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by jon-wood 4y ago
Somewhere deep on my todo list is building a grid of ESP32s around the place reporting BLE signal strengths to a central node which can then do triangulation to work out where people are based on devices they typically carry with them (I fo
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by jon-wood 4y ago
In some cases I'm not even getting colour, quite a few of my bulbs are cheaper ones that only allow colour temperature to be controlled. Mostly I'm using Hue because its where I started, so I'm fairly bought into that ecosyst
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I'm curious, what are the actual objections to mobile masts being erected? They don't make a noise, they're not (despite the conspiracy theorists) in any way dangerous. All I can think of is that people don't like the wa
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It appears we're doing "smart home" again, so its time for my regular plea to stop calling shitty light switches automation. Automation is when you don't have to think about what state devices are in, and while it takes
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by jon-wood 4y ago
One of the risks that was believed to exist was that the capsule had fallen onto the road, and could have become embedded in someone's car tire. That would then place the owner of that car within the few tens of meters radius multiple
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Mobile signal remains spotty in Southampton, I’m unable to use 5G at home because I’m in the dead zone between the coverage of three masts. That’s less of an issue in recent years though because the terribly named “toob” have rolled out fib
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by jon-wood 4y ago
For me the sequels never hit the same highs as Dune, but they’re still better than most sci-fi novels that have been written, and I love how they gradually lean ever further into just being really weird. God Emperor is probably the pinnacle
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by jon-wood 4y ago
There are loads of examples of smart lighting systems that are more efficient than a light switch. You didn't notice them, because the lighting was doing exactly what you expected it to. You only notice the instances where the system i
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Matter is in many ways a meta-standard. The transport layer may well be remain as Zigbee or Zwave, but by having at least the controllers supporting Matter you get interoperability between different protocols, rather than having to go all i
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It’s called the Mac Studio now.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
The better model in my view is for screenwriters to write series that stand in their own right. It should be very apparent at this point that shows get cancelled, often after one or two seasons, so plan for that. Don’t set up a six season s
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by jon-wood 4y ago
What about iCloud is a shambles? In my experience it works fine, I save files on one device, and then I can access them on another.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
There is a middle ground between "retain the history of every typo anyone ever made" and "squash a month's worth of work into a single commit". Without having to learn a huge amount you can rebase your private branc
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by jon-wood 4y ago
This was blown way out of proportion by the press for about a week a few months ago. Someone got hold of the National Grid contingency plan for situations where projected power generation doesn't meet demand, and somehow extrapolated t
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I think the GP probably poorly phrased that. “Memory unsafe languages” would be a better term, apart from the basic syntax C# really isn’t very C-like.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I love this, and will be giving it a proper try later this week. For years I’ve been talking about wanting a diagramming tool that can give a super high-level view when needed, but which allows zooming in to individual components in order t
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by jon-wood 4y ago
The biggest curse of the Raspberry Pi is a whole heap of stuff that has gone from “needs a UNIX server” to “but surely that requires an underpowered UNIX server with a very specific distribution of Linux”.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
The CEO does it. Or the board if they won’t. There’s also someone higher up the tree.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
> I just feel like if we’re at peak monetization. We're really not. If anything there's more content (for lack of a better word) available for token amounts of money than there ever has been. I don't know how old you are b
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I would use Keychain with it’s iCloud sync if I didn’t occasionally use non-Apple devices.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Something that’s missed in this analysis is that there have to be two elements in place for a promotion. As you’ve identified the person looking to move up needs to be ready for it (I’m fully with you on it being BS to expect them to be doi
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Small ones, where everybody knows everybody else. Below a certain size you don’t really need a lot of larger company ceremonies because there’s nowhere to hide, either you deliver at the expected level or it very quickly becomes apparent.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I suspect they took the opinion it’s not worth dealing with the many potential edge cases to support people who are booking appointments in the far distant past. How many people have even gone back that far in Google Calendar, never mind ac
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Conceptually I love this idea. I love the idea of them being able to build AWS/GCP/VM images of the same thing even more. The place it falls down for me is that for it to be truly valuable everyone on the team needs to be bought i
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I’m super conflicted on Musk. His stated aims are admirable, and I used to think very highly of him. He’s clearly a smart guy who’s executing on big things most people aren’t (or at least weren’t) even considering. Sadly the way he goes abo
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I’m not convinced that was much of a reason. Windows NT 4 Server pricing was similar, with licenses needed for each client connecting, plus additional licensing for the OS running on those clients.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Any reasonably large organisation probably needs both types of person. There’ll be the deep problems that require a true specialist to deal with (Netflix blogs about optimising network transfer spring to mind here), and people with broad ex
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I think there’s degrees of cattleisation, I have in the past deployed crappy vendor software which needs a unique license key for each running instance. We discussed some sort of license service which would allow keys to be checked out when
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I used to work for a company that does development of things like TV apps, and physical hardware. They’d distribute wireless APs to engineers which automatically connected to the corporate VPN and exposed that via the AP for devices which c
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by jon-wood 4y ago
There are a few things about Linux that I miss, most notably decent tiling window managers with multiple display support. XMonad was a dream to use, allowing me to throw windows or entire workspaces around the place with a couple of key pre

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