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attilakinali

@attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com

Expert on chocolate consumption

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attilakinali, to random
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What's with the obsession of USians to measure thicknesses in ounces?

I can kind of understand measuring copper thickness of a PCB in oz/ft^2, as that is easier to measure than actual thickness in the µm range. Especially if you don't care about the thickness being even.

But who the f*** came up with the idea of measuring leather thickness in oz? What thickness is an 5oz leather? And does that change with each leather type or do you just pretend it's some ideal animal hide of known density?

attilakinali,
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The only measure more ridiculous than this, that I know of, is measuring nails in pence. Yes, the price that nails had somewhen in the 18th century is the way how nail thickness and length are measured. Today. In the 21th century.

🤦‍♂️

#SIunits

mansr, to random
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Could it be that people no longer know how to craft good search queries?

attilakinali,
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@mansr Did they ever know?

20 years ago, I showed engineering students how to use google to find stuff in minutes after they told me that they have been looking for days and found nothing.

Today, we have way more non-technical people online. And these have way less of an understanding of how computers work and interpret search strings. It's no wonder that people are even less able to google for stuff than they were 20 years ago.

mansr, to random
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People keep complaining that it's harder to find things online now than 20 years ago. Do any of them stop to think about how much harder it is to make a search engine now than 20 years ago? Unlikely.

attilakinali,
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@mansr It is harder to find things? I remember the good old days of altavista, of having to wade through dozens of pages of unrelated search results to find that one link I was looking for.

Yeah, search engines have gotten more in-your-face with sponsored results, there is more SEO that obfuscates what we are actually looking for, but overall, we get far more and more relevant results than we ever did.

azonenberg, to random
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New ebay score!

No idea what condition it's in, need to find or make a breakout for it.

Anybody know of a readily available commercial or OSH breakout before I design one of my own?

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg Congrats! The SA.22 is a nice Rb standard. The tiny header-socket at the bottom is a bit of a unfortunate design choice, but otherwise it's quite solid. If you need manuals, let me know.

BTW: there are breakout boards floating around ebay from time to time... though making one yourself is probably quicker.

attilakinali,
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@k5em
Prices vary quite wildly on the used market. Anything below 200$ is ok, IMHO. Below 100$ is a good price.

I don't know what the SA.22 costs new, but similar Rb standards are usually in the 2000$ range for single piece.

@azonenberg

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg @k5em You can be sure that the seller didn't test either.

mikarv, to random
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absolute chaos on a new unmoderated listserv this week as tens of people used the ‘thumbs up’ feature in outlook, which apparently now sends an email, causing an unstoppable torrent

attilakinali,
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@mikarv Outlook, adding features to email that nobody ever wanted, nobody needs and break the base assumptions how email works since 1997.

mansr, to random
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Is this different from the regular Loctite, I wonder.

attilakinali,
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@mansr The normal ones? No, they are regular superglue. At best, they have paperwork to prove that they do not contain anything really toxic. At best...

The non-normal ones use a different adhesive that can be resorbed, i.e. you don't have to remove them from crevices they got into. But these are not the stuff you usually get on amazon or your local pharmacy.

attilakinali,
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@mansr I don't think the rest-chain of the cyanoacrylates poses a significant difference in the behaviour of the glue. Maybe the longer chains delay the polymerization reaction a bit, which might be helpful in applications where things are generally very wet... like when there is blood around. AFAIK the first siture glues were off the shelve super glue.

azonenberg, to random
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After a very windy afternoon Puget Sound Energy is now tracking 140 separate outages across the region affecting roughly 22.1K buildings.

Lab is operating on generator power and some equipment shut down when a loose UPS EBM cable resulted in running out of battery before the generator started.

So much for a nice relaxing weekend. Guess it's an excuse to do some hardware maintenance I had been putting off trying to avoid downtime.

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg I think, the US having such an bad power grid is the best advertisement for small scale solar power anyone could wish for.

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg If northern Germany has good enough weather to do solar at industrial scale, then all of the continental US are perfect! You not only have much more sunny days than northern Germany, but also a much higher angle at which the sun shines, thus giving higher output per m^2.

As for outages: It doesn't matter whether they a large scale generation/distribution problem or a small scale distribution problem. Point is you have outages and solar panels on your roof would solve both of them.

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg Divine Copulating Bovines! You have a huge power usage. The average single family home over here uses 3-5MWh/a. You are at 10 times that!

I guess, the only way forward would be to put up one of these 50m tall wind power plants. That should be enough for most days 😜

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg Oh.. I see. Yes, if you have a fully equipped electronics lab running 24/7, then your power consumption will be high. Especially high-speed/high-frequency measurement equipment.

kissane, to random
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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

attilakinali,
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@kissane As someone who spent over a decade write OSS, one that millions of people use every day, I can wholeheartedly say: f*ck this guy. We had so many bright and productive people who had to leave projects because they needed to put food on the table and after a long workday had no energy left to keep on coding for other people.

OSS has an idealistic aspect, but at the end of the day, everyone has bills to pay. They can either do that working on OSS or on commercial software.

TerryHancock, (edited ) to random
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"Sough" is a word I've seen plenty of times in writing, and I knew what it meant (make a sigh or woosh like wind blowing).

But I wasn't sure what the correct pronunciation was. I guessed it might rhyme with "through" or "rough" or "sow" or "so".

So I looked it up, and found three totally different pronunciations ("suf", "so" and "sow") listed as correct. Very unsatisfying!

Which do you prefer?

attilakinali,
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@TerryHancock Dear friend. Please, use IPA when describing pronunciation. English is really one of The Wurst of The Wurst languages when it comes to describe pronunciation.

Until you correct your ways, you will not get any chocolate!

mattferrell, to analog
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How can analog computing impact our daily lives?

Check out our video on it, here: https://youtu.be/6Y6FJVqzivc

Or check out the page on our website, here: https://undecidedmf.com/why-the-future-of-ai-computers-will-be-analog/

#Undecidedmf #Analog #AI

attilakinali,
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@mattferrell Uhmm... You are aware that the computer that you show in the first minute, as an example of an analog computer is the Harwell Witch, which was a decimal computer and not analog?

I'm sorry for being nit-picky.. but... 😅

dgoldsmith, to random
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I keep seeing the news about lunar time presented as “the Moon is getting its own time zone." What's actually happening is the Moon is getting its own time standard. The problem being solved is that time passes slightly more quickly on the Moon compared to Earth (due to General Relativity) and so the Moon needs its own time standard for precise measurements and navigation. UTC is the time standard for measuring time on Earth, and LTC is being created for the Moon.

attilakinali,
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@dgoldsmith You seem to be knowledgeable on this topic. Could you explain why we do not just compensate for gravitational red shift on the moon the same way we do for the various NMI labs that are at different altitudes and thus run at slightly different rates? Why do we need LTC when just using UTC with the correct definition of the second (i.e. defined at zero gravitational field) would be sufficient?

attilakinali, to random
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Today in #PhotographicExperiments: The nib of an Pilot 823 #fountainpen really close up.

attilakinali, to random
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Dear Fediverse,

I am currently at a place with very German internet and a Berlin firewall. Ie everything but ports 80 and 443 are block

This means I can ssh home as I have an ssh server running on port 443, but I cannot run wireguard, as that runs on a different port.

I remember once reading somewhere that on can run ssh and wireguard on the same port and some multiplexing thingy would disentangle the two. But my google foo is too weak to find anything

Does someone remember how to do that?

attilakinali, to random
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Today in: "This shouldn't look like this"

attilakinali,
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@mansr That someone is me! I don't know how that happened, or when it happened. From the crust on everything, I estimate that it must have been more than a decade.

It also looks like a fuse failed to fuse and something else had to fuse instead.

Given the very sorry state of electrical installations in this state in general and in this building in particular, I am not surprised that stuff like this never got fixed.

At least, now it will get fixed.

mansr, to random
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I see people are freaking out over federation working as intended again.

attilakinali,
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@mansr Hmm? What kind of drama is unfolding now?

attilakinali,
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@mansr Uh... how unfederative of them!

attilakinali, to random
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Reasons why I love physical books over pdfs: I can clearly remember what a book looked like, even if I can't remember its title. Hence finding it is just a quite browsing of the shelves.

A pdf is just a filename. It has no color, no texture, no smell. (ok, the last one is a good thing). So finding a specific pdf depends solely on remembering its title, or bits of it. Which of the 28'000 pdfs in the 7000 directories is the one I'm looking for?

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