Thorry84

@Thorry84@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember kids, it doesn’t matter if you think AI can do your job, it also doesn’t matter if AI can actually do your job or not. The only thing that matters is that the powers that be think AI can do your job, that’s all it takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching Enterprise for the very first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, you're an ass man. I have this problem with my bum. Could you take a look?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then everyone at the table stood up and clapped #blessed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capricorn Two⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was too heavy to move, except for like the single truck that moved it when it crashed. It didn’t just get heavier over night did it?

  It’s just code for nobody wanted to pay to have their shit cleaned up, so everyone just left it because who cares. I can’t imagine it’s much of an “attraction”, that’s just some smart local politician inventing an excuse to not have to clean it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would have been interesting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes those brief couple of years in the Roman empire where they had phones and selfie sticks, but drones weren’t around yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*automatic window noises*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the same code as my luggage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure just saying, not trolling at all.

  Solar drives energy prices down, not up. In the summer the energy price regularly goes negative because there is so much solar available.

  And it isn’t even remotely true, a lot of countries have higher energy prices than Germany within the EU. The Netherlands for example has crazy high energy prices. And that’s in absolute numbers, not even corrected for things like GDP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New social experiment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  homework

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People calling each other at new years was a thing in the before times when texting was non-existent, expensive or not widespread. People would call each other usually on land lines and caused a lot of stress to the network. It could take hours to get through. When mobile phones became a thing, people tried to be trendy and call from a party, leading to total collapse of the local cell network.

  Later when texting became the norm, it would also be easily overloaded and texts could take a while to get through. These days since everything goes through the internet, I wouldn’t expect there to be any issues. The internet can handle sudden increases much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  Even in a unjust world mob justice isn’t justice. This means a mob deciding someone is guilty and acting out punishment is unjust. But also a mob deciding a crime should go unpunished is unjust.

  There’s plenty wrong with how insurance works and plenty wrong with the justice system. But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues. It’s all to easy to give in to our basic instincts and point to someone to blame. We punish them instead of fixing the issues. Killing one ceo might feel good, but it doesn’t really change the big picture and in fact constitutes layer upon layer of failure. We should be better than that. History is full of people (singular and groups) being used as a scape goat to deflect and feel like something is being done, whilst in fact not actually fixing anything and just feeding hate.

  Also in a capitalist world, the people with the most money have the most power. If we collectively decide it’s open warfare, purge style distopia, they are going to have the upper hand. So purely from a self interest point of view, it would be better to work on fixing shit instead of reverting to monke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Brighter? Thank god Bandai Namco fixed their logo for Elden Ring, that flashbang can give you eye damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the cows get made into cow burger no wait ham burger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about? Java runs on millions of devices!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah change.org the platform best known for not changing anything ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once went down the rabbit hole of thinking about how the targeting works on the TNG kind of transporter. Like they need to know to the molecule where your body ends and the rest of the universe begins. And you want it to identify clothing, because you don’t want to end up nude on the other side. Plus it needs to identify what creepy crawlies are a part of you and which were just randomly wandering by. We don’t want any of those pesky Fly problems now do we? This might sound easy, but is actually extremely hard. The human body is very complex and like a ship of Theseus what is part of the body is a bit nebulous and can change. All of the microbiome in our gut is essential for us to stay alive. And more importantly we don’t want to leave behind a puddle of crap every time we transport. Plus what happens if we come out the other end, do our intestines just implode? Or does the transporter fill them with air, leaving you to fart uncontrollably until you die?

  And how does it know what clothes are? If I’m wearing shoes, does it know where the shoes end and the floor starts? What if I’m wearing skies? What if I’m barefoot on a carpet? What if it’s a leather carpet? What if I’m wearing shoes made by folding carpet around my feet?

  The only thing that makes sense is a super powerful AI system that can real-time scan every molecule and figure out what’s what. And it doesn’t only need to be smart, it also needs a lot of real world knowledge. It needs to know what is “logical” to include in every situation. This means it has to be an AGI, has to be superintelligent (at a minimum speed wise) and would most likely be sentient. Them being used for this one and only purpose is really cruel.

  This leads me to the conclusion TNG style transporters are basically slavery and put a whole different spin on the morality of the people in that universe. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how orbital mechanics work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHUT UP EDDINGTON! NOBODY LIKES YOU!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worf worked in security and got to be first officer of the Enterprise. After that became Strategic Operations Officer, which is command even though it’s still ops related. As a bonus he became first officer on the Defiant as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: Do people think stars look like the star shape because of diffraction spikes in refractor telescopes? I thought the star shape pre-dated any refractor telescope. And I don’t know how many people would have seen refractor images back in the days to make it so culturally engrained?

  The post-processing used in astronomical observations is a really interesting topic. I’m following the debate around the black hole images with great interest. I don’t know enough about the specifics to have an opinion, but it is very interesting and has overlap with some of the things I do for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 200 days after its official closure, the last user of Nintendo Network's online servers finally disconnected after a 3DS system crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah you can just emula…

  Fuck Nintendo is at my door, I’m afraid I’ll run out of ammo before they will, when I get to hell I’ll shout Ya-hoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people who are fed up with Microsofts crap simply don’t buy a new computer anymore. They just do everything on an iPad (maybe pro) or similar without Windows. Gamers switch over to consoles, with Nintendo and Steam deck being preferred. Those things may run Linux like the Steam deck or another non Windows OS, but the user won’t notice or care since they don’t interact with it.

  The time of the desktop and to a lesser extent the laptop has come and gone. It’s only for enthusiasts and people at work. At work people probably just use the same couple of apps or even just a browser with a webapp and never really interact with the OS. If it’s even a full computer and not a thin client connecting to a virtual desktop environment. People don’t know or care about OSes. Maybe they’ll bitch about Windows at times, but they bitch about a lot of things at work and they have no influence over any of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would depend heavily on how accessible the computer is and how fat your fingers are. And I can tell you, mine are pretty fat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when token ring was designed normally networks would use coaxial cables for communication. No matter if it ran ethernet, token ring or something else, everybody would share basically a single cable. The cable would have T connectors inserted to connect a computer and the end of the cable needed something to terminate it. It didn’t need to be a single line, you could have splits and even a star like design, although there were limitations.

  Normally in a room the cable would be laid out like a ring although it usually wouldn’t be a closed ring, but instead terminated on one end. This meant each computer would be connected to its direct neighbors, but this wouldn’t be an active thing. It wasn’t like the computer could only transmit to its neighbors and then they needed to pass it on. It was like a shared line, where everyone could transmit and every computer would receive everything transmitted.

  When everything switched over to the regular twisted pair cables we know today, it didn’t really change from a communications point of view. Every computer wasn’t connected to their neighbors but instead to a hub, but just like before anything anyone transmitted could be received by anyone on the network. It wasn’t until much later when things like switches became commonplace and not everyone got all the traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the fun scientific counterpart of the Boltzmann brain. The idea that in an infinite universe (at least in a couple of the spatial dimensions if not also a time dimension) random fluctuations could combine to form your brain. Including all of your memories, thoughts, hopes and dreams. You think you have had an entire life, but in reality your brain was just formed moments ago. And it may possibly stop existing in a few more moments, this moment being the only one the brain has actually experienced.

  When taken to its natural conclusion, the entire Earth of even the solar system or galaxy might have just been created by random chance. The perfect storm of randomness. It may have been created longer ago or just nanosecond before now. There is no way of telling.

  Thermodynamics has been used to counter and strengthen this idea. And with infinity on the table anything goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birmingham Travel Guide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you say that, but near the office park where I used to work there was a gas station that served as the outlet for a local sandwich place. All the sandwiches would get made fresh in the morning and be delivered just in time for lunch. They were awesome, there were lines around the block at lunchtime. They were known throughout the area. The sandwich shop also did deliveries for orders of 50 pieces and up, but the company I worked for only did that a few times a year. Haven’t worked there for over 15 years, but I still remember the taste of those sandwiches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah totally correct. The CRT is only the tube part, the whole thing is the monitor. But when I call it monitor people automatically assume it’s like an LCD. So I would have to call it CRT monitor, but that’s a lot.

  I will post a vid of the thing if people care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the pot is fine, that was the first suspect. Cleaned it and even thought of replacing it, but it measures just fine.

  I’ve found several versions of the service manual and combined them to get the info I want. Both seem to be parts of a larger manual, which I can’t find.

  I’ve been probing and scoping for hours over the past months. But when the CRT is apart that’s kinda hard, since it has a lot of high voltage I want to avoid. No worries, I have the tools and the experience to work with these things. Over my professional and hobby lifetime I’ve fixed over a hundred CRTs and worked on/designed/built hundreds of other electronics.

  I took out a couple of transistors (this thing is almost all discrete components, no integrated stuff) in the horizontal deflection path and tested them and they seem fine. I hooked them up to a function gen and a scope and tested them within parameters. That’s how I found and replaced two other transistors that were dodgy and bringing the thing back to life to start with (it had fully collapsed vertically).

  I checked every component in the horizontal deflection path and they all seem fine. And since the thing works most of the time, I suspect they are fine. It might be mechanical, but I’ve tapped all around and that does nothing. If the issue shows up, it stays like that for a while and then randomly disappears again. Only for it to randomly come back.

  I’m pretty sure it isn’t a thermal issue, it’s a small CRT which doesn’t use a lot of power and doesn’t really get hot. The issue also appears and goes away randomly. And with the parts open on my bench it still happens. I’ve blasted the entire horizontal path with hot air in case of some cracked solder or something like that. But it still happens.

  I suspect it’s actually one of the other circuits that throws off the horizontal deflection. Probably something shorting or close to somewhere. I’ll have to get out my notebook, print out the schematic and start drawing it out. That usually does the trick to get my brain to figure out what the actual issue is. Somehow even after using computers for so long, I need to revert back to how I learnt it in school back in the days to fully engage my brain. Computers probably are too easy and make me lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finding datasheets and service manuals is a nightmare. So many websites claiming to have the right file, only to end up being a scam and not having any files. Having files they have no right to and are publicly available behind a pay wall. Having weird online viewers instead of just giving the file. Padding the file with extra pages of nonsense so they can claim more pages and a larger file size. Having the wrong file mislabeled. Etc. It goes on and on. And then there’s the sites that redirect a thousand times and then crash the browser. I hope I didn’t just get a virus or something.

  All I want is to fix this old CRT from 1981 so I can enjoy it for a few more years, is that too much to ask? And back in those days they actually cared about repairability. Especially the services manuals with scope traces for the test points save so much time troubleshooting.

  Archive.org is a good place luckily. If it isn’t down because shit heads can’t behave on the internet. As a species we really like to get in our own way all of the time.

  And no I still haven’t fixed up that CRT. It is working now after replacing two weirdly behaving transistors, a new power cord and a new power button (old one worked but didn’t stay on unless you held it on). Replaced a few caps but most tested fine, good quality caps. Even the once I replaced were working, but marginal on the ESR. Cosmetics are also good, but there is still an intermittent fault with it losing horizontal size adjustment. It goes from fine and perfectly working to a little too narrow without any adjustment. 90% of the time it’s fine, 10% of the time it’s faulty and it switches random. I’ve been going mad tracing where the issue is, but I will fix it one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit Population⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As so often with anything related to maths, pi pops out at the most unexpected places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit that must be some freak combination of factors. Thanks for sharing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the clarification, pipes look like copper but might be cast iron.

  Still doesn’t fit with the explanation, aluminum has more resistance than copper, but not that much more. The resistance of cast iron is an order of magnitude higher than aluminum. So it would still be the lowest resistance in the circuit and thus the coolest part.

  And cast iron is pretty good at conducting heat. Not as good as copper or aluminum, but still pretty good. We’ve been using the material to make pans and pots for cooking because of it’s thermal properties. So the heat wouldn’t just stop at the fitting, but continue on at least some ways.

  Moreover it’s physically impossible to get aluminum hot enough to glow like this and still keep it’s shape. It melts at 600 degrees C, well below the point where something gets red hot, let alone yellow like this. If the aluminum were to be this hot, it would be in a puddle and at risk of burning.