Is it the right crimp connector for the cable area? (mm^2 or AWG) A connector for a larger area than is used can give a bad connection and/or slip off even if crimped with the right tool.

Is the tool of good quality? Some tools just don't work well, even for their intended use.

Many tools, particularly the better ones, are dependent on being used in the right direction - I recently made the mistake of putting the connector in back-to-front, and the cable slid right back out of the crimped connector.

Some tools have adjustment knobs, that need to be set to the right connector size, others have different slots for different sizes. Is it set/used for the correct connector?

Are the connectors good quality? Some connectors, particularly cheap ones, are the wrong size for their color code (if applicable), or not made to specifications.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Uninsulated and heat shrink is good too, they can usually even be soldered.

Not sure. Seems like he glorifies war to some extent, which I don't agree with. Humans have taken control over nature in many aspects - for example we live in houses that shut out rain, snow, cold, heat, etc. - and this is a good thing. Shouldn't violence be on the list of undesirable nature things, that we should try to avoid and circumvent? Not least through mutually consensual trade, enabled by good, hard money? On the other hand, he talks good about Bitcoin to influential people in the language they understand, so he's probably helping Bitcoin.

What you write about washing machines and other devices is a "feature" for the manufacturers - they get to sell spare parts or new devices. If the machine routed around something that's not very important, many users would just keep using it without that feature. It's a facet of planned obsolescence.

Also, it reminded me of the news several years ago of Candy washing machines exploding due to weak welds in the drum. I searched it to confirm that I remembered the brand right, and found out that Hotpoint, Indesit and Samsung washing machines have also exploded. While it makes perfect sense from a physics standpoint to consider a heavy, fast-spinning mass to be a potential bomb if it disintegrates, it's probably something that very few "ordinary people" would consider about a washing machine, pointing to the importance of knowing the systems we're dealing with when designing them. Something that, as far as I know, is impossible with AI. Don't get me wrong - what you suggest is very important, and AFAIK we can't really do much more - but it's not a guarantee. The important difference between a washing machine and an AI is that one exploding washing machine could kill a couple of people at most, while one rogue AI could kill most of humanity. (And the disclaimer again: No, I don't advocate AI regulation. That would at best delay the risks somewhat, at worst cause them to materialize sooner.)

Two questions regarding value for value podcasting that I haven't found the answers for - 1 of utility and 2 of curiosity:

1: Are there any web players (or, less likely, Linux desktop ones) that has V4V? I can only find Fountain, which seems to be Android/iOS app only.

2: Where do the sats come from? Is it the podcaster who pays, because we listen to the advertisements, or does the platform somehow benefit from us listening?

I can't zap today either. Tried to zap nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g

for the post on Ledger. When I click pay in Alby, it takes a literal minute (approx.) and then I get Error: t is undefined.

Not sure if it's Iris or Alby causing that.

This started happening to me a while ago, still does. Mostly on "global", probably because I don't follow many people yet.

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Just wrote the following on Stacker News: Whether ChatGPT makes you smarter or dumber depends largely on you and your personality.

https://stacker.news/items/174962/r/ElectronicsQuestions

Especially nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev might be interested in reading this.

I listened to your podcast episode with nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe today, and - thinking things to their logical endpoint - one thing that makes me somewhat worried with the scenario that AI and robots makes everything extremely cheap, is that a low price does not equal zero. It's necessary that we actually can have short working days for what, in the long term minuscule, amount of jobs that still require humans, or we will have 90% of humanity unemployed, not being able to afford anything, even if a car, or, more crucially, food for a year is just a fraction of a sat (we'll eventually have to find a way to divide sats...). Even further along, we'll run into a problem when working days goes down to minutes or even seconds. There's no reasonable way for a human to continue something productive, no matter what it is, without getting "up to speed" on the thing that's being done.

Would industry owners eventually have to give out free sats, in order to have any potential buyers of their products? It would of course have to be voluntary since we would be on a Bitcoin standard, but to me it seems too similar to UBI to fall into the category of plausible. Why would they give them out when it's not guaranteed that they'll come back to their own business?

If AI takes off as predicted, it thinking out how different kinds of robots should be constructed, and it keeps building on itself, this scenario might easily happen within our lifetimes, despite us now not seeing any possible way of that happening, that's the power of exponential growth (pun semi-intended).

The chart reminds me of a PID regulator that's tuned a bit aggressive, or with delay on the feedback line, responding to a sudden step change. If this system behaves anything like one, the oscillations will either attenuate over time, or run completely out of control, depending on the amount of amplification. Since we still only have about one full cycle, around the same level as the step, it's very hard to tell which.

Key word is voluntary. Communism works with people you know and trust - family, friends, good neighbors, etc., since everyone has a good enough idea about what the others provide, need and want, and that they are honest. On larger scales, capitalism is the only known system that works. It's fine to try voluntary communism on larger scales of course, as long as it stays voluntary, but I would expect the consent to be revoked rather quickly, and capitalism to take its place, as long as the communism was voluntary. It needs to be and stay voluntary. I'm repeating this, since non-voluntary communism has proven extremely deadly, and in those cases it was probably voluntary in some regard in the beginning, and I don't know the mechanisms of that - it could be some inherent property that makes it easily derail into non-voluntary.

Not what I meant, even though that's true. Lots of crap happening in the US too.

That it seems to me like Americans ((I assume you're US, otherwise insert the country/continent you're thinking of) generalizing back at you, there are probably plenty of exceptions both ways) are refusing to see that the reality in aggregate is quickly getting worse, because certain aspects of it is getting better.

It seems you have no distinction between hope and faith for the future, you can't work for trying to improve the future (for example with Bitcoin) unless you actually believe there is a high probability of it going well. (In trading, this is of course literally true, but that's not what I'm talking about)

To me, this reads as "delude yourself into thinking everything is fine", resulting in not seeing the problems (and by definition not being able to have any impact on them whatsoever, even if you could have had) and being hit much harder when they inevitably come. In a way similar, although of course nowhere near as globally destructive, to what Keynesians do with fiat money economy.

I hadn't made the connection to Europe/US before, it could be a cultural difference. I can't speak for all Europeans, but to me personally, the opposite mentality seems, for lack of a better term, weird. Like celebrating having a 99% risk of death* from a disease that you just found out you have, because it's not 100%.

*Exaggerated numbers for illustration - not related to original question.

Second time in a short while on Nostr I see things intended to be motivational that seems the exact opposite to me. What change are we currently seeing?

*Censorship

*Surveillance

*CBDC rollouts

*Bitcoin regulation (I'm in EU)

*etc.

Yes, there are some positive trends, not least in Bitcoin, but the overall trend is negative, and greatly acceleratingly so.

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From the "conspiracy theorists"-were-right-again-department: https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker

https://github.com/carlospolop/BotPEASS/actions/runs/836483107/usage ?

Search result said carlospolop/BotPEASS@d471558

Automatic vulnerability reporting over Slack/Telegram, which seems to be what the code does, seems kinda relevant. Just a guess.

Extreme surveillance and censorship of the internet, especially if it comes to mandates of ISP level filtering. AI-powered disinformation by the governments. IMF requiring ban on Bitcoin from member countries maybe (you probably know way more than me about the power dynamics etc. regarding that. If it could happen, Bitcoin would of course still work (except where and if blocked by the ISPs of said countries, maybe - even if I know a bit about networks, I'm no expert), but I would assume the value would fall drastically due to the severely reduced market).

While none of these things are lethal in themselves, second order effects will be - police violence, suicides, etc. and if considering opportunity cost-type effects, deaths that could have been prevented by the advancement of society.

Great... Reddit is constantly removing good features, one by one. Are Nostr clients going to start doing the same now? Maybe do the accompanying Reddit thing of introducing useless crap one by one too, that sucks up bandwidth and processor power? And pointlessly reorganizing how the site looks? I have seen the latter on iris.to (web Nostr client) already.

If I could program, I would have made a client with the express purpose of avoiding these things...