froh42

@froh42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got a flashback to an open air concert I was at. It was raining like mad. At some point my beer tasted only like rain water. Oh and the second thing is, after I returned home, not a single thing I carried along was dry. Clothes wet, underwear wet, even everything in my wallet was wet. Still, the beer was worst.

  But it was an amazing concert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For an Esp32 you’d need to take a larger model which has psram. With the Pi, yes a is take a zero (Zero 2w or so). The Pi already has hdmi on board and a graphics chip and accelerator, while for the ESP32 you’d need a custom solution.

  The price difference is maybe 10 Dollars per piece or so. On the PI I have 512Mb of RAM and what ever SD they put in for storage. On the Esp32 I have 8 psram or so and a tiny bit of flash.

  Ah right, for the ESP i probably need to wire up a sd card, custom board, all that stuff, to just store that 24bit 1024x768bit image.

  Naah, while I love my ESPs and am just build a project with one - the PI is just so more competent for this task while still being damn cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is being produced in relatively low numbers (thousands) , so software development is a factor. Just plopping a scripted browser in kiosk mode on Debian is cheaper than ESP32 UI development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am bordering on aphantasia, i can’t visualize an apple at all, just as an abstract drawing.

  I can visualize numbers and graphs, for example 1-6 are easy with the symbols of a dice, 7 like six with a dot in the middle, 8 two rows of fours and 9 as a three by threw grid.

  The thing is, I never visualize things literally, it’s always abstract symbols - and understanding “more” requires better symbols.

  Decimal system is also just a symbol, I can easily keep numbers in my mind up to six or seven digits.

  Bigger, I have a bit of trouble with the scientific notation - I don’t have concepts for numbers beyond 10^9, even these rather are a thousand million.

  “Hardcoded” numbers in the brain go to 4 or 5 or so, everything else is abstractions. piled on abstractions and how used you are to handling these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who dares disturb my liver?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And is Long John Thomas a word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why abc, xyz, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t always use the latin alphabet. In University I hated my prof using the same letter over and over again in different writing systems. x, chi, Gothic x, x with hat, x with dash, x as a vector etc. etx.

  This was crazy hard for me as I internally verbalize when I read formulae, so I had to “invent” different pronunciations for evey different version of x. Because (for example) one is the vector, but the lowercase latin version is just the length of the vector.

  Along with the fact that people use slightly different conventions and then conventions in math are different in the anglosphere vs here - I frequently couldn’t understand a paper or script without having an idea how things worked in the first place. A didactical nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I 🖤 LaTeX⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knuth is the perfect nerd, publishing a package where people are still discussing how to pronounce its name close to 50 years after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something is wrong..⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reading this at 5am after I woke up at 4 for seemingly no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed it by that much!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now try to get “clitoris” miles, but I’ll bet you’ll never find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I was wondering for quite some time for developing a recreationa… aaaaah medical device using an esp32 that can control other hardware over Bluetooth. A sttetch sensor or pressure cuff might work, but it might be nicer not to have it work like a blood pressure measurement machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4D Salmon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It works by applied statistics.

  When you littered before - with the old cap - you’d have two pieces of plastic, now they are connected and it’s only one piece.

  I’m only mildy annoyed by the new lids and got used to them, but it’s the bottle cap regulation is one of those that’s purely better for statistics.

  It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.

  Maybe we should better just start taxing by the amount of plastic used in food packaging, as a lot of the packages get bigger and bigger just to display the contents more visibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chickenslap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw you username first.

  Then I misread the rest as a Mallard Reaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, Italians also meme about the Pissplatte?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Race” was invented by racists. There was a lot of fake science here in Germany in the 30s to “prove” that not only “human races” exist, but even so that they have different worth.

  So this is what I always still hear when someone is using the word - and commonly they are racists.

  I do understand where you’re coming from, and I totally agree that there are a fucking lot of supremacist people and yes - if I had been a teenager in the 30s, people would have seen I’m blonde, blue-eyed and tall. So I would have that privilege and still it is a privilege in the modern world.

  Prejudices about skin color exist, I absolutely agree. Racists exist, I agree. Just “race” - every time I hear that, it’s like something out of the Nazi textbooks my grandfather had to use at school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can stand carbonated water and hat plain water. When I was a kid, my family wouldn’t drink water but other beverages.

  My kids (17 and 20 now) grew up with drinking water at home. Water was the thing to drink if you are thirsty, everything else was allowed but “something special” like a sweet. Going to a restaurant also was special, they could choose what they like.

  While I still struggle with water - I manage, but I still drink sugar free soda as well, my adult kids can’t understand how I like that sweet stuff all the time.

  So I firmly believe your preference is what you grew up with. You can change it, but it takes effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If they where only reprogrammable....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, some. LED candles just use such a cheap chip connected to a LED instead of a speaker, so they’ll flicker… they’ll flicker the song all along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No context needed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just googled for “flat pasta strainer”, as the one I have was a present from my dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No context needed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I grabbed this pic from Amazon to show the strainer. It’s not how I cook pasta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No context needed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one of these:

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  I love it, much better than a normal strainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🥑 Video⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was zum fick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, it was forbidden to peruse DHMO during class, regardless how bad the withdrawal symptoms were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany to create ‘super–high-tech ministry’ for research, technology, and aerospace⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No it is the Superhochtechnologieministerium. Use the right wording, dammit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was this weird guy around here who claimed women are 100% man - they have been made out of a man’s rib or so.

  And a lot of people believed this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dentures⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone forgot to add the googly eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will replace us all... trust me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say grok is just leaning a bit to the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-acknowlegements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a man I’d have never believed how common such behavior is. I’d have thought that’s really outlandish.

  Now I’ve gone through the (probably stereotypical) process of a guy having a daughter, she’s an adult now.

  What she told me - no, all this stuff isn’t unusual at all. The first time she was afraid (and called me as she already had a phone of her own) she was not even 10 years old, riding her bike from my place to the ex-wife’s place, teenage boys catcalling her.

  There’s a lot of us men around who find it hard to believe, because it doesn’t happen to US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, for me - I crashed in that time, burnout, divorce, financial problems.

  I’m rebuilding my life now step by step, and I’m rebuilding it in a way I don’t get into overload too much anymore.

  I learned to offset stressful times by time off, for example, and 4 out of 5 weekends I relax. (And, yes I do allow myself to cheat, but I’m aware I go into “credit” energy-wise. So in total I take care m energy account stays positive and my life is so much better for it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It got better, that time was peak responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being 55, I agree.