c.d.m. rørmose @body@mastodon.social

My name is Chris. In the space of 9 years I’ve written 5 unfinished MIDI sequencers and 30 unfinished game prototypes. I am a mark and a rube. My goal is to someday finish a task

Well, I should clarify: hardware dev is a nightmare when you're broke. Most people happily burn through hundreds or even thousands of dollars when prototyping something like this. Whereas in my situation, every expenditure is painful.

AFAICT, the wonky behavior is being impacted by the specs of the SD-card that's used.

It might be that micro-brownouts are still happening, and the power capacitors need to be 100uF instead of 10uF.

Also going to increase the RSET resistor's resistance, since I think the Kingbright LEDs might be drawing too much current, even when I set the MAX7219 to "medium brightness" (I suspect it's using really fast PWM, so maybe current draw is still a factor?)

Hardware dev is a nightmare. Going to bed.

Brought the SD-card back to life.

Whew!

But: Tine is still acting wonky. Argh

Goddamnit. I think I just ruined a $24 industrial SD-card by assuming that Ubuntu was done formatting it when it wasn't.

Also Tine's prototype is broken and I don't know why.

Goddamnit

Problem: There already isn't an integrity-checking mechanism. It's only checking for filenames. In which case... why is this lag occurring...

Good: the new lag problem gets fixed when you use an industrial-grade SD-card.

Bad: file-integrity-checking is much slower on startup for an industrial-grade SD-card.

Solution: integrity-checking isn't really necessary, because regular users won't be manually editing savefiles.

And because I'm paranoid: I've decided to start using a slightly larger RSET resistor, and higher-spec power capacitors. Just in case it's these Kingbright LEDs causing more invisible brownouts or something.

Well, at least the marriage guy will make the mastodevs focus on new systems that deter the possibility of this sort of attack. Right?

LOL, discovered that I somehow managed to download Arduino v1.0.5 (the current version is 1.8.9). I guess apt-get can't be trusted to have the latest versions of things??? Good to know

(Full disclosure: I have had more success in just the last couple weeks, with the "consciously talk myself through my bad feelings and turn it into confident energy" tactic)

MY MIND: If I burn my self-hatred to power my mental code generator, then I will be left with no self-hatred and a lot of code...

ME: OK, sounds good. And I will do that by, consciously analyzing the context of my bad emotions, and using that to stoke a righteous and energetic self-confidence--

MY MIND: No no no. Wrong. You've gotta write code while hating yourself. You gotta be an edgy Chuck Palahniuk character

Insofar as the trans community has bandwagons, I have consciously and meticulously avoided all of them, and yet this seems to have no value at all in cishet assessments of my mentality, or it is even used as proof that I must be lying to save face and cannot be trusted, etc

And like, there is definitely pressure to follow a Queer Archetype, and the pressure comes from the interaction between the queer community itself and the normative systems of validation in broader society! But I feel like this has been translated, via 20 rounds of a game of telephone, into the cishet idea of “queer people should be treated as mentally-compromised meme vectors who are being made to self-harm against their will”

<extremely liberalism voice> There is algorithmic brainwashing on BOTH sides, actually,

In a position where asserting my trans identity even the tiniest bit makes family members treat me like living proof of the social-contagion theory, and like I’m directly comparable to kids who get turned alt-right by youtube. Lol

As literally every American radical, I love treating Marxism-Leninism as another flavor of fascism, especially when it’s really obvious that I’ve made this decision based on believing regime-change propaganda against one or more countries that Marxist-Leninists refuse to throw under the bus

I’m comfy in bed now. Tomorrow I’ll only be doing some light reading. Monday I’ll be doing QA on Tine’s special-command systems, and then also learning some algebra concepts for a separate project. My new approach is to try to follow a schedule with blocks of specifically-planned “work time” and “relaxation time”, rather than destroying myself by stewing in guilt all day every day

That article on the actual symptoms of ADHD... Big Oof. I gotta talk to my therapist about this

Imagine that your significant other is finally moving into your apartment. You're helping them unpack their boxes, one by one. It's some tough work - they're a bit of a packrat - but you don't mind at all. You sigh with relief as you finally work your way through to the last box. You open the lid and it's a box of old fandom memorabilia. You hand off a stack of old comics to your lover, who rounds the corner with them. Your gaze drifts downward again and in the bottom of the box is a yaoi paddle