dr_analog
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dr_analog
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16hr ago
Congrats!
My wife is a former recruiter, and I think I did absolutely every single thing she told me not to do. I said almost everything she told me not to say. It all worked out in the end, far better than I could have ever dreamed. I donno, maybe all that "Just be yourself" advice isn't complete bullshit after all.
ha, example? Was she like "make sure you know what your greatest weakness is! make it relatable but not terrible and spin it into a positive" and then they asked you and you were like "I have no weaknesses" with a yeschad.jpg smile?
Sorry about that. I should have mentioned NeoPixel (or DotStar) USB-level voltage strips as an option, so used to students starting a shopping list at Adafruit that didn't think to mention it.
Ha, no worries at all dawg. You've helped me so much already.
I'll probably still use what I learned about 12V for non-wearables projects. I'm looking forward to getting a new place and really ricing out my man cave.
LED drivers are more an early high-school thing, but they're just so much better at teaching for loops, modulo operators, and fundamentals of processor timing, to too many students that otherwise get bored out of their gourds dealing with Scratch.
What do you normally teach, exactly?
I've been on hiatus with TRON bike lighting since I had a bunch of everything else going on. Mostly discovering mathacademy.com and making myself do the adult courses for fun.
Though I'm still dabbling. One thing that I wish I had known about a year ago is that they make LED strips that run on 5V instead of 12V (WS2812s instead of WS2815s). Combined with an ESP32 that runs off of 5V, it means I can dispense with 12V power sources and just run everything directly off of a USB-C power source. This allows me to delete a lot of fabrication nuisance: no need for a PCB with shitty buck converters to step down from 12V to 5V and wiring it up accordingly. I understand voltage sags at 5V can discolor LEDs on longer runs, but for my bike wearables project this should not be a concern. I might even be able to get away with not having to make an enclosure at all for the helmets!
I'm annoyed to be discovering this so late. They really should teach LEDs in school. I feel like I'm mostly fumbling in the dark (ha).
We already know what this looks like. It looks like Minnesota. Minnesota law-enforcement doesn't seem to have any interest in policing the mob so long as is stays focused on the right targets.
According to my X feed the Minnesota Sheriff's department is now guarding the ICE facility.
It's heart warming.
ICE is also not only active in Minneapolis. Every blue town has an ICE watch effort but the chaos mostly seems limited to Minneapolis for now.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
The problem is you have to enforce immigration law consistently, nationwide. Otherwise the non-compliant businesses gain a substantial competitive advantage.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
True. And indeed, at some point mag limits are moot. It becomes a question of whether you're a Virgin practicing lightning-fast mag changes vs. Chad just carrying multiple concealed handguns.
I'm discounting the wisdom of open carrying an AR-15 in public in Minneapolis since people seem unhinged enough right now to pick fights with you for having an AR-15 more than they would be too intimidated by the AR-15 to stay away from you.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Really adds a new dimension to the debate over whether handgun magazines should be limited to 10 rounds. How likely am I to be attacked by a group while walking down the street where I need more than 10 rounds? Apparently it's no longer in the realm of "absurdly improbable" but (anxious laughter) "statistically unlikely".
I mean how long before an anti-ICE group attacks another anti-ICE group for doing anti-ICE activities all wrong? And they consider the other anti-ICE group just as bad as (if not worse than) ICE.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Why would it? They attacked him because they thought he was an ICE supporter for wearing hunting (rather than military) camo.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
I wonder when anti-ICE groups will start attacking each other, in the spirit of the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I'm pretty worried about my liberal friends. The common mood is gloom, despair, thoughts of leaving the country.
Whenever I try to bring any nuance into the discussion it seems met with hostility, like I'm personally in favor of abducting dark skinned US citizens and sending them to CECOT.
I try to say things aren't that bad for 99% of the population. People are reacting to freak events and not real life. But it doesn't matter. I'm arguing utilitarian stuff and they're arguing deontology stuff. It feels bad for them to be in a society where Trump is their leader.
I don't really know what to say.
Interesting.
According to this timeline of events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvalde_school_shooting#Timeline_of_events
They originally thought this and began the barricaded shooter playbook. But then they were informed there were kids inside and failed to process the update and switch tactics.
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