blackstampede
@blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 1 month ago:
I poked around and couldn’t find a repo link. Can you point me to that?
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 3 months ago:
Going meta is always allowed. Just say you’re dumbing it down, that you don’t mean to be condescending, and invite them to interrupt if they already understand.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 4 months ago:
I wonder if you could make a donation platform for artists that also provides torrents. You would have to tie up the money pending proof of identification from an artist who participated in creating the work, then release a portion to them. I’m just speculating here but it seems like something that could be made.
- Comment on I scream, she screams 4 months ago:
Absolutely my favorite characters. I really like the lonely mountain comic where they make a dragon dildo.
- Comment on I scream, she screams 4 months ago:
- Comment on Noise 4 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve messed around with water sensors before. I just thought it would be neat to measure it via stress on the plant itself.
- Comment on Noise 4 months ago:
It would be really neat if someone made a sensor that could tell you whether your plant needs to be watered.
- Comment on ELI5: how do mobile devices know your movements? 4 months ago:
Thank you. I’m not an expert on how accelerometers work, I’ve generally just used them in robotic and mobile applications.
- Comment on ELI5: how do mobile devices know your movements? 4 months ago:
The most basic way to measure movement is with an accelerometer. It’s a little component inside your phone that has a small weight with a known mass connected to springs. When the phone moves or rotates, the weight moves, and the tension on the springs changes. The tension is either constant (you rotated your phone and are now holding it in the new position) or temporary (you moved in a direction and stopped. There are other ways this can be done, but this is the most conceptually simple.
Steps, length of step, distance moved, and heart rate can be estimated from analyzing the movement in various ways.
For example, to detect a step, your phone might see movement slightly up and forward, then down, then a jarring impact. Heart rate can be estimated based on your entered weight in an app, your speed of movement, how long you’ve been moving, and averages for people of your weight moving in those ways. This is a very inaccurate way to measure your heart rate, however. A better way would be by a sensor located on your wrist, arm, or chest, which is what smart watches often do.
Movement measured by an accelerometer can quickly become inaccurate, because small errors add up over time, so for movement over longer distances, phones generally use GPS (communication with a satellite positioning system) which is accurate to within about 5 meters.
If GPS isn’t available, but the phone is connected to multiple cell phone towers, then it’s possible to triangulate the position of the phone given the tower locations. If we know the distance and direction to the towers, and the position of the towers, then we can find the location of the phone by basically adding an offset to one of the tower locations.
There are other, more niche ways to measure positions without triangulation or GPS, but they’re generally used for autonomous robotics - laser positioning with reflectors, ultra-wode-band positioning with special sensors, or visual positioning with cameras surrounding the region in which the robot will be working.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
- Comment on Name & same. :) 6 months ago:
We’re providing review assistance and some types of automated replication to publishers for a yearly rate, and planning to sell subscriptions to individual researchers for $50 /mo.
- Comment on Name & same. :) 6 months ago:
I started a business with a friend to automatically identify things like this, fraud like what happened with Alzheimer’s research, and mistakes like missing citations. If anyone is interested, has contacts or expertise in relevant domains or just wants to talk about it, hit me up.
- Comment on In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing? 6 months ago:
See what Hackworth said about the robots, also, there are multiple ongoing projects that hope to change the existing construction processes enough that android-style robots won’t be necessary. 3d printing houses, for example.
The jobs that will be safe longest are those that are both physical and unpredictable/non-standardizable.
- Comment on studies need to start asking the real questions 7 months ago:
I feel like the logical next step is a bear in a man suit. We need answers.
- Comment on Like The Animatrix? Have you watched Robot Carnival? 7 months ago:
Nice. I love these niche movies/series.
- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 7 months ago:
Ah yeah, not the case in my area. Rent for an apartment is about twice as much as a mortgage.
- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 7 months ago:
You’re missing a few advantages to owning-
- If you have to move, you can often get the money that you spent on the mortgage back, or even make a profit.
- A mortgage is generally cheaper than rent.
- While some may not be interested in renovating, it’s a relatively low-effort activity that pays for itself if you sell the property.
- Can have a garden
- Comment on ... 7 months ago:
Clear case of demon possession.
- Comment on Please Stop 9 months ago:
That, to me, seems like an ideal use case. My only reservation is that I think it would be bungled in implementation, then pushed without enough testing and validation, then hacked due to the bungled implementation, and then rejected forever because it was hacked once lol
- Comment on Please Stop 9 months ago:
I find the actual technology very interesting. At one point I wanted to create a distributed research journal, and I spent some time trying to develop a trustless, immutable ledger that didn’t have the high overhead that most blockchains have for proof of work. It was extremely cool, but nobody gives a shit unless it has coins lol
I look forward to 20 years from now when it gets resurrected and used for interesting things that don’t involve cryptocurrency.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
I don’t play games as much as I used to, but I had a lot of fun recently with Carrion - you play an alien hive mind eating scientists and fighting security through an Area 51 style facility.
- Comment on Narrator: things were not ok 1 year ago:
I switch between Jerboa and Boost depending on which one is throwing errors today.
- Comment on Narrator: things were not ok 1 year ago:
Ah, didn’t see that one. My bad.
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- Comment on how to find notes, Journals, spellbooks, Grimoires, etc. from those with mental issues 1 year ago:
Get on FetLife and find a local lgbtq-friendly bdsm group. In my experience, the venn diagram of lesbian/bisexuals into bdsm and the occult community in any given area is just a circle. Bring baked goods to the munches and ask about local covens. Once you’ve established yourself as not a creep, it shouldn’t be that hard to put the word out about the grimoires.
I’ve done about half of this, but I’m not into witchcraft.
- Comment on But it's just banana cat videos 1 year ago:
Same, brother.
- Comment on Skibidi Romper 1 year ago:
Easy fix, just add a butt flap.
