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by zyxley 10y ago
I suspect you haven't been in a big city much if you think thousands of stop-and-start intersections would be easier to automate than a far fewer number of continuous lanes and offramps that work via simple merging.
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by zyxley 11y ago
And people wonder why kids are using apps like Snapchat that are intentionally designed to be incomprehensible to outsiders...
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by zyxley 11y ago
The beekeeper reminds me of a Schlock Mercenary quote: "A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody ."
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm trying to think who on Earth would even have that many things to plug in on a kitchen counter. Microwave, toaster, toaster oven, rice cooker, griddle, blender, George Foreman grill, coffee maker... you'd run out of counter spa
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by zyxley 11y ago
This comment is well-written, but doesn't seem to have any actual substantive content beyond "other people are wrong about this subject, because reasons".
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by zyxley 11y ago
You seem to be assuming that new housing caused a rise in rents, while ignoring that the reason substantial new housing is built in a short period somewhere is because people want to move there. If a lot of people want to move somewhere, re
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by zyxley 11y ago
Sounds like a failure of imagination. There are all sorts of interesting things you can do with an 'obsolete' iPad, even if just to use it as a wifi kiosk for something else.
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by zyxley 11y ago
"It's not money, so I'm not gambling, so I don't have to feel back about gambling and losing"
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by zyxley 11y ago
That's exactly as much of a farce—it's just one that the authorities haven't cracked down on.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Same here.
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by zyxley 11y ago
At this point, basically the only reason for a normal person to get a desktop rather than a laptop or a big-screened all-in-one is if they want a big graphics card. Even that's starting to go away with systems like the Razer Core. The
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by zyxley 11y ago
Octoblu confuses me. I can't find anything about their pricing scheme (if any), while all their professional partners listed make me think there definitely has to be one hidden in there somewhere.
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by zyxley 11y ago
It seems like there could be something of an aspirational market there for 'prosumer' drone pilots who follow the rules because it makes them feel more like professionals. Include some resources on interesting uses of drones, mayb
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by zyxley 11y ago
HA does have a REST API, but with the way PageNodes works you'd have to hardcode the HA password right into the PN workflow. Have you considered adding the equivalent of environment variables, which can be set in a PN account and used
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm curious, anybody know if there's a simple way to wire this up to Home Assistant ( https://home-assistant.io )? My first thought was MQTT, but for some reason PageNodes doesn't have any MQTT output support, which
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by zyxley 11y ago
That game was amazing. I wish I'd gotten good enough at it to ever get past the first few levels.
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by zyxley 11y ago
The closest to 'ideal' would probably be one of those fitness band form-factors that can be and is intended to be worn at all times, but I don't know if any of those can run general-purpose Android without having a terrible b
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by zyxley 11y ago
> This would be viable if it were clear, codified, and widely accepted. It's not universally accepted. Given the number of people directly disagreeing with you here, I think you need to reevaluate your premise.
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by zyxley 11y ago
For this to replace motion sensors for home use, I think it'd have to run on an Android smartwatch, and one of the ones that's slim enough that you'll actually wear it all the time. It still wouldn't work so well, though
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by zyxley 11y ago
Sure, but with this you've got less hardware involved in total, and more flexibility for programmed responses.
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by zyxley 11y ago
The "sets instead of loops" one makes me think of Ruby, where operations on sets are a basic part of the philosophy in a way they aren't in a bunch of languages. Even the basic "do this 5 times" is expressed in the
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by zyxley 11y ago
Strings without quotes leads to all kinds of trouble in YAML. You end up just quoting everything anyway the first time you need to use "false" or "[some words here]" as a string.
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by zyxley 11y ago
That's not a backup, it's a mirror.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Do you happen to know if there's any of these alternative reader apps for Kindle that'll sync ebook files from Dropbox?
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by zyxley 11y ago
Also, most manga is 90+% percent black and white, with many series having at most maybe one or two colored splash pages per issue, or the occasional promotional or plot climax issue that's all color.
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by zyxley 11y ago
The basic problem with that is that comics these days are too expensive. $4-$5 for 26 pages? Yeesh.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> They will always be readily available until the end of humanity. The funny thing is, many non-US countries don't have "readily available" guns everywhere you go.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Part of the reason people get so paranoid about the government pulling sudden mandates on guns in regards to one thing or another in the news is that, well, it's not paranoia. Federal, state, and city legislatures have pulled a lot of
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by zyxley 11y ago
For a simple example of an actual "messy interface", take a look at Calibre.
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by zyxley 11y ago
For Z-Wave, they use OpenZWave, which has a list of compatible controllers: https://github.com/OpenZWave/open-zwave/wiki/Controller-Comp...

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