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Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3hr ago
The catholic sermons in my suburb are maybe 50:50, and they dont name names in the political part. But we had a lot of rotation due to priest shortage recently, some strike a different tone.
Lazuli
3hr ago
Try The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio.
Pigeon
coo coo
3hr ago
I don't even know how to respond to this. Did I not explain further literally in the same sentence?
dr_analog
razorboy
3hr ago
pic attached in last message wasn't showing up. lets try this one.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3hr ago
replaces the hierarchy based on strength with a hierarchy based on moral goodness
The thing is that goodness applies to many things, including how you use said position. Companies typically have a hierarchy, but high positions in that hierarchy are not really "status" in the conventional sense. The higher salary they bring might be status, but the position itself is largely-exhausted in what you have to do to keep it - managers authority as opposed to owners authority. Of course its not always like this, and sometimes positions do lean more towards feudal fief, but you get the idea. The kind of status you describe christianity as bestowing is managers authority, and it often seems to be opposed to anything but its particular management authority, and that is what creates a quasi-communist impression.
This is going to be, quite-possibly, a below-illiterate tech question, so please bear with me and save all openly expressed disdain for the end.
I run a small business that makes about $20K a year, as a side hustle. I started soon after AI hit the mainstream and have found the $20 a month tier of ChatGPT to be invaluable for streamlining administrivia type tasks such as boilerplate emails, plus helpful for very early brainstorming and having a minimally effective sales pitch in 15 minutes. I still do some amount of cleaning up for these processes, less for the boilerplate things, more for the creative things. I have trained a couple of GPT’s to be focused on the specific tasks I need them for, and will continue to do so as/if I expand.
My question is, am I missing out on some capability by only using the basic bitch version of GPT? Could I be getting more bang for my buck, better sales emails, better crafted first pass sales pitches, more automation, etc, by changing products? Should I use a different LLM company, or pay for API access, or buy a good GPU and train my own sandslave, or what? Or am I fine where I’m at?
So, as mentioned in previous weeks, I've been trying to TRONify my cargo bike and kids' bike helmets the last few weeks and I've never quite appreciated how much of small electronics work is shopping in general and specifically, shopping for plastic pieces of shit. This isn't what I thought I would struggle with. I'm a fairly skilled dev so I thought I would struggle with EE concepts or the dexterity required for soldering or even simply being able to work with a magnifying glass but no, shopping, which I find borderline triggering due to hatred of clutter, is the actual limiting factor for me.
And shopping for an enclosure for housing all of this junk is the challenge. For the bikes themselves I can use standard Hammond plastic enclosures and consumer battery packs, but for bike helmets all of the standard stuff adds way, way too much bulk.
The rough sketch of components I need housed are
- ESP32 board, mounted to a perfboard
- a boost converter to bring the 3.7v put out by the 18650 cell up to 12v for LED lights
- a buck converter to bring 12v down to 5.5 for the ESP32 board
- a charging board with USB-C[1]
- an SPST(?) switch for physically breaking the connection from the battery to everything else
- an N-channel MOSFET for controlling COB LEDs (if I supplement the WS2815s)
- a P-channel MOSFET for having the rest of the load shut off if it detects that a USB charger is connected
- nylon standoffs for the various boards
- a holder/receptacle for the 18650 battery itself
Finding an enclosure that isn't as bulky as shit for this seems impossible, so I'll probably have to 3d print something. Which means I need a 3d printer[2]. From my time being involved with a local Makerspace, my opinion of 3d printers is that they spend most of their time being broken, but I've heard from trusted advisors that that's because my experience has been with 3d printers made by the decadent and pathetic Western concerns and that the Bambu 3d printers from China have changed everything[3]
So... maybe that's my next purchase. Perhaps I can justify the 3d printer as some kind of educational value for the kids.
Does my experience here sound right so far? Small electronics success often hinges on shopping skill?
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I do see combination boost converter/USB chargers for 18650 cells, and that would cut down on complexity/bulk/work, but their amperage is much too low to run LED strips off of so I'm stuck buying individual components for this.
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Though I think if I want a really cool looking transparent enclosure so we can see circuit boards and blinken lights I'll need acrylic covers? Which requires getting a laser cutter too? I wonder what educational value for kids these have...
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So long as you have no opsec concerns from running proprietary firmware that requires a cloud connection to do anything from a nation state that we might go to war with in the near future. Though I'd be kind of amused to see the worst that can happen.
Switching gears (ha), but to avoid making another post, I'll consolidate into this one.
Aliexpress.com has incredible deals but takes forever, so that stalls my TRON helmet project out.
So, in the meantime, I've gotten to triangle dodge charger skydome in my 3d game (pic attached) that was inspired by binge watching the Fast and the Furious series while feverish. I made some generic cyberspace background while waiting for the right time to take a 360 panorama pic of a skyline in my town.
I fixed the texture banding issue. The camera now follows the car. The car can steer and accelerate. It runs okay on my hardware. So... I guess the next priority is to make a race track and add some collision detection to this bitch? A computer controlled car to drive against? Maybe incorporate some engine revving sounds?
I suppose a true Ride or Die Homies game needs something more inspired than a race track though. Like outrunning a nuclear explosion. Or battling a mechanized raptor.
I should be doing this smart and using Unreal Engine or something, instead of writing a 3d engine from scratch, but I got into computers in the first place because I wanted to write a 3d engine (before getting distracted by the world of Linux and networking), so coming back to this feels like addressing some unresolved spiritual concerns.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
3hr ago
It's approved. Feel free to ping me when you post these, it might help get them up faster.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
3hr ago
Some of the prose in On the Marble Cliffs was mind-blowing.
Maybe I’m an illiterate savage or whatever, but I think especially of the lines towards the beginning, describing the snakes in the garden, and it’s just perfect visual imagery.
He really is a wildly underrated writer, almost certainly because he wasn’t the right sort for mid and late 20th century literary circles, and I’m glad he’s seeing a Renaissance.
Pigeon
coo coo
3hr ago
My partner runs circles around me in Mario Kart, and probably has spent more time playing games in the last couple years than I have. She's sunk in probably >20x the time I have in BG3, last I checked, and is enough of a gamer that she started talking mad shit about my brother's unoptimised strats while he and I were playing co-op (note: my first run, 0 familiarity with any mechanics) despite him having completed a couple runs already -- though he's more of a Timmy while she's more of a Spike.
She also used to beat me in WC3 more than 50% of the time when that was relevant. (I did kind of self gimp myself by being interested in relatively high execution strategies that I couldn't perform, and she would just huntress rush me to death)
She is quite competitive and plays to win, though, so now she doesn't play competitive games because she doesn't feel like she could compete at a satisfactory level anymore without putting in enough effort that it would derail other commitments. I can't really disagree -- I've stopped for largely the same reason (though I loosely still play a bit of MTG).
n=1, but they do exist.
Bartender_Venator
4hr ago
Storm of Steel is certainly the classic place to start, but worth remembering that Junger published it at 25 and lived to be 102. Most people only know him for WWI, and so they miss the incredibly rich development of his work afterwards. I'd urge you not to be satisfied without reading either On The Marble Cliffs (fiction) or The Forest Passage (philosophy) to get a taste of the later Junger, both of which are very short books. If you had to pick just one Junger, given your intense reading schedule, I would recommend On The Marble Cliffs (in the newish NYRB translation), which will hopefully give you the taste for more.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
4hr ago
Which is unfortunate and significantly part of modernist Catholicism’s problem with total incoherency.
Catholics can all agree that the specific rules of the Old Testament law have been superseded, while understanding that God instituted just laws and punishments for the Israelites. So it becomes very awkward to say that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” when the everlasting God both was and is implementing death penalties.
I don’t buy sedevacantism or the idea that Francis and other modern popes have been heretics (although Francis probably skated closest to the line), but I do generally treat them like John XII or Alexander VI. Sometimes there are good Popes, sometimes you get a string of bad Popes and in the fullness of time, the damage they cause to the Church will be restored.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4hr ago
Either horn of the dilemma presents an issue.
I think in the general case, the resolution is that love is for a conrete quality at first, and grows independent of them over time. You can consider a bare particular stripped even of its own past, but I dont think thats really relevant to anything. I dont see how that can generalise to loving all humanity, but it well may.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
4hr ago
Drug liberalisation: I believe this was one of Rob Henderson’s canonical examples of luxury beliefs, but it fits here just as well. There are some people who can experiment with psychoactive substances without becoming addicted or developing psychotic symptoms, but these people are rare, and addictive pathways for normal people are predictable and well understood. For most people, experimenting with psychoactive substances will be a net-negative, and you should not gamble on being one of the weird people who can take a lot of LSD and see no ill effects. Ergo, drug liberalisation is almost certainly a net-negative for most people and hence for society as a whole.
To the contrary, there are many who can experiment with alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana without becoming addicts. This isn’t true for fentanyl, but illegal fentanyl is so dangerous that the only people who use it will be stupid/impulsive, so you can’t draw conclusions about the general population from them. The % of people whose lives will be ruined by experimenting with drugs is a minority, though it isn’t a tiny minority and prohibitionists are right to note that drug use is a big social problem. But the options aren’t drugs or no drugs, it’s how much drugs will cost and how easy they will be to acquire. Making them cheaper and easier to acquire via legalization will probably lead to more use, but this must be set against the costs of the drug war, such as the money spent on enforcing it, negatively polarizing people against policing, making it harder to get pain medications people actually need, and making drug use more expensive and dangerous for people for whom it's a net positive. Plus, the drug war is fostering a culture of helplessness that is particularly harmful to the lower class: https://www.themotte.org/post/1850/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/322160?context=8#context
Think about it, what’s the cultural messaging from drug prohibitionists? It’s all about blaming “chyna,” “the border,” or “the Sackler family” for people’s decisions to inject themselves with dangerous substances. Never do they acknowledge that the addicts bear any blame, it’s all about wallowing in collective victimization and helplessness. And now we’re having a trade war, putting hardworking people out of work, for the sake of this biotrash. Drug prohibition needn't include this element, old-school conservatism was much better.
Pigeon
coo coo
4hr ago
Sure, that makes me more likely to accept that there is a large difference between men and women wrt second languages in practice.
astrolabia
4hr ago
This is amazing, it's like Borges' Library of Babel.
I think if I were Amazon, I think I'd have a hard time drawing a line between actual content and low-effort slop. Though honestly that sounds like a great use for LLMs.
sun_the_second
4hr ago
I prompted Deepseek with:
In your criticism, be direct and even-handed, do not provide boilerplate politeness and compliments.
and it replied dryly enough, although don't quote me on the quality of its advice.
Pynewacket
4hr ago
in your estimation, do you think this party will remain small for the foreseeable future?
GBRK
4hr ago
-- It's not clear how accepting white south africans who want to leave South Africa into the United States can possibly be a bad thing for South Africa.
But it is? I'm extremely pro-immigration because immigration is imperialism. It hoovers up people self-selected for being ambitious and hardworking from other countries, thereby strengthening our nation and weakening our rivals at the exact same time. Academia might claim that immigration claim actually benefits both countries because of remittances, but that's just a classic case of privileging legible measures of contribution (in this case, the accounting value of remittances) over real, but illegible benefits (all the ways people improve their communities my living in them.)
To be clear, this church is full of racists and hypocrites. To believe only white people emigration hurts source countries indicates a massive level of paternalism and contempt for nonwhite peoples, while at the same time believing Afrikaners aren't deserving of humanitarian treatment is of course just pro facie racist against Afrikaners. But the specific argument they're making here isn't entirely wrong.
Quantumfreakonomics
4hr ago
This is just how institutional Christianity talks nowadays. When Pope Francis changed the catechism to be against capital punishment, he didn’t say, “executions are a sin,” he said, “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4hr ago
Firstly, women feel a social and interpersonal pressure to have sex they don't want. Like they need a good reason not to have sex with someone.
Related to the first... Badgering women into having sex with you after they've said no is apparently fine in some people's minds.
Its an interesting sort of "relation" between the two. Im not particularly worried about the badgering because you dont need a reason. Basically. The more liberal lykurg just saw this as a character flaw. Today, I doubt both that women in general can stop being so agreeable, and that its entirely flawed. Still, "intimidating guys out of talking my daughter into things" feels like a desperate last resort. I still think the agreeable instinct can at least be directed away from people you first met in the bar that evening, and failing that, Id try to keep them in safe circumstances.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
4hr ago
The issue here (if I understand correctly) isn't people from work calling for no good reason, it's "Jan from the tax relief department" calling the number to try to scam you. I get 6 or so of the latter type of calls every day, though thankfully not at night so they wouldn't wake me up.
benmmurphy
4hr ago
The enforcement/investigation for KYC/AML looks like a 4th amendment violation or at least looks like its structured to do something that would be a 4th amendment violation if the government directly did the thing.
Damn, Trump actually did something good. Here's hoping this doesn't get bogged down by the courts.
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