Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023
  • Riskable@programming.devtoGames@lemmy.world•Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealedEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Hall effect sensor expert here! No, the magnets in the joycons that are used to attach to the display/body of the Switch 2 would not interfere with hall effect analog sticks.

    Two reasons:

    • The magnets are too far away (sensors are usually only sensitive to magnets within 10-12mm directly above/below)
    • The mounting/attachment magnets would be perpendicular to the magnets in the analog sticks (if you imagine the flux lines they wouldn’t cross the sensory boundary).

    Regardless, it would be trivial to place a tiny little piece of ferromagnetic blocking tape wherever necessary to prevent interference.

  • Riskable@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.ml•WE'RE BANNING TIKTOK!English
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    6 days ago

    Nobody is learning Mandarin. Not even the Chinese! LOL

    They’re all relying on automatic translation and even the Chinese are using speech recognition to enter characters on their phones. The written language is rapidly being forgotten.

    …which is the destiny of all pictographic and logographic languages so it shouldn’t be seen as a bad thing, necessarily 🤷

  • Riskable@programming.devtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was a time when everyone had common senseEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I just want to point something out: Knowing not to drink battery fluid is not common sense!

    Common sense is something that anyone would “just know” by instinct. Like not running out on to a highway with vehicles traveling at high speed. No one needs to teach that because it’s obvious from a glance.

    If someone had never encountered a highway and never heard of such a thing they might wander out onto one when there’s no traffic. Would that be a failing of common sense? No! Because that type of decision-making requires some education/experience.

    Lead tastes sweet! I haven’t tried it (haha) but there’s a reason why loads of children get lead poisoning by eating it every year. If you didn’t know that it’s poisonous and haven’t been educated about not eating/tasting random things you might just try the lead acid of a car battery! Especially if it’s really old and has become less acidic (that’s what sulfation does: Reduces the acidity).

    “Common sense” is actually just a practical form of, “basic education”. Not everyone gets it and everyone always has gaps in their knowledge. What’s common sense to one person isn’t to another.

    TL;DR: Common sense is a myth. We’re all born ignorant.

  • Riskable@programming.devtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was a time when everyone had common senseEnglish
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    15 days ago

    The problem isn’t the lawsuits it’s the cost. Litigating anything is prohibitively expensive. Nobody but the rich and businesses can afford that so what you end up with is some huge percentage of cases being settled out of court without anyone (other than the parties involved) knowing about it.

    It’s a big reason why settlement figures and jury damage awards are rising… You have to pay for the lawyers!

    …which is interesting because lawyer pay is actually dropping and has been for some time now. The biggest firms are collecting all the money and most of that is flowing to the top. So most lawyers are in the same boat as the rest of us where wages aren’t keeping pace with inflation so they’re getting poorer and poorer every year.

    That’s happening despite the fact that litigation costs are rising. Something is severely broken in regards to the economics of our criminal and civil justice system.

  • Riskable@programming.devtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•There was a time when everyone had common senseEnglish
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    15 days ago

    That’s the thing that hasn’t changed: Some folks have a DIY attitude/initiative and others have a defeatist mentality.

    I have no doubt that if you took someone from 50 years ago who could disassemble their car’s engine and put it back together again and raised them up in today’s environment they’d be the ones learning Python and how to fool around with Linux.

    Maybe amateur radio folks (from 50 years ago) would be more appropriate for the analogy but you get the idea. Smarts and ignorance are orthogonal concepts.

  • Riskable@programming.devtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it.English
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    24 days ago

    For a second there I thought the image was a picture of cheese cubes on a skewers being dipped in cheese. Then I looked a little closer and saw it was bread 🙄

    Someone (with money) needs to make the cheese-covered cheese-on-a-stick happen! Let us know how it goes. I’m sure that not all cheeses will work well for this purpose. Here’s my ideas:

    • Smoked Gouda dipped in proper Mexican (white, not orange LOL) Salsa con Queso.
    • Extra Sharp Cheddar dipped in sweet cream cheese frosting (like you’d put on cinnamon rolls).
    • Pepper jack dipped in a mild cheddar then chilled and coated with caramel/butterscotch hard shell topping with just a smidge of finely shredded Parmesan sprinkled on top before the topping becomes hard.