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bipolaron@scholar.social

<p>I&#39;m a prototype equipment designer and artist who works part time as an materials science instructor at MIT.</p><p>I am most interested in connecting with scientists, artists, burners, gardeners, cooks, electrical engineers, musicians -- really anyone with hobbies other than consuming content.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MaterialsScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaterialsScience</span></a><br /><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Energy</span></a><br /><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chemicals</span></a><br /><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Electronics</span></a><br /><a href="https://sch

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    @researchfairy@scholar.social B&#39;kdel Test 1) At least two named Klingons, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than honor. (sorry couldn&#39;t find attribution) #startrek

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    @jerome@jasette.facil.services what in the hell. the vibe coding is one thing, the trademark is bonkers. I accidentally ended up using a UI that seems to be depressingly vibe coded and every single revision something that previously worked stops. Two revisions ago it was *updating without a full reflash*. This time it broke bluetooth so that I have to turn it off and back on again manually at the device (or reboot) to connect after disconnect. Used to work fine! I hate that these people think...

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    @petrillic@hachyderm.io cool. jlcpcb is amazing, I&#39;ve only used their assembly and PCB fab service so far but definitely looking for a good excuse to have them design an enclosure or something, I hate doing a ton of mechanical design and am not good at it. I drove solidworks for years at work and have a great deal of evidence that I have no taste. Functional sure but nice never.

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    @petrillic@hachyderm.io so I tried looking up PCB card guides and the results assume I already know -- what is a card guide for? I&#39;ve used extruded enclosures with card slots, is this to add them? It seems like something I should be aware of 😂

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    &amp;gt; Amid security concerns, MIT to spend over ***$3 million on over 500 new surveillance cameras*** across campus &amp;gt; New cameras have real-time AI face and object detection; some have omnidirectional field of view. Fucking horrifying. And apparently the administration at MIT is investigating HOW THEIR SHITTY DECISION WAS LEAKED. This is the same day that they sent out layoff notices, and also have high schoolers deciding whether to go here. Great timing all around. https://thetech...

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    @Canageek it worked perfectly, I was able to map ctrl-y (for year) to clicking twelve times at the location of the cursor.

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    @Canageek ooh, thanks!

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    @Canageek oh that&#39;s a good idea, mine is a special mouse for hand ergonomics but I see some razer mice around the lab... something for gamers seems like a good bet, the contour software is hot garbage. weird that this mouse I got special for people who have bad hands doesn&#39;t do remapping of the buttons very well, it lets me configure a button for &quot;left click repeat x times per second&quot; but it doesn&#39;t actually stick. they took a year to fix it so I could map buttons for page...

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    @artemis I feel like you can hear them failing to grasp the find-out part, as allies deny use of bases and airspace, about how hard it is to do things on the other side of the planet without help. They figure they can yell at and threaten allies until they let them keep using bases. That will go great. Meanwhile everyone moves on and finds better allies in each other. There is no way they learned anything, you can see them struggling to grasp soft power and they&#39;re just so confused.

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    I hate when I&amp;#39;m introduced to someone who needs help and the first thing they want is an NDA. I&amp;#39;m not interested in telling anyone what you&amp;#39;re doing... I probably will forget your entire project a day later anyway. Convince me that what you&amp;#39;re working on is worth it for future-me to worry about if I want to do something similar later. Yeah an NDA might allow it, but do I want to have to prove that I didn&amp;#39;t pass along anything secret in court? Are you go...

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    rolling requires friction, if it weren&amp;#39;t for friction between the tires and street the wheel would just slide downhill without spinning. yes, this is a subtoot, but a super petty one so.

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    Can anyone recommend a tool that will let me emulate clicking over and over and over at a fixed repeat rate? I found several things online but hard to know what to trust. I want to make the post dates for a portfolio with my publications and patents match the publication dates, but there&amp;#39;s no &amp;quot;change year&amp;quot; button so I just have to click like 140 times to get the year back to 2005.

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    I don&amp;#39;t even know what to put on my consulting website anymore to actually find work (scientific equipment and prototype design for small businesses), but I know &amp;quot;This page was hand-crafted without the use of an LLM&amp;quot; is going in the footer for better and worse.