dr_analog
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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
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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
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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
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3d 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.
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4d ago
Why would it? They attacked him because they thought he was an ICE supporter for wearing hunting (rather than military) camo.
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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.
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4d 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.
dr_analog
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7d ago
any child can join any profession if they work hard and choose through free will to develop smartness; and knowledge
People say they believe this when they argue IQ is fake, but whenever I try to clarify it I get ghosted. I ask them, so, you believe a student that scores 80 on an IQ test, if they study and work hard, can become a doctor? And you would be happy seeing this doctor?
Nobody ever says yes! On some level they appreciate that IQ tests are measuring something real, they're just uncomfortable with the brutality of the intellectual dick measuring.
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9d ago
My bad. I got lost. I read his comment and then came back to it a few hours later and thought it was a different one.
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9d ago
Yeah. Don't mind me, I'm projecting.
Well, it's ordered if the plan is to win the war.
It's deranged if the goal is to seek truth, which is what the public is owed.
Maybe the Minnesota AG can indict the wife on murder charges so that they can subpoena all of the evidence, because I don't see any other way a real investigation will happen.
Also, did the wrong thing happen to Chauvin? I don't believe he really intended to kill GF but he really should have known how dangerous that move was. He previously put someone in the hospital for doing it.
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9d ago
It would be fun if it were true in the same way everyone who was shot by Rittenhouse just happened to be a criminal in some way.
Just for the sake of argument: living with dad is not necessarily the same as court ordered legal custody or evidence of abuse and neglect.
Sometimes kids prefer living with the parent that's more checked out and permissive instead of the responsible one. It's annoyingly common.
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10d ago
Link? Epistemic status of these claims seems like 'social media rumors', to me.
I was joking. Sorry. Yes I agree with you.
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10d ago
A more full treatment of the 2019 officer body cam is here. It's inside of a news segment but no less disturbing. There's the part where a car drives up to her and stops and then a second part later where it drives into her.
CW: This is a first person video of female law enforcement officer being hit by a car. You hear her scream and groan. She dies from this. Hearing it makes it 10x worse to me, for whatever reason.
dr_analog
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10d ago
I contend the bullets were a lot more offensive than the words.
We probably could still use that Minneapolis mega thread, after all.
Addressing only some of your points:
The top down approach to this issue from the administration has been deranged IMO and pure conflict theorist.
I think there should be a credible investigation of the officer to get all of the facts out, even though I think it was justifiable self defense, so far. That probably isn't happening. That's bad.
Separately, I haven't seen many people here argue that the driver was specifically trying to kill him. The dominant belief is that she was recklessly driving away but didn't have good control, she clipped him, and some combination of the two ton vehicle coming right at him and the contact reasonably scared him into shooting her.
If you look at the third video from the officer's POV, it is indeed scary. It very much looks like the same setup of body cam video from 2019: guy in a vehicle, stopped, same distance, floors it and runs over the officer. Takes a second at most. The officer dies from the fatal crushing injuries. You can find both videos in last week's thread if you are inclined.
I freaked out a bit myself just watching the first person video of Good floor her car at him. I would have shot her too.
The bundle of biases I've collected in my life up to now cause me to react that way. To me it seems reasonable.
For fuck's sake, someone (possibly Ross) called her a "fucking bitch" not two seconds after she was shot, which cuts the other way.
That "fucking bitch" only sounds bad if you're not capable of empathizing with the state of mind of someone who opened fire because he thought she was trying to run him over.
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10d ago
That's incredible. I would retweet this, if I didn't want to incur some micropoliticalviolencetarget charges.
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10d ago
What if she's the partner that stays home and tends to the house though?
Congrats!
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?
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