general-chat

[hasty quarry]

And just walking away

[silver shale]

considering upgrading the server to X5680

Server has 12 out of 18 with NT4GC72B4NA1NL-BE. Getting more for that and other builds would end up being $107 with the X5680. Probably best if I wait to see if it is needed.

[blissful roost]

Yeah, bit of a gap in the price between the X5670 and X5680.

[lusty fossil]

does grenadine come in flavors? I just had a bartender make me a Shirley Temple and it tastes different than I'm used to

it's still sugary goodness, just different

[wooden schooner]

https://soundcloud.com/lone_k/christmases-of-dover

[primal flower]

https://youtu.be/1z9OVygWWj4

[fading hare]

Y'all are running some cool computers with classic hardware. Meanwhile I'm here with my "workstation"

It doesn't have any RGB. The big boy, on the other side of my desk, lights up like a Christmas tree though (if I want it to). It's a bit heftier with water cooled newest gen Ryzen 7, and a water cooled RX 5700 XT. I never got a chance to get an 30xx Nvidia card for it before the couf happened and crypto mining took off.

(and yes, I name all my computers after the ships from the Culture series by Iain M. Banks).

my laptop is prime-mover, and I think I named the gaming rig gunboat-diplomat if memory serves.

[lusty fossil]

What kind of books are those?

[crystal ore]

Far-future sci-fi. A galaxy-spanning civilization called the Culture, run by generally benevolent AIs that typically take the form of big spaceships that have somewhat whimsical names.

[real falcon]

culture is very good read

[lusty fossil]

Ooh

Getting now

[real falcon]

first one have that first implemention oddity, second isnt bad, rest is quite good

[wooden schooner]

medium
oh wow, gruvbox has different contrast levels available. Might need to re-enter the quest to find the Best Color Scheme for my terminal

[lusty fossil]

A child just cried to me that they were looking for their mommy. I am glad the mom was right around the corner because I was NOT prepared for this

Like 5 years old.

[primal flower]

I still have a working 2003 Dell XPS in the garage just sitting.

[primal flower]

I don't think anyone can be prepared for that.

Yeah, you can know what to do, but knowing and doing are completely different things

[lusty fossil]

Her scared face will stick with me for a while

[primal flower]

It does

Remember: you probably had the same face in a similar situation when you were little.

[lusty fossil]

probs

[primal flower]

I know I did.

[crystal ore]

That can be a very awkward situation for men to deal with. Random strange guy next to a crying, screaming child = call the cops...

[real falcon]

i still remember days when authistic nephew was that age

guy could literally disappear in a second

people got angry with leash, but it was very nesscary when in very large crowds

[wary herald]

Lucky - I can't even get a used computer rn

[blissful roost]

?

Ohhh

🙂

[wary herald]

That's decent

Mine is a 2011 machine with 4GB RAM and an Intel i3

[blissful roost]

Pah!

[wary herald]

My next PC will be AMD for sure

[blissful roost]

Most of my main rig is straight outta 2008. 😛

[wary herald]

hehe

[blissful roost]

I think I should start packing to go home. 😄

[wary herald]

🛫

or 🚙

[blissful roost]

Leaving, on a jet plane... Don't know when I'll be back again!

[wary herald]

XD

[blissful roost]

😛

[wary herald]

lol

Gotta sleep, night

[lusty fossil]

I'm chatting with an applications engineer who's name is "Jevy J", and all I can think is that I'm talking to an alt universe Chevy Chase who's name is Jevy Jase.

[blissful roost]

Nearly home. 😁

[fading hare]

Here's a few of my gruvbox mods for Manjaro:
https://github.com/tbjers/gruvbox-sddm-theme
https://github.com/tbjers/gruvbox-medium-dark-green
https://github.com/tbjers/gruvbox-medium-dark-green-icons

And I also have some stuff in my dotfiles:
https://github.com/tbjers/dotfiles

[blissful roost]

Yay! Preview spam!! 😁

Lol

[fading hare]

I killed them.

[blissful roost]

Hehe

[fading hare]

Those GitHub repo previews were made by some freshly graduated designer. "WE NEED MORE WHITE SPACE!"

[lusty fossil]

Alt universe Chevy was way nicer and more professional than our Chevy Chase is reported to be

[fading hare]

Nice! Still, he's no Ford Fairline. 😉

Which is probably a really good thing.

No, you have 6 different widths of capton tape.

[blissful roost]

Got another 16GB RAM to throw in the T410. 😁

[tardy badger]

Nice!

[proper umbra]

I won a pair of these in a giveaway, is there a socket for them or is this a smd? I hope there is a socket somewhere, not ready for the smd's

[thick wind]

According to the manual (https://fccid.io/2AKBPESP8266-S3/User-Manual/User-Manual-3594791.pdf), it is intended to be used as an SMD module. From the TUYA modules this guy comes in, it slots into a PCB vertically and gets soldered in upright...

I don't see any standard card edge connectors for that board thickness, so your best bet for prototyping is to solder some wires to the pads and hope for the best?

[proper umbra]

thanks, hope to use it to get my feet wet with esphome

[thick wind]

Or, if you're good with bending metal pins, get a 2x7 2.54mm pitch pin header and bend the pins inwards until it grips the PCB....

[proper umbra]

I thought of that too , thanks again! 💯

[blissful roost]

My Xeons should arrive... tomorrow?!!

Wut?

[tardy badger]

Ugh… people can be so inconsiderate about other peoples dogs..

[blissful roost]

Yes.

[tardy badger]

Almost had a bad encounter this morning

[blissful roost]

"Ohh, it's ok.. my dog is friendly! They can play!"

"No.. my dog isn't."

[tardy badger]

Someone with their dog off leash. There is a rule in our apartment complex that dogs have to be on leash

I go to extreme lengths to avoid my dog interacting with other dogs because he just doesn’t like other dogs

Except for like my other dog bella who lives with my parents and a little teacup chihuahua that is my in laws dog

[blissful roost]

Yeah, Louie wasn't friendly with other dogs..

We expect his previous owners had him fighting.

[tardy badger]

But I got the other dogs name so I can give it to the property manager

[blissful roost]

:(

[tardy badger]

Normal things like being too loud, running up and down the stairs and shaking my apartment, etc.. I don’t care. But I do care if I don’t feel safe taking my dog out

[blissful roost]

I get you.

See, I always felt scared for the other dogs.

Louie was a lump of muscle with legs and teeth.

[tardy badger]

It’s not fair to my dog that because other people don’t walk their dogs on leash that I can’t really take him out to walk..

[blissful roost]

Yeah

[tardy badger]

Its always, go out, go potty, and run back in

[blissful roost]

Ohh, I do like fully-populated RAM slots. 😁

Let's see if it works.

A quick CI bypass later ..

[tardy badger]

Lol

[blissful roost]

Seems to be a "Nope!"

Ok, yeah... Servers are fussy about RAM config and banking.

[tardy badger]

Indeed

ECC Ram yeah?

[blissful roost]

Yarp

It's fine.. I'll just get a stack of 8GB modules.

[wooden schooner]

When an LED lamp shines in a room, where does the majority of that energy go? Heat into the stuff it hits?

[dusty citrus]

rayleigh and compton scattering articles might shed some light on that question. ;)

[wooden schooner]

Thanks. Wikipedia says that Rayleigh scattering is mostly elastic, so I guess the energy remains in light form for that one. For Compton, looks like some of the energy from the light is used to accelerate charged particles?

[dusty citrus]

@wooden schooner I just thought that might be a topic domain that might lead to something anywhere close to your question. I used those idea just to sketch out the 'why is the sky blue' question someone asked. ;)

[lusty fossil]

@fading hare I fell asleep to the first Culture book last night. I'm liking it so far!

[lusty fossil]

For the word "atoll" do folks say "ay-toll", or "at-toll", or "at-awl"?

[crystal ore]

Yes, every time light hits some object, some of it is absorbed and converted into heat. The remainder bounces back as light until it hits something else.

[wooden schooner]

Nice, thanks. Does this mean that for a home with winter heating and no windows, the energy for lighting is marginally free? (except the heat dissipation of the LED bulb) wait that's also heat

[tardy badger]

Digi-Key mobile app not working right

Tried to submit an order twice, ended up having to do it in my laptop

[crystal ore]

Yep, pretty much. And the electricity for running your appliances, etc. If your goal is getting heat, you can do almost anything and reach the same outcome.

[fading hare]

I say a-toll. But I am Swedish so never mind me.

[fading hare]

LEDs do not generate much heat, but I suppose it's proportionate to the electricity they consume, perhaps? If you want something that actually feels like it warms up the room, use incandescent light bulbs.

[umbral phoenix]

or halogens

[tardy badger]

Usually uh-tole (like uh pole but with a t)

[lusty fossil]

Interesting I've never heard it that way before

[tardy badger]

I learned it from documentaries on Bikini Atoll

[fading hare]

that does sound more natural now that I think about it

thanks, @tardy badger

[tardy badger]

https://tenor.com/view/disney-moana-youre-welcome-maui-dance-gif-15810606

Perfect plug

[blissful roost]

Good film. 👍

Also; Raya and the last dragon.

[fading hare]

Yay! My M4 feathers arrived!

[blissful roost]

👍

I need to find some cheap DDR3L ECC.

[tardy badger]

I liked this movie a lot

[lusty fossil]

I haven't watched a new Disney movie in like 15 years. I'm not anti-Disney movies they just don't scratch any itches for me.

[tardy badger]

Have you watched any marvel movies recently?

Or 21st Century Fox movies?

If so, congratulations! You’ve watched new Disney movies! (Since they weren’t Disney before the Disney/Fox merger for the 21st century Fox movies)

Lol

Which it’s funny to think of Ice Age Movies as Disney movies

[lusty fossil]

I meant core Disney branding

Like princes and princesses and such

But re: Marvel/21st century fox/Star Wars, i am of the firm opinion that while I have enjoyed most of the content since the mergers, Disney has gotten too big and needs to be broken up

[silver shale]

Hostnames for WS desktops are WBPC<generation or year>-<A-Z for pc in generation>. The X5670 deskop is WBPC5-A. 1 is 2018, 2 is 2019, 3 is early 2020, 4 is late 2020, 5 is 2021.

But I do make codenames, all workstations (desktop/WBPC or not, regardless of CPU arch) get chemical compounds. The desktop is codenamed "Chlorodifluoromethane".

[wooden schooner]

Wow, good to know!

[wooden schooner]

Well I also have a heater, I'm not counting on my lights to dissipate energy. Fwiw, the bases of my 1600 lumen LED bulbs do get pretty hot after a while.

[tardy badger]

Sure Disney is pretty big. Netflix and Amazon streaming services, along with all the other ones have just concentrated content to the ends of the internet sapping more $ from customers

[primal flower]

Remember: Frankenfurter is a Disney Princess now.

[tardy badger]

Along with Scrat from ice age

Lol

Saw this and completely related

[pearl vigil]

Disney is so big, it needs two streaming services, hulu and disney+

[tardy badger]

Three of you include espn

[primal flower]

Disney refuses to acknowledge their film "A song of the South" for obvious reasons

[tardy badger]

Adafruit is so big it needs daily shows (which I try to catch all of them)

Almost daily

[wary herald]

Me too

[lusty fossil]

I would love to see adafruit get as big as disney, as long as it kept to it's Open Source and community focused ethos.

[olive shale]

some reason I doubt that will happen

[pearl vigil]

Lmao, adafruit logo pumpkins and watermelons in the adafruit epcot

Resista-burga

[tardy badger]

Lol

[pearl vigil]

Wheres the pun guy when you need 'em

[tardy badger]

Yeah

Imagine JP, a Disney prince. What would Lars be?

The villain?

[pearl vigil]

Its a small world is just a collins lab for children

[tardy badger]

And neopixels everywhere

Every ride would just light you up

[lusty fossil]

I can invest 50 dollars, who's with me??

We'll completely destroy Disney

[pearl vigil]

I think that involves massively exploiting the land, low income people, children, and parents

[tardy badger]

Only need 20,000,000 people to donate $50 to have a $1b

[pearl vigil]

No, adacoin

I dont know how, but the blockchain will clearly solve this issue

Adafruit NFTs, which product do you own!?

[lusty fossil]

I saw a really funny tweet thread. A guy had gotten fired for calling his boss' question about why they weren't using blockchain in their video app, stupid. A recruiter then found him and set up an interview at his old company. So he wore a mustache and got thru multiple rounds until he ran into someone from his division

Needless to say he was the only pleased person in that situation

[silver shale]

I cannot do much until I get my server up and running again lol. Early this year I was worried that I could not find an use for the thing and now end up relying on it heavily.

[lusty fossil]

laminating paper is about 5000% times more annoying than I expected. I do not get why Amy from Brooklyn 99 loves it so much

[tardy badger]

Lol

[wooden schooner]

For the circuit in Fig 1.38, shouldn't the steady state have the capacitor not fully discharged but rather at voltage R4 / (R3 + R4) * (5V)?

Oh wait, no dot where those wires cross. So the wire containing R3 and R4 is not connected to the capacitor while the switch is open. I think I get it now

Was expecting a camel hump in such a situation

[vernal yoke]

Wait....what

[vernal yoke]

Wow, that's a thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney wow

[tardy badger]

Lol

[lusty fossil]

the mouse is too powerful

Time for bucket traps to be laid down around anaheim

[quartz wren]

Sup sup

Been a second

[tardy badger]

Nice, all three ESP32-S2 prototypes I ordered got upgraded to super swift service!

[tardy badger]

Ugh, having to hold your cat by the neck scruff to give him allergies meds feels so cruel… but the allergy meds help his horrible congestion. We showered him with treats afterwards to make up for it

[lusty fossil]

poor baby. It's hard. I had to clean some gunk out of my dog's fur (my fault, left stuff where she could get to it). She was fine being shaved though lol

[tardy badger]

Lol

[lusty fossil]

dang it, now I miss her

[stoic mesa]

our two new cats can stand for themselves. At some moment we tried forcing them in the pet carriers to take to the vet. It almost ended up with us going to emergency room - for ourselves, not the cats. I was all covred in blood

[lusty fossil]

Awww

[wooden schooner]

Hope you're all right

[tardy badger]

Yikes

[late fulcrum]

Sometimes heavy gardening/welding gloves are useful for handling cats that are objecting. Another approach is rolling them up in a towel to make a kitty burrito. While some people advise scruffing them, that's a technique it's best to learn first, and doesn't work on all cats. Sometimes there just aren't any options, in a couple of rescue situations, I just accepted the injuries in order to avoid stressing the cats further.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, I’ve been lucky that all the cats I’ve had can be scruffed

[tribal brook]

Why are programs always so expensive? I want to design boards with more than 2 layers but its not on the free edition. Sucks

[tardy badger]

KiCAD?

[tribal brook]

Havent tried it yet. Ill look into it tomorrow. Kinda sucks that i have to learn yet another program just to get the boards i want

[wooden schooner]

I totally agree with your frustration, but like, if you started by learning the gratis version of a program whose paid version costs $1million, this was bound to happen

[vernal yoke]

So the developers actually make money :P

Doesn't make it any less frustrating though

[wooden schooner]

there's also the probably-bad side effect of this creating a big entry barrier for individuals who are not affiliated with big corporations

[vernal yoke]

Which could be bad for the corporations, if they need to hire professionals for some reason

Not sure ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[wooden schooner]

Indeed. The following meme video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jKZ9KGtee0
is cut from a vet's explainer on approximately this topic (cc @stoic mesa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAGfx7eB3gA

it doesn't explain how to calm down a freaked-out cat, but it does include the towel prop

[vernal yoke]

squeesh the cat

[wooden schooner]

I also like how the first cat's name is Claudia and the second cat's name is Mr. Pirate. Such a range of names they can have and no one bats an eye

[fading hare]

Our two cats are named:
Montezuma El Gato Especial (Zuma)
Great Calamity Kitten Boots (Boots, or Mr. Boots)

[tardy badger]

Creative!

My cat is simply Marshal

[blissful roost]

I have Miss Lillie Cup and Mr Beau Bear.
My wife picked the names.. and the bunnies

[late fulcrum]

Instructions from a vet training manual.

[blissful roost]

Huuurrr

[tardy badger]

Pie for breakfast? Sounds like a plan

[thick wind]

...dude, get off my webcam. Seriously.

[tardy badger]

Dang it, the pie developed a mold spot overnight 😭

[drowsy zephyr]

guys, question, what are some good universities of engineering in europe that doesn't require me to learn a second language?

for masters

[blissful roost]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/266659797712109568/915256748313550898/PXL_20211130_150237400.jpg

🙂

[tardy badger]

Nice 👍🏻

I get my RAM and AIO cooler today

[blissful roost]

Sweet. 😄

[median viper]

@late fulcrum hey do you know to install gtk 3.0 in anaconda for go objects for interactive matplotlib graphics for linux x64

[fading hare]

what's your primary language?

[drowsy zephyr]

english

[fading hare]

fairly certain that there's a few... I found this article after a cursory Google search: https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/10-universities-where-you-can-study-abroad-in-english

I know there's a few in Sweden.

There's also plenty of people in Sweden that speak (mostly) fluent English. At least people that are under like 60 years.

Same in the Netherlands I think.

[thick wind]

As far as that list is concerned, the only significant engineering program would be the Technical University in Munich. There should be plenty of other technical programs taught in English throughout Europe, though.

[burnt tendon]

I maintain that there isn't actually a Dutch language, it's all one big gag they play on the rest of the world.

[stoic mesa]

Hoe heb je het geraden?

[wary herald]

https://tenor.com/view/taco-cat-tacos-gif-13531744

[wary herald]

I use the kitty burrito method

[ancient kindle]

purrito

the trick is to squish the kitty

[wooden schooner]

Oh hey look, a palindrome

[cold rivet]

Burritotirrub?

[thick wind]

I was thinking subus hehe

[weary fiber]

Sent my first email to a local flight school, am excited to finally be making strides towards a passion of mine!

[wooden schooner]

Taco cat

[tardy badger]

Darn these education phishing emails are getting better. Not enough to get past my suspicions and untrusting view of most emails.

[hasty wedge]

My pink feather arrived!

Pink and ENIG looks so pretty

Unlike SparkFun, only use HASL

[tardy badger]

ENIG is often pretty expensive finish wise. HASL is really cheap

[hasty wedge]

That's why I love adafruit

[lusty fossil]

Adafruit just plain rocks

Well I'm sick with something. That used to just mean calling off work but now it means I get to have my nasal cavity drilled out. Yay covid!

[ancient kindle]

isn't that barcode just for inventory

[thick wind]

Imagine if that was like a serial number that someone could steal like one of those old disc keys....

You're fine, the barcode doesn't reveal any personal information. Enjoy your feather! (as I turn green with envy...)

[ancient kindle]

The main concern with serial numbers these days is stealing warranty service

Like returning a faulty product under your warranty in the hopes of getting a legit product back

[wanton thistle]

hey me too. They want a negative PCR test which is fine. Im vaccinated too. Getting an appointment to get tested in CT was a bit of a pain :/

[hasty wedge]

wow I can hear the pico VRM's coil whine when my pico is driving a is31fl3741 on rainbow mode

probably because is31fl3741 is sucking a lot of juice from the pico power line

[silver shale]

is it possible to do breakpoints in flask python?

[tardy badger]

I believe you can

[silver shale]

been debugging them with print("debug!")

[tardy badger]

Break points are usually used in IDEs or in a debugger program like GDB

[late fulcrum]

I don't really know offhand, but normally the conda command is used to install things into an Anaconda environment.

[shadow siren]

Woot hour or so then it's one month of holiday

[deft mason]

You can certainly set breakpoints in flask code, but via an IDE. Eg, vscode has a flask debug configuration you can add to your launch config that will run the flask app and then you can set your breakpoints.

[lusty fossil]

Waiting for an at home covid test to finish is oddly stressful. I'm pretty sure I don't have it but darn if it isn't anxiety provoking.

Mostly worried about my unvaccinated coworker I work closely with

The owner of the company is against mandates so Vax is not required

[tardy badger]

I’m generally against mandates but this pandemic has proved you can’t trust people to make choices for the good of the general public so I’m less inclined to disagree with the Covid vaccine mandate

[lusty fossil]

I've lost faith in the general public's ability to sort gold from dross when it comes to information. I mostly want a mandate at work to keep my coworkers safe, even if it's keeping them safe from their own poor decisions.

My at home test was - but I'm getting a PCR and testing again tomorrow with the second test that came in the kit.

[dusty citrus]

It's a race between covid variants and my obesity for my death for me

the "cool" thing with obesity is that the fatter you get the less you can move/exercise to solve it

and it can become exponential

[lusty fossil]

That's rough, I'm sorry.

Smooooooooosh

[dusty citrus]

I mean, I blocked most media because of the "science" facts they keep making up without citing sources (when delta came out for instance they said the vaccines didn't work while nothing in nature about it supported any of these statements). But I'm always worried the vaccine didn't work for me or something and I try to exercise but like I said my weight really put a limit on it

specific ex: I can't do biking for more than 15 mins in the gym, if I actually bicycle at lower effort I won't last past 30 minutes

like my legs have burning pain or feel numb so it's not a "mental will" thing

[lusty fossil]

You gotta start somewhere. When my shoulder was healing from a repair following a fracture it was months before I could lift even a book

[wanton thistle]

Obese person here too: I do exercise daily, but I still wear a mask at the gym. Most people dont. I liked not being sick as well. I did worry about Covid and still do. We sort of have a mask policy at work, luckily they seem to be OK with WFH. Im the only one whos good about it though :/

Also I know it sounds counter-inuitivie that Im obese and excercise but its the truth. Ive been on 1600 Cal "life style" before and lost a good amount but as soon as I started doing weights, I platued. Started hiking due to the pandemic-same thing. 5+mile hikes? Sure I can bur upwards of 2k calories but it didnt make a dent. SO I just try to take care of myself and eat healthy 🤷

[wanton thistle]

Thats normal. It means your muscles are working. Thats how they are supposed to feel

[dusty citrus]

Yeah I hit my wrist doing VR a few months ago and I still can't write with my right hand, the protective tissue around my tendon get inflamed and going to the physio made it worse

[lusty fossil]

I'm not the picture of health either but everyone I know who is says you basically have to start small

[wanton thistle]

if I can make a suggestion: WOrk on your lower body. Its our largest muscle group.

[dusty citrus]

When I talk to my doctor I tell her I'm dying/have a 80yo body but apparently she doesn't have the same definition as me

[wanton thistle]

Literally thats all I did. Quads, calves and theres a third one

[dusty citrus]

I just can't understand how I am not dying if wounds don't heal anymore

[lusty fossil]

Also weight doesn't come off specifically where you exercise, that's a commonly believed myth. So exercising your lower half will take weight off everywhere

[wanton thistle]

Oh I know. But bigger muscles means more calorie burn. Thats why I suggest it

[lusty fossil]

I didn't mean to be correcting you, meant as an addition

[dusty citrus]

exercising is my blood to circulate in my legs and to have less pain from it and also to prevent weight peaks

Seem to work put I can't do weights on my right arm due to the tendon thing

would you guys return a robot if you feel you got the 20th century version with 1940 LCD instead of a 2010 OLED and it wasn't mentionned in the product description ?

[wanton thistle]

yes

So you got an Older LCD when you were supposed to get a newer one? Then yes

[dusty citrus]

well on polulu shop they mention two models, and add OLED in the name of the robot but I didn't know that amazon.ca only sells one of the version

and it's also going to cost around 20 US$ if I return it because of the insane postage

I'll try this: "Hi, I am a bit disappointed that I got the old LCD version and not the relatively recent OLED version that can do graphics. Do you have the OLED version at all? Would it be possible to return/exchange it for the OLED version? (If you don't stock it I guess I'll live with the 1940 LCD technology 😦 )."

They don't seem to sell the oled version at all on their site

1968 apparently not 1940 but my point still stand

I like gym more than before though, not too worried about covid there (can't exercise with a mask on anyway, completely cut breath away)

I feel like it's a relatively safe break from wearing masks in public but I like it

but our ice age style winter make everything very complicated

Haven't gone back since it started snowing because I have to change for like 30 minutes and carry a wardrobe just to train

[wanton thistle]

I dont rest but I miss hiking. Some Saturday I'll get out and brave the cold weather. Problem is, its not like I can take my pants off in the middle of the forest. Well...I guess I can.

[dusty citrus]

I eat relatively healthy (except when I'm havign an hunger emergency with not having food) but I tend to eat nuts mix and these are very caloric

[wanton thistle]

Gym though does get boring. Faux news is on for some reason. Sports I dont care for, and The Discover channel has gotten too much like reality TV. Its a shame 😦

I started listening to "Stoic Sunday". Its been a good replacement for therapy as of late.

[wanton thistle]

I recently got into Beans lol. I was amazed how cheap I can make a HUGE pot of chili for.

[dusty citrus]

like the nuts mix have around 200-250 cals per 50g...

I ate one today and my coffee and a salad mix with dressing and some sides so I guess I'm at around 1500 cals

My linux style soft quota is at 2100, hard quota at 2400, weekly based to lose about 1.5 pound a week

[lusty fossil]

People seem to rave about intermittent fasting, idk if you've looked into that

[tardy badger]

One thing about working out and fat burn, the core is the highest density/highest fat burning muscle in our body. Part of that is because of how active it is in our posture.

Legs are great, but working on your core is one of the most important muscle groups to focus on.

Plus with the right workout, you can do core every day which is another bonus

[dusty citrus]

There's two things I really have to avoid in my experience, 1) buying large size of desserts because I can't resist it so i,d rather pay x4 the cost for a delivery with a small dessert for safety 2) fasting . Those 2 things cuz me to really lose control and do huge binges

I have meal boxes delivered each weak and sticking to that seem to help

[stray wind]

What company?

[dusty citrus]

I reached 350 during covid because of several "last meals"

And I'm at 320-325 now trying to break the 320 barrier I've been on for a while

[dusty citrus]

goodfood in canada

[stray wind]

Congrats on getting that far!

[stray wind]

Ah, fair enough. We're not in Canada for much longer, so that won't help us long term. Thanks.

[dusty citrus]

I try to pay for deliveries when possible because resisting cute desserts at cheap price is really difficult for me

[tardy badger]

Yes, that’s a great achievement on getting down to there!

[dusty citrus]

especially the christmas ones that are super delicious and come on once a year

Plus I have to pay 7$ of bus to get there, so paying just the 10-15$ tip for a delivery and avoiding dangerous desserts seems like a good deal to me

[tardy badger]

My wife had struggled a lot with weight loss. She put on hormone weight after going on birth control after our daughter was born. It’s been very stubborn.

And she asked her Dr about it and apparently hormone weight gain is really hard to lose

[dusty citrus]

yeah for me it's the sugar, instantly inflate weight and then it goes back to normal after a while

but it's also the hardest thing for me and sometimes I really actually need sugar to function/concentrate

[wanton thistle]

Thats where I started. Lost 70lbs or so doing CICO. But..I think I went too extreme and by that, I mean I literally didnt use any sauces or anything to flavor my chicken. Ate it as is most of the time. Thats also why I did the chili thing. Low calories. Potatoes used to scare me, now, not so much. They are so nutrient dense, its insane.

[dusty citrus]

Doesn't mean to completely avoid it, but to have a little bit every day. Lost 6 pounds in august when I had to lose weight quickly because of the vaccine triggering an osteoarthritis crisis

[wanton thistle]

you can do it 🙂

[dusty citrus]

And what I ate daily was a pita bread for a restaurant and a creme brulée (dessert with torched top) and a salad everyday for a week and lost 10 pounds that way

[stray wind]

That's what I've found works best for me. Avoiding things leads to binging inevitably.

[dusty citrus]

so sugar is really difficult for me, finding the right equilibrium, and sometimes missing chips a lot

[lusty fossil]

Food consumption is really hard because we literally need it to survive

[dusty citrus]

yeah.....

[wanton thistle]

SO much sugar is added to things!

[dusty citrus]

I jokingly told my doctor if my weight was such a problem I'd just stop eating

[stray wind]

Yeah it's kind of bonkers.

[wanton thistle]

When I cook or bake, I always cut the sugar in half

[stray wind]

Some stuff is already sugary, and they add more. Why.

[dusty citrus]

And she took it seriously and almost had me admitted to the emergency psych ward....

[wanton thistle]

Like Chocolate chip cookies? Yea Im halving that stuff

[stray wind]

Sugar added applesauce is something I'll never understand.

[wanton thistle]

!!! The other day I wanted corn. I looked on the side of the can to check the ingredients and they added sugar to corn...

[stray wind]

Oi....

[lusty fossil]

It goes back to the industrial revolution and colonialism. Britain started importing sugar to boost the calories of the bread eaten by the working class

Importing = using slave or near slave labor to steal

[wanton thistle]

This is why I LOVE living in CT. Fresh apples during the fall. So. Much. Applesauce 😄

[stray wind]

I make it myself! So easy to do. So delicious.

[dusty citrus]

my biggest sugar sins are ice cream/caramel/maple and chips

[wanton thistle]

ooo! I found out recently that the only reason have have 3 meals a day is because of slave labor. That was a fun rabbit hole to go down

[stray wind]

And you get such excellent maple in Canada.

[dusty citrus]

and the thing I know I won't be able to resist all christmas is a delicious ice cream log with caramel on top, tiny banana cake in the middle and a big layer of liquid maple syrup between the two

so that's why I want to get to 310-315 so I won't hate myself for eating it

[wanton thistle]

you and me both

[dusty citrus]

ie: give me some weight space

[wanton thistle]

When I went to a local tag sale, I saw a beloved apple corer/peeler. I didnt have the $5 for it but only had $2. The lady was like "just take it" and I got so excited.

Been chasing that high ever since. Between that and cast iron pans

[dusty citrus]

this is a trick that has worked well for me, thinking about what I have to give up to eat a treat

[wanton thistle]

Thats the basis of CICO

[dusty citrus]

and prevented me from doing the easy way out of hunger

[stray wind]

I love it

[wanton thistle]

Dont have carbs for lunch and you can have dessert after dinner basically

[dusty citrus]

and taking a frozen bag of fruits for instance instead of a haagan daaz ice cream

during weekends it's different though and like every 2 weeks I'll fast for almost all the day involuntarily and then can afford a bag of chips because I haven't eaten anything

[wanton thistle]

That works. Thats IF basically

[dusty citrus]

and when I order at restaurants it will often be sushi or a bowl of poke chicken with tons of vegetables and quinoa

[wanton thistle]

I do the same thing when I hike. Have a full breakfast (oatmeal) then after I burn 1500 calories or w/e, I can come have a beer, then have a large dinner (Like fish Fajita's) and then ice cream

I live for those summer days

[dusty citrus]

I think the hardest thing about losing weight is figuring how to handle your weaknesses in food and building up tricks and slowly lowering your ravenous hunger

[wanton thistle]

yes

I am currently sick (hopefully not covid) and have been fighting with the hunger all day. Its not bordem. Its legit hunger

[dusty citrus]

one of my friend is sugar based instead of fat based so we often clash, fat make him take on a lot of weight and sweet stuff work better for him

[wanton thistle]

Hmmm thats interesting

I cant do Keto. My galbladder will hate me.

[dusty citrus]

for me it's the reverse and I'm trying to have the keto/creteon diet ideal (while respecting the 90g of carbs each day minimum from my doctor)

so i'm trying to remind myself that binging on nuts is much better than binding on ice cream even if I'll get fatter in both cases

[stray wind]

Hah I struggle with that notion too.

[wanton thistle]

yes. Thats good

Oh, language filter. Apologies.

[dusty citrus]

and that despite the technical issues (like they don't make winter coats my size or shirts) it,s much better to be a 320 pounds guy and not losing weight lifting weights on a cretean diet than doing ice cream/chips that is inactive

I'll probably freeze to death this winter because of my weight 😦

[wanton thistle]

I had a nurse say to me how fruit is high in sugar and how I should be careful with my intake. Well then I guess I wont eat fruit then! lol

Fruit is more than just sugar though.

[stray wind]

Fiber and other good things for you.

[wanton thistle]

Nah. I say this as someone whos 270ish and whos wife said "hes a furnace"

[dusty citrus]

I mean I can't get a warm winter coat my size

[wanton thistle]

I dont know why but I do put off large amounts of heat. Maybe its a guy thing?

Bigmen XL

[dusty citrus]

the usual suspects, north face, salomon etc 2XL don't fit me

[wanton thistle]

errr

Or is it casual male now?

Hold plz

[dusty citrus]

so I had to buy a cheap one with 550 rating at a walmart style store

but 550 don,t resist past -20oC

[wanton thistle]

https://www.dxl.com/

Columbia Sports has my size too

[crystal ore]

I've had good luck with high-protein, low-calorie diets. The protein helps with the inevitable hunger from maintaining a calorie deficit.

[wanton thistle]

@dusty citrus https://www.columbia.com/c/mens-big-tall/

[dusty citrus]

fiber works better than protein for me, but some reason boiled eggs in the shell really cut off my hunger

except I hate eating them

I'd need to find a sauce of some sort that doesn't have much calories/salt to make it more palatable

I remember going to my doctor during the evening once and when she asked me what I ate today I said 2 boiled eggs and a coffee

And she was like dude, that's like 500 calories you can't do that it's detrimental to your health etc

[lusty fossil]

Stay away from non-food appetite suppressants. They can be dangerous

[dusty citrus]

and I was like yeah but I'm not hungry at all those boiled eggs are crazy

[wanton thistle]

Buy stewed tomatoes without salt. They do have salt-less canned tomatoes. Just gotta look

Or DIY it and become Italian.

I do low sodium stuff too, since again, everything has SO Much salt in it

And its so weird when you go over peoples houses and find they put salt in stuff, or you eat out and go "this is salty"

[dusty citrus]

My tomatoes are the best, they only have the natural MSG sodium from the natural tomato (ie: tomato naturally contain MSG)

[wooden schooner]

waves from the far-off world of ketogenic diets

[wanton thistle]

you make me miss my heirloom tomatoes 😢

[dusty citrus]

380mg of salt for the whole thing

[wanton thistle]

Curse you winter!

[dusty citrus]

And yeah they are the real thing I investigated. But they costs 3USD$ a can...

[wanton thistle]

Not bad. Ive seen lower though.

BUT if you are just using that whole can and no other salt, thats fine too

[dusty citrus]

What I'm going to eat soon (minus the couscous because I'm saving it for tomorrow)

[wanton thistle]

🤤

So you're making enough for the whole channel, right?

[dusty citrus]

eh that's one of the problem with it, the bags are for 2 servings

so sometimes for the 900-1200 cals per serving one I lose them because I can't make it on some day and respect my calories budget (which is also why it's weekly based)

also I found that making a Rosti is a great way to lose weight if your heart doesn't give out first or you don't fall into exhaustion coma first 🤣

I made rusti once and it took like 2 hours of hard-core grating of root vegetables...

My favorite brand of ramen changed recipe too, only one I liked

So I'm done with them forever

Can't find any grated lime peel anywhere so I can't even make something remotly similar 😄 (that is what they mostly removed in their new recipe)

Sometimes I really don't want to cook and that's when it's more difficult or when I don't have time (like breakfast/lunch break)

[wanton thistle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--v5BXmFYv4
Interesting

[dusty citrus]

I like his videos, him and some old-school guy that is into much more voltage stuff are the 2 main ones that I watch

[wanton thistle]

He did a really good video on the op-amp voltage regulator

[dusty citrus]

2nd guy is old school though and prefer big old measuring HP/teknika consoles from ebay with their 500W power supply intruments rather than cheap chinese stuff

so I don't think he does arduino rated stuff

he made his own power supply as well with 5/12V logic voltage and 12/48/60V/120V power

[wanton thistle]

whos the other one you watch?

Im always down for more YT stuff

[dusty citrus]

The other one is French language. Do you understand french?

[wanton thistle]

no lol

but YT makes subtitles

[dusty citrus]

I'll link it anyway : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvv3bLR4Ws1GVycHG-t3dJw . Guy does ham radios and electronics as an hobby and work profesionally to make studio speakers

it seems really good but it's for higher voltages andfthe guy is big on (maybe too big) safety (fluke and nothing else for multimeter, buy CSA/UL power supplies from the US or Canada, etc)

it has 500+ tuts/demo/explaining things videos

and he started the fablab in my country

and he prefers PIC to arduinos/similar

[late fulcrum]

I used to use PIC but punted them for AVR long ago

[dusty citrus]

in one of the video he takes a vintage pre ww2 radio and show to replace resistors and capacitors, why they are an issue etc

I like these sort of things because of the free experience you get and stuff you'd never think of

Like he says the capacitor in that time were made from paper and exp^lain them why they have to be changed the fact they don't have polarity like modern ones etc

[late fulcrum]

I amused myself during the pandemic by restoring a pile of old broken equipment like that.

[dusty citrus]

there's off video work like measuring all capacitors and resistors with his fluke etc

but that's something that interest me when I'm more advanced. Being able to fix electronics in appliances so I don't have to pay someone

[late fulcrum]

This one wasn't quite working right at that point, but the distorted text has a charm of its own

Being able to repair appliances is a very useful skill

[dusty citrus]

I'd like to restore a ww2 military radio one day or a early cold war one as stuff get declassified

[late fulcrum]

That sounds like a great project

[dusty citrus]

like figuring out how the KGB Faika cryptology machine works etc

One of the problem with it is finding compatible paper and they were mostly destroyed to prevent falling into enemy hands so often they don't have key papers

it's not even cracked in all configurations but that type of machine is obsolete so russia declassified it in 2019

[late fulcrum]

Heh, I'm trying to solve a much simpler problem: I found a little disc player that plays plastic discs with holes in them. I need to calculate the hole patterns to play custom tunes so I can laser cut new discs for it.

[dusty citrus]

that one or another one don't remember which one it was exactly that I read about

When it was used warsaw countries weren't allowed to use their own key papers

[late fulcrum]

Sort of like this music box but round

[dusty citrus]

they would be sent a pack for their country and a separate pack to communicate between them

that was so usrr could read it if needed

each day they had to use a different key paper

• they would have a stack of configuration paper to swap the rolls like enigma every week

if contact was lost with russia they could keep using them but key paper had to be swapped each day (the machine also had a switch to use a simpler scheme for lower security communications or if contact was lost for more than a year or a key paper stolen by the enemy)

isn't that like a mechanical thing or it uses hole as a sort of analog voltage like vintage discs ?

[late fulcrum]

Yeah, wholly mechanical.

[wooden schooner]

This is great. Love me a good analysis of when the standard simplifying assumptions begin to break down

[dusty citrus]

He's showing this shematic from the vintage radio and saying he'll add a fuse to the circuit at the lower-right part and a ground with a 3-prongs power cable because there's no way he will run something with 1930 safety standards today

and that basically if a capacitor open a circuit the user will get a shock throught the chassis of the radio

and the speakers terminals are unsafe as well (220V directly)

and they used the legs of the capacitor to mount the power cord internally 😄

so the capacitors are free to leak on it

and it's UL and US Electrical Engineers certified

to be safe he uses a variac to slowly provide 120V over several hours and monitoring the entry amps and exit voltages to test the 75yo transformer

ie: starts a 5V, leave it for an hour, add another 5V etc until you are at 120V

[late fulcrum]

Safely bringing up old equipment is quite a procedure.

[fading hare]

<sarcasm> So it's not like in the movies? Like, where the protagonist finds an old, mothballed car in a garage and just jumps in and drives away? Or where someone finds a radio in an old WW2 bunker, turns it on, and just gets help? </sarcasm>

[dusty citrus]

well the resistors in this case were sometimes 10x their original rating

and some were broken, some paper capacitors had leaked

but he kept the mica resistors

[late fulcrum]

No, not like in the movies

However, this mica capacitor from 1928 is still good

[dusty citrus]

he's going slow on powering the whole thing, checking for smoke, checking for temperature etc

2 multimeter plugged in (one with a round thing around the wire instead of a clip)

[late fulcrum]

Yup, that's how it's done if you don't want to risk damaging some parts that would be very difficult to replace and may cause further damage.

[dusty citrus]

The internal voltage get as high as 2-3x the original voltage thought

like he fed 120V to the transformer and the output voltage was past his fluke 600V limit

[late fulcrum]

That can be a problem with bringing it up: if the tube heaters aren't powered enough for good emission, the power supply voltage can rise very high as it isn't being loaded.

There can also be some very high intentional voltages in some equipment.

[dusty citrus]

he wanted to see if he had to replace the transformer/give up on his project while isolating it from load

2nd step was plugging a rectifier load

then this video is the initial test with every tubes

[late fulcrum]

Some of these things are crammed full of tubes too

[dusty citrus]

there was a bias cell in there reactivated with distilled water for filtering(?)

like bias cell are a kind of battery that don't provide current but provide voltage

not sure how that's possible but it was common in 1930

[late fulcrum]

Yeah, tube grids are high impedance and are normally biased a few volts negative. A separate power supply to do so is complicated and expensive, and sometimes there isn't B+ voltage to spare for "cathode bias", so a small low current cell or battery supplies the needed voltage. I've seen some creative replacements for these things, one had an LED shining on a solar cell (hardly vintage, but it worked).

[dusty citrus]

the voltage are crazy too

when I see that I'm always worried that the capacitor have fatal charge from 1980 on them stored

[late fulcrum]

It's always a good idea to make sure. This old Heathkit had a pair of 1600V oil filled capacitors that were leaking oil. I eventually found some suitable film capacitors to replace them (the large white ones). And I was quite careful to avoid any stray voltage while doing so.

Alas, I managed to destroy a nice AdaFruit board with that one, it could leave a couple of hundred volts on an internal capacitor and hook it to an input if you turned a particular switch.

[dusty citrus]

yeah I read up on how current can destroy electronics recently

and how adapter uses magnetic field to change dc into ac (or the reverse(?))

[lusty fossil]

finally watching The Wheel of Time. I have some gripes but overall it's nice to see it brought to life.

[dusty citrus]

so I thought I wouldn't need any power to feed arduino if I was orbiting a magnetar star 😄

just the magnetic field would provide AC for it

[late fulcrum]

As long as your orbit is across the magnetic field lines instead of along them, yeah, you can generate power that way.

[dusty citrus]

of course that's not taking account I,d be dead pretty quickly

[fossil scaffold]

Some old potentiometers in my laboratory.

[late fulcrum]

Those are some serious units!

[fossil scaffold]

Yeah, we still have a 1980's era 7 kilowatt power supply.

[dusty citrus]

My higher ohm resistor I have is my hand 😄

5M ohm according to my multimeter

[fossil scaffold]

Y'all might appreciate this thing.

I still keep the dials in calibration.

[dusty citrus]

I tried a multimeter on a cat a long time ago when I wasn't so allergic

but it couldn't measure the resistance of my cat

since it keep purring and rubbing on the alligator clips

[fossil scaffold]

2x 0V-125V 20A DC power supplies, 1x 0V-15V 30A DC power supply, 1x 0V-120V 20A AC power supply, with jumper buses that go out to the entire lab. Most have been disconnected but some still work.

[fossil scaffold]

Awwww

[stoic mesa]

where do you get all of this electronics???

[fossil scaffold]

Oh also a 4 watt 3-phase supply down there in the corner of the panel.

[dusty citrus]

I see a control panel like that with power supply and I try to imagine the power control panel/supply required to feed a servo motor to rotate the sun...

[late fulcrum]

Hamfests, junk stores, thrift stores, yard sales, etc.

[fossil scaffold]

Niice. I have a 1962-ish Sony reel-to-reel in super good condition I've been having fun with.

Veteran who was volunteering got it while on duty during the war.

[late fulcrum]

That's a nice piece!

[fossil scaffold]

It's very cool! It folds out into loudspeakers and has a hidden set of microphones you can pull out to create an instant PA system.

Sony TC-500A

[dusty citrus]

I,d ask them to open it so I can check if the capacitors leaked/blew up etc ruining the whole thing

[dusty citrus]

do you own this? Seems to be very recent and very expensive

[fossil scaffold]

Here's it all open. Was inspecting everything. Only issue remaining is a weird slowdown that happens.

[fossil scaffold]

It belongs to the lab I manage! I keep it dusted and clean but it's well over 40 years old.

It's right next to me as we speak, haha.

[dusty citrus]

hampden still sell very similar looking ones

[fossil scaffold]

Yeah, they never really changed.

They build the buildings around the hardware.

So it's built into the building.

[late fulcrum]

I did end up repairing it, but it involved me learning some advanced techniques.

[late fulcrum]

That's a thing of beauty

[dusty citrus]

I once saw a game where they actually put every bottons from the sa-6 gainful SAM in it and the 4 operators stations

[fossil scaffold]

I couldn't find a pic haha, but I found a video I took and just screenshotted it.

[dusty citrus]

make you realize downing a plane with a SAM can't be a mistake and how it's really not like games

This is the final firing console on a SA2F SAM. Let you enter manually a target altitude and heading and position or show the data for an automatic target

[stoic mesa]

oh boy.

I was trained as Air Defense station operator. Kind of.

[fiery hearth]

good to know that the embedding python and gcc toolchain examples still somewhat work, if a little messed up by weird package directories.
Unfortunately no aircraft tech pics to show but a Yamaha 01v96i would sum up the equipment I was using at work. All software panels now.

[fading hare]

Well, people still make mistakes. It's definitely not a "mistake" as far as firing goes, but you're still relying on human beings to identify and properly classify said target.

Just take a look at this harrowing list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_friendly_fire_incidents#War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2016)

That's good guys firing on good guys, so the chance of somebody firing on the wrong aircraft with a SAM missile, well, it's possible.

This is why we need to replace all these humans with intelligent robots. Wait, wait. No, I didn't mean that. Please don't build Skynet.

So, there was a convo about IE4 and whatever else in #help-with-circuitpython, and I just wanted to let y'all know that people try to correct me when I said I worked on websites using PHP 2. They're like: "But ACKSCHUALLY, there was never an official released version of PHP until 3." And you think that stopped me?

When I set up my first website and domain in 1996 I of course made sure that all my friends had their own sites. Nowadays they call 'em blogs. We just called them journals. So, my friend installs an FTP client, hops into his home directory, looks at some stuff he clearly didn't create and was like, cgi-bin what is that? I don't need .quota either.

Next time I saw him at the pub (back before cellphones and text messages and whatever else) he said something was wrong with his journal. 😄

[fading hare]

Also, the next person to mention quirksmode does 50 push-ups and fifteen laps around their house.

[fading hare]

A Ferengi. The pinnacle of ethics and chivalry.

Not sure how to interpret it in the context of what others (and myself) have written, but I assume you are trying to make an esoteric point of some kind.

[real falcon]

not really, just skirting your warning heh

his name is quark

[fading hare]

hahahahah

QUARKSMODE

I get it

I forgot his name. It's been a hot minute since I watched DS9.

Fine, you will not have to perform calisthenics.

[real falcon]

[dusk oracle]

nice what was her problem to start with?

[fiery hearth]

exciting development, though i'll be unlikely to progress past this point on both the powerpc port and the avr8 port without having a really minimal embeddable version of the circuitpython interpreter to start with, then work from there
all this assumes no linking post compile with interchangeable gcc, all the source as an #include even c files (of which I have a list of in a text file from when the hello_embed.c MicroPython example got built)

[late fulcrum]

There were a few issues. Some transistors had failed, one in the vertical deflection circuitry, and another couple in the high voltage power supply. Some switch contacts needed cleaning and adjustment, but the big one was the base had come off of the CRT. I ended up extending the leads, making up some base cement, threading the leads through the pins, soldering them, then baking the whole thing to cure the cement.

[dusk oracle]

oof

[late fulcrum]

I had never tried anything like that before, but I figured I had little to lose, so it was worth a try.

[thick wind]

Wait, is this CircuitPython on a Wii emulator...?

[wooden schooner]

Omg. I assumed it was the KDE file manager. Nope. 💯

Project CP

[tardy badger]

Wow, already December

[dusty citrus]

time for ice age in canada 😄

and when you spit it break up on the ground because it freeze solid in the air

and you breath turn to ice in your nose

[weary fiber]

commissioned some cozy art of my sona

winter vibes are so nice

[dusty citrus]

basically here in summer it's like brazil (tropical hot/wet climate) and in winter it's like ice age 20000 years ago

sometimes glaciers reform when 80 feet of snow fall during the season

but we don't get iceberg but sometimes they do take a vacation off newfoundland

[hasty wedge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/731720715866472500/915341506221592646/20211130_154011.jpg

painted myself a padoru

and ordered a sticker

[arctic peak]

Lowkey framework flex. nice

[blissful roost]

Cute.

[hasty wedge]

[blissful roost]

😁

[hasty wedge]

right to repair!

[dusty citrus]

right to be root/admin.on.a 3000$ handheld computer iphone brand....

[blissful roost]

Wut?

[dusty citrus]

what do you mean wut?

I paid 3000$ for a computer and not even admin on it like I'm a newbie + it's linux an open system

[blissful roost]

Ooooohhh

I have root/admin on everything, because that's just the right way to do it.

[stoic mesa]

Haven't seen this one before
"Мой другой компьютер - твой компьютер" 🙂

[blissful roost]

😁

"Apple have announced that their profits are down this year but their turnover has improved....."

[dusty citrus]

I really shoujld learn mandarin

would be so useful for electtronics

[stoic mesa]

fortunately, most of websites and correspondence is in English

[dusty citrus]

little know thing, but china give free chinese language courses at their academy in most countries

but the closest one for me is 2000 miles away

ah found it, Confucius Institute

[weary fiber]

Considering switching from japanese to mandarin

took 4 years of japanese in highschool & was actually doing the language-learning competitions, but... idk, unless I'm moving there it feels kinda impractical to seek full fluency

[wooden schooner]

language-learning competitions
wowee... what is this

[dusty citrus]

they are alledgedly used for china spying, so if you have a clearance that could be an issue. But not my case so no secrets to steal from me...

[wooden schooner]

I can recommend some chinese textbooks if you're interested

[dusty citrus]

nah it's easier for me to learn a language when forced throught having paid for classroom education

beauty also sometimes helps me to remember my basic spanish course 😄

[dusty citrus]

yeah I'll take it, the free institute that's closest to me is 2000 miles away

I also know about the american foreign institute free books from the 1960s

even better if it's electronics specific

anyway I can't get a clearance because of some of my fears

would be really easy to make me talk about anything of 2 of my fears were in the interrogation room so..

[wooden schooner]

I found Serge Melnyk's lessons (https://www.melnyks.com/) to be excellent. I did lessons 25 through 120 or so.

For a systematic sequence of grammar, I got good mileage out of Chinese Made Easier (books 1-3; didn't continue beyond that) by Martin Symonds et al.

I didn't use these books, but if you are a big language nerd and want all the sociolinguistic subtleties, Cornelius Kubler's Basic Spoken Chinese and Intermediate Spoken Chinese are freaking gold. Also, I appreciate his thesis that, for someone with no previous background in Chinese characters, it makes sense to separate the speaking/listening curriculum from the reading/writing curriculum, as speaking and listening will naturally progress much faster than reading and writing.

Learning Chinese Through Stories (https://learningchinesethroughstories.com/) is a really great podcast for listening practice and vocabulary. They speak at a natural pace, unlike most educational podcasts. I really like their format of part A: story; part B: line-by-line recap where they talk around the new vocab and introduce lots of synonyms.

I used the app Du Chinese (https://www.duchinese.net/) for a little while. They have bite-sized excerpts sorted by level, inline Pinyin option, and a nice hover-for-definition UI.

[dusty citrus]

mostly want to be able to read datasheets in chinese

because sometimes they have a subtlety not found in a poorly translate english version that sometimes even google translate won't translate correctly either

I've had 2-3 cases so far where google translating the chinese datasheet had more important information than the english translation

[wooden schooner]

that's approximately the exact opposite of my use case, so the above might not be that useful 🙂

[dusty citrus]

spoken languages is more complicated and more involved because peoples don't tend to assume you are a beginner when you try to order in chinese (or vietnamese) in my case in a restaurant and for some reason assume that a guy who look 0 vietnamese is an expert speaker

My city is like that apparently

Like I said some numbers and they asked back in vietnamese where I learned vietnamese but I only know numbers. You should have seen their look of disappointment 😦

plus apparently it was the north vietnamese dialect while they knew the south vietnamese one, so it was the "incorrect vietnamese"

just like when native spanish speakers tells me I learn the wrong spanish from Spain because the ecuador/venezuelan/argentinian version is the correct one 🤣

The required sskill in spoken language is much higher when you advertise it

kinda like when you tell relatives you are in computer science and they think that make you qualified to fix their printer or VHS recorder back then

[wooden schooner]

there's an interesting thing with Chinese where, due to Mao's standardization campaign, there is a distinguished "official" dialect (which Mao himself didn't speak) that is pretty much universally considered the standard and that's what they teach foreigners

[dusty citrus]

apparently in canada mandarin speakers are a minority

[wooden schooner]

often when I say a couple of words of chinese to friends who haven't heard me speak, they say "your chinese is so standard! much better than mine [which is ridiculous]"

[dusty citrus]

most of them disagreed with that program and kept speaking in cantonese

and left

so that's isssue #2 with learning spoken chinese

checked on statistics canada which one was most spoken in Canada and had that surprise

[wooden schooner]

ah yeah, chinatowns in coastal cities are often primarily canto

[proper umbra]

yes

[dusty citrus]

don,t ask me, I'm theorically bilingual but my pronunciation is so bad when I went to toronto they told me to come back with a translator next time 😦

[old helm]

gotta say I love my framwork lappy

[arctic peak]

I just received mine but the box was opened in shipping and all of the modules, RAM & wifi were missing. 😿

[old helm]

oof. 😦

[dusty citrus]

delivery company don't even ring and just dump it next to the ring here in a 100 units building

so anyone could just walk by and steal it instead of following instructions with the ring number

[fading hare]

What kind of computer did you buy that cost $3,000? Unless you bought a heavily price-gouged 3090 Ti or something.

[dusty citrus]

I didn't, was explaining why I don't buy iphones

CAD$ btw 😄

[fading hare]

Oh, yeah... I divorced Apple because I was so tired of buying a new computer for $2,000 USD every three years or so. I'm super happy with my little Lenovo budget laptop.

[dusty citrus]

it's over 4 weeks of work before tax for me

[fading hare]

yipes, yeah

I love my Google Pixel 4a.

Battery time for days.

[dusty citrus]

and I love my oneplus 6 except that the back glass is broken and only holding because of the case

[fading hare]

ouch

[dusty citrus]

I technically could get the latest iphone pro for free though

I ran bonus $ on my credit card for yearss and only recently noticed I had a huge balance

but I'd rather use it to clear the balance... kinda torn on it

[fading hare]

The Lenovo I have I can't upgrade RAM because it's freakin soldered on. I hate capitalism sometimes. But, I did upgrade the NVMe drive to a 1 TB from the 250 GB it came with. Was cheaper that way. At least it's got 8 GB RAM. It was only $602, shipped.

[fading hare]

clearing the balance is going to be way better for you because it'll improve your credit rating by a lot

I did some credit building a while back and had a bunch of small credit cards, some secured, others not. I did an experiment where I basically used all the cards, and my score dropped like 120 points. Paid them off, and gained back 120 points or so.

Your goal should be to never run more than a 9% utilization.

[dusty citrus]

yeah I had to take a loan to pay the balance a few months ago because of covid overcharges...

they never mentionned my bonus $ balance grrrr....

thanks 🙂

[fading hare]

Realistically, below 30% is also pretty OK, but around 9-10% is where it gives you the most points on your credit rating in my experience. Don't quote me. I am not a financial advisor.

I am a life coach. If your life's goal is to work on things you love, still be depressed, and build a lot of electronic projects. 😄

[fiery hearth]

If it had some more actual Python source then yes, otherwise it’s just a PowerPC app in spirit of CircuitPython

[late fulcrum]

Two out of three, I'll pass on "still be depressed"

[wanton thistle]

Nietzsche and Camus have entered the chat 😉

Become the Ubermech!

[fading hare]

Have you not heard, in your forest...

[wanton thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/raquita-gif-9201679

[fading hare]

"You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes." -- Nietzsche

but we're apes with raspberry pis now!

I'm going to build a robot to push that boulder up to the mountaintop.

Who am I kidding. That sounds like a lot of work. 😄

[wanton thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/reject-modernity-return-to-monke-monke-gif-19167526

Diogenes has entered the chat

[fading hare]

Socrates has left the building

[thick wind]

Is https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/main/Python what you're looking for?

Or would you rather MicroPython/CircuitPython?
https://github.com/micropython/micropython
https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython

[fiery hearth]

#general-chat message - yep

or all 3's embedded version if possible along with the GPIO driver for the Wii Disk Drive LED from Whiite Linux

[lusty fossil]

Being sick just stinks. Hate not feeling like myself

[wary herald]

Has anyone had any troubles with Wifite on Kali Linux only working once, then needing a reboot to work again??

[jovial path]

I love Socrates, too bad he did not write any book himself.

I like his disciple Plato's cave alegory.

It is pretty nice, I read It in his book.

I keep repeating about this because It facinates me, It is true even biologically.

[jovial path]

Is It transistor, It looks like those old devices that made the same work as the transistor, those very bigs.

[silver shale]

Using multiple frequencies to transfer data over a single conductor, for example 8 bits. What would this be called?

[jovial path]

What components you'll use to separate after this?

[silver shale]

multiple band-pass filters

[jovial path]

Nice, do you know If It is the same one that were used in analogic TVs, to separate the signals from the antena?

In very old TVs.

[silver shale]

It appears that way

[wanton thistle]

You get your results? My wife confirmed that she was around someone in close proximity that was positive. Soooo theres a good chance Im positive too since I lost my sense of taste and smell this morning

[jovial path]

Did you took COVID vacines Nerdz?

[wanton thistle]

Yeap. Double dosed

[lusty fossil]

Haven't gotten the PCR results back but two rapid at home tests 24 hrs apart were negative

I could easily be exposed every day because of my work environment. Really looking forward to my booster because I'm 6+ months past my 2nd dose which is the danger zone

[jovial path]

Why don't you visit the Hospital?

Can you smell perfume?

[wanton thistle]

No need to. Mild symptoms so far so Im lucky. But I dont know if its covid or not yet. I have my suspicions though.

[wanton thistle]

Lets just say I can drink hot sauce and not taste it

lol

[lusty fossil]

In America the hospital is very expensive

We avoid it when possible

[wanton thistle]

Yes <_<

I had a very strong immune response to the vaccine too and this feels very much like the same

[lusty fossil]

Even with my good insurance a visit can be 1000s if the doctor I see is not in network

[jovial path]

At least Hospitals there are better than in Brazil.

[lusty fossil]

Depends on the hospital administration

[silver shale]

did not realize you were Brazilian until now

[wanton thistle]

And area

[jovial path]

I am.

I am probabilly the only blonde person in the state.

[blissful roost]

I have to schedule my booster jab.

[silver shale]

Seems that I know more Brazilians online than (US) Americans

[jovial path]

Hum...

Nice, so you like brazillians.

Pretty great. I love americans...

I wish more brazillians spoke english, like in the city, It would be pretty nice.

People here are so slow to english.

My teacher at middle school said that there was students that passed a year to learn the " to be " verb.

[silver shale]

Used to know someone who spoke really good english, and know others who do also.

[jovial path]

I would like It public.

In the streets.

Like the first person that I choose to talk to speak english in the street...

[cold rivet]

So i'm from the Netherlands, i think it's one of the best english speaking countries. So we have what you want.

There's some downsides to it, i don't know a lot of (young) Dutch people that feel pride in their language

[jovial path]

Netherlands people.

Nice.

[cold rivet]

And there's a lot of english words used instead of dutch....while speaking dutch. Some words just get replaced

[jovial path]

I love Belgium, they speach dutch too.

[jovial path]

Very nice.

[silver shale]

Because of knowing other Brazilians, the language I know the most other than English is Portuguese (which is still very limited).

[fading hare]

I just borked my RAID group for my Nextcloud server. BRB, going to drown myself in an ice lake.

[solar ridge]

@fading hare I set your AFK: worst birthday, ever

[lusty fossil]

Is Gmail for Android acting up for anyone else.

[silver shale]

I cannot do anything on my server until the drive parts come

[solar ridge]

tbjers is AFK: worst birthday, ever - a few seconds ago

[olive shale]

Just got a HQ Raspi Camera from adafruit in what was clearly a pre-opned box... is that normal? I'm going to assume it works for now, just wasn't really expecting that.

[fading hare]

Oh wait. I... think the drive's still functioning? It was in Raid 1, and I accidentally ejected the second drive while it was running... So maybe it's syncing data back to drive 2?

sdc is there... and I can list the files, but I have turned off Nextcloud sync everywhere just in case

[slim shard]

what do the lights say?

[fading hare]

it's a Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2 PRORAID Box 4 Bay. Lemme get you a pic.

error is red, rebuild is red, Raid 1 indicator is red

drive one is blue, and blinking like purple for read, and drive two is blue and then blinking red

there's like two lights per drive, they're just above/below each other

The Mediasonic website is completely borked right now. I think it got hacked, or something. But, either way, found the manual and was reading up, and it says that restoring takes about 1 hour for 200 GB, and I have like 90 GB, so I am guessing half an hour? I'll keep an eye on the lights.

unless it's restoring the entire 4 TB, then... I'll have a nap and then I'll FIRE ZE MISSILES

[dusty citrus]

I once loss my sense of taste and smell but it was due to unrelated medication

[silver shale]

I have NextCloud in a VM, then the disk image can be backed up to another medium

[dusty citrus]

I used too much of it and it was a side effect

[fading hare]

BTW, 22 rpi zero w 2 were available for like 10 minutes on Sparkfun's site. I fumbled my login and didn't get one. How do you only get 22 of them? I need to speak to the manager of material shortages, right now.

[fading hare]

They're the new NFTs.

People will crypto mine on anything these days.

[dusty citrus]

cryptomining on cats wearables

[jovial path]

Have you ever programmed ASP.NET?

I love C# since I was 16.

For me it's the greatest programming language ever.

[dusty citrus]

FOr me the greatest ever programming language is MSIL

[jovial path]

C# and ASP.NET are related.

[silver shale]

Just started doing web development recently, but with Python Flask

[dusty citrus]

MSIL ­­­>>>>> C#/asp.net

[tardy badger]

How to afford the things you want - A Guide:

1. Work a ton of overtime till you have enough to buy what you want

[jovial path]

7 years and people keep telling bad things about C#

Why is this?

It is a wonderfull programming language

[tardy badger]

It’s subjective

Some people who like C# dislike C++

It mostly comes down to what you like to do

[jovial path]

I see C# as C or C++, but better.

It is the truth, I do not know why people go against It.

[silver shale]

It seems to be more Windows .NET oriented, which is probably why I have not used it before. I learn programming languages when I need to use them for something.

[dusty citrus]

MSIL is so much better than C# thought and .Net

[blissful roost]

I have to learn a bit of Python.
Not looking forward to that.

[tardy badger]

C# is very much like Java. But people have their preferences and you can’t tel them they are wrong, that is a little rude and disingenuous towards their journey as a software developer/engineer.

Just like they shouldn’t tell you your preferences for coding language is wrong

[silver shale]

it is simple to catch on with

so it may not be too hard to learn it

[pearl vigil]

Not sure how its the truth, good luck with garbage collection in your bootloaders

[dusty citrus]

You should learn MSIL imho

[jovial path]

How dear you say this about C#.

It is perfection programming.

[pearl vigil]

Its called smart pointers because the language has to make up for the programmer 😉 I kid

[dusty citrus]

really? go try to make an engine that uses directX on it ?

or a code that use a Win32 API feature without using P/invoke black magic?

[pearl vigil]

Or anything on bare metal

[dusty citrus]

or interacting with COM+?

or running microcontrollers/SDC without being excruciatingly slow ?

[pearl vigil]

Or without being slow?

[dusty citrus]

And let's not mention how ASP.NET take 3 minutes to JIT compile every time you debug?!?!?!

[pearl vigil]

Oh man, stop now before picking on C# becomes picking on the special kid

[blissful roost]

Just got to learn enough to cope with DevOps.
I'm sure I'll have a lot of support though.

[dusty citrus]

I'm allowed to

I make 90k$ a year thanks to C#

And been doing that for 10 years

But even me know its limits

I even know reflection and I can modify code without the source thanks to MSIL

[pearl vigil]

And there will be plenty more that do, I get so many linkedin jobs asking if I know C# for "IoT workloads" so bad decisions will stay

[dusty citrus]

So I think I'm skilled enough in it to be a good source on its limits 😄

[blissful roost]

I won't ever go into actual dev, so... Ehh.

[dusty citrus]

wasn't a choice for me

[blissful roost]

At least Python will be useful at home.

[dusty citrus]

I'm not good in anything else, it was that or being homeless

I couldn't even understand how to assemble burgers in mcdonald training...

[blissful roost]

If being good at something nets you $90k, be happy for that.

[dusty citrus]

depends on the workload

the best example I can give, if you have two algorithms and one is O(n!) and the other is O(n)

the O(n!) might still be the fastest depending on n

[pearl vigil]

No, it depends on if the devices is running windows, which, windows for embedded platforms is a nightmare and I will not support it

[dusty citrus]

c# is slower for sure but depending on uses cases that might not matter

oh I thought you meant linux based platforms that runs .net microJIT

which was way before "windows 10" for IoT

[pearl vigil]

In embedded devices its not just speed, memory use, binary size, and latency

[silver shale]

This

[dusty citrus]

when I have these discussions some peoples mention java...

and I'm like even the co-founder quit man....

[pearl vigil]

At least java is hardware accelerated by older ARM CPUs

[dusty citrus]

and called it the slowest language ever, like I had to reboot POS machines in the past because JAVA wasn't even stable over 6 hours

and now it has gone full commercial...

[pearl vigil]

now? More like 2003

[dusty citrus]

you didn't need an oracle license before in a business setting to use it

[pearl vigil]

Ahh I see

[silver shale]

there is OpenJDK though?

[dusty citrus]

yeah good luck running that since it's not compatible with most java programs starting with most mods in minecraft

[pearl vigil]

Im confused, I used to play modded mc on linux with openjdk

[silver shale]

I do that now

ran better than commercial java on Windows

[pearl vigil]

In fact, the reason I use linux is because when I was real young my moms old laptop couldnt run minecraft, though this was browser only java applet where you couldnt save your worlds or craft anything

Oh man, you dont know minecraft until all your work is gone on the next power outage

[silver shale]

started because of the forced advertising of Win10 when Win7 went out of support

[jovial path]

I invited a Belgium for this server. Her name is Heleen, I do not know if she came in yet.

She is a computer scientist.

[dusty citrus]

to continue the C# argument?!

[jovial path]

Heleen Keustermans

[dusty citrus]

I'm a computer scientist too, so what?

[silver shale]

Selection of programming languages are user preference.

[late fulcrum]

The vacuum tube (the large device) hadn't failed, just the base came unglued. Once I glued the base back on, it was fine. However, some transistors (small modern semiconductor devices) had failed and had to be replaced.

[dusty citrus]

yeah but arguing that java is fine for microcontroller but not c# is pretty dumb

[late fulcrum]

frequency division multiplexor.

[dusty citrus]

when they both uses virtual machines and have the same GC techniques

[pearl vigil]

Who debated that?

I said in comparison, at least java is hardware accelerated, not that I debated for it

[tardy badger]

You didn’t use bucket servers?

I was using that on Windows Vista

[pearl vigil]

I've used a bit of everything, Ive played mc for too long and have seen the solutions come and go

[tardy badger]

Sure

I was playing before the major alpha release

Beta was fun

[dusty citrus]

I quit MC because of the openjdk issue not making modded MC with 32x textures and shaders still

[tardy badger]

Especially because of the glitches with nether lol

[dusty citrus]

and the server and client mods being completely separate, tried all the servers kind that united them and none worked for eningmatica 2

[tardy badger]

Lol

[dusty citrus]

I was hoping to use the great mature spigot server-side like mythicmobs, mcmmo, world guard etc + great client side mods but it never wanted to work

[tardy badger]

I’m kind of surprised mc is still big

[dusty citrus]

so I had enough and quit was becoming a big unpaid job...

[tardy badger]

I stopped playing regularly in 2013/2014

I have it on my Switch

[dusty citrus]

I still don't understand how indie games in 2021 can run at 600fps on my graphic card with advanced graphics

but minecraft can't display 32x32 textures with shaders in 2021 without taking 640gb of vram

even rpg maker ècan do it ffs...

and it's not java, wurm online pulls a full 3d game very well...

[lusty fossil]

If anyone was looking for a way to raise my blood pressure, the best way is to have two of you block a walking path, and also walk slowly yet meander around so that I can't pass you.

It works every time.

🤦

[pearl vigil]

Mine is attempt to kill me while driving which is a common one

[dusty citrus]

I say excuse me when someone does that with volume accounting for the 5s delay

if they insist I tell them it's illegal to block a walkway in the city and this mean I can do a citizen arrest and use force

[lusty fossil]

I wasn't in a position to do that for reasons. People more important than me were doing it

[dusty citrus]

they usually get the hint 🤣

[umbral phoenix]

or when someone comes out of a doorway and stops, right in the flow of traffic

[dusty citrus]

I've been the victim of that, for some peoples blocking the traffic mean the optimal path

[pearl vigil]

I dont know how many people can do the simple things, like put their shoes on, or breath. "Youre telling me you were presented with the world in from of you seeing what you did, and you made that choice?"

[dusty citrus]

taking the other side of the path so I can put my grocery in my bag when I'm taking 1/3 of the path isn't blocking the path

blocking = stopping someone not = having to do a 10cm detour

ie: I was on that side of the path 1st

I never understood why peoples purposely put them on a vector with someone else coming in following the opposite vector

you just came out of the bus and looked my way still decide to take my side of the path I've been walking on for 300m....

good job...

when we get close and they don't change path I'll ask them if they are looking for a fight or something...

and that's not to mention the peoples who feel the need to always change their path on the sidewalk on or lane on the highway

or even worse you decide to be nice and change your path and they change path in the opposite vector....

grrrrr

[fading hare]

Does ASP Classic and ColdFusion count? 😉 Now there's a blast from the past. Let's not forget FrontPage Extensions. The largest, and widest, attack vector to ever be installed on a computer connected to the internet.

[jovial path]

@late fulcrum hi

[fading hare]

Anybody want a 2 month Xbox Ultimate code?
C6T23-72F9V-K7CCX-PC7R6-YFD9Z

[wary herald]

I'd rather have a V-Buck code LOL

[fading hare]

I don't even know what that is. 🙂

Also, I don't play games much, so someone else could use it to play some games for a few months and then cancel.

[wary herald]

It's Fortnite money

But I don't play Fortnite much

so it's useless to me

[fading hare]

lol

[lusty fossil]

My mom mailed me mini pumpkin pies since I was working on thanksgiving

Pretty cute

The filling shifted around a little but still tastes good

[wary herald]

Cool

[solar ridge]

@wary herald I set your AFK: Sleeping

[fading hare]

Update on my RAID situation. It restored the mirror onto Disk 2 since they're in RAID 1. Now pulling complete backup of that entire data drive, then reconfigure to RAID 10.

[lusty fossil]

Which config were they in before?

[fading hare]

RAID 1.

[lusty fossil]

Let me google it's been a whilr

[fading hare]

So not possible to migrate.

It just took a while, and there's like no actual feedback from the NAS so I was like... is it broken forever, but I just left the thing running the way it was since the "rebuild" light was lit. Seems like it just took it a while to shuffle the data over.

So, backing up now, then reconfiguring as RAID 10.

Don't want RAID 5 since it's slower write and a lot slower on restore because it has to manage parity.

I have 4 Iron Wolf 4 TB NAS drives, so I think I can afford RAID 10. 😉

Don't need 12 TB of space, so meh. No RAID 5. And the NAS does not support RAID 6, or I might have used that.

[lusty fossil]

Wow.

I need to set up my system with RAID once I get a second SSD. I haven't had the courage to find out if SSD prices have soared with the chip shortage.

[fading hare]

They're not bad. Those Iron Wolves are only like $100 each.

I mean, they're big 'ol timey spinny bois

[lusty fossil]

That's not too bad.

Oh

[fading hare]

so not SSD or anything

but plenty fast for what I use them for (Nextcloud)

[lusty fossil]

Yeah I need to upgrade my rig anyways so I'll just wait til all of this blows over

[fading hare]

Yeah, my setup is a NAS enclosure with 4 drives connected to an Intel NUC that serves as a Nextcloud server.

[lusty fossil]

I mostly use it to play satisfactory right now and that isn't terribly resource intensive

Really recommend that game if you game. It's very fun

I use a pen and paper but people will work up whole huge spreadsheets for it

[fading hare]

That sounds like something I will not be skilled at.

it looks freaking cool, though

[lusty fossil]

It's very fun

[fading hare]

OMG I copied the wrong folder hahahaha

I copied an old backup folder

you know you have too much design crap when there's gigs and gigs of water brushes and roller stamp textures...

I used them for a while back when I was still running my own company. We were a bit of a full-spectrum shop. Did everything from marketing, coaching, proofreading, copy writing, and other soft skills to full-stack software development and graphic design. I just got so tired of filling so many roles at once.

(my wife is the one with the soft skills, obviously)

PyCharm for $89/year, worth it just for the scientific tools, web dev, python web frameworks, python profiler, and database/SQL support?

I am using the community edition now, and it seems fine.

Why do I have 400 MB of "enchanting_twilights.zip" in a photography folder? I am assuming it's some kind of plugin for something...

You know, I have all this stuff, but I still haven't found my old BitCoin wallet from 2006-2007 that I used to pay some kid in Romania for some software development work he did. I bought $30 worth at $0.75. There were at least 17-18 BTC left after I paid the dude. That wallet is forever gone. I wish I had it today. 😄

[jovial path]

Nice pie.

Movies tell us that eating sweet is good to take out sad.

Jhon Green probabilly said this too in the past.

[fading hare]

OK, I am in RAID 10! Restoring backup!

[dusk oracle]

i suddenly had flash backs of "rebuilding array" and shuddered.

[dusty citrus]

seems like someone redeemed it

[wary herald]

Noooooooooooooo

You'd be semi-rich!

[wary herald]

It is

hehe

[dusty citrus]

never used raid so that's what I have in mind when someone says RAID 5

[dusty citrus]

So I was wondering about how to dissipate 100W in a mosfet

but then I remembered legendary hyperweave duster in rimworld resists 300oC so you can live on mercury or the sun

I miss rimworld so much 😦

[stoic mesa]

100 W

realistically though, if you really need to dissipate that much heat, you need forced air circulation - i.e. fans - or liquid cooling

[wanton thistle]

FETs are different for heat dissipation. There are I^2R losses and then there are switching losses. Doing some back of the napkin math, and using a Standard (Low RDS on FET), Junction to ambient is 60c°/W for a TO-220 package. Already we can see at 100W it would overheat without doing anything extra.

Lets say we add in a heatsink of 2C°/W. That brings our temperature to a rather high temp of 225C. If we lower the heatsink down more or add in air flow, we can get it down much lower.

I have documents saved if you are interested in doing this yourself though

or for reference

[dusty citrus]

when you say TO-220 package it sort of imply that you can choose the package?

But I didn't see any such options for the mosfet I checked, or there is one such option and I don't understand it

like if I check here https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/infineon-technologies/IRFI4410ZPBF/2354104 I don't see any option to select the package

so the only choice seems to be to pick another class N mosfet

[wanton thistle]

Chose a different fet

[lusty fossil]

100W is quite a bit. Be safe!

I think a really nice laptop charger is 100W

[wanton thistle]

one sec.

[lusty fossil]

computer vision panic sounds

[wanton thistle]

Right there where it says package

FYI I saved a ton of board space by switching to a QFN type FET lol

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/IRFH8318TRPBF/IRFH8318TRPBFCT-ND/2639597?itemSeq=383580524

[dusty citrus]

no worry I'm not getting anywhere near mains or past 12V atm

this is for the future if I live until then and don't electrocute myself licking a 9V battery 😄

[wanton thistle]

Dont need to get near mains or past 12V to pass 100W. You could have 1V at 100A (like a welder).