wjrii

@wjrii@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool, though JFC there’s no way MY printer will be fine tuned enough to generate the channels. The whole process reminds me of the rednecks who pour molten aluminum down fire ant hills, in a good way. The sealing with glorified Elmer’s glue is also clever.

  Now all that said, you wouldn’t want to make anything that’s going to have much contact with water, so a lot of typical applications are risky: “My PCB is leaking!” I do wonder if you could do the same thing, but less immediately recyclable, with PLA and a 3D pen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point but for presidential elections, electrical districts don’t make any sense.

  In 48 out of fifty states, they don’t matter for presidential elections. I think only Maine and Nebraska split their electoral college votes at all.

  Also, if the districts are being manipulated to provide a skewed election result then are the districts really groups of people with similar needs?

  The original purpose has indeed been corrupted in many places, and those where it hasn’t are tempted into a “race to the bottom” as states with modest but persistent majorities are gerrymandering their states to the hilt. Still, the original idea of electoral districts makes a lot of sense, and even moreso when communications and travel were much slower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it tastes better than it looks. I certainly hope so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dennis Miller

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda like this as a way to market based on the potential for affirmative defenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there gospel music minus the gospel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Choirs accompanying soul artists is not unheard of, but yeah, it does seem to be more of a tool that’s leveraged when the sound feels right for a track, rather than being a core part of the act. The linked song is verging pretty close to “regular” gospel, but the lyrics are a bit too modern and on the nose for church, I’d think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there gospel music minus the gospel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Ray Charles’s Self-Titled album from 1957. Some of feels literally like Gospel songs with Jesus subbed out for a girlfriend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you need to bother with making the flight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs shall prioritize historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity, and shall acknowledge uncertainty where reliable information is incomplete or contradictory.

  This may not go how they think it will. As an aside, for the moment at least, this is only for AI used/procured by the federal government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the recurring themes I keep coming back to in all this is that the US has a uniquely bad situation with regard to its Constitution. We worship it as an infallible and complete guide to running a democratic republic, but really it’s extremely old, extremely vague, and depends on goodwill and sensible interpretation to function. We have neither the explicit understanding that everything is old AF and cobbled together and dependent upon custom and moderating tyrannical sensibilities like the British, nor the unwieldy but straightforward comprehensiveness of EU treaties and certain other lengthy modern written constitutions.

  To me, him just telling Pamela Bondi what to do in such a delicate matter feels just wrong, as in lacking the due seriousness on the matter, utterly sloppy and populist in a bad manner.

  This feeling you have is exactly how presidents of either party would have felt for the last 80-100 years. The idea of a largely independent Department of Justice was considered eminently sensible and moral and even to the realpolitik set it provided outer bounds of what was politically possible and so they would nudge and tug at the edges, but never blow right past it, lest they suffer Nixon’s fate. I think we make a mistake to say that Trump is stupid in a binary yes/no sense, but he is deeply uncurious about things that donm’t interest him, so when people tell him “The Constitution doesn’t actually say that,” his eyes gleam and he just does whatever he might get away with. And because we have a Supreme Court dominated by the idea that the US Constitution is more akin to a piece of computer code than a framework for sensible governance, they simply throw up their hands and say, “whelp, it didn’t SAY that the administration of justice should be handled with integrity, so guess we makin’ a fascism now.” Better vote them out, except oh wait the Constitution also doesn’t say you can’t fuck with the elections either.

  One of my anxious worries lately is that at the end of this term, Trump will look at our term limits amendment and parse the verbiage with a simple literalism and Clarence Thomas et al will back him up. It says you can’t be elected president more than twice, so why not simply run for VP and then have your patsy resign five minutes after swearing in? After all, we’re mindless textualists now. We didn’t want an FDR type getting overly entrenched in the machinery of power, but we clearly meant to allow loopholes that are significantly less democratic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My kiddo is 11 now, but I beleive the old bag of Brio in the toy box has at least one Duplo Adapter I printed on my old Monoprice Mini.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I designed and printed 81 custom keycaps for the GameCube Keyboard Controller, then hacked it to work with Animal Crossing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool. Gotta post this one to the mechanical keyboard communities too. Yes, yes, it looks like it’s a membrane under there, but this is one of the nicer sets of 3D printed keycaps that I’ve seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was laughing too hard to think of a title.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She just needed a massage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spectrum Holobyte’s 1988 DOS Tetris: the first official release—the start of a global obsession⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMHO no version of Tetris will ever top the OG green-n-gray Game Boy version, which was also over the top Russian kitschy. The music still loves rent free in my head, and the patterns in lieu of colors define the blocks for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The robot looks… determined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My N810 was my single favorite piece of industrial design in a mobile device. Not perfect, and use cases moved on (to say nothing of the internals), but it was so unique and thoughtful and intricate without feeling overly fragile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I preferred Mepis. 😊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, but that graph is not showing any prticular spike, just a nice and gentle upward trend in share. The article also overlooks that there is a certain element of Windows and MacOS computers being replaced by tablets and phones, while Linux is already an enthusiast choice on the desktop, meaning it will be insulated somewhat.

  On the plus side, Steam and Proton and maturing DEs/distros and enshittification of Windows certainly make Linux a much more viable “normie” option than it’s ever been. We’re a far cry from the CD-ROM of Red Hat that came with my “Intro to Linux” book in 1999 but couldn’t use my Winmodem or printer and really preferred to run XWindows in grayscale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, the AMA has always artificially limited the supply of MDs. Over the last century osteopathic medical schools basically adopted all the same philosophies of evidence based medicine as “regular” medical schools, maybe with a vestigial course or two on spinal alignment. Both have the same licensing requirements.

  At this point, DOs in the US are basically just regular doctors with lower MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs, and indeed, they basically fill the role of providing doctors to less lucrative specialties and regions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, “if the characters and plots don’t need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Filter feeder behavior⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case you wanted to know, he’s a former executive for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's gonna save MURICAS rich folks who will absolutely save us working folks in turn!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soos would never…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you don't own one you will never understand it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We lost our older guy a couple of weeks ago, and he hated them, as did our three other dogs over the last twenty years. The younger one and the new puppy didn’t seem to care that much, only getting a little jittery when we were outside and a particularly loud one went off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  3, but the pajamas erasure here is unfortunate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm all for ingenuity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I’ve just seen this one often enough and seen the comments that I may have assumed too much. I’ll take my downvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm all for ingenuity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, yeah, stupid fat maga, whatever. Looks like they’ve both got a pretty big batch of laundry, and looking at the totality of the picture these are not likely to be wealthy people, and it being rural/suburban America, lord knows how far the laundromat is. This strikes me as unironically clever, and they’re both keeping that mower deck out of the landfill and travelling using electric power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new new testament⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like Teenjus to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels like something this community would like to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Barelypoops Cacalags

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, Peppa is a total asshat, but she’d generally have to eat shit in a way certain other kids’ animation asshats didn’t (coughcalilloucough). There was enough of old-school cartoon and comic strip tropes from Warner Brothers shorts and Peanuts that it wasn’t the worst show to endure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Daddy Pig was pretty badass when the wolf family moved to town.