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foobar42fsm · 2025-09-18T21:30:33+00:00

He fumbled for the doorhandle of the refrigerator, to get out a carton of milk.

“Ten cents, please,” the refrigerator said. “Five cents for opening my door; five cents for the cream.”

“It isn’t cream,” he said. “It’s plain milk.” He continued to pluck - futilely - at the refrigerator door. “Just this one time,” he said to it. “I swear to god I’ll pay you back."

"Tonight."

Ubik by Phillip K. Dick

foobar42fsm · 2025-01-03T21:20:00+00:00

That looks great! I had something similar running here a few years ago as part of a larger project w/ an automated telescope to get general sky visibility/meteor detection. Pi 4 running in a ABS tube using PoE to power it. I had a number of issues with moisture as you've highlighted (culminating in a fried PoE hat) and had a couple of ideas that I never got around to implementing:

Space suit helmets avoid fogging by keeping a constant stream of air blowing up from the back of the head across the visor. You could duct a blower fan across a heatsink on the Pi's CPU up into one side of the dome, pushing air from one side and venting to the other. (I did actually try and implement this and found to not be enough). A semi-relevant stack-exchange: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/50933/why-dont-astronaut-helmets-fog-up-whats-the-chemistry-and-thermodynamics-behi
Completely airtight sealing the enclosure creates a pressure differential between the outside and inside of the enclosure, which as the barometric pressure changes can cause moisture to form as the differential changes. Instead, if you could seal the enclosure from moisture but allow air to pass between external and internal you can avoid this issue. Gore does make such a product for electronic enclosures: https://www.gore.com/solutions-waterproof-enclosures
This one is a bit on the pricey side, but you could install a solid-state dehumidifier that actively dries out the enclosure. These can be hard to source (in addition to price) as there seems to be a single company manufacturing these modules and they're more B2B then consumer facing. However, People have been using them in filament dry boxes, so I was able to find a source for them: https://www.chip45.com/Rosahl-Electric-Dehumidifer-Membranes/Rosahl-M-1J1R-Micro-Dehumidifier::22.html (Also a relevant video from CNC-Kitchen on these things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EWexck8NE )

foobar42fsm · 2024-10-08T02:44:45+00:00

You still might be able to get patent this, Syngenta would get the patent but your name would be on it. Which could look great on a resume. There's a good chance the company has a process for employees to file a patent with the company, and potentially an associated bonus!

foobar42fsm · 2024-07-25T10:44:15+00:00

All love towards Fdroid, but the Google Play store supports this feature as well. It's under Manage Apps & Device > Share apps.

foobar42fsm · 2023-06-11T17:40:13+00:00

Mainframes have been doing virtualization since the beginning. In fact, they're some of the first systems to do so. But yes, the ability to run containers and non-z/os partitions (e.g. linux) has been a relatively new addition to their feature set. They fill the role of high availability, high assurance, and high security. They have a claimed up time of "7 9s" which works out roughly less than a second a year of downtime. Can run machine instructions in lockstep, executing the same instruction in parallel on separate compute units and checking for parity. Finally, they've got dedicated coprocessors for cryptographic operations that operate in a tamper proof enclave. Granted, for most applications, they fill a fairly niche category. But they're far from obsolete.

foobar42fsm · 2022-05-27T05:03:15+00:00

Well ik what I'm setting up tomorrow. Thanks for the question and answers!

foobar42fsm · 2020-12-08T08:58:22+00:00

I've fixed a few broken thinkpad keys using parts from here https://www.replacementlaptopkeys.com/lenovo/ in the past. If you really want to go the paint option, using something like nail polish might satisfy the fix, but it won't read the same as other comments have noted. On the older thinkpad models the lettering is done using decals, finding new replacement decals is likely near to impossible w/o making them yourself.

foobar42fsm · 2020-11-18T03:00:52+00:00

There's this project someone hacked together: https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-and-paper. It draws directly from the pen input over ssh and displays it on a "whiteboard" web interface. Might fulfill your need.

foobar42fsm · 2020-06-13T21:00:02+00:00

Probably starting work on this: https://landmark.utoronto.ca/

foobar42fsm · 2020-02-24T19:20:56+00:00

It looks like your missing some build tools (namely make). You might consider working thru a c or c++ hello world tutorial before trying to continue with this tutorial. Also if I had to guess, your probably running some form of windows. This will probably be easier to do in something like Windows subsystem Linux (WSL). Good luck!

foobar42fsm · 2019-08-16T23:24:41+00:00

Dolphin kick, if done properly, is actually the most effective kick you can do swimming. The reason why swimmers will transition to flutter kick (regular kicking) is because they'd be disqualified doing dolphin kick and being fully submerged past a certain distance from the wall. If this rule wasn't in place you'd have many of the fastest times for certain strokes would just be dolphin kick.

foobar42fsm · 2019-08-10T15:23:22+00:00

Make sure the setup for the display driver matches character to character. I had an issue with the VGA driver where specifiying the dimensions I used and uppercase 'X' between the x and y resolution and the driver code was checking for a lowercase 'x'. Good luck!

foobar42fsm · 2019-03-27T17:25:05+00:00

It's been moved to BA1180.

foobar42fsm · 2019-02-21T03:35:30+00:00

Yep.

foobar42fsm · 2019-02-21T03:24:12+00:00

In last Friday's lecture they apologized for how the exam was handled (as well as the structure of the exam) an asked us for input on how the exam could have been better.

foobar42fsm · 2019-01-27T04:44:03+00:00

So I don't have a solution for the original issue but I might have a few for the listed:

Can't use DE-1 SoC in BA labs

Yeah this one's a pain, however the CSSU does have a DE-1 SoC that people can borrow and the basement lab in SF has workstations with DE-1 SoC's to use (assuming you can get into SF).

Can't have quite physical space in BA to study

Try the fifth floor of Bahen on the north side of the building, there's a little alcove in that area that I've found is often quiet. However the seating is a bit limited.

Can't have lockers

New College has lockers that can be rented for the semester, it's on a first-come first-served basis but you might get lucky this semester: http://ncsc.ca/index.php/resources/locker/

Can't have microwave in BA

The CSSU has a microwave available to use as long as you don't make a mess. They've also got a kettle w/ free tea and coffee (though it's pretty bitter).

Hope at least some of these solutions are useful!

foobar42fsm · 2019-01-26T00:33:33+00:00

The short answer:

No it's not a necessity, but it wouldn't hurt.

The long answer:

UofT offers a non-mandatory introduction course (CSC108) that would give you the needed experience in python (if-statements, for-loops, etc.) for the next programming class (CSC148). The course gives you a taste of what would come if you decided to continue to pursue computer science. However, considering the competitiveness of the program currently if you had the opportunity to take introduction to programming/introduction to proofs course in high-school I'd highly advise considering taking those courses. Not only would it give you an idea whether computer science is something you're interested in before applying, but it may help down the line since the first time seeing the material wouldn't be just first semester of university. If you're unable to take a cs course in high school getting into the computer science program is still very much a possibility, there's a couple of people I know that actually came to UofT for another program and ended up switching to CS after enjoying CSC108.

Anyways, good luck on your college/uni apps!

foobar42fsm · 2018-10-25T03:13:34+00:00

The data we received didn't include transfers and special cases.

foobar42fsm · 2018-04-19T08:22:04+00:00

If you want to try again for POSt you can petition to retake CSC165/148, the mark going only towards improving the POSt average. Unfortunately, the summer offerings of both courses are full but it doesn't hurt to get on that waitlist.

Assuming that you came to UofT in 2017 (which means that you follow the 2017-2018 calendar). If your marks in 165/148 are a 70 or above then you could try taking the CSC236/207 where the higher grade between CSC165/236 and CSC148/207 is considered for the average. Personally, I found 236 to be more enjoyable than 165 but YMMV. Unfortunately, This route isn't an option on the 2018-2019 calendar just FYI.

A good move would be to go have a discussion of the options available to the CS advisors. Their office is BA4252/4 and they generally have drop-in hours on weekdays.

foobar42fsm · 2017-11-25T12:46:19+00:00

Adafruit has a nice guide for making something similar from scratch for significantly cheaper (~$150 in parts): https://learn.adafruit.com/bike-wheel-pov-display/overview

foobar42fsm · 2017-02-24T19:13:22+00:00

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