ByteJunk

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Most foreign official gifts which the President and First Lady do not retain for themselves are transferred to the National Archives by the Gift Unit, and become part of a presidential library museum collection.

Any foreign gift that is of substantial value is considered a gift to "the people of the USA", not it's president, so if the president wants to keep it they must purchase it.

They're trying to find loopholes to this rule by transferring it this way or that way, so Trump can keep it, despite it being clearly against the law.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Widened eyes and flaring nostrils can also be fear, no?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It is not, all public schools where I live are prepared to handle this, there are nation-wide protocols for it.

My kid has a severe food allergy, and has to carry adrenaline pens with him at all times.

This was documented in the enrollment process, and this "flag" prompts action by a bunch of different people, like the nutritionist that creates the school meal plans so that they can adjust his, and also the meal prep workers, who will avoid contamination when preparing the meals.

The health services that work with the school are also informed, and they include this in school health prep plan, which eventually causes the teacher and helping staff to receive training on how to identify allergic symptoms and how to administer the adrenaline pens, and cautions that need to be taken when food is around.

Do you think that letting kids starve or die because of a food allergy is a better alternative, or what? This is literally what I pay taxes for, so that all kids (not just mine) can learn and have a full belly.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a genuine mistake (/s), they thought that pro-business/anti-regulations would help their small business.

As with everything, they lied. It's about billionaires making more billions, at the expense of EVERYONE else - workers, but also other businesses. I'm convinced that all the rest, including the racism, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny and overall bigotry are just tools to convince people to act against their own interests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But that's why I'm there.

I ask it for a query, then I go over it to confirm what it does and test it.

If you have no idea what you're doing, you're fucked with or without gpt. But if you do know what you're doing, GPT will save you time.

I don't understand how this is so controversial...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (19 children)

I use it to speed up my work.

For example, I can give it a database schema and ask it for what I need to achieve and most of the time it will throw out a pretty good approximation or even get it right on the first go, depending on complexity and how well I phrase the request. I could write these myself, of course, but not in 2 seconds.

Same with text formatting, for example. I regularly need to format long strings in specific ways, adding brackets and changing upper/lower capitalization. It does it in a second, and really well.

Then there's just convenience things. At what date and time will something end if it starts in two weeks and takes 400h to do? There's tools for that, or I could figure it out myself, but I mean the AI is just there and does it in a sec...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

3D TVs I can see happening, if there's some breakthrough that fixes the current tech shortcomings .

But NFTs, and blockchain in general? Hahahahhah.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is camouflage. I use it to avoid being prey for people who hunt for the flashy and extroverted types.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm guessing that someone who figured out how to keep a high score box centered on screen using assembly will figure it out to do it with CSS.

The reverse, not so much...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Under the plans, imports of all Russian gas and liquefied natural gas to European Union member states will be banned by the end of 2027.

Taking their sweet time with this, huh...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!

 

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to control a "dumb" led light strip segment with an ESP-01S. This is fairly low current, the strip will pull 150mA-200mA max (depends on... artistic? needs).

I have two NPN transistors (2N2222), one to control the 12V supply to the white "channel" and the other the red+blue (don't need the green).

I had to pull-down the gates as I had some flickering, and it works perfectly if I manually connect the GPIOs after the ESP-01S boots.

The ESP will boot if I have the RX pin (GPIO03) pulled down on boot, but not if I pull down any of the others.

I'm not smart enough to come up with a way to have that extra pin I need to be high only during boot, while the gate it's attached to needs to be pulled down...

Any thought, other than getting something with more IO pins?

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