dr_analog
razorboy
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dr_analog
razorboy
1d ago
I cannot believe what kids take away from movies.
I was really sensitive to letting my kids see anything at age 4.. Then a friend invited us over to watch My Neighbor Totoro and I thought surely this completely harmless Studio Ghibli movie with no bad guys, no violence, no anything but cuteness would be fine. Surely.
Then the next day my wife went for a walk on her own and left him with his older brother. About ten minutes later the to 4yo slipped out the door without older brother noticing. Mom was on her way back from her walk and found him, three blocks away(!)
4yo was re-nacting the scene in Totoro where the older sister runs around the countryside at length looking for her lost younger sister. Except looking for mom.
wdym?? that guy is peak sigma male
more seriously I'm thinking something closer to Cyberpunk 2077 motif, I'm saying TRON because it's more widely recognized and still involves the same tech tree from a lighting perspective
Parts arrived for my TRON helmet/vest/bike lighting project. I spent the weekend reading about ESP32 programming, buck converters, logic level shifters, etc.
I spent a long time trying to diagnose problems with the logic level shifter before just skipping it. Then the LEDs on the lighting strip lit up fine with the ESP32 driving it; got a basic POC working. Next it's time to pick a battery pack and also find a project box I can cram everything into. I guess also figure out if I want to use clear heat shrink tubing to protect the LED strips or get silicone diffuser tubing.
Also I'm getting a bit annoyed that everything I need comes in a 6-12 pack that costs $10 on Amazon. Prime shipping has it's down sides I guess.
Also there's, like, a lot of annoying one millimeter misalignments to deal with? My ESP32 doesn't fit into my breadboard, and neither does the buck converter. Only the logic level shifter does. Cool. Guessing it'll be some different annoying combination of issues with a protoboard?
It would be really nice to walk into a store or sit at a small electronics work bench just to see what all of the options are rather than blindly guessing at what I might need off of a web site.
This is what I mostly don't enjoy about small electronics hacking, feels mostly like you need to be very familiar with catalogs to avoid wasting a ton of time or making a lot of compromises.
dr_analog
razorboy
4d ago
Yeah I agree with this. I see these banned books week posters at my library. My ten seconds of thinking reaction is: good old librarians, defending free speech.
Then I think about it for a few minutes and wonder how books actually could be banned, and that that looks like, Also what happens if they don't take any particular stand on banning books, like marking it as BANNED in the online catalog, but instead reduce copies in stock to zero.
My local library doesn't stock The Bell Curve by Murray. That's odd. It's a best seller in psychology that sold more than a million copies. It never even shows up in the online catalog, period. You would never know it existed.
Did the librarians deliberately disappear it? Do they say "look even though we have a five story building downtown in a blue town in a blue state that allocates significant revenue to this library we have limited funds and cannot stock every book"? How would I even begin to contest this.
I assume the ideal librarian chooses books to stock based on some standard like popularity but also public good value but I realize it's probably much more arbitrary than this. And a lot more inscrutable for outsiders.
I note they do have eight copies of Gender Queer, 4 currently loaned out.
dr_analog
razorboy
5d ago
Sure, but do we really need drawings of it, and not the character as she (or he, if we're being correct in our terminology) thinking about the experience, what he expected, and how that was different from reality?
I think so. It's a graphic memoir.
Let me just dump some assorted background opinions that will probably offend approximately everyone, unintentionally.
- I homeschool my kids currently
- I hope to never send them to public school
- If I do send them to public school, I very much don't want public school to teach them sex ed
- I wouldn't really mind if my teenagers found pornography
- I would mind if my pre-teenage kids found pornography, but not really as a moral crisis, but it would just be annoying to have to explain and then have to deal with them playing around
- All things considered, Gender Queer looks pretty tame and actually a very insightful book. I imagine if you're asexual and don't know it, life is fucking weird and this book would have helped you considerably if you had found it. If you're not asexual your reaction is probably "wow, thank god I have normal sexuality"
- I do believe transgenderism could be partially a social contagion caused condition, but Gender Queer is not the kind of book that turns anyone trans
So, yeah, I don't consider the awkward sex acts in Gender Queer pornographic or erotic. But I also am not that concerned about the risk even if some kids just flip through it to look for the dick scene and don't ever read a single word.
I'm fine with a school library stocking it for teenagers, but I'd be shocked if they were happily letting 8 or 9 year olds take it out and read it.
IMO that's still missing the point. They were excited about it and tried to do it and found out it was awkward and disturbing rather than exciting. Like the same panel and the next several:
"I can't feel anything"
"This was much hotter when it was only in my imagination"
"Hey Z... let's try something else"
In thought balloons: "But now that I've had sex a few times I'm not sure I really need any more. Trying to get off in front of someone is kind of weird."
"I think when I do orgasm, it's not because of my body but in spite of it"
They were clearly acting out roles assigned to them by others and by media. If anything it was saying "putting on a strap-on and sucking it isn't what being queer is about"
To me this is practically anti-erotica. It's like reading about asexual people describing PIV sex as rubbing their elbows together.
It’s about a kid growing up not feeling feminine, struggling to fit into pre-built sexual and gender roles, experimenting, and ultimately realizing she's asexual and nonbinary.
It's definitionally unsexy as a whole.
It's a blowjob, dude. It’s erotica by its very nature. It shouldn’t be in the public library.
It's actually a strap-on. And neither of the characters finds it sexy. The scene is meant to be awkward.
Confused teens not even knowing how to fuck might be gross but it doesn't strike me as erotica.
dr_analog
razorboy
6d ago
So if you're my roommate and you're hiding from ICE and they show up at the door and I answer I can simply tell them to go fuck themselves and there's nothing they can do about it.
What Judge Dugan is alleged to have done is basically this, so... seems like she's in the clear.
Kind of surprised a federal judge signed off on her arrest.
dr_analog
razorboy
7d ago
Don't tell anyone but the stock exchanges are all in datacenters in NJ now. The trading floor on Wall Street is just for show.
dr_analog
razorboy
7d ago
Thanks, good info. I'm going to try ordering some things and see how they go.
There are premanufactured flexible 'sheets' of WS2815s that may be easier to work with for something like a vest, if they have enough density and brightness for your task.
Oh jeez I was just planning to do the contours of our cargo bike with strips but after all, why not? Why shouldn't I paper every square inch of the box with these sheets?
Looking up this term has convinced me that any research related to child rearing is absolutely insane.
Yes. Fucking everyone in the world has opinions on parenting. It's worse than politics.
Re: Ferberizing
I think if I knew we were looking at 2 years of that shit we would have been much more hard about it. Something about being in the midst of it made it unthinkable.
We were all set to do it with the second kid but she barely put up a fuss.
dr_analog
razorboy
9d ago
Okay so if I was willing to forego individual addressing of LEDs, sounds like COB lights would be a good way to go?
I was imagining creating a 3D model of where every pixel was and being able to do a really sophisticated animation based on that (e.g. a pulse starting at some center like my vest and radiating out to the edges of my helmet and bottom of my bike), but there's only going to be a couple of light strips per item (helmet, bicycle, vest) so I don't imagine anything too intricate will show up and I should just consider controlling the color of all strips on an item as a single unit.
I'm kind of tempted to make TRON style lights for my bicycle helmet, bicycle and vest for myself and my family. A central controller would broadcast what LED should display what color. This way when we cruise around town we can all have synchronized lights and look absolutely sick.
I'm not really worried about doing the Arduino/ESP stuff or the wiring, but I would like to avoid buying a bunch of random stuff blindly and struggling with various LED light technologies. Anyone familiar with what I actually want? Regular very common LED light strips are too dim to use during the daytime. Thoughts?
Every baby is different. Try not to compare your baby to your friends’ babies too much, especially when it comes to sleep. Our baby is not a good sleeper and my husband and I are still taking it in shifts every night 4 months out because our little one is up every 1-2 hrs. I’ve had people tell me that he’s probably cold, hungry, sleeping too much during the day etc., and no, he is not, he’s just a crap sleeper.
You have my sympathy.
Our first kid was a crap sleeper for 2 years and it almost killed me.
Someone asked me once what I wanted for Christmas and I just said "... 3 nights in a row where I can sleep 8 hours a night" and I had to leave the room in case I started lolsobbing.
The second kid? No problem.
dr_analog
razorboy
10d ago
100,000 accountants? Sounds like heaven.
Quick googling says we have 1.6 million accountants and auditors in the US. Which isn't even factoring in all of the southeast Asians they farm work out to.
dr_analog
razorboy
11d ago
Right, we should go back to horses. Except, you know, the whole problem of being buried in manure, which is why NYC originally enthusiastically adopted the automobile.
This isn't like eliminating cars in Dallas Texas.
NYC has robust subway, railroad, and bike infrastructure. Busses would also be a lot more useful if they weren't stuck behind cars all of the time.
you could presumably look at the list of packages that are depended on and see how many installs they have
the package that looks like an important one that only has 10 installs vs the rest that have millions is a good clue
it's way too late to look at the SBOM though. installing a rogue package recommended by an LLM already risks totally compromising development
dr_analog
razorboy
11d ago
At least this one is funny.
As someone involved in infosec, my reaction to this is the guy pressed up against the window going "yes ... hahaha ... yes!" sickos meme
dr_analog
razorboy
12d ago
what incentive does Russia have to participate in peace talks if they're not interested?
dr_analog
razorboy
14d ago
'Rittenhouse was found to be acting in self defense therefore Murder by anybody left/POC-aligned that I find morally justified is apparently not a crime' thinking from the Left side of the aisle you see lately is insane
whoa wait. what did I miss?
dr_analog
razorboy
16d ago
The last time I found someone's phone it was so responsibly locked down I couldn't even read notifications.
The best I could do was write my own phone number on a sheet of paper and take a picture of it with their phone. This way it had some chance of appearing in their cloud Photos collection.
But inevitably they had a friend of theirs call it, and I answered, and we arranged a meet.
A lolcow on Twitter the other day said there's two kinds of trans people. There's Reddit trans and there's 4chan trans. And then I was enlightened.
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