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jhaluska

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#STEM Aficionado, Freelance #DataScientist, #MachineLearning and #biomedical #software writer and #algorithm developer, Founder of Zorbu Software.

#CalvinAndHobbes aficionado and #MrRogers quote spreader.

#nobot

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tubetime, to random
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here's a neat and rare bit of hardware: the Comspec SA-1000 SCSI sidecar for the Amiga 1000!

jhaluska,
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@tubetime Lack of schematics only slow you down.

tubetime, to random
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megafilter

jhaluska,
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@tubetime A lens cap would let more light through.

I'm more curious about the max you can stack and still see something.

zdl, to ai
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Encyclopaedia Metallum¹ just put out an interesting statement² on AI. Despite being in text, I have to make it an image because of character counts. One of the ironies of living in my SF future apparently.

¹ https://www.metal-archives.com/
² https://www.metal-archives.com/news/view/id/296

jhaluska,
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@zdl They should update the saying "An image is worth a thousand words" to "An image for when you have to post 1000 words."

tubetime, to random
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just hit the uhhhhh D'lete key

jhaluska,
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@tubetime Maybe it's some kind of French keyboard?

tubetime, to random
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here's a neat microcontroller. Dallas DS5000T. programs are stored in battery-backed RAM in an encrypted form.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime Encrypted? Interesting.

tubetime, to random
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one of today's pickups is this mystery Xebec RAM card. I can't find any information about it, so I think I'll try reverse engineering it.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime With as much de soldering that you do, I'm surprised you don't' already have one.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime I suspect that this will be the hardest part of this project.

tubetime, to random
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it's another electronics flea market here in silicon valley! slightly rainy today.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime Looks like another Reverse Engineer Project.

fkamiah17, to ai
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Someone take Space Karen's crystal ball away, please.

FT: "Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence next year"

https://archive.is/krhyc

jhaluska,
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@fkamiah17 Drat. Now we know it won't happen.

tubetime, to random
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EPROMs!

jhaluska,
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@tubetime I was having to erase EPROMS with a UV light as late as 2007.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Anyone else just... not particularly moved by travel? I don't necessarily dislike travel, but keeping a garden and a library is my preference 99% of the time. I find most travel stressful and disruptive, and I mostly do it to support books or see family.

jhaluska,
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@ZachWeinersmith Me. I don't desire travel at all. Kind of dread it actually.

These days I think all the unnecessary travel does more environmental harm than good. I get attacked a lot for this view, but very few people want to admit something they enjoy also has negative impacts on the world.

Maybe I'm just spinning a weakness into a strength, but I'm content with where I live...which is why I live here.

tubetime, to random
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think i'll figure out how to refill these old HP plotter pens.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime This sounds messy.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime Maybe when you do it, if I were to try this it would look like somebody attempted to kill me with a sharpie.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Anyone know why there are suddenly a bunch of articles about EV sales slowing down? Like, data seems good? https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61344

jhaluska,
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@ZachWeinersmith The percentage of people who both can afford an EV and an EV is more convenient is saturating. Growth is coming from the slower growth of infrastructure and more diverse models.

arstechnica, to random
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Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates

AI tool was used to create nudes of 12- to 13-year-old classmates.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/florida-middle-schoolers-charged-with-making-deepfake-nudes-of-classmates/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jhaluska,
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@arstechnica If middle schoolers can do it, the genie is out of the bottle.

Deus, (edited ) to privacy
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"The suit alleges they breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the non-profit’s mission to develop AI that benefits humanity."

"Elon is a retard" someone said. I think it's OK to side with him this time. No? 🍿

jhaluska,
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@Deus Elon is just unhappy somebody beat him to the punch.

nixCraft, to random
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Why in god's name would ANYONE pay someone to type words into Google/OpenAI when they could just quickly do it themselves???

jhaluska,
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@nixCraft There are certain styles where you need to know a few critical keywords.

virtualbri, to Youtube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkBAKV1yMg

These are still as good as ever.

jhaluska,
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@virtualbri Stretching "History" now, but honestly I love them so much I don't care. The writing team does so much research it makes it so good.

tubetime, to random
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another delightful video from Posy! his videos always have excellent macro photography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufw0OC2F-tU

jhaluska, (edited )
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@tubetime I love his video/editing style. I'm far from an audiophile or a collector and I still want one.

Just a great collection of facts and engineering explanation.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/bot

jhaluska,
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@ZachWeinersmith I tell people that now that AI has taken over art generation, more people are free to do fulfilling manual labor.

BeAware, to aiart
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This image is not real Pt. 3

jhaluska,
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@BeAware 2024 is the year where I lost my confidence in my ability to tell if a picture is real or fake.

tubetime, to random
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cross section of a high power electric car charging cable. the electric current is so high that the copper wires would overheat, but coolant flows through small tubes in the center of each wire.

jhaluska,
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@tubetime I find this solution both ingenious and insane.

What are the smaller diameter wires for?

flexghost, to random
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Hey.

Just in case you needed to hear this today.

Video of Mister Rogers addressing the viewer directly Someone loves you.

jhaluska,
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@notsle @flexghost I'm a huge Mr Rogers fan, but this isn't true. IIRC, he sang song about saying good night to god and had religious quotes on the first two seasons of the show.

He cut it out later in later seasons as he became increasingly inclusive.

tubetime, to random
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took this hard drive out of my IBM PS/2 to measure the edge connector and noticed I hadn't cleaned up all the corrosion when I recapped it a while back. oops

image/jpeg

jhaluska,
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@tubetime Did you fix the trace or just happy you can't see it any more? 😆

jhaluska, (edited ) to opensource
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A client wanted me to text his fleet when they were speeding. To do that I needed to know the speed limits of the street they're on.

I try to use open source whenever possible, so I hooked into the free Open Street Maps API and was seriously disappointed with the percentage of streets in my state with no speed limits.

I really wish somebody would add those speed limits. Then I remembered I'm somebody.

So I'm adding speed limits. It's oddly satisfying.

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