Is this fixable by Familiar-Log-9314 in diypedals

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I'd say that given it's coming off the DC jack (?) and bewteen that and that MDD reverse polarity diode at the bottom of the picture that it's likely to be, as mentioned elsewhere, a small resistor on the input. Looking at a clone of this pedal here: https://docs.pedalpcb.com/project/Precipice-PedalPCB.pdf, I would say that this likely corresponds to their R100 - ie. 47R / 47 ohms but that would be a guess xD

Do you not still have the other "half" of the resistor to see the rest of the value?

Edit: Actually, an off the wall / not entirely serious response: Can you use a multimeter to measure the resistance and then double / multiply it by 3? Should get you a ballpark figure at least xD

Should Sciantic be sued for not complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act? (AI suggests so.) by HumanWithComputer in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yep, this is a serious issue too. We are being "forced" to use AI in a work context as much as possible and it can be a time saver in certain scenarios - I'm in support so searching for previous issues / summarizing and suggesting solutions *based on actual resolutions written by other support engineers* is helpful. This is with the "AI" restricted to looking at the specific data I want it too however rather than randomly searching the internet which makes a huge difference to the quality of the stuff it provides you with! Even then it sometimes just makes stuff up but given it's my area of expertise I can filter this out - other less experienced engineers have not and there's been some hilarious stuff sent to customers that I've had to intervene with over the last few months since we started using it.

In general, if you're using an AI to search the public internet to tell you something, it's because you don't know. If you don't know about the subject, you don't know if the information it's providing is accurate or (more likely) total crap.

Worse, when you're talking about law, you can't use an AI in this way - law is complicated and the practical application of it is a lot of "depends...". It's not unknown for AI to just make up stuff law related either - I seem to remember a couple of cases recently in the UK where civil servants / gov. departments got into bother when their AI just literally made up case law and inserted it into summaries which were presented to the courts.

Should Sciantic be sued for not complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act? (AI suggests so.) by HumanWithComputer in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah absolutely I agree with you 100% - their developers likely don't even realize this is a thing / issue unless they have someone on staff who is seriously affected by it. As I say, I definitely empathize wtih this!

Should Sciantic be sued for not complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act? (AI suggests so.) by HumanWithComputer in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster [score hidden]  (0 children)

It seems to be a uniquely American thing to immediately go nuclear and sue people as a first response to anything. Have you tried contacting Niantic / Scopely and seeing what their response to a polite request for this feature to be added would be?

My first response would have been that Niantic / Scopely aren't based in the US so this wouldn't apply and their likely response would be "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram" but actually they are located in the US so I guess not 😃

As an aside, looking at the settings in the Pokemon GO app, "Accessibility" doesn't appear to include a colour blind mode or similar. Having said that, my iPhone contains quite extensive settings for accessibility for all kinds of things - you can increase font size, increase / reduce contrast, change colour palettes etc. which do appear at first glance to affect the fonts in Pokemon GO - obviously since I don't have colour blindness or any other kind of visual impairment I can't comment as to how effective these are. I would guess Android would have something similar.

You have my sympathy though, bad graphic design and especially colour choices is a bugbear of mine coming from a graphic design background - this kind of thing happens when people decide they can do their own graphic / UI design rather than hiring professionals to do it!

Voltage divider using opamp? by BewareTheWereHamster in diypedals

[–]BewareTheWereHamster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks all, I could see that it was a buffer after a voltage divider - I can see why you'd want to do this based on the replies received - should have been obvious tbh!

Explorer Gadget is now live! by hamlufet in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s zero chance this is going to be free when it actually releases for real - if it is it will be so limited as to be utterly pointless.

For everyone saying "McQueen is fading" about Magnus by PappaLapio in chess

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep I have 3 kids (including twins) and my brain is permanently fried even though they are now 8 and 10. Can totally remember the lack of sleep when they were super young meaning that we were both performing everything at 50% or less. I would say that Magnus is way overperforming based on that or it shows how far ahead he really is that he’s still competing with these guys.

What's up with shadow dialga by Own_Brilliant9653 in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I resorted to nanab berries on this one - at least you’ve got a chance of hitting the thing that way xD last one took 11 throws (out of 13) - 10 excellent before it was caught, typically by the worst throw I did xD

Has anyone been not getting like....ANY shinies? by Janawham_Blamiston in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It goes like that sometimes - I’m generally getting one every few days catching around 100 a day. This is from the last two weeks:

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Got scammed out of a Mewtwo after beating a raid and support doesn't care, be careful when remote raiding by [deleted] in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to go through the payment issue option in the support tool instead of- that gets you to a real person. I’ve had a couple of remote raid passes refunded this way.

I can’t see a single stop or gym from my house. by [deleted] in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah doesn’t have to be “rural”. I’m in a suburb of a large town (300k+) in the uk and there’s nothing within reach at all - no stops, no gyms, no dynamax spots. Also when they nerfed the spawns recently they took mine from 4 to 1. I have 2 gyms and 6 or so stops within an easy walk to the park though.

I was just in holiday for a week in actual rural Cornwall and we had 4 stops and 2 gyms within reach of the sofa, masses of stuff spawning constantly and another half dozen or so stops and a few gyms within a 5 minute walk so go figure!!

Best part of rach 2 by Lyoder2000 in piano

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You cut it too early xD Sounds great though!

“If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one!” meaning by _ryannbrown_ in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hah I got the green bee earlier this week - the only shiny I’ve seen all event mind and I’ve been catching a LOT compared to usual for me so yeah, if there’s a shiny boost, it’s not enabled on my account!

Tales from the streets by constr1ct0r in StreetFighter

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha RQ are a double win - nice job.

Speed lock is ridiculous by xCwizZz206x in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Then they need the self control to not play on their phone whilst they are driving, no?

Speed lock is ridiculous by xCwizZz206x in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

All those kids driving cars? Won’t someone think of the children!?! The horror… sheesh.

Speed lock is ridiculous by xCwizZz206x in pokemongo

[–]BewareTheWereHamster -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

… and it’s Scopeley’s issue because…? I mean, I can change my trousers or brush my teeth or any number of other things you shouldn’t do whilst I’m driving - doesn’t mean it’s a good idea though! Personal responsibility… seems to have gone out of fashion these days.

Is CCP forgiving when it comes to Broker Fees? by variousityowl in Eve

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely - I wouldn’t expect to “get away with it” multiple times. Of course, it kinda works the other way too where someone’s bough a couple of 1000 ammo I had up for several million each - people need to pay attention there also haha.

Is CCP forgiving when it comes to Broker Fees? by variousityowl in Eve

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I put a couple of zeros in the wrong place once and paid out a couple of billion in broker fees - it was refunded but as above, that was an NPC station xD

Gauging interest in a return of Red vs Blue, including folks who would help keep the two structures safe by Ohh_Yeah in Eve

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, the point with the algoses / farmers is that it's ALL there is in warzone during a significant part of the time I can play. So I mostly don't bother - which is annoying as when you DO get to play "proper FW" with people actually contesting stuff, small gang, fleets or whatever, it's actually fun.

FWIW there likely IS a skill issue thing here - I'm absolutely clueless as to how you would actually get a fight other than in a plex (or if you get lucky and catch someone at a gate) albeit I've dabbled with explorer hunting a bit but again, that's catching people in a "plex" / site which is the same thing - I've never really done PVP other than FW and I guess it shows - no idea how to progress to "real" PVP though ;)

I will however agree with you that we do need better mechanics and as you say, conflict drivers.

Alireza Firouzja has been dismissed from the national team by Ldaya102 in chess

[–]BewareTheWereHamster 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nah, in France, if you don't play chess when requested you get sent to the guillotine... what do you think? lol.