising is which means it was shock induced

Which means I hit pretty hard

Makes sense I was swung around my foot as a pivot at full power walk speed

[delicate stream]

Chest damage is some of the worst

[quartz wren]

Yeah I just wish my brother wasn't so negligent. Half of my setbacks in the past 2 years are because of him and that is being generous

[lusty fossil]

Checking out Y: The Last Man, will update if good

The first few issues of the comic were great

[quartz wren]

He left a bucket of paint blocking the walkway in my dad's shop set up in just the right spot not to see it while coming around the corner and with just enough clearance to lodge my foot between it and the thing next to it plus block my right foot from catching me

And I was in a hurry trying to put up a fence to keep his chickens and turkey out of my space that is being set up for my lab

Because he is so negligent it takes him 2 hours to realize they have escaped the pen and another 2 to do anything about it

Instead he's yelling to his friends on the internet about the woes of the world without actually trying to do anything about it and expecting everyone else to. I do my fair share of yelling on the web but I am also putting together and enacting a plan to fix what I can.

[delicate stream]

Oh boy...

[quartz wren]

Like this is supposed to be my older brother, not one of my toddler niblings

And he makes a point to remind me he is the oldest boy any time he can find a reason to.

[delicate stream]

He sounds like a man child

[quartz wren]

Cool, I'll be the older brother to my younger siblings as I always have, being the buffer between his bullying and them.

[delicate stream]

I did not have a great relationship with my older brother... He'd yell at me a lot when we were younger, and now we don't really talk'

[quartz wren]

At least when they let me. My little brother is head strong though so I don't see a need to do that anymore.

Used to have to be the guy to take the (literal) beatings for them

Or what my oldest brother called "kickboxing practice"

One time I got so fed up I choked him out and ran off to do my own thing before he came to

[delicate stream]

Jeeze

[quartz wren]

Then he played it off like "nah bruh I pretended to pass out"

No, I wiggled his face hole and checked his nostrils for breathing and then ran off

He was out cold.

[delicate stream]

Thankfully I never got into a physical altercation with my brother... If it had happened in high school I probably would have seriously hurt him by accident

[quartz wren]

It was a multiple times a week thing for me.

And after a while he learned I would fight back and stopped. But that was after I wasn't half his age anymore.

His justification as an adult?

"I was preparing you for how the world is going to treat you"

Umm... The world was already treating me like that no help needed from you...

[delicate stream]

High school had some danger, and I became danger

[quartz wren]

I was done being danger after getting expelled from middle school for the second time.

[delicate stream]

oof

[lusty fossil]

Y: The Last Man is pretty good so far

[quartz wren]

Was required to take anger management therapy after the first one... In which the the therapist effectively told me to turn alllll my anger inward.

I was 14.

Still untying that mental weave.

[delicate stream]

Well that wasn't a good therapist

[quartz wren]

Nope.

Not at all. Seems to be my luck though.

So I find I do better therapy for my own dang self because I tend to get advice that damages me further from licensed therapists.

The mental health system in my state is pretty atrocious.

I have PTSD from psych units so bad I don't go to hospitals unless it is life or death anymore.

[delicate stream]

Mental health hard... I'm a mess

[quartz wren]

They have a pattern of poking and prodding people in crisis (or attempt to induce crisis when you come in with a medical emergency as a matter of policy by asking mental health screening questions when they aren't warranted) so that you snap and they can classify you as involuntarily admitted and strip you of all rights they legally can so things are easier on their side.

It has happened all 4 times I have gone in for mental health treatment and they tried to get me when I went in for something medical most recently but I gave them that look like "are you trying to have me involuntaried?" and they knew what I was saying without even needing to say it because they immediately came back with "we have to ask these questions because you have a history"

So it is a matter of policy to dredge up terrible thoughts when someone comes in for medical treatment if they have a history of psych treatment.

So I guess I'll just patch my dang self up unless I need an ambulance got plenty of practice and super glue is cheap

And was originally designed for wartime bandages

CA glue is a miracle

[delicate stream]

Bringing up past trauma to work on it is pretty common... But when you're in crisis mode? Yeah, not a good time for that

Ok, I stayed up waaaay too late... Sleep time, night night

[quartz wren]

Night

People keep calling me MacGyver... They may be right... This is my coffee maker now... Made from a jar, some wire, a drinking straw, and a filter. Had to rig this up because I dismantled my regular one to make a CRT from it...

[delicate stream]

lol

pokes at NeoTrellis for signs of life, sighs

[delicate stream]

I got a GPU at MSRP, didn't have to wait in line, and didn't have to fight anybody... And they had a dozen :0

[wooden schooner]

audio channels
what is going on here?

is this the movie theater use case?

[quartz wren]

Nice!

[late fulcrum]

What audio channels?

[delicate stream]

To the monitors, which may have their own speakers or an audio out

DisplayPort and HDMI both have audio channels

[delicate stream]

You could use it for a small personal movie theater XD Or for like, playing movies on multiple TVs in a store, each screen can have a different movie

[blissful roost]

Yeah, I was thinking of buying a new amp.. to use with HDMI.

My 1999 Pioneer just won't be as capable.

[delicate stream]

You can just get an HDMI audio breakout and use the classic amp :O

[blissful roost]

Nah. I'd rather reduce cabling where I can.

Old boi will end up in the mancave. 😁

[delicate stream]

Fair, lol

[blissful roost]

Pioneer VSA-E03

[delicate stream]

I have a Pioneer stereo stack from the 80s I need to set up again

[blissful roost]

I paid £200 in '99

[delicate stream]

noice

[late fulcrum]

My 1967 Dynamo seems capable enough

*Dynaco

[tardy badger]

Ahh the good ole days

I had a Pioneer head that looked similar

[blissful roost]

😁

[tardy badger]

Hooked two 12” sub woofers and played old gangster rap lol

[blissful roost]

Mate... Best £200 I ever spent.

This one loves Genesis.. louder = better.

[delicate stream]

I'm surprised nobody has questioned my graphics card beyond the audio thing, lol

[blissful roost]

I don't have any questions for AMD cards. Lol

Looks like a good throw for multi-monitor, for sure.

[delicate stream]

That's basically it XD

[blissful roost]

Should be good for the Command Center. 😎

[delicate stream]

It's an ancient GPU that's been tweaked to make it good for high res multi-display but not much processing power, lol

[blissful roost]

Yeah, I'd go for something like that if it was for work.

[delicate stream]

It's going into a workstation that currently has 2 cards, but I can't really use them because I get BSODs when I try to have it do work...

So the cards are relocating

[blissful roost]

Whilst I have 6 screens, those are across 5 systems.

One of which is a personal machine.

[delicate stream]

I have 6 on one, one system with 2, 5 or 6 with 1, and like... a dozen headless?

Servers are mostly on a VGA KVM

Gotta go shower, ttyl!

[blissful roost]

Thankfully, I only use 2 machines at home. Lol

[wooden schooner]

quoting the photo'ed box

[quartz wren]

or you could set it up for surround sound

with 6 channels you could do full 5.1

actually

there's stereo on each, huh?

which means you could do even more

[static flare]

howdy y'all

[lusty fossil]

Hello! Welcome if you're new

[static flare]

Nah, I've just not been around for a while

[lusty fossil]

welcome back!

[lusty fossil]

Y: The Last Man continues to be good

[supple surge]

🤣 mega maker score hahaha fully intact win98 pentium PC! ⛷ SKIFREE HERE I COME 🤣 now to make it run circuit py 😆😅🤷‍♂️

[dusty citrus]

good luck and have fun making it useful again 😄

how would someone begin adapting ancient hardware for circuit python anyhoo?

[quartz wren]

Custom firmware?

(replacing BIOS)

[dusty citrus]

hi scribblemonger! how are ya? yeah oof custom bios?!

[quartz wren]

Eh it's just a few thousand lines of ASM

And I'm doing alright, got a little seasonal depression going on from the rain making it hard to eat but other than that life is good and I have no complaints today

[dusty citrus]

drat, well can't rain all the time thank goodness.

[quartz wren]

You don't know spring or autumn in NW WA lol

[dusty citrus]

hmm an old pc has a serial port. that could be easy to talk with a microcontroller at least.

[quartz wren]

Yeah, or parallel port for direct GPIO control

you could even keep BIOS and just write a custom OS

not that hard if your goal is behaving like a microcontroller

[dusty citrus]

hmm never thought of that. one could essentially minimize using a mobo's full functionality to just run it like a microcontroller?

thanks for your perspective! i have two dead mobos waiting for me to learn how to do this

[delicate stream]

XENIA!

[dusty citrus]

oops one does something, cpu overheats while in bios 🙃

the doc is in!

[quartz wren]

Yeah it's actually something u have wanted to do for a while but haven't had the right computer to do it with

[dusty citrus]

nailed!

[static flare]

DOC!

[quartz wren]

Overheats during BIOS meaning CPU overheats?

[delicate stream]

I THOUGHT YOU GOT BANNISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM OR SOMETHING

[dusty citrus]

before adafruit electronics were a proper recycling chore and a bummer. now there is potential with every darn thing!

[static flare]

Nah, just a lot happened in my life and I couldn't keep up with this place

[quartz wren]

Or is something else overheating?

[dusty citrus]

something else?

[delicate stream]

Mood

[quartz wren]

Well, you do have thermal sensors on your fingertips

Assuming you have fingertips

[dusty citrus]

ah! i do have a handful of temp sensors. well i assume cpu because its temp ramps while all others stay the same.

i was thinking the thermal compound needs a look at. there's a chance there is not enough to get the heat off the amd.

[quartz wren]

Yeah thermal compound is an easy replacement

[wooden schooner]

ok I was going to make a comment about using each of the displays in the home theater to show a piece of Exodia but decided against it

good to know that uh... well, I'm not even sure what I now know

[delicate stream]

That you remember Yu-Gi-Oh!? lol

[wooden schooner]

oh I definitely remember yu-gi-oh

[blissful roost]

uggghhh

[delicate stream]

You good?

[blissful roost]

Yes.

[dusty citrus]

anyone else the great search music sounds like where in the world is carmen sandiego?

[delicate stream]

lol

[dusty citrus]

oops ^think lol

that was an awesome pc game in what the 80's i think.

[delicate stream]

And then comics and books and shows

[dusty citrus]

ya! 😁

[delicate stream]

I think I gotta email support

[delicate stream]

shakes lifeless NeoTrellis

[dusty citrus]

ono!

[delicate stream]

1 of 8 no joy

Thankfully I didn't need them, lol

[dusty citrus]

sorry to hear that 🙁 well its nice when the stuff works as expected.

[delicate stream]

Thankfully I tested them all before soldering them together

[dusty citrus]

good call!

[delicate stream]

Suggested by the guide as well, hehe

I always try to make a point to test all pieces before they need permanent integration... New PCs always have a first boot on the motherboard box!

[dusty citrus]

best to discover a problem before it gets entangled in a project with many things to troubleshoot later

[delicate stream]

Mhmm

I wonder why the demo gets stuck like this

The bigger question... How many can I get to stick? XD

Apparently all but 3

[dusty citrus]

any signs of damage parallel to the broken?

to the pcb?

[delicate stream]

Those pictures are a WORKING one, it's a software thing that makes the lights stick on. The not working one just doesn't register as an I2C device

On the working ones with the demo, it happens sometimes when you press multiple buttons at once

[dusty citrus]

ooh ok lol

[delicate stream]

But I did a visual inspection of the dead one... I see no issue

[delicate stream]

I realized I'd probably need to post on the forums anyway so I did that XD

OWWW HOT OWW

DO NOT touch the resistor on the back of glowy circle

[tardy badger]

Lol

https://tenor.com/view/be-cautious-jack-sparrow-creepy-magic-fingers-pirates-of-the-caribbean-gif-11731320

[delicate stream]

I 0% expected that

Oof, it gets between 140 and 160F

[late fulcrum]

Yow, that's over 600R!

[delicate stream]

Big owie

Thankfully I only touched it for a moment, so no serious burn

And yup, looks like the NeoTrellis is just a lost cause, so replacement it is

Adafruit definitely has one of the best replacement processes!

Now, what to do with the dead one...

I should be able to remove the controller and wire to the NeoPixels directly, right?

[dusty citrus]

if you know how to safely, sure why not 😁

[delicate stream]

Is anything really safe? :P

[dusty citrus]

aye, to safe or not to safe! is not a question

[delicate stream]

Lol

[dusty citrus]

i dunno as safe as we can be tasked to be 🤷

[delicate stream]

I can probably do it without losing a limb

[dusty citrus]

haven't had an electronics injury yet, only made accidental fireworks 🙃

[delicate stream]

I've had many XD

[dusty citrus]

and my fav blanket has a hole in it 😆

[delicate stream]

Oof

Well, my brain is starting to feel like it has a hole in it... Need sleep. Night night!

[dusty citrus]

i do not recommend using a fav blanket to work on stuff.

g'night!

[wary herald]

[quartz wren]

Indeed, this often ruins the blanket and makes the owner very sad.

[quartz wren]

Also on this note... You will...

[delicate stream]

Thankfully Adafruit support makes replacement quick and easy

[hasty quarry]

It’s my birthday

Cool stuff

Why am I 17

[tardy badger]

Happy birthday and congratulations on making it another year around a flaming hydrogen bomb 🙂

https://tenor.com/view/happy-birthday-snoopy-its-your-birthday-party-peanuts-gif-16580934

[dusk oracle]

talking about hydrogen

so few hobbyists use it.
my dad did.. but he was crazy

[tardy badger]

Hindenburg is a great reason to be cautious of using hydrogen as a hobbyist

[delicate stream]

Because you've been here more than 16 years, but less than 18 years

Happy birthday

[hasty quarry]

That’s amazing

[late fulcrum]

Heh, my birthday was yesterday

[tardy badger]

Curses, FedEx really makes me scratch my head sometimes.

I’ve not had them deliver to my address on sundays before but they were sneaky and dropped my DigiKey package 20 minutes after I got back inside from taking the dog out

So it sat there overnight 🙃

[umbral phoenix]

I was originally told FedEx was going to deliver my Digikey order yesterday (Sunday), but then it got "delayed" until Wednesday 😦

[stray wind]

Happy birthday! I hope it's a lovely one.

[stray wind]

Happy day late birthday 🙂

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/salem-cake-frosting-face-cat-sabrina-the-teenage-witch-gif-10259695

[hasty quarry]

No way

And I have a friend with the same birthday as me

AND a friend with his birthday tomorrow

[hasty quarry]

Thank you

[honest jolt]

Happy birthday!

[quartz wren]

I think I figured out how to do my laser based oscilloscope

The screen will be a glow in the dark star that's melted into the bottom of a jar, then it will have UV back lighting to get it glowing, then I'll have a laser mounted to a hard drive spindle motor and a mirror mounted to an HDD arm/voice coil array

Then you spin up the laser to a precise rotation speed and just deflect vertically using a mirror

Means no need to change directions of the beam sweep so you can get a higher sweep rate and have it induce less frame vibration

Also I found out that with phosphorescent quenching, the quenched point gets brighter first, so the trace will be darker than background and the point will be brighter

Gonna look friggin sweet!

Also happy birthday @hasty quarry and happy late birthday @late fulcrum

[hasty quarry]

Thank you guys

[wooden schooner]

Happy birthdays!

[quartz wren]

Hmmm... Just thought about the mechanics of having the laser spin free... I either need some kind of conductive bearing tracks or I can put a set of coils onboard the spindle that passes magnets and generates electricity from the spin of the motor to drive the beam

Also means that the faster it spins the brighter the laser will be

Which is good because if it changes spin speed without varying the brightness to match, the trace will be less visible at higher speeds

So I may just do that

That way both brightness and spindle speed are controlled together

[quartz wren]

Okay so melting glow in the dark stars in the oven didn't work...

They just kind of fused into a block

[delicate stream]

New graphics card install time :0

pop goes the color

[tardy badger]

Lol

[quartz wren]

sooooo...uncontrollable weight loss is scary y'all

especially when you don't have it to lose in the first place

so I set up an appt with the doc

[tardy badger]

Good idea

[quartz wren]

got lucky enough to get an appointment slot someone just canceled for tomorrow

I just hope they can refer me to a nutritionist who takes my insurance

turns out good care is expensive and even more expensive if you're poor.

[lusty fossil]

Hope everything is OK

[lusty fossil]

Without straying into the politics of why, I agree with this assessment.

[covert spire]

No, it's not political, imho, fairly accurate assessment

[quartz wren]

And it's intentional. That is political so I'll leave it at that.

[indigo palm]

hello, im trying to set up c/c++ compiler and am having an issue, do you know which channel i can use to ask for some help?

it's something related to yotta

[tardy badger]

It depends on the care. Having a child on Medicaid was free for my wife and I. I have private insurance now through my work and everything that would have been covered at no cost to me isn’t anymore and is really expensive.

[quartz wren]

Yes, of course having a child is covered, they want to increase the work force.

[tardy badger]

They (Medicaid) covered my daughters ECGs and whatnot for her heart condition. My insurance won’t cover anything until I’ve paid $3k out of pocket

As an adult though, without a referral.. all I got was a annual physical and a mental health check

And a $4 copay at urgent care

[quartz wren]

If I want mental health care that doesn't make my condition worse I have to pay out of pocket with the insurance I have.

[tardy badger]

US health care and private insurance are complete rubbish

[quartz wren]

I'm on state insurance

[tardy badger]

Like for state employees?

[quartz wren]

No like bottom of the barrel for those unemployable due to conditions they can't control.

In my case a condition I need good mental health care for.

It's a catch 22

[tardy badger]

Bummer 😦

That’s really unfortunate

Southern/Southeast US?

[quartz wren]

Nope, northwest

[tardy badger]

Ah..

My mother in law who is very very not in a good place mentally was released from the hospital against the wishes of her family.

[quartz wren]

Yes, I have tried to apply for disability but the systems in place are either made by the incompetent or are intentionally designed to trigger breakdowns in the mentally ill

[tardy badger]

In the south where mental health issues don’t exist apparently

That’s unfortunate that you have to deal with that

I imagine due to Covid you can’t go in office to get help applying?

[quartz wren]

I probably could do a teleconference but yeah covid makes it hard to find help

I would prefer to just be able to do it myself without needing to have someone throw me through hoops I can't jump through because someone made them intentionally too high.

I get that they want to prevent people who don't need it from getting it but it disproportionately affects those who do need it

[tardy badger]

It’s always good to be able to accept help when you need it, especially if you find an organization that genuinely wants to help.

You’re right about things being made unintentionally hard

[quartz wren]

It's like... You think I'm not already making life hard on myself due to my issues?

There's no reason to make that even harder.

I should be able to enter my info, sign a medical release, and have them approve or deny based on my diagnosis.

But that's too easy for people who are confirmed in need of help to get it. Gotta make it difficult so they can prove they reeeeeeaaaally need it...

Anyway I probably should stop before I get banned for speaking hard truths.

[delicate stream]

cough

RIP #help-with-rp2040-pio

[lusty fossil]

Looks like most posts weren't super on topic?

[delicate stream]

Yeah it got tangent-y

This workstation looks less shiny now XD

But my Crunch rig has moar POWAH!

[wooden schooner]

Is there a linux command line utility that can tell me how much power is currently being delivered by my laptop charger? I don't see that info in the output of upower -i.

[wary herald]

Yippee da de

[wary herald]

I guess the questions were about general RP2040 stuff rather than RP2040 PIO

[wary herald]

Lucky

I can only dream

[quartz wren]

Herbal teaaaaaaa ❤️

[tardy badger]

You know technically coffee is a type of tea

A drink made from steeped plant materials lol

Though it doesn’t fall under the strict definition of having tea leaves in it so it’s not a ‘tea’ in that regard.

Only a tea if you classify anything you steep and drink as tea

[blissful roost]

Actually.. I believe it would be a stew, or broth.

[tardy badger]

Actually it would be more of a tisane

Herbal ‘tea’ usually doesn’t have tea leaves.

Tea that doesn’t have tea leaves are tisanes

And if you are sloppy with your definition of spices, since coffee beans are seeds.. the could be a spice lol

There is a coffee tea made from the cherries and leaves of the coffee plants

Also learned a new word I googling this. drupes. The term to describe the pit of certain “berries” like Olives or Coffee Beans

[subtle fable]

Just bought a geiger counter, probably gonna buy some DP uranium to test it's accuracy as well

[late fulcrum]

I used to put a Geiger counter on my desk at work when I didn't want to be disturbed. Even though it's not dangerous, hearing it clicking away due to ordinary background radiation made people stay away.

[subtle fable]

Should have set it ontop of some old camping mantles or something to spice things up, though it would probably get annoying real fast

[late fulcrum]

Heh, I could have. I have this uranium glass neon tube that both looks cool and emits some radiation.

[oak matrix]

I bought some uranium ore from: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_4

I still want to get a calibration target to finish up my dosimeter so it can actually have some accuracy in the readout.

[late fulcrum]

Calibration and accuracy are nice

[lapis bluff]

But this is #general-chat so that's exactly what goes here. 🙂

[wooden schooner]

I once covered over the "do not" part of the "do not disturb" sign on my boss's door with a post-it note. His assistant told me not to do that again.

[delicate stream]

Wait, what is the PIO part?

[delicate stream]

you can abscond with parts

[stoic mesa]

it should be easy to make a contraption consisting of Geiger counter, small radioactive source behind servo-mounted door, and PIR sensor so that when someone approaches your desk, Geiger clicking accelerates...

that would certainly make you popular in the office

[delicate stream]

I need to figure out where my uranium ingot is...

[stoic mesa]

just use some Fiesta plates
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)

[wary herald]

Yessss, that too

[wary herald]

Programmed Input-Output

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/run-steal-gif-14128691

[delicate stream]

Ohhh....

[wary herald]

hehehe

[delicate stream]

I need more storage

[quartz wren]

I need more stability

my graphics driver crashed in the middle of working on stuff last night

[delicate stream]

Oof

[quartz wren]

I've decided

I'm going to implement a 6502 in PLDs

just for the fun and learning experience

[delicate stream]

Crashes are part of why I pulled my 1070 Ti and 2070 out of my i9 workstation and threw them on the crunching rig; any time I did intensive GPU stuff, Windows would BSOD a lot, but it's not the cards

[quartz wren]

see, I didn't BSOD, graphics just froze for like 10 seconds, then went black for another 5 or so, then finally came back

but internet videos refused to play

well, some did. youtube and a few other sites just sat and spun after that

like they were buffering, but right before the crash things played just fine

[delicate stream]

Hmm

[quartz wren]

haven't tried playing one since I woke up, let's see if the issue is resolved

yeah, the loading bar just went to 2/3 and it's still sitting there spinning

ufffff

guess I'm doing a restart

[delicate stream]

Hmmmmm

[quartz wren]

works after restart

just hope it doesn't quit in the middle of my appointment

[delicate stream]

Computers weird

[lusty fossil]

Many HIPAA compliant vid chat programs are a little wonky

[delicate stream]

My brain is melt

[quartz wren]

mood

I decided before I implement a 6502 in PLDs, I'm going to do it in logisim first

[delicate stream]

I'm gonna put a flashlight/lantern on my walking stick

[quartz wren]

so high very tech

doge.jpg

[delicate stream]

Lol

I shall use glowy circle and mirrors

[quartz wren]

oh snap

like, an infinity light?

[delicate stream]

Nah, just glowy circle pointing down, and mirrors angled to spread the light outward

[quartz wren]

ah

[delicate stream]

I shall ward off enemies

[quartz wren]

put

put a fog machine in it

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/alastor-hazbin-hotel-hazbin-maybe-alastor-hazbin-gif-18782610

Although I don't want it to be too heavy, it is a walking stick XD

[quartz wren]

you could just make a fog machine out of a vape

should be small and light enough to embed into a walking stick

this is worrying

6 minutes to appointment

and no email yet

[delicate stream]

Uhoh

[delicate stream]

I do have many coils from those...

[quartz wren]

they are literally just a miniature infused fog machine

[delicate stream]

True

I wonder if I can clean out the junk with mineral spirits

... obviously it'll need to air for a while

[quartz wren]

nah just turn it on with the spirits soaking it it'll be fine /s

[delicate stream]

Lol

The soaking begins

[quartz wren]

Wellll....doc thinks I have an ulcer.

Or the beginnings of one

Not like I'm under stress or anything /s

(it's probably the case to be honest)

So I got a prescription for some kind of acid reducer for the next few months to see if that helps

Getting blood work done in a couple weeks

[lusty fossil]

Ulcers are very treatable!

And are caused by bacteria, not stress, although I believe stress makes symptoms worse

[delicate stream]

At least it's a treatable and not super serious thing [although they can get very serious]

[lusty fossil]

I take acid reducers for acid reflux, they work very well.

[delicate stream]

I have an iron stomach

[lusty fossil]

I have a tin stomach and a paper esophagus

Acid reflux actually killed my grandfather, they didn't have acid reducers in his time and the constant acid in his throat gave him esophageal cancer

Glad I live when I do

[delicate stream]

Oh jeeze... Yeah, stomach acid is serious business when it's places it doesn't belong

[quartz wren]

unfortunately the prescription never made it to the pharmacy...

and they wonder why I have trust issues.

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/frustrated-frustrating-stitch-disney-lilo-and-stitch-gif-4412782

[lusty fossil]

FYI, sony has a queue to get a PS5

online only, disk or digital

[delicate stream]

I should get a PlayStation

[lusty fossil]

I really want to play the new ratchet and clank, that's the only reason I want one

[delicate stream]

I wanna play Spyro

And FF7

[lusty fossil]

oooh I think you can do the spyro reboots on PS4

[delicate stream]

:0

[lusty fossil]

oh fun fact, you can't convert larger than 10 bits of binary to hex in both excel and google sheets. Weird limitation

[delicate stream]

Maybe I should just get a newer one with ports of older games instead of the original console...

[pearl rover]

now you see, that may be the practical option, but it certainly doesn't have the charm of the original machines (he says, trying to rationalize making another purchase of old gaming hardware and keyboards) XD

[delicate stream]

Lol, that's very true, and a big part of why I was thinking of getting the original now

[burnt tendon]

..and this is why the cool kids all have semiconductor fabs in their basement.

[umbral phoenix]

@lusty fossil that's what Python is for 😉

[quartz wren]

I took apart a PS2 last night

Has a bad optical drive so I'm seeing what kind of beast I can create with it

Same with an original Xbox I got

[delicate stream]

Hackery!

[quartz wren]

Indeed

Unfortunately all the big chips are bga

So I'm going to have to do firmware hackery

[delicate stream]

I found this ENORMOUS vape, curious to see how big the battery is

[quartz wren]

You sure that isn't a CO2 canister for paintball? Jeez

[delicate stream]

Banana Shake paintball canister :P

[quartz wren]

Yeah I can read I was just commenting on size and shape

:P

[delicate stream]

lol

[pearl rover]

all jokes aside, banana flavoured CO2, a tasty asphyxiation hazard

[quartz wren]

Keep out of reach of children

I wonder if chamomile herbal tea and coffee would mix well...

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/neil-patrick-harris-shudder-shrug-disgusted-gif-13575156

[lusty fossil]

The whopper junior is such a scam, it's like 2/3 the radius of a regular whopper and is not priced accordingly

Whopper Sr for life

[delicate stream]

The entire place is a scam, they don't sell real food

[lusty fossil]

just have bad taste like me, it's great! and cheap!

[delicate stream]

I'll stick with the McDonald's dollar menu XD

[lusty fossil]

I could have gone to mcdonalds, but I wanted lettuce

[delicate stream]

You could have gotten lettuce :O

[lusty fossil]

yeah, I think I was just feeling a whopper, no mayo, tonight

(egg allergy)

[delicate stream]

AH FRIG I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN TACOS

[lusty fossil]

I almost got an alaskan cod taco

[delicate stream]

Day is ruined

[lusty fossil]

Alaskan fish is best in alaska, but it's pretty good on the rest of the west coast

[delicate stream]

chonk

[lusty fossil]

is that Watt-Hours?

[delicate stream]

Yup!

[lusty fossil]

interesting, usually I see Amp-hrs but that's just as reasonable a metric

[delicate stream]

1250mAH... Wowzers

I hope it works!

[lusty fossil]

are there a lot of teenagers and 20 somethings near you?

Asking for non-creepy reasons

Just wondering if that's who's tossing all these vaporizers

[delicate stream]

Probably XD

[lusty fossil]

The kids are, mostly, alright

[delicate stream]

I dunno if they're dropping them or tossing them -- some of them are flat and dry, some still seem full of fluid and batteries pretty high

[lusty fossil]

Man, I'm sure a sociologist could figure it out

[delicate stream]

lol

Probs a mix

[real falcon]

free batteries heh

[delicate stream]

Yissss

3.26V yissssssss

I bet I could run a sensor for a loooong time with this baby

[quartz wren]

Wanted to play with wireless charging so I made a thing... Gotta make another one now lol

Don't worry this is just for testing! If I put this into the laptop design I'll 3D print a recessed space for it in the frame

Possibly even with a steel plate space too

And yes I did this with tape and notebook paper for the substrate

Wrapped some fairly fine shellac coated wire around a small jar for the coil

[lusty fossil]

Is that coated wire?

[quartz wren]

Yes

[lusty fossil]

ah I misread, it's late

[quartz wren]

If I remember correctly it came from a hair trimmer coil

(the reciprocating tiny scissor kind that just drives it off mains to actuate)

I think they just call them "clippers" in the cosmetology industry but it has been forever since my sister talked my ear off while cutting my hair lol

Anyway we had a lot of very hairy people around growing up so we went through a lot of those things (gummed up from so much use because we have been blessed with flowing fonts of locks that never cease to spew forth from our heads) so these coils were a pretty common thing for me to turn to when making electromagnets

This is one of two that I still have laying around

So much wire on it lol

It's basically a straight up spool of motor wire...

Started out wrapped all the way out near the edge of that lip

[tardy badger]

The JLCPCB website is soo slow for me always

honestly i think it's because I have IPS/IDS running on my network

[lusty fossil]

IPS/IDS?

[delicate stream]

I think I might turn the body of this vape into a flashlight -- the end might make a good diffuser!

[lusty fossil]

I see you're of refined keyboard taste

[delicate stream]

PCMR, yo

[lusty fossil]

Everytime I use a keyboard that's not RGB, I die a little more

[delicate stream]

lol

I still love my IBM Model M

Hmmm... Do I want to go the easy route and get a single CR1220 for $0.95 from Adafruit, or search eBay to get 100 for $3?

[tardy badger]

IPS/IDS is Intrusion Prevention and Intrusion Detection system

[lusty fossil]

Ah

I guess JLC or the govt over there knows all about me

[tardy badger]

https://www.juniper.net/us/en/research-topics/what-is-ids-ips.html

[pearl rover]

intense nodding

membrane buckling springs just slap

[oblique holly]

Hello guys I am participating in a pcb desiging competition can someone suggested good software to get started
It would be helpful to me if it was free

[slim shard]

I've heard KiCad, I'm way not an expert though

[oblique holly]

ok

will it be easy to get started

[slim shard]

no clue, just heard the name in a podcast a few times :-)
I assume it isn't garbage, but I have no PCB layout experience

I'd ask in #help-with-hw-design

[oblique holly]

oh ok I havent noticed that channel thank you

[delicate stream]

I hear KiCAD a lot

[quartz wren]

No, but only if you get overwhelmed by lots and lots of options. Once you know what you're doing in the UI it's amazing

[delicate stream]

Man, solder bridging these NeoTrellis boards was WAY harder than I thought... I guess solder bridges only want to form when YOU don't want them to!

[quartz wren]

You know

It's much easier to bridge if you stick a bit of wire between

[delicate stream]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but I wanted to do it the hard way XD

[quartz wren]

Tack one end, bend the other down, then tack it, then flow from the first side to the middle, let that solidify, then go from the other side to the middle

Same technique as making traces on perfboard

Even works with fine coated wire

If you know how to easily strip the coating while you are soldering

Takes a bit of finesse

[delicate stream]

I think I will just do wire for the rest... Maybe redo that, I don't like how messy it is

[quartz wren]

I mean

You already got it halfway for the second technique I know for using wire

Second one is tin the pads to be bridged, tin the wire, then push the wire into the tinned pads with your iron

Just gotta get rid of the blobs and tin some wires and you can get it much prettier

You do want a bit of solder protruding from the pads though, just not that much

I started myself a daily routine.

[delicate stream]

I have many daily routines

[quartz wren]

Unlisted items naturally follow from listed ones

And as such are unnecessary to list

I'm first focusing on fixing my sleep schedule. And no, I don't think it's broken. I'm using the other form of "fix" meaning to hold in place.

I found that if I sleep too long I am sluggish all day. 7hr is like my maximum unless it was a lot of physical labor the day before.

I miscalculated last night thinking I gave myself 7 but I woke up this morning, felt great, and then someone pointed out that I only put 6 hours of sleep in my schedule. Screw it I'm keeping it.

Life is too short to sleep an extra hour every day

[delicate stream]

I miss sleep

[quartz wren]

Dreams are a dreadful place for me and often cause me to wake up in a sour mood if they go on for too long.

Last night I was dreaming of things that looked like they were out of those scary stories to tell in the dark books...

But fully realized

It was awful

But I'm awake and none of it followed me to the waking world because I woke up soon enough to not be fully inundated with the horror

I mean I remember it but it isn't hanging over me like a shadow threatening to ruin my whole day

I think for work today I'm going to finish designing Proto-ITX

Or rather

Not necessarily finish but make significant progress on

I know what I need to do for the pad designs, I know approximately how I want to lay everything out, the only thing holding me back is me

[worn olive]

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[quartz wren]

Ooooh that looks fun... My schedule just got packed full because I decided to go from being my own boss to being my own employee last night (total mindset paradigm shift that may completely change my outlook and help me to go much faster than I am)

But I'll see if I can squeeeeze it into my hobby time in the evenings

[delicate stream]

I just have horrible, painful nightmares that never leave

[quartz wren]

Only difference between life and a nightmare is that this one is shared with others. If you follow the same approach to surviving a nightmare of finding balance and control over your immediate surroundings long enough to solve the problem at hand, you will do fine. In life though, others are struggling through this nightmare right along with you and if we don't help each other we will become each others' monsters.

No clue where that came from my brain just kind of threw it out there lol

[blissful roost]

Thankfully, I'm capable of lucid dreaming.. so, nightmares are fun. 😁

[delicate stream]

My problem in nightmares is like... Shadow monsters that distort the rules and are just plain vicious. And I can control dream elements, but it's just a never ending ramping of power and "reality" breaking

[thick wind]

TFW you learn micropython works via UART and is supported on older ESP-based devices...

Does lucid dreaming count as a nightmare at that point? I feel like the scariest part of nightmares is the feeling of being there, and the ability to detach from it just kinda breaks the effect.

[quartz wren]

Most of my nightmares start with me having all sorts of strength and sometimes flight, but as time goes on, more and more monsters show up and I lose flight if I have it, I lose the ability to break down doors to run away, and eventually I just can't move my legs fast enough to do more than crawl.

Almost feels like an analogy for life...

[delicate stream]

Ehh, I dunno what to call them... They're not really scary since it doesn't cause any true damage, but it hurts like all heck

[delicate stream]

I get ripped apart eventually

[quartz wren]

Lucidity does not necessarily mean control over even your detachment state in dreams any more than it does while awake. Just means you are fully aware of the experience.

Including the knowledge of whether you are waking or sleeping

So I would argue that detachment from it is actually entering a non-lucid state

In the same way that it is while awake and lucid, then becoming (either willfully or not) detached from the experience

[oblique holly]

thanks for sharing your experience bro

now I am using easy eda

[quartz wren]

Aight, not quite sure what that is but I'm sure I'll get curious and Google it later

[quartz wren]

Of course, any time my experience is relevant (and sometimes even when it isn't lol) I am happy to share

[delicate stream]

I just ripped one of the SCL pads from a NeoTrellis

https://tenor.com/view/tableflip-cat-angry-mad-gif-3552726

[tardy badger]

Noooo

[thick wind]

RIP, time to wire it from the other end...

Gotta put those things in a case, those solder connections can't handle much stress.

[delicate stream]

I was setting up soldering

[delicate stream]

And actually, this is better than my dumb idea of trying to solder to the teeny tiny hole next to the pad

[lusty fossil]

supplier taking their sweet time to get back to me, but thanks me for my inquiry. 5 days later I only feel a little bad about replying "thank you for your attention to this". Maybe a little more than a little

[umbral phoenix]

unboxing: esp32-s3 devkits

[blissful roost]

My wife just found out that I replaced the bed with a trampoline..

She hit the ceiling!

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-badum-tss-drum-joke-unimpressed-gif-7770998

[blissful roost]

😁

[delicate stream]

But actually imagine trampoline bed

[blissful roost]

That's getting into not-PG territory. Lol

[lusty fossil]

if my wife found me doing that she'd have the explaining to do, since I'm single

[blissful roost]

Fnaar

[lusty fossil]

There is a $150,000 car in the parking lot of my work. It's surprisingly ugly

[delicate stream]

I... I'm not gonna ask

[blissful roost]

Yeah, I've seen more than a few...

[lusty fossil]

Karma Rivero specifically

It seems to be a hybrid with only a 30 mile electrical range

300 on gas

pretty poor range for 150k

[delicate stream]

I like my 2014 Honda Civic LX, she's my baby

[lusty fossil]

I almost got the LX, but it was more debt

[blissful roost]

My wife bought a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq...

So very meh.

[lusty fossil]

is that electric?

[blissful roost]

Hybrid

[lusty fossil]

noice

I'm considering the hybrid ranger

[blissful roost]

FWD and Hybrid.... Boring.

Glad I don't have to drive it..

..... and it's an automatic. Lmao

[delicate stream]

I might mod my car to be hybrid or electric one day

[lusty fossil]

aren't all hybrids auto? Most are CVT right?

[blissful roost]

Something like that....

[lusty fossil]

I had to travel over 100 miles to get a manual, myself

[blissful roost]

It's not like a proper gearbox is going to suddenly make it all exciting, so.... Ehh

[delicate stream]

CVT best

No lurching and crunching

Smoooooth

[lusty fossil]

but I love the crunching when I miss a gear

[delicate stream]

shudder

[lusty fossil]

it's free cardio when you're going 85 mph

scares the heck outtaya

[delicate stream]

Yyyyeah no thanks

not that I'm driving that fast anymore anyway

But I like being able to FLOOR IT and not have to worry about acceleration slowing

[blissful roost]

She did mention something I thought odd...

The transition from electric to ICE seems odd, to her... Apparently the car lurches with a moment of sudden acceleration.

[delicate stream]

Electric has a HUGE torque advantage

Instant torque

[blissful roost]

I know.

Just not 100% on the whole hybrid thing.

I would have thought that switching to ICE would reduce power to the wheels...

[delicate stream]

No, it just creates electricity

Generally

Many hybrids are just electric cars with a generator and a smaller battery

[blissful roost]

So, it's a generator... Not a part of the drivetrain?

[delicate stream]

Generally

[blissful roost]

Ok, that's even moar odd.

[delicate stream]

There are hybrids with a mixed drivetrain

[blissful roost]

Hummm

[delicate stream]

Bbl meeting

[blissful roost]

Welp... I'm going for a 4:20 break.

[quartz wren]

Someone covered my car tires with suction cups and it's driving me up the wall!

[blissful roost]

😋

[hasty quarry]

Kinda funny how fixing broken connections in the brain makes them so much stronger than they were when they were in short term memory

I guess fixing them tells your brain that it’s something worth fixing, and to not free up the resources

I’m learning japanese in school (after self teaching for a bit more than a year so this is so smooth sailing right now), and my technique right now is to not look at my notes, but sit down every little bit and suffer through remembering everything we did in a day. Really reinforces things

[delicate stream]

I wish I could language

[quartz wren]

https://twitter.com/_intothemirror/status/1442868605364752387?s=19 hehehe

kleeder (@_intothemirror)

it took way too long to make this

Retweets

394

Likes

2151

Twitter · Sep 28, 2021, 3:07 PM

[lusty fossil]

great feeling, when the article you're reading about a problem you're having has a link to a discord channel

[honest jolt]

I would be forever a robot then 😂

[lusty fossil]

of which UnexpectedMaker is a member! woah!

[vagrant sonnet]

Depends on the car - second generation Chevy Volt can send power from the engine directly to the wheels. First generation couldn’t.

[delicate stream]

Cars complicated

But general types of hybrids are full electric drive with a generator for range, mixed drive that uses ICE for high power and electric to add torque, and mix that can switch from electric to ICE and back as needed

[late fulcrum]

This (in particular, the Votrax chip) might have confused a couple of people.

[quartz wren]

There were many confused people in the comments

[late fulcrum]

Oh, I'm sure, that is quite a selection of chips

[delicate stream]

I'd be lost

[lusty fossil]

biggest let down of tonight's What If?... is ||they didn't get James Spader for Ultron||

[terse estuary]

Going back to earlier in the convo, not the first generation Honda Insight. It was offered with a 5 speed or a CVT.

But that was back in 1999-2005

[wary herald]

I knoooooowwwww

[blissful roost]

Ruined it!!!

Lol

[delicate stream]

Need to watch

[blissful roost]

Do.

[delicate stream]

Soon™️

[stable vapor]

Does anyone know of a list of "maker" companies? I want a job where I'm building things with other people / making the world better. The only companies I can think of are formlabs, prusa. Right now I feel kinda unfulfilled with tech and a lot of it seems boring to work on or vanity or advertising.

[delicate stream]

I don't know of a particular list, but I know the Adafruit jobs board has a lot of things. https://jobs.adafruit.com/

[thick wind]

Seeing as you mentioned Prusa and Formlabs, there are plenty of other companies in that industry that are "maker-friendly." In fact, outside of the REALLY big industrial-focused players like Stratasys and Prodways, almost every other 3d printer manufacturer can be classified as exactly that.

Outside of the 3D-oprinting industry, you can also consider any of the major "maker" manufacturers and distributors. On the electronics side of makers, there are companies like Adafruit and SparkFun who design and sell these maker-electronics devices all day long, and companies like Digikey who do everything they can to get these product into the hands of whoever's looking for them.

MY recommendation is to find a product, series, or manufacturer whose purpose you feel you can resonate with. Then, start your search with all the companies involved in its design and distribution. You might not get a hit right away, but you can certainly grow your search outwards from there.

Also, are you looking for something of a specific engineering background, or are you more on the business side of things? Because the latter has way more options than I just mentioned...

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[round obsidian]

60 available in stock right now. Limit 2

[lusty fossil]

nooooooooo, I just accidentally flicked a tiny piece of unknown metal from my table into my miso souuuuuuup

Odds it's vibranium and I can get super powers?

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/gimli-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-courage-death-gif-5502730

[lusty fossil]

I'm disposing of the soup, but I'm not at all happy

I want that on the official record

[delicate stream]

RIP soup

I should have miso for dinner

[lusty fossil]

hopefully more than just miso

[delicate stream]

I forget the exact flavor, but it's from Vite Ramen

[lusty fossil]

Are they good? And actually healthy? I could see myself eating that if it tastes good

[blissful roost]

Miso sad. 😔

..... Sorry

[delicate stream]

I only tried the soy sauce chicken so far, but it was good! not sure exactly how healthy it really is

[lusty fossil]

I mean it's ramen, I wasn't expecting super healthy

[delicate stream]

Probably a lot healthier than the $0.15 packets

[lusty fossil]

for shore

[delicate stream]

Oop, no miso tonight, burgers are apparently already in process

[lusty fossil]

I love getting news like that

[blissful roost]

I did feel like ordering for delivery, but I'm poor people this month.

[delicate stream]

oof

[blissful roost]

Ehh... Momentary imbalance.

Monetary imbalance too.. poop

[wooden schooner]

Solder shares many properties with vibranium. The solution to every problem is to add more solder. (This includes the problem of "how to remove solder.")

[thick wind]

What the f

[delicate stream]

Wha?

[thick wind]

What are those nutrition facts

I’ve seen straight supplements offer less than that

[delicate stream]

Nutrition packed soup

[thick wind]

It’s like someone took a protein and calorie shake and threw it in a blender with a fistful of multivitamins and called it ramen….

And a splash of Metamucil

[delicate stream]

Healthy!

Unlike the 15¢ packs that are basically sawdust and a LOT of salt

Unrelated, I don't understand how people can listen to music in their car SO LOUD that you can hear it 2 blocks away and it sets off car alarms

Like... how are you not dead and/or in agonizing pain

I mean deaf

[lusty fossil]

A small subset of people have no regard for themselves (their ears), or others (our ears)

[delicate stream]

I mean, some folks just listen dangerously loud, but there's a point where loud not only means damage, but also causes pain

And like, sometimes they're listening loud enough to make my chest hurt!

[wooden schooner]

MCT oil is generally good on keto, but this is too many carbs to be keto. And outside keto, that's pretty high sat fat.

Other than that, this nutritionally enriched ramen looks very cool

Also the yellow box on how they treat their employees (if true) is 💯

[delicate stream]

So like I said originally, at least health-ier than cheap packets XD

[wooden schooner]

...something something first documented case of scurvy in a hundred years...

[delicate stream]

lol

[delicate stream]

I'mma put this on one of my PCBs at some point

[burnt tendon]

Preetty much all of my PCBs contain some sort of a pun.

[delicate stream]

Hehehehe

[vagrant sonnet]

Oh nice! Less than the daily value of sodium even!

[umbral phoenix]

I'm shocked.

[blissful roost]

People are often shocked when they find out I'm not a qualified electrician...

[lost rampart]

Hello to you. Considering the fact that a soldering station is expensive I would like to have the possibility to make a small circuit allowing me to vary the voltage or the current in order to vary the heat of a non-variable 65W multimeter bought in trade. Is it possible to vary this heat by changing the voltage or the current?

[fair summit]

Please don't multi-post your queries. I answered you in #general-tech.

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[wooden schooner]

Hi @worn olive . We got your message yesterday. Please do not post it again.

[tardy badger]

Also, #events is a better channel to post these in

[thick wind]

It has been posted there once already, so posting it multiple times here is only going to hurt your turnout haha

[quartz wren]

lab has a roof on it

need to add some studs to the back wall and get that up

[delicate stream]

Rood good

[quartz wren]

well, all the areas directly over the floor have a roof...the edges need a bit of overhang

rood goof?

like a "prank"?

hides

[lusty fossil]

Is it also unsafe to sit on the top of a step ladder?

[quartz wren]

I mean...

I'm not going to condone it

but I stand on many things that I shouldn't

[lusty fossil]

a very short ladder

[quartz wren]

being underweight helps with that

[lusty fossil]

It's like 3 feet, my knees are bent with my feet on the ground

[quartz wren]

oh that's fine

that's literally the same as sitting on a bar stool

[lusty fossil]

but people fall off of bar stools all the time!

[quartz wren]

that's their problem

[delicate stream]

*roof

Roof good

[quartz wren]

I know, I just took it a step further and replaced the f but swapped the letters

[delicate stream]

Oh, lol

I hadn't read the subsequent messages XD

[delicate stream]

Sitting is danger

[quartz wren]

I just realized why I can draw circles so well freehand...

Lots and lots of failed transistor drawings in schematics...

And I usually draw up schematics in pen...

Because apparently I have a penchant for tedium and rework...

But also I think I figured out how to make an oscillator from first principles using things I have around me... Just have to finish the design and plop it in a breadboard

[quartz wren]

Does this make sense or am I not brained

The idea being charge the cap and when it goes above zener voltage, trigger transistor to dump cap

Added a resistor and LED between the emitter of the transistor and ground

[tardy badger]

A few loafs of bread 2040

[quartz wren]

Let's see what happens

[delicate stream]

I should buy a loaf of bread

[quartz wren]

Is there a gluten free version?

[delicate stream]

I think they're all gluten free

[wooden schooner]

stares in keto

[delicate stream]

@tardy badger do you have a nutrition sheet for Bread?

[tardy badger]

100% daily header pins recommended for your breadboard

Also 0% daily recommended lead (lead free solder)

[delicate stream]

Why does lead solder still exist?

[wooden schooner]

Perhaps we could say NaN%

[delicate stream]

NaN%d

[wooden schooner]

0/0 recommended units of lead

[delicate stream]

I think 100% daily recommended lead works too

[quartz wren]

Because it's easier to solder with?

[delicate stream]

0% and 100% of 0 is 0

[delicate stream]

How?

[quartz wren]

Flows better in my experience

Though to be fair I have only had access to cheap versions of both

[delicate stream]

Never had a problem with flow

I haven't used solder with lead in... 10? 20 years?

[quartz wren]

I've noticed at least with the cheap lead free solder you have to have extra flux to make it not blob and make spikes

And I don't have extra flux.

[delicate stream]

I don't use flux XD

Well, not added

[quartz wren]

Yeah it just hasn't worked for me

With the products I have bought

Lead solder always works even when I go bottom of the barrel for price

[delicate stream]

This works perfectly for me

[quartz wren]

And how much is that versus the cost of a 10lb roll of lead solder?

[delicate stream]

It was cheaper than the 1lb roll with lead next to it by like a dollar

[quartz wren]

Huh, pricing must have shifted since I last got solder which was a long time ago because I still have a bunch of the lead solder that's been working for me for years

But I won't be using that for commercial products for obvious reasons

[delicate stream]

I buy infrequently too XD

[lusty fossil]

I know of one place in town that uses all lead for all their soldering, but they are
a DoD contractor so I suspect the rules are different

[quartz wren]

Yeah I mean who cares about the environment when you're blowing people up.

Obviously not my viewpoint here just being hyperbolic devil's advocate

[delicate stream]

I thought DoD equipment had to be RoHS compliant

[tardy badger]

Depending on where their products are going (like space) there are different rules for solder to use

[lusty fossil]

I'm not sure the reason, but they are producing a lot of decades old tech to interface with old bombers apparently

[tardy badger]

For instance tin solder is a nogo for space

[stoic mesa]

what do they use for space?

[quartz wren]

Oh actually that's a solid point

[tardy badger]

Copper/lead solder

[quartz wren]

Does the tin end up doing the crumbly crumble?

Can't remember the term

[delicate stream]

Tin "grows" whiskers and shorts

[tardy badger]

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/11/Tin_whisker

[quartz wren]

When it shifts crystalline phase and gets powdery

Ahhhhh different tin issue

Okay noted will not use tin in my space equipment

[delicate stream]

I think there are other lead free and tin free solder options

[quartz wren]

I mean if you're going to space and the boards aren't meant to interact with biology does it matter if there is lead in it?

[lusty fossil]

the Prime Directive prevents us from polluting alien worlds

[quartz wren]

So you reserve all lead solders for high orbiters

[tardy badger]

But the EU grants exceptions for lead solder use because of not many good options for solder in space

It doesn’t matter much for short lived missions

[quartz wren]

Why not spot weld for things that need longevity?

[tardy badger]

You ever spot welded 0402/0201 components?

Plus you have to provide a lot of current which would surely destroy the components

[quartz wren]

I meant for inter-board connection mostly but that just put a hilarious image in my head

Could it be done with precision robots?

Just use slightly larger components which has the added advantage of being more robust

Especially if you upscale your IC dies to the largest they can be

[lusty fossil]

larger boards weigh more and cost more to send to space

[quartz wren]

Make it in space

With local resources

😉

[lusty fossil]

Beltalowda!

[quartz wren]

That's where I'm heading as my life goals but we know how those go

Ceres is my actual destination

And anyone willing to at very least not hamper progress is welcome. Loafers and all, just don't get in the way.

And if you want to help you reap the direct rewards

Which is why my lab needs to have the ability to do long duration space habitat simulations with full regenerative life support

Eventually

For now I'm starting with just the ability to fully seal and pressurize it with no leaks

(except the ones I intentionally introduce)

[delicate stream]

I claim Venus

[quartz wren]

Fine with me but may I offer some suggestions?

[delicate stream]

I have a plan :0

[quartz wren]

Balloons with solar panels and wireless charge pads for drones.

(for initial exploration)

[delicate stream]

Yeah stage 1 is floaty balloons

More like air boats

[quartz wren]

Yeah I just meant before sending people

[delicate stream]

I've got a design for a thermosiphon to steal heat from below

[quartz wren]

Noice

Based on the name I'm guessing thermodynamically driven?

[delicate stream]

Yup!

Basically this, but instead of sun, you have hot Venusian atmosphere

[quartz wren]

The reason ceres is my goal is that most of my projects require a high level of vacuum lol

So basically exactly how I imagined it