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by supergeek133 3y ago
Home Assistant users are small minority of many of these companies user bases (including ours), and these integrations being locally focused often poll HEAVILY causing an upside down ratio in API traffic compared to all other users. The sol
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by supergeek133 3y ago
In the Midwest, I know more than one couple where one has stopped working because the second income was almost completely consumed by daycare.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
People have been complaining about the defacto Apple "phone class" they have created with messaging for years. This threw it back up into the light a little more by not just complaining but trying to do something about it.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
This reminds me of the Navy issue years back that caused them to rip out all the touchscreen interfaces. Critical path controls should not be touchscreen.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
I run a similar API program for an IoT Manufacturer. Our API is public. I have a lot of thoughts about this. Supporting things like this is a mixed bag IMO. This group (especially Home Assistant) are very technical, hands on, and engaged. I
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by supergeek133 3y ago
I run a rather large API program for an Residential IoT manufacturer. We have multiple systems, some with a public API some not. The biggest problem is simply support. We'd LOVE to have more public ability to interact but I simply can&
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by supergeek133 3y ago
For some products it is a horsepower/memory problem, depending on the device you're building. If you work for traditional thermostat company that happens to also build connected ones, adding Matter on top of other things required
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Even between Google and Amazon you have different streaming support (Amazon is RTSPS, Google is WebRTC)
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by supergeek133 3y ago
And as long as companies keep using these types of methods to "track work" or "attendance" people will keep finding ways around it.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
In a small office without turnstiles and just sometimes badge swipe doors, this is what happens.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
We recently went back into the office mandatory 3 days a week. Our offices are generally small, so people hold the door for each other and that kind of thing. I told everyone.. scan your badge at door/lock swipes every chance you get.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
I used to help run the Best Buy product catalog API. We did nightly CSVs instead of making people poll/paginate the entire catalog. It was super widely used.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
This is actually a decent take. Most of our C-Suite doesn't live near an office. Or, to be specific WE MOVED HQ to where they wanted to live. We have other VPs and whatnot who live not near an office, or have winter/summer homes t
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by supergeek133 3y ago
That's the point, if the "canonical conversion" is messy BUT gets you past any automatic word rejection filters (or lack of word rejection filters) mission accomplished. At least a human sees it, even if they then reject it b
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by supergeek133 3y ago
The original Half Life.. I believe it is the only game I didn't sleep until I finished. The intro sequence captivated me into the story as I played through it.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Or every gamer wants to be the "killer" and not the healer nor tank. It's fun to get points/kills in PvP games. Especially in a casual mode.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Didn't they threaten to sue the cable/ISP companies for the same thing? Whatever happened with that. IMO that's a more significant problem.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
I hope we all remember how much we dragged Google "glassholes" when that mess happened.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
More people have access to screens now, and (anecdotally) parents were much more careful about screen time in the early 80s/90s.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
The most interesting part about consultants to me is something I heard the CEO of my current company say once to a bunch of product leadership: "I think I know the answer they're going to give, and I think you all know it, but if
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by supergeek133 4y ago
Was there ever a class action started against the manufacturers of these vehicles for the never recalled/fixed "easy to steal" thing? I haven't been keeping up with the history.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
Yes totally fair as well. Other countries also have rules for things like "every employee must be able to see a window" and whatnot.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
I think there was actually a harvard business review study or something that proved this accurate. It saves the corporation money, and actually makes people take less time off. Either because the 'forcing mechanism of use it or lose it
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by supergeek133 4y ago
Fentanyl is insanely powerful, you can get it in "lollipops" and it can be delivered nasally. Source: My mother used fentanyl for many many years.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
Unfortunately this is how it works at a lot of companies. Just a mess. I was working at Best Buy when the stock price was $8/share... we had "Tornado Thursdays" where every Thursday for months you'd hear of a small amoun
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by supergeek133 4y ago
Trivia.. he hated it and only did it as a favor to Luc Besson. Last I knew he's never even watched the movie.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
Big companies ABSOLUTELY know how much they are willing to pay. They have well defined pay bands/grades by geo area.
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by supergeek133 4y ago
This is the broadest view of the economy growing. So there may be some business leaders who work in still growing industries who are trying to "wish the recession into existence" as you say.. But on the flipside you have things li
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by supergeek133 4y ago
I'm an API guy for a large Residential IoT company... we have some platforms that support Webhooks and some that support Azure Event Hub. I personally prefer the Event Hub (replayability, no HTTP request resiliency required, etc) The p
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by supergeek133 4y ago
This argument has really become "what will a workplace do to accommodate/help people one way or the other". For instance, I personally prefer going to the office at least sometimes. My job satisfaction went down considerably

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