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[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

It's not an attack. You simply don't stick with any point long enough to have a proper discussion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, I noticed that they were bouncing around quite a bit and stating some facts, but also drawing some wild conclusions from those facts. (It's a lost cause trying to separate those two trains of thought, me thinks.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Viruses mutate with almost every division. Hell, almost every strand of DNA that divides has mutations. It's a natural phenomenon and not exclusively caused by one particular thing or situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation

You seem to be mixing up a few key aspects of how and why new strains are formed, and somehow, you are overestimating the transmissibility of a virus between different animals.

It's like you understand some of the key concepts of this stuff, but animal domestication somehow got mixed in as a root cause for natural processes.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

Your compassion for animals is awesome but your information about how and why viruses mutate and spread seems very flawed.

Yes, viruses may spread faster through animals in captivity which could lead to higher rates of virus mutations. But no, it's not the cause of every pandemic you have ever heard about. Pinning the cause on one specific behavior is beyond false.

The black death, specifically, was likely transmitted to humans via fleas from rats, as an example. What's key, is that nobody has even been able to prove that completely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What kind of eggs do you eat? There shouldn't be many layers to an egg. If we were talking about onions or parfet's or ogres, those could have many layers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It depends not only on what you want to control, but also how you want to control it.

I'll use a fader/slider for when I am recording MIDI and need to return the fader back to very specific spot quickly, or, if I want to "play" something like the cutoff freq on a filter. I can just smack the slider back and forth quickly like I am strumming a guitar.

I'll usually map knobs when I need very fine controls. If you don't need to min/max whatever setting you are working with, you put the knob about where it should be and only work a few degrees of rotation. (Rapidly min/max'ing a knob sucks since we typically do not rotate our wrist to mix/max quickly.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It depends on what kind of IC you need. If you need an authentic part that has been tracked and verified through every step of distribution, you pay a premium.

For hobby products, sure. Spend 30 cents on that 5 dollar part.

However, a bad batch of fake ICs could potentially cost a company millions of dollars in returns, or worst case, liability lawsuits. (It has personally only cost me a few bucks and some wasted time.)

My personal trust in any Chinese sourced electronics is zero. It's less than zero if I attempt to buy a proper name brand IC. I ain't salty about it since I know my odds of getting defective or improperly labeled (or relabeled) parts: Expect about a 30% failure rate or parts that are way out of spec.

Simply put, QA is generally poor and the supply chain is sketchy. If that doesn't matter to you, so be it.

What happens is it chips do come from the same Chinese manufacturer, you can get spectacularly different grades of parts depending on how you bought them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think the context was "infant" or "baby" matched with "dark hair" and "blue eyes".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That is bizarre and difficult to prove. Does he have your phone number? IMEA number? The problem is that it takes some skill to use those devices and random use without a warrant is illegal.

If you really feel this is going on, the FCC would be very interested to hear about your issues with illegal use of a transmitter. (1-888-CALL-FCC)

Blocking one upload takes more than just incepting cell communications, so again, this is a weird scenario.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I just checked and behemoths can't reach it to make significant damage. It seems like overkill, but I have repeating blocks of three guns, four laser turrets and 4 flame throwers. Each set of guns is fed with a requestor chest for ammo and each subsection is in range of my bots for repair. Just the wall itself is 6 tiles deep, 2 tiles deep for a plain wall and 4 for "standoffs". It's been impenetrable so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My walls are biter-proof unless they are supposed to evolve any more and could probably create an attacks per minute metric. The double-cross pattern that I am almost finished implementing for the outer wall seems to break their logic enough to minimize damage and gives the flame throwers more time to work.

Honestly, I just ignore pollution and all of the attacks. I just assumed I was eventually supposed to be fully enclosed by biter nests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The auto-names for train stations are awesome.

 
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Let them eat cake (en.m.wikipedia.org)
 
 
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Bag of chicks. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/imageai
 
 

I have two MacBooks that I acquired through two different startups. Both companies no longer exist and I was basically given the laptops. (They have just been sitting in my closet for a few years collecting dust, and it seems like a waste.)

Unfortunately, now that I want to use the laptops as part of a local k8s cluster (or even dedicated music production hardware), I am locked out of wiping the things because they want to connect to MDM servers that no longer exist or have admin passwords that have long since been forgotten.

Since these laptops are essentially "bricked" I have no problems opening them up and attempting hardware hacks to get around this stuff.

Both laptops are in various states of reset or wipe due to previous attempts to reset. (Funny thing, actually. I was personally responsible for locking down one of these laptops at the time they were in corporate use...)

Trash or treasure? I dunno. I am apple-dumb.

 

Edit: Deleting this post. It's starting to get controversial, but that's OK. Not what I planned on, but whatevers.

 

I have been attempting to extract the firmware from an HVAC controller board using my Pickit3 and MPLAB X.

It seems that many HVAC controllers are PIC based and most are kind enough to include debug/flash pins. Grabbing the firmware images should be trivial once the correct pins are traced out. MPLAB X will see my Pickit3 and the target MCU, but it fails to pull an image that isn't all zeros. (The "bin" file is a text file with each line noting the start address, followed by 16 byte values.)

I do get an occasional "Target device ID invalid message" but that is usually due to my janky wiring to the board. Once I get that issue cleared, MPLAB will always warn that the debug bit (byte?) is set on the MCU. (That doesn't make sense as the MCU should be running standalone on the board during normal operation.)

Is there some kind of read protection that may be enabled on the PIC? Do I just need to unsolder the PIC and put it in its own dedicated circuit for pulling the firmware?

 

The one trick that Big Music doesn't want you to know!

I was absolutely struggling when I went to do a final mix after writing everything in stereo. For me, it was a whack-a-mole game: Fixing one problem created ten more, bass was unmanageable, highs tended to blare or everything was a midrange soup and I constantly struggled with frequency cancellation.

Above all other problems, music was not portable. It would sound great with headphones, but became a blown out mess on external speakers.

Mono. Just write everything in mono. If the track sounds good in mono, even just the slightest bit of stereo separation makes it sound awesome!

As a perk, it forced me to learn more about compression and limiting and when it is applicable. If something is inaudible in mono, it's going to sound like absolute garbage in stereo. (It also forced me into EQ'ing nearly every component of a song at first. I am not nearly as aggressive with that now, but again, it opened up new doors that I didn't realize existed.)

Why, oh why, is this technique not pushed more to hobbyists and beginners? Is there a shortcoming that I am not aware of?

Obviously, this isn't a cure-all and I kinda framed this post as a magic trick. Its one hell of a teaching tool, if nothing else.

 

(Wait, what? This is from 2022??? I have known about CAL for a while, but this glass stuff is new to me.)

3DPN video: https://youtu.be/pkBP_eO-Pug?si=l4__tZwrNDB4qNlU

CAL: computed axial lithography

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new way to 3D-print glass microstructures that is faster and produces objects with higher optical quality, design flexibility and strength, according to a new study published in the April 15 issue of Science.

 

I am fed up with resin slicers.

Chitubox is about as stable as a drunk on a tightrope, Lychee is bad for engineering models and over-priced if you just want some basic support functions and PrusaSlicer is under-developed. All of these solutions work for different things based on the goals of the user. (For some, Lychee is an excellent value so my distaste is likely not universal.)

What really pissed me off is that support painting shouldn't be a paid feature. You hold the mouse button down and drop a support at specific distance from the last. It doesn't take massive cloud computational clusters or huge storage requirements but yet, money. Fuck. That.

I want a completely FOSS tool that is stable and includes functionality for auto-positioning models and has a full set of knobs and levers for support generation, support painting included.

So, I spent the morning getting a dev environment setup for PrusaSlicer to use as a base for resin-only tools. Over the next month or so, I'll take some time to strip out all the FDM support and get the slicer into a bare-bones state with only the existing resin features. Of course, it'll be on GitHub.

Back to the main subject. I was hoping that y'all had references in regards to anything resin printing: Support placement methods, model rotation optimization, resin strength data, FEP peel force data or anything that could be coded and implemented into a slicer. Hell, even discovering different methods for hollowing an STL would be nice.

Data and strategies for various tools would be nice to have at this point to at least start forming a roadmap for development. (One of the first goals is to integrate UVTools as a snap-in, somehow.)

FDM tools are plentiful because of wide spread adoption. Resin printers still seem niche so printer manufacturers naturally gravitate to writing their own tools for their own hardware in their race to the bottom.

With all of that said, I am actually curious if others would even want to see a project like this kicked off.

 

I have been using FL Studio for years. It was easy to pirate when I was younger and broke, and it's still flexible enough for anything I want to do now without hassle. (The license these days is "meh" for clips and plugins. However, I am designing and beginning to record most of my own instruments now with a core set of plugins.)

I would like to experiment with an open source DAW, but not sure which routes to take there.

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