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nickzoic

@nickzoic@aus.social

Nanoinfluencer & flâneur.

"These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, /Johnny Mnemonic/

So much for the Fermi Paradox.

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gsuberland, to random
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citations in 1960s aerospace papers are wild

nickzoic,
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@gsuberland Meta.

PanDaemonium, to BurningMan

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    nickzoic,
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    @PanDaemonium "Describe in single words, only the good things which come into your mind about the 2020s."

    foone, to random
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    random-question: I have a set of 3D coordinates. I need to render them to see what the relationship between them looks like, in some kind of system where I can easily rotate the camera around them and zoom in and out.

    What's the easiest way to do this?

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    @Unixbigot @foone that's ... a use I hadn't thought of.

    Gnuplot is generally useable for this kind of thing.

    Or there's some python libraries whose names I don't recall over breakfast but will reply again when I'm at my larger computer ...

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    nickzoic,
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    @acdha https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7

    Kels_316, to random
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    wife had never heard the word "boondie' - like a ball of clay or whatever. People from Canberra a weird.

    nickzoic,
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    @jpm @Kels_316 Taylorswift

    decryption, to random
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    nickzoic,
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    @firstdogonthemoon @decryption is it just me, or does this whole thing seem kind of half-arsed?

    b0rk, (edited ) to random
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    some people who make programming easier

    (who am I missing?)

    nickzoic,
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    @b0rk You, tomorrow, when it's your turn to help someone else 😃

    jpm, to random
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    I am at a 5-year-old birthday party at “inflatable world”

    Pray for mojo

    nickzoic,
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    @jpm g'wan get in there and fall off some stuff.

    yakkoj, to random
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    If I ever absolutely have to get one of those wireless APs with the 8 antennas, I'm making the SSID be "SPIDER_He_Is_Our_Hero"

    nickzoic,
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    @yakkoj What, not The Eight Legged Groove Machine?

    decryption, to random
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    nickzoic,
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    @decryption The zeitgeist.

    smitty, to random

    “AI is going to take our jobs!”

    AI:

    nickzoic,
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    @smitty Counterpoint: we've all worked with that guy.

    mattcen, to random
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    My parents have one of these controls for their central heating (https://www.manualsdir.com/manuals/734421/bonaire-comfort-control-rf_lv.html?page=8), and it's faulty. Looks like maybe the thermostat is faulty and gives the wrong temperature reading, so doesn't trigger the heater to turn on.
    This is the second controller they've had in the ~15 years of the heater's lifetime, and they retail at ~$300 if you can find one at all.
    I'm wondering (a) if it's repairable, or (b) whether I can work out how it works and replace it with an Arduino. It's got 4 wires going to it; I suspect two are power, and the other two are signal. So I just need work out what signals it sends, right? How hard can it be? 🙃

    nickzoic,
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    @mattcen @projectgus there's generally a little LED or LCD symbol on the thermostat to say if it's asking the heater to turn on right now, often some kind of ≈ symbol ... that'll help you cut the problem in half.

    If there's a big central heating fan it'll almost certainly be an AC motor with a start capacitor, if the start capacitor is failing then the motor will audibly hum or buzz while sluggishly starting to turn, and once it gets moving it'll be fine. Once it's failed it'll move hardly at all and just sit there humming. Often you can then give it a little push with a stick (careful!) in the correct direction and it'll start just fine, if that's what it's doing its definitely a start cap.

    Sometimes the caps are intermittent or work fine once they're warm.

    decryption, to random
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    nickzoic,
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    @decryption $500? Bargain. You'd need a lot of air though.

    VeryBadLlama, to random
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    I knew someday I'd get too old to recognize new celebrities but I did not expect to get too old to recognize what celebrities are famous for. every day I go "is that a new singer" and then a person born in 2007 goes "ew no they're a peeble streamer on doop" as I inch closer to the grave

    nickzoic,
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    @VeryBadLlama ... And they don't even doop their own peebles, they just provide ironic commentary, blip-memes and atonal mouth noises over yowza!s of notorious peeblers alting their yass.

    North, to random
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    What do people on here think about SparkFun? I was asked if I knew anything about some OSHWA-related drama recently and I told Nate that in my corner of the internet (which I described as largely leftist, queer, proficient, and "maker"-averse) SparkFun is probably a close-second to Adafruit for US-based folks in terms of OSHW, but that we both represent a largely untrustworthy commercial interest so that nothing we do is either thrilling or disappointing. Am I right about that?

    nickzoic,
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    @North I still have some SparkFun ESP32 Things around here, and some significant parts of MicroPython's ESP32 port were initially developed on them, so I think you can say we're cool :-).

    I'm not really aware of OSHWA-related anythings, but I will say that more sponsorship of Open Source projects by OSHW manufacturers will always be appreciated.

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    @North eg: https://nick.zoic.org/art/esp32-capacitive-sensors/

    ssamulczyk, to rower
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    I’m thinking about upgrading my budget bike from 1x10 / combo to less modest GX/Force 1x12… I’ve got a guilty conscience because of the price…🤡🤣 Should I?🤣 @cycling @rower

    nickzoic,
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    @ssamulczyk @boardmad @cycling @rower mine goes down to 24/36 and I love it :-)

    nickzoic,
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    @ssamulczyk @boardmad @cycling @rower Ah, well, I'm old and fat and it's hilly around here.

    My favourite thing about bikes and their gearing is that so many parts are swappable. If you're bumping into the top all the time move things up and if you're bumping into the bottom move them down. I don't use the lowest of the low gears very often but I use the 48/11 even more rarely, though it's nice when it happens 🙂

    Migueldeicaza, to random
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    Ffmpeg options is the poster child for why you should spend time, effort and money on design.

    And I am a fan of ffmpeg.

    nickzoic,
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    @erraggy @Migueldeicaza Ffmpeg-GPT.

    The only problem with this is it might actually work.

    jpm, to random
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    Whoops I accidentally bought the wrong smart plug from BigW. Still, only $15, let’s see if I can hack it to run Tasmota or OpenBeken. Case is press-fit, no screws. Pry it open from the long sides to break the bead then sneak along the edges to pop it open

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    nickzoic,
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    @jpm That's what I'd expect ... the UART pins just hanging out for programming purposes, and the relays switched off a GPIO pin. Very often there's little test points hooked up to the GPIO, eg: the sonoff switches just have a little row of unpopulated 0.1" header pads.

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    @jpm @projectgus :-( sounds horrible. I'm surprised there are no pogo pin points on the board or daughterboard but yeah I guess maybe they flash them en mass before assembly.

    Or maybe there's a bootloader on the module already so you don't need to reset it, it just comes up and waits a bit for the UART to tell it what to do, and if nothing, boots regularly?

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    @jpm @projectgus right but what i meant is if you power it up with LOG_TX pulled low will it go into loader mode? (thus saving you the effort of soldering something onto /RESET)

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    welp, how'd i get into THIS situation? let's rewind...

    nickzoic,
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    @tubetime Oh, yeah, that rings a bell, zero and three are swapped in Sun4 ...

    http://obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/scsi_info.html

    nickzoic,
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    @tubetime yeah so external drives used to ship with all the little jumpers off (ID=0) and if you plugged that into your Sun4 it wouldn't boot and then you'd call the service department ... so they wanted to make the main disk some other ID but everyone assumes the boot volume is sd0 ... so some evil genius came up with this plan.

    The good external drives had a little pushbutton wheel thingy on the back to change their ID :-)

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    @tubetime The best bit about this message is that I guarantee you there are still Sun4s in production somewhere.

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