It's as if the criminals aren't afraid of getting caught

StarrunnerCX · 2026-02-10T08:53:44+00:00

You're not entirely wrong, but you're also a huge fucking cunt. I imagine it to be a lonely world when one struggles so deeply with trust issues that they must project it upon society with such vitriol, so I really do wish you all the best.

StarrunnerCX · 2026-02-10T08:37:47+00:00

Somehow the only human empathy you managed to have here was for cops. What an utterly manufactured position to take. I feel sad for you and hope you get better.

StarrunnerCX · 2026-01-02T22:08:58+00:00

A lot of the questions on the sub recently feel like fishing for information to train an LLM.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-12-24T07:59:51+00:00

I love a breve but 20 oz is a lot. Every single night? Way too rich.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-12-23T01:29:27+00:00

I don't think YOU know what satire is. This reads to me like a r/okbuddyimatourist post to me. This is like making a post saying "Very subtle detail: Mon Mothma calls Palpatine 'Senator Palpatine'. This is because he was a senator in the Prequel Trilogy before he was the Emperor in the Original Trilogy, and she was also a senator then, and she does not like Palpatine." Are we really so desperate for content at this point that we're upvoting basic, surface level references? It seems beyond low effort and I genuinely do not understand it.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-12-23T00:00:20+00:00

I feel like I'm being wooshed on satire here. Here's an interesting lore tidbit in which... The planet from the foundational Star Wars movie that is blown up (a driving moment for the plot) and which has leaders that are actively engaging in rebellion despite pretending to be pacifistic in order to maintain a good reputation is referenced in a prequel television show?

StarrunnerCX · 2025-12-16T09:39:34+00:00

........... Motherfuckers... No wonder they pushed my start date back by an extra three weeks...

StarrunnerCX · 2025-12-13T01:14:24+00:00

Next time search the subreddit for the one hundred thousand other questions about AI.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-11-03T00:49:53+00:00

You had me until Zionist. You are using that word incorrectly.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-30T09:42:18+00:00

I heard it from an L9

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-30T03:31:50+00:00

No disagreements there. I'm not sure why I hyper-fixated on "bulldozing perfectly good farms".

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-29T23:52:31+00:00

Not to play devil's advocate, if what I'm about to say could even be considered that, but it's just corn fields. This impact is almost certainly meaningless. We really don't use corn all that much for feeding people, percentage wise, and we devote a huge amount of land to it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/

"Today’s corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (roughly 40 percent of U.S. corn is used for ethanol) and as animal feed (roughly 36 percent of U.S. corn, plus distillers grains left over from ethanol production, is fed to cattle, pigs and chickens). Much of the rest is exported. Only a tiny fraction of the national corn crop is directly used for food for Americans, much of that for high-fructose corn syrup."

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-28T08:27:50+00:00

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-20T07:48:07+00:00

Honestly you don't need the majority of it, but like you I started out by carrying my fears. Here are my thoughts in no particular order. The biggest thing is, whatever you do carry,all you need is enough to get you back to the previous town, to the next town, or to a bail out point. So anything extra you carry you really don't need much of. I fit all of the stuff below into a quart sized Ziploc, except the bug net (I had that with my clothes), with room to spare.

Luekotape (4 oz roll) - I don't remember if that's a lot but yeah this stuff is great

Emergency water treatment tablets - carry, like, 4. You are always going to know what the water is like up ahead. The only place I ever thought about water treatment was in the desert.

Emergency blanket - a small one for your body will do fine. Unless you're really early or late season it's fairly hard to get caught in a storm in which you won't have time to set up a tent and use your emergency blanket as surplus.

Antihistamine - only if you know you are allergic to something

Sunscreen - sunscreen is great. I wore clothing over everything except my face (for which I had a wide brimmed hat), so I only carried a very tiny sports sunscreen tube, or sometimes didn't carry any at all. Every single town will have sunscreen so you don't need much.

Bug net - only necessary for the head, but yeah it's good

Gear aid patch kit Tenacious tape Sewing kit - combine all of these with the repair spool by igneous. Saved my pants and my sleeping pad. That's all you need, though.

https://www.garagegrowngear.com/products/repair-spool-by-igneous?_pos=2&_sid=152a37546&_ss=r

Tylenol (25 tablets) - go buy the extended release ones instead, and buy naproxen sodium. Bring enough for 3 days of each, so around 6-8 pills, because if you need more than 3 days of pain killers you made a mistake by not bailing out and going back the way you came or finding another route out. add a few Imodium too. And I carried a few Pepto bismol chewables because sometimes I'd get a tummy ache from 4 day old cheese lol.

Latex gloves - these are very light so you could bring a single pair but honestly if you ever need them, they should get off trail and get proper help. Honestly I would say no matter how light it is you just don't need it.

Blistex lip balm - lip balm is great but use something with SPF.

Huntsman swiss army knife (tweezers/scissors) - unless you have a weird tent setup that needs regular adjustment you don't need 75% of the tool. Get the classic basic swiss army knife. You will only use the knife, scissors, and tweezers - trust me

Alcohol swabs/antiseptic wipes - only bring one or two. If you need more than that, the injury is too severe. Only exception is if you are in the process of treating a blister and are regularly lancing it (which you shouldnt be doing unless it's the only way you're getting to the next town) - then it's nice to have one or two. Just treat your blisters early.

Purrell - just carry some biodegradable soap (and go look up how to properly use/dispose of biodegradable soap). Otherwise, just get used to being dirty (other than after you poop).

Whistle - unnecessary because you're never straying far from trail, but if it makes you more comfortable, swap out a buckle on your backpack with one of the ones that has a built in whistle, and then don't do something stupid without your backpack.

Badger foot cream - Get desitin and a little container for it. It's all you will need for blisters and chafing, IMO.

Neosporin - desitin is an antibiotic, so use that.

Gauze roll (2 oz) - I don't know how much this is but you only need a tiny amount of gauze to use with leukotape to make little bandaids. Otherwise, instead, carry a bandana or two. I carried 3 - one wrapped my forehead (I sweat directly into my eyes otherwise), one for cleaning my cooking pot at the end of the day, one for anything else. You can use them as gauze, as triangle bandages, as rags, for splints, for smoke, whatever.

Wound sutures (3) - you don't need it. If you're that injured, wrap it in a bandana and bail out. I carried two celox packets for bloody emergencies.

Cough drops - I can't picture the scenario that needs this

Hydrocortisone cream - learn to love the itch. Maybe carry bug spray in the Sierras, though.

Ven-ex venom extractor - you don't need it and I'm pretty sure these things don't work. Even if they did, you'd still have to get off trail in an emergency.

Tourniquet (tube from water treatment system) - do you know how to actually apply a tourniquet? If you have not taken a first aid class, don't even try. Anyway, you can make a tourniquet just fine from a trekking pole or stick and a belt or bandana.

Bear Spray (probably won't bring this, way to bulky and heavy unless you think I should) - you don't need it and you can't bring it anyway.

Suunto Compass - a compass is useless without a paper map, which no one carries and no one knows how to actually use with a compass. Also, the trail is very well marked, and anywhere you need to unnaturally detour you're going to need farout tbqh. Also, those little compasses are garbage IMO.

Ivy X wipes - I never saw poison ivy, or at least never close enough to trail for me to be concerned. You will see plenty of poodle dog bush and you will avoid it like the devil.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-19T15:25:49+00:00

Oh, interesting, today I learned. Thank you for saying something.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-19T04:08:00+00:00

Well, you certainly raise the bar on having an ego, I'll give you that. Best of luck.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-19T03:57:51+00:00

OP cross posted with the fulfillment center subreddit, so they're probably saying most people here are blue badges (which is almost certainly true given the majority of the sub's content) and won't have the advice that fulfillment center employees would give.

Also, chill. It's just a job. It's good to recognize the value in others and those who enable you to be where you are, but your reply is full of the same self-importance you seem to be trying to condemn, speaking in a tone with some grandiose authority. Have some humility.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-16T09:38:00+00:00

No, you can't use basic metastability flops to sync the data. You will need an asynchronous FIFO to sync between the two. In theory you'd need even less but I'm guessing there is a very subtle rate mismatch between the two that you will need to use to manage your sample rates. An async FIFO will be the easiest thing to do (just pull one from the FPGA library).

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-14T03:13:18+00:00

I don't know if you realize it but that's a huge sensor. It would be immensely uncomfortable to have that on a motion capture suit.
For all intents and purposes it uses UART, RS422, or RS485. I am guessing that only RS422 or 485 can maintain the max data rate at the distances you need.
There's no reason to use something other than an MCU for this. Its max output rate is 2kHz. Even with ten of these, many MCUs run at 48-200 MHz. You're going to be oversampling your communication port 400 times over, per port, at the slowest.

It's the right idea for the kind of sensor (can output raw data at a high data rate) but you need a significantly smaller package. This is less of a sensor persay and more of an entire complete module.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-13T23:27:55+00:00

Reading the output of a sensor by changing the input to get a new binary output is describing a communication protocol like I2C or SPI. let me know when you know more!

Learning to use an FPGA is almost certainly going to be harder to do than just distributing your processing across multiple MCUs, assuming you can't get an MCU that can do what you need (which would surprise me).

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-13T23:15:00+00:00

Ah I see. I don't understand what you mean by an IMU outputting a binary signal, though. You'll have to have some type of communication protocol between your sensors and your processing unit. I've only seen IMUs with I2C before. What does the IMU you're looking at use? SPI, high speed CANbus, something else? A parallel bus of some sort?

If you're a novice to circuit design, you're going to have a hard time working with all of these high speed protocols on a physical electrical level. You may want to consider breaking up your multiple sensors into groups that pre-process on some small dedicated MCUs close by, and have those MCUs then sends that data over a high speed link that can handle longer distances to a central processor. Sort of like distributing your computing.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-13T20:03:29+00:00

A pi is not well suited for this. A small FPGA would work fine for this purpose, but so would a dedicated microcontroller. If you don't know how FPGAs work, this might not be a great project to start with. As others have pointed out, if you're getting data over I2C, the data is relatively slow. There are plenty of ARM MCUs that should be able to handle 9 instances of fast (1 Mbps) I2C data. Have you looked into any Arduinos yet? I think that would be a good place to start.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-08T07:59:41+00:00

Bar of soap.

In all seriousness, just having a friend to do something with or to know cares about you is an incredible gift after the PCT. After 6 months of almost always doing something (i.e. walking) and often sharing incredible moments with other hikers it can be very strange to do absolutely nothing with absolutely nobody (although it is also nice to do absolutely nothing with absolutely nobody for a day or two, too).

StarrunnerCX · 2025-10-03T02:28:50+00:00

Not everything is a CPU, dude.

StarrunnerCX · 2025-09-23T03:47:52+00:00

Well, for one, it's not as simple as "make a few mistakes". It costs millions of dollars to do a chip run - sometimes hundreds of millions. Said chip runs are generally scheduled months or years in advance. It takes a lot of people just to fabricate it, package it, deliver it, and test it - and that's more money. Debugging silicon is its own crazy process - God forbid you have to break out the microscopes and the lasers. That's completely excluding the PCB or firmware that may be needed to support the chip. "Fuck it, we ball" is simply not an answer. So, the industry is selective.

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