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by ramses0 2y ago
For "integrated" stuff, their stance is "UI Must Work". Tracing down the requirements, here: https://design.home-assistant.io/#concepts/home https://developers.home-assistant.io&#
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by ramses0 2y ago
"MIT v. Berkeley - Worse is Better" => https://blog.codinghorror.com/worse-is-better/ "Fail Fast / Let it Crash" => https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions&#x2F
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by ramses0 2y ago
If you ever get to go to London... https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/clocks-timekeeping Latitude has a "natural" definition (sphere spins around, how big around are you spinning near the poles vs. the equator?).
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by ramses0 2y ago
I actually like Deno's take on things, the ability to "drop privs" (or "allow-list") is super powerful. Starlark is supposedly a limited version of python ( https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
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by ramses0 2y ago
I actually usually hit my Ctrl with the base of the pinky (ie: pad/palm of the hand) in a lot of cases.
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by ramses0 2y ago
Fossil!?! https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/quickstart.wiki
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by ramses0 2y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/18c5dxc/any_... ...I got the OG yellow/amber when it was kickstarted, and have added a 1tb NVME and a z-wave dongle (it came with zigbee). The newer o
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by ramses0 2y ago
There's a few others: humidity sensor switches (bathroom/laundry fans), and the "auto-timer-off" button light switches (for the front entryway/exterior lights). _back_ that with an additional "Shelly" dong
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by ramses0 2y ago
aka: pretty much how the HA hardware devices (yellow/amber/green/blue) work by default.
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by ramses0 2y ago
Stupid funny-pages trick: "Spot the Differences", you can cross your eyes and the things that "shimmer" are the differences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_the_difference#Solving_te...
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by ramses0 2y ago
https://wondermark.com/c/1062/
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by ramses0 2y ago
I've avoided React as much as possible. Dabbled (positive experiences) with Vue. What's your recommendation w.r.t. "Components"? I've tried doing web-components from scratch (frameworkless) but nested web compone
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by ramses0 2y ago
If I may be so bold as a pitch for adoption: For Python, support `prql-to-sqlite3` (in memory?) "out of the box" For JavaScript, support "array-of-dicts/objects" with no ceremony. Basically, in python I could justif
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by ramses0 2y ago
Better: 2025-01-01..2025-01-31: (eg: git-log-ish format)
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by ramses0 2y ago
There was a step-change improvement for me when I tried expressing some JS patterns via `underscore.js` instead of procedurally: eg: http://underscorejs.org/#each Thinking of something as `each | map | filter | sum` is waaa
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by ramses0 2y ago
I'm firmly in the vim camp, just wanting to share the history, utterly surprised (but not...) that it's ~25+ years in the making. Funny story once checking a bug report, OG founder of the company dropped in: "I like to check
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by ramses0 2y ago
vim used to have similar vulnerabilities (maybe still does?) via modelines: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/36001/vim-model... https://lwn.net/Articles/20249/ Circa 2002-200
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by ramses0 2y ago
I'll share this comment from 7 months ago with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100069 "prefer shallow arrays of 'records', possibly with a deeply nested 'uri'-style identifier"
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by ramses0 2y ago
https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls.html ...glom on to this: "+JSONSchema" with some sort of UNIX-ish taxonomy. Everything from `man test`, add in `man du`, `date`, `... ago` (relat
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by ramses0 2y ago
Technically don't even need an accelerometer, just go with the cheap "spring switch" (vibration switch? https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-Vibration-Switch-Shock-Sensor... ) that you'll find in the bouncy LE
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by ramses0 2y ago
Buttons. Buttons. Buttons. Buttons. Buttons. And Battery Life. I just got a Garmin Fenix 7, and _finally_, a smart-watch with buttons that are reasonably well-thought out (and a battery that lasts longer than one week). But seriously: the
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by ramses0 2y ago
This is super interesting! For data quality nerdery: "there's no such thing as a string (without an encoding)", "there's no such thing as a timestamp (without a timezone)", and apparently for geo-data: There&#
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by ramses0 2y ago
But, "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives". The intriguing use case (thinking as a consumer) is ~2tb "hot", and effectively treating the remainder tape as kindof "append-only&#x2
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by ramses0 2y ago
If you're a fraidy-cat, look into "SwitchBot" which you can mount externally to physically push the button on the wall. Otherwise, I've been really happy with the iSmartGate I put in years ago. The wiring isn't diff
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by ramses0 2y ago
Three observations: "The OC Problem", "Useful for n==1", and "Build an Internal Internet". 1) OC, aka: Original Content. Most sharing has trended towards reposts, memes, etc. That is the toxic cancer that has
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by ramses0 2y ago
Other cute `say` tricks: muck around with OSX Default Speech Voice (to a siri-ish voice) and you can invoke that from the CLI. I hacked together a little script for demo recording like: START_FROM="$1" STARTED=0 func
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by ramses0 2y ago
..see my adjacent reply: it's the universality of access (kindof) that's tempting in replacing a physical keypad with a "virtual keypad". "Scan to enter => 1234 => Access Granted!" Yeah, yeah, hackers, o
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by ramses0 2y ago
It's the "external user" use case, and a case of the over-complicators gloves... instead of changing the 9v battery in that box every "$N" years, put a QR code up that gives you the regular pin pad thing and then tr
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by ramses0 2y ago
Can you elaborate a bit here? Neglecting _detailed_ info about storage conversion costs, etc, it's tough to understand the "all-in" cost for storage over time. At home, I'm fanatical about using bog-standard AA/AAA
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by ramses0 2y ago
I'm actually your target market here, but I want to replace my old exterior garage-door keypad with a (weather-protected) QR code. Same same, but text/twilio/home-assistant URL to allow me to trigger/confirm the garage

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