AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org
Joined Jan 2020
@thendrix It hasn't been a concern in the US for a few decades now. The Military has their own facilities including power, sewage/water treatment/mixing, treatment for the clap and coms.
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I think rapidly losing all electrical power plants and dozens of cities is more of a concern for them by now.
@thor Give someone the monetary equivalent of a top of the line Mac but it's an FPGA. They will just be disappointed that their new GPU doesn't work. Frame Pixel Graphics Accelerator makes a horrible GPU.
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Watched a video by Technology Connections about old pinball machines and... actually lost interest by the end of a video of his for once.
That electromechanical stuff reminds me of digital logic. It *is* digital logic. Just done with switches, relays and cams. Early electronic computers worked just like pinball machines. I saw a working replica of an electromechanical computer at Bletchley Park and it was essentially the same thing.
Pinball machines are hilariously complex, but so are computer chips. Electricity can't count, wait its turn or make decisions, so it takes a lot of trickery to convince it to do that. The chips do it better though, and pack a lot more complexity into a much smaller space.
Pinball machines are good for visuals, but you can learn exactly the same concepts if you take a computer engineering course.
He began the video by showing off a more modern pinball machine with a computer in it. It was frankly more stimulating for the player than the older machine. There's a ton of stuff, such as strobing lights, voice effects and animated displays, that the older machines simply couldn't pull off. Little is lost from the newer machines by putting in a computer, and much is gained.
He sounded disappointed as he said "it's a computer". Again, there isn't much to show there. Not unless the audience knows programming and electronics, that is. There's plenty to explore if you reverse engineer those chips and probe at them with an oscilloscope. But that doesn't make for a good video for general audiences.
@openstreetmap I would suggest rephrasing "...OSM is trans positive." That sounds a little wrong. HIV is still an issue that gets blamed on certain groups.
This isn't a criticism. I say things that get interpreted the wrong way quite frequently. I'm a fan. Keep up the good work.
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Apache #NuttX RTOS going mainstream 👍
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Running an #LLM Locally (PC / Mac)
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705035/5-easy-ways-to-run-an-llm-locally.html
@freemo @LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven Well we need to rename these things to something better to soften the blow of the minor issue of the doors coming off during operation. It's restructuring and a move towards compliance with the regulatory bodies. We will all be getting raises and reducing cost while protecting our image.
We keep this company afloat or in the air. It doesn't matter what we make. WE make the money. 7075 is just Aluminum right? If we were to recycle beer cans, we would be seen as Green and save a lot of money.
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These are common practices in the industry and they have names. Using contracting as a probationary period for hire is called "contract to hire"
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"Three people familiar with the matter said the Department of Homeland Security isn’t expected to buy access to more of this data, nor will the agency make any additional funding available to buy access to this data."
According to the article, "Three people familiar with the matter" said they're expected to stop buying it.
It would be nice if they did, I'm a bit sceptical too.
@olives Some people are afraid to read the secret messages in their Cheerios. Maybe the Cheerios said that the government is going to do the collection themselves. Then again I don't read Aramaic.
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GitHub Actions will run our Automated Test every day ... For Apache #NuttX RTOS on #Ox64 BL808 Emulator
Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/tinyemu3.html#daily-automated-testing
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https://www.notus.org/technology/dhs-access-phone-movements-data
"The Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones — a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people for years.
Since 2018, agencies within the department — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Secret Service — have been buying access to commercially available data that revealed the movement patterns of devices, many inside the United States. Commercially available phone data can be bought and searched without judicial oversight."
#privacy #FourthAmendment
@olives Two suspicious things about this: They are expected to stop buying it and it's an emission.
Did the government learn how to save money?
@thor I wonder how well it would do with old Acid, Gabber or Industrial. Old Goa would be an interesting one too. If it can handle the aforementioned tones along with the ones I mentioned, that's quite the range for a synth.
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The synth we're designing should be pretty good for both trance and vapourwave. It can do big trance leads and pads and has state-variable filters like a Prophet or an Oberheim.
@thor Except for temperature in Celsius instead of Kelvin. There's also using Grams as a measurement of weight when it's a measurement of Mass.
Americans commonly use both systems of measurement. It's mostly where the Metric System just hasn't become easy to use where we differ. Drill bits, taps, dies, thread pitch and various other painful legacy areas are where we have to use it.
Hopefully they took separate measurements instead of just one and converting between the two. That's a really bad habit to get accustomed to.
@thendrix I believe it has already been done with Insulin and Benzos. One causes death, the other causes people to seize out in-between the periods of consciousness where they are severely unhinged.
The US has been decaying for years. Greed isn't always good. Maybe we can outsource this problem too.
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I was wondering how medicine shortage axe would fall on fat meds. If the West doesn’t re-industrialize the population can’t stay this size for long. “Degrowth” aka Communism requires population cullings to stay manageable. Fat drugs won’t be needed as breadlines become common, but basic medicine will also be hard to get as is already happening. Hopefully people figure that out before it’s too late.
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@AmpBenzScientist @freemo @admitsWrongIfProven I personally recommend all new hires get hired into a 1 month probation period.
Most companies will fire you after that time if you're not performing well enough, so giving that period a name and letting them know the stakes up front is just good business.
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