You did not understand the abstraction. I covered all of human history from hunter gatherer to modern.

It is easier to spear fish underwater. You do not have the refractive index of light to deal with.

Counterstrike with my friends at the cafe 20 years ago

I’m pretty good at hunting and gathering. Back before my broken neck and back, I was super into wanting to buy some remote place in the Appalachians and pseudo homestead. I have messed with many of the required skills. I wanted a place in the mountains with a year round creek for a water wheel, building a foundry and forge, along with a manual machine shop. I was into what I could do using junk from pick-a-part type junk yards. People often only think of parts for whatever low end car, but if you actually have a fundamental understanding of cars and the various technologies in different applications, a junk yard gives tremendous access to industrial technology for many types of machines and equipment. Junk yards are not setup for that kind of thing either. A little bit of flattery and flirting with a cashier goes a very long way when none of the collection of parts on your cart have legitimate prices on the menu.

Even with my disability now, I could probably survive in the wild by trapping game and some minor gardening if the population was low enough and I was in a decent location compared to where/when I live now in the era of the 50 year mortgage fuckwit dystopia.

Some people have a more steady hand than others. Like I can do professional sign lettering, but it is super difficult and slow for me to do because I do not have very steady hands.

I can paint stuff like candies (dye based paints that get infinitely darker with overlapping), and pearls, that are both shot basically blind by intuition and muscle memory, but I cannot see hand written lettering and what I want to project onto the page, in advance of actually drawing it. I’m more like a bushwhacker with a machete most of the time.

I tend to lack the patience to make mine nice. It requires a lot of focus. There must be a fundamental difference with people that have very nice natural handwriting. I’m curious what that might be and how others perceive themselves in that space.

Even with graphics on cars and motorcycles I rough sketched in several light strokes before establishing a more solid line. I want to write in a similar way. I almost have a subconscious mindset like each letter should be a draft with revisions or something. I do not have a vision of how I want the letter to look so I just slop something down like a rough draft. Then it is functionally readable, and I can’t easily refine it so I move on.

Maybe it was that day in school when the teacher made me chose what hand to write with. It bugged me so much that neither hand was dominant and no matter how much the teacher insisted that I have a dominant hand, neither felt any different, so eventually she decided for me that I was right handed… and I still have not forgiven her.

That is the moment in school when most of us selected our handedness. That is an impactful moment in life. In terms of competitive sports it may define your potential in many areas. It leads down this path of the psychology of writing.

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Hot air rework setup and inventory for modding GPUs to maximum DRAM.

anon’s moral/ethical incongruence

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The Roman equivalent to the Greek Poseidon was Neptune.

1. How much of the math is memorized versus just knowing where to look for answers?

2. Hypothetical: you have no access to paid tools for things like FEM and CFD, how do you accomplish your hobby project?

3. Solar panel challenge: What would you produce as a physical, marketable product of value as passive income based upon a mostly self contained system powered by a single solar panel? You may add precursors, but may not interact further until the cycle is complete. There is no other temporal constraint.

Pipe Pipe is better than Newpipe. I use F-droid’s VLC front end for local music because the built in android back end is VLC. For everything else, in browser

Pleasure. There are a few things I want to better understand within the radio space.

Talking over the air is not one if the things that interests me, but maybe some digital stuff could be fun. I need the time buffer built into text to collect my thoughts and find my voice through chronic pain issues.

I would like to play around with antennae designs, acquire a better understanding of magnetics, build some discrete circuits, gain a fundamental understanding of the various active filter topologies, and several other little details.

The recent solder smoke challenge 40m receiver was the first time I saw a diode mixer and really understood the theoretical framework of frequency division outside of LSI logic, like 4000 or 7400 series chips. Potatosemi makes such GHz capable logic, but doesn’t scratch the surface of the realm of the nude bearded virgin wizards and witches of radio.

The superheterodyne stuff never made sense to me, or diode mixers, and most circuit blocks in radio. I built a little Manhattan style Colpitts oscillator that A2AEW shared on YT ages ago, that I use for testing crystals. I learned enough about guitar amps and effects that I understand most buffers and amplifiers, both discrete and op amp based. And I can at least identify that an op amp is configured as an active filter. I recently discovered discrete SAW filters.

I had several in my miscellaneous crystals junk drawer, but did not know what they were. Now I really want to understand how those work and how to make one. There is definitely a gap between my knowledge of active filters and how these little devices work.

It will probably never happen, but I find cavity resonators fascinating too. Building components stuff out of traces and empty space is some Jedi voodoo shit that tingles both my inner illogical miser… “(just beg borrow or steal a $20k network analyser…)”, and primal shamanistic dogma “(try and grow a beard… it will be better this time…)”. So yeah, mostly introverted stuff. It is probably about like me and car stuff. I’d rather paint and build motors than actually drive the thing stupid fast. Right now I’m in a really good spot to try receiving stuff over the Pacific too.

In this age? Change your name anyways. Humans are stupid. Just having a name that is novel is exceptionally valuable, like William Beaver, Maximus Watts, or Richard Rockefeller.

Start a business adding proper sliding contacts micro switches to popular devices. Then transition to selling them preinstalled. Simply cut the power wire to the camera module and microphone. I would love to pay a little more for a device with a physical switch and an option for no screen side camera.

I was thinking the other day, if I decide to replace my battery in my phone, I am going to design a TPU phone case that integrates the rear battery cover and not installing the rear glass bullshit too.

Still, that does not fix everyone else carrying stalkerware.

Thanks! This repo’s readme leads to gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html. This then references Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus. That is available from the above linked archive.org page.

This is much closer to the real reason I was asking, as this little clock is intended as a primer for understanding object tracking for both astronomical observations and local rocket launches or transits.

I was raised in a cult like religion and escaped it. I must now coexist with some of its believers or it will inevitably result in my homelessness and death.

The only two ways to combat dogmatic tribalism are either from within by infiltration, gaining trust, and leading, or by stimulating general curiosity and self growth in individuals. As a person grows, they will naturally question dogma.

Dogma is totally blind to all information sources from outside of the tribe. No amount of logic or emotions will override the tribal barriers of this collective dogma. In fact, opposition of any kind is a form of caring and serves to reinforce the tribal validity.

The opposite of both love and hate is indifference. If you are anything but indifferent, you are actually making the tribe and individual’s dogma stronger.

You must not care, or openly show resistance. This generally allows you to coexist with the individual outside of their tribal partition. Within this space, you may be able to stimulate a general curiosity that encourages self growth.

No one is able to force another human to learn or grow. Growth only comes from within.

You must also be open to tangibly supporting these people within your personal social support network. The cult’s primary authority comes from the mutually exclusive social support network. Even those that are more open to exiting the cult, are unable to do so as long as they are at a major evolutionary disadvantage of abandoning their personal mutually exclusive social support network.

I think personality compatibility has more to do with that relationship. I have very little emotional empathy, but plenty of cognitive empathy. I do not have narcissism like my parents and I am capable of independent thought and questioning dogma. All of this is totally incompatible with my family.

I don’t talk to my folks because everything is negative feedback and sadism.