ByteJunk

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't say cheap, that puzzle box is at least 1€.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He has to be desperate for a new "supplier" after his BFF Epstein was suicided, maybe he's thinking these morons fit the bill.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

By all the same arguments that you could invoke to justify British colonization in the first place, assuming you're not going for bullshit like "god gave our King that holy right".

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

What no, I'm talking of the 1830s. The British came back and expelled the Argentinian settlement, and settled back in.

They came back because the Argentinians occupied it.

I see two different reasons for a claim for Argentina: that they settled when there was no permanent occupation, like the French and the British did originally, and that they inherited Spain's claim (who purchased the French settlement) following their independence from Spain.

My post was mostly going for humour, but if we're looking at it a bit seriously, England's claim is a colonial one, a legacy from a bygone era. They will inevitably have to cede the islands.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yes it did. Argentina's "Venticinco de Mayo" revolution in 1810 made it independent, though a formal declaration happened only in 1816 (technically "the United provinces of the Rio del la Plata", that's being nitpicky).

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Let's recap islands history:

Deserted, no permanent population.

French set up a settlement.

English makes another, fight the French.

Spain buys French port, fights British.

Britain leaves.

Spain leaves.

Deserted, no permanent population.

Argentina sets up a settlement.

England comes back, fight them off.

Conclusion: "rightfully British"? The law seems to be whoever smacks the other in the teeth and takes it by force, so I suppose that's accurate.

However, having had a settlement in the island, Argentina's claim is as valid as the UKs, and they just got smacked in the teeth so my verdict is that Argentina takes over administrative control over the Islands up until such time as they meet again in a world cup.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You're looking kinda immigrant to me. Here, come with us so you're not seen again for the next 6 months, if ever.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Yes, Israel is playing build-a-Reich and America is paying for it.

However, that's not the reason why Americans are struggling - monstrous income inequality and zero social policies are the main ones.

Go out and vote out every incumbent bloodsucker out in primaries, like in the recent NY primaries.

Keep it up for 6 years, and it will cause a literal revolution in America.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

America QoL is fucked not because they're paying for others, but because of inequality.

In the US, GDP per working person (or, how much money each worker generates) is well over $150k.

Wages are less than half that, on average.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its time for the autopsy report to shine some light on that taint.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh well never met one, and from the little I know they can vary somewhere between late middle ages pilgrims up to the run of the mill religious person with a weird hat.

 

Just saw the post about Helsinki opening several bridges for a similar purpose, so thought I'd share this here as well.

Porto Metro system didn't exist until around 20 years ago. Just last year, it carried more than 90 million people, and it's not stopping.

While traffic in Porto has actually gotten worse, as tourism and building rehabilitation have exploded, the investment in the metro continues.

This bridge is part of the new "Ruby line", and will provide another much needed way of crossing the Douro river, and will be exclusively used by pedestrians and cyclists, along with the metro.

This line is great because it will connect the other existing lines to a university campus and a large shopping center, while serving a fairly high density area where the residents mostly work in Porto, and have to commute daily.

 

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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