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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · Nov 24

Got final joists in place this weekend for the mezzanine.

Below will be workbenches, tools, and cupboards.

Top will be 3d printers, electronics, and maker things.

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 6h

Smaller wire gauge numbers are thicker.

Smaller screw gauge numbers are thinner.

Smaller body piercing gauge numbers are thicker.

No wonder I can never remember the directionality of "gauge" magnitude.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 6h

The most advanced advertising technology in 2025: "you just bought something from this website, so here's an ad for things from the place you just bought those things from"

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly it's everyone. I'm millenial, I work in genAI, and I still get caught out by realistic video. It's just so good now.

So many tiktok influencers are AI and not one following them realise. A friend posted a holiday snap on Facebook I believed it was real, but they admitted it was just AI.

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 1d

every religion has their apocalypse "oh no line go down"

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 1d

It's still a financial bubble which will keep bubbling until people get cold feet and lack of investment returns and then it will pop.

Luckily there are lots of open weight models so when many model providers go pop, there will be lots of accessable models for people to keep building with.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 2d

it explains a lot about Elon's drug use.

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 2d

false dichotomies are rationalism now.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 6d

Even "go up some stairs" is pretty trivial in isolation.

It's "go up any staircase, with any possible obstacle, while guaranteeing safety of humans and pets, while doing this as part of another objective, and doing it fast enough to not block the staircase off for 10 min so humans can't get past"

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 6d

Are you using auto selection of gpt5 model, so it's dispatching some queries to slower models?

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 7d

ah interesting - thanks.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 7d

I believe Simon Power was minister at that time and said - paraphrasing - "we don't care, we are not changing it"

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 8d

It's called keeping the bubble going.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 9d

ah cool - thank you!

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 9d

Slop / slopper seems to be becoming the common parlance.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 9d

Cool! Any trick to running 16 channels? octo seems to suggest it only supports >8 with teensy v4, but I already have a v3.5 in my bins

Or do you mean running FastLED and Octo at the same time assigned to different pins?

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

It's been 2 months since I stepped away from my paid employment to focus on finishing the shed.

Still haven't quite adapting from sitting at a desk all day to being on my feet all day.

Ow my feet

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

Ah right, I don't have any of that context - my exposure to American stuff in 80s other than cartoons and kids shows was limited and internet/geek specific. And kid stuff tended to lean "treat other people well and fight bad guys", where bad guys are often fascists or people using tech for evil.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

To me it feels like ~2010 was the inflection point.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

When would you say that started happening?

I think internet allowed for better modelling and prediction of engagement, and that flowed back into traditional media (along with internet/cable replacing broadcast television and providing those metrics at a finer grain than ever before)

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

And I think ubiquitous internet is the primary cause of polarisation, because usually moral disagreements would be tempered by human interaction.

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

I think algorithmic timelines and engagement maxing share a lot of blame.

Nuance with shortened form social media isn't great for getting responses or virality.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

Teensy 4.1 with OctoWS2811 supports more than 8 channels too forum.pjrc.com/index.php?th...

And fadecandy's length limit of 64 LEDs would be awkward anyway for the project I have in mind, so probably time to try something different.

Number of LEDs per OctoWS2811 output

Hello everybody. I am a programmer that have dabbled a very little bit with microcontrollers and new to the Teensy world. I'm planning a small/medium sized LED project: a grid made up of LED strings ...

forum.pjrc.com

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joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

There are a few copies in various states, though there are supposedly also other build dependencies that have also been deleted.

Probably could find a path, but it's just annoying.

joel @jmoonz.bsky.social · 10d

People hint at using multiple NeoPXL8 instances across different PIOs github.com/adafruit/Ada...

Support for Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - RP2350 · Issue #13 · adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPXL8

Hi, I'd love to see support for the recently released Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - RP2350. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/ It features 12 PIO state machines and thus driving 12 pins simultane...

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