[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe this invention revolutionised how we clean our butts, or maybe it was utterly trivial and 20 different ways of cutting paper rolls were patented that same year (note that present day rolls don't even use this method).

But that's irrelevant to the point that seems to be implied here that patents somehow contributed to it's success. They don't, an invention will be useful or not based on its own merits, not on the fact they're patented.

They exist to ensure whoever registered it makes a profit, which is why they're being exploited way past the point of making up for any good they were supposed to bring...

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Suppose someone was on the fence here, and willing to hear you out instead of believing OP.

Because, as I said, while I agree with most of what you said, you're doing a big disservice to spreading your message.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I understand very well the implications of the negative price, which is why I advocated NOT to spend trillions in nuclear, when issues of balancing demand and production can be solved for a fraction of what nuclear costs.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I agree with most of what you're saying, but the way you're presenting it is almost confrontational.

True, self-diagnostic in a strict sense isn't a thing, but as you point out after, a collection of symptoms can speak to one's experience. Finding this insight, in my case, was an eye opening moment because so many things in my past and in my day to day suddenly started to make sense.

Coming to terms with this realization is especially useful for people who have strong negative views on mental health issues, and driving people to "self-diagnostic", as in recognizing that they may be neuro divergent, is a worthy effort.

It doesn't replace actual professional help and diagnosis, but it's a first step that needs to be encouraged.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago

This.

Also, tie together more countries' power grids to even out production and demand of renewables, and reduce the need for other backup sources.

For a fraction of the cost of nuclear, increase the storage capacity as well. We've had days where the price per MWh was negative in many hours, because of excess production.

The barriers to carbon free energy aren't technical, they're purely political.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

So the innovation that was patented is literally "cut it partway through".

Patents are inherently stupid and only serve to stifle progress. Change my mind or otherwise just downvote away, works as well.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago

People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?

It's a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

We've come full circle

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is what they want you to believe...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

My point is that coming to terms with who you are isn't the destination, but the first step in a road of self improvement.

You're only garbage if you stop there. Do better, one little bit at a time.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

This is such a bullshit moral for stories, and it's so overused that it boggles my brain. It's just an outright lie - accepting oneself will NOT magically solve all of one's problems, that's not how reality works.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Can you at least wait for me to die before taking me to hell, Satan?

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to control a "dumb" led light strip segment with an ESP-01S. This is fairly low current, the strip will pull 150mA-200mA max (depends on... artistic? needs).

I have two NPN transistors (2N2222), one to control the 12V supply to the white "channel" and the other the red+blue (don't need the green).

I had to pull-down the gates as I had some flickering, and it works perfectly if I manually connect the GPIOs after the ESP-01S boots.

The ESP will boot if I have the RX pin (GPIO03) pulled down on boot, but not if I pull down any of the others.

I'm not smart enough to come up with a way to have that extra pin I need to be high only during boot, while the gate it's attached to needs to be pulled down...

Any thought, other than getting something with more IO pins?

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