Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 54

@xenostar So in a sense, by being extremely open, I accomplish the same thing: The other person going "Yes, okay, that's fine." because it's too much detail, and they aren't smart enough to filter out the important parts. It's not deliberate on my part, just a result of being a geek, but yeah, it kind of ends up protecting me a bit.

@xenostar And I think what I'm getting at is that I don't try to trick people. I don't try to screw them over. What often happens is that I tell people the truth, but there is so much information that they are overwhelmed, so they don't understand what I'm telling them, lol...

@xenostar There is some nuance to what I said too, because one-to-one versus many-to-many was only one half of what I meant. The other half is that one-to-one is better for keeping secrets, and people want to keep secrets, especially when they do business with each other.

Perhaps there is a hidden cost to this behaviour that I can't see, but I don't get the impression that people who keep secrets are any more successful than me.

I have this thing where I like to talk to groups of people. I've noticed that other people don't always like this. They want to go off to a corner and talk among themselves. They want to hide everything from each other.

I think my problem is that I can reveal everything and still talk my way out of it if I say something that I regret. It doesn't cost me anything to be extremely honest.

Other people don't like that, because they want to hush everything down and not draw attention to themselves.

@cronjager Stalking horse?

Very interesting to observe the Christian Democrats' perspective on Muslims in Norway. They wish Muslims welcome because they believe in God, and say that secularists pose the most serious threat to Christian values. Meanwhile, the anti-tax anti-immigration Progress Party thinks that Muslims are the most serious threat to Christian values, and thinks that the Christian Democrats have an absurd point of view on the issue.

@redsPL A shift register would work for boiling the VU meter and the power LED down to 3 pins. However, I might want to do PWM on the power LED. A multi channel PWM controller via I2C is probably best for that purpose, rather than a shift register, because then I could also have halfway lit VU meter LEDs. However, it might be cheaper/easier to just use an MCU with built-in PWM controllers and a higher pin count...

@redsPL In this case, it's about whether or not to use an MCU in the first place. I've been using 74-series chips and MOSFETs, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to replace all of that with an MCU, because I keep discovering important features that the design needs, that would be much simpler to implement in an MCU. The original plan was to keep it 100% analog, but it's going to be a hybrid circuit instead.

@karen This is pretty much every human on the planet, in my experience.

With a sufficiently high pin count MCU, I could perform dynamic processing on the 12 input channels individually. With a low pin count MCU, my options would be more limited, but still considerably betre than before.

I started thinking my 5.1 mixing box over a bit and I realised that I'm building an awful lot of digital circuitry using discrete components, namely a LED peak meter and a soft latch power circuit, and I'm starting to think that it's probably best to just use an MCU for all of it. There are a couple of features I could add to the system if I use an MCU, like AGC, peak limiting and USB software control, so it's starting to make more sense to do it that way.

Started thinking my electronics over a bit and I realised that I'm building an awful lot of digital circuitry using discrete components, namely a LED peak meter and a soft latch power circuit, and I'm starting to think that it's probably best to just use an MCU for all of it. There are a couple of features I could add to the system if I use an MCU, like AGC, peak limiting and USB software control, so it's starting to make more sense to do it that way.

@sina *much of a difference for me

@sina Hum... Odd. The mod didn't make much of a difference... But, my assessment did change a bit underway, from "it's all slow" to "the launcher menu and some other random bits (like opening a file browser) are weirdly slow"...

Assuming I get the job, it looks like I'll be working on a much newer codebase this time around. They spoke of React, React Native, "modern JavaScript" (ES6+ basically), WebSockets, WebPack and also MySQL, so it looks like this is going to be a pleasure to work with.

I will be very relieved if I get this job, because I'm currently spending money that I don't have (accumulating debt). I worked there for 6 months previously and in retrospect, I thought it was absolutely fine. It got stressful at times because I was trying to reach my hours quota and there wasn't time to assign me work because everyone was hurrying to finish before a deadline, so I sat there with my wheels spinning, but I was allright with the work they did manage to hand me.