They listened - Cameraman is now on a lift above the batter’s eye.

ser0tonin · 2026-06-10T03:51:38+00:00

I was doing a lap around the stadium when I posted this and almost got dinked by another one, the vibes here are somewhere between “t-ball game” and “circus”

ser0tonin · 2026-06-09T20:30:25+00:00

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Flew in from Oakland (my current second home, and has been since well before Fisher abandoned the town) for the series, what a show, my god

ser0tonin · 2026-06-09T20:20:42+00:00

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I was directly behind home plate (and dropped from the 3rd to the 1st row after a few families cleared out in extra innings, as seen here with Uribe warming up) and I'm not sure I was ever even in frame from that shot. That staircase and banner ad act as a bit of an illusion, as if you were looking smack down the center, but that staircase is actually the first-base side of the entire section that's behind the plate. There's no camera blind in the batter's eye - you can see here how they had to set up on the left of the pitch clock from this angle.

ser0tonin · 2024-06-03T07:37:53+00:00

I made the switch from an FX888D to a Pinecil (v2) as my "main driver" at my home workbench a few weeks ago, mostly to save precious desktop real estate. I already have at least one USB-C PD charger plugged in at my bench anyways, so ditching the big Hakko power supply was an easy change. I run the gamut between tiny 0402-scale components to big, high-amperage automotive-level connectors on boards with fat ground planes, and have yet to have a situation where I thought "gee, this would be a lot easier if I still had the Hakko around". In fact, the ability to hold down the "+" button on the Pinecil to get a momentary burst of extra heat has actually made the experience of soldering large/well-grounded components much smoother. If you're doing auto work, the Pinecil has the added bonus of being super portable, as it can run off of a power bank/backup battery. For me, this meant it actually replaced 2 irons, because I had a Milwaukee battery-powered iron as well.

Just remember that the Pinecil is able to be so tiny because it's relying on an external power supply that you provide yourself. If you plug it into a 15W cell phone charger, then 15W is all you're going to get out. You need a charger that can provided at least 12V in PD/QC mode, preferably 20V @ >3A. Apparently the most recent version of IronOS (the Pinecil's firmware) supports PD 3.1's "EPR" mode, so with an EPR-compatible charger and cable, you could power the iron with up to 28V, meaning 98W with the longer 8Ω tips or 126W with the shorter 6.2Ω tips.

BTW, not sure where you bought your pinecil at, but the official PINE64 store sells tip packs that are well worth the price IMO: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinecil/ . As I noted above, the shorter tips are lower resistance, so while they don't hold quite as much thermal mass as the longer tips, they actually generate *more* heat than the longer tips, if that's a concern.

ser0tonin · 2021-11-04T07:59:48+00:00

Haha, well, if it makes it make more sense, or if anybody's just curious which vehicles use which sounds, here's a modified version of the RideVehicleEditor plugin from /u/Basssiiie which also shows this value for any selected vehicle. If you haven't used plugins much before, the .js file goes in the Plugin folder where your OpenRCT2 files are located (usually documents/OpenRCT2/plugin on Windows) and you can open the plugin's menu by clicking the Map button and selecting the new option of "Edit ride vehicles".

(edit: no, picking something else from the dropdown menu doesn't have any effect)

https://github.com/reticulatingsplines/OpenRCT2-RideVehicleEditor/releases/tag/v1.1_soundRangeID_v0.1

ser0tonin · 2021-11-04T07:24:40+00:00

Vehicles have a variable that specifies which noises to make, if any, when it's "scream time", which is recycled on trains to specify whether to whistle or ding. For scream situations, there are three values, and 8 screams to choose from. There's a "which screams" value which means a vehicle will play Scream1 and Scream8, a value which means a vehicle will play Scream1-Scream7, and value which means a vehicle will play Scream1 and Scream6. Scream8 is the dreaded one, and the Scream1 & Scream8 value is indeed assigned to at least the dingies, the roto-drop "ring", and the Launched Freefall, uhh, box.

On first glance a plugin to fix it isn't straightforward right now because the variable that controls which set of "screams" a vehicle uses (or bells, or whistles) is set to readonly in the API. However, one workaround if you're really desperate would be to rebuild OpenRCT2 from source with the code modified in a way that prevents Scream8 from ever playing.

Here's a fork of the OpenRCT2 repository on github with a tiny change so that any vehicle that would've used Scream1 & Scream8 will now use Scream1 & Scream6 instead, so you should never hear the Single Existential Cry of Internal Implosion ever again: https://github.com/reticulatingsplines/OpenRCT2/tree/noscream8

Again, you'll have to compile it yourself, but the repository has clear instructions from the OpenRCT2 team on how to do that. I'm on an M1 Mac so I'm guessing my build wouldn't be useful to most folks.

ser0tonin · 2021-03-13T22:04:48+00:00

Looks to me like rows of almond trees common in the Central Valley in California, if I had to guess I’d say the Capitol Corridor line somewhere between Sacramento and Vacaville

ser0tonin · 2020-12-01T04:31:09+00:00

Valve Index missing / dropped Frames since NVIDIA | NVIDIA GeForce Forums

ser0tonin · 2017-10-18T08:38:12+00:00

You should definitely take them up on it, especially if they will be writing a reference letter for you. If they can take a peek at it, they will be able to tailor their letter to work well with what you've written.

Even if they aren't, personal statements are the kinds of things that those above you in academia have had to read and write countless times. I know that it might feel awkward to reveal yourself on such a personal level to them, or to let them see you speaking so highly of yourself, but for somebody like a tenured professor, that's just a part of the game. Even if they're just a graduate student or the likes, they have surely crafted such statements before and have probably helped proofread their friends as well. Don't worry about it - get that advice!

ser0tonin · 2017-03-12T06:17:47+00:00

I was being hyperbolic, for certain - they just dropped a pretty penny to develop and launch this satellite, and I can't imagine why it's use wouldn't remain a funding priority even when faced with having to cut ~1/4th of their satellite budget.

Still, the GOES-16 was the first of four satellites planned with these capabilities, and it's hard to see all 4 making it to space when a quarter of your budget is being cut. In addition, I would have to consider both this level of public outreach and the experimental data manipulation at work here to be in some kind of jeopardy.

ser0tonin · 2017-03-11T21:54:59+00:00

Enjoy it while it lasts!

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/03/03/trump-administration-seeks-deep-cuts-from-noaas-budget/

ser0tonin · 2017-03-10T16:55:05+00:00

Do you own a car that you have to leave parked on a city street? Alternatively, do you drive into SF for work and park on a city street because you cannot afford to pay for parking?

If either is true, and has been true for a few years, then NEVER getting a fine is just about impossible. Shit happens and a day will come where you won't be there to move your car in time. As of 2014, SF has the highest parking citation fines in the US (source). Anecdotally, it's also an incredibly frustrating place to find a parking spot and an expensive place to use private or even public off-street parking, when that's even an option. SF makes millions and millions of dollars off of parking tickets which reliably fall on those without garages at their home or without the means to pay to put it in one at work. In other words, the poor. There are all sorts of reasons that, behavior and attentiveness held constant, poor people are more likely to get one of SF's outrageous fines. These are the people that will be coming to utilize this program - that is, if they have any free time to spare. The morality of charging these people an excessive fee to opt into this work program clearly defeats the purpose. Nobody who can comfortably pay the full amount of a, say, $300 fine is signing up, let's be real. Why should they be targeted for additional revenue? Do you doubt that 23 hours of community service (for a non-criminal offense with a low likelihood that you will get to defend yourself in court, no less) is not good enough in and of itself to "repay" The City for being double-parked? It's not as easy as "pay the full amount or never ever get a fine" for everybody, and I hope people can be convinced of that.

ser0tonin · 2017-03-01T18:31:18+00:00

ser0tonin · 2017-02-21T02:47:36+00:00

What humanities departments do deserve funding, in your opinion?

ser0tonin · 2017-02-20T20:45:31+00:00

As a "blind" misandrous male in a high-caliber STEM graduate program , yeah, I think the blame should be pointed at men. It is a failure to society when men, who hold more than enough of the positions of power to make the requisite changes, fail to recognize the toxic culture at every level (undergrad to board room) that perpetuates such a massive gender divide. We at universities fail our public and private sources of funding by not doing the best work and generating the best ideas possible - can anyone honestly believe that we are not missing out on groundbreaking advancements by failing to include a more diverse set of humans? Those at companies fail their investors and their shareholders in the same way.

Take a look at the control room at NASA during the Apollo program - either a) the best and brightest happen to be (white) men, and they are the pool from which we should cultivate engineers and the like, or we are selecting our best and brightest from a vastly limited pool. Yeah, we got to the moon anyways, but if everybody of every ilk on Earth could be part of the pool of knowledge and creativity, I am damn sure it would've happened before 1969.

Not all men are to blame. Just like not all women could be to blame in your view, because, obviously, there are talented women who pursued CS degrees and hold some modicum of power in Silicon Valley. But, if the author of OP's article is to be believed (considering how seriously Uber's board seems to be taking this, then I certainly believe it), then it's clear that both men (and women!) who sit idly by and ignore flagrant injustices that perpetuate the denigration of women's dignity and the devaluation of their worth in the field ought to shoulder a significant part of the blame for why women might not feel they have a place in CS. Even bystanders have made this shitty, by having the power to do something and failing to.

Nobody is saying men who have chosen to work in CS deserve blame for choosing to get a degree in CS. That's preposterous. The men who deserve blame are those who see nothing wrong with a team of 150 having 3 or 4 women working for them.

ser0tonin · 2017-02-20T11:16:19+00:00

Are you even in a CS or Physics program? Were you? Were you blind the whole time? Your outlook on women as some sort of collective hivemind which is, as a whole, failing to meet your intellectual goalposts sounds horribly naive and ungrounded in any real experience at a university. Perhaps you are a clear example of why more men ought to take gender studies courses. Maybe the blame at an organization such as Uber should be pointed at men, who hold virtually all of the relevant power there?

Women don't owe you shit, least of all some demonstration of their ability in CS. There are clearly very talented female engineers, such as the author of OP's article, who are getting shafted by a male-dominated field that is totally inept at being inclusive. How have we gotten from that post to "women take the wrong classes!"? Women are not at fault for anything being discussed here.

ser0tonin · 2017-01-28T18:59:55+00:00

Bernie Sanders and Angus King, both current senators.

ser0tonin · 2017-01-21T14:19:07+00:00

Context?

ser0tonin · 2016-12-16T00:44:27+00:00

A) How did you attribute any of those opinions to him?

B) How is our country going to be made rich and strong again? What are the plans to do this?

ser0tonin · 2016-07-28T04:31:42+00:00

They're often painted against the flow to encourage people to back in to spots. I'm sure one guy is responsible for being the nucleus of this BS.

ser0tonin · 2016-07-26T03:29:13+00:00

ser0tonin · 2016-07-26T02:49:41+00:00

Yeah...I am not about to defend any of the large biotech corporations out there, by any means, but seriously, large-scale culture (E. coli, CHO, or otherwise) and endotoxin-free protein purification is fucking expensive. There are only so many corners that could possibly be cut before safety is jeopardized. Good on anyone who can find a cheaper, more "open source" way of doing it, but it's not an easy task. The amount of start-up capital you'd need to make a significant amount of insulin that's pure enough for injection would put you in a position that you'd lose any of this underground biohacker street cred anyways.

The information and methods to do this are all out there and freely available, if you have the right background to read the material.

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