general-chat

[fading hare]

but, such is the price to live near the castle or fort for protection from the brigands (who probably worked for the lord anyway)

[dusty citrus]

frontier cantons (marquis, to be determined) 4055 counts (cantons) and 34000 knights and barons (communes)

the difference between barons and knights is they typically own a bigger fief or several small one (minimum in my game is 640 acres)

and have enough for a castle and 24/365 profesionnal army

whereras commune can only afford a couple of professionnal soldiers and usually lack a castle or a medium+ sized of fortified keep

in d&d terms a 1200 acre basic fief makes around 45k gold each year

where as a barony makes around 200k gold

[fading hare]

This is all a lot of math. Let me guess, you are not allowed to play any games of chance in Vegas and all your friends gang up on you in EDH to kill you first?

[dusty citrus]

nah, mostly the magic of SRD tables in RPG and the magic of the normal laws 😄

[fading hare]

lol

[dusty citrus]

and doing research on modern france subdivisions and solving logic challenges and irrigularities

since nature seems to use normal laws I use them everywhere

[fading hare]

so your friends do kill you first in EDH

[dusty citrus]

just need to tweak the average and deviation a bit after many tests

[fading hare]

do you have any ML in these models?

[dusty citrus]

ML? Btw I have numbers for each communes on their 1790 population, so I can generate each 32 million frenchmen from the 1790 with this (except with US census names 😦 )

so my formulas were fudged until I had a good probably to have at least someone with advanced master skill in all the possible skills while doing my tests

and several peoples who the ability to reach those level so there would be "generational talents" in every skill as well

with that population of 32 millions

[fading hare]

Machine Learning

[dusty citrus]

that is the phase.i.wish I.could reach

would.need recipes.for that and a databse of items

[fading hare]

I think that's the phase you reach when you have a proof of concept of all this we've talked about

then making adjustments over time can be done with ML

you could use current players' progress as data to train ML with

[dusty citrus]

in.an.ideal work Id.love to see.it run.while Im at work npc replacing their clothes peoples buy8ng new tools etc.within the.fief economy constraint

[slim shard]

I think SSH is an option, but at that point you're probably evading all that makes truenas a meaningful platform. if you know how all the bits and bobs spin, I'd then look at some linux/zfs setup loosely of your own design

[fading hare]

Just set it up in Ansible or similar with Salt/Puppet and let 'er rip. Don't even need to manually touch anything via SSH.

Or use Hashicorp stuff.

[slim shard]

I'm clueless there, but if that is your-fu, go do that fu you do so well :-)

[dusty citrus]

My problem is finding the minimal working project to do machine learning on

Tis is really my big difficulty

If I take farming for example, need a tool (hoe), so I need a blacksmith than can do at least copper and their cottage(which is the mechanism to do recipes), need someone to mine that copper (another cottage) and transport it(a business)

[fading hare]

If you know what to do in SSH, then you could automate it in Ansible, or whatever. The trick of being a software developer (at any level, DevOps, DevSecOps, whatever) is to never have to do anything manually, ever again.

[dusty citrus]

Then they need to eat from that farming. So just do a simple scenario like that I feel like a lot of my game systems need to be fleshed out

[slim shard]

should do everything manually once I think, just so you aren't hopeless when command-widget slips in it's own barf

[dusty citrus]

And fief are static atm based on google map analysis for the starting macro-characteristics of the fief like forest %, fallow %, etc

[fading hare]

I like this concept. Also have to factor in how many animals a serf has access to, because that yields fertilizer, which in turn yields better crops.

[dusty citrus]

yeah but it make it hard to do a minimally working proof of concept

[fading hare]

oh for sure! need to do everything manually at least a few times to understand the process

[fading hare]

true

[dusty citrus]

My approach atm is to define the 4 fiefs part of the county and flesh their macro characteristics

[fading hare]

just brainstorming a lot of things I would like to see in a game like that

[dusty citrus]

Then begin with an herbalism shop with unlimited supplies

so I can flesh out having static employees with random skills

and seeing how that affect production of each of the possible recipe

[fading hare]

because it would take geography/biospheres into account, what kind of animals will prosper? What kind of plants? Can they have free range chickens or do they have to be inside because it's too cold?

[dusty citrus]

then add the characters of the fief and how that affect it (forest coverage in this case/druids presence and powers)

well atm, wasn't going to take species of animals and trees into account

just a generic meat and wood count

and stone count

[fading hare]

why druidic presence? what does that affect?

[dusty citrus]

well herbs cannot be cropped, they get bonus to soil from being tended by druids

the more levels and spells used the better

herbs grows in woods for most of them or other unique terrain

and most druids hates people using woods to make houses

[fading hare]

I thought you said you based things off of nature? 😉

[dusty citrus]

so the lord has to parley with them

for the production it's the same code class

[fading hare]

Well. The druids liked people cutting down trees so they could transport huge rocks that they could basically build giant solar observance "clocks" with.

[dusty citrus]

but herbs don't grow in fields but in woodsands and forage terrain, don't need to be planted (seeded by the gods) but have a yield modified by soil quality just like crops

and seasons

[fading hare]

some herbs grow in fields, and some grow only in mountains

[dusty citrus]

But the druid class are the ones who tend to them, and they won't bother with the really rare and fragile one if you can't cut a deal with them

[fading hare]

some herbs need to be actively cultivated to yield a significant enough amount for an economy

[dusty citrus]

also neighbors fief and your local lord will charge a bridge fee for getting fee from their lands

[fading hare]

I think that druid McGuffin is just odd.

[dusty citrus]

about 1s per herb locally and about 3d from direct neighboor

druidss could be elves as well, but the point it there is another power center to deal with to maximize herbs yield and value

[fading hare]

How much simpler would this be if you just nixxed the druids?

[dusty citrus]

and the performance is related to leaving space for forest, the more forest the greater production per marginal % of forest

[fading hare]

It might help you establish a better balance, initially. You can always introduce the druids later.

[dusty citrus]

well atm I just want a 8h production of potion A, using herb A and herb B as materials without anything complicated

with the loot system determining rarity

[fading hare]

Ah. So, wait, why the potions? I thought we were maintaining fiefdoms?

[dusty citrus]

and a fixed soil quality to get the yield

well it's a medieval fief games but with magic like the eberron campaign in d&d

[fading hare]

Or is this just the "background" noise behind the real game?

[dusty citrus]

unlike the real world you have those who work, those who lead, those who pray + those who adventure and those who casts

but most of the world still can't go past the usual those who work,those who lead/those who pray

You begin as the son/daughter of a serf who's on the verge of buying his freedom for your family and becoming a freeman and must amass enough to afford 4 acres of land to be self-suffucient from either doing boring quests or managing a cottage industry with bonus and time-off for adventuring or both

But an adventurer could decided to drop 2k silver into a random business in a random small fief or buy the homes in them and rent them etc

I want to explore the dynamic of magic and adventuring vs an almost RL medieval world

and magic/engineering gods would fill the blank for having a steam age production for certain things 😄

and modern-world stockholding of course so the lords can move to a city once they lose their fief

(fiefs couldn't be inherited by the sons of a knight back then, it was re-homaged for 4 to 12x the annual profit to someone else or given to someone else for military service once their lord died)

Do you know what I mean?

The fief money is fully their as long as they can pay their lord taxes and the needs of their fief and it's maintenance and army

But after that if they invest it outside their fief it falls down to them personally because their fief money is their until they die (but their properties go to their descendants)

[dusty citrus]

because I gotta start somewhere basically

so I want to start from the smallest working interactive unit in the game then move to the fief then to cities then to the world

I don't plan on the player managing several fiefdoms, but to manage fewer and fewer details at their get richer/more powerful

but their main activity is still adventuring, not manging 800 fiefs indirectly like dukes

[fading hare]

Aaah, got it. That makes sense, and I like that concept of ever-increasing scale and diminishing detail.

which could be possible, if you so chose

[lusty fossil]

Anyone ever use a SleepNumber 360 bed? I sleep terribly and I'm throwing everything at the wall

To solve it

[late fulcrum]

I opted for 1970s technology. I love my waterbed.

[lusty fossil]

Nice. I'm too paranoid about leaks

[late fulcrum]

Since I live with cats, I keep the mattress in a "bed sack", which also gives a pillow top. There's also a safety liner as backup. The other drawbacks are, you need deeper sheets to accomodate the depth of the mattress, changing sheets is more work, and your floor needs to support over a ton of water, lumber, and sleepers. The advantages are, no pressure points, warm in winter, cool in summer, and pets find it intriguing.

[terse estuary]

Somehow I never thought about the requirement for a stronger floor with a water bed

I often forget just how heavy water is

[lusty fossil]

Interesting. I'm also considering one of those online mattress places

[slim shard]

engineering excuse! set up a collection tray around the bed which feed into a turbine to power a red led :-)

[lusty fossil]

Lol

[stoic mesa]

if you are sleeping on waterbed, you do not need red led to detect the leak

[slim shard]

now I'm imagining a rube goldberg setup

[lusty fossil]

Anyone else annoyed by the use of "addicting" vs "addictive"? "Addicting" just feels wrong for some reason

"This show is addicting!" Just sounds off

[wooden schooner]

And you need a landlord who is ok with waterbeds, which I think is uncommon?

[lusty fossil]

Yeah pretty uncommon

I'm my dog's landlord and I'd never let her have a water bed

[burnt tendon]

My bed is somewhere over 20 years old.

And my wife is like "Welp, we need to replace it"

[wooden schooner]

I'm about to get a new mattress too. Delivery scheduled for tomorrow. I am extremely excited.

[burnt tendon]

And, like, buying one is no biggie it's just that the notion of mattress shopping has kept me from doing it for years now.

[wooden schooner]

oh! this channel is the perfectly place to share: https://diymattress.net/

(found on r/mattress which also contains what I'll go ahead and call probably-sage advice)

[late fulcrum]

I think my bed is probably about that old, but I plonked down $40 for a new mattress a few years ago.

[wooden schooner]

I don't browse reddit for leisure, but when I have a question like this, reddit is a great resource

[wooden schooner]

oho high roller

[lusty fossil]

My bed frame was 40 dollars at good will. It's showing its age after being disassembled and reassembled a few times

[burnt tendon]

So, funny thing is that a zillion years ago, my father-in-law built a couch and he needed to source a bunch of components in the pre-internet days.

Apparently the couch springs were literally impossible to buy and he ended up having some dude at the legitimate supplier decide that it was amusing enough that some dude was making his own couch that he just sent him a set for free because there wasn't any way he could actually sell him just that number.

[lusty fossil]

Nice

[wooden schooner]

that is great.

much less significantly, I replaced the cushions in my Bob's Discount Furniture couch with high-density foam from a specialty vendor, based on some youtube videos that explained the difference between density and compression, and that density is the main determiner of cushion longevity, and cushion longevity is the main determiner of couch longevity

[lusty fossil]

That's a nice bit of DIY. Did you replace the covers too or just the squishy part

[wooden schooner]

just the squishy part. The foam vendor cut it to size and wrapped (+ glued) it in Dacron for me, then I stuffed that thing into the existing cover easy peasy (but it did take a fair bit of stuffing umph)

[lusty fossil]

Nice

[wooden schooner]

I found this father/son duo to be charming (in addition to informative) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qxwvqy9eew

[jovial path]

I am creating a website for my robot https://eudbriel.wixsite.com/curriculum

I still need a domain

It's really BETA

[wary herald]

ooh

[quartz wren]

If you order blocks of foam do they use packing material?

[dusk oracle]

now i wanna know how does one pack packing material?

i mean i they do seems like a wasteful concept for some materials.. i can think small foam bits are held in a bag.

but what about moving a styro-foam block?

[blissful roost]

😁

[dusty citrus]

Usually styrofoam are pressure loaded at the factory for packaging

ie: they take a block of foam then the item is pressure loaded in it

by pressing hard until the foam mold around it

That's why it can be so hard to extract 😄

[dusty citrus]

can't compile old MUDs 😦

too old C

[late fulcrum]

Shouldn't be too hard to patch (also, many compilers offer options to accept other dialects of languages)

[tardy badger]

I love a good paste application

[dusty citrus]

apparently the newer version don't accept #define a type...

[late fulcrum]

I've had issues with using typedef for structs in C++, but hadn't had issues using #define for much of anything, as it's just a preprocessor directive

[wooden schooner]

For cushion foam, I think the standard is to ship it compressed in plastic wrap that is somewhere between trash bag and tarp level toughness. The rec is then to unpack it asap and let it decompress and air out

[quartz wren]

Ah I was just being facetious but good information nonetheless

Thanks

Yo so my life is about to get big

I think I'm going to be somewhat famous soon

At least among musicians

I'm developing something big with Max Gorelick

(Kenny G's son)

[wooden schooner]

Are they issues that you think you shouldn't have been having? That's the kind of thing I would expect to catch design bugs

[quartz wren]

Oh and to that end, while I really want to support adafruit in this endeavor I'm probably only going to get Bluetooth modules for it from y'all

Simply because most of the components are not modules haha

But an actual circuit I'm building

Although...

I have to do another look around because if I can do it entirely from modules available on adafruit I can help out adafruit with large orders and do less work

[dusty citrus]

oh noes I lost my camelot savegame in eu iv not compatible with new version 😦

I had most of the british empire in the 19th century victoria era but in the 10th century 😦

[quartz wren]

But do know if I can do it cheaper building the main board myself I will

Because I'm a business man now 😉

Oh! I also have someone I trust to do the actual business side of things so I can just sit back and develop

The full reality of what just happened to me over the past week is mind blowing

And hasn't set in yet

[dusty citrus]

you got named at the UNESCO and you now have diplomatic immunity everywhere in the world and can do whatever you want now?

ie: Can get in at a bank in NY and rob it and the cops can't do anything ?

[quartz wren]

I got flown out to a wedding on the groom's dime because I jokingly invited myself, he took it seriously, and it was worth it to him to have me there (and I made it well worth it by bringing good energy to the reception haha there is much footage but I only have one video rn) the best man happens to be Max and it didn't fully click who he was until halfway through the reception when we exchanged numbers and he texted me his name... Like he drove me from the wedding to the reception and I was talking to his girlfriend in the back seat about... Something idk it was just whatever we had been talking about during the service carried on all the way through to the reception and this is kind of silly but I took a souvenir of the table assignment card for my table because it has my name two spaces away from each other

[dusty citrus]

Does that seems like a good shield/flag for camelot (based in NY, LA, Singapore, Delhi, Sydney, UAE and Gwynedd,Wales to make things easier for me with capital in Singapore)

[idle iron]

i learned so much about python class last few days, had to use the___repr___ for first time... going to be using class more often in future

[lusty fossil]

Funny thing I just remembered. Where I live, like many places, most of the car dealerships are right next to each other. I dropped mine off for service and walked across the others to get to a store I wanted to go to. At every one, including the one I dropped my car off at for service, I was accosted by sales people

I wish it were practical to wear a sign displaying my credit score and current bank balance. Maybe that would scare them off

[weary fiber]

y'all remember these?

[lusty fossil]

I'm old so yes

[blissful roost]

I don't think that made it to the UK.

[late fulcrum]

I'm not sure what you're asking. Design bugs where? In the compiler? In my code?

[wooden schooner]

If you wrote code where a typedef didn't compile but a #define did, the first thing I would think is "this might indicate that my code does not have a coherent semantics." (The second thing I would think is "or maybe there is wizardry going on to choose platform-appropriate data types.)

The most likely thing is that I'm just misunderstanding what you said

[late fulcrum]

Ah, that's the original poster, not me.

[wooden schooner]

Oh good call

Thx/sorry for the inconvenience

[tardy badger]

Assembly is great when it works out first try

[stoic mesa]

you didn't place the USB connector?

[tardy badger]

Spacing was bad on this panel to place it for first reflow

Had to snap apart and then add the USB

I plan on making better panels next round. But I’m also going to add USB C and a smaller button

[stray wind]

Looks really good! That button is a chonky boi for that board. Smaller would probably help for sure.

[tardy badger]

The button is worth the space though 🙂 super buttery

[stray wind]

Niiiiice.

Buttery buttons are always worth it.

[blissful roost]

Ooooohhh mmmyyyy!

[tardy badger]

It has haptic membrane or whatever it’s called. And the button part itself is like a rubber or something

At $0.70 a piece, very luxurious

[stray wind]

Fancy!

[tardy badger]

But it fits almost perfectly to the qt py footprint, just one row longer

[stray wind]

Oh ok, nice.

Hard to gauge comparison from the image.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, Qt Py is compact

Let me take a side by side

I also use a larger neopixel

[stray wind]

Oh it is! So smol

Will the USB-C drop in pretty easily or will it take rearranging?

[tardy badger]

It’ll take some rearranging

I’m going to move to a smöl’r button that’s pretty nice

[stray wind]

Why the NeoPixel choice?

[tardy badger]

Placing the 1515 neopixel is hard

[stray wind]

Ah fair enough!

That makes sense

[tardy badger]

Mostly because there isn’t a super clear top marker for it

[stray wind]

Ah

[tardy badger]

I might try the 2020 size

[stray wind]

As you can probably guess, I've never had to deal with any of this 😄

[tardy badger]

I think those have a index marker

Thankfully there’s a lot of great learning for the folks of this community

[stray wind]

Indeed

[tardy badger]

The buttons I’m switching to for smöl boards is the one on this boards:

[stray wind]

So tiny!

How's that compare to Adafruit's reset/boot buttons on the smaller boards?

[tardy badger]

Oh yes! 🙂 but they have guide holes that make placement easy

You can see the qt py button in the corner there

Fairly similar in size

[stray wind]

Ahhhh ok

Yes I see it

[tardy badger]

I enjoy making smöl boards a lot

Big boards are nice but smöl present the Tetris challenge

Castellated pads has also been a journey as well

I can’t wait for more microcontrollers to be available so I can try more designs

[bitter minnow]

when your dad bought a led matrix, thinking its neo, but its not, is has almost no support on any known lib and needs some special modification to work on your board, best life

[tardy badger]

It’s the thought that counts though

[lusty fossil]

Taking a break from work work to run a work errand really saps the steam I had going.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, I feel that

[blissful roost]

Ok, I'm quite happy with the two servers. 🙂

[bitter minnow]

we both were eager to still get it working, now it sits around and collects dust

[lusty fossil]

I'm finally, after endless bodging, deploying my product

It feels good

[lusty fossil]

I've found when you work 12 days+ in a row you eventually reach a steady state of exhausted and can manage to barely function lol

[lusty fossil]

I still get stock alerts for a company I used to work for. They are almost always negative. Feelsgoodman

[quartz wren]

I have a mentor to stardom now! I feel so much more at ease 😄

I think I'm ready for this

Be sure to get original art from me while it's worthless 😉

[lusty fossil]

Nice!

[shadow siren]

So I have a tough soldering job to do this weekend

See all those edge crenulations going to be pretty tricky

[lusty fossil]

Oof looks fun at least. Good distraction from family

[shadow siren]

Lol my family here is all electronic, they misbehave I turn the power switch off on them

I will have to put a very pointy tip on the soldering pencil and use .6mm solder

I have some clamps coming that was suggested here to do this board

Regular feathers look simple compared to this one.

wiring wise that is

[lusty fossil]

The stick vise? They are nice. The rubber melts pretty bad if you touch it though, be warned

Touch with the iron that is, fingies are fine

[lusty fossil]

Wow last time I used SDP/SI, shipping was pretty good but now it's "ships within 8 weeks"

[fading hare]

I just checked how much I spent at adafruit.com since July 20th... $1,232. I have a problem, my friends.

[fading hare]

stickvise is awesome, they have high-temp rubber pads, though, a bit pricey at like $14 but still awesome

[fading hare]

I would strongly advise you get these if you're going to be soldering on smaller boards like feathers and such
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3198

saved my bacon quite a few times when messing with feathers (and other tiny things with basically no space between the PTH and the edge of the PCB)

The stickvise lifters are also a great idea. I use them all the time. Of course, if you're on a budget, there's a bunch of different kinds of lifts you can 3D print.

Using a breadboard as a "template" holder for headers is a great idea too, which is covered in several of the soldering tutorials on learn.adafruit.com. For feathers I just made my own template out of a semi-permanent proto board with some female headers on it, I just place the males in there and solder away.

[jovial path]

Hi there

I really need to go to the beach

I live like 38 feets away from the beach

and I never go there

it's sand, water... very very low waves

it looks more like a river than the atlantic ocean.

[lusty fossil]

Recently I learned of a corollary to the Dunning-Kreuger effect: people with moderate knowledge on a subject tend to underestimate their abilities because they know how much they don't know. Interesting

[atomic harbor]

maybe impostor syndrome-lite

The mental model of what we know is meta-difficult to reconcile and communicate to the marketplace of ideas and talent both.

and our knowledge is only the reagent that sometimes can convert into good results

[lusty fossil]

Yeah I suffer from pretty bad imposter syndrome but it might just be the DK corollary

[atomic harbor]

in the middle, lots of descriptors may fit, but it's just perspective at that point (glass empty/full)

I personally toggle between both often and it is exhausting

there's neophytes that know a lot more than I do about certain topics and then there's veterans who stopped growing and I can easily eclipse, but it's just a matter of fact and not evidence of anything substantive

[lusty fossil]

I plan to always be learning, to avoid stagnation.

[atomic harbor]

so long as it's with purpose towards meaningful objectives

machismo prompted me to attempt to learn everything that seemed shiny for a while, but that just landed me into a realm of partial understanding about the universe

[lusty fossil]

Yeah, focused learning is best.

[shadow siren]

They say if you continue to exercise the mind by learning or doing thinking like stuff you put off dementia and Alzheimer's

[lusty fossil]

Yeah I've heard that too

[wooden schooner]

@late fulcrum you jokester

[lusty fossil]

Lol

Hope everyone who celebrates it has a great Thanksgiving. After hearing about the arguments my friends are having with relatives I'm glad I decided to take the 1.5x pay and work today lol

[wooden schooner]

In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, including the under-acknowledged abuse of both the animals (including people) and the land by European colonists, I highly recommend the book Braiding Sweetgrass [1] by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  It is a beautiful mix of storytelling and science from a Native American botanist who has lovingly presented a lot of wisdom on how mainstream American culture's relationship to nature has gone astray and how we might begin to return.  A central theme of the book is the culture of gratitude that pervades her Native American heritage.  I did not think of myself as a "nature person" and did not expect to like this book, but I sure did.

[1] https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

[lusty fossil]

Let me see if there's an audio book. Thanks for the tip! I need to learn more about this subject than I got in school

There is! Purchased

[wooden schooner]

Each chapter stands alone. Very heartful and touching stories

[lusty fossil]

My God mother is indigenous so I got to learn a lot from her but I always want to learn more.

[quartz wren]

Moin

[late fulcrum]

Thanks, that looks right up my alley, I also ordered a copy.

[lusty fossil]

I learned once about a plains tribe or tribes that processed maize with ash. The processing made the maize's nutrients more bio available

One annoying thing about audible is that your credits expire. Compounding that is that the operate like a software stack: your oldest credits come out last.

I feel like that's got to be illegal but what do I know

[late fulcrum]

Audible is owned by Amazon, which is notorious to doing dodgy things with your money. It's one of many reasons I no longer do business with them. They may well skirt some laws, but they get away with it.

[quartz wren]

I know for a fact Amazon kept adding my prime membership onto my debit card and charging it and I kept having to remove it, get the charges reversed, and eventually I just got a new card

Like I did the trial and canceled it, then it didn't charge for several months and suddenly I have prime out of nowhere and it's charging me

And this happened several times

That is, got the trial once and dealt with them adding prime back on and charging for it several times as a result

[lusty fossil]

My friend uses a site that generates dummy .edu accounts and gets free prime video

[quartz wren]

Oh man

You can use those to get free chip samples...

I need this info

[lusty fossil]

I haven't pursued it because it feels like fraud.

So I can't help with finding the website

[quartz wren]

I mean technically it is and I was actually joking, I'll take advantage of it if I have a legit .edu address but no not trying to get into that debacle

[lusty fossil]

||test||

Drive carefully everyone, Thanksgiving is the most dangerous time to be on the road.

[fading hare]

lol, hey that's definitely wire fraud 😄

[quartz wren]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/908496844554915850/913492399236452444/snek.png

A little art piece I'm doing

Still WIP

[lusty fossil]

Anyone read the wheel of time? I've read it 7 times so don't worry about spoiling it for me but: ||was it ever confirmed that the Red Ajah was responsible for Logain becoming a false dragon? Or was that something he made up for his own purposes? Or was it Black Ajah shenanigans?||

Mega spoilers above

[vagrant sonnet]

I think I finally killed my first microcontroller. I let a lead connected to a GPIO pin brush up against the back of a transistor handling 24v. I heard a faint pop and smelled smoke. It stopped responding.

[lusty fossil]

Yeah the magic smoke doesn't go back inside unfortunately

[fading hare]

||I do not remember it actually being confirmed.||

[lusty fossil]

Thanks

[fading hare]

I read them a few times. I used to play the WoT MUD as well. hahah

nothing like a bunch of nerds writing paragraphs of RP descriptions of sword fights

[lusty fossil]

Lolol. Work has been nuts so I haven't started the show yet but I'm so excited

[fading hare]

oh man, my wife's into the show now, she hasn't even read the books

I've absolutely loved everything they did with the show so far. Sure, it's not an HBO budget show (people keep comparing it to GoT) but it's dang good.

[lusty fossil]

It's a very different book series from ASOIAF. ASOIAF is grimdark fantasy, WoT is high fantasy

[fading hare]

oh for sure, I meant more as far as following and popularity goes

[lusty fossil]

Oh yeah.

But ASOIAF was in the same realm of popularity as WoT before GoT. We'll see. My only gripe about what I've seen about the show so far is the sword design

Idk if I can post swords here since they are weapons, but I imagined them very differently

[fading hare]

So. Some of them are of an Asian design, for sure, and I got that vibe from the books as well, whereas other swords are different. I think so far there's only been two Warder swords shown.

@lusty fossil doesn't say anything in the #code-of-conduct about weapons, unless it falls under this clause:

promotion of activities or projects that intend or pose a risk of significant harm

[lusty fossil]

Then let me post what I imagined

https://www.fableblades.com/HeronsFlight.html

This exactly

Kind of a cross of middle eastern, Asian, and western swords

[fading hare]

yeah, I've seen that one before

[lusty fossil]

It's a small gripe, but I wish they'd done it differently

Katanas are probably more accessible to people new to the series

And I want it to do well so I can deal

[fading hare]

Yeah, I think the Katana is the quintessential "this is a super sharp and deadly sword" image for most people.

[lusty fossil]

Yeah

[wooden schooner]

Do you have a reference for this? If true, it would be very outrageous, and reddit as well as amazon's official page seem to indicate otherwise.

(Btw, "software stack" is a set phrase that does not mean stack data structure 🙃)

[wary herald]

I use Amazon because I kinda have to

and I like their stock

not finance, product

[wary herald]

Is the WoT a GOT book??

[fading hare]

no, not at all

[wary herald]

I see

I just saw it with ASOIAF and guessed....

[fading hare]

yeah, WoT was actually written before ASOIAF.

[wary herald]

Cool

[fading hare]

By like 6 years or something.

Dude wrote a bunch of books, and then basically fell off of the map for like a decade, and then he died, so he never finished.

[real falcon]

wow suddenly, alien lanuage lol

[lusty fossil]

I'll see if I can find it. But it's possible that was their old policy and got changed

[hasty wedge]

Picked up some goodies and got my pink feather!

[tardy badger]

Nice! 🙂

[quartz wren]

Loving the new server logo

Moin folks

[wooden schooner]

There are so many people looking to sue amazon that I would be genuinely interested to see how they got away with it for even a short period, and how that played out

I recall Groupon having an issue where their coupons were legally classified as gift cards in (I think) CA and therefore by law were valid longer than their stated expiration date

[late fulcrum]

Amusingly, amazon insisted customers use binding arbitration instead of lawsuits, but this backfired badly, and now they're preferring people sue them.

[wooden schooner]

How'd it backfire?

[late fulcrum]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463550/amazon-lawsuit-arbitration-terms-of-service-update-alexa

[wooden schooner]

Oh and, I'd love to compare notes with anyone who has also tried to get Starbucks to confirm receipt of my written notice to opt out of the arbitration agreement that comes with using their mobile app to order a coffee

At one point I was transferred to the HR rep who helps employees set up pregnancy leave

[late fulcrum]

Wow, that one is right out of the amazon playbook.

[wooden schooner]

I don't know enough about the subject to know whether there is a good way to stop this proliferation of arbitration clauses, but hopefully there is and someone (e.g. California) paves the way

[late fulcrum]

It has caused a lot of trouble, this article from a couple of years back details some of the abuses (load the page twice to get rid of the popover): https://prospect.org/labor/biggest-abuser-forced-arbitration-amazon/

[wooden schooner]

Thanks for the ref

[wooden schooner]

Geez Louise. Shouldn't a judicial system's number one priority be making sure there are no private courts that make their own rules?

[late fulcrum]

I suppose it depends on who makes the rules to make the rules

[wooden schooner]

I liked the Elizabeth Warren idea to not award government contracts to agencies that impose arbitration

It seems that arbitration clauses are now on the decline more broadly, due to the "kangaroo class action suit" tactic described in the first article you linked

(IANAL etc)

[late fulcrum]

It's nice when we can successfully push back against stuff like that.

[wooden schooner]

Yep - good results for weird reasons. Business as usual.

[tardy badger]

Back before we knew there would be a pandemic part shortage, I bought an STM32F405ZGT6 to learn SMD soldering

Lol..

February/March 2020

No idea if it works. I didn’t really know what I was doing lol. The smart noob at the time practicing on $11 micros that are going for like $100 now lol

[lusty fossil]

My cardio for the day: testing my system before deploying and it not behaving, then realizing I forgot to switch one of the power circuits on

My vision went dark and my heart rate shot thru the roof. I'm taking a 5 minute break to calm down

[wooden schooner]

Hearts were not meant to be overclocked.

Strength and endurance training, yes. The number of stressful situations in today's world, no.

[lusty fossil]

I'm all better now

[dusk oracle]

@late fulcrum companies look at how other people treat employee's, if you set a standard.. like apple not doing repairs or treating employee's like slaves.. people pay attention and go... amazon does it this way... you end up literally in a office ran by cannibals where no one can hear you scream for help while they slaughter people to the system they create.

I'm living proof

i lost everything when i told my company "i think we need more people on the team, customers are tired of waiting 48hours for tech support"

[late fulcrum]

A company you owned, or a company you worked for?

[dusk oracle]

worked for

[blissful roost]

*Worked at.

You should be working for yourself, not some faceless corp.

[late fulcrum]

I'm trying to figure out how you lost everything if you annoyed a company you worked for. Normally the worst they can do is let you go.

[blissful roost]

I would assume that's what he meant.

Something of an exaggeration, I'd expect.

[lusty fossil]

Lots of folks can't miss a paycheck, I could easily see someone losing a lot from a sudden firing

I'm sorry that happened to you, middle managers can and executives can be short sighted and heartless

[royal glen]

couldn't find a 3d printing related channel so here is this

thought you guys may enjoy this

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5142294

[tardy badger]

I was reminded about a design I’ve neglected for a while with the ESP32-S2 Qt Py

[royal glen]

so tiny

[blissful roost]

😁

[tardy badger]

nice, hopefully they're not fake

[blissful roost]

Indeed...

[fiery hearth]

Spresense sdcardio sdioio
probably should have written this in offtopic as well: #general-tech message

[lusty fossil]

Deployed my system today and everything is working as designed. Big thanks to everyone here who helped out

[stoic mesa]

send us some video!

[pearl vigil]

I just grabbed two 4 core xeons for $4 total, so I would believe it, the surplus server gear is dirt cheap, just upgraded my office network with what was $16k+ MSRP for under $2k

[tardy badger]

Nice!

I’m certain there is a lot of genuine listings but there’s always a risk for fakes, especially these days

[pearl vigil]

I got a fully populated super micro server for like $600, four nodes, 8 xeons, and came with ECC and mounting

[pearl vigil]

Sure, however eBay is famous for taking the customers side, its honestly a great source for cheap af computers

The trick is surplus enterprise, dont buy consumer

[tardy badger]

Yeah

[blissful roost]

The T410 was £75, which someone else paid for... Lol

I don't mind £25 for two CPUs.

[fading hare]

Wait, so, tell me more about these CPUs and stuff? Are you buying used enterprise grade CPUs and such for servers, for cheap?

Or just surplus or something?

[pearl vigil]

Its both. Datacenters tend to refresh their hardware every few years so there is a constant stream of used computer hardware that has been properly cooled, in a dust free environment, handled by professionals, sold in bulk to eBay sellers and many times they will actually have extra parts for the old machines meant to be used as replacements that are no longer needed. Additionally orders fall through, deals fall through, plans fall through, and in the end there is a lot of additional hardware thats meant for servers but time just passed them by.

Take for example last year or year before facebook changed the SSDs they used so there were tons of Intel enterprise SSDs for cheap for on eBay

[fading hare]

Do you have any reputable sellers that you can recommend, or does it vary wildly and you just spin the eBay roulette table and hope for the best?

[blissful roost]

I've had some fair deals from decomms. 🙂

Got 4x 3TB HDDs for £0. 😄

[pearl vigil]

Im not saying you cannot get scammed on ebay, but if something goes wrong eBay tends to side with the buyer and screw the seller which is good if you're on this side of the transaction. I look for sellers not selling newer hardware for cheap, thats a red flag, you're not going to get a steal, when you search for some of these Xeons the models that are popular in enterprise will be cheap, older, and many sellers are selling the same cheap part. Look for sellers with a dedicated history who have retained a good rating, most of these guys have been flipping this hardware for a while.

Everyone benefits, so its not a scam, datacenters don't have to pay to take it away or pay people to go through the hardware in order to sell, the people buying it in bulk get to resell it on ebay for a good profit, and you get cheap hardware

[fading hare]

Since this is an offtopic channel. What is up with Discord recommending the aubergine emoji every time I try to add an emoji? I never use it.

[pearl vigil]

You mean in the frequently used?

[fading hare]

Yeah.

[pearl vigil]

I am also quite confused about their logic

[fading hare]

Maybe I haven't used enough emojis to kick it off the list?

Could be that it's the most used emoji across the network, and they recommend them for you initially? I dunno.

Just worried I'm going to accidentally click the dang thing on a message and get in trouble. LOL

[pearl vigil]

meh, what the edit button is for

[fading hare]

OK, so the way to get rid of that crap is to click on the add reaction button, or right click and then select add reaction, and from there you can right click to add emojis as favorites, and that pushes the random "frequently used" icons away.

[tardy badger]

only took me 4 times to get this right...

[fading hare]

In other news, I just installed an internal WiFi b/g card in my Protectli FW4B. Not too shabby for a $34 upgrade. I was using a TP-Link dongle, but it didn't have very good range. Yes, I know, it's only b/g compatible, since FreeBSD does not have support for N or AC, or anything from the past freakin' century. But, this is only for IoT devices. It's my IoT jail. Oh, I am running pfSense, btw.

I figured I'd rather get a $400 firewall appliance than a $300 wireless router that still not going to be good enough to handle VPN, WireGuard, and even touch gigabit speeds.

Speed tests went from around 600-700 to pegging out at 970 on gigabit AT&T fiber.

I mean, my router isn't shabby, it's an ASUS RT-AC3100. It's just no match for a real firewall CPU with on-board AES-NI.

[pearl vigil]

Whatcha working on this time? And how did the FPGA boards go?

[pearl vigil]

I got a hyve zeus V1 for around $100 on eBay, added a used enterprise SSD for $40, two new Xeons for $4, ECC RAM I forget but it was cheap, absolutely killer pfsense box.

Threw a $300 network card it in though instead of the wifi radio, but you could get a used HP card for $35 for 2.5-10Gb and you'd still have plenty of cash left over for a decent AP

We'll see how it goes when I add the VPN for the new offices elsewhere in the world, but so far hitting it as hard as we can't doesn't touch it

[fading hare]

That sounds awesome. My issue: only place I can stick a 1U server is... Well. Nowhere? I might be able to fit a rack in the corner of my office, but, then my office would be even hotter in the summer. Already got a few rigs in here, a 3D printer, and who knows what else.

but, I do want me a rack

Like a full rack in a cage. Just for the lulz.

Maybe in the next house. This one is only 1250 sqft.

[pearl vigil]

Yeah we got a spot for it, but we did manage to just peek on craigslist and the cutest hip height rack on wheels with power protection for $50, but not caged in.

[fading hare]

that's still a hella good price for a rack on wheels

hip-height is technically... what, a half-rack? Or a third?

Then again, I don't know how tall you are... 😄

[pearl vigil]

We just have that pfsense firewall, switches, and a 4 node supermicro server in it now but I want to make a really nice threadripper system with multiple Quadro cards for the engineers soon. And its actually below my hip, its probably 1/3 height

[fading hare]

got it

[pearl vigil]

We do most of our crap in the "cloud" *someone elses computer

[fading hare]

yeah, I think if I scoot my bookshelf over by like 5 inches I could fit a rack on the other side of it, it would stick out a bit, and it would generate even more noise... while I don't mind ambient noise, I have spent time in data centers before and they're too dang loud.

[pearl vigil]

You know, I am super cheap, so I made my own sound panels with 2x4s, locally produced acoustic fabric, and the insulation for baby rooms at home depot and that really made it bearable

I lie, I made an intern do it

Like I said, Im cheap

But in my defense that intern got the next cool engineering related project so it all balances out

(I sit next to the servers for context)

[fading hare]

You know what, though, I really do prefer "the cloud" over bare metal. While it's cool to walk into a massive data center with all the security, biometrics, and whatever, and then walk down isles of isles worth of equipment worth millions of dollars... Unlocking your cage. Pulling out and flipping down the terminal and doing some stuff to your MongoDB cluster... Man. I could run a short Ansible playbook and be done with it. From my bedroom. Or the beach. Or some other place that isn't 66 degrees.

I used to live right behind a data center. Power outages always sucked because six massive diesel generators would fire up to power the data center. Sounded like fifteen jet engines just screaming at you. Meanwhile I'm on my patio trying to have a cold one after a long day at work...

(feel free to replace Ansible with your favorite infrastructure orchestration tool or config tool)

[pearl vigil]

Oh yeah its a huge pain in the butt, but its also nice to just have a pile of CPU cores, storage, and RAM locally available to spin up when you just need to build a bunch of yocto builds quickly, and run local databases to play around with or use for silly use cases like testing product functionality over a long time, and we can keep the signing services close to our chest.

I do like ansible, way ahead of you

[fading hare]

Puppet, Chef, or Salt?

(I am not entirely up to speed on the Hashicorp stuff these days, but I am sure they have something as well)

[pearl vigil]

Honestly Im not a IT guy or a computer janitor, I have not really had enough systems to manage for ansible to not be enough, and I'm making internal applications around using nomad which is a hashicorp product for scheduling non real time critical jobs like parsing and analyzing crash reports from customers. Hashicorp's puppet equivalent is terraform I think but not sure

Thinking of writing a LXD driver for nomad if one doesnt exist for the engineers doing CAD on virtualized windows

[fading hare]

Well, Puppet is for configuration management. Terraform is like Ansible.

[pearl vigil]

Ah got it, the need hasn't come up yet, Im like a kid in the candy store with the hardware everything has always been in the cloud since high school I graduated 2018, lol

[fading hare]

Salt is also config management, as is Chef. Basically just idempotent changes/updates across an array of systems of varying classifications.

And I hope Chef, and everybody who likes it, steps on a really sharp piece of LEGO at the top of their stairs. Yes, that's how I really feel.

I am not even DevOps or DevSecOps, but I love messing with Ansible. I'll even write Ansible playbooks for deploying my personal dev environments to DO or whatever. If it's AWS I am using CDK these days. So much easier than CF, but, also wild to organize properly, and also confusing as all get out to ensure creation order is done properly so you don't get fails because of missing crap.

[pearl vigil]

I love whenever I go to a new linux workstation, I just use ansible pull and everything including my DE, wallpaper, neovim config, shell config, everything is there, updates are done and programs are installed, ready to go

[fading hare]

For that, my friend, I use chezmoi.

[pearl vigil]

I mean, its a lot more than just dotfiles, does it do more than the README lets on?

[fading hare]

So, for confusing CF/CDK stuff... Like, API Gateway for Lambdas. It's like the worst Catch 22 of all of Amazon. It's like trying to buy a car when you have never owned a car and have no car insurance. But, you can't get car insurance without owning a car. Yeah, these days you can get a specific type of insurance that doesn't require a vehicle, but when I first moved to the states, that was hilarious.

[fading hare]

https://github.com/tbjers/dotfiles

[pearl vigil]

Yeah I used AWS a lot for my first job and that did not stick with me, its cool when you login the first time and degrades quickly.

I just couldnt believe the state of their docs

[fading hare]

Take a look at the files here:
https://github.com/tbjers/dotfiles/blob/main/run_once_before_bootstrap_before.sh.tmpl
and https://github.com/tbjers/dotfiles/blob/main/run_once_after_bootstrap_after.sh.tmpl they do a lot more than just restore config files.

[pearl vigil]

Ah there it is, neat. I do really like my ansible pull setup which uses my private git repo, its been tuned over time to do exactly what I want and Im dying on the hill

[fading hare]

The hooks are where the cool stuff lies. Also, really good encryption support.

[pearl vigil]

Oh okay, real hooks are neat

[fading hare]

I was a die-hard fan of ellipsis.sh until I discovered Chezmoi. Chezmoi is way better organized and with way better integration into all sorts of things. I liked ellipsis because it let me have different config files for different operating systems, like I use a Mac here, but a Linux box there.

[pearl vigil]

Eh, Im on my mac rn but its not really home, I dont have a lot of things I normally do and its been such a pain so far Im not going to really bother

[fading hare]

I have since divorced Apple. It was a nasty one. I kept the house, the truck, they took everything else. Just got tired of buying a $2,000 computer every 1-3 years.

[pearl vigil]

I got a M1 mac paid for me, I am really just waiting for the computer industry to get off their butt and make an actually good non-apple ARM machine Microsoft hasnt locked down

[fading hare]

Built a mad workstation for less than a grand, and bought a Lenovo budget laptop, but AMD Ryzen/Radeon, for like $600 and haven't looked back since.

[pearl vigil]

M1 linux would be nice, but wouldnt totally fix my complaints

[fading hare]

I am rocking a Google Nexus 4a. Feels good to have a completely operator unlocked phone that cost a third of my last iPhone.

Not to mention the $200 or whatever 4K Apple TV that I replaced with a $40 Google Chromecast.

[pearl vigil]

I miss the nexus devices, Im trying to switch to a oneplus 6T with postmarket OS, its so close I can taste it and cost me $100 for like new.

[fading hare]

And, you know what, I haven't experienced less or more frame-tears on my Chromecast than I did on that Apple TV. (in 4K)

[pearl vigil]

I would have thought the apple tv was more, lol

[fading hare]

My first "smart" phone was a Google G1, dev edition. Yes. I am old.

Maybe it's $300? I don't remember.

The slide-out keyboard was clutch.

[pearl vigil]

Oh man, the G1, that was just before me, mine was a early nexus device

Oh no, Im sorry, you might be old, it was a nexus 5

lmao

[fading hare]

I wrote an Android app that became pretty popular back in the day. I didn't really care, all I wanted was a Twitter app that didn't contain a bunch of bloat and crap. App was Andtweet. Then some Chinese company hijacked the code and put it in some smart TVs and whatever. I had a whistle blower reach out to me because they didn't follow the licensing and give me credit for the software. I merely shrugged and giggled.

Oh, yeah, I am old. Nexus 5. That was like at least 5 years after the G1.

Like, this dude from China emailed me and told me that [I will not name the company] had used the source code of Andtweet to enable Twitter integration in their smart TVs.

I confirmed this. It was hilarious to think that my code was better than whatever this giant corp could produce so they stole it. 😄

But, at the time, it was the fastest Twitter client. Scrolling timelines with tens of thousands of tweets was no problem, even on a G1. All the other apps had so much bloat as far as graphics went that they were dog-slow.

[pearl vigil]

Who remembers the microsoft KIN? Took me a while to find. And that is funny, I mean what are you going to really do about it

https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/larger/public/field/image/2013/06/Kin Sale.jpg

[fading hare]

the KIN... Wait, what? What is that?

[pearl vigil]

My moms all time favorite phone

[fading hare]

hahahaha, it's like a Jitterbug.

[pearl vigil]

Was a total failure in true microsoft fashion, was a not really a smartphone but looked and cost like a smartphone

[fading hare]

that is wild

[pearl vigil]

2010

[fading hare]

You know what... once I figured out how to put my Moto RAZR (the first model) into dev mode and load my own Java apps on it, it was a dang good phone for what it was. Super sturdy too.

[pearl vigil]

Lmao, you could run java apps on the SIM card too

[fading hare]

"Help, I've fallen down, but my KIN phone won't make me a sandwich."

I recently found a couple of text files that contained custom ringtones for Moto RAZR and other such phones from the past.

[pearl vigil]

More like "help Ive fallen down because this thing doesnt have a calendar so I let the house on the wrong day, and there wasnt a weather app to inform me of the weather, and now because some marketing guy thought it was cute the design doesnt allow for good reception"

[fading hare]

hahaha

("Help I've fallen down and I don't have a sandwich" might be esoteric, but it was uttered by my friend Sarah as she fell down in her room after spending a whole day drinking by the pool)

I made them sandwiches.

[pearl vigil]

Ah yeah, I wasnt in on that joke until now 😉

[fading hare]

lol

ok, I gotta find those old ringtones

you gotta see how silly they were

[wary herald]

My wallet got a big Black Friday hit

Adafruit takes my money

hehe

[fading hare]

I didn't even wait for the Black Friday coupon, like a dingus.

OK, copying data off of a metal spinny boy at 40 MB/sec. I remember when that speed blew my mind. Now I am just like, should I go make a souffle?

"We will never need more than 640 kB of RAM!" -- Some dingus

[fading hare]

Goes a long way when use the proper cable. 440 MB/sec.

OK. So. I just found a set of text files from Holy Temple of Mass Consumption. From 1992. Praise "Bob" or kill me.

What most hilarious is that they operated out of a PO Box in Raleigh, North Carolina. That's only a few of hours away from where I am now.

Hahaha! I just found a whole slew of old WAV files for an MST3K soundboard. From like 2001.

[tardy badger]

Haven’t assembled them yet. I’ve got the parts, just worried about wasting parts on a board that doesn’t work lol

The panel shared is an updated LiPo Back Pack

[late fulcrum]

PowerPC Linux is a thing.

[late fulcrum]

Heh, I still play old MOD files from time to time (often to drive a musical Tesla coil)

[tardy badger]

Ugh, just looked at what my apartment rents for to new tenants and my jaw hit the floor

I currently pay $1599 a month base rent

New tenants for my apartment are paying $2199 😳

Like a 38% increase in price

I would need roughly a 9% pay raise to cover the cost of rent

[stoic mesa]

wow
but the landlord is not raising the rent for you?

[real falcon]

contracts likely

[tardy badger]

Haven’t got information about resigning my lease yet

Won’t get that until probably January

[real falcon]

rents been going nuts for while now 😦

even at my orginial income, id not be able to afford to live on my own..

[tardy badger]

$2199 is still within the 1/3 gross income for me. But I can’t afford a $600 increase in rent

Anyway, I’m doubtful that the company I work for will even give me a raise to cover inflation let alone a $600 increase in rent.

[stoic mesa]

in most states, there are some laws limiting how much a landlord can raise rent in a year for continuing lease

[tardy badger]

Utah doesn’t have rent control laws

[stoic mesa]

😦

[tardy badger]

Yeah.. people have been evicted by higher rents here

[stoic mesa]

where I live rents are also exremely high
fortunately I do not have to worry about that, as we own a house. That is, we have to pay mortgage, but that payment is fixed

[real falcon]

yeah, house a real rent control

none of us here can afford apartment

[tardy badger]

I wish I could afford a house

I don’t make enough money to save money 😕

[stoic mesa]

I nver was able to save any money until very recently. But you do not need much savings to buy a house, you can pay like 3% down

[tardy badger]

Houses here cost $550k

Townhomes are $400k+

So $12k for a townhome minimum

[stoic mesa]

😦

[tardy badger]

$16,500 for a house

What sucks is where I’m at, even at $2199, it’s still cheaper than basically everywhere else the same size, room/bathroom count.

[tardy badger]

I wonder if Google would do the same thing: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/24/apple-nso-hacking-notify/?tpcc=tcplustwitter

Or other phone manufacturers for that matter

[crystal ore]

I recall some prior incidents where Google warned journalists about state-sponsored hacking attempts against their accounts, yeah.

[tardy badger]

Oh do you have a reference? I’m curious of the language and associated actions they took.

A wait

I found this from October https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/google-issues-public-warning-about-iranian-state-sponsored-hacking-group/amp/

I’m glad companies are trying to protect privacy

Apple is going as far as to legally stop NSO Group from owning iPhones

not sure if they will be successful though

[primal flower]

I need to make something out of aluminum plate/sheeting for my off-road e-bike.

Do any of you guys have any recommendations for resources, books, videos on working with aluminum?

@ me when you reply please. I will be AFK

[tardy badger]

ESP32-S2 version of the ESP-01 Modules

[honest jolt]

:D

The picture doesn't show but the speaker works as well, although the desktop volume control doesn't work (only 100% or mute lol)

[tardy badger]

Oh neat!

[solar ridge]

@wary herald I set your AFK: I'll be back

[tardy badger]

Update on rent conversation from earlier, looks like rent is going up $250 in March

Not as bad as I thought it might be but still a big

[lusty fossil]

Oof I'm sorry.

[tardy badger]

Just need to sell.. 200 $6 boards a month minimum

[lusty fossil]

Oof

[tardy badger]

$1200, $600 covers costs.. $300 towards additional new products, $300 to cover the increase in rent

[lusty fossil]

I'll check out your site and see if there's anything I want.

[tardy badger]

No rush on it, I’ve got till March and my wife starts a new job on Tuesday

[lusty fossil]

Nice.

[tardy badger]

I’ve got new boards coming like Cast-Away RP2040 and the Island Explorer - IO Explorer breakout board

The IO Explorer has compatibility with the Qt Py too so that’s a plus

[lusty fossil]

Nice. I want to use a 2040 to do a neopixel project

I was leaning towards a qtpy 2040 but I can always pick up one of these to play with

[tardy badger]

Probably cheap enough to do both

IO Explorer will be $5.50, Cast-Away will be $5.50, Qt Py RP2040 I think is $9.95?

[lusty fossil]

Most likely. I want to see if I can make these compliant with enough regs that my work can sell them

Neopixel Christmas tree boards

[tardy badger]

Get some alligator clip cables from Adafruit and have a good time

[lusty fossil]

3d, so it's two boards that slide together and data/power are passed between the two halves of the tree

[tardy badger]

I put big chonky pads on the edges of the IO Explorer for alligator clips. Hopefully I can source some nice cables to sell with it or along side.

[tardy badger]

Oh that sounds really cool

I love Christmas themed PCB

Well, Christmas themed anything really

[lusty fossil]

I'm cribbing off a tindie design but mine will be different because it will have addressable leds

I personally really don't like Christmas things but my work loves them

[tardy badger]

No Christmas things? Ah that’s too bad

To each their own though. Everyone as their season

Christmas just helps keep my depression at bay

Me on the other hand, I have summertime sadness so my depression tends to be worst in the summer

[tardy badger]

Cribbing designs is helpful

[lusty fossil]

It's just to me that all the cheeriness seems false. but I won't yuck anyone's yum

[tardy badger]

Sure, plenty of people have the wrong attitude about it and fake it

That’s a valid criticism

[lusty fossil]

And the commerce of it all leaves a bad taste in my mouth

[tardy badger]

Plenty of people use Christmas as a means to show off or try to make up for being not so great humans

And others use it as an excuse for excess

[lusty fossil]

I just wish we had a holiday for quiet contemplation in the US.

[tardy badger]

For me I just like the feeling of being closer with family and sharing special food, and I do like decorating. All the lights make my heart warm

Summer for me feels so rushed and this push to go go go

And it’s hot so I don’t like the hot so much

[wooden schooner]

This is very valid

[tardy badger]

Yeah, there is a way to balance recognizing the tragedy of the past with changing the meaning they hold in present society

But we haven’t got there yet

[lusty fossil]

Thanksgiving mostly feels like a build up to black Friday these days and I hate black Friday

Cyber Monday is also mostly trash

[tardy badger]

Right now it’s just “quick shive Turkey down your throat and go stand in line for a Tv you don’t need”

[wooden schooner]

Also Thanksgiving itself rests on a bedrock of colonization and abuse

[lusty fossil]

Yup

I am on native land right now, we almost universally forget or refuse to acknowledge that

[wooden schooner]

What land is not native land?

[lusty fossil]

Probably basically none. But I bet statistically there are pockets that weren't claimed

[wooden schooner]

The concept of claiming land is a European non-Native one

Afaik

[lusty fossil]

Unsettled is more what I meant. But those places probably still don't have many modern people because I bet they were bad for settling

[tardy badger]

Europeans came from somewhere. Claiming land is as old as time

[wooden schooner]

Yes sorry let me rephrase

[tardy badger]

Colonization heavily focuses on Europe because those countries in Europe were the most enterprising

[wooden schooner]

These supposed agreements where indigenous people signed away their homelands for twelve skunk hides, like, I think they could not have possibly been legit

It's true that Europe didn't invent claiming ownership of land, but between Europeans and Native Americans, I think they were not on the same page, and real consent was not possible because the vocabulary wasn't there.

[tardy badger]

Yes, exactly

[wooden schooner]

Considered donating to Native charities? (Or, have a list of good ones?)

I donated to NAHA and Sitting Bull College's scholarship fund

[lusty fossil]

Your nearest reservation may have something you can donate to if you want to act local.

You could even teach basics of coding and electronics for free if you want to use your skills. My local res is too far for it to be practical for me

[tardy badger]

Something as simple as sharing content, publications, scientific findings, and supporting indigenous persons is a great step

And the critical thing of this is supporting in a way where it’s their voice that is amplified and not your own commentary (not saying you can’t have commentary, just make sure it amplifies them and their work)

[lusty fossil]

If I ever live near a res I'll look into doing a free program for basics of coding and using mcus.

[lusty fossil]

Finally scheduled my booster!

[fiery hearth]

https://github.com/TheMindVirus/codemii - CircuitPython7-PowerPC-NintendoWii? they still need a bit of an update and a quick proof-read review to remove expletives

[lusty fossil]

I wouldn't personally post anything with expletives here. I don't know how the rules work for links to other sites but I wouldn't risk it.

[fiery hearth]

I've tried to remove them where I found them, haven't included the other files

[lusty fossil]

It's a cool project but gotta play it safe

Oh you're the author?

[fiery hearth]

of that port but not of the original work in 2009

[lusty fossil]

Ahhh

Neat!

[fiery hearth]

it's only just occurred to me that Blinka might work on top of whiite linux but might not try it for fear of bricking the wii

[lusty fossil]

If I had a Nintendo device this would be perfect

[fiery hearth]

so the emulators in RetroArch etc might be a better place to develop for it

[lusty fossil]

I'm saving up for/waiting for a PS5 to become available so I can get the new ratchet and clank.

[fading hare]

I remember the graph tracking curse words in the Linux kernel. It was quite the riot.

[lusty fossil]

Ha

Yeah for code I right for work I am very professional. Anything I just hack together I'm less so but none of it's public

[fading hare]

I never include curse words, insults, or any kind of thing I wouldn't want a wider audience to see, or an investor, or whatever. Because I'm not 12.

[lusty fossil]

My comments that are questionable are more me questioning myself in comments like "why isn't this working?!" Which I'd rather not be public

But sorting thru a summary of the Twitch leak, at least some organizations have no problem with it.

Or at least assumed their code would always be private lol

[fading hare]

Even for things I write myself in quick protos/PoCs. If I need text, I use Hipster Ipsum. If I need images, I use a placeholder service like https://www.fillmurray.com/ or https://placeholder.com/.

I don't mind comments like "Why isn't this working?" as long as they are prefixed with a TODO: tag. At least that way you can easily find them and kill them when the time comes.

[tardy badger]

respinning my MSP432 feather

much better compared to my previous attempts

[crystal ore]

Cool... What's the secondary QFN in the bottom left?

[pearl vigil]

I like that USB-C connector you have, the ones with all the pins on both sides always result in weird uncomfortable routing

[tardy badger]

FT232RQ

MSP432P401R doesn't have native USB unfortunately

[crystal ore]

Ah, makes sense.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, I have one they I tried routing for with through hole and SMD pins. it was hard to route.

That moment when you realize TI made the part you designed around, obsolete

[pearl vigil]

Thats a big oof, I started using one of their MSP processors recently so fingers crossed

[tardy badger]

looks like only a slight upgrade with newer ones. looks like they just got rid of the 256Mb Flash variant

i take that back, the msp432pxxx are all obsolete now

or... renamed..

They're called Tiva C now

though it looks like the MSP430 line is still active

[dusk oracle]

anyone know what the maximum power use of a pi zero 2?

i bought one but even with nothing plugged in but the zero i'm getting 1.2A draw

[dusk oracle]

no sorry my multimeter is just garbage...

😆

[fading hare]

hahahaha

[silver shale]

Here is an idea of a "power outage detector". 5v is supplied by a separate power supply ("wall wart" for example). When the 5v goes low, in case of a power outage, the LED turns on until the reset switch is closed. Bare with me as I am doing this to learn EE.

[primal flower]

Most people seem to forget Native Americans were quite genocidal and territorial themselves.

Most people also refuse to learn from history, too. In America right now we are basically going through the Weimar Republic. Straight down to certain groups names.

[silver shale]

genocidal and territorial
That is human nature

[tardy badger]

Yup, Asian African slave trade was brutal on enslaved Africans, this is seen with a lot of Afro-Asian hate. Though China is strong arming African countries now to build military bases..

21st century colonialism is wild

It is crazy that Africa is once again the center of colonialism and world politics

[primal flower]

Overt Slavery is still happening in Africa, too.

[tardy badger]

And the Middle East as well

Asia pacific countries like the Philippines have a lot of citizens in the Middle East who can’t leave because their employers stole their identification documents

Sad state of things.

Interesting enough, the modern slavery index says the data for the US is incomplete because of the lack of transparency and actual tracking of such statistics

Which is really sad

[tardy badger]

Interesting concept

I like the use of the SR Latch

[vagrant sonnet]

Shared group names? Like what?

[vagrant sonnet]

I am... not good at EE. Is the idea that they LED stays powered somehow? Is one of those symbols a battery?

[primal flower]

Anti-fasciste Aktion. Easily translatable, but that ventures into the whole political realm of ideologies, words, definitions, and the hypocrisy of saying you're one thing and do the exact thing you say you aren't.

[silver shale]

4.7m capacitor acts as power source

kind of a "backup battery"

[primal flower]

I find it disconcerting, recently here in the US, that certain women in positions of all wore white dresses/pant suits and certain advocates wore black arm bands.

Nothing I that I saw, but it was that one "parkland kid" who became a shill for the "sellers of news"

He was dressed too similar to the brownshirts

He stopped real quick after being called out on it

I don't recall a symbol.

those that scream "national socialism", fascist, and racist are the ones being such

"Beer hall push" brownshirts

1932 Weimar Republic.

Where he who shall not be named took a bullet to a sensitive area during a "march"

https://www.britannica.com/event/Beer-Hall-Putsch

I was a decade off

Yes

It is too similar to what is happening now, as what happened then.

[tardy badger]

History repeats itself regardless of those who learn it

[primal flower]

Mainly because these who learn it are not in a position to do better

[tardy badger]

The old adage has it wrong, “Those who study history are cursed to watch other people repeat it”

[primal flower]

And be dragged along for the downward spiral

[tardy badger]

Mostly because people go by the thought of “oh they just didn’t do it right” and end up doing the same thing

[primal flower]

Insanity

[tardy badger]

Which is why economies cycle between Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism

[primal flower]

True

[fading hare]

Well. Red hats or red armbands. Same crowd as far as I'm concerned.

[tardy badger]

Ideally, you need to borrow tenants from all three systems to find balance because any in their own is too extreme without the others to pull them towards the center

[primal flower]

Unfortunately greed is a big factor in the fall of each system

[tardy badger]

Prosperity creates resentment, resentment creates centralization, centralization leads to corruption, leads to revolution and the cycle repeats itself

[primal flower]

The strong men, good times cycle

[tardy badger]

Some countries get stuck in the centralization—>corruption—>revolution cycle

[primal flower]

Like france?

[tardy badger]

Or most South American or African countries

[primal flower]

France has continually had revolutions since 1789

[silver shale]

realized the power outage circuit may take a much larger capacitor, possibly a Li-ion would work

[fading hare]

France has had exactly one revolution since 1789.

[dusty citrus]

it was their turn /rimshot

[primal flower]

Long time no see, NIS.

I haven't been very active over the past few years

I don't know if you remember, but I was the one who requested the #help-with-radio channel. I had a different usr name then. It was Boba FETT.

[fading hare]

So, what did you mean by France has had continuous revolutions since 1789?

[primal flower]

we didn't start the fire

[fading hare]

Wrong song.

[primal flower]

They basically riot/protest just about every other year over discontent

At least since I have been alive

[fading hare]

So, protests and labor strikes are equivalent to revolutions? Let me get this straight. You drive a white car with a black [insert Star Wars empire] vinyl decal and you work for a bank. You joke around about how ironic it is that you're just a janitor at the Death Star.

Let's not even tangent on the fact that France, and other countries like Italy, have had industrial manufacturing since before the US was nothing but a wet gold dream of some Spanish psychopath.

[primal flower]

I don't have a car. Screw the empire, rebels too. Ibic haar yust

My transportation

[fading hare]

Mandalorian, huh? With a really expensive electric bike.

[primal flower]

Yes.

[fading hare]

You're still nothing but a mercenary with a fancy ride.

😉

(I do want me one of those bikes, btw)

maybe not the double wheels, that just looks weird to me

[primal flower]

I read Karen Traviss' Republic Commando series in 2007. It stuck with me.

The double wheels help out a lot where I live.

[fading hare]

Like how?

[primal flower]

I live in the boonies. Road infrastructure is terrible everywhere in the US, but rural areas are worse. The double front wheel design helps with stability on unstable terrain. The weight distribution is 25 rear/75 front, which helps with up/down hills while staying on the bike. The wheel design also helps you on uneven terrain.

I need to upload videos of some of my rides. I was trying to upload it to lrby.tv, but data connections out here are terrible for that. I might try The Tubes (youtube). We don't even have dial-up where I live. I honestly like not having it, gives me an excuse to not be on the internet and do productive stuff.

https://riderungu.com/product/rungu-dualie-xr-rubicon-trail-edition/

The bike I have

[fading hare]

that's pretty awesome

[primal flower]

It honestly is. I get so many people asking me about it. I even had a few State Toopers (basically a state level police officer that has wider jurisdiction than the county sheriffs or city police) go "what is that?"

[vagrant sonnet]

You're referring to Antifa, and accusing them of fascism?

[primal flower]

Yes. Fascist tactics are, well, Fascist. The political spectrum is more of a horseshoe with the authoritarian/totalitarian ends being not much different. Both ends use the same or similar tactics to oppress their "enemies."

The bike weighs 160lbs, btw. It took me a bit to figure out how to lift it with ease.

[vagrant sonnet]

Your bike weighs more than me!

[primal flower]

The 2 batteries weight at least 10lbs each

I agree.

The tactics used by both ends are the same. Violence, intimidation, "doxxing," etc, etc. Unfortunately many people don't see the issue with it.

MLK for example

Then maybe we should stop. 🙂

[tardy badger]

But yea let’s divert to stay with in the CoC and community guidelines

Sure

The conversation is civil but it could get political so we should probably table it for a more suitable environment

[primal flower]

I believe in the non-agression principle and self-defense. Basically don't start none, there won't be bone.

[tardy badger]

Sure, I agree completely.

[primal flower]

Any who. Radio memes.

[tardy badger]

Lol

[primal flower]

That is an SSTV TX, btw

[wooden schooner]

Outrageous https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/r3u5jn/french_president_says_he_wants_to_implant_a/

[silver shale]

sstv?

[primal flower]

Slow Scan Television

[silver shale]

yes

[primal flower]

Oh. I didn't realize you were asking about what the image was.

[vagrant sonnet]

@primal flower Are you interested in continuing our discussion in DM?

[primal flower]

Not really.

Thank you for asking. I normally would not mind, but I am starting to get a headache. Probably has to do with my choice of pillow

[vagrant sonnet]

Sorry to hear about your headache!

I've noticed it's easy to get a pillow that's too thick and then my neck is at a weird angle the whole time

[primal flower]

Me too. I need to replace my brick of a feather pillow.

[silver shale]

well then

[vagrant sonnet]

Would you be interested in pillow recommendations?

[vagrant sonnet]

Put that on the list of images I would not like to receive late at night

[primal flower]

Does not help i apparently have mild scoliosis in my neck.

You could say my head isn't straight.

[vagrant sonnet]

Hah. Same. 😭

[primal flower]

I will be looking at my pillow. I have heard nothing bad about their pillows. I am just worried about my pickiness of clothes and stuff might be an issue.

I have yet to find a bed that is firm enough for me. I sleep great on my grandfather's military cot or the floor.

Yeah... I don't want to go there.

[vagrant sonnet]

My cat has wanted... something... all morning but I still don't know what it is.

[silver shale]

schem of the power outage circuit

one of the NOR gates are used as the inverter

[vagrant sonnet]

Is there an electrical difference between resistors in series versus one resistor of the sum of their values? I'm trying to understand if I'm seeing an artifact of what resistors you have on hand versus it turns out I don't understand resistors.

[silver shale]

may be easier using two 47 ohm resistors instead of looking for one 94 ohm

[vagrant sonnet]

makes sense

I have no familiarity with what resistor values are common. All my resistors so far came in various starter packs.

[wooden schooner]

Yes. I am a side sleeper and I sleep on a medium firmness innerspring mattress. Please and thank you

[vagrant sonnet]

@wooden schooner If you can find one of an appropriate height (I couldn't) I suspect https://purple.com/pillows might be worth investigating. I do use one of their pillows to sit on in my car. Turns out cars really are designed for you to be 5'7".

[wooden schooner]

Ah yeah I've tried purple

Very interesting feel

[vagrant sonnet]

Aw, didn't work out for you?

[wooden schooner]

It was cool, but didn't strike me as a wow. I couldn't predict whether I'd like it long term

It is amazing for decreasing motion transfer though, that's for sure

It's a very different feel from foam, I'm guessing you'd agree

[vagrant sonnet]

definitely not the same as foam. I have one of their mattresses. it shines in not forming hot spots

[wooden schooner]

For sure

[vagrant sonnet]

I can't recommend it though because the line around the edges of it is coming undone inside the mattress

[wooden schooner]

My spring mattress has a zoned interior, with more give in the middle to accommodate the contour of the body

[vagrant sonnet]

so if I try to put my elbow there or something a void opens up inside the mattress, which is suboptimal

[wooden schooner]

Apparently latex mattresses are durable as heck, if you like the feel

[vagrant sonnet]

I haven't called support to see if that's expected

oh? I haven't heard of those

[wooden schooner]

Most of what I know is from the FAQ of r/mattress

A lot of modern mattresses have a latex comfort layer iirc, but entirely latex construction is not the usual

Supposedly it has a different feel

[vagrant sonnet]

heh, brings to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK8Z8hulFg

[wooden schooner]

Oh yeah prozd

[blissful roost]

https://tenor.com/view/kool-aid-man-kool-aid-juice-gif-8291586

[wooden schooner]

This is sort of the reverse situation though. I know something is not great because my body aches, so where is the precision in how people talk about mattresses?!

Reddit → it exists 🙂

The sales rep at Mattress Firm was excellent, really knew his stuff. I bought on first trip, which I almost never do

The warehouse had in stock a pre-owned (used <120 days then refurbed) fancy mattress for 1/3 the price. Apparently those go quick, I believe it

[vagrant sonnet]

Wow yeah way cheaper

[wooden schooner]

The delivery people said I lucked out, my mattress looked brand new 😄

[vagrant sonnet]

Is the smaller pitcher he's holding also sentient?

[blissful roost]

Dunno, man... It risks falling into a recursive joke at that point.

[vagrant sonnet]

Sure does.

[silver shale]

one layer

[vagrant sonnet]

the trace snaking between the pins is nice!

without that I assume it'd need another layer?

[silver shale]

yes

3D view is cool

[vagrant sonnet]

What program is that? Eagle?

[silver shale]

EasyEDA

[vagrant sonnet]

Ooh, neat! Would you recommend it?

[silver shale]

Would not use it for proprietary hardware for work, other than that it is good. Even worked on ARM ChromeOS.

[vagrant sonnet]

Was that also where the power flow simulations are from? Or was that a separate tool? I think I've seen a separate tool for that.

[silver shale]

falstad.com/circuit

FOSS JavaScript applet

[vagrant sonnet]

Thanks!

[silver shale]

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI this is amazing

could be used in digital signage

[primal flower]

It's been a while, but iirc resistors in parallel help bleed off more power than compared to a string of series resistors. With parallel it also doesn't add up like series does.

[blissful roost]

Yup, definitely snow.

[vagrant sonnet]

Those who understand the TMDS physical layer are probably screaming, but I was fine, because I did not read the electrical section of the spec until after I got this board working.

Bahaha great find!

[lusty fossil]

It's funny how our bodies become acclimated to weather. Thermostat says 68F and I'm shivering and putting on a jacket

[silver shale]

Just went up to central NY and now back in Virginia. Currently wearing shorts in 63F weather.

[lusty fossil]

I have to go up to Oregon for work by car next year. I'll have to own chains for the first time in a decade

[wary herald]

55 here

hehe

[wary herald]

Lucky duck, I can only dream of snow

[lusty fossil]

I'm gonna have to find my navy surplus pea coat

[wary herald]

I guess it snowed for a week

last year, and killed the power grid for 2

lol

[lusty fossil]

Texas?

I'm going there too for work

[wary herald]

Yup

[solar ridge]

@wary herald I set your AFK: BBL

[vagrant wolf]

?afk

[solar ridge]

@vagrant wolf I set your AFK: AFK

[vagrant wolf]

coól

?h

[blissful roost]

It starting snowing lightly at silly AM today, but I've slept all day. Lol

Kinda thing you do between night shifts. Lol

[lusty fossil]

Today's my first day of working Sunday thru Thursday 1-930 pm. I'm actually excited. It's closer to my natural sleep/wake cycle

[dusty citrus]

I worked swing shift 4 to midnight for quite a while.

[lusty fossil]

Mine is just for a month or so while we have an event going on

[blissful roost]

👍

I'm on a 4-day rota, alternating days and nights for each set.

[primal flower]

Had a friend do mission work in Kenya during their winter of 70°F average temperatures. They were looked at weird for wearing shorts and tshirts, when everyone else who lives there was in what we call in the US winter coats.

[blissful roost]

lol

That's summer temps for the UK. 😛

[primal flower]

It's spring and late fall temps where I am at. Summers here easily go past 100° heat index because of being at 37°N and at least 85% humidity on a good day

[lusty fossil]

Anyone know of a camera solution that I could use for this purpose?

I want to offer to teach my neighbor's teenagers to drive stick using my car. It would be neat to have a camera by my feet that could show them what my feet are doing when I shift

Or this is a roll your own situation?

[crystal ore]

One slightly silly way to do it would be to get two smartphones and have a video call between the one at your feet and the one being held by the viewer.

[lusty fossil]

Oooooooh

That's a cheap and good way to do it!

I just have to have a teenager in my contacts lol

I avoid them generally

Not a slight against teens, it just feels weird interacting with them at my age

[late fulcrum]

So you'll teach them to drive a standard, but you don't want to interact with them? Those are going to be some odd driving lessons.

[vagrant sonnet]

Not socially anyway

[blissful roost]

Yeah! Especially when it's your own kids!..

I mean, who wants that?!? 😑

[lusty fossil]

lolol

[blissful roost]

😛

[late fulcrum]

I ended up teaching a lot of my friends' kids to drive, it was better for all concerned. Especially in the case of one little mishap (which was a Teachable Moment for sure)

[lusty fossil]

the parents are kind and responsible people so I can only assume the kids are likewise

[blissful roost]

I wouldn't trust either of my parents to teach anyone how to drive.

[lusty fossil]

My mom taught me stick, she's a very good driver. My dad was an automatic guy

[blissful roost]

My parents are old.

😛

[honest jolt]

This feels weird since this is v1 of the CircuitPython Bundle Manager v2 but the title "CircuitPython Bundle Manager v2 v1.0.0" is even worse
Suggestions?

[umbral phoenix]

what was the range of v1 semvers?

v2.0.0 seems right, even if v1 isn't in the same repo and it's a rewrite

[honest jolt]

lol only v1.0.0 and v1.1.0 (didn't make it that far before saying it was unsavable)

[lusty fossil]

What would you call an extension cord that goes from 1-3 outlets?

a splitter?

[silver shale]

still a splitter

[crystal ore]

I've usually just seen them called like a "3-outlet extension cord" or something like that.

[lusty fossil]

Ok thanks. I'm writing a guide for safe shutdown of a system

[lusty fossil]

I saw that before lol

[wooden schooner]

What's that paradox where a failed build means the CI is misconfigured regardless of whether the software works

The pedagogical value is somewhat diminished by the confounding fact that the software never works

[lusty fossil]

I had to use jenkins in my last job. It was stressful. But I make everything more stressful than it needs to be.

Anyone want to weigh in on this? I just declined an interview with my local paper about the work I've been doing. I'm a pretty private person and didn't really want my name in the paper. I could see how it could be a good career move to be written about but having no control over their writing really irks me.

[wooden schooner]

My completely inexperienced take is that, unless you're the CEO or something, interviewing for a paper does not help your career

[lusty fossil]

That was kind of my take, only benefit I could see is maybe a company sees what I did and decides to poach me

But I'm happy where I am

[wooden schooner]

Plus, the company could very much not want you to talk to the press on their behalf

[lusty fossil]

oh my grand boss forwarded the request

so they are aware

[wooden schooner]

At big companies, playing spokesperson like that is considered a big no-no

[wooden schooner]

Interesting

[lusty fossil]

he told them I'd reach out if I was interested. No pressure was applied

[wooden schooner]

Then you can see how important the press opportunity was to your grandboss 😆

[lusty fossil]

yeah they get plenty of press as it is. I just already get leery about people here describing me as "their mechanical engineer". That's my training but don't ask me to design a heat pump!

[wooden schooner]

How would you describe your role (just curious)

[lusty fossil]

just engineer is fine

but "mechanical engineer" has a lot of weight behind it and I don't measure up as of yet

[wooden schooner]

Do you get there by more job experience or more school?

[lusty fossil]

More of both

I'll get some of what I need at this job but the lack of a supervising experienced engineer is an issue

[wooden schooner]

Hm yeah that sounds tough

(and also like a liability tbh?)

[silver shale]

finally got around to getting parts to upgrade the server

now I do not have to use playing cards to hold up the drives

[lusty fossil]

Yup. Fortunately I'm not doing anything that people interact with

[primal flower]

My franken-puter. 3 computers piecemealed into one working pc. It has cooling issues, that's why the sides are off. I need to dust it. I honestly need to upgrade this 10 year old dinosaur

[tardy badger]

Ordered some 16GB RAM sticks for my computer

Tried streaming playing a game anddddd it wasn’t great

Lol

[primal flower]

Oh. Yeah. This thing is not capable of playing most new games. It will not play Fallout 4 reliably, which is my favorite game.

[silver shale]

reminds me of one of the models used in Half Life 2

Also had 146GB drives in the server, work gave me six 600GB SAS ones after I figured out how to convert them from the NetApp 520 byte sector to 512 byte sector.

[primal flower]

520b sector is really odd

I also hate RGB builds. They are too bright and serve only to satisfy ADOS.

Plus I am a utilitarian and don't like frills on things I use

[silver shale]

same

I do not judge computers by the ability to play video games

Gaming like other tasks require specific hardware

[primal flower]

attention deficit ooh shiney

[silver shale]

also for getting internet points

old hardware works fine

[tardy badger]

Nice

[blissful roost]

Ohh!

[silver shale]

Enterprise parts last much longer anyway

[blissful roost]

I've got a pair of X5670s on the way. 😄

[silver shale]

turned out to be a BIOS problem in that case

[blissful roost]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379681317811650561/913132523389874257/PXL_20211124_182216053.jpg

[silver shale]

nice

[blissful roost]

Chonky boi on the right is getting some upgrades.

[silver shale]

X5670s are used in a workstation desktop right now, doubles as a lab heater

[blissful roost]

🙂

I do have an X5470 in my gaming machine, but that's old dog. 😛

[silver shale]

The server uses two E5540 right now

[blissful roost]

That one has a pair of E5504, proper rubbish.

The other runs a Xeon 3040, which is good enough.

[hasty quarry]

https://youtu.be/zPQPN6A2J7w

Feeling like blasting this in my house