
alzymologist
@alzymologist@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Homelab Documentation 3 days ago:
just make random files with notes and then grep, the most efficient approach for crazy chaotic homelab imho lol
some day llms will be able to parse your homelab notes - Comment on Enclosure/Room environmental monitors 1 month ago:
ah it’s this way.
ok, just consider buying bare sensors and attaching them to some MCU boards you like - with good connectivity and all - some distance away from the boards (working MCU alters readings significantly unless you bump it into ultra low power, which makers of these simple adafruuit probes often do not care about). It’s way cheaper and easier to integrate in most cases, also you get to choose sensors just for the task, often you can get insane performance (like, glass-clad Pt thermal probes are often surprisingly cheap, for example)
- Comment on Enclosure/Room environmental monitors 1 month ago:
This task needs more specifications; humidity is such a wide spectrum.
- Comment on Magnetic bass detection? 2 months ago:
Ok, I’ve done experiment myself; it was a dumb idea. Sure I can see the bass beat on smarthone hall sensor as sharp periodic spikes… from few cm away of the coil.
Thing is, any measurable signal outside of coupled system is essentially power loss, which industrial made speakers are, obviously, optimized against. The field loops back into the magnetic drive through the shortest achievable path. Then, it’s not your typical radiative EM system, it’s low frequency near field transmission - field drops exponentially as you move away from the coil.
Most probably, you’d need to measure long periodic signal, do lots of oversampling, etc. to gen anything. Or build a high fidelity resonator to steal the field from the speaker - essentially, same thing, except the resonator will probably start singing, too.
So I’d give up on magnetic approach; why go for counteroptimized signal when you have optimized acoustic field? Just analyze it - look for sustained harmonic vibrations, fat envelopes so different from human voice barking and foorsteps; EDM are full of those nice sounds.
- Comment on Physicists create hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute 2 months ago:
What a shitty article. Not mentioning stupid ai hype, it’s like there was no half century (at least) of work on purely photonic computations. And no explanation of what’s new about this work, I remember threshold switches in amplifying media 2d Si photonic crystals from 2008 or so, I date it easily as it was on a conference in Crimea well before occupation.
- Comment on Magnetic bass detection? 2 months ago:
Could be doable with just a hall sensor chip, you have one in your phone, just check it out quickly. Large coil will probably catch slow vibrations too. Also try just filtering audio signal, like get only sustained bass sound, footsteps and voice have short lived low frequency components compared to most music except for percussion I suppose.
- Comment on Looking at getting a Ridgid chainsaw 2 months ago:
I found manual unpowered bow- or chain-saws (simple chain and handles, no motor etc) much better for just this purpose. They are easy to carry around and are faster to start and stop using - exactly what I need when something fell unexpectedly, not a clear-cut type of jobs.
- Comment on Using NFC To Power Devices Instead Of Qi 2 months ago:
hell yeah, I’ve made a whole useless product like that! In lab, we had OLED display powered by NFC too, and touchscreen e-ink tetris device, and spot welder lol. Nobody believed me it’s possible, even engineers who worked with me, might be I was the first one to come up with this hack.
- Comment on Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab 2 months ago:
Reminds me of ftl excitation propagation in large organic molecules making selective laser chemistry excitations unfeasible. Or similar propagation in water through hydrogen bonds making tritium distillation from nuclear wastewater hard.
I appreciate how author of the article gently avoids mentioning ftl, that is some high professional standard for popular explanation. Amazing text.
- Comment on Brewing a fiery red ale. 2 months ago:
Never really head issues with wilds on fruits, once your pitch is large enough and vigorous, all should be safe. Dry fruits are safes as yeast is certainly dormant in them and will not have a chance to germinate.
- Comment on Brewing a fiery red ale. 2 months ago:
Better to wait a few days before dumping chillies though, bubbling blows off some aroma. But this sure looks awesome!
- Comment on 23mm Cabochon Moonstone, Minas Gerais, Brazil (2009) 2 months ago:
Ah, pretty opals. I used to make and study synthetic ones. I miss optics lab.
- Comment on Applying wood hardener to dry wood vs wet wood -- counter intuitive instructions 2 months ago:
It’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_mass_action mostly; also for cross-linking, polymer chunks should be brought close to each other to make better bonds. Wood will absorb the compound better when dry, as it’ll have higher surface energy and no water trapped to be displaced as compound moves in.
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