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by sulcate 4y ago
Omron doesn't offer an $80 PLC with gpio that runs python and can directly integrate with your ERP and other software like REST / SQL that anyone could teach themselves if they know python. If it takes two months to create a fully
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by sulcate 4y ago
They prioritize industrial and embedded applications like this for sales, so it's not as impossible to get a board for projects like these.
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by sulcate 4y ago
Yes, absolutely! But a part that's missing is the reason WHY companies often prefer to hire inefficient outside consultants that will under deliver, over promise, and often leave you with a half functional system at the end. It's
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by sulcate 4y ago
PLCs are often a pain to integrate with multiple systems and are not nearly as versatile and simple as an internet connected pi running python, for certain desired tasks. Please tell me which PLC you can get for $200 that runs python, can q
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by sulcate 4y ago
I'm going to be transparent: I'm interested in a structural analysis as to why there's a crisis of loneliness. Humans are wired for sociality and interdependence. Our brains pretty much literally wither away, in ways, without
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by sulcate 4y ago
Yes, people are different, but you'd imagine that organizations promoting nativist ideology and religious education in schools might also very likely not resonate with a more highly-correlated-with-atheism hackernews crowd, no? The poi
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by sulcate 4y ago
What? Do you notice a trend in the membership of your named organizations, mainly that they seem filled with old conservative men? Re: "daughters of the america" "Council of the Daughters of America, a patriotic fraternity, w
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by sulcate 4y ago
Yes, it's what rfwhyte said. It's literally an externality to the company that people get inconvenienced for hours on understaffed phone lines and end up losing out on money, returns, support, etc. They benefit by reducing overhea
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by sulcate 4y ago
Well, in that case, I have some unfortunate information for you about Facebook, Instagram, hackernews, and much more.
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by sulcate 4y ago
But that's not the point. It's not meant to be intelligible. The point is marketing, aka to misinform consumers. It's working as expected and it happens in every field. Choosing obscure names that make it extremely hard to co
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by sulcate 4y ago
This is irrelevant and misses the point. Even a completely 'trashed' earth that renders billions displaced or suffering amidst ecological catastrophe is still infinitely more hospitable to life than celestial bodies that are comp
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by sulcate 4y ago
When exactly did they say they were not? They stated the opposite: >"You have to look at what countries are actually consuming the products leading to the emissions."
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by sulcate 4y ago
But elements are not interchangable and have important differences in properties, difficulties in refining, and workability. Gold is tremendously useful for many applications and I believe all that you mentioned are brittle in comparison. I
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by sulcate 4y ago
From the article: " Although critics question the legality of TRAPs, a legal analysis published last year found that courts generally uphold the agreements in challenges brought under anti-kickback provisions of the Fair Labor Standard
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by sulcate 4y ago
See what? An irrelevant comment that doesn't address the fact that one doesn't get to magically wish away a corporation's claim (unjust or not) of debt against an individual? Because that's not how debt works ("just
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by sulcate 4y ago
An entity doesn't need 'legal enforcement' for a supposed debt when they can threaten to or send someone to collections and ruin their credit/drain their time to fighting it, though.
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by sulcate 4y ago
To the response below as to why don't people don't invest energy to reply, I'd reckon it's because comments can be intellectually inconsistent within their own framing constantly here & sometimes you'd wish the