m0darn

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CONSTANTLY being one upped by Uncle Ronnie in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 130 points 4 days ago (21 children)

Uncles aren't in your blood line, but maybe he knows something about your Grandpa

Iran says U.S did not rescue downed missing pilot and took damage to their aircraft. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

Maybe retrieved but dead? That would be a failed rescue mission, but a successful recovery mission.

'Go get your own oil!' Trump tells UK the US won't 'help you anymore' in furious rant in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you remember when I asked you to elaborate and you evaded? Will the closure of Hormuz be worse than 2008, 2001(9/11), 1999? Hormuz seems like a financial crisis the likes of which we have seen.

Climate change is going to disrupt every ecosystem on the planet.

It hurts. in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
'Go get your own oil!' Trump tells UK the US won't 'help you anymore' in furious rant in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Neither has the closure of the strait of Hormuz caused a financial crisis of a scale never before seen.

Woman caught on camera escaping police custody in c/funny@sh.itjust.works
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What do you suppose her plan is after this?

'Go get your own oil!' Trump tells UK the US won't 'help you anymore' in furious rant in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

precipitate a financial crisis the likes of which we have never seen.

Can you elaborate on this? And how it is worse than the impending financial crisis due to barely mitigated climate change?

'Go get your own oil!' Trump tells UK the US won't 'help you anymore' in furious rant in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Actually it's best if we focus on reducing carbon emmitting energy source usage. High oil prices make that easier.

A company worth $340bn, ladies and gentlemen in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago

Lol I legit thought

whoa a gel electrophoresis meme, I wonder if anyone recognises the sequence.

It works better if you put it in your mouth first. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I recall that Canada was working on a long-term nuclear waste storage facility. I looked it up, it's a 26 billion dollar project.

It's not a hypothetical issue, it's a political issue. Political issues are real issues.

You can't blame Grassy Narrows first nation for opposing the location of the nuclear waste facility near their territory. It's a community that's been decimated by industrial waste.

I support nuclear technologies where sustainable energy isn't feasible but I think people aren't wrong to consider a waste a problem. It's not an absolute showstopper, but it is something that is part of the challenge of building nuclear facilities.

It works better if you put it in your mouth first. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I also don't know a lot about the nuclear fuel life cycle, but don't you think it might be more complicated than this?

Nutritional Hexes in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Breast feeding is a huge amount of work, asking a person to do that and have a job is a big deal. Pumping breastmilk is incompatible with lots of jobs. If they have already stopped breastfeeding they may not be able to restart.

It would be great to live in a society where breastfeeding was normal and easy. Society is crazy and women shouldn't be criticised for trying to exist within it.

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Deadnaming? At my parent's cottage there is a wall with height marks and name labels for basically every child thats's ever visited including my cousin that has transitioned. (lemmy.ca)
 

Should I try to update the name of my cousin? The marks are about 20 years old. I think it will be obvious that it has been edited and draw more attention to the change.

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DC motor speed control (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm trying to achieve variable speed control on two brushed DC motors powered by a 3s or 4s LiPo battery (~12V or 15V). This is for a nerf blaster I'm modifying, which is why I'm not using a pre-made speed control ie I want control over the shape/layout. I'd like to vary projectile speed with a thumb knob.

I just finished watching ElectricMonkeyBrain's YouTube video on the TL494 PWM chip.

I was initially planning to vary the duty cycle with a potentiometer on the chip's control pin, to get a PWM signal and feed that into a MOSFET. But in the video he mentions that the chip has an integrated over current protection function. Ie the chip will

monitor the voltage across a sense resistor in series with the load

and will

kill the output if the sensed voltage/current goes above a reference voltage

It occured to me that I could actually adjust the reference voltage as a way to control the motor speed.

Would this be a better way to achieve speed control and protect my motors/battery? Or is it a terrible idea altogether.

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I met a Ukrainian today (lemmy.ca)
 

I met a Ukrainian today. He is my age. I met him at school drop off, our sons are in the same kindergarten class.

They recently arrived here from overseas. I welcome them, but I wish we had done more to help Ukraine.

There are numerous places in the world where people are being displaced by state violence, but I don't think there's anywhere that it's being done by a global power so directly. It's similar to Gaza/Palestine & Israel, but Russia can end the war by simply going home.

If we had been meeting our NATO obligations for the last 30 years, would this family have been driven out of their home? I don't know. (I actually know almost nothing about their personal circumstances)

I just feel like we should have done more, and that it's not too late.

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How can I help someone with a gambling problem? (lemmy.ca)
 

My neighbour (40/m) ("N") confided that his recently retired father (70/m) ("G") has started going to the casino twice a day (all day but he comes home for dinner).

G's losses affect the food they eat (multi generational household).

N doesn't really know what to do. I'm not so concerned for N, moreso his mother/G's wife.

It's not my business but, when I was a kid my boyscout leader committed suicide after gambling away his house so I'm pretty sensitive to this sort of thing. I'd like to help if I can.

Any advice?

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Adopted by Goose (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by m0darn@lemmy.ca to c/homestead@lemmy.ca
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This goose has adopted my parents, and is attempting to establish residency in their cabin. We suspect it is domestic and escaped from its coop. It's a seasonal cabin and they're planning to close up soon. What should they do? Central Ontario. Near Bracebridge.

UPDATE: A neighbor of theirs is set up for chickens, so could accommodate a goose. And shortly after making that arrangement an ad appeared in the community message board. So the goose is going home.

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