BigDanishGuy
@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
There are devices now that have a SoC that’s completely locked down at the factory, although maybe none are 3D printers.
That has been around for decades. I mean one time programmable microcontrollers has been around since at least the 90s, and probably earlier IDK I didn’t start doing embedded development until the 2000s. I guess devices with readout disabled has been around for about as long. I have no idea how much it is used in 3d printers though.
If you just don’t buy something locked down on a hw level, then because of the tinker tradition in 3d printing, you can relatively easy flash the firmware.
It deserves more attention as the massive threat to digital freedom that it is.
Yes, agreed. My point was on the futility of the law. But the fact of the matter is that the law exists and it shouldn’t from a freedom perspective. This is presented as a DRM issue, not a gun control issue. Should we ban printers because you may print a news article without buying the rights? Should we ban pen and paper because you could use it to infringe on a trademark by drawing it?
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 4 days ago:
Oh no, don’t. Firmware can’t be flashed /s
smh
- Comment on inspiration post 1 week ago:
In the immortal words of Roger Allan Wade:
If you’re gonna be dumb you’ve gotta be tough.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
I teach my students to just code in English from the start. Not all languages/compilers/linkers/whatever handles the Danish characters ‘æ’, ‘ø’, and ‘å’ all that predictably, most companies will require you to use English for international collaboration, and besides most documentation is in English anyway.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 3 weeks ago:
Oddly specific info maybe, but I’ve been expressively asked not to dump any organic matter in the dropbox.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 3 weeks ago:
Is that like a “library plus” subscription? Or do I just go to the counter with my card and ask for a drug fueled orgy?
- Comment on What's your username and password? 5 weeks ago:
From those of us who where there, when they were written, to the n00bs who were after IRC, ICQ, and chatrooms fell out of use. We need to remember the ancient scrolls.
- Comment on More chickens! 1 month ago:
Which reminds me, your mom says hi /s
- Comment on The thrill 1 month ago:
Why would you ask me? I ain’t a doctor. Anyway I’d better be going now…
- Comment on Where's the fucking filling? 2 months ago:
My dude, you cross posted 4 times. We’re like 10 people on this platform. I understand your frustration, but not getting what’s on the picture isn’t really that interesting. You might as well cross post “water is wet, more at eight”
- Comment on Where's the fucking filling? 2 months ago:
I feel like I just replied this a minute ago. Why cross post when lemmy’s so small everything hits the front page?
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 2 months ago:
Piss in the dishwasher? I’d rather not. I got fired the last time I put my penis in a dishwasher. To be fair she was only 19…
- Comment on This place is a prison 2 months ago:
Vodka isn’t carbonated.
Usually at least. Big Clive did put some in the sodastream youtube.com/watch?v=8kK-QUjOl0Q
- Comment on Octopus nearly strangles a diver 3 months ago:
No, don’t help, keep it in focus
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 4 months ago:
Requiring 610 for your own repair of a game cartridge would be kinda ridiculous anyway.
Besides soldering battery taps can be a pain. There can be so much thermal capacity in the taps (technically the cell, but). Combine that with an ordinary 35μm PCB, perhaps with some old school phenol board, and this result is some a newbie can be quite proud of. Heck, even if you’ve trained a bit.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 4 months ago:
Diesel in Denmark is 11.2 USD/gallon … but do keep complaining about your luxuriously low gas prices, which BTW was caused by the POTUS too many Americans couldn’t be bothered to vote against.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 5 months ago:
It’s “L"a"s"e"e"r”
- Comment on An identification key 5 months ago:
Obligatory milenial joke:
Your mom, very big, causes gonnorhea
- Comment on You need to lock in 5 months ago:
TBH it’s been more than a decade since I graduated electronics engineering, I really didn’t like filter theory, so I went with embedded electronics for my specialization, and went to work in an entirely different field so…
What’s the purpose of this filter, if all you’re getting out is DC? I mean wouldn’t you want to set the cutoff frequency high enough to actually get a signal through? If all you’re looking for is the DC component, then wouldn’t you be better off (as in a more simple, thus cheaper, solution) just doing a rolling average filter?
Again, I really didn’t follow along in signal processing that well, so I may just be exposing my ignorance here.
- Comment on Why nor???? 5 months ago:
Ah but maybe a small obscure group of elves decided that they could rule middle earth by their sheer superiority and therefore stayed behind. Such arrogance would make them perfect as tech overlord types.
- Comment on bold words 5 months ago:
ADHD not stupid
- Comment on bold words 5 months ago:
With you on 1 and 3, not so much 2…
When I was 18 ADHD was something kids had and you outgrew it. I probably couldn’t have been evaluated then. So nuclear engineering it is.
- Comment on Why nor???? 5 months ago:
Oh… it would be kinda cool though: the modern world set in middle earth. Maybe add a little steam punk dwarven tech and some elves with electric doodads. I could definitely see an elven technological schism with one traditional group and another consisting of hipsters with the latest innovations.
- Comment on Why nor???? 5 months ago:
Have guards at a safe distance ready to flood the casting floor with molten iron, while the dwarves are working. It may be cruel, but an influenced dwarf wouldn’t get away with the ring.
Imperfections would be acceptable. I mean once the ring is encased in 2 tons of steel good frigging luck getting to it unnoticed.
- Comment on Why nor???? 5 months ago:
I’m not big on lotr lore. My Atlas of Middle Earth was mostly just used for RPG, and the Silmarillion has been left untouched on the book-shelves in my home. But are you saying that there’s a nazi-hunting-artifacts storyline? Like Indiana Jones in Middle Earth?
- Comment on Why nor???? 5 months ago:
Have the dwarves cast in into a huge lump of steel a dump it way out in the ocean.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 5 months ago:
No, and it’s rats that we are citing the LD~50~ for.
You still haven’t answered my question: are you trolling? or just not intellectually capable of understanding simple medical terminology and statistics?
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 5 months ago:
My point is the LD50 is much lower than 192mg/kg. Even a middleschooler could observe that much…
Are you trolling or do you genuinely not understand basic medical terminology or statistics?
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 5 months ago:
And claiming that the story is fake because “36 red bulls would literally kill a horse” is just plain old hyperbole.
While I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 14l of coffee at once. But going from “some horses would die from this” to “this story is definitely fake” is just bad reasoning.
Sure, it’s reasonable to question the story, but dismissing it because a horse couldn’t do the same? WTF?
Not every horse, human, or humpback whale would survive consuming 36 red bulls. But it’s not unreasonable to assume that a majority of humans would survive.
Personally I want to believe the story, if for nothing else than it’s not a story about how the world is going to shit.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 5 months ago:
Yes, there’s always going to be outliers, that’s how statistics work. That LD~50~ is 192mg/kg just means that 50% will have died by that point. Some individuals can survive beyond that point, while 50% couldn’t.
I’m not saying that 50% of the population will be honky dory a-ok after surviving, what killed the first half. Just that it’s not unlikely that you could survive consuming 18l of red bull over the course of 10h23m. You’d probably still be pretty fucked up, but surviving is a subset of being fucked up, not the other way around.
And claiming that “20g of caffeine could kill a horse”, as someone did in this thread. Well sure, while I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 50l of coffee at once.
