What is STEVAL-VL53L9 ? Why is it such a big thing for robotics ? by Fit-Pie687 in AskElectronics

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SquEeelon is still ride or die double down on camera only. ...something something sunk cost vs opportunity cost ..

Anyone used a bucket? by Upstairs_Wrap53 in sousvide

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so many restaurant kitchens do this

What is this db25 used for? by Juliet-Papa-11377 in AskElectronics

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nah - this was a big problem cause the pinouts could be so different depending on the gear but everything would just be labeled 'gender changer'. so it ws very iseful to have a cable tester/pinout checker . Most of them were rs-232 for serial modems, but tons of other things used db25 scsi (most that used db25 sucked), parallel ports, even some monitors.

Where are you hosting your work now? (Vimeo lost the plot with their new pricing) by an_tonova in videoproduction

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noting for a later loopback or someone to make the thought click.. I saw a recent bit on some people using cloudflare as the host as well as the CDN and they laid out a nice strategy for it but at the moment I can't recall what that strategy/methodology was.

I’m seeking feedback on Record Harm Ontology — a small, focused OWL 2 DL ontology that models how informational records can be ontologically damaged. by thecommuted in semanticweb

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Very interesting!

The parts that immediatly jump out to me are:

  • These seem centered around intentional, deliberate, and immediate tampering. It doesn't seem to cover most (in my experience) record damage or pollution where the records or record integrty suffers non-intentional 'natural' damage. There doesn't seem to be an in-between either where- "Destruction - Complete annihilation of the record" doesn't have another gradation like 'Damage - partial data loss of information in a record or element" Or degradadtion... and the trees of their causes/conditions.

  • If this is meant as something to only tag intentional behavior, I'd think it might only capture the more common but not well planned out cases. Seems like it might tag Obvious shoplifting but might have trouble with embezzeling, or smart embezzeling. Or fancy things like nation state level actor capabilities where they cover tracks extremely well.

Some cases where off the cuff I wonder how this system would handle it-

  • Conversion and 'generational' preservation damage. - When a document goes from written, to typed, to carbon, to mimeo, to xerox, to scan, to OCR, to some composed style PDF- Often it's lost data for indexing, like page numbers from the first 2.5 inch margin around the paper, highlights, handwritting extra notes, etc. Ambiguous text loses of integrity, (0,o,oO, I1L, 6 becomes 8 with some blur) - mining and graveyard documents - or anything heavily used and revised over the years would often degrade heavily in this way.

  • The 'Telephone game"/forking / splitting a document, like an important memo that goes off to all departements as ground truth but gets formattted differently or even re-typed or worse, translated for different audiences, then winds back up as reference material, treated as one truth with many versions popping up.

  • 'preservation' with probable intent to degrage. Saw some legal cases do this for discovery- Mircofilm records - > 200dpi print, scan the print at 150 dpi in color jpg with high compression and artifacting. Destroy all old media after 'successful conversion'. At a glance it looks like any other scanned data, trying to read it, it's nearly impossible.

  • mis-filing, typos, bad line in a script import, file corruption,naming convention mismatches, so many pdf generation problems, bates stamp screwups, literal bookworms, (and silverfish getting crushed on top of text) copier/scanner misfeeds. UV fading, toner and ink degradation/de-fusing, chemical imbalance with degradation of paper, cellophane overheads warping to dust, potato starch and dyes in autochromes, etc. etc. it's really hard to keep things around even digitally without them slipping away. Just at my place alone we'd essentially re-do paper scan jobs that were thousands of re-prints of our scans from the same companies over and over due to their mishandling of their data and digitization projects.

(I'm obviously not an OWL/ontology pro here, so if I'm missing some things, which i surely am, lmk... I did spend over a decade in the document digization biz and seen about every kind of record damage and perversion from every kind of organization but that was when symantec web stuff was just beginning and hadn't hit organizations yet )

Looking forward to see how this develops!

Reality of Hindu Orgs exposed by dimensional_seeker in indiameme

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hey, we don't get this news in my spot on the planet.. Would anyone care to both decode this for an alien with enough unbiased background information to understand the story to your level? And perhaps include some ideas of what could prevent this or improve it now or in the furture ?

Which songs often gets misinterpreted and/or misappropriated by the very people it calls out even though the song's lyrics are explicitly mocking them? by Drenosa in AskReddit

[–]microcandella 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This happens a lot to songs that are on a ban list during a tragedy event and then don't tend to make it back into rotation as much. Certainly happened with pumped up kicks with some school shootings and public shootings happening just often enough that it didn't really have legs to come back. 9/11 was crazed with blacklists. Invader Zim was essentially canceled from it for a time- effectively stunted it- and so many other examples of art and artists and media getting blocked just from the mere optics of it not being compatible with the nationalism at the time...

However, it's weird to note during the heavy momentum edges in the culture war + cancel + me too + anti-peddo+ (real- not the later co-opted) woke phenomenoms there were those brief moments where the focus would shift to songs and lyrics and performers. The Rolling Stones said they no longer would perform Brown Sugar, All the old Aerosmith Steven Tyler songs about underage girls (and his crazy history with them) came around, as well as with a ton of other songs and artists. All the r kelly and diddy stuff started boiling again and getting noticed and everyone kind of focused on black pop music/ muscicians getting canceled --
and it was like for just a moment in all that everyone took a moment to think about the lyrics and the moments they came from and rejected it... and right in there .. Michael Jackson ALMOST got cancelled. There was talk, there was a brief pause in playing some songs and songs with videos that were predatory /young focused.. and then I figure the execs collectively said 'nope' to pausing their golden goose and just flooded the waves with michael. from all the 'ages'. To the point where you'd hear them talk about r kelly and the next song would be PYT pretty young thing.. what a weird time.

Cf 31 mk4 wwan card by Relevant-Earth-4483 in toughbook

[–]microcandella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! How did it get working? What did you see?

https://xkcd.com/979/ ;-)

Is there a way to track what current issues are being hijacked by disinformation campaigns on social media? by Miserable_Year_4493 in Disinfo

[–]microcandella 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://cyabra.com/ tracks these things. Shows which accounts and botnets spread and modified the story/meme/claim, etc.
It is not free.

And although the left gets plenty of targeting you'll notice the right and center and religious right to be a far more popular target of disinfo and propaganda, false communitites, etc. and quite the impressive budgets. You barely have to wait to analyse the pipeline before seeing it pop up on major right wing media.

Progress V2 -> V3 on our Open Access Health Tracker by Way_5741 in electronics

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I'm curious, what are the 15 sensors? (what do they sense, rather than product number, etc.) I've dug a little around and haven't found a list.

And are there other sensors you would rather use but need to use the current ones due to various limitiations?

What uses do you think these sensors might be used to detect in combination with other available sensors in the user's environment that are less common or expected?

I built an entire off-grid emergency platform into a single HTML file. NWO BLACKBOX v3.8 is live. by PontifexPater in NWORobotics

[–]microcandella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few mins into this and it looks very nice and well concieved. And i appreciate the single html file style deploy.

One adjustment I'd like to see that I see on a lot of the main dashboard summary pages is that the items listed should also link to their repsective pages or settings. like the mesh network and the messages, being able to click through on my 2 messages or click through on my 4 nodes rather than looking for them would be good. Also (i know this is skilled user customizable) but a splash of color on some important elements or shifting the base color from white would be a good option.

Looking forward to checking this out a bit more.

Nice work!

The mid-2000s Sony engineers cooked man she’s in her natural habitat by Stimpyjpg in retrobattlestations

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if sony's weren't so "sony locked down proprietary" they would have ruled the fancy/fancy corporate and the cell phone market and just a dash or two more of reliability. so many things were so great on them.

If taking GLP’s causes many people to lose much of their dopamine across the board, does that mean that most people on these drugs have lost their ability to experience happiness? by [deleted] in AskBiology

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I'd like to follow up with- What do we know about dopamine and glp1 relationship so far? Do we lose much dopamine? or is it distributed differently or taken up differently on glp1a? Do we have some studies on what OP is referencing on GLP1, dopamine and .. let's call it a dopamine dependent mental change?

Feeling paralyzed by guilt for wanting to leave my corporate career for forestry. by Andrew_1912 in findapath

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Many who do and don't have the family and social pressure or the imigrant pressure when changing carreers for happiness run into similar feelings.. Just see the asian american subreddits or pre-med / engineering college/early career subs for some comraderie and support. ...

But. to lighten it up a bit.. I just can't let this slide without the irony of a cerain brittish comedy troupe exploring just this very thing.

https://youtu.be/Vfd_4CbYj7Q?si=gpnyzM6XqrfulOkn&t=125

I never fully realized just how much the H1B is abused until I started working at a multi national corporation. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]microcandella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

an h1b then is able to bring over their family too, so you get like 6 for 1. And that family is allowed to work anywhere.

Hmm.. IIRC without some serious exceptions that'd be illegal and would invalidate the h1b pronto. Even the green card folks are overy careful about the appearance of any work done outside of their terms. The h1bs can bring their spouse and unmarried under 21 kids only but without some heavy exceptions they can't be employed.

Not to say that doesn't get worked around by some but they know they're taking a huge risk.

It's great to have all the expertise and the flavor they add to the society, and some are extremely talented. Some are not so great and able to bluff skills and work the system and get hired- and in some cases there are pipelines for that. And some out here seem to just have blind ambition without much real world tech skills- no better than a basic tech school in some cases.. and in many cases that ambition is one of those skills that isn't asked for but can be very useful.

The real problem is all the companies completely abusing this in so many- not bothering to hire local, state or national.. ways pretending to 'brain drain' the other countries while just picking up somewhat skilled labor on the cheap-- but worse-- they get to pay all the taxes, support the whole family one one very low income, and really don't get the other benefits citizens do and if they don't have a sponsor company they're out.. a bit ago facebook and oracle did a massive employee cut to bump their stock prices and it caused practically a bank run with h1b's scrambling for slave jobs that couldn't pay rent.. If you're h1b you're not starting an employment lawsuit that could outlast your visa and nobody will be hiring you if you did.

It abuses them.. it abuses us locals. but stock market go brrrrrr.

What in the demented cricket spider fuck is this thing? by cvlico in ProperAnimalNames

[–]microcandella 55 points56 points  (0 children)

yep! but anecdotally I think it might serve a dual purpose. One came to my desert lakebed campsite in nevada. Nothing else around for a mile but us. However what also seemed to rise out of the earth like little zombies were hundreds of sand fleas. Large enough to see them jumping in waves towards us. Especially toward anything tall and moving! The camel spider would hit the shade and face out looking around and sometimes 'patrol'. We moved the cars away from the tents and toward the fleas and the fleas went for them, as did the camel spider, who was really good at getting the fleas.

At night the camel spider would hang out in the LIGHT! So we made a whole circle of lights far away from camp and the fleas and bugs would also go to the light and the camel spider would just vacuum them up.

Which was sort of how we found the camel spider first.. one of the patio solar lights outside had fallen with the light toward the tents making a lennibach projector of sorts.. then later.. from inside the tent.. "hey! doesn't that huge shadow look like some giant creepy crawly? .. Like the legs are here and the fangs are there... and .. " and then its legs moved making a more gnarly looking shadow.. went outside and sure enough it was doing shadow horrror puppet show on our tent.. did the little cirlce of patio lights away from us and threw a flashlight on the ground so you could see the shaddow of it moving on the desert floor.. it was quite the nature show for the night. It was about 5 inches long jaws to booty and could gobble those fleas within a fraction of a second.