L. Wasserman @Lwasserman@qoto.org

@joey_zozo I did beat XenoSaga.

@joey_zozo I played most of it, but never beat it. Once I got to the second disk with all the exposition, I took it back to the friend that I borrowed it from and demanded my summer back.

@joey_zozo Console gaming. I'd say I'm a pretty serious gamer, but I don't play multiplayer games. I'm a JRPG/puzzle game fan. I mean, I'll happily put away a Western RPG, and I liked Borderlands, but mostly, I like weird stuff.

@joey_zozo I've been meaning to toy with the kinect myself. I have a few in a bag from XBox 360's gone by...

@joey_zozo That article reminds me of one other possibly related thing. XBox Kinects can be installed on a Windows PC. You don't need the fancy PC version, and a used Kinect is pretty cheap. There are supposed to be software libraries in .NET that are already built to use it, and the Kinect is supposed to be able to detect depth; not sure how. You could give that a whirl. Of course, then your wand would be dependent on the Kinect, which is obsolete.

@joey_zozo Been there.

@joey_zozo I hope it helps. Luckily, it's a similar to my project back in school. Bear in mind that that was about 15 years ago, so while the chips may still exist, there are likely better options for microcontrollers.

Again, RF design isn't really my bag, but back in college, we had to do a project where we were using trilateration and a RF transmitters and receivers to locate a soccer player on a field. We only got as far as a rough proof of concept, but I can tell you that the RF PIC microcontrollers have a built-in signal strength value, that we were using to determine distance.

@joey_zozo I watched your video. The technique that you're describing is called Trilateration. In the 2D plane, you can find a point with three reference points. For a 3D area, you're going to need a fourth point, since there are circumstances where three spheres can still yield two potential points. That's the basics of how GPS works, except that they used hyperbolic parabaloids instead of spheres, I believe.

@joey_zozo I'm not great in RF, but I think @freemo is. I'll take a look after work.

@coldwave In nature? In the fridge? It sounds pretty and disgusting.

@joey_zozo So far, Arch is working out for me. I am still a bit confused about the differences in the way that the admin password works, compared to Debian, but otherwise, everything is behaving fine.

@joey_zozo Weird...

@hansw @joey_zozo Where are you seeing arr2[]? I saw arr2=[], but not just arr2[]...

@joey_zozo It kinda looks like your homework was trying to show you an insertion sort algorithm. You kinda jumped over it by using the built-in sort functions. It just depends on what your goal is.

@freemo I really feel like with our electoral system the way it currently is, it is very hard for a third party candidate to win. Hence the ranked voting.

@freemo Compared to the other lunatic? Yes. Lesser of two evils. Don't get me wrong, I definitely would have preferred someone else, but until the entire country has ranked voting, Biden's current platform is the most acceptable to me, at least.

@munitor Sure. Let me know when.

@munitor I'll do what I can, but I'm not a process engineer. Usually, someone tells me the process that they'd like to automate, and I program PLCs and HMIs to make that happen. I have done work in a fair number of different industries though.

@metapsyche This will not end well...