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by ebrewste 7y ago
H ybrids "sort of" appear to be ahead in lower lifetime CO2. They key thing is that they higher GHG emmisions from the eletric grid, regionally, the less good hybrids look. But considering the trend of how fast wind, solar are low
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by ebrewste 7y ago
A bunch: - Ubiquiti network controller, Pi Hole - Temperature controller to knit an ancient hydronic in floor heater and a new-ish mini split together to act in unison. Pings local national weather stations to get more accurate data than I
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by ebrewste 7y ago
In a former job where I was in applications engineering, the cost of getting the customer up to speed (from a support point of view) was many times the product price. In a couple hundred sales cycles, there was only one we would have made m
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by ebrewste 7y ago
Pretty well written piece for a an intro to this issue. Same issue with cookie acknowledgements. Some important quotes: “These are documents created by lawyers, for lawyers. They were never created as a consumer tool,” Dr. King said. "
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by ebrewste 8y ago
I was wiring in a charge only USB port in my car today and found out that cutting the data lines limits the charge rate to a uselessly low rate. You need to tie the data lines together to put it in usb bc1.2 mode. Or 2.7 v on each line for
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by ebrewste 8y ago
Computer vision / OpenCV. It’s so fun to get the computer to “understand” what it sees with dedicated GPIO style sensors. I can also apply it to another hobby, which is fun. There is tons of resources out there. I use PyImageSearch for
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by ebrewste 8y ago
I have no specific info on this, but I can only imagine a lot of work being done here, none of which will be made public until it is close to release and the marketing benefits of showing it outweigh tipping off their competitors.
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by ebrewste 8y ago
The best train conductor knows best how to get a train somewhere at a specific time. If said conductor wanted to save some money on keyboards at the expense of quality because he thought it was in Apple's best interest, I wouldn't
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by ebrewste 8y ago
Pyimagesearch is great. I'm just a tinkerer / hobbyist in the computer vision space, but this is a site I come to time and again to get up to speed on topics that just seem harder elsewhere.
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by ebrewste 9y ago
What a blast from the past. I actually worked in the same office park they did. Hearing an afterburner blast when working late one night was quite a suprise! I must say that it made my day to wonder out investigating only to find a Beetle w
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by ebrewste 9y ago
You are right that Amazon clearly does not feel pressure to satisfy the tiny majority that care about Amazon selling counterfeit goods.
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by ebrewste 9y ago
Fixed point often works better, as it has better resolution because it doesn't need the exponent. The flip side is that the range of a fixed point is very limited (because it doesn't have the exponent). Practically, that means you
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by ebrewste 9y ago
Regarding equal spacing: the sample rate determines a part of the system latency, and therefore performance and stability limitations. Eliminatating the stability of sample rate eliminates the decades of work basic controls analysis relies
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by ebrewste 9y ago
This is value based pricing. It is just the start, it isn't new, and it isn't limited to computer hardware. *aaS (anything as a service) is the newest flavor of this. Expect it to explode as IoT becomes more mature.
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by ebrewste 9y ago
I remember Aibo as the product that Sony made that could reverse all the positive feelings I had for their products because of this. It turns out that this was the true Sony. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/02&#x2F
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by ebrewste 9y ago
It is slow, but most of the time, we don't use the raw data - we use the metadata. It worked great for our app. We got a excited and tried to implement some on the fly data summaries where we would have to touch a bunch of files every
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by ebrewste 9y ago
We stopped storing our IoT raw data in databases. We still need to search it, but now we store only metadata in the database (we know what we will search by, so we can make appropriate metadata) and store the raw data in S3. So any searches
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by ebrewste 9y ago
I got an Amazon IoT button and made some super simple back that will remind me to clean the pet’s water fountain every n days. I just push the button when I clean the fountain. I would horrify how gross it was before when I would remember t
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by ebrewste 10y ago
It doesn't even account for all airports. I live near a Navy base and it doesn't show a thing, despite fighter jets making loops around the base. The nearby commercial airport is shown prominently, though.
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by ebrewste 10y ago
Similar experience with the latest Star Wars. I saw Nightmare Before Christmas years ago and it was all in focus (memory hazy here) and the 3D distance made it look like it was a play, on a stage. I absolutely loved it. I've never seen
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by ebrewste 10y ago
In addition, every train I have been on is more comfortable than any but the most expensive airline fares.
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by ebrewste 10y ago
We've got on here and I was surprised how much time I (not in IT, but sit near the Surface Hub) got wrangled into helping IT support this thing. The problem seems to stem from it being a phone underneath, in the OS (error messages will
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by ebrewste 10y ago
The magic part is the thing we have gotten used to with the cloud -- virtual hardware you never see and rent by the minute. Imagine having an FPGA idea and not needing to make board, pay for a dev board, or even find a dev board in your lab
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by ebrewste 10y ago
I consider the unpredictable case the several to many years it takes to upgrade all the devices between my wife and me. It probably took 3 years to get rid of all the 30 pin devices in our house. I don't see why it will be any better s
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by ebrewste 10y ago
This doesn't change your overall argument, but Image Capture on the Mac will let you get your pictures without Photos or Itunes. I'm DONE with Photos and had to figure this out. It's not a great app, but it is simple.
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by ebrewste 10y ago
I wish they didn't do 24V PoE. I know they are coming from a WISP background, but a AP seems like something that should support 802.11af. It's not like it's something exotic.
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by ebrewste 10y ago
Yes. That cloud setup punches through firewalls and is just turn key. I wish they made routers.
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by ebrewste 10y ago
Sometimes I fall into the "what's left to discover" trap. Great to see fundamental understanding of our universe increasing!
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by ebrewste 10y ago
Agreed on the uncanny valley comment. It's interesting to me that very uniform "smile and look at the camera" is the desired outcome of pictures for so many. This page seems to work on the unspoken assumption that the perfect
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by ebrewste 10y ago
I can understand it, if it's not too draconian. It's nice for some central power to have coherent walktnroughs on how to set up an editor to lint, etc. If another dev wants to use a different editor and can make it work, it's

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