𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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  • I was raised in a cult like religion and escaped it. I must now coexist with some of its believers or it will inevitably result in my homelessness and death.

    The only two ways to combat dogmatic tribalism are either from within by infiltration, gaining trust, and leading, or by stimulating general curiosity and self growth in individuals. As a person grows, they will naturally question dogma.

    Dogma is totally blind to all information sources from outside of the tribe. No amount of logic or emotions will override the tribal barriers of this collective dogma. In fact, opposition of any kind is a form of caring and serves to reinforce the tribal validity.

    The opposite of both love and hate is indifference. If you are anything but indifferent, you are actually making the tribe and individual’s dogma stronger.

    You must not care, or openly show resistance. This generally allows you to coexist with the individual outside of their tribal partition. Within this space, you may be able to stimulate a general curiosity that encourages self growth.

    No one is able to force another human to learn or grow. Growth only comes from within.

    You must also be open to tangibly supporting these people within your personal social support network. The cult’s primary authority comes from the mutually exclusive social support network. Even those that are more open to exiting the cult, are unable to do so as long as they are at a major evolutionary disadvantage of abandoning their personal mutually exclusive social support network.


  • We just need to mine the near earth m-type asteroids. You won’t like it though. The first entity that successfully mines any m-type will own more rare heavy mineral resource wealth than humans have accessed in the entire Holocene. Everything about wealth is redefined in that moment. The system of wealth hierarchy is meaningless. Resource scarcity is a bad joke, and there is more wealth available for space infrastructure and megastructures than anything humans have ever created on the planetary gravity prison of Earth. Getting a ride off of this gravity prison will become the primary issue. Centuries from now the vast majority of humans live in O’Neill cylinders in cislunar space. In that era, primitive wealth hierarchy no longer exists, complexity marches on, but new struggles emerge.









  • So one of the tricks I learned from reverse engineering the 3 layer PCB of the Nintendo Game & Watch anniversary Mario handheld, is that the engineer(s) that designed the board routed ground traces between every single line. Every button, and every signal had a ground trace around it with very few exceptions. I was given some low quality xrays of the board after I had already retraced the entire thing using continuity and vias. I then pieced together the internal routing using the xrays.

    My point is that all signals on a board include a magnetic component. Electrons actually flow backwards from ground because all electrons have a negative charge. We think of conventional current flow from positive to negative, but that is technically incorrect. There is a magnetic field that is created by that flow, and the size of issues this field creates are primary determined by any additional distance traveled between the signal and ground.

    Additionally, you may have brown out conditions periodically impacting one peripheral. Something like a UART module seems like a small thing, but back in the 1980s, that was an entire chip on a board of a microprocessor. It has a ring buffer and several registers. It may be causing issues when these are loaded up with high values. Try increasing the capacitance on your power rails to see if that solves the problem.

    I do not know the output configuration. If it is an open collector, where pull up resistors are used, you need to select the best resistor value to get sharp edges. You may need to check that the logic low value is within the required range of values. You could put a Schmitt triggered buffer in between the devices to see if sharp edges improve performance like with a 74(x)2G17 for a modern 2 gate surface mounted option or with a more old school 74(x)241. The (x) is the series, which you select for architecture and speed. For almost everything, you will be using CMOS 74 series, and in most instances, 74HC will be fast enough. Generally speaking, 74LS is only compatible with old bjt stuff, 74HCT is for converting between LS and HC type stuff, and most LS and HC stuff will not work together. The static HC stuff is MUCH lower power and what most chips use. You just need to be sure to match the power to your devices. This page will help you find logic stuff for this type of issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_7400-series_integrated_circuits. It is totally overkill, but tossing in a buffer with sharp Schmitt triggered edges is a quick hack to see if your issue is potentially related to RLC or grounding.

    For the FX2 chip. They come in 2 varieties. Don’t get the one in the little enclosure with just 8 lines. There is another cheap board that is bare and has all of the chip pins broken out and labeled in the solder mask. This one works with up to 16 channels. It can be super handy to see all the extra signal lines or create extra trigger signals.

    The actual developer of Pulse View has a tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobU-b0_L1I


  • You need a little $5 FX2 board based logic analyser and the FOSS software PulseView to see the data.

    You should check that baud rate is matched. In particular, you may need to look at the clock rates of the chip and how its PLL is divided. Back in the day, you actually had to pick the correct crystal frequency to match things like a desired baud rate. Now, most hardware is more tolerant of differences. When you are dealing with more simple hardware, it still matters.




  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzBetter than I expected tbf
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    This oversimplified dichotomy is asinine. No group of people are some monolithic Borg mind. These types of tribalism are toxic useless. Russians would call it convenient idiots. It is tribalistic dogma revealing poor fundamental logic skills typical for a culture derived from the inbred Puritan penal colony European rejects.