Ah. My only suggestion then would be to reduce the likelihood of errors by just combining each pair of black wires with its yellow wire, so it's one continuous wire. It could still follow the same route and keep your main section less crowded, but there'd be fewer connections to worry about. And you could hold them there with little jumpers like you did in the top right section.
Freeline skates
Looks great! It looks like you might have watched my video :)
Not knowing the schematic, is there a specific reason you have those yellow traces broken out to the left? Looks like you could have done them single wires.
Doesn’t splitting helium into hydrogen absorb energy?
Fusion bombs fuse hydrogen into helium.
Yeah, probably the most undersold feature of EVs. Even the pro EV ads show people "conveniently" charging at grocery stores. If you have a way to charge at home, you're golden. I never really think about fuel unless I plan on driving 200+ miles in a day which involves a lot of other planning anyway.
Got it. I ask because I have a Tesla and my experience is pretty typical for any EV. I have a hardwired Tesla EVSE, but it just as easily could be a J1772 unit for use with other brand vehicles.
As far as anecdotes, if you have L2 charging available in a dedicated parking space (so you can be sure to plug in every night), it’s a no-brainer.
Imagine basically never having to worry about getting gas or fluctuating gas prices. You wake up every day with a full tank, and all you have to do is spend 5 seconds plugging in every night.
Why are you specifically asking for non-Tesla EV? I think the main differentiator in experience between Tesla and non-Tesla is with level 3 charging.
At level 2, a $100 adapter turns a Tesla into any other EV.
Nuts. Never seen H2SO4 used for drains. They don't call it "oil of vitriol" for nothing. You can actually test a distillation of pure sulfuric because a drop will burn through a paper towel in seconds.
How do they know it was a whole person?
Drain cleaner is NaOH (lye).
Sulfuric is sold as battery acid for refilling lead acid batteries.
Muriatic is HCl sold as concrete cleaner.
Nitric is hard to buy, but there are some guides on making it.
I’m talking about the back doors. But yes. I incorrectly compared the front doors in the 3/Y with the back doors of the X.
Yeah the releases in the 3 and Y aren’t too bad. Most people use them by mistake once or twice (and get the warning about window trim).
The X however is unforgivable. You have to pop off the speaker grills to get to them and then the door also weighs a lot and has to be manually lifted upwards.
I think you're mixing up names. Dobson is the name of the mount, and since they're most commonly used on Newtonians, it's kind of become shorthand. My 5" and 12" are both Newtonian reflectors on Dobson mounts.
Maybe you're thinking of a Schmidt Cassegrain?
I remembering bringing my 5" dobson to a work retreat camping trip. Everyone was pretty boozed up to the point where they were struggling to keep their eyes steady in the eyepiece.
When one of my coworkers finally got everything lined up he just blurted out "HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S SATURN!"
It was great.
I love showing people Saturn. Clearly visible even with city light pollution, and rings can be resolved even with cheap hardware.
Kind of nuts how long people can live without ever seeing the rings for themselves.
looking for story-based moderate puzzle games that can be played from the couch
Just finished 12 Minutes and Indika with my wife. Enjoyed the tight 5-ish hour gameplay with decent not-too-challenging puzzles and great story.
Basically 5-hour date night that’s more engaging than a movie.
Any other games that you can recommend in this category?
XKCD from 2009
Given the amount of pull individual influencers have managed to amass over the last decade, it looks like the original 1985 prediction aged better than this 2009 rebuttal.
What’s the easiest way to pull ~30mA from a USB 3 port without getting a warning from Windows?
Back in my day, you could usually sip a few mA from a USB2 port without any trouble.
When I try that now, Windows pops up with a “device not recognized” error. I know you can draw up to 150mA before enumeration, but it looks like after some time, Windows will complain that you haven’t enumerated yet.
Is there an easy way to keep from getting this error without having to actually make the device smart?
I’m hoping for something dumb along the lines of USB-PD but facing the other direction. For the record, it has to work on a USB-A port, so USB-C hacks won’t work.
People under 25, how many of you are aware that you can get 1080p HD TV programming (and many live sports) for free over the air with no app sign-in or susbscription fee?
Just curious because I don’t see people talk about it a lot.
Is there an easy way to switch back and forth between an eSim iPhone and a dumb phone?
I've been dumbphoning since March 2023, but my wife isn't 100% on board. She has shown some interest in going dumb for certain outings though.
Unfortunately, she has an iPhone 14 Pro which (in the US at least) is eSIM only. I looked into Verizon's numbershare, and picked up a Palm phone, but in addition to being a complete piece of trash, it's also not entirely dumb.
Is there a method for switching Verizon accounts from eSIM to physical SIM or temporarily forwarding all calls/texts to a new number easily? Like the kind of thing that might be as quick as physically swapping a SIM?
New York City is the only city in America (or maybe the world) where people are expected to have a general understanding of the geography in casual conversation.
Like why do I feel like I’m supposed to be able to name the seven boroughs? I can’t tell you anything about L.A., Chicago, Boston, etc.
Edit: to clarify: I mean that everyone in America are expected to know NYC. Not just New Yorkers. Obviously everyone should know the layout of where they live.
What's a good method for a non-technical person to short the terminals of two 0402 resistors ~1mm apart?
I'm working on a mod kit for a popular item, but my target audience isn't likely to have a soldering iron. The majority of the project connects to an exposed ribbon connector, but I need to short two terminals to force a power supply on.
Any ideas on a method I could provide for people who can't solder? Maybe a strip of copper tape?
What’s the best method for documenting a ROM that I’m reverse-engineering?
I dumped the ROM out of a piece of retro-tech and have been working through the code in Ghidra. Unfortunately, I can’t exactly decompile it because I don’t think it was originally written in a higher level language.
For example, the stack is rarely used and most functions either deal entirely in global variables, or binary values are passed back using the carry or other low-level bits. Trying to turn it into C would just make spaghetti code with a different sauce.
So my current plan is to just comment every subroutine as best I can, but that still leaves a few massive lookup tables that should be dropped into a spreadsheet of some sort to add context. Not to mention schematics.
My question is what’s the best way to present all of this? I’d like to open-source the result, so a simple PDF is not ideal. I guess I should make a GitHub project? Are there any good examples or templates I can draw on?
Anybody tried one of these RPi based N64 cart dumpers off Aliexpress?
Looking to ROM dump just a handful of games, so I’m trying not to spend hundreds on a Sanni or Retrode. I saw this on AliExpress for $15.
I’ve personally had good luck with Alibaba and Aliexpress, but I recognize that this could just straight not work. There’s no documentation, but it claims the game data will show up like files on a USB flash drive.
Anybody know where this design came from?
Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order.
Edit: turns out these are all bootleg and I’m a moron. Only two Zelda games were officially released for GBA.
Just kicked off a return.
In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.
Has anybody here actually maintained a conversation with a stranger?
I’m now at a point where I can detect 152 nodes in my city. 25 are listed as “online.”
Yet the only contact I’ve gotten is the occasional “hello world” and once or twice a response to my own “hello world.”
It’s possible that nobody has anything to say, but I also suspect the network isn’t robust enough to maintain contact and facilitate a real conversation between random strangers.
Has anybody else here managed to actual chat with someone they don’t know?
Got my router up and running! (and some questions)
Rak wireless module with battery/solar.
My question is…now what? I’m in Seattle, I can pick up 121 nodes, but there no traffic.
Is everybody using private channels? Or is nobody talking? I don’t see many messages and got one reply to a general CQ I sent out, but no response to the follow up.
I guess I was kind of hoping for what I get over ham radio, occasional chats, evening nets, etc.
Am I running into a technical limitation? Or is that the gist of Meshtastic?
As a follow-up, can I easily see if my router is handling other people’s traffic? I’d like to know if I’m helping.
New Router! (and questions)
So just installed a rooftop relay based on a Rak wireless module. I can now reach over 120 nodes (around 20 “online”).
I guess my question now is…now what?
I come from ham radio, so I was hoping to make come connections and maybe have some conversations, but the best I got was a single reply to a CQ, but I got no response from my follow-up.
Does anybody actually have conversations over the general Meshtastic channel? Is it all encrypted channels? Or is nobody talking at all?
Is there any way to determine how much traffic my router is handling?
This is in Seattle, BTW.
Ticketmaster offers no alternative to your smartphonw
This might not be news to everyone, but since 2021, they stopped offering an alternative to the app. You can no longer print or screenshot the barcodes because they roll.
Super lame.
I asked it a question from Tuesday’s crossword. It produced an image of the solved crossword, but got the answer wrong. But…
…the correct answer on the crossword is wrong. “Earthrise” is not a natural phenomenon. The Earth doesn’t rise in the sky of the Moon. The Moon is tidally locked. It only appears to rise from orbit where it was observed by Apollo 8 in 1968.
And pulsars were first discovered in 1968 (or at least that’s when they were named).
So, it recognized that it was a crossword question, but it didn’t give the crossword answer. The answer it did give us technically more correct.