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furrowsofar ,

I wonder to what sort of standard. I know I was shocked how poor things were when I started grading college students work as a TA. Same later in the work world reviewing nominations for an award.

Epoxy takes a while ( imgur.com )

I’m almost wrapped up with filling voids, bark inclusions, and knot holes in the boards for the bookcase. If our garage was climate controlled I expect this process would have gone faster; the same could be said if I had more horizontal working space for staging and filling. Once everything is done curing I should be able to...

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Work space. I have a small collapsable bench and two jaw stands with a couple of 2x4s I use in my garage for my work surface. It all collapses when not in use. Love those jaw stands. Inherited the little bench and it works great too and is more stable. I tend to use the bench as my work area and the stands as supports but for quick jobs I will just use the stands.

I remember when I was young I use to use IR lamps in the winter when curing paint on my car. You do have to get the placement correct to get the best surface temperature.

Just a couple of ideas.

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I think what I use to use was an IR spotlight in a portable spotlight fixture that had a clamp you could clamp about anywhere. Also make certain you have enough ventilation.

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Frankly do not agree with your assessment especially about Ukraine. Russia still retains maximal aims. Ukraine still retains the ability to militarily defeat Russia but the west has been a day late and a dollar short. Manpower. That is a Ukranian political decision. Ukrainian losses have been not that large compared to their population. Similar in ratio to Russian losses to their population.

Gaza is harder. No good solution. The residents of Gaza choose this by choosing Hamas as their government and starting a war with Israel. Iran is similarly responsible.

Edit: The amount of money the US has put into either conflicts is minimal, had been spend largely in the US, and has no relation to social funding.

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Inflation has made millionaire middle class. Go after the billionaires please or at least 10 or 100 million level.

Pretty much anyone that can afford to retire is a millionaire these days especially if you include pension and social security values and all their other assets.

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It is also much harder to go after billionaires. They can hide things better and also litigate better. I feel like certain people do not want to fund the IRS is the tax cheat lobby.

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What it makes me think about is how much of the police in Uvalde was theater. They supposedly had training and even a SWAT team. There is a real difference between on paper and in reality.

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The court pays over twice median household income for Washington DC. So he should have no problem affording to live there. On the other hand their pay is a bit low for what the job is. Inflation adjusted pay for the court has kind trended between 2x and 4x of current median household income so at a little above 2x it is on the lower end of historical. Perhaps a pay increase to 3x median income is reasonable.

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Lot of people have their own generators now just because it is not that reliable. Use to be but not now since is was bought out by some Spanish company a few decades ago.

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Organized religion has same issues as most human organizations. Organizations tend to develop a life if their own and do not always serve their customers or other stakeholders and can do things that are counter productive. They also can develop a internal power structure run by people seeking their own ends.

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This I think. Every platform that is not just a mess needs moderation. There are things you just cannot allow especially in a platform that is suppose to be a safe space or at least not a total shit fest. Some of this is the law too, CSAM for example or copyrighted material. The rest is just about not putting up with trolls. When lemmy was 1000 users total this problem is a lot different then 1 million to 10 million or 100 million. It is just that Behaw is a bit more particular on one hand and probably more of a target on the other.

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Power supply, speaker, case, and however you want to trigger, generate, and terminate the sound. For simple sound, and oscillator circuit and specific logic. More complex they use to sell sound chips. These days you could use a raspberry pi or even an old cell phone and program it. There is probably even off the shelf stuff you could link with Wi-Fi, z-wave, or zigbee these days.

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Keep in mind z-wave and zigbee devices can be low power. Plus they form a mesh network so can have fairly large total area. The controller though might not be that low power.

Dogs … they may be leaving based in small not sound. Also sound… the higher energy part of that is the actual speaker. Other the thing to think about too. Ultrasound beyond human hearing. Dogs do not like.

The other question is how do you plan on triggering the sound. That seems a bit more complex unless it is just timer based or you pushing a button.

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OK. So I think you have your answer. Case, board, battery, timer circuit, tone generator. Look these up on the web. Lot of them will be based on the 555 timer chip. A common electronics store is Jameco and Newark. There are other sound chips too but I am not familiar with the numbers. Simple oscillators do not actually need an IC, could probably just be discrete. Keep in mind to electronics do have temperature ranges, performance of whatever you design will have to be tested at different temperatures.

More realistic sounds, I think that gets harder fast. To do that you’d have to in the end record sounds into a PROM and read it out though a DtoA. Or use an SBC and program it.

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Historically there were sound generator chips like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_SN76477 . Not sure if these are even made any more. Again the sounds were crude.

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Not about faith. It is a price/value question. Majority of people never historically went to college anyway.

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It is the age old argument. The question is why are you going. Unless your wealthy, it is nuts to spend money and take debt without a plan of how you will pay for it. Too many people do not consider the price value side of things.

As far as the the tech versus liberal education. It makes no sense for someone like me to pay for or waste time on useless crap. What is useless crap is very person dependent. The other interesting thing is one never hears about the liberal education folks pushing that they need more science and tech skills. How many liberal arts people actually understand science and tech?

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The answer to that is specific specialty training. Something actually useful. I rather doubt that there is much you can do to teach people to be good. Lot of people argue religion is for that but I see no evidence that helps either.

The only humanities class I took in college that had value was economics and that I would have taken any way. This does not mean that I have not taken tons broadening stuff that would not do the same thing but would also not satisfy the crazy humanities requirements.

The one area where you may have a point is my experience is that specialists have to meet people where they are, not the other way around. I have seen some specialists not seem to do that very well on one hand and on the other hand lack skills they should have learned in high school like good writing. Not that I think that humanities requirements helps that much, but maybe. These people took those and it did not solve the problem.

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These are all things people should have done in high school. A far as critical thinking, STEM requires much more precise thinking then most other fields.

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Frankly the amount of writing encouraged where I worked for over 20 years was minimal. It was mostly PowerPoints and emails that you had to get all the substance into the first paragraph. The major writing I ever did was for stuff the was going into patents and that is a very different kind of writing. Not sure liberal arts or college writing would help with either if those.

I do admit though some people’s writing is terrible. I remember reading nominations for an employee reward. People’s writing skills varied widely. Some were really terrible.

As for me, we had a writing requirement in college that was integrated with lab reports. The English prof too one look at my reports and said taking their class was a waste of time. So basically I tested out.

furrowsofar ,

Yes, I think role depends. I did a lot more real writing in graduate school. Papers, thesis, etc. As far as writing … this relates a lot to critical thinking. If you cannot write a good technical paper or article it may be a critical thinking problem. There is also a difference between being given the answer solution method from books or papers and working it out youself.

My wife taught science at the community college level. Thing she said was a lot of students did not understand critical thinking and how to think through things. She felt real accomplishment when half way through the semester she could start to see some students understanding. Same thing with a lot of the general public. Lot of people think science is an opinion not a fact. For that matter Mandy think that there is no difference in objective fact and opinion.

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Why is belief in freedom, fairness, honesty, truth, knowledge, and acceptance of diversity considered hating the US. At the same time some how is authoritarianism, exploitation, lying, manipulation, ignorance, and tribalism loving the US. That is like saying left is right, up is down, dumb is smart, totally bizzare.

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Great example why guns are just bad. To many impulsive and abusive people with them. More guns, more death.

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I think we all know that more guns mean more gun deaths. The stats are pretty clear as a whole.

It is a pretty small group of people that actually own guns to make them safer. Majority it is to feel safer while making them and everyone around them less safe. That is my big issue with guns. Not gun ownership itself… just nutty ownership.

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The interesting thing about Twitter is how it shows how a significant part of our society works. It is kind of about amplifying fame and suggesting that we should all cares about meaningless 240 character posts or what these guys think.

That news media types love Twitter is kind of an indictment of how news works.

Should we post on our local instances' communities to avoid making the Fediverse centralized? ( kbin.social )

I realized that there are alot of inactive communities across the Lemmy and kbin instances. The beauty of decentralization is that we don't rely on a central instance, if a fediverse instance becomes the central one that hosts the majority of posts, then if that instance goes down, we lose alot. I also suggest posting to small...

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Actually in terms of the threadiverse it makes more sense to join medium to large instances that align with your interests and values. That way most of your posts and subscriptions are local. Then it makes sense to subscribe to the best other communities that are missing from your instance. This reduces fragmentation which is good.

Keep in mind your suggesting promoting fragmentation which is just nuts. Building community scale is the biggest issue at the moment. Keep in mind too that as long as there are 7 or so major instances, the threadiverse is not centralized. It is just more cost and manpower effective to join and donate to larger instances rather then everyone run their own. Presumably there is an optimal instance size. I have no idea what that is.

Long run it would be good to have some tech that fights community fragmentation like the ability to aggregate communities. The other approach is just to let the dynamics choose these and let minor communities just get starved which seems to be the current approach. Maybe that is better, I have no idea.

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Depends on what people want. For threadiverse who cares, this is topic based not people based.

For a lot of micro blogging this is for people that either want to be the one people follow or for people that want to follow those people. I am not one of those people. You do have a point though about those people. That is not the the threadiverse though… not related to lemmy or kbin.

Drivers vary though. For tube sites it is more about monetization. So that it yet another driver.

furrowsofar ,

I just plan every project and only buy tools when I need to. Then use general tools that I have before buying something new. So mostly I am opposed to the buy ahead approach.

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