troyunrau
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
troyunrau.ca (personal)
lithogen.ca (business)
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 1 day ago:
I’ll believe it when I see code written for it solving a real problem
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 3 days ago:
Why I oughta
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 3 days ago:
Reverse rickrolling. Only works if rickrolling is still a thing, otherwise people will just click the link ;)
- Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna 5 days ago:
Actually kind of an amazing read. I suspect it shall live another life on 3-axis router tables and such for a while. The mechanic is single stroke lettering remain the same
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 week ago:
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
- Comment on Alternative link to zlib telegram after original got ban 1 week ago:
What algorithm should I use – oh shit, I just deflated
- Comment on MMO interplanetary crafting adventure SpaceCraft from Shiro Games (Northgard, Wartales) announced 2 months ago:
Well, the trailer makes it feel like a cross between NMS and Factorio or something. No indication of actual gameplay loop. Cautiously optimistic.
- Comment on Survival game The Long Dark gets a big update with a deep Safehouse Customization system 2 months ago:
I know one of the developers on this game. They would call me to ask about the science of Aurora Borealis while working on the game, and other similar things. They decided that they were going to reject some of the science in favour of gameplay, and fair enough. The game is quite good.
- Comment on I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit 2 months ago:
This is how I imagined “decks” when reading old cyberpunk (Snowcrash, etc.)
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
What about milk intended for me? I mean, my mom may have trouble producing at her age, but…
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is expanding yet again with 12 new subclasses, including drunk monks, teleporting beekeepers and shadow sorcerors 2 months ago:
“Last patch, we promise”… a few months later, more unexpected updates…
- Comment on Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK 2 months ago:
Well, it’s a marginal improvement I guess.
Lemmy won’t be too ten probably for a decade or more.
Social media platforms suffer from chicken and egg problems – need an audience to draw the content creators, and need content creators to draw an audience. If we get enough content, the network effects may allow it to grow.
But that isn’t just bots posting shit with no user interaction either. How many Lemmy communities start and die on the vine due to no interaction?
Anyway, I keep coming back to both Reddit and Lemmy, but I try to only post new content on Lemmy, and make an effort to engage :)
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 2 months ago:
Wut?
- Comment on Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
I would be so pissed. Well, I’m already pissed, but currently and groaning and annoyed levels, not throw laptop against the wall.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 3 months ago:
Probably the money paid for whomever Alex Jones lost lawsuits against – so like Sandy Hook victims.
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials 3 months ago:
Considering how well received this game was, perhaps it is more about marketing or misunderstanding the genre appeal?
- Comment on Candy is distributed boo-nomially 3 months ago:
Needs imaginary component
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
Counterpoint: Sometimes you can kickstart a community that you want to see just by consistently posting content. !science_memes@mander.xyz is my favourite example – it was essentially one person who created that entire community (and it’s since been diversifying somewhat – at least there’s traction in the comments).
But to reinforce your point: I did !spacemusic@lemmy.ca and tried to do the same thing, but it sort of petered out. But it’s way way more niche.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Just engage with the content you like and build some places for content you’d like to see.
- Comment on That chicken's name? Joe Rogan 3 months ago:
Excerpt from Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood:
“This is the latest,” said Crake.
What they were looking at was a large bulblike object that seemed to be covered with stippled whitish-yellow skin. Out of it came twenty thick fleshy tubes, and at the end of each tube another bulb was growing.
“What the hell is it?” said Jimmy.
“Those are chickens,” said Crake. "Chicken parts. Just the breasts, on this one. They’ve got ones that specialize in drumsticks too, twelve to a growth unit.
“But there aren’t any heads…”
“That’s the head in the middle,” said the woman. “There’s a mouth opening at the top, they dump nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don’t need those.”
- Comment on Boston Dynamic show off their brand new Atlas 3 months ago:
So much uncanny valley creepy vibes when it does that. Like you’re anthropomorphizing and suddenly it snaps you out of it haha.
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 3 months ago:
Add flavoured salts for more variety. I’m partial to Tajin or Montreal Steak Spice.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 months ago:
Git is a sort of proto-blockchain – well, it’s a ledger anyway. It is fairly useful. (Fucking opaque compared to subversion or other centralized systems that didn’t have the ledger, but I digress…)
- Comment on Workbench tale: Resurrection of a dead Emlid Reach RS+ due to extremely low battery 3 months ago:
Yeah, there is risk of some chemistry happening at really low voltages which cause irreversible changes to the structure of the material. Given how the battery responded to tests afterwards, I can only presume that these didn’t happen. Short of dissecting the cells and putting them through XRD. Mind you, I do know a few people in the lab…
- Comment on Workbench tale: Resurrection of a dead Emlid Reach RS+ due to extremely low battery 3 months ago:
Oddly enough, it’s probably one of the best and most affordable devices in this sector. You can buy 10-20x units compared to the brand leader (Trimble). So I think they assume that this is how most people will operate.
- Comment on Workbench tale: Resurrection of a dead Emlid Reach RS+ due to extremely low battery 3 months ago:
They’re lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which typically draw down to 2.0V without problems, and tend to be a bit more forgiving. I agree 0.9V is low, but the cells were relatively new. Furthermore, no sign of damage or other typical faults associated with a failing battery, and my battery analyzer (from my drone batteries, same chemistry) approved it. According to my gantt chart, they’ve likely been charged and discharged 75 times since I brought them back to life.
Sadly, because they are a manufacturer device integrated battery pack, and the manufacturer doesn’t sell replacements, my only options would be installing a third party battery pack or buying another device at $1500 or more. I’m happy with the battery recovery process though in this case.
- Submitted 3 months ago to electronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 7 comments
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 3 months ago:
How can you argue with a word like "best’ anyway ;)
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 3 months ago:
It’s never lupus
- Comment on Honey 3 months ago:
I rarely judge someone for ignorance unless it is wilful. I pretty harshly judge people who cannot assimilate new information. Over time I think I might be evolving from INTP->INTJ as I age. I used to have more patience and would try to encourage people to learn and adjust.
- Comment on Don't fret, check your spam folder 3 months ago:
I run a small business. People in my spam folder have really high opinions of my business. They all want to invest or something… Mostly harvesting my LinkedIn profile for keywords.
