Show newer

@freemo @QOTO wow! I guess that's the price of the best Mastodon instance I know. Thank you!

Just paid for another year upfront for the servers. Cost me about $1,500 and there are still some monthly fees added to that... QOTO aint cheap :)

@QOTO

I have been really struggling to find the joy I used to find in coding lately and I'm not really sure why...

My new greatest accomplishment is getting freemo outed as a BDSM enjoyer.

The publication, tweet or retweet of this picture is punishable by 30 days of prison or a fine of 3000 rubles in Russia.

Shame if people on the Internet were to copy it everywhere.

@jch

I sure have. Two points

1) according to the autopsy level his blood serum level of fentanyl would have been high for a new user but is within acceptable limits of someone who had been prescribed fentanyl over a long period of time and very tolerable for a drug addict. In short, it was within the limits some people would have who were on a doctor prescribed dose of the drug, not at all the lethal limit people suggest. I presented this some time ago whent he subject was fresh and shared the medical guidelines and report on my feed.

2) speculating about if the fentynal was a contributing factor that weakened his heart enough so that he was less tolerant of the suffocation and therefore a factor in his death isnt really all the relevant to Chauvin's innocence anyway. The fact that he sat on the man for 4+ minutes after he was told his heart stopped, regardless of why it stopped, and refusing to let the officer give his lifeless body CPR is more than damning enough to make the fentynal issue irrelevant.
@zleap @icedquinn

@zleap @freemo nobody comes out of prisons reformed. they're just storage facilities where people end up getting psychologically broken, probably injured and improperly healed, institutionalized, then abandoned back to society in worse shape than they started.

it's about as moronic and having people memorize answers for 10 years and then calling them smart.

If you arive 5 minutes early to my house from a scheduled hang out session please expect to sit on my door step twiddling your thumbs for exactly 5 minutes, thanks.

There is something seriously wrong in the UK

I am not sure what is going on here, but how some people got to think that this is ACCEPTABLE is really beyond me.

Spiked by INJECTION: Women 'needled with date rape drugs' in nightclubs in Edinburgh and Liverpool leaving them facing HIV checks as police arrest man in Nottingham after three attacks there in two weeks

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

Preprint of our paper "GSTools v1.3: A toolbox for geostatistical modelling in Python" accepted for discussion in Geoscientific Model Development

gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/g

qoto.org/@Pat/1071225642916938

@Pat: again, we agree about a lot 👏
Commenting on a few points of yours:

> _“I know that most actors self-identify as ‘progressive’, whatever that means, but the above-the-line producers, directors, editors who decide what the final product looks like – those guys are putting out racist content.”_

I meant those people, yes: actors, directors, producers and scriptwriters. Especially the celebrity types.

> _“I watch a lot films, and 8 out of 10 Hollywood films have racist content.”_

Since you watch a lot of films, I'll assume you've watched at least ten Hollywood films released in 2020. Among those, there should be (at least) eight films with “racist content”, according to you. **Would you care listing eight 2020 Hollywood films plus a succint description of the racist content in each?**

> _“As I said, college is supposed to teach those critical reasoning skills, so kids can learn to put those things into context themselves. But they come into college from a wide range of experiences.”_

OK, I _could_ concede that **seventeen-year-olds** _might_ need those warnings and explanations. Let's assume some of them may be that immature or simply inexperienced.

Would you then concede that, in principle, _nobody_ **above twenty** should need trigger warnings, advisories about “graphic” or “explicit” content, edited or softened versions of books/films/photographs/paintings, etc?

> _“People of color are still portrayed stereotypically in a lot of Hollywood films.”_

I'd generalise with this variant of your own sentence, to summarise my position: _“people ~~of color~~ are still portrayed stereotypically in a lot of ~~Hollywood films~~ places.”_

, as useful heuristics and for humour, are everywhere, and that is not always a bad thing. People like me (software engineers, Spaniards, forty-somethings, introverts) are portrayed stereotypically _all the time_ — as are native Americans, poets, paraplegics, lesbians, counterfeiters, libertarians, participants in eating contests, CEO's, Mormons, British pensioners, and chemistry students.

This fixation with (against) stereotypes about very narrow subsets of the population, simply because those subsets endured very specific miserable situations at particular places and at particular times, is inconsistent, distracting, and exhausting. The majority of the population today does not discriminate against blacks any more than they unconsciously discriminate against British pensioners, Mormons, or introverts. But this atmosphere of denunciation, extreme sensitivity, and _guilty-unless-proven-innocent_ makes us all fearful, suspicious, less creative and free, and much less fun.

Let's combat , and all other forms of meaningful discrimination, where they occur. But only there.

/cc @bonifartius

Just tested her charging off a 100W capable USB-C generic Anker power brick.

At 82% charge she pulls in 88W (according to the Storm2) / 90W (according to my charging cable that displays the wattage on the charging cable itself). The USB-C charging it is operating at 19V.

So it certainly gets very close to the full capacity of USB-C's power delivery limits when charging too!

@zpartacoos
@Electronics

Show thread

Just tested her charging off a 100W capable USB-C generic Anker power brick.

At 82% charge she pulls in 88W (according to the Storm2) / 90W (according to my charging cable that displays the wattage on the charging cable itself). The USB-C charging it is operating at 19V.

So it certainly gets very close to the full capacity of USB-C's power delivery limits when charging too!

@zpartacoos
@Electronics

Show thread

Here is the review of the Storm2 Liquid as requested (after owning for an hour or so). Not much to review really other than to make the following points.

This is a 93.5Wh portable emergency battle I just received one of the first copies of as an early kickstarter backer. It uses 8x 18650 internal Li-ion batteries.

The screen is loaded with tons of information in a very sexy high resolution display with an impressive color range. The info reported on the main screen and info screen are: Internal battery voltage and current, time running, input/output/combined current/voltage/wattage (so for example it shows what voltage the USB-c I/O are negotiated at), battery and CPU temp separately, it even tells you the internal battery voltage of each of the 4 parallel cells separately in addition to the combined battery voltage.

Not just the screen is sexy but the whole case really and you can see the 8 li-ion cells inside.

Comes with USB-C and DC-jack input ports that can also be switched to output ports. Has an additional USB-C output port and USB-A output port as well.

The DC jack acting as an output port means you can use it to charge non-USB devices and even comes with some alligator clip outputs for the DC-jack and you can easily buy standard output jack adapters to connect to any format dc jack imaginable.

Obviously the output DC jack setting lets you configure the voltage in 0.1V increments up to 25.2V, I think it handles either 3A or 5A output, need to check spec. However irf the DC-jack output is on as you adjust the voltage it updates the current out of that port in real-time which is useful.

Overall so far I cant find a single thing to complain about, this thing has all the data and features id expect and want and done as stylish as they could have hoped to do. IT is also about as small as you can get since 90% of the space is the batteries.

@zpartacoos @Electronics

Wooootttt after a 4 month wait since backing it on kickstarter my Storm2 Liquid finally arrived (2 of those months was shipping time). Cant wait to plat
Y with this sexy beast.

Show older
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.