2sk21

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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   Safari
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   As a matter of fact, I keep aa set of udio books on my phone specifically as a sleep aid. I find that listening to a steady voice puts me straight to sleep within a few minutes.
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   Fascinating story about your manager! Its great that you have the self-awareness to recognize your own contribution to the situation.
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   Number 5 especially. I've beem working towards financial independence to enable this.
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   This is perfectly apropos!
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   I feel the same as you - I've been working towards financial independence precisely for this reason. I'm retiring early to learn stuff, write code and play games!
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   This is, overall, a great idea but I do worry about security. Even if I keep all of the code fully patched, I have learned that pretty much anything can be broken into.
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   Given how bad domestic plane travel has become in the US, I suspect that many business trips may not be much slower even at Amtrak speeds.
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   by 2sk21 7y ago

   And many homes have battery backup systems as well. However, they all use lead-acid batteries. There is a real opportunity for better battery technologies to be deployed in India.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Someone had posted on HackerNews that they had good experience with this sensor. Furthermore, it appeared to be easy to use the USB interface to get the data
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    I'm running standard Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi. I modified some sample Python code I found here: https://github.com/vfilimonov/co2meter It turned out to be quite straightforward
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    This would be a good application for a Pi Zero W (with WiFi) - if you want to collect the data in a central location. I've linked the CO2 sensor I used in another comment.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Yes - the sensors are a bit expensive at about US$ 90 apiece but as I explained in another comment, I think that it has paid for itself
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    This is the sensor that I'm using: https://www.co2meter.com/collections/desktop/products/co2min...
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    I had a suspicion that winter-time headaches we were having might be triggered by high CO2 levels so I simply wanted to record the CO2 levels in different rooms. Thanks to the sensors, I did, in fact, find that CO2 levels were very high in
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    I have a script that retrieve photos from an attached camera and then uploads the images to an AWS GPU instance and train an image recognition model there. This is all for controlling my model trains :-)
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Using several Raspberry Pis to monitor CO2 levels in my house. Each Raspberry Pi has a CO2 sensor - wrote a little Python script to retrieve data from sensor and upload it to a server Which is also a Raspberry Pi.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Very nice write up! This quote stood out: “I wasn’t overworked, but I was exhausted all the time” This strikes a chord in me. I’m beginning to dread a daily fifteen minute scrum - which ought to be no big deal.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    According to Wikipedia, only one of the pitot tubes was blocked: “The investigation concluded that one of the three pitot tubes, used to measure airspeed, was blocked.”
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    We have a Jeffrey Koons original in the lobby of my office building in New York so I'm very used to winding my way through tourists to get to the elevators :-)
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Curse you - I won't be able to get any work done today until I have seen all 507 of them :-)
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Universities were very proud of their computers indeed. At my university too, there was a room with a big window to allow visitors to see the blinking lights on our Connection Machine (CM2)
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    I have had similar experiences - I find it easier to edit things than to create them in the first place.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Back in the 90s, I was so envious of those who worked at General Magic. From the outside at least, it seemed to be _the_ place to be to do cool stuff.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    This. Even a 15 minute meeting can have very a disruptive effect on my thinking process if it comes at the wrong moment.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    I agree - we will need to adopt permaculture on a wider scale in the future to survive climate change. I will definitely check out the book you have mentioned.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    This is a real eye-opener - tech salaries seem ridiculously high compared to what most people make.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Most of India is suffering under extremely high levels of particulate pollution - I wonder how this is going to start affecting the population there, especially as life expectancy is increasing.
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    by 2sk21 7y ago

    Make a lot of money doing boring management work for a large company. Save as much of it as you can and retire early. Then code as much as you want - thats my plan at least :-)
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    by 2sk21 8y ago

    Definitely strikes a chard in me - I've completely stopped coding when I'm tired as it has often led to disasters. I've just learned to live this limitation but its not been too hard.