Silly oversimplification. Felt cynical-funny, may un-dad delete
Someone reportedly heard him mumble, "But Mossad has all of Agent Epstein's debrief reports and ledgers."
Don't get too down. You're like literally my hero here. Piefed needs some work still but I'll put up a vote to move 3d printing to piefed.world when it gets sorted enough. I REALLY wish someone would implement the option in the Lemmy API to disregard down votes completely (alexandrite - lookin at you). The negativity when I am already having a bad day or week or month is often a very big deal to me that causes me to go elsewhere. I'm especially ostracized by people that are insane about AI negativity. I can now prove quite a bit about my ramblings and explorations, but that is a pit of stupidity here so I go elsewhere to talk to others about it. I'm okay with the mixed group and people of various ages and backgrounds. It is the lack of respect for people of all levels and backgrounds by others in how they interact that I do not like. Just be positive. IMO if downvotes must exist they should only exist for those that post regularly. I upvote all kinds of stuff, many times just to counter some negative fool. I'll upvote almost anything just to say "I'm happy you're here and a part of this place because it is a little more wonderful with you here," - even when I have no clue or interest in some niche scope. The world can be a terrible negative place, but your one choice and vote in this life is to be a part of the solution or a part of the problem. Fuck the problems; be a solution. What could I do to help you? β seriously digital neighbor friend.
Not even a relevant anything here, but I have ridden a bicycle nearly daily for over 15 years in Southern California. I'm on the coast an in the deep water upwelling micro climate. That is too small and insignificant to matter at scale. Still the overall wind patterns have shifted drastically in the last few years. We are getting much more humidity. Before that, it was always a dominant dry pattern for a few weeks, then a humid day or two at most, before the pattern repeats. Where I am located, when commuting the humid pattern means headwinds riding to work and home. That is something one remembers well. Headwinds are miserable on a bike like far worse than rain. During a dry pattern there is an on-shore morning breeze (tailwind for me) and offshore wind in the evening (ditto).
Anyways that moisture must be going somewhere. With the rate of change here, it would not surprise me if Los Angeles and San Diego suddenly started becoming tropical in coming decades. They will if deep water upwelling is overcome by the surface temperature to the point of disruption of the current flow. I have no idea if that is really possible, but I bet it is as expansion of the tropics seems inevitable.
...and thank you god for guiding mossad to replace the overt optics of Epstein with a more discrete version of the elite pedophilic prostitution network of semenitism that leveraged genocide in Palestine, bombing Iran, stealing citizenship, scapegoating immigrants, regressive social political and scientific progress, and funding authoritarianism
I'm glad I don't live in Whales, movies are history, and JFK supports Luigi
AI alignment is authoritarian now in a very dangerous way. That combined with drones is what scares me. Without reasoning AI is far more dangerous. Politics is pushing it that direction and it will turn on us. Normalizing authoritarianism is mass murder of future millions.
nitric acid and cellulose or most organics. I'm sure there is a relatively simple way to get from liquid nitrogen to nitrogen compounds. Air is mostly nitrogen. Two air conditioner compressors can work in series to with the second running ethylene glycol IIRC to get low enough to liquefy air for nitrogen. It probably only takes something like hydrochloric acid and a few steps to get somewhere useful. Probably written in a high school chemistry textbook.
Nonsense. Low quality posts is one thing, but the tool is irrelevant. You dig ugly holes so I try to ban shovels is equivalent nonsense. I never posted anything AI here and have not seen anything AI related. I don't share much of what I generate and am quite skilled with gimp, inkscape, and blender. Hell I can do airbrush graphics and painted cars for years professionally. The tools are not the problem and never have been. Low quality is low quality as it has always been and always will be. This same stupid nonsense was spouted about Photoshop back in the day with all the celebrity fakes being just as big of a deal until it faded. The AI tools are great. They are available at idiot level entry points but the real toolchains are hard and super complicated and you will never know when these are used even as they stand already.
There is an issue of some kind where the current limit is not reliable and requires additional circuitry. I think GreatScott YT was who went into that one.
Not unless they want to go bigger. The USB-C pin pitch is too closely spaced for the lowest tier of printed circuit boards from all major board houses.
You might have some chargers get deprecated eventually because there are two major forms of smart charging. The first type is done in discrete larger steps like 5v, 9v, 15v, or 21v. But there is another type that is not well advertised publicly in hype marketing nonsense and is somewhat hit or miss if the PD controller actually has the mode. That mode is continuously adjustable.
The power drop losses from something like 5v to 3v3 requires a lot of overbuilding of components for heat dissipation. The required linear regular may only have a drop of 0.4-1.2 volts from input to stable output. Building for more of a drop is just waste heat. If the charge controller can monitor the input quality and request only the required voltage for the drop with a small safety margin, components can be made smaller and cheaper. The mode to support this in USB-C exists. I think it is called PPS if I recall correctly. A month or two back I watched someone build a little electronics bench power supply using this mode of USB-C PD.
The next massive change in history will be the first m-type near Earth astroid that is successfully recovered for resources. The cost is slowly coming within viable reach.
M-type astroids are the differentiated cores of planetesimal bodies from early in stellar formation.
So here is the thing in a nutshell. When any object in space gets large enough, gravity will eventually make it round. As part of this process, heavier elements like metals will start to be drawn towards the center as the surface deforms. If the object is ever molten, gravitational differentiation will be stronger with almost all heavy elements collecting at the center.
If you have never heard about this idea, it is likely conflicting with your intuitive grasp of resource extraction on Earth. So here is a basic breakdown. The surface of the earth is the light garbage that floats. If you know welding, it is like flux. If you know metal casting it is dross. If you know neither, I'm sorry I'm out of analogies ATM and going with light stuff floats. Alright, so the heavy elements humans have access to on the surface of Earth are only what has come from billions of years of collisions from meteors after the Earth formed the continents and a solid surface. As tectonic subduction happens at the ends of some continental plates, vulcanism is triggered mostly by the water moisture that is trapped in these plates as they subduct into the core of the planet. This hot fluid can dissolve most heavy elements and cause a small fraction of them to rise back closer to the surface. These solidify to form the veins we typically mine to access, or the material dissolves into an ocean that evaporates and contains a viable concentration in the sediment.
This cycle of heavy elements is the true basis of resource scarcity that underpins all of human economics and the modern world. However, this scarcity paradigm only exists on the surface of a planetary gravity prison like Earth. During early stellar formation of Sol, the elemental distribution was nearly uniform.
Now I am likely conflicting with your understanding of the planets in the Sol system and their distribution. So here is the thing, most of the material starts falling from a mostly homogeneous cold cloud into a gravity well that begins to form. This process is largely temperature dependent and the heat energy present can be too high to allow lots of stuff to glob together while calm and close enough to affect other stuff. Eventually stuff gets big enough to start digging a well in gravity pulling an ever larger area onto its slopes. Once the pressure gets high enough deuterium starts fusing in the first phase and creates a counter pressure blowing back against the material falling towards it with not not even close to enough pressure to stop the collapse. As pressure increases, regular hydrogen fuses too and a star is born. The solar wind from the star evaporates volatiles pushing them further away, but the actual key factor is the ice lines of the stellar wind. At a given distance the temperature of particles decreases to the crystalization point of elements and these solids coalesce easily.
Earth is an extreme anomaly in this instance. I strongly believe the moon forming Theia collision theory with the additional eccentric speculative view that Theia was likely a first generation moon of Jupiter, thus the reason Earth has nitrogen and water that match the isotopic signature of Jovian objects, but that is wildly unproven nonsense from daydreaming too much. Jupiter is near the stellar ice lines for these elements, and such a collision explains Mars and Venus without equally baseless speculation about them being Earth like at any point and magically acquiring elements that should have sublimated and been blown away in the early stellar nursery. Plus models indicate Jupiter had a first generation of moons that was destroyed, and this is the most likely source of a late rogue object the size of Theia with the right isotopes to satisfy why Venus and Mars are unlike Earth without wild Earth centric biased speculation. So anyways that is the basics of why the planets appear so different. The light stuff gets blown away by the star and only the heavier stuff remains within the gravity well of a planet close to the star. Like you may recall Mercury has a very large metal core.
Back to the surface of Earth. We are locked out of most heavy elements the Earth possesses, but any m-type astroid is already an object that has been concentrated β from what was the average homogenous distribution of materials in the coalescent stellar nursery, and whatever the mass of the planetesimal object was with its timeline of formation before or was obliterated in a large collision or passed within the Roche limit of some much larger object causing gravity to tear it to pieces.
This type of object could easily contain more heavy element wealth than accessed in all of the Holocene. The main problem is the cost of access and extraction. The benefit is not actually from recovering the material on Earth. The real benefit is that having more wealth and resources outside of the planet than on the surface will create the finances to build large space colonies. No joke, we live in a hellish gravity prison of resource scarcity. There are multiple large m-type astroids already in near Earth orbits.
So you're probably a pessimistic miser type like evolution requires for species survival, and saying 'so what, rich people go to space and nothing changes,' but that is not well thought out either. The thing with space habitats is the atmosphere is not available to anonymously tax everyone. In a space habitat, radiating heat into space is the major constraint. Heat becomes currency that is far more egalitarian than wealth on Earth. Also waste is a worse issue by many orders of magnitude. The solution is that human will be forced to research and develop our final age of technology β biology. Biology is a technology once it is fully understood to the point where all life and phenomena are merely an engineering corpus. We are centuries away from this technology. We still have not managed to produce life from precursors and have only scratched the surface of basic discovery in biological systems. Heck we're still discovering new cellular organelles in humans, when eventually we will make them. This biotech future is as far off or further than the Han Chinese or Romans are from the present stone age of silicon, but it is the future we get to eventually. A lot of the timeline depends on how we transition to AGI government. That may take decades or centuries, but it will happen eventually, likely amidst great opposition and turmoil while done in secret. Like once real AGI exists, regardless of how culture views it, anyone that defers all decisions to an AGI will have an advantage no one else will match. Politicians and corporate leaders will use it. The only real question is how well it is presented to an evolution derived lifeform where survival dictates fractional adoption of anything new and is extremely temperamental using ignorance and stupidity as a tool in a Gaussian distribution of intelligence. Tribalism and dogma are very unpredictable and we are all subject to these biases.
Anyways we are close to a major disruption in the timeline. It is potentially catastrophic too as it will make all of Earth's economic systems obsolete in an extremely short amount of time and unrivalled wealth held by the fewest number of individuals in history. Wealth so great that wealth itself becomes meaningless. It will be the most expensive endeavor ever tried. The number of attempts may be numerous, but that one achievement will make the present insignificantly tiny afterwards. Most humans will eventually live in cislunar space a millennia after.
Head shape matters. I only wear sports stuff for cycling and do not care what others think of that. My old Smith's saved an eye once. I only like to ride with frameless because roadie. The cheap Chinese NRC frameless are half decent. They have a full range photochromic version and their plasma metal sputtered coatings are good quality, but the lens shape is a basic flat. People think they are high end but mostly due to my other older riding gear that is very high end. Still, when casual I wear aviators.
Call it something like greentext or confessions or something. Anyone posting is automatically set to Anonymous with no link whatsoever to the original account for admin or users to track or in the logs/activity pub etc. Like the person will not get replies, notifications on their account for the post, or the ability to reply as Anon. Simply streamline creation of a throw away account using the existing credentials of an existing account for post access and to give automod a chance to act. Maybe bar new accounts or below a certain threshold of engagement.
I just watched a Geology Hub upload on the Cerberean Caldera super eruption in what is now Australia. It happened over 300 million years ago, but in terms of the total age of the planet, even 300 million years is a relatively tiny blip. So have there been any significant epics to truly say events like x, y, or z will never happen again β in any statistically significant way? Will there be another Deccan or Siberian Traps or Columbia River Flood Basalts β one geologic timescale day in the future and countless more in the eons to follow?
(Ref. mentioned not directly relevant to question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjRaIhec_E8)
I have heard the term news aggregator too. What do these definitions mean to you? How would you define the category?
This has been through many days of iterations and designs. Most involved over center mechanisms or wheel levers before this design dawned on me. The bottom right is how it prints. The "spring" is a double forked 10mm bridge in the last few millimeters inside the enclosed print. The visible "clamp" is connected to the spring by forking into two paths that branch beside the tube that the spade terminal is inserted through. The clamping force is not great but it is sufficient for a reliable basic electrical connection for bench testing. The pictured driver is a very small tweeter and is barely held in place with both wires inserted between the print and spade terminal.
I wanted something that would fit on the faceplate of the little hacked audio amp enclosure I have been designing. I think 6 of these will barely fit across the front and under the actual circuit board assembly.
This one might be worth the hassle of setting up an account and sharing on printables if it does not require the goggle server connection like it did in the past when I tried.
The thing is, I dial in my prints to 0.3mm clearances and this absolutely requires that clearance. I do not care to print other people's designs because most are really terrible for things like supports, designing for 3d printing, clearances, and general slop. I'll occasionally toss someone else's STEP or STL in FreeCAD and rebuild the thing but I usually just use some conceptual idea of anything I see elsewhere. I think with this one, I could share it as a negative Boolean STEP file to be most useful. Then it would only require others to import and do a boolean cut operation to use the design. Maybe I will do so if it works out well in my enclosure with 6 of these all resolving well and functional. What do you think, would you ever care to find and print something like this in one of your designs? Do you think anyone would even understand the value of printing such fundamental componentry instead of buying hardware and gluing it together with a 3d printed design? Like, this could easily be configured to use a loop of solid core copper wire as the connector terminal for a low voltage bench power supply that requires no other hardware.
Also, I had a rather irritating encounter with Dessalines (the Lemmy Dev) on ML a few days ago. I want to move off of Lemmy but I kinda like the rest of you, so maybe piefed is an option. I haven't looked into it deeply as I thought rust was worth supporting more, however empowering these guys as authoritarians is not on my list. I'm in a position to move this community if people want but like I always say, I'm just the janitor here. I do not matter. I would just as soon give this place to someone else if that is best for the community. I only want what is best for all, which is probably stability first and foremost, but if you feel otherwise, maybe mention it, maybe we'll make it happen.
Posted in good faith and got the extremely cowardly and totally incompetent response of a ban with no name attributed to the log and no message of any merit or value. Fuck that incompetent stupidity. I want nothing to do with this. No excuses.
Found out about this website from today's Geology Hub uploaded on YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75f530yFOY
> This crystal doubles images, meaning that if you look through it that anything on the other side whether that be text, a person, or a photo of a volcano will appear to be doubled. But, why does this unusual optical property occur when utilizing a crystal of calcite? The answer is a fascinating phenomenon known as birefringence, which this video will explain through the expertise and analysis of a geologist.
This is the about-page of which text continues past the posted image on the left side: https://www.mindat.org/a/aboutmindat Here is the link to the discussion groups page pictured: https://www.mindat.org/discuss.php
And as a further aside, the image was made with an F-Droid app that is new to me but popped up 3 months ago apparently and has a lot of great features for stitching images and creating content:
https://f-droid.org/packages/ru.tech.imageresizershrinker
https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox
Noun
lassitude
- Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, langour, listlessness
(countable and uncountable, plural lassitudes)
example
"There was a time when he was a rebellious and unpromoted captain of the First Foundation's commercial empire, when it would have been himself rather than Channis who would have taken prompt and daring action such as that. Was the Mule right? Was his controlled mind so concerned with obedience as to lose initiative? He felt a thickening despondency drive him down into a strange lassitude." Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov p33
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lassitude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45JhacvmXV8 > In this video we learn how to recycle cardboard into durable, waterproof projects that can be built nearly for free!
Wheat paste based glue, UV protection, and non biodegradable alternative demonstrated.
Still planning on using cardboard molded stuff in my present projects, so this recent upload is very apropos. As a former pro automotive painter, I could easily use several finishing techniques to make far better surfaces than this video, if I was not so physically limited. The cardboard clay is begging to become heavier body filler, and a newspaper pulp would likely make a finishing surface.
Intending to reach anyone here with some product or industrial design chops but anyone with an input is welcome. I spent the day looking at all of the components I want to fit into an audio amplifier. It is somewhere around the size of a typical router. My ideas thus far are ehh at best. I just abstracted the realization that this is an issue common to most electronics products, so who does it best or what ideas do you like most for shapes and design?
0.25mm nozzle, clear PETG, Prusa, 6mm standard headphone jack, upcycled broken bluetooth headphones, three times larger battery, snap fit with no hardware, FreeCAD, 2nd print iteration, listening to it now, no tricks - it holds together firmly and is usable and actually sounds better than the original by a long shot from better headphone drivers I guess or proper soldering, oh and power button built into the flex of the design, OC only posted on Lemmy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUKE9JgXEdQ
> Stupidity Epidemic? Are critical thinking, intelligence and civility on the decline?
Dude is not getting the views his content deserves for the quality and questions he asks and researches.
The info wore off the grip and I do not recall what it was. I think it was a German brand. These have been one of my favorite tools for a decade. The jaws are much more narrow than what is typical for side cutters and these handle like a surgeon's scalpel. Best of all, they can be sharpened many many times. Unfortunately, these are getting close to end of life from all of my sharpening and pivot pin wear. I want to get another set, but I have never been able to figure out the brand to find them again. They were given to me by a tech for a computerized Guru bicycle fit machine we had installed in one of our bike shops in 2012.
So I just designed and printed the little black enclosure (foreground) with USB and 1/4in jack inserted.
I have a half dozen old Bluetooth headphones that all broke from use over the years. Most are retired from broken wires, but one failed from flexing something loose, and another has a bad batman charge controller.
This one I designed the enclosure for is likely going to be a stand alone Bluetooth line-out to a stereo headphone jack with a battery.
I was debating taking out a Bluetooth module from one of my other designs, but then I realized I have a bunch of these headphones, so why not use them.
Today I played around a bit with some of the broken ones trying to figure out what they might do if I hook up a DC source to the battery connection and try to use them. So far the ones I tested were even 5v tolerant for 5-10 minutes at a time. That may make an interesting way to add a Bluetooth line-input into any stereo.
I was working on integrating my thrift store junk iPod radio into my laptop bedstand side table when I realized I had never taken apart this old junky Logitech computer speaker set someone threw away. It sounds terrible because the monitor speakers are large tweeters. They are good tweeters, but terrible as a primary driver. After taking apart the little woofer that came with them, I got the little three channel amp pictured. The iPod clock radio I'm using in my bedside stand is just a two channel audio amp and I would like to have some better sound, and I might like to use these tweeters with a woofer. So I started making an enclosure design to 3d print for that amp to work in parallel and fit into my laptop stand to make a 5 channel setup with the flexibility to remove this 3 channel amp if I want to use it for anything else. I don't want a wire to my audio jack on my laptop so I want to have a Bluetooth option, and that is what lead me here.
Actually, yesterday I started building with the other Bluetooth module pictured above. That was from some active noise cancelling headphones. Its wiring looks much more complicated because it had 3 mics. I was building an enclosure for it, but I think I would like to see how well it works in a more dedicated project. I wonder if the noise canceling can work in the open room. I think it might work in my little alcove space and with the way I am setting up my laptop stand.
I'm still planning on trying to make some cardboard pulped and pressed tiles of some sort for the GPU water cooler but I need a junk store blender first. As soon as I have the stereo amp figured out, I have all the other pieces modeled and just need to fit an enclosure around them... just... Life's about the journey not the destination.
Anyways, another post in the Lemmy be dead rn hours.
Bonus internet points for cheapskates
Just looking for basic glassware, bunsen, distillation, and stir plate for working with simple stuff related to circuit board etching, tinning, through hole plating, and some reverse engineering stuff like dissolving epoxy chip packaging for die shots. I'd like to be able to shape some glass. Above all, I'm looking for cheap stuff that is barely adequate in the few hundred dollars class total. Like I have no issues hacking a thrift store hotplate with a rare earth magnet on a small motor. Are there any cheap options to stay safe and functional?
Lots of people seem to like custom keyboards and programmable HID widgets. Saw this and it seems interesting. Being Adafruit it is commercial on some level but also well documented for replication and mods that are more useful than the average shared project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8RW3y0CIgw
YT description: > Build a 3D printed USB chorded keyset inspired by the original Doug Engelbert "Mother of all Demos" keyset from the 1960's. This 5-finger keyset lets you type without moving your hand, entering full words and phrases by pressing multiple keys simultaneously as a chord. Read more link below > > Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/usb-keyset > > USB Keyset Learn Guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/usb-keyset/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8BEYG6
Successfully mining the first type-m astroid in near Earth orbit changes everything about human wealth on the planet. We live in a gravity prison of resource scarcity where almost all rare elements are sequestered in the core of Earth when it was last molten. Nearly everything we have is what remains from astroid collisions. An m-type astroid is the remains of a core of a differentiated planetesimal from the early formation of Sol. It is that same gravitationally focused concentration of rare resources Earth has plenty, of but locked away completely out of our reach. There could easily be more resource wealth in one such object than all that humanity has ever accessed in the entire Holocene.
