AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@PawelK It's empowering to make that kind of progress. I can't say that I agree with Calculus being taught outside of a University. Public schools might cover a little bit of it and one might get college credit for it but it isn't even close to the rigor of the University version.

For instance, in one of my Calculus courses we were given a single assignment. We knew derivatives but the task was to find the inverse operation without textbooks or the internet. That was 20% percent of our grade in the course. A lot of us got it correct or correct enough.

That professor designed missile systems for the USSR during the 70s. He never spoke much about it. He also called Chechens good people. The litmus test for what time period someone lived in Russia.

@Draven I guess welcome to the party for the new people with PTSD. Maybe people will learn to care about it now. I doubt it though.

@Draven Or a six sided socket that comes in a set. The Red Permatex, RTV Sealant, first aid kits when you are bleeding everywhere, a regular can of Seafoam and PB Blaster can go on that list.

Also anything that is made in the USA but isn't regulated by the BATFE.

@igelsQTs @sapphire @skylar@wolfgirl.bar
Benzene isn't the primary alkane in Petrol or Gasoline. I believe it's only 1%-2% or less on average. Benzene is a known carcinogen and a really good nonpolar solvent. It has more value when used in other industries.

@igelsQTs Gasoline was the name given as it is a mixture of hydrocarbons that are fractionally distilled between a certain temperature range.
Gasoline, Kerosene, Vaseline, Benzene, Toluene, Xylenes and many other petroleum products follow this naming convention. It's not referring to the phase of matter.

@thendrix Was that date 2003 or 2023?

@thendrix How lovely that they drag the deformed body of an AR-15 into the discussion. They need a 22 inch barrel to get the full velocity of the round. The 14.5 inch carbines weren't as effective and were more likely to jam.

This trashy thing has a super short barrel. Go grab tha Draco too homie. These "pistols" are a plague. It's thug lyfe, 2 fingers of promethazine codeine and an absolute insult to both pistols and rifles. If somehow that trash did manage full rock and roll, that full magazine is gone in around 1.5 seconds. It's not going to hit anything but walls, cook the barrel and they are out of ammo faster than they get an abortion from a 12ga.

@hn100 One of the keys to help prevent tampering is to not raise suspicion. These measures are just going to get someone flagged if it's intercepted.

@straw @Mek101 @itzzenxx Have you considered using a retired Dual Xeon E5 Rack Server for this type of work? It would chug through the workload just like a server should. It's going to be cheaper than having to get a regular computer to do the same. Redundant PSUs and Redundant jet turbine fans. These would be called virtualization servers but they can be used for offloading compile work for nearly anything.

@hackster_io Better performance usually comes from a lower resolution raw format and an array of similar fast sensors.

It has benefits but 108 megapixels is going to contain a lot of unnecessary information that is going to take up resources to process. I've seen a Maix Stick V outperform a gaming PC because of a poor sensor choice.

I would have begged for something like this sensor when I was involved in that area. It looks very promising as a single unit. Great work on that. This is around 4 times the resolution I needed back then and it was difficult to find capable sensors.

@PawelK The public education system is so bad here that freshman year in college is devoted to catching up to the rest of the world. It's something that English publishers like to point out. Start from the bottom and end up at the top. It's not uncommon to take graduate level courses, graded appropriately, or do undergrad research by Junior or Senior year. It's usually both.

@igelsQTs I believe it's the only Confederacy of note too.

@PawelK Mali was more than reluctant. It was all reverse engineered. There had to be threats or DMCA involved. It didn't stop them from turning trash into something useful.

@PawelK It's public education in the US. We were prepared to learn how to be criminals or join the military. Public schools are K-12 or little kid to old enough to go to prison or enlist in the military.

There's a lot of racism involved and disguised as politics or another pseudoscience. Public education used to be much better but due to new Mathematics and a War on Drugs, parents can't even help their children with homework. The parents don't know how to do it either.

As a Mathematician it infuriates me to see Education as a major and somehow those dipshits get to fuck up generations of students. Learning Science the real way might make some kids cry but they will have learned Science.

Low income is just an excuse. Children in those environments are exposed to nearly anything one could imagine. No amount of money is going to make their home life better and no teaching is going to save them from going to prison or joining the military. Police presence was always an issue and we learned to not talk to them. They are only there to send kids to kid jail.

It wouldn't be fair to call public education a failure because a failure doesn't imply sabotage.

@igelsQTs It just means to slow or delay in English. In the days after leaded gas was phased out, my dad would have to retard the timing on his muscle car. The octane rating wasn't great during those days and it could cause predetonation. He did build the transmission and motor for performance.

There's boost retard too. It's not commonly called that but when positive pressure is made with a supercharger, the ignition is delayed.

It was also used to describe people who were disabled.

@PawelK The Banana Pi was this SBC from somewhere in China and the details of it back in those days were rather fuzzy.

I got an A20 All winner dual core SoC with PMIC, jst battery connector, sata port and a full gigabyte of ram for about twice the price of a Raspberry Pi. It had the newer Arch so I still can use regular Linux on it to this day.

Dealing with it back in 2014? It was a massive disappointment. CHIP hadn't come along with the Mali open source and that wouldn't happen for a while longer. I liked to go with Allwinner chips because I associated them with AXP pmics which would allow one to hook up a 3.7v lion battery and it would manage charge and discharge.

@PawelK I got it for the superior IO. The ability to flash or read chips and debug was fantastic.

@igelsQTs @e That's unfortunate. I always liked the gym bros and the gym. Good times man.