Great to hear this story of success. That plus
$266.99 per probe for the original proprietary one
Reminds me of Schneider’s stupid proprietary dongle for programming their PLCs. It’s just a CH341 in a funny shaped case that fits into the funny shaped slot on the PLC, where it plugs onto an ordinary 0.1" pin header to talk logic level serial.
Plus it has a custom USB ID of course. Probably costs $2 to manufacture, sells for almost $300 as well.
Used to do this to my shooting glasses, just put Scotch tape on my non-dominant eye so I could leave it open while shooting open sights.
I’m “wrong eyed” so my brain always tried to look down my gun with my left eye. The tape solved it. With practice I can now shoot well with regular glasses, though it’s still more comfortable to use taped glasses.
Don’t listen to the wrong prescription talk as it will hurt your eyes. Tape is cheap and safe.
But then someone else will end up with these bunk cables. They really should have demanded mandatory identification on the cable ends.
True survivalist/libertarian types have always loved solar power.
I don’t know how solar lost its space age coolness, though, aside from active lobbying from the fossil fuel industry to try to kill it. For awhile solar was undoubtedly the power source of the future, the same thing that was on our space probes and satellites.
I have old oil-crisis era books and magazines on my shelf which absolutely loved solar power and billed it as the cheap energy solution for the common man. Somewhere we went wrong, and I think it was Reagan (in many ways…)
Diverting attention from other nerdy/niche groups who don’t seem weird at all in comparison?
Even if that was true, that’s assuming your diet consists of only dairy. No beans, grains, meat, eggs… You could easily say the same for the bug powder.
However if you’re going to eat a diet based on one thing, make that thing dairy. It does contain all the nutrients required to grow a calf at a massive rate, and a human as well. In my youth I did the GOMAD diet for awhile to put on bulk, and the results were incredible. Milk is close to an optimal food, it evolved to be exactly that.
See, at a glance, that thing looks disgusting. I have an instinctive revulsion to the thought of eating it.
I guess some people would say the same for whole live shrimp though, and I grew up fishing them out of the sea and boiling them up in a pot.
We’re pretty close to creating real synthetic milk by means of modified bacterial culture.
If we can have real milk, cheese, whey protein etc. from cheap feedstock in fermentation vats, I don’t see a single reason why someone would choose bug powder over that as a protein source.
I can see it, I grew up fishing for both too and shrimp are so easy and casual to twist and shuck off the shell and chow down, while crabs are all armored up and feel a lot more like eating an alien being.
A tasty alien being, though.
No land bugs for me either, they’re just full of goo inside. I like my animals full of meat, personally.
Check it out, it’s the bone from Jesus’s boner! Totally legit! My guy found it back there beside the boulder.
Man, I don’t think there are real bones inside boners. You’re full of shit. Besides, didn’t the dude get reincarnated? What, did he forget that bone?
Yeah well, go fuck yourself. I’m gonna go show this to someone who knows about this sort of thing.
2000 years later, the plaque on a gilded chest reads “The Sacred Bone of the Boner”
Boner bone? Pfft, everyone knows that boners don’t have actual bones inside them.
Dude it says it right there on the plaque, who are you gonna believe, some dumb old science teacher or the Pope
Charging at home is what makes this specific situation chicken and egg. Since the gas station is the only thing close to our homes, a charger there is useless to us. It only services people who would come from the city, people who wouldn’t be able to make it home without charging, much like how it currently works for us making trips to the city. Without a charger though, they can’t even think of making that trip or they will be stuck.
I’m not really making a point about my little car, except that I love it and I wish used lithium batteries were more available in Canada so that I could install a set that would get it to town and back for the mail. It’s one of the first street-legal electrics ever produced and I’d love to keep it going. 1978!
I guess if there is a point it’s kind of a microscale version of the Canadian issue - in rural Canada, every trip is a long trip. I can’t think of many places that I go that wouldn’t require fast charging to complete the round trip, especially in winter.
Chargers are starting to show up on the major highways and in the cities and large towns, but it’ll be awhile before they show up in the countryside (if ever) thanks to the chicken and egg issue. It’s a waste of money installing one, because nobody ever brings an electric car out here. And nobody brings an electric car, because without a charger, they don’t have the capacity for a round trip.
I actually went the opposite way and bought a diesel Mercedes for my city trips. Reliable, comfortable, and so efficient that you can go for 1000km without stopping for fuel.
I even have an electric car, a little runabout I use at the farm with lead acid cells. I could make it to town, but without being able to charge it there, I couldn’t get home (30 km lol lead acid sucks).
Yup here in Canada the gas station or “co-op” is the hub of a small town. It’s where you get your mail, groceries, snacks, smokes, pizza and sandwiches, farm supplies, and lean up against the counter and drink coffee and chat with the neighbours and staff. Oh yeah and they have gas, but you’d better move your truck before you pour your coffee or the next guy who needs gas is gonna be pissed at you.
I have spent far more time socializing at gas stations than bars. See the example “Corner Gas”
Note that aside from the “park” which you could call “everywhere around here”, I am 2 hours of highway travel away from everything on the list. Except the gas station, which is a half-hour drive on gravel/dirt roads.
Needless to say I can see how fuckcars appeals to city folk, but there is no other practical transportation system for us farmers who live way out here. Without a vehicle, you will actually die. I like to go visit my city friends and walk to the bar, though :D
Just wait until you find out where coal comes from, and what they do with the waste.
Uranium is so incredibly energy dense that the issues of mining and transport are absolutely minimal compared to coal. There are also reactors that are capable of burning up the majority of the waste, but we’re scared of them because they happen to also be good at making weapons-grade material.
We need base load power. Here on the Canadian prairies we have tons of renewables. Yet there was a recent power crisis on a cold, dark January night because in that situation, none of the renewables are any use. Nuclear is that solution, and the other is natural gas peaking that is only run in emergency situations. Shooting for true “zero emissions” is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
Even just for reporting issues, anyone who is capable of identifying a bug is likely to have a GitHub account. Not so for Gitlab or others.
Then you’ve got seamless integration with Vscode as a bonus, it’s more like why would you not use GitHub unless you have a specific problem with them.
QCad still sucks compared to AutoCAD, but it is only around $50 for a license where AutoCAD is pretty much subscription only at this point I believe.
We actually use it at work, because our 2d drafting use cases are very limited, but we still need something DWG compatible.
I wouldn’t try parametric models in freecad
I would clarify that you’re talking about a specific usage case, that OpenSCAD does indeed do better at. However for most CAD tasks I find OpenSCAD is overkill and less intuitive.
“Parametric design” usually refers to the workflow used in the Part Design workbench, as well as SolidWorks etc. where geometry is defined by constraints.
The Part Design workbench does work well and despite the topological naming issue is sufficient for most hobbyist and many light industrial tasks. If I need to draw up an arbitrary bracket or bushing or similar, I don’t even bother using a workflow that guards against the issue, I just use it casually like I would SolidWorks. Only if the part is complex or if I know it will need to be tweaked do I bother doing everything on datum planes etc. because it’s a lot slower and more hassle.
That’s very good news that the topological naming issue is being solved, though. #1 issue with FreeCAD IMO and the one that holds it back from serious industry use.
I see someone else has been reading the sovereign citizen post on the front page.
I would double check your contract, though… There’s this guy who’s a competitor to Heaven Inc. and he’s famous for being a stickler when it comes to contracts. Notably, he’s not known to be their subsidiary or an affiliate, but he’d probably offer a sovereign soul a home.
My Chevy is like a rock, I have to farm around it
Gut an AC from the dump. Replace the condenser with a tube in tube heat exchanger, using your cold water as a heat sink. Brazed plate HX if you’re feeling rich. Replace the cap tube with a TXV for better load tracking. Recharge with R290.
T Sure this is even further beyond your skill level but is the best possible way to use a source of cold to chill your apartment. You can locate it anywhere convenient, not just by the window. You could likely get a COP over 5 and be discharging the water in a fairly modest stream at around 30-40C.