Software engineer at the Nucleic Acid Observatory in Boston. Speaking for myself unless I say otherwise.
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I did decide to redo it for the Teensy 4.1, and I hooked up all 18 inputs:
I also added mounting holes, and a bit of writing.
When you get deeper in you will hit the issue that almost every modern part is smd with no through hole equivalent.
I’m not currently planning to get deeper into this, but we’ll see!
Audio science review forums will have domain experts who are much more knowledgeable than I am about this, it’s very hard to make “perfect” analog acoustic circuits where any design compromises are no longer audible. But it can be done.
One nice thing about this project is that I’m not trying to capture high-quality audio: I only need it to be good enough to work as a sensor.
Testing with a breadboard the 3.3v digital seems to be good enough, and the noise I’m getting seems to be RF on the piezo lines which is hard to avoid.
Note that if you have a hot air soldering iron and paste it’s not difficult to use smd parts of you order the big ones or have a microscope.
I don’t, and haven’t used one. I suspect it’s not worth getting into it for this project?
I silkscreened the actual values not “r1...rn” and the same for capacitance. This makes hand building easier.
My current draft (as pictured here) does both, which is the KiCad default.
The post isn’t trying to cover all cases of harmful careers, just ones where the career seems to be clearly net positive when approached from a costs-and-benefits framework, but still involves some harms. Trying to think about your class of objections, all the ones I can think of are covered by “that’s actually net negative” and not “that’s clearly positive, but you shouldn’t do it anyway”?
For example, say someone cares a lot about animals and thought their best altruistic option might be working in their family’s ranch. They’d (a) they’d earn a bunch of money (hypothetical!) that they’d donate to ACE recommendations, (b) they’d have some influence in the direction of better treatment of animals, but (c) they’d be complicit in raising animals for food. [1] It seems to me that the question here is whether (a) and (b) outweigh (c)? Or do you want to give additional weight to farms like this being incompatible with the stricter moral standard you think is correct?
[1] If the movement were working to outlaw ranches like this I see how working at one could undermine that, and so be another harm in addition to (c).
That’s right: if it were free to include then sure, even if only 5% of attendees can read it. But it’s actually quite a lot of work.
I can’t tell if you’re joking? But at the risk of missing the joke, where do you see this in EA philosophy?
Twilio has extended this by two years: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/changelog/Extension-of-Twilio-Programmable-Video-End-of-Life-to-December-5-2026
Speak up if you want me to keep this running until the new EOL date?
It could be fun to see how much of this is automatable: I have a camera roll that goes back to early 2012 combined with my selections for each year. That’s a decent amount of annotated data!
For an example of #1 at a solstice, I think The Next Right Thing at the 2023 Boston one went pretty well. You can hear as the audience figures it out and starts singing along. The original version is much more complicated, and this version I simplified intentionally for the event.
For #2, here’s Song of Artesian Water where you can hear people joining in progressively over the course of the song.
For #3, here’s Chasing Patterns, which is also a good bit of #1.
I don’t think there are other community venues that could host the solstice celebration for free
Instead of having one big gathering for the whole Bay Area you could have several gatherings small enough to fit in the houses of community members who have large spaces. Since the main bottleneck is organizers splitting like this wouldn’t make sense for the Bay, but hosting them at houses is pretty common in cities with smaller gatherings (ex: Boston, which I help organize).
On sheet music: I think this isn’t part of the tradition because most versions of Solstice have segments where the lighting is dimmed too far to read from paper, and also because printing a lot of pages per attendee is cumbersome.
I think a bigger factor is that not very many people can sing unknown songs from sheet music, so it wouldn’t help very much to include it on the slides.
There are two ways to get large numbers of people to sing together: you can teach everyone at least rudimentary music literacy & show them the sheet music, or you can sing songs that everyone is already familiar with.
Other ways, all of which I’ve seen at solstices:
Limit to songs with a melody and structure that are really easy to pick up. A lot of praise music does this.
Songs are long enough that even though they’re not super easy to pick up most people will have it after a few verses and there are a lot of verses. Some people are going to find the first few verses not so fun.
Leader sings something, everyone sings it back (call and response).
Yes! But not just time, you should also compare them on accuracy.
A common experience in parenting is that a little kid will strongly prefer to play with toys that other kids are playing with, even when there are lots of others sitting around totally available. Conditional on another kid having chosen this toy out of all the options it’s probably a better toy!
My guess is it’s just that the fan is really big?
Since writing this I’ve learned more about how the air flows around ceiling fans, and I expect that (a) using slightly taller filters that extend below the blades and (b) adding a cowl would help a lot.
But your accounts would be up so much that you’d only need a tiny fraction of them to fund your immediate consumption
Maybe you want to use the money altruistically? To spend on labor, compute, etc?
I think a lot of this depends on your distribution of potential futures:
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What sort of returns (or inflation) do you expect, in worlds where you need the money at various ages?
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What future legal changes do you expect?
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How likely are you to have a 5y warning before you’ll want to spend the money you’ve put in a traditional 401k?
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What are your current and future tax brackets?
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How likely are you to be in a situation where means testing means you lose a large portion of non-protected money?
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How likely are you to lose a lawsuit for more than your (unprotected) net worth or otherwise go bankrupt?
The first version of this post (which I didn’t finish) tried to include a modeling component, but it gets very complex and people have a range of assumptions so I left it as qualitative.
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The third example I give is exactly that, where Andrew produced our CD, so a lot of overlap!
Helping you be a better live band in the moment, though, seems like it’s usually not going to come out of working with a record producer?
Turns out I forgot to solder the ground and power pins! So they worked, but very poorly.
Combined with switching to shielded cable and swapping the piezo input from +1.65v to ground, it’s working well now!