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World's smallest, cheapest network switch developed by US high school robotics team — Murex Robotics makes the hardware fully open-source (www.tomshardware.com)

Designed for use in a remotely piloted underwater rover, the mrxSwitch v2.0 supplies five 100 Mbps Ethernet ports at a footprint of only 44.9mm by 42.2mm. Network switches of this form factor are typically reserved for highly embedded systems; the team prioritizes its use in remote-operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) or...

gazter ,

At that size, for that speed, I wonder why wifi was discarded. Depends on the components connecting, I guess, but if each component is custom I imagine adding a small wifi chip to each could be smaller overall?

gazter ,

One way to avoid looking like a fool is to look beyond just the headline- This video starts out by saying they have more Linux installs than windows, across various VMs on SBCs.

gazter ,

The dude raises some valid points.

gazter ,

But it uses the most powerful GPU known to humans- Imagination!

gazter ,

My friend in Katy! Such a banger.

Not a fan of the Kanye version though.

gazter ,

I put off Factorio for years, because I knew I’d like it a lot. Had some free time in my life recently, so I went for it.

Send help.

gazter ,

Interesting, thanks! I’m someone that has been educated on viruses to a Radiolab level, and as such I’d like to hear your take on the idea that viruses used to be more complex organisms, which then evolved to be the simple and efficient form they are now.

gazter ,

Are these requirements for your definition of life? Is it possible for us to reproduce without relying on other organisms?

Are there any EV cars without any "technology"?

Like the title says, are there any EVs that just have a Bluetooth radio and that’s it? Like a normal car, not a smartphone on wheels? If not, do you all think that this will actually happen at some point? This is the main reason why I can’t (and will never) buy an EV. I like to have actual buttons everywhere on my car. I...

gazter ,

Is there an issue with running OBD for the accessories, but not the engine?

gazter ,

I don’t think that Dubai, or anywhere in the UAE, ever had a ban on women driving.

Are you thinking of Saudi Arabia? Different country.

gazter ,

Following on from this, they do make music like they used to. Just like they used to, there’s heaps standard fare being shoveled out the door. Every now and then, there’s a good one that stands the test of time.

This happens in every era, not just the music you grew up with.

How to revitalize this sub?

I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...

gazter ,

I’ve got a whole library of upvotes that I haven’t even used yet.

gazter ,

I’m about to sit down for the next six hours. I’m happy to stand for a bit.

What are Some Good, Recent, and Available Dumb Cars?

I have a 2010 Toyota Corolla. She’s been my trusty steed for the last 14 years and is in good working order. I recognize she won’t last forever, and if, god forbid (mostly for her) I get in an accident, I will need to get a new car. So what dumb cars do you drive, and what would you replace them with?

gazter ,

I think this thread just goes to show that ‘modern technology crap’ is relative. For some, adaptive cruise control is modern technology crap, for others, electronic fuel injection is modern technology crap. I recall when power windows were thought to be crap, because when the switch breaks, you can’t open the window any more. It’s the same with any new tech.

gazter ,

I’ll need a source for that claim buddy

gazter ,

I feel for people putting on events like this. Ticket sales used to get you halfway to covering costs, but that’s ok, you’ve got bar sales to make up the shortfall.

If everyone is taking drugs though, you either double the ticket price, charge for water, or not put on the gig.

gazter ,

As someone who knows that they know very little about git, this thread makes me think I’m not alone.

gazter ,

Eurovision has very little to do with being in Europe. Even Australia is in Eurovision, and they are definitely not in Europe.

You can only pick 2 games from steam to play for the rest of your life, what games are they? (sh.itjust.works)

I have a large library of steam games, but yet always come back to Garry mod and ravensfield. I keep coming back for the modded content and every other game is excellent, don’t get me wrong. But a lot of big games like RD2 and watchdogs 2 just seem like such a long time investment. What 2 games do you infinitely come back to?

gazter ,

I’d spin that slightly, and go with Satisfactory and Dwarf Fortress.

I guess that means I like having a third dimension.

gazter ,

As someone who’s had a bit of exposure to PLCs and ladder logic, and dabbled in some more ‘programming’ type languages, I would love to find some sort of ‘language’ that fits together like ladder logic, but for more computery type applications.

I like systems, not programs. Most of my software design is done by building a flowchart, then stumbling around trying to figure out how to write that into code. I feel it would be so much easier if I could just make the flowchart be the code.

I want a grown up Scratch.

gazter ,

In my comment elsewhere in the thread I talk about how, as a complete software noob, I like to design programs by making a flowchart first, and how I wish the flowchart itself was the code.

It sounds like what I’m doing might be (super basic) programming architecture? Where can I go to learn more about this?

gazter ,

I believe it’s more a case of most plastics being produced using a by-product of the oil refining process.

So the use of plastic is subsidising the oil and gas industry.

gazter ,

Genuine question - why would the house numbers be different?

In urban areas, I’m used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along. Usually odds and evens are on the opposite sides of the street. So the house on the corner will be 1, the house opposite it will be 2, the house next to 1 will be 3, and so on.

Each street starts the numbers again.

Is this not the case where you are?

gazter ,

Some of that is similar in more rural areas here. Property addresses will often be the number of meters their driveway is from the start of the road.

gazter ,

It’s ok. We all know you secretly want sweet little Taylor to beat you with jumper cables.

gazter ,

As a millennial, I agree with that.

gazter ,

I keep dropping them in my rush from the sink to the stove.

gazter ,

I’m just happy to be doing my part to make copilot worse.

Wanna talk about poisoning LLMs? Just assume the coffee in my repo is in any way good.

gazter ,

Generally these days the run from stage to mixing desk is digital.

What you want to avoid is too many conversions. At some point the signal is analog, like strings or vocal cords vibrating. Ideally you’ll only have one conversion to digital- say, the stage box you plug the mic into. From there it’s digital through foldback desk, front of house mixing desk, effects, recording, etc all the way up to and including amplifiers, which will convert back to high power analog to drive the speakers.

Having a bunch of other conversions in there - eg guitar pickup to digital, back to analog for the amplifier stage, digital to the desk, analog out to digital amps, all introduce latency and quality degradation.

gazter ,

I guess it’s a function of the kind of gigs I tend to work- The stage tends to not exist before we walk in. And if you’ve got 32+ stage inputs, it’s certainly nicer to run a couple of fibre lines than a chonky stage snake with 32+ XLR lines.

The only difference between the digital boards you’ve seen is the digital conversion circuitry is not in the same box as the mixing circuitry.

gazter ,

Aussie reporting in. I can’t recall the last cafe that I went to that did not have avocado on toast, in some form, on the menu.

gazter ,

I’ve paid anywhere from five bucks to get Madge at the corner shop to smear some vaguely avocado looking goop onto burnt white bread, to twenty bucks for gobs of perfectly ripe avo on artisanal sourdough with lemon myrtle dressing, garnished with some kind of deep fried flower and a bit of grass on top to look pretty.

gazter ,

I don’t know if I would consider Voyager to be ‘dead’ if it stops transmitting.

If I put a message in a bottle, with a blinky light on it, then throw it into the ocean, the message is still there even if the blinky light goes out.

gazter ,

It probably makes sense to them. I’m sure they’re looking at your git workflow wondering how you function!

gazter ,

At least they aren’t trying to use Powerpoint for computation…

youtu.be/_3loq22TxSc

gazter ,

Almost 24 hours and no one has commented on MMDDYY? I don’t know whether to be proud or disappointed.

gazter ,

What always gets me when I see paper like this, is just how much manpower, engineering time, experimentation, materials science, and just sheer concerted effort went into making paper this fucking thin and useless.

gazter ,

640KB of memory is enough for anybody.

gazter ,

Easier, more precise clicking

gazter ,

Looking at that, I reckon it’s easier just to pay for all the streaming services.

gazter ,

Might be worth checking out Art of the Rail. True to the thread, it’s not developed yet, but is coming soon.

It’s economy based, but I think there was mention of a creative mode.

gazter ,

At this point, it’s easier to just pay for all of the streaming services.

gazter ,

Have a look at the Bananapi options, especially the R3. (Or the R2, it’s a bit more mature)

It’s a very capable single board computer with onboard managed switch, including SFP cages. If you want, you can buy antennas and utilise the wifi 6, or get a dedicated access point.

PFsense, openwrt, et al all have images. I think some people also run the mikrotik OS on it. It’s powerful enough to run as a hypervisor so you can chop and change between all of these if you want.

It gets bonus points for accepting 5G modems for failover.

gazter ,

There’s a lot more to it than that, but yes. At least in my world, RAID isn’t really used for ingest, it’s just not fast enough- A single camera at 4k will bring a gigabit network to its knees. IP networking is making it’s way into the events space, but it’s not straightforward, and generally isn’t used for critical recording or archival, just for pushing content to screens. For recording it is usually done in camera, and this is directly piped over dedicated cabling to back of house where a recording station is set up. This cabling will either be SMPTE or SDI.

The most data I’ve recorded for a live event was on a show for a Tech Company You’ve Heard Of.

We had 8 cameras in the main room. This room ran for most of the day, can’t recall how long but let’s call it 8 hours, allowing time for lunch and turnarounds and such. This show ran for three days. We kept to good practice, and had a main and backup recording of each camera feed. They wanted ProRes 444 HQ, I managed to convince them that 422 would be sufficient. Even so, at 4k, that’s about half a terabyte per hour.

We could only get 2 terabyte SSDs in the quantity needed in time.

So that’s 2 recordings of 8 cameras at half a terabyte an hour, giving 8 terabytes per hour, for 8 hours, giving 64 terabytes a day, for three days, giving just under 200 terabytes for the main room alone.

Do you know how tall a stack of a hundred SSDs is? I do…

Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted (www.businessinsider.com)

Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including...

gazter ,

I’m happy they’ve moved on from testing on unwilling monkeys, to willing humans.

gazter ,

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted- Your point is accurate and adds to the conversation. Welcome to reddit, I guess.

gazter ,

The vitriol against anything vaguely Musky on lemmy is so perplexing to me.

It’s nuts that people will froth at the mouth at the merest suggestion they consider buying a Tesla, and then drive off in their Volkswagen.

gazter ,

I think about this in my workplace. I’m not on the IT side of things, but I do have more of an interest than most. And wow, it seems a mess.

I think the problem lies with all these nifty solutions being implemented, and then suddenly it’s someone’s job to tie them all together, which they get halfway through doing before they are called off to do some other task… There doesn’t seem to be an overall architecture, or a coherent model of how information should flow around the business. I’m guessing you come across this a lot? How does that get solved?

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