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2019-05-17 at 1:40 AM UTC in Anyone here experienced with Arduino, or at least electronic circuitry more generally?AN UPDATE ON CURRENT PROJECT STATUS...
So, I have been working on this whole thing in bits and pieces here and there, but the major rate limiting step was procuring all the supplies I would need. I've got like 95% of what I need, so I've started doing some really basic RPi GPIO wiring to get a feel for it. Aside from setting up an Arduino to light an LED (well over a year ago), I have essentially zero direct experience with this kind of stuff.
Today, I set up a fresh install of Raspbian on one of my Raspberry Pi's, and set up the "hello world" of electronics projects, a (python-controlled) LED.
I'm actually pretty giddy and excited over this because, like I said, it's all kinda new to me, so it's a confidence-bolstering sanity check to see the LED actually light up when I program it to.
The next step is to play around with the USB sound adapter I got for this.
I also have a couple different relay switches to experiment with.
But before I start tampering too much with the intercom's built in wires, I want to get one last thing: Some alliGAYtor clips. That way, instead of soldering and so on, I can essentially switch things back to the way they were originally if things go terribly, terribly awry.
I will update this thread when I've made some more substantial progress. -
2019-05-17 at 1:27 AM UTC in How many times have you been arrested?
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2019-05-16 at 3:43 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcohol
Originally posted by gadzooks Either the concept of "utility" refers to usefulness/efficiency (in which case, my example scenario above, where all of humanity commits mass suicide, would be the most "utilitarian" thing to do), or…
I feel the need to elaborate on this point...
What I meant to get at with that was that absolute efficiency (without concern for happiness of individual human beings) would be best achieved if we replaced all human life with machines/robots.
If human needs matter, then we're pretty much stuck with regular old "pleasure/happiness"-based utilitarianism, which means that alcohol has to stick around. Millions of people enjoy alcohol, while only a small percentage of that suffer as a result. -
2019-05-16 at 3:35 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcohol
Originally posted by DietYellow Yes, but motor vehicles are extremely USEFUL and have a really high amount of UTILITY.
Alcohol has no utility to facilitate morality. It has just the opposite, it retards ability to do what is moral. Conveniences are like cars, they are USEFUL and free up time to go be moral. Alcohol wastes moral-being time, makes you retarded somewhat, makes you 20x more likely to be violent, or injure or kill someone else, and does absolutely nothing to save you time or resources in any way, like a convenience does. It does the opposite because it is immoral and takes food resources, which have utility, and turns them into something that has negative utility.
If we're actually speaking utilitarian terms, then, trust me, there are plenty of people who place way more "utility" on alcohol than things like motor vehicles.
The original utilitarian argument referred to "units of pleasure/happiness." I derive way more units of pleasure/happiness from alcohol than I do from the convenience of being able to drive places.
Either the concept of "utility" refers to usefulness/efficiency (in which case, my example scenario above, where all of humanity commits mass suicide, would be the most "utilitarian" thing to do), or...
If we're using it in it's original sense, then, there's absolutely nothing wrong with alcohol, even if tons of people die as a result of it's broadly accepted use. The needs of the many (those who enjoy alcohol) outweigh the needs of the few (those who die as a result, whether directly or indirectly, of alcohol). -
2019-05-16 at 3:18 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcoholWhile we're at it, we should also ban motor vehicles. There have been roughly 30,000 human fatalities caused by motor vehicle accidents per year in the U.S. alone.
And, obviously, we would also have to ban just about all other drugs too while we're at it.
And probably a plethora of other modern conveniences as well. -
2019-05-16 at 3:15 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcohol
Originally posted by DietYellow You see, alcohol is utterly unnecessary and has NO NUTRITIONAL VALUE, so to turn food crops into nutritionally worthless liquid (if you can call it that), is a moral sin.
Moreso, people are 20x more likely to murder someone else under the influence of alcohol, we can't have that in a morally good society.
Nutrition isn't our only moral goal for humanity. -
2019-05-16 at 3:14 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcohol
Originally posted by DietYellow but lanny, alcohols are evil.
for every gallons of alcohol you consume, an equal amount of gallon of CO2 is released. worse when its colored alcohols, like whiskeys and cognacs because then, trees, normally harmless oaks that do nothing but mind their own business of slurping up dioxides of carbon and refurbishing them into oxygen in the forests would have to be chopped down, turned into barrels and charred.
producing loads of carbon. and its dioxides. even worse is when these brandies and whiskies need to be pass thru charcoal enhancements, because then, blocks of virgin oaks would have to be chopped up and burnt, releasing an even greater amount of CO2, just to produce lumps of single use charcoal for charcoal enhancements.
we have moral obligations to stop drinking alcohols and its high time we let the need of the environment trump our need to be intoxicated.
Ahh okay, I see what you're getting at.
But the thing is, one could use the same line of reasoning to make a moral/ethical case against just about anything.
I mean, why not completely eliminate absolutely all trace of human carbon footprint? If all humans stopped reproducing... Or even committed mass suicide... Then there would be no more carbon footprint whatsoever (of human origin, at least).
Arguments in favor of preserving the environment are technically within the domain of ethics, but reducing potential harms against future organisms is in a whole other ballpark from the question of pain/suffering experienced by currently living organisms. -
2019-05-16 at 2:44 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcohol
Originally posted by DietYellow Oh I don't, I certainly don't.
I know. I was being facetious for the most part.
Originally posted by DietYellow I find it absurd that vegans think it is morally bad to eat meat because it keeps food from going into little beejee's belly, but then they down a boot full of Black Velvet.
I'm not sure I really understand the hypocrisy here.
Originally posted by DietYellow Imagine not eating meat because it's a "waste of food production grounds" and then drinking alcohol lmao.
I'm not a vegan myself, so I'm not particularly familiar with all the different arguments in favor of adopting it (and I'm not gonna read that whole thread in one sitting just to gain such familiarity), but, I always thought the main ethical argument for veganism is centered entirely around defending the rights of animals (an argument I can actually sympathize with).
And in that vein, alcohol is entirely "kosher/halal" for vegans because the only living things involved are plants (grains, etc) and yeast, none of which any reasonable person has ever claimed could experience pain/suffering in any capacity. -
2019-05-16 at 2:36 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcoholI have a practical obligation to stop "eating" alcohol.
I started meticulously tracking every calorie this morning, and nearly half my daily caloric intake comes from the devil's nectar. -
2019-05-16 at 2:34 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating alcoholDON'T DRINK SHAME.
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2019-05-15 at 4:35 PM UTC in another shit shellscript. 2ouch (touch with parent directory)At least the top rated answer on that StackOverflow question addressed it...
"Fast comes at a price.... code complexity and perhaps readability."
That pretty much sums it all up.
Personally, I've never had to care all that much about computational efficiency.
So I use python for literally everything unless I'm otherwise constrained (i.e. modifying, or contributing to, an already existing codebase in some other language).
Honestly, I even use python in lieu of bash scripting because I find it just as concise as well as even more readable. -
2019-05-15 at 5:48 AM UTC in another shit shellscript. 2ouch (touch with parent directory)
Originally posted by filtration they write all these programs in let's say 'Java' to perform an action (list files, parse CSV's)
Dude, I will NEVER understand people who do that kind of thing.
I mean, I might give them some leeway if they're seasoned developers that are so used to using languages like Java that it somehow takes them less time than using something else.
But there are objectively more succinct ways to accomplish the same routine tasks than fucking Java. -
2019-05-15 at 5:41 AM UTC in whats upYou been missin' for 'bout a minute, cuz.
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2019-05-15 at 5:39 AM UTC in another shit shellscript. 2ouch (touch with parent directory)
Originally posted by filtration Welcome to my world… I am a lazy piece of shit. I will make a shell script or some type of automation if it takes me more than 10 seconds to perform.
I do essentially the same thing.
I've written dozens, even hundreds of lines of code, just to automate a task that, at the end of the day, I only end up performing like a handful of times.
It's pretty much par for the course for anyone that does any kind of coding/development/system-maintenace/etc. -
2019-05-15 at 5:37 AM UTC in Integrity . HahaFor raels... Why would you go to a Hospice, tho?
R u dying? -
2019-05-15 at 5:36 AM UTC in Integrity . Haha
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2019-05-15 at 5:33 AM UTC in another shit shellscript. 2ouch (touch with parent directory)And one of those bash commands is a "just in case you forgot to add an argument" warning.
Y'all motherfucker(s) need Jesus. -
2019-05-15 at 5:31 AM UTC in another shit shellscript. 2ouch (touch with parent directory)
Originally posted by filtration https://github.com/filtration/2ouch
Okay, I'm all for writing scripts to automate complex, oft-repeated tasks...
But I only see like 3 lines of bash commands, a couple echo lines, and a whole ton of comments.
Am I missing something? -
2019-05-15 at 5:28 AM UTC in Integrity . HahaAlso, if you die a baby, you get to live for eternity without the development or experience to interpret what's going on...
Sounds like an absolute blast. -
2019-05-15 at 5:27 AM UTC in Integrity . HahaYou mean you aren't comforted by the idea that you get to spend an eternity just sitting around playing watch dog, but with zero ability to actually influence the lives of those you're watching?
