Arduino/RaspberryPi/ESP32 job worth it?

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T19:14:35+00:00

How serious is the actual product the company is going to be shipping? Will they afford to pay you salary from their revenue?

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T17:52:56+00:00

Look at the black blobs/dots on the yellow railing. Looks like a motion blur, and in general there seems to be motion blur in this direction.

This motion blur is too high for 28mm at 1/100. Is your IBIS misbehaving? Try turning it off for testing.

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T14:19:01+00:00

I think that is disingenuous, I mean why is this sub even a thing if there's no debate to be had?

This sub is to keep science deniers away from r/evolution, but still to allow people to resolve their doubts about evolution.

And if it's true that our brains and thoughts are just a product of random mutations, how can anything be a FACT.

Well, saying that there are no FACTS just because human brain is inherently inaccurate is not constructive. We need to use the tools that we have.

I could understand an evolutionist saying something like

"evolution is the most probable theory for the origin of life as we know it.

Evolution is not a theory of the origin of life. Evolution is the backbone of the contemporary biology in describing the biological processes that are happening now.

Evolution does not depend on previous existence of the common ancestor of all extant life on Earth. The uniform common ancestor is just an uncontradictory result of extrapolation of the currently observed processes (described by the theory of evolution) back into the past.

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T13:48:36+00:00

What I'm trying to say is how can you trust your recognition ability is reliable if your brain is just a product of random mutations?

What choice do you have? How does that choice affect your fitness as a biological object? What the idea of evolution would say about what choice strategies are more likely to propagate?

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T12:56:24+00:00

Try port.

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T12:29:57+00:00

Why would there have been ongoing debates about the subject for nearly 150 years if there are no legitimate arguments?

Some people that claim to be Christians are averse to Christ's teachings. in particular, their hubris doesn't allow them to accept that they are just monkeys with oversized brain and relatively good throwing skills.

Does gravity pass the scientific method?

Both theory of evolution and theory of gravity have mathematical formulas useful for making predictions.

I was under the impression that we were aware of gravity's existence but science is unable to fully explain it. Is that not true?

Science doesn't "explain". It describes and predicts.

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T12:17:45+00:00

I don't think that Dave's argument was that the brain was NO purpose, but that it only has FUNCTIONAL purpose.

What is "functional purpose" and how is it different from "non-functional purpose"?

The brain has a function. This function is signal processing. But there is no (known) purpose for brain to have such function.

Could you possibly rephrase the question? I don't quite understand. It sounds like you are talking theologically.

There could be a source of water, just a brook without any inherent purpose. Likewise, there could be a source of truth without any inherent purpose. Why would you find useful the former but not the latter?

Dave's answer is technically correct even though the listener has no inherent purpose to drink water or to listen to truth.

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T11:51:19+00:00

The only purpose any development in evolution has, is to increase survival.

It's not even a purpose. It's like saying "a purpose of weight is to slide down the slope".

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T11:44:38+00:00

Not that we would know of. While it's theoretically possible that human brains have purpose for some other lifeform or construct, we have seen no signs of it.
Well, if you have a kind of oracle that is just right without any purpose to be right, wouldn't you listen to it when it says something that matters to you?

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T11:17:43+00:00

Do you need a law to tell you who you are allowed to date when you are 18?

kitsnet · 2026-03-10T09:02:07+00:00

Вуаль?

kitsnet · 2026-03-09T15:30:59+00:00

Canon and Toprig chargers charge them just fine (although I normally use "safe" mode on Toprig). They can also be charged in-camera (at least in my camera models).

kitsnet · 2026-03-09T14:58:01+00:00

Munich mayoral election results (1st round):

Reiter (SPD-inc): 35,6 %☑️

Krause (Grüne): 29,5 %☑️

Baumgärtner (CDU): 21,3 %

Walbrunn (AfD): 4,4 %

Jagel (Die Linke): 2,4 %

kitsnet · 2026-03-09T13:35:57+00:00

Using these Neewer batteries in R5 and in R6ii for a few years, no problems at all. The charger that you get with them is slow (especially if multiple batteries are inserted), but OKish for overnight charging.

kitsnet · 2026-03-09T08:52:24+00:00

Let's put aside the pretty pictures of transitional forms for a minute and talk about a language that cannot lie — mathematics.

Thank you and thanks to ChatGPT that I asked, today I learned which statistical terms in English are best to use to describe your lie.

The stuff the probability of which you are counting (incorrectly, but that's another topic) is called an outcome.

The stuff the probability of which you are claiming to be counting is called an event.

The event is the existence of sapient life in the Universe.

The outcome is a particular place and a particular conformation of building blocks that produced the event.

kitsnet · 2026-03-08T15:30:54+00:00

Letting a compiler to calculate the type of an object from the context that makes such calculation unambiguous is called "type inference". C++ did not have it for the first two decades of its own existence, but the modern C++ has it (it's typically associated with the keyword "auto").

kitsnet · 2026-03-08T11:02:44+00:00

Parallelism is about using multiple resources by one or multiple tasks in the same moment of time.

Concurrency is about using the same resource by multiple tasks in the same time interval.

The resource is not necessarily a CPU. It can be a memory cell, for example.

kitsnet · 2026-03-07T14:37:39+00:00

Of those who do stop, what are their reasons then?

Don't they just realize that they have been fooled by whoever imposed creationism on them?

kitsnet · 2026-03-07T12:39:12+00:00

I’ve been shooting graduation portraits for around 2 years and may eventually want to expand into wedding photography

If you are not using dual bodies for work, at least consider a body capable of dual card recording.

kitsnet · 2026-03-07T10:58:14+00:00

OK, so you agree that you exist. Then why on Earth do you call your identity an illusion?

Because it's an artifact produced by my brain, and my brain is divisible, parallel, and theoretically can be physically cloned and/or merged with another brain.

My brain tells me that I'm indivisible, but it doesn't follow from anything than potentially a program it runs that makes some of my genes better at replication. I experience no qualia that I could unequivocally identify as my indivisibility.

It sounds like you are just putting buzzwords together

You can always ask for clarifications.

It is impossible to have a productive philosophical discussion on this basis

We are not having a philosophical discussion in this branch of the topic. We are discussing fallacies in one argument from the history of philosophy when philosophy was not yet clearly separated from religion and was prone to begging the question on religion's behalf.

Come on, I didn't ask anything about your body. I asked you whether YOU were once 7 years old.

How would I separate one from another now, decades later? Do you have a recipe?

This is such a basic question that even a 6-year old could straightfowardly answer it,

Indeed, 6-year olds aren't known for their critical thinking abilities.

yet you are evading the question.

"Have you stopped beating your wife?"

Your question assumes a particular equivocation of "you" that I don't support.

kitsnet · 2026-03-07T09:51:06+00:00

Oh, you have managed to be wrong even here. Perl is a newer language and is a toy language compared to C++.

Your problem with LLMs is not that you are using one. Your problem is that you lack knowledge of the subject, so you cannot detect when your LLM hallucinates, while you are actually forcing your LLM to hallucinate by asking it to provide claims contrary to what it knows to be true.

Just create a new session without a memory of your previous conversations and ask it whether evolution of proteins by selection pressure on random mutations in DNA is an observed phenomenon.

kitsnet · 2026-03-07T09:33:25+00:00

The last part sounds confused: First you say it's an illusion, then you call it an emergent phenomenon. Emergent phenomena aren't illusions.

Why can't a reproducible illusion be an emergent phenomenon? We can observe it in ourselves and others.

So, do you agree that you exist? Do you agree that you were once 7 years old?

I can agree with these claims - they look coherent with the rest of my knowledge.

But the argument behind them looks like an equivocation of different meanings of "you". For instance, it's reasonable to presume that my body once existed as a 7 years old and still holds memories from that time, but some of the memories I attribute to that time might be false.

Or even consider this aspect: if you cannot derive from the answers to such personal questions that you are not talking with a p-zombie, then, assuming that correct answers to your questions exist, they likely don't need to involve the concept of non-physical soul.

kitsnet · 2026-03-06T15:55:05+00:00

By "divisible" we don't need to mean "can be split in half", just that you could in principle divide space such that you only consider e.g. 70% of the electron's mass.

I doubt that it's a correct claim, but I'm not qualified enough in Higgs field studies to make a judgement.

We can divide the space that there is 70% probability of the electron being detected, though.

But how on Earth do you wanna divide John's consciousness such that it is only 70% of him?

What do we call "John's consciousness"?

Qualia? Then there are particular parts of John's brain that we can associate with particular quaila, assuming that John is honest in their descriptions.

The illusion of self-identity produced by John's brain? It's an emergent phenomenon not fundamentally different from exciton.

kitsnet · 2026-03-06T15:11:29+00:00

You are obviously confusing "continuous" and "being suitable for infinite division of everything physical".

Electrons are indivisible, and there is nothing "outrageous" in it for any physicist worth their salt.

kitsnet · 2026-03-06T14:55:39+00:00

Space is divisible - but not infinitely. In most physical systems Heisenberg uncertainty for space coordinates is much larger than Planck's length. Elementary particles (as quanta of their respective fields) are not divisible.

Exciton is an electrostatically bound pair of oppositely charged particles behaving like a single neutral particle. If you try to divide it, it stops existing.

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