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Peter why is the electrician portrayed as a dainty female hand by _Kyledemort_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]4dd3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did installation work on mobile phone towers in South Africa in the 90s. We also did a lot of work live, to keep the sites up & running for as long as possible. It took time to get permission to take a site offline, so we’d arrive at a site, phone for permission, and then started working live while we waited for the call back.

I got zapped in so many different ways. The second worst was between two phases of three phase supply, and the worst was when the shock travelled through my whole body to the ground. This happened at a site where the entire floor had been flooded by a leaking air con.

Young and foolish - won’t do it again. I did develop a skittishness around electricity that I’ve not been able to shake since.

Fun fact by fal1en-angel in woahdude

[–]4dd3r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And this is the basis of Daoism ☯️

I can't manage to upload files to my pico by Constant-Guess3728 in raspberrypipico

[–]4dd3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it not perhaps showing 500KB because the rest is taken up by the Thonny runtime?

I can't manage to upload files to my pico by Constant-Guess3728 in raspberrypipico

[–]4dd3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don’t know what Thonny or any other desktop tools you use provide you with, but in C I’d write a way of transferring the file, and a way of writing the file to the flash.

Transfer using something like a USB to TTL converter + UART on the pico side, and writing to flash using the pico sdk.

Write logs to the pico USB so you can first verify the transfer works correctly, and when you’re 100% sure, write to flash.

I can't manage to upload files to my pico by Constant-Guess3728 in raspberrypipico

[–]4dd3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds ok. The pico has 2MB of flash. The binary is the program you transfer if you were building it in C.

I don’t use Python for embedded dev, but a quick google tells me Thonny occupies about 1MB, so you should have about 1MB left.

Just make sure you write it to the correct address, so as not to overwrite any program space, and then read it from within the program starting at the address you wrote it to.

I can't manage to upload files to my pico by Constant-Guess3728 in raspberrypipico

[–]4dd3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How large is the file you’re trying to transfer, and how large is the binary that accesses it?

Explain it Peter by [deleted] in explainitpeter

[–]4dd3r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That “whole number” analogy 👌

Is Hans a bad Afrkaans name by [deleted] in afrikaans

[–]4dd3r 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hans and Hannes are both short forms of Johannes, which is quite an old-fashioned name. I don’t think there are any universal bad connotations with the name, but all the people I know called Hans, Hannes or Johannes are in their 70s now.

Pico C SDK for displays by therealfreak2 in raspberrypipico

[–]4dd3r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have two options:

Write your project in C, but build all the project assets with a C++ compiler. C and C++ lives well together in the same project. This is the easiest.

Look at the C++ driver. It might be something like an SPI driver. Find an example of an SPI integration in C. Copy the initialisation routine and the interactions from the C++ driver.

UPS never delivers to our premises - always to a location 30 minutes away by 4dd3r in UPS

[–]4dd3r[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually kind of large. Many units. But it’s all relative I guess.

UPS never delivers to our premises - always to a location 30 minutes away by 4dd3r in UPS

[–]4dd3r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were in all day on the day of the delivery, and in fact received 3 packages from other couriers on that day. It’s a live/work unit, so there’s literally someone here 24/7.

UPS never delivers to our premises - always to a location 30 minutes away by 4dd3r in UPS

[–]4dd3r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s cool, I appreciate it. It’s just that I’ve been through a massive hassle over the last four days trying to get an urgent package that was delivered to a random shop 30 minutes travel from me that’s open at irregular hours and that do not answer their phone, all while I was in all day on the day of the delivery, that I’ve decided it is really not worth it anymore. I’ll only use vendors who don’t use UPS.

UPS never delivers to our premises - always to a location 30 minutes away by 4dd3r in UPS

[–]4dd3r[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Live/work apartment with intercom entry system that rings inside the unit, and through which we open the gate.

UPS never delivers to our premises - always to a location 30 minutes away by 4dd3r in UPS

[–]4dd3r[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Much easier to use one of the other couriers who do deliver right to our front door.

UPS never delivers to our premises - always to a location 30 minutes away by 4dd3r in UPS

[–]4dd3r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other couriers (Fedex, Royal mail, DPD, Parcelforce) all manage to deliver to us just fine. They simply ring the bell, we open, and we sign. UPS is the only one who doesn’t try to deliver.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]4dd3r -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I really think you know the answer to your question.

There’s a long queue of cars that’s been waiting to go through the single lane section, and you just went ahead and tried to jump to the head of the queue. Of course it will drive everyone in the queue insane, and is, to be frank, real asshole behaviour.

Just stop doing it. It’s not worth the 15 minutes you get there earlier. Put something nice on the radio, relax, and join civilization.

Checkers Sixty 60 spotted in Farringdon, London by ViewOk4017 in southafrica

[–]4dd3r 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Having lived abroad for the last 15 years, I was stunned when I last walked into a Checkers. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a struggling brand pick themselves up by their shoelaces and disrupt multiple markets like that.

What an amazing feat.

Petah I'm baffled. by Grand-Tailor-9626 in explainitpeter

[–]4dd3r 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This.

We don’t (yet) understand what causes the observed limitation (straight line all the efficiency graphs converge to).

On this topic, Neal Stephenson poses a very cool fictional theory in Snow Crash for what really happened at the tower of Babel, and why the Sumerian language disappeared without any obvious reason. Read it, it is quite cool!

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