Watching Netflix's version of The Three Body Problem (the Chinese one was better)
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@enriquericos In this way, the book continually justifies why a government needs absolute power over everything citizens do, so that it can save us from ourselves, even in extreme situations where the government is forced to use violence against its own citizens, for the greater good. It is an unapologetic defense of authoritarianism.
@enriquericos Given the author's real-world high profile comments in defense of the Chinese government's "re-education" (e.g. sterilization) camps for ethnic minorities, ("Would you rather they were in the subway, committing crimes?" he said) this stance does not sit comfortably with me.
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@raymaccarthy @gcvsa Now we're talking, even I can afford this. Thank you!
@enriquericos @raymaccarthy I was not suggesting the switches in the photo are optical switches. There are literally thousands of different kinds of similar switches.
I'm simply saying that if you want to build a thing, optical switches are one type of switch that is available, that they are pretty cool, and that they might do what you want them to do better than mechanical switches.
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@robertsmith I couldn't agree more. Recently I discovered the term "cassette futurism", you might be into that too:
@enriquericos @robertsmith this is always on my mind when I add new buttons to my panels 🤓
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@enriquericos @raymaccarthy I was not suggesting the switches in the photo are optical switches. There are literally thousands of different kinds of similar switches.
I'm simply saying that if you want to build a thing, optical switches are one type of switch that is available, that they are pretty cool, and that they might do what you want them to do better than mechanical switches.
@enriquericos @raymaccarthy My actual educational background is in Theatre Design, and that includes prop design (which includes building custom things and making them look old and worn).
The button caps are likely custom made and affixed to modern switches, although it would not at all surprise me if they are vintage commercial pieces. There's a lot of surplus vintage electronics out there in the world, and you'd only need a small number for a television or film production.
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@enriquericos Given the author's real-world high profile comments in defense of the Chinese government's "re-education" (e.g. sterilization) camps for ethnic minorities, ("Would you rather they were in the subway, committing crimes?" he said) this stance does not sit comfortably with me.
@enriquericos The author is a fascist, and his story is a justification for fascism, and any analysis or judgement of the work ought to bear that in mind.
The sadly common, unqualified observation "I love this book/series", is an indication of how low we have sunk in our ability to understand what we are watching or reading.
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@enriquericos The author is a fascist, and his story is a justification for fascism, and any analysis or judgement of the work ought to bear that in mind.
The sadly common, unqualified observation "I love this book/series", is an indication of how low we have sunk in our ability to understand what we are watching or reading.
@tartley Damn, I'm thinking about it. When I saw the Chinese version I was under the impression that he was criticizing the things you're saying he promotes.
I might have missed the point entirely 😩
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@tartley Damn, I'm thinking about it. When I saw the Chinese version I was under the impression that he was criticizing the things you're saying he promotes.
I might have missed the point entirely 😩
@enriquericos You might be right, I have not watched the show, and am only assuming it is in the same spirit as the book. Perhaps they pulled a Starship Troopers on it!
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@enriquericos @raymaccarthy My actual educational background is in Theatre Design, and that includes prop design (which includes building custom things and making them look old and worn).
The button caps are likely custom made and affixed to modern switches, although it would not at all surprise me if they are vintage commercial pieces. There's a lot of surplus vintage electronics out there in the world, and you'd only need a small number for a television or film production.
@gcvsa @enriquericos
The caps look real to me. I may even have very similar.
Likely they printed the legends. There are many ways of doing that. In 1970s using Letraset. Transfer film & laser printer.The only advantage of optical switches is never wearing out vs 100,000 to 10 million operations for mechanical. Or for combustible atmospheres. The only optical switches I've seen in decades of Electronics are in optical encoders (control knobs and mice wheels), but most of them are mechanical.
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@enriquericos You might be right, I have not watched the show, and am only assuming it is in the same spirit as the book. Perhaps they pulled a Starship Troopers on it!
@tartley No, I think you might be the one who is right and I have, again, interpreted what I wanted to interpret, because this annoying quality of mine of wanting to see good in others, and then getting utterly disappointed.
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@tartley No, I think you might be the one who is right and I have, again, interpreted what I wanted to interpret, because this annoying quality of mine of wanting to see good in others, and then getting utterly disappointed.
@tartley I shouldn't say others, maybe saying works of fiction would be more accurate.
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@robertsmith I couldn't agree more. Recently I discovered the term "cassette futurism", you might be into that too:
@enriquericos Very cool. I love audio cassettes but they degrade fairly fast. Maybe connecting nu tech to an #analogue push button interface is the way to go/an interesting approach.
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@artcollisions I forgot how chaotic is trying to find the right platform for each country, so I'll leave that to you, but this is the show:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/?ref_=fn_t_2
And the books are by Cixin Liu, so I assume he wrote them in Chinese, but they're widely translated.
@enriquericos @artcollisions Sorry to hijack the thread, the Chinese one covers just the book or does include something from the rest of the book series?
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Watching Netflix's version of The Three Body Problem (the Chinese one was better)
But these switches are awesome and I'd like to what they're called or if they're custom props. I might want to get them for an art project, a cyberdeck or who knows what.
Any button experts in the room? Please and thank you.
#askfedi #hardware #retrotech #casetteFuturism #electronics #buttons #switches
@enriquericos to me it looks like a vintage mechanical calculator or even a cashier till
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@enriquericos @artcollisions Sorry to hijack the thread, the Chinese one covers just the book or does include something from the rest of the book series?
@ghostdancer @artcollisions I think it's only the first book
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@ghostdancer @artcollisions I think it's only the first book
@enriquericos Thanks 1.0E6 👍 @artcollisions
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@enriquericos Very cool. I love audio cassettes but they degrade fairly fast. Maybe connecting nu tech to an #analogue push button interface is the way to go/an interesting approach.
@robertsmith I don't miss the degrading audio, or image getting darker on VHS tapes, but I do miss buttons and knobs. I bet that there are lots of Raspberry projects that combine the best of both worlds.
And I didn't know about ESP32, I'll look into it, thank you.
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@robertsmith I don't miss the degrading audio, or image getting darker on VHS tapes, but I do miss buttons and knobs. I bet that there are lots of Raspberry projects that combine the best of both worlds.
And I didn't know about ESP32, I'll look into it, thank you.
@enriquericos esp32s are kind of like ardunino' on steroids. often esp32s are bundled with a lora rx/tx radio clipsets for use as nodes in meshtastic and meshcore.
Also options for tf storage, touch screens, wifi and ethernet.
And cheap! Fun stuff.
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Watching Netflix's version of The Three Body Problem (the Chinese one was better)
But these switches are awesome and I'd like to what they're called or if they're custom props. I might want to get them for an art project, a cyberdeck or who knows what.
Any button experts in the room? Please and thank you.
#askfedi #hardware #retrotech #casetteFuturism #electronics #buttons #switches
@enriquericos For future reference: In English, it should be "what" they're called, not "how" they're called.
If you asked someone how they're called, the might answer something like "I don't know? On a phone? How else would you call things?"
I see this error very often on the English Learning subreddits. I'm told that it's a literal translation of other languages, who actually use "how" in this case.
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@AtotheJ I can always make the caps myself. Looking for heavy duty is a good idea, thank you!
@enriquericos @AtotheJ then guitar pedal foot switches could be a good source for them. e.g. https://www.musikding.de/Switches
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@enriquericos For future reference: In English, it should be "what" they're called, not "how" they're called.
If you asked someone how they're called, the might answer something like "I don't know? On a phone? How else would you call things?"
I see this error very often on the English Learning subreddits. I'm told that it's a literal translation of other languages, who actually use "how" in this case.
@AdmiralMemo You're right, it's a literal translation from Spanish. Thanks for pointing it out 🙂
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