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Kyte posted:What's wrong with those? They aren't really designed with mobility in mind, no pack-in battery and no pack-in screen unless you are buying some sort of aftermarket goofy kit, which may or may not be available when you need to start standing up spares and casualty replacements. They are also typically quite a bit slower than most off-the-shelf hardware platforms. Like, I really like Pis in education as a basis for like learning to program and learning Linux because you can really gently caress them up bad and not feel bad since you're a $10 SD card and 20 minutes away from factory default. But in my mind I view them as a lab machine more so than like a 1 to 1 'everyone carries it at all times' thing. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Kyte posted:Ah ok so it's just a bad fit for the use case. Cool, for a minute I was worried there was something terrible about Pis I'd missed. They aren't as cheap as they used to be, and of COURSE theres a coin to mine with them and ESPs. I can honestly say I have wanted a Pi Zero for a few years and not been organically able to get one for the $10 or whatever they were. IE the issue of MagPi that had one free on the cover. Pi Picos are the new hot trend though for me and exactly what I require.
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Humphreys posted:They aren't as cheap as they used to be, and of COURSE theres a coin to mine with them and ESPs. I can honestly say I have wanted a Pi Zero for a few years and not been organically able to get one for the $10 or whatever they were. IE the issue of MagPi that had one free on the cover. The Pico's really more like an arduino than a full-on SBC, right?
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Yeah, power-sipping RP2040 SoC with 264KB RAM and 2MB flash. It's ARM, but definitely Arduino territory rather than SBC.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal.htmlquote:Elon Musk, in a surprise move that adds another twist to a monthslong drama that has preoccupied the tech industry, Wall Street and Washington, proposed a deal with Twitter on Monday evening that could bring to an end an acrimonious legal fight between the billionaire and the social media company. I can't tell if this is a stalling tactic or whether he thinks going through with the original deal is better for him than whatever the outcome of the trial would be. Though most places I read put the "worst case" outcome of the trial as him being forced to go through with the original deal.
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thekeeshman posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal.html Being forced to go through with the deal is probably one of the better case scenarios all things considered, because he at least gets control of the company that way. Worst case would probably be breach of contract fines run up because of multiple flagrant beaches of non-dispairagement clauses and a referral to the federal exchange commission for securities fraud if they could prove he knowingly tanked the stock price to try to renegotiate a better deal. Either way, it continues to be a continued case of watching the two worst people you know fighting.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000 So for those who wisely avoid Twitter drama: yesterday Elon had this brilliant tweet which has kicked off a solid day of mockery. Zelensky mocked this twitter poll with one of his one of his own, a senior Ukrainian diplomat told Elon to "gently caress off," and even Medvedev is making jokes about it. Not to mention Elon whining that the vote is only going against his plan because of the "biggest bot attack I’ve ever seen" and that Ukrainians should have more respect for him because of the money Space-X has spent on Starlink in Ukraine. Giving the timing, how much of this announcement is because of his thin skin? Like the initial plan to purchase Twitter he might have buyers remorse again after some time to think, but it seems like this is an emotional decision after being thoroughly mocked for a day on Twitter. Now he can control it and make everyone respect his genius.
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thekeeshman posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal.html That is some bitch made phrasing. "Would allow him" to do what he already said he would do.
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Rebel Blob posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000  Supporting the illegal take over of sovereign nations seems to be a theme for him.
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I don't have Verizon but still got an *ALERT TEXT MESSAGE EMERGENCY* telling me that dialing 911 on a Verizon phone is not working and I guess to text them instead or something and I heard a brief thing about it on the news today. So, from what I can tell, I guess if you have the world's largest phone service provider as your carrier, you may have to run a few work arounds or something if your house catches fire or you go into cardiac arrest and need an ambulance. here we go: Verizon users in multiple counties may experience issues when dialing 911 due to nationwide outage https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-citrus-hernando/verizon-users-in-hernando-county-may-experience-issues-when-dialing-911-hcso
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Neito posted:The Pico's really more like an arduino than a full-on SBC, right? Yeah. I was kinda being specific for my usage sorry.
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The meme is real: https://twitter.com/ThatsMauvelous/status/1576675184165068800?s=20&t=Pz65yGSrXr_KuPQsC_7ZIQ
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THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS
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Ceci n'est pas un feu de circulation
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PT6A posted:Ceci n'est pas un feu de circulation 
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Mister Facetious posted:The meme is real: I ran into the same thing today. The captcha told me to look for tractors, but it had a picture of a billboard with a tractor, and wouldn't let me through until I agreed it was a tractor.
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my recent captcha craziness was it asking me for ANIMAL doing THING. like select all dogs yawning, or lions with its eyes closed. i thing I got a click bait youtube video about the current 2022 "meta" for captchas that had even crazier ones. like literally playing a warioware mini game levels of crazy.
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PhazonLink posted:my recent captcha craziness was it asking me for ANIMAL doing THING. I saw that video I think - it wasn't clickbait. It was a little video essay about the history of captchas. I think the example that prompted the video was 'click on the horse made of clouds'.
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oh yeah, here's the video for reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppM_7-uTH14 some other notes I remember is how kid logins for roblox are getting some of the harder captchas.
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PhazonLink posted:oh yeah, here's the video for reference. And the parents rejoice, now for minecraft
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo I didn't see this posted yet, but this is a real video about how to reset your wifi-enabled lightbulbs.
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It's been posted pretty regularly since they uploaded it in 2019. No one's come up with a better way to reset stuck wifi in a light bulb you can't easily reach.
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duz posted:It's been posted pretty regularly since they uploaded it in 2019. "Don't buy lightbulbs that need wifi" seems pretty foolproof.
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My cheap-rear end wifi bulbs are fuckin great. I’d never go back.
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Turning off the lights in my house using the switch takes literal seconds. I've never wanted them dimmer, I've never wanted them coloured. I just don't get it
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Baronash posted:"Don't buy lightbulbs that need wifi" seems pretty foolproof. This has been my plan tbqh, although I'm more of the "keep a loaded gun next to the printer, just in case" kind of end user.
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starkebn posted:Turning off the lights in my house using the switch takes literal seconds. I've never wanted them dimmer, I've never wanted them coloured.
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Remember when people in this thread were pretty optimistic about driverless cars? I remember this 2016 toxx for example:Cicero posted:Yeah, I'll take this bet. Meanwhile, the cover story of this week's Bloomberg Businessweek:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-after-100-billion-self-driving-cars-are-going-nowhere posted:It all sounds great until you encounter an actual robo-taxi in the wild. Which is rare: Six years after companies started offering rides in what they’ve called autonomous cars and almost 20 years after the first self-driving demos, there are vanishingly few such vehicles on the road. And they tend to be confined to a handful of places in the Sun Belt, because they still can’t handle weather patterns trickier than Partly Cloudy. State-of-the-art robot cars also struggle with construction, animals, traffic cones, crossing guards, and what the industry calls “unprotected left turns,” which most of us would call “left turns.” quote:This, it seems, is the best the field can do after investors have bet something like $100 billion, according to a McKinsey & Co. report. While the industry’s biggest names continue to project optimism, the emerging consensus is that the world of robo-taxis isn’t just around the next unprotected left—that we might have to wait decades longer, or an eternity. quote:One of the industry’s favorite maxims is that humans are terrible drivers. This may seem intuitive to anyone who’s taken the Cross Bronx Expressway home during rush hour, but it’s not even close to true. Throw a top-of-the-line robot at any difficult driving task, and you’ll be lucky if the robot lasts a few seconds before crapping out. Entire article is worth reading, there are some funny dunks in there. e: paywall evasion: https://archive.ph/8H1Wj TheFluff fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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I've mostly encountered Waymo and Nuro cars while I'm out riding my bike and the deference I get from their cars gives me the impression of safety, more than I get from drivers, and it's almost solely down to them not "seeing red" as soon as they encounter me and do stupid poo poo to pass. They seem to happily sit behind you at a safe distance below the speed limit until there's an actual safe space to pass. They're also real sticklers for the speed limit which is nice. That SF Cruise crash mentioned had the other car doing 40 in a 25  As long as we're not getting any better transportation solutions, this seems to be the last hope of reigning in the danger from cars, which sucks to have to put your optimism in.
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BeeSeeBee posted:As long as we're not getting any better transportation solutions, this seems to be the last hope of reigning in the danger from cars, which sucks to have to put your optimism in. It's like you didn't even read that article.
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starkebn posted:Turning off the lights in my house using the switch takes literal seconds. I've never wanted them dimmer, I've never wanted them coloured. Long bedroom and the light switch, for ceiling lights, is faraway from the bed. No space for lamps. Rental, so no putting in my own wires. With Philips hue I have a wireless switch that looks like a real one, but can be stuck on the wall next to the bed.
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Changing color temperature at night, dimming, and gradual brightening sunrise alarms seem like unobjectionable theoretically wantable things. All of those existed in traditional bulbs/appliances.
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ianmacdo posted:Long bedroom and the light switch, for ceiling lights, is faraway from the bed. No space for lamps. Rental, so no putting in my own wires. With Philips hue I have a wireless switch that looks like a real one, but can be stuck on the wall next to the bed. I just navigate the distance in the dark using the map in my mind's eye
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Motronic posted:It's like you didn't even read that article. The whole thing, no, it was meandering and just rehashed a bunch of stuff. Care to make a point? e: If you're thinking the hope I mentioned is like a broad autonomous robo-taxis zipping around kinda world, I don't mean that. I mean more like in my specific locale (their backyard, so good weather for it), and if 5% of local trips could replaced, even using pre-mapped everything, in 20 years, I would be happy. I'm not optimistically hopeful, more like desperately hopeful because there's uhhh nothing else coming down the pipeline and I'm tired of getting assaulted. BeeSeeBee fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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ianmacdo posted:Long bedroom and the light switch, for ceiling lights, is faraway from the bed. No space for lamps. Rental, so no putting in my own wires. With Philips hue I have a wireless switch that looks like a real one, but can be stuck on the wall next to the bed. I simply use the best light controller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHidx57d1BU
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Vegetable posted:I shout “Lights out” and my google nest turns out the lights. It’s great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny8-G8EoWOw
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