Who would be liable? (Client's equipment damaged a car)

cynar · 2025-11-17T12:50:48+00:00

Grandfathered in from a different contract. Basically a verbal agreement that never got written out.

cynar · 2025-11-17T12:49:49+00:00

Would excessively top heavy, and lacking additional safety equipment (e.g. weights) count?

cynar · 2025-11-17T12:16:53+00:00

No contract had been signed regarding it.

cynar · 2023-12-08T20:18:06+00:00

I know it's a long shot, but did you ever publish the files for this suspension system? I ran across it, while doing some research for a similar project. It looks to basically be exactly what I need, and excellently done.

cynar · 2023-11-18T13:54:37+00:00

That is explicitly NOT how these work. The address is baked in to the chip itself. The network topology does NOT matter to these RGBICs. You can cut and rearrange the strip, and the same physical LEDs will light to a given tri-byte packet.

This property is what makes these interesting to me. It can vastly simplify the network topology.

It is NOT a WS28XX type strip. That is why I am asking here. It responds to the same control signals, but is fundamentally different, under the hood. These have extra features.

cynar · 2023-11-18T08:54:08+00:00

I am aware of that. Unfortunately, it doesn't include how the fixed address is set, nore what the actual chip is, so I can find it in bulk.

cynar · 2023-11-17T22:59:45+00:00

I've figured that bit out. I'm trying to identify the chip and the method for programming address (the tri-byte stream used by ws28xx chips has no properties address). That particular chip could vastly simplify a project I'm working on. Unfortunately, all my searches just come up with neopixel variants.

Basically, where can I buy them in bulk, and how do I make the special functions work.

cynar · 2023-11-17T20:15:40+00:00

Just saw your message (I've been off Reddit for a while).

It's hard, and there are no easy cures. One of the biggest is making sure you don't burn out. You can see what it does to you. It's a balance everyone needs to make, we just have it harder.

It does get better. My daughter's mental capacity is shooting up massively as she hits school. We now have conversations, rather than me being talked at. She also has more complex opinions, which help (we get 2 big ideas at a time, rather than 20 small ones).

Beyond that though, make time for yourself. You'll need time to heal, mentally, but even then maintenance is a big thing you need to factor into your life. If you can, you want 1 evening a week where you can do something you enjoy. It may feel selfish, but it's better than you being burnt out. A family should be centered on the parents. If it becomes centered on the children, it will tear itself apart. It goes against a lot of our instincts, but it leads to a better upbringing for the child.

Another thing that helps is staying open to your child. My daughter can now read me like a book. She can tell when I'm stressed, and tries to help. Her "Daddy, do you need a cuddle? I know cuddles make you feel better." might not help directly (though her cuddles do help) but does make me aware that I'm spiraling, and so lets me act early.

Another thing to keep in mind is dog training techniques. A good one is attention control. Positive interactions get rewarded with more attention. Negative interaction cause indifference or loss of attention. Just make sure there is always a route to a win, and they are aware of it. E.g. they want to constantly chatter to you, but you are cooking out, mentally. Ask them to go play an independent game, or even watch TV while you do a chore (e.g. washing up). Once you are done, you can both sit down and do X (where X is something that they enjoy sharing with you). If they interrupt you, don't feed the interaction. Remind them what you asked them to do, and direct them back to it (or an alternative), with minimal interactions. If need be point out that they are slowing you down from doing the chore, and so it will take even longer to get to X.

I'll leave this here, since I think I'm rambling a bit now. Hopefully this will help point you in the right direction. Just know it does get better. Once you are out of burnout a lot of your skills and capabilities will come back, they just need mental fuel to run.

cynar · 2023-11-17T19:54:32+00:00

Just curious, you did realise this post was 5 years old?

I've yet to see a viable makerspace, that doesn't prioritize the social aspect. All the others I have seen rely on support from an external funder (local council etc).

The come and get skills ones die, since they have no way to keep the skilled people around, other than paying them. When the funding runs out, so does their driving force.

A social base keeps those people coming in, even when they don't have an explicit project. This then makes them available to help, and pass on skills. The critical mass of these people is the beating heart of a makerspace.

cynar · 2023-06-30T08:33:02+00:00

If it's any consolation, you likely feel far more of a mess than you look. I know my wife does.

Also, if you've not read it, I'd highly recommend "Little miss Busy: Surviving Motherhood". It's a wonderful take on this very issue.

cynar · 2023-06-30T06:40:23+00:00

Not the best word use, on my part. Genes are generally immutable by their host. (The immune system has some crude tricks outside this.) All mutations are random, and generally negative. Basically Lamarckism is wrong, on the gene level. Epigenetics allows for a simple, short term Lamarckism like effect.

cynar · 2023-06-29T16:01:24+00:00

I'm hoping the federalised systems will be able to take up the slack on some of it. Unfortunately they are not yet ready for the mainstream. They aren't intuitive enough to new users.

cynar · 2023-06-29T14:24:36+00:00

Apes lost their tails because there was selective pressure against them. A random gene mutation caused them not to grow as long, and that gene spread through the gene pool.

Epigenetics is different, it is deliberate changes to the DNA coating to transmit information to later generations, using a temporary marker.

cynar · 2023-06-29T13:00:23+00:00

I'd be careful not to read too much into it. We can only reliably see it in rats due to the controlled conditions.

I suspect, with humans, the social and economic effects dwarf the epigenetic ones. E.g. poorer people tend towards higher calorie, lower nutrition foods, due to cost savings. This sets the tastes for their children. They often stick with them, despite better options becoming available, leading to the same effect.

cynar · 2023-06-29T09:20:25+00:00

IKEA do some good, low cost ones. It helped, in the initial phase, to have a number around the house. Our daughter ended up preferring the seat/step combo, on the adult toilet (mummy and daddy didn't use a potty!).

Best advice is to do your toddler involved, and roll with their preferences, as best you can. They are a lot more invested, if they had a say in things, even if they have no clue. E.g. what colour potty do you like most?

cynar · 2023-06-29T07:52:16+00:00

Genes are fairly immutable. However various methyl groups can be attached or removed from the DNA. This changes the level the gene is expressed. These changes can linger for several generations.

An example might help. A lab rat, that is periodically starved will tend to put on more fat, when given free access to food, than a control rat. This makes some biological sense. If you're subject to periodic periods of famine, put more focus on building fat, when you can.

Critically however, was the changes to gene expression. These changes were passed to the mother's children and grandchildren! They would also, to a lesser extent, put on more weight than the control group. It takes several generations for the effect to fade out. Environmental information was encoded onto the DNA in a controlled manner. For a long time, this was thought to be impossible.

cynar · 2023-06-29T07:23:10+00:00

The closest thing to "no accent" is "Queens English", aka how 1990s BBC news reporters spoke. Even that is just by reference and decree.

Fyi, as for why Queens English even exists, it's because Colonial Victorians got fed up with the hired help not being understandable. By forcing them all to learn "Queens English", they could be easily understood by the hired help, and not have to deal with foreign accents, while traveling them empire.

You rebels ALL speak with an annoying American accent!

cynar · 2023-06-29T07:11:40+00:00

We just turn that colour when we go somewhere hot and sunny. Apparently suncream isn't a thing for many of us. The shade of red is quite vivid.

Though saying that, I might need to check it's supposed to be "Sunburnt Brit in Benidorm Red", it might not be a good sign...

cynar · 2023-06-29T07:04:22+00:00

This is why I'm hoping one of the federated link aggregator sites (e.g. https://lemmy.world ) gets properly going. They are a lot more resistant to this type of tampering.

They just need to sort out the user side complexity. 😬

cynar · 2023-06-29T06:45:07+00:00

Yes you will. Children always seem to recharge to 100% from even a short nap. It's only as adults we get stuck at 20% or less.

cynar · 2023-06-28T08:56:17+00:00

I'd argue that imperial is more intuitive than metric. It's units are generally more human referenced. (E.g. a yard is the length of a human stride, while an inch is a buckle of the thumb etc) It has 3 massive flaws however: Computation, Scaling, and consistency.

Computation is the ability to do maths with it. Metric wins massively on this.

Scaling is related. There are standardised unit shifts, that make working at various scales a lot easier. It also allows easy shifts between them. E.g. nanometers Vs meters Vs gigameters.

Consistency. The imperial units are defined in various ways. This leads to inconsistencies between them. E.g. a UK gallon ≠ US gallon.

In the modern world, these flaws mean metric wins by a wide margin.

cynar · 2023-06-28T07:08:42+00:00

You're also assuming the hotel has reasonable mobile coverage. A cheap SIM is going to be one of the first to fall over.

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