seems like it'd be hard to get reliable data on this. anybody here in the fentanyl business? im not a cop :)
seems like it'd be hard to get reliable data on this. anybody here in the fentanyl business? im not a cop :)
yeah I think housing first usually. car as housing was a reasonable idea, I'm not gonna knock the plan too much, but clearly it didn't work. IMO it is actually kind of hard to buy a cheap car that works on a tight timeline. Especially because budget wasn't $4k, it was like $2k. Needed to be enough left over to pay for gas/insurance/repairs/parking tickets until she was able to get a paycheck. Takes a lot of time on the internet, multiple meetups, negotiation, possibility of getting robbed, etc. I think calendar time 2 weeks last time I bought a shitbox, and the clock is ticking at $90+ a day if you're in an SRO hotel or something.
I have no experience with halfway houses and stuff, every institution that theoretically gives people free housing that I've interacted with here has been pretty bad unfortunately
how any lump sum payment could uplift somebody out of homelessness.
it can certainly happen but the stars have to align on a very single clear cause. I helped a migrant family like a month ago who got pulled over with a gun in the car, which made the county impound it until they could pay $2k to get it back. Doordash was their only source of income so they couldn't pay rent and no longer could sleep in their car either. Local jail support org was able to get them a couple days of hotel while we tried and failed to get their car back with bribes, and ultimately I and some other contributors were able to give them like $600 for their first month's rent in another state. At that point they almost immediately found two under-the-table jobs and became self-sustaining. They're probably still precarious but at least they're housed now. Really nice folks with a cute toddler.
But the thing is they had good connections in the immigrant community which allowed them to get an apartment without proof of income, and to quickly get those jobs. Two adults getting min wage can make rent so they literally just needed the starting capital. It's harder for a person on their own because the kinds of job you can get at a moment's notice generally don't pay enough to live without a roommate. Idk I think that all we can say is that allthetimesivedied needed something other than $4k - maybe just more capital, maybe a different kind of thing.
not a good car but a car, unless the market is locally fucked in Portland. In Chicago for instance I see several 07-09 Sentras with ~120k for $3k on Facebook Marketplace which would get you from A to B for a couple years. Nicer than my last car, there's probably some $2k shitboxes still
unfortunately it is more of a webnovel: His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai
lmao i'm sorry guys the ArXiv people are drawing arbitrary lines in a sea of dots again
in their defense it is hard to get good data when you're paying people on the internet £1.50 for an 8 minute trial (total cost: £300). Would have been better and much funnier to go to a real car meet and have an attractive grad student ask who wants to get their dick measured
also 2 of the 6 sports car pictures are the same Porsche lol
srs take: I think that caring about working out without working out, or desiring to own a sports car without actually owning a sports car, might be correlated to perceived small dick size. Not causative, but men who feel inferior in general. Actually bodybuilding, owning sports cars, and having a small penis are most likely unrelated except for outliers (being too tall to fit in a sports car, being on so much gear your dick shrinks, etc).
unfortunately the hippie shit costs more. Likely the assembly lines are easier if they don't have to worry about it separating. But since we live in hell world it is entirely possible that hydrogenated fat and/or sugar are less expensive per gram than roasted peanuts
shit post. peanuts are eaten because they're the cheapest nut. hot dogs and bologna and glorious USSR sausage are eaten because they're cheap. in every culture people eat what's available. the presence of these foods in American culture is not because of a successful advertising psyop, it's because they're cheap! once they become expensive ideology keeps them there sure.
I take particular offense at this poster apparently not understanding peanut butter. Natural peanut butter isn't chalky, those scary hydrogenated fats are just to make it so you don't have to stir. Natural peanut butter will separate and there's a big old layer of PEANUT OIL sitting there. It's full of fat already! That's why it tastes good!
imagine getting rear-ended and it's a fucking senator. I would snap
I know it's fucked up to spend extra time empathizing with the Israelis. But if I was one of those four hostages, and I found out that Israel had killed fifty people and wounded another hundred specifically in my name. Christ. How could you live?
It's sick. They fly it in front of my county's jail. The prisoners are HERE dipshits!
guy who is pushing for Palestinian liberation because he wants to get a fucking keffiyeh I missed it AGAIN
I bet Israel goes out of their way to specifically block Hirbawi's exports too. Symbolic battle
The completed board does mostly sit around but I find it useful to pull it out and see "oh how big was 0603 irl, is this going to be annoying" when choosing footprints. Hope things calm down for you!
It's fun! Get a practice board and once you realize SMD isn't actually that hard you'll be able to shrink your projects
*bonk* you already know what I'm gonna say, this board could be a quarter of the size if you packed it and put components on both sides. Even if you stay single-sided components for assembly, I totally think you could do 100x100mm if you removed the 9V holders and used pigtail-style 9V holders, or (if that causes trouble for assembly) even barrel jacks and some off-the-shelf holders for users.
I like submodules (hierarchical sheets? I'm still on kicad 6 lol) for schematic organization but I guess they make it harder to make your board dense since you end up trying to pack rectangles together.
But I looked at the JLCPCB prices and squishing it down is probably only necessary for your pride. If you start distributing these in numbers high enough for the cost to justify the extra trouble, somebody will rip off the design and start selling it on Amazon and it won't be your problem anymore.
I will say that committing to an enclosure helps other stuff a bit. Instead of needing the big board space for the batteries, you can just have a pigtail holder and a place in the case where the batteries sit. Depending on how you did it, you'd also have more freedom in (a) less silkscreen space around the pots (b) components between the pots without users brushing them with their fingers. FreeCAD actually has a plugin to import KiCAD models from the 3d view (and then export to some other tool's format if FreeCad isn't your jam) so you could make a simple 3d printed case or something. Or (deja vu, sorry if I've already suggested this) you could put it into a guitar pedal case. Seems like a natural fit with the 1/4" jack. Once the project is solidified a bit more and I'm less busy I'm likely to order a board, try it out, and possibly design a case.
i think most people now think that consciousness doesn't require being able to communicate in language. hence all the interest in Genie and other feral children, animals looking at themselves in the mirror, etc.
good post happy pride boy boy
Nice work! Get your "user testing" time in and enjoy.