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I swear to fucking God many of the executives of the legacy manufacturers and retailers need to be shot. I'm trying to migrate my designs from Multisim now that I am liberated from hell (I graduated) to a FOSS. Unfortunately, I still keep encountering the problem of not being able to easily add new parts. Right now, I am trying to add shit to KiCAD.

I found someone online asking for a unified way to add parts to KiCAD (symbols, simulation model, 3D model, cost characteristics) and connect this to internet distributors.

Everyone replies by saying this isn't possible. You know why? Cause we don't have communism (yes, one of the replies literally starts talking about how communism doesn't work, but also open source is communism and open source is still cool). The parts vendors literally encrypt their models so that you can only download and simulate them if you pay for the keys. The online interfaces for searching parts want their subscription fees and try to sabotage free services.

And like, I get that some features cannot be implemented in a super convenient way for legitimate reasons (don't want to lock people into a single vendor, so there can't be a unified library). But dawgs, this industry is so cooked .

I had no idea that there was a fujoshi in the BBC cast of "journalists", and I have trouble believing that the arrestees would be forced to strip nude. Does anybody have more information on what is going on?

I saw this graph be posted around on reddit (the graphics definately look like they are from the zionist rag). I don't know which attack piece it was pulled out of though.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure what exactly is happening here, cause I didn't follow the election at all. However, I doubt that primaries are all too representative of the broader state of public opinion in NYC.

According to a quick Google search on Wikipedia, the primary had about 1 million votes, while the population of the 5 boroughs of NYC is almost 9 million.

In theory, a sample size of 1 million is more than enough to make a good statistical comparison, however, personally who votes in democrat primary is a self-selecting category.

Despite this, I am seeing the rather typical accusations levied against mamdani about champagne socialism or whatever (by the same people who don't mind killing the poor and third worlders, but I digress).

One commenter went as far as to proclaim that "there is no more proletariat in America. American labor has achieved the end of history. The cops no longer break their strikes. They all have good union jobs and desire cultural security instead of freebies. Ideology is the luxury of the wealthy".

Of course, the important possible explanations are left out

1. Mamdani is a new guy with no name recognition. His campaign might simply have not reached low income voters who don't keep up with politics.
2. A lag of 13 points still means that he has a significant base amongst the lowest income voters.
3. Most households making between 50,000 and 100,000 in New York are, as far as I know, still working class and not bourgeois. "Working class" has an objective meaning. In fact, even a sole trader petite bourgeois is working class (since proletariat =/= working class, someone who does not own private property).

https://www.ni.com/nl-nl/shop/product/multisim.html

^^^^^

The above worthless trash known as "multisim", used for simulating circuits costs 905 EUR and

1. Doesn't have a linux version
2. Is missing 90% of new commercially available parts
3. Doesn't have a method of easily adding those parts (except manually, 1 by 1) (as far as I know)
4. Has garbage UI (you can only undo 4 times) (adding or removing a single component can easily use up more than 4 moves)
5. Inconsistent simulations (making the sims work feels like trying to appease a capricious God to not curse you with famine)

The free open source software (qucs-studio) seems to have none of these problems, though I have barely used it.

We had a lunch lecture where this environmental scientist gave a talk about critical materials and how big of a problem our reliance on these are. He links the whole thing up with politics pretty well, explaining how various political actors are involved and benefit from this or that.

At some point, he even mentions how in the netherlands, policy doesn't get passed without a buy-in from industry. It means quite a lot, cause this guy is government hired in recommending policies.

Then he contradicts himself in the next paragraph by saying that this is the curse of democracy that people make stupid decisions.

I ask this guy about the contradiction. How you simultaneously harp about profits over needs, the evils of consultancy firms, and the inability of the Dutch government to do anything but pursue corporate interests, while also talking about the problems of "democracy"?

He just tells me "we are a democracy that's why the Dutch government listens to industry". Well not exactly that, but at least that's the message I get when he talks about all the corporate controlled parties winning the elections and how that's what the people chose.

Dude is this close to realising that the definition of liberal democracy is "legitimised rule by corporations" .

Of course, the lecture ends with a book recommendation for a book about the collapse of human civilisation. And a recommendation to go vote and participate in political parties.

Unlimited death upon elections.

It's over bros/siss/xes

I boiled the pasta, and instead of draining the water, I accidentally added the tomato sauce into the water with the pasta. My pasta is now soup.

The only saving grace is that I usually undercook my pasta and eat it crunchy. So I can still reduce the "soup" a bit before it becomes overcooked.

I just tasted the pasta. I added salt to it which was a mistake because the sauce I bought also has salt in it. I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.

I think the title is pretty self-descriptive. I love me some platonic ideals. They are so cute and cuddly . I don't mind getting impaled by the octahedron . I love it unconditionally. And the dodecahedron? It can get it .

There's even more platonic ideals I love. I love those platonic ideals where we assume some kind of context-less vacuum existence of things then debate about them. I love when we use this contexless category to lump things together and refer to the bundle as a single word. This is very helpful for not causing confusion. I was able to handle complexity when I had a BOY brain. But HRT has given me a GIRL brain. Even better, I love talking about good or bad. It makes me feel warm and cozy inside to smite my EVIL enemies.

No, this post isn't made in context of ANYTHING. This post is a platonic ideal!

I can't with this fucking paper anymore. I spent the past few days morning to night developing my models for the circuits I am working on. I have to submit this paper (for a first draft, so there is a silver lining to this) tomorrow by midnight. I had not run my simulations yet, or added citationSS.

I sit down to finally run my simulations, then I realized the circuit had a connection in a slightly different location than what I'd used in developing my theory. To my horror I have come to realize that this makes all my work over the past few days useless and I have to redevelop the theory.

I swear to fucking God, I'm done with this shit. I feel tempted to just ignore this problem and fix it by the time of my final draft. I've been working 7 days a week for God only knows how many weeks now. I just want a regular Sunday for once. I mean, I still have to make citationSS even if I ignore the other problem. And I have to study for a regular course as well...

Honestly ... having irregular hours as a student doesn't mean you have endless free time. It just means that you have no actual overtime protections because there is no concept of overtime and it feels like the university expects you to work 24/7. I'm pretty sure that I'm technically clocking in at 60 hours per week or something like that (50 at bare minimum), excluding the commuting time of about 10 hours.

And then there is the endless limitless chuderry of some of the people that I know. It's honestly kind of insane what people will tell you in private. I had this guy that I know go on a full hinduvata induced Adolf Hitler* type fantasizing about how he would genocide Pakisthan and China. Not very coincidentally, I knew this very outwardly "progressive" and liberal dude bro who got along very well with the Hinduvata when it came to the topic of China.

*he doesn't even deny it when I called him a hitlerite. Like he actually is aware of how insane the things he is saying are and just accepts it.

I've also seen our department's student run bar organize an event where the main attraction was to make fun of anti-fossil fuel protestors and trans people. Yes, the university advertises itself as inclusive. Yes, our department has a number of women that can be counted on your hands. Yes, our department's students constantly take courses from a different department for the purpose of chasing after girls. How could you tell?

And the weirdest of all is the kids who tell me about the criminal and political activities of their ultra rich families. Honestly, this shit is straight up endearing compared to everything else. Yes, I actually would like to know more about the Filipino underworld. Oh, your family has safehouses all over Greece and getaway drivers at standby at all times to escape the country at any time? <--- I'm not even joking about these.

I'll stop myself before I go even deeper into the deep end and go on an even bigger tangent. Of course I have to end this dumb rant on a sour note. The only person I've told about being trans to IRL is constantly misgendering me even when we're not in public.

The more I put my feelings into words, the more I think to myself, "what the fuck have I gotten myself into with this degree?".

God did not give us brains to agonise over writing academic papers and painstakingly add citations. We were given them so we could frolick in the fields and avoid predators.

And yes, maybe I should have documented my process these past 8 weeks so I wouldn't have to cram all the writing in the last week. But, in fairness, whose bright idea was it to give us 9 weeks to do design and write a paper, then 7 weeks to make a presentation and do final edits? Tf do I need 7 weeks to make a presentation for? Do they want me to hand animate the power point slides?

Also, when will I use these skills in the real world? I don't want to go into research!

Me crying about the degree i chose for myself ->

Me reaping what I sow ->

So uh, I've been girlmodding for 2 months now (or is it 3? I forget), but I've been pretty lazy about it. Haven't bought a bra (I had a sports bra, but it was so uncomfortable to wear. Now going outside is getting uncomfortable because of chaffing), Haven't gotten proper clothes, or waxxed or any of that shit.

But, that stuff can be fixed relatively easily. The big thing I need is voice training. Unfortunately, I am like the worst person in the world for keeping my focus on things (I am 90% sure i have at least mild adhd). Plus, I have no idea how to actually voice train. So my question to you all is if there is some voice training app I can download.

I need something

1. That works on android
2. Tells me what to do
3. Doesn't collect my data (I am not doing the legal route of transitioning)
4. Is preferably just an apk file I can download and run on my phone.

Now this might seem like overly specific requirements, but I figured that it's 2025, there should be something out there.

If there isn't, I would be fine with just some tips and a guide. I will make my own bash scripts to keep me on track (idk how much of a joke this is).

*I know I could probably google this stuff but I am so godawfuly lonely I am willing to talk about anything.

This is a real big update to my simulation and reworks the entire logic of it. Though doing so allows me to investigate even more stuff. Check out the post on the old sim if you haven't seen it.

At this point, the sim has become so complex, I don't think I can explain it in as much depth as the previous one.

So I'll keep it simple and show you my assumptions, results, and code. There are 10 sectors in the economy this time (so the visualization has changed)

As always, "economic reproduction" is the condition where nobody in the economy gains or looses money by the end of the production period.

The code and pictures are in the comments.

Also, I'd like /u/Sebrof and /u/pancake@lemmygrad.ml to see this post.

Assumptions:

1. There are no banks, governments, population growth or technological changes. None of these things are modeled yet since they distract from the point of the model, which is to see how labor prices and economic reproduction are related.

My next model will try to model these things to see if the relationship between labor prices and economic reproduction still holds

2. The logic of this model is inverted to the last one. In the previous model, we started with a net output (sold to consumers) then calculated how much gross output would be needed (sold to consumers and to factories) to maintain this. This time, I randomly generate a gross output then compute a net output.

3. I randomly generate 100,000 economies, each with its own technological level (the 10x10 A matrix), a set of prices (10x1 column vector), and employment in industries (10x1 vector). I assume everyone is employed. Also, this time, there is only 1 price vector per economy.

4. For each economy, I randomly generate a "basket of consumption", which is the amount of products that its people will consume. I scale the basket so that it could be produced by half the labor of the economy, and keep the basket constant for all time.

5. This time, there is foreign trade. If the economy produces more of a product than what is required for the basket, that's exports. Otherwise it imports.

6. I simulate 100 time steps for each economy. Every time step, the sectors of the economy will update their prices and employment. There were many possible rules for choosing how these updates happened. I made it so that the sectors hire workers in proportion to how much money they have (divided by how much it costs to hire workers). Prices are scaled down as a sector grows (due to competition)

7. Then I compute all the financial data (like revenues, wages, incomes, costs, trade imbalances, profits, etc) and plot it.

The important accounting identities are:

National income = Wages + trade balance

National income = Revenues of industry - Costs of industry (not including wages)

In fantasy: Whozha! I cast fireball

In reality: I have been tinkering with the runes (circuit symbols) in this spell (electrical circuit) for 12 hours straight with tears in my eyes and despair in my heart