Engineer equivalent of a Rōnin. I am no longer bound to any one master and free to use my skills to help the poor and slay the rich.
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Last Notes npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m But you see, that's the magic for me. I have this incredibly high bar set inside of me for no reason whatsoever and it keeps me from even *starting*. You inspire me by not being blocked by some artificially high bar and just build stuff. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 Big if true, it would make the "Battle of Wildberries" one of the more impactful ones of the war. The Russian economy looks, from the outside, like a Jenga tower with a *lot* of blocks pulled out. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Chris O translating a report on the shortages of gas causing the Russian army a lot of problems. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…gj0l I love this so much 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…kna2 I was sad when I looked in my storage unit and discovered that some mice had decided making nest material out of the half box of blue line tractor fed paper was the thing to do. My wife helpfully suggested I get over it by saying "At least someone got some use out of it, you don't even have a 132 column printer any more." 🤣 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…euv4 and he left me behind to run the BONC group! 🤣 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I find it amusing that my credit card gives me "reward points" that I can shop for things with out of their catalog, or I can just turn them into cash at a rate of 1000pts = $1. And when I look at things like "Nikon Camera, 183,000 pts" alternatively that's $1,830.00 in cash which would buy the camera and a bunch of accessories and a nice book on Photography. Seems odd that anyone would buy items with points then. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Anyone know what the copyright status on that Softbank slide deck is? I mean if you were organizing a bunch of tech workers to start a union it would be a good start, right? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck An #electronics question, do you put your low pass filter into the inverted feedback path of your opamp circuits? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…mzjz When I worked at Google it was a strong Python shop and Guido worked there too. I recall making a comment like "Python is object oriented like Visual Basic is." but yeah. I had been part of the original Java team and we had hashed out what it meant to be 'truly' object oriented again and again. When I joined Blekko it was a purely perl shop. And ngl, perl 5 was more natural for me to code in than Python. At the end of the day though it was just another tool. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…duc4 He couldn't remember "They're large and in charge." 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Oh we talk about the sins of lust, envy, gluttony, Etc. But nobody talks about the sin of rather than learning how make(1) works, writing a bespoke build system out of a scripting language. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…qrdz That's pretty neat! Can he make the clock on the VCR blink 12:00? 😉 @nprofile…ggha npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I am wondering if they used AI to create a bunch of 'calculator' web pages that drive engagement so you can show ads is one use of LLMs. It really should update the page year in the bottom to 2026 though (from 2023) if it wants to rank. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…z9em I don't know of one, my assumption was that with zero passwords allowed the password fail would trigger it. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck And these LED strips take 12V ?!? So what I thought were standard RGB LED strips have this four pin pinout which is 12V, R, G, B. And now I'm thinking, maybe the strips were custom made for someone. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vkla @nprofile…j95m npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Is ganging together two 78xx linear regulators a thing? This is a third party linear power supply and I'm really doubting their design skills. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Three easy steps to converting C++ to HDL: npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Today's mantra is: npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…xhv0 Hmmm, interesting. The Seeed "Sensecraft HMI" seems to be a fork or work-alike ecosystem to the TRMNL stuff. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I have such a broken brain sometimes. I'm looking at these two strips of 150 RGB LEDs I picked for *free* from a garage sale table, and telling myself I don't want to cut them into more usefully sized pieces for a project. Dude, they were FREE, cut the dang strips. Such a weird head space. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…cy5p We need to find a qr code that encodes an exploit that takes the camera off line to wear on t-shirts. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Maybe I need better iconography? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…75wv Yeah, they don't really get it. When I'm feeling snarky I might respond with something like, "How about this, take a week of business receipts you won't get because this computer and printer aren't working, then divide by 4. That's my cost to come over and fix it for you." 😃 I would often though switch the conversation from what they think its "worth" to fix, to what they are "losing" by not having it working. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vw20 I love this so much! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Whenever I run out of space in my pen cup I go through and try to write with all the pens in the cup and throw out the ones that no longer write. It's somewhat cathartic. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…fw69 You can just bet they are gonna ask something like "If the US attacks us in any way we want assurances from every other NATO country that they will attack the US." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Secret video of the US Iranian negotiations uncovered! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…gqk6 How does that work? Do you have a description of what a fraud resistant implementation of universal health care would look like? I ask because medicare fraud from doctors telling medicare they did a thing when they didn't, seems to work just as well when everyone is covered by health care. So I'm trying to understand the mechanism here. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…245y @nprofile…eqsh Which is exactly what they did when it passed 99.99 cents/gallon. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…n07e @nprofile…e5jr npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…e5jr mumble, mumble, Chesterson's Fence, mumble, mumble npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh That would be Elon Musk blockading the Straight of Daly City 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vkla So if you click "OK" does the checkout option work? They have at that point a legally acquired "intent" that you know about the costs and are okay with them. Of course just not shipping to the US period is something some of them do. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vkla npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…kmeq npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Okay #geology what kind of #rock is this from central Texas? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Any idea what #bird this might be in Texas? It’s about 4” long (10 cm) ? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck A more in depth follow up to malus.sh which is both satire *and* a product (it will actually do what you ask it to do). npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…p533 Because nothing says "free speech" like punishing speech you don't like. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…jk4m For me the scariest weapons are the ones where the people using them don't realize they are weapons. @nprofile…l30y has a bunch of good ones in the Old Man's War series, like a 'warp field' unit that warps you into an alternate universe. Put your enemy there and leave them, to live their life knowing they'll never get back. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Here's one for @nprofile…6mny where it again emphasizes that *voting matters* y'all. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…m6cc @nprofile…8g2z I'm thinking @nprofile…cy5p needs to up her game 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck So the power company is replacing a series of poles on the street in an adjacent neighborhood. Taking out wood poles, putting in wood poles. The new poles add another crossbar for more power lines (on site worker said it was because of all the EV chargers being installed, unverified) But it got me wondering what they do with the "old" poles. Their treated so can't burn them. Beaver playground? Speakeasy for crows? Surely they must do SOMETHING with them. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…uatj This paper (https://longevity.stanford.edu/new-map-of-life-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2018/06/Generational-Shifts-in-Age-and-Predictors-of-Homeownership-1.pdf) provides some interesting thoughts. But an important one is that it really really helps if you are married when you buy your home. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…uatj Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…v2v2 Its the less functional side of Capitalism 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…65q8 Definitely would give you a leg up on a new fashion trend. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…65q8 The things that make a radio out of software (fast ADC/DAC, simple array processing, reliable oscillators) are pretty cheap these days. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…0tjl npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…z9em Yeah, I read that and was reminded of conversations people had with artists in the 60's who were using a cornucopia of psychedelic drugs claiming it "opened up their expression" and pointing out that the people over dosing on drugs were simply "doing it wrong." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m wow. I should get the ones here selling for $2 each sell 'em to you for $4 each you could sell 'em for $8 each and everyone wins 😆 I wonder if that is tariffs on US goods or something. Seems like 99% of the Easter candy here is made by a brand owned by Nestle though. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck This is the day I'm reminded of my grandmother's neighbor. Who polite people called 'frugal' and impolite people called 'cheap.' Every year, the day after Easter, she would buy a bunch of solid chocolate bunnies. Then throughout the year when she made hot chocolate she'd break off a piece of bunny and melt it in a cup of hot milk. As a kid, I just knew that she made a great cup of hot chocolate. 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Meanwhile, Microsoft Customer support rep on loan to NASA says, "I don't think it is our problem, Outlook works fine for me." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…gj0l Wow, really?!? This is the stupidest idea since drinking bleach to cure COVID[1] npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…mv7s Don't suppose you have EMC probes do you? That could give you the polarization of the noise which might help identify the source. If you rotate the probe so it is pointed vertically, does the noise change? Next a piece of grounded foil (or plated PCB) above the probe? And then below the probe. The biggest culprits in my lab seem to be cheap USB chargers and/or LED bulbs. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…85zk @nprofile…y4e4 And future penal colony resident, right? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…dk9z Wow, those are not words you can say out loud and still live inside the borders of Russia I think. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 Perhaps he could march back to Moscow with his infantry battalion and tell Volva himself, hmm? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck In random news, my wife bought a box of "5 hair dryers and a curling iron" at a garage sale for $7 only to find that one of them was a salon dryer (lists for $160) and she's like "Well I never would have bought *this* for $160 but it does work really well, and the 12' cord is surprisingly useful." 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Sigh npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…8qh7 apparently I am too silly to see the icon that allows it! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…k3vj Wait, what? Hmm, web interface or app? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…08zc Those are pretty amazing! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…xwug Kind of like impeachment doesn't work if the Senate is corrupt. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…qrdz Needs a mug I think. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…ycuw Because I always carry a copy of the print edition of The Onion! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Now I want to be able to quote post but put a CW on it. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…dqzr One of the ones I dislike were browser add-ons that basically scraped your email every time you filled in a field on a page labeled "email" and sent that along to a data broker. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…waav Obviously not living in Santa Fe so it doesn't help me to sign, but genuinely curious why not just sue to get existing ordinances that prevent free speech assembly off the books? Its something I'd like to see in our local city charter as well. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…axx0 Sigh. Its always the case. Perhaps they should have read more 'banned' books as a child. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I'm going with "Tetherball for cats" on this one: npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Then there was that time I bought a plasma torch at a garage sale and didn't have anywhere to store it so it was in my trunk for a while. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…d60a Maybe she can get a job with Kristi over at Slut of the Americas? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…r8sg Getting ideas for your next van build? 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 I expect he refused to follow an order to send the Army Rangers into combat (as he should, it would be an illegal order as Congress has not authorized a war). Will be interesting to see how far down the ranks they have to go to find someone willing to throw away their career for a tour of Nuremberg. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…afw4 RIP. I met George at a Usenix workshop and was struck by his curiosity. It is probably because I was young and naive, but I miss attending workshops where everyone was just interested in exploring the things that computers could do. Those don't seem to happen much anymore. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Interesting, this was one of the launch pictures that was shown on "NASA TV." It shows the astronaut egress module (the emergency exit) sliding down the wires toward the shelter during launch. (I put an arrow pointing to it). Speculation is that this keeps it out of harm's way when the full thrust of the rocket goes by. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…z0au Ah yes, Russia and Ukraine teaching the world that if they don't have nuclear weapons they at risk of someone who does have them randomly deciding to invade their country. It makes me ill. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…w3ul Wait, it flew into a rock right? 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…245y I would argue with the notion that they have "one" strategy, it seems clear to me they are attacking on several fronts. One of which is straight up voter suppression, one is creating "probable cause" for giving them more time to set up court cases, one is creating a kidnapping environment for black/brown citizens to scare them from actually voting, and this EO which looks like they will try to argue in court that the post office has to do what they say. All of it adds up. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck If I were to summarize this article, it would be "You remember how 'collateral debt obligations' aka the Mortgage Crisis of 2008/2009 killed Lehman brothers? This is going to kill more companies than that." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 Maybe the Russians realize that in 2 months their own economy will collapse so there will be a new government which will likely have its own ideas? Could be a good thing. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh And yet if they could build a 16 unit apartment complex around a muni track in SF they'd probably rent all 16 units all the time. I had an interesting discussion with a tax assessor candidate about whether or not you had to pay a parcel tax if you're "lot" was over a street. Which is to say if you built a house say 20' above a local roadway who pays that property tax? Not surprisingly no one had asked them that before. 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…l7vu @nprofile…eqsh npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Adding scripting to programs was a mistake npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Okay this is wild, I don't think I've ever considered having a spot welder on my bench :-) https://www.fnirsi.com/products/swm-20 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Will be interesting to see if they can get a jury to convict him (I suspect there is an even chance they wouldn't). That said, having had discussions with the traffic engineer in my town I have come to appreciate that there is a depth to these types of decisions that I had not previously appreciated. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…3tsk That's pretty awesome. I need him to do a video on where exactly to probe things to get these measurements 🙂. I ran into some of these issues making my Battlebots speed controller but the conduction losses were the worst. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I find it annoying that I can buy an entire "super zoom" camera for half the price of a long lens for my Canon 5D. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…rpqv @nprofile…k6gw npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…sfce Yeah, this irritates me too. I ordered something "From the US warehouse" and when the shipping notice came it was starting out in Shenzen. So really? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…mwpl I bet it was a punchbowl invitation. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Okay this is kind of funny (and presumably it is what you get when AI writes your text) The Planck Length is the smallest possible distance, so if you wanted to represent all of your measurements accurately in an integer you could use plancks. But computer floating point precision can't handle it. So every line of this table gives a different number of planck's per nanometer! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…sejq Again? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…4hp5 Jurisdiction gives them the power of condemnation. They would have to compensate the original owners of course. The Navajo Nation, for example, maintains the Land Trust for that. There is case law on the the Navajo Nation Eminent Domains statute, but I cannot find the case I have a memory of where the tribe used it to take some ranch land for use in a water project. But glad to hear they are forward thinking on solar! Go Choctaw Nation! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…qrdz Sounds like the joke, "God really doesn't mind swearing, I mean his own kid was named 'Jesus Fucking Christ' after all." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck The other event on today's walk were these caterpillar's rappelling down off the trees. One landed on my shirt, so I put it on my finger and took a picture! #Caterpillar npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Today's walk I was greeted with this wonderful tulip! #Bloomscrolling
