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by robotmay 6y ago
This is what I’m using. The plugs are also Aeotec and work well, although there is some minor high audio frequency when very close to them. Mine are a few years old though. The Z-Wave integration for Home Assistant is basically plug and pla
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ooh I didn’t know about that Ubiquiti strip. I must admit that I didn’t even look about for existing solutions (honestly I just wanted to finally have a use for these plugs I had lying about).
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Automatically fixing packet loss on my connection(senryu.pub)
23 points by robotmay 6y ago|39 comments
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by robotmay 6y ago
Honestly I kinda prefer it to the case designs 10 years ago. There's still a strange hankering by case makers to try to make them "edgy" and a solid percentage are still competing to be the xtremiest PC equivalent of go-faste
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by robotmay 6y ago
I found this last week and was really happy to come across it. I ditched Windows for my main desktop/gaming machine in 2020 partially because there are some fantastic open source projects that replace many of the Windows vendor-specifi
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by robotmay 6y ago
Welp timed this submission perfectly; Slack went down within a minute of posting it.
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Show HN: Simple user style for Slack to undo their redesign work(gitlab.com)
1 points by robotmay 6y ago|1 comments
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm sure there's a reason mounting by ID isn't the default but that's always been a weird one for me and I make sure to swap it over when building a storage server.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Does _anyone_ actually like that weird garlic sauce? I chuck them straight in the bin. Domino's is the only place that will deliver to me, being on the outskirts of the city. Luckily that Domino's is pretty good and reasonably low
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by robotmay 6y ago
Honestly darktable is more than a replacement for Lightroom for me. However I never liked Lightroom in the first place; Aperture was far superior for my use-case. But I am very comfortable editing photos and I don't go to extremes with
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by robotmay 6y ago
Anyone know of a UK equivalent? This looks really useful.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Oh yes in many respects the mirrorless switch is already done. I don't tend to buy new camera bodies though; my most recent purchase was a 1Ds MKIII from ~10 years ago, as I want the build quality/weather-resistance you get from t
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah wildlife photography, particularly bird photography, can never have enough focal length. I practice stalking techniques to get closer (which has a much better cost/reward ratio to buying bigger lenses) but if you can fill the fram
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by robotmay 6y ago
That was exactly my thought process too :D There's pretty much nothing else in the price range of the Sport that does 600mm at less than f/8, and the Contemporary model has 90% of the performance of the Sport but at an even more d
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by robotmay 6y ago
I have a Sigma 150-600mm Sport, which is a hell of a lens, both in quality/features and uh...weight :D It's totally hand-holdable, but reviews online make me wonder if everyone else has pipe cleaners for arms; it took a couple of
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by robotmay 6y ago
Sigma tend to do what Canon do; provide a range of similar lenses but with varying features. As an example, I have the 150-600mm Sport lens, which is fantastic; it's weather-sealed, has great autofocus, and full image stabilisation, bu
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by robotmay 6y ago
There's a couple of lens advancements I've seen recently that I found particularly interesting: Canon putting Fresnel elements in their lenses to reduce size/weight: https://kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses&#
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by robotmay 6y ago
I think camera bodies make a much larger difference these days than lenses, actually. Obviously the lens still makes a notable difference, and for certain forms, like wildlife photography, the lens requirements are inescapable. The new mode
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by robotmay 6y ago
Oof, that's not a good sign. For me, Japan is the place for the best camera and lens manufacturing. Most of the makers seem to split their manufacturing between Japan for their quality models/lenses and cheaper countries for the c
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by robotmay 6y ago
Aah I was wondering what happened to the Pinebook Pro order option. I regret not getting in on the previous order as there's basically nothing comparable on the market from what I can find.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I was wondering about proposing that as a compromise. Or heredocs :D
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ah ha, yes I would say it would make sense to pick one, but only if that one is doublequotes ;) Personally I have a few reasons why singlequotes are inferior: - String interpolation requires doublequotes - Using an apostrophe requires you t
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by robotmay 6y ago
We use rubocop heavily at GitLab. I'm generally happy with it, and we have a largely sane set of linters. I think when your codebase gets to a certain size and you have a lot of engineers working on it, having some sane defaults is ver
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ooh thanks, haven't come across them before. I'm a big fan of Le Vent du Nord and Le Freres Brunet, but I really want to expand my album collection further. The one disappointing thing with the Quebecois folk scene is that they&#x
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by robotmay 6y ago
Good question! I'm not super knowledgeable about it myself. I think anything from that far back is likely to be a reasonable amount of guesswork, but there are often some indicators as to how things are pronounced. A good one I've
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by robotmay 6y ago
These days I live in Wales and there's one band here I really quite like who sing in both Welsh and English: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnLAg_O0NJA
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm an English folk musician and it's perhaps surprising to many people, considering the prevalence of English and our modern music, that we as a country have lost a huge amount of our songs and music over the years. We have howev
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by robotmay 6y ago
I write Ruby every day and I still love it. I can pick up most languages and frequently use others like Rust or Elixir, but I _love_ Ruby. It's plenty fast for most tasks and it's fantastic if you want to write small scripts. I we
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by robotmay 6y ago
It's worth noting that Apple's "18 hour" battery life on the MBA is listed when watching something via the Apple TV app, presumably as they have various optimisations both in the OS for that and at a chip level. For regu
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yes this has always annoyed me; having it centred under the keyboard makes no sense except in some weird universe where everybody uses only their thumbs to operate the trackpad. Trackpad alignment was one of the major causes of my RSI due t

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