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by aequitas 7y ago
> To make up for a lack of natural snowfall, resorts switch on the cannons, although they’re energy intensive And thus only adding to the climate change problem. Everyone is or will suffer from climate change, but if even the ones curren
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by aequitas 7y ago
> just so they have time to migrate. Which they have been trying to do since the 80's, hence the fact that few people remember why it is there. The questions I would ask are: what is the insurance if the system fails due to natural
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by aequitas 7y ago
At a previous job I once sshd into a legacy system which had a motd in the vein of: "Don't ever reboot this system, if you do, I will find you and do horrible things to you". No explaination of why. My opinion was that the pe
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by aequitas 7y ago
Not a temple, but maybe just as interesting. This guy bought a dismantled nuclear missile silo and documented the process of recovering it and converting it to a house: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd50A5qLv8FemVufS
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by aequitas 7y ago
Is someone trying to exhaust a ZFS storage pool?
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by aequitas 7y ago
While (most) actions in Ansible modules are idempotent the entire playbook is not. So how your system is going to look at the end of a run is highly dependent on the order of everything in your YAML files and the current state of the system
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by aequitas 7y ago
I managed a hosted email platform in the past and can confirm one of our spam filters was a simple whitelist of all know TLD's, which was manually updated every now and then. We eventually dropped it when new TLD's where announced
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by aequitas 7y ago
What keeps me locked into these solutions is that I'm totally sold on the ChromeCast concept where your TV is just a dumb screen with barely any interaction (on/off, volume and pause/resume (but only if the stars align and HD
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by aequitas 7y ago
> Just buy a better CPU. This gets a little hard when the device you want to run FF on is a old laptop that doesn't need replacing and where battery life is more important than raw speed.
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by aequitas 7y ago
Since https://platformio.org/ that is no longer the case as well.
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by aequitas 7y ago
There is an project called TinyGo [0] which brings Go to embedded systems where binary and memory size matter even more. [0] https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/go_on_microco...
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by aequitas 7y ago
> The HomeKit Open Source ADK is an open-source version of the HomeKit Accessory Development Kit. It can be used by any developer to prototype non-commercial smart home accessories. For commercial accessories, accessory developers must c
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by aequitas 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19958300
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by aequitas 7y ago
Following your argument I should be able to write any random words to a file and expect the Python interpreter to run it as the program I intended? Don't see it as a forced rule to restrict people, I can't really see how 1 million
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by aequitas 7y ago
> I don't see why I should need an internet connection to turn on a light! I hope manufacturers see it the same way. I don't mind devices having to be certified, I mostly want to buy hardware of the shelve anyways for safety an
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by aequitas 7y ago
BT v1 to v3 maybe, but BTLE/v4 solved a lot of the problems afaik.
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by aequitas 7y ago
To bad, my old heater had opentherm, with the OTGW I could intercept the packets between the heater and thermostat, change values (eg: date/time), issue commands (set room temperature) and add missing functionality (outside temperature
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by aequitas 7y ago
Seems fair indeed. I did a quick search and HomeKit seems to work without an internet connection (on lan at least, not remote), what's your experience with that?
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by aequitas 7y ago
If your device supports opentherm (which is not as open as you might think, btw) you might want to look into OTGW [0]. It probably works with Nest to if the Nest allows to run without internet at all. [0] http://otgw.tclcode.com&
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by aequitas 7y ago
A strong part of the protestors are young farmers. Set on taking over their parents farm and continuing the family business. And they probably want the same for their kids as well. It's really puzzling they take this stance, especially
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by aequitas 7y ago
> The goal of the Connected Home over IP project is to simplify development for manufacturers... > The industry working group will take an open-source approach for the development and implementation of a new, unified connectivity prot
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by aequitas 7y ago
Not big projects but this was my fear when I started open sourcing my hobby projects. At one point you will learn how to stop worrying and love the open source. There will be all kinds of responses. Indeed, people complaining about the qual
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by aequitas 7y ago
Have a look at https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools#workflow-for-layered-r... Both the 'input' and 'output' requirements are pip compatible files (just with different extensions). It uses pip featu
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by aequitas 7y ago
I recently switched from Poetry (to which I switched after pipenv) to pip-tools for some projects, because Poetry was not able to work properly with some dependencies. Pip-tools has been a dream. It is just a thin layer of tools on top of P
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by aequitas 7y ago
Wifi is weird sometimes. I once had to help my nephew with his network. He had 2 adjacent rooms, but with half a meter concrete inbetween. Needless to say the signal would not penetrate from one room to the other, no matter how close we mov
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by aequitas 7y ago
> developers realising that the work they do has value and that they’re not required to spend their lives giving it away for free. As far as I understand he is still giving it away for free to users, but not allowing other companies to s
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by aequitas 7y ago
I agree if you end up using Make like its used in C projects: compiling intermediate objects, linking them, etc. In that case the Go compiler should suffice. I almost exclusively use Make for projects in any language nowadays as workflow au
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by aequitas 7y ago
I think it depends on your mindset. If I look at the Ikea furniture in my house, about half of it is second hand. I specifically search for Ikea product names on second-hand sites instead of more generic terms like cabinet or table because
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by aequitas 7y ago
Depending on the quality of the lock there is some play in the mechanism (that is also why lockpicking works). This reduces the number of combinations. If you can lookup (model type documentation) or learn (by feel) how the internal mechani
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by aequitas 7y ago
Though the delivery could have been better, to me it feels like a "Welcome to Thunderdome" at https://youtu.be/0y3wE0pgXcM?t=201 where Elon is just living out his Mad Max dream. Love it.

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