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I have one, but the software is just annoying, so I recently bought an Adafruit MacroPad: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5128

It works on any device including my iPads, and although I'm only using it for keypresses, there are plenty of modules for doing MIDI and other HID shenanigans that I haven't investigated yet.
I agree, I'm not against cheating but high risk high reward. If you're dumb enough to include the lecturer in the very group chat you cheat in then you deserve to fail. The class was stupid to even think they could cheat as a whole class, its like robbing a liquor store with 80 accomplices. What you do is you find a small group of individuals you trust and you cheat together secretly and given how small that group is likely to be you're all forced to learn something.
KDE's app names have historically been difficult to relate. Their file manager is called "Dolphin", PDF viewer "Okular" and the app store "Discover".
> Both to show ads in the vehicle

WTF. Is this a thing? How?
I suppose you could complain to the grid operators that they're being unfair in buying the cheapest electricity rather than the more expensive stuff, but I'm not sure it will sway them much :)

Is electricity in the US socialized? I thought they were all private companies, but you seem to be talking as though this is a political choice, rather than an economic one. I freely admit I don't know much about how the US operates its grids.
A Nation-sized battery (2011)
"threats of violence"...........seriously ?? haha
True, absolutely. Knockoff was the wrong sentence in the first place.
"Hello insurance? Yes I'd like a policy that covers my bike being stolen even if it's left unlocked in a UK city."

"Ah hahaha oh wait you're serious. Ok that will be £1k per month."
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I personally don't agree with his choice of political party and I'm worried about the Republican/Trump rabbit hole he's been going down for a while. But he's absolutely right about the dirty tricks campaign and that's exactly what we're seeing with this article. It reads like an opinion piece, but isn't labelled as one. It's pretty poor form even for The Guardian.
I've recommended this tutorial for years to people wanting to learn Python for the web. It's really well done.
Step 1: pip install fastapi
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I found it more to be about how stupid robotic equipment currently still is.
If you can guide a currency and there is some power imbalance in who is doing the guiding, then that can turn out to be a nasty problem. For instance, there is some asymmetric effects if the entity doing the guiding dilutes savings by pumping the money supply and simultaneously buys mortgage products while setting a central bank lending rate of near 0%.

Beauty is in the eye of the guider.
I think people start with trying to do the best practice too early. Just using one key as your primary authentication adds a lot of security as other authentication methods aren't as routinely exposed. That's enough to get started and makes it easier to think about backups when one is ready for multiple keys.
Could custom Faraday cages be integrated?
Yet this "myth" is what has lead to countries with heavy amounts of green baseloads being able to decarbonize and those without are still struggling.

The failure of the Germany energiewende is a great example, Californias struggle is another.
To put it simply, it measures how much pressure is required to stop your pulse being detected. The higher your blood pressure, the more pressure required to stop the pulse in the arm
> This really sounds like an argument against capitalism in general.

Are you saying that exploitative behavior is exclusive to capitalism? If so, would you elaborate how do other economic systems avoid exploitative behavior - i.e. what makes capitalism so much worse?
> Any significantly above market returns of any kind are either a scam or have risks that are either not understood or not disclosed.

In many markets, real estate is looking similar.
Wind and solar have dropped 70%-90% in price over the last 10 years (and are projected to continue to fall), which made it so that they are _now_ cheaper than other sources. Electricity grid planning is on the order of a few decades and you are asking for a country that already converted their whole grid to electricity? Things don't move that fast, in particular with the strong corruption involved in keeping electricity generation in the hands of a few large monopolistic companies.
A data dashboard for the fire department I worked for - which I left in 2020.
Screenshots [1]

It was more than a few days, in fact was quite the work in progress. When I started management had no way of visualizing our call data on an as needed basis. Prior to the dashboard if they need some data for fire calls they went to one person, asked for the data and waited until that person got around to doing it and then delivered in an Excel spreadsheet. Same with EMS data through a different person.

I started to work on v2 but it kind of died on the vine as I knew I would never get support from I.T. [2]

There were also some scripts that I created to gather data, compile it and send it a daily email to various people within the department. But once I left the department I lost access to the department network. [3]

[1]: https://www.gigofone.com/projects/dataviz

[2]: https://www.gigofone.com/projects/cadstats

[3]: https://www.gigofone.com/blog/2020/05/fd_problems.html
My solution is similar - I read the release notes every month or so, and upgrade only if I am interested in some of the new features.
I am willing to fix stuff if it breaks, and I have a backup config I can downgrade back if needed.

I take a similar approach to firmware upgrades for my IoT devices - I run them on a couple of separate vlans, so I feel okay only updating them every few months when I see the need (mostly custom builds of tasmota/esphome/etc.)

HA is not ready for grandma, but most technically inclined folks should be able to get a ton out of it after you get past the initial learning curve.
Miguel has updated this guide (available for purchase). In my opinion, it's worth every penny as a starting point into building larger Flask apps, but does include some material that isn't optimized for production-ready Flask apps (e.g. the chapters on authentication).
No evidence for what? I'm genuinely baffled here. They're the nuclear power company; surely they would know the reasons they need a subsidy?!
That add-on works great. On firefox. On a desktop. Of a computer I own. That's not exactly covering a significant portion of my use cases.

Also: I really don't care about analytics cookies, I think they are fair game and can genuinely make many websites/tools better when used correctly. So how can I express this measured and informed consent globally ? (Answer is: I cannot due to how the law is written). And with ton of added legislation, the user life won't get any easier.

I don't understand the parallel with chlorofluorocarbons. Banning that substance stopped its production and thus its harmful effects. PII on the other hand are - as you mentioned - defined so broadly that they are everywhere. Simply having a login button means you deal with PII. Having access to the user IP (aka: replying to an HTTP query !!) means dealing with PII. Sending an order confirmation by email means dealing with PII. You can legalise all you want, but these data are still going to be there: their production will not stop the slightest. In almost all the cases their usage does not cause any problem, unlike chlorofluorocarbons.
"To qualify, a person must have attended a university that appeared in the top 50 of at least two of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, or The Academic Ranking of World Universities in the year they graduated."

They are going for a clearly defined metric of what constitutes the "world's top graduates". This is not about pushing the 'diversity agenda', even though this means that US universities are over-represented (which does not imply that all graduates are American, though).
Give it a few years; solar and batteries are getting better and cheaper, and the kind of grid interconnections needed for power sharing to even out the intermittency of renewables aren't going to be built in a day. It's an ongoing project.

On the battery front, a major patent on lithium iron phosphate expired just a couple weeks ago. I don't know what the long term consequences of that will be, but if it means being able to buy LFP batteries at $100/kwh or less outside of China, that could change the economics of utility-scale battery storage quite a bit.

In the long run I hope to see high capacity transcontinental HVDC lines linking continents so we can buy solar power from the other side of the Earth when it's night where we are, and sell our surplus when the sun is shining -- no batteries needed. That's hard and expensive. (Supposedly China is working on a deal with Chile where China can buy solar power that gets sent across a proposed trans-Pacific power line. I think that's the kind of megaproject that every industrialized country should be thinking about.)
Well, obviously not. It was just an illustration Tesla has done well in spite of Niedermeyer's very negative article.

Reading the article also makes the "When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Really Is" ... "On a beautiful day in May 2015"... shtick seem phony when he links an article he wrote on Musk's bad character in he wrote in 2009. (https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2009/03/tesla-descends-int...)
Google did this for a while with G before just using the full company name as a prefix.
"The 80ies" called and said you can just call them the 80's if you live in the 20th century. Or the 80s if you live in the early 21st. But definitely not the eight-ease-ease,

They also did all your coke, bought Enron, and totally dissed that ozone hole thing, dude! Totally wrong.
Currently using Tailscale but looking to switch due to it's reliance on a centralised proprietary control node. From what I understand NetBird is a true mesh VPN with no central node reliance? Eager to try this once a mobile app is available.
Hi leobg,

just commenting here, for it seems that it is no longer possible to comment on threads that are somewhat older.

I would love to get in touch with you regarding a longer comment you posted on HN. It was about "living with competing narratives".

Let me know if you are interested to continue our exchange. My contact details can be found in my user information.

Cheers!
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The worst UX I experienced was the gas stove at an appartment where you'd turn the knob all the way to get some sparks, while it blasts gas from the stove, to then turn it down to the level you want.

The fun part was when you try to light it up but for whatever reasons it doesn't catch, so you're filling the room with propane and the second it might actually light up you're toast. Then if you turned it down too much it would die out, but you'd have to look below the pan to realize there's no flame anymore.

Oh, and the toxicity of course.

My IH plate also has common + and - buttons, but compared to the above I'm pretty happy with it. It also has a timer, and I'm ok giving up having 4 knobs for buttons that actually work and can be cleaned in one swoop, and having a single place where I can see the status of all the heating elements.
Spending lots of money on hardware support doesn't guarantee it won't fail, or even that you will get replacements fast, it just guarantees that a contract exists saying something. As an architect we should engineer our solutions to cater for hardware failure.

I call this sort of thing a technical guarantee rather than a commercial guarantee
> There's no point in sabotaging others.

We're already being sabotaged, by manufacturers - what else would you call this sometimes hidden, non-disablable connectivity/"telemetry", and the disappearance of dumb options? The only question is if we let them get away with it scot-free.
I'd like to see sources on that.

I just checked a (Swedish) price comparison site and the cheapest 65" 4K TV currently available was literally less than half the price of the cheapest Not Smart TV.

Also with Smart TVs I had a choice of over 200 different models, while with Not Smart TVs I had a choice of 2.
That can be made somewhat more secure by unscrewing them and inserting an appropriate epoxy before putting the screws back. Not as good as a proper fixing, but far better than losing bikes to everyone with a spanner.
> Thus, the design has been improved

I re-read your message about 5 times and I still do not understand what was improved in the design?
I've been running a pi-hole on my home network for years and I love it, it consistently blocks about 19% of outgoing requests. Some of the benefits for us are:

- It disables (and hides) the annoying ads on our Samsung smart TV
- Browsing is noticeably smoother (especially recipe websites on mobile!)
- Most front-end browser trackers are blocked
- It's now possible to see how often apps or devices tend to phone home by just logging into the Pihole web interface
- We're not giving (most of) our DNS activity to our ISP
- Updating to a newer version is a breeze with docker

Some thoughts for folks considering getting one (or more):

- I've not locked it down further with a firewall yet to force all DNS requests to go through the Pihole, but I'm planning to.
- I won't run a Pihole container on my UDM as it will likely mess with future updates and settings, keeping things separate feels better.
- Sometimes I consider adding more blocklists but every time I do, something gets annoying somewhere and I usually end up reverting to the standard config.

My pet peeve has become to report login flows or frontend interactions that break when the tracking script fails to load because of my Pihole. It doesn't happen often luckily :-).

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But do we care?

This calls back to a web of interconnected, non-commercial websites. Before Google there certainly were search engine websites but they weren't the big internet hub Google is today.

Instead people created webrings, toplists, link sites, directories (DMOZ!) to drive traffic, leading to fewer but more curated content

I really don't miss the bright and GIFy aesthetic, but I do miss a web to really "surf" from homepage to homepage, losing track of time, instead of "grinding" the same pages over and over.

There are some places that still evoke this feeling, notably Wikipedia and TVTropes
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My friend's 2018 Nissan Rogue displays logos of some nearby restaurants / gas stations / stores on the navigation map. The brands that are shown change every once in a while.

Some cars show nearby points of interest as a feature; this isn't that.
As a suggestion, why not peek at the source code for git and see what they are doing differently from you?
I have a combination microwave/conventional oven with capacitive buttons as well as a dial for temperature. You can only use the buttons to adjust the timing for the microwave in 10-second increments, leaving the dial completely unused in that modality.
WebAuthn is more convenient but also more secure. You don't have to be as vigilant when checking what URL your browser is pointing at.
I learned to use Flask with this tutorial, which complemented the already good Flask documentation. This allowed me to spin-up web interfaces to make monitors, remote control panels and so on very easily. Than you very much Miguel, it was a great gift.
> Storage + Intermittent is not enough to power a modern grid.

As a previous comment pointed out, one solution is to just over-construct renewables. You can look through a graph of output of wind+solar for a large area and find the minimum output compared to its rated capacity. The output from wind+solar is never zero, and the minimums are usually short. Last time I looked at the numbers for UK, if I remember correctly, it looked like they had to have 2-3 times the rated capacity to produce enough for the vast majority of days with minimum production.

It's more accurate to say that nobody has demonstrated that storage + intermittent can power a large scale modern grid (there are plenty of examples for micro grids and islands). Whether it actually can or not is unknown.

And part of the reason is that nobody has really needed to demonstrate it yet. There have so far been other workarounds that have been acceptable. UK and Germany doesn't have their own hydro-power, but has built grid connections to tap into Norway's for instance.

> Also yes you do need to always meet demand to ensure the frequency is stable, otherwise you'll have massive problems.

The other side of this, that is increasingly being taken more seriously, is to have more adaptive loads. There are for instance large parking garages built for EV car ride sharing or rental services that are V2G capable. The cars have quite a lot of flexibility in when they do their charging, and they can even feed energy back into the grid. There have been studies of anything from varying the temperature of freezers and hot water tanks across the country, to varying production rate or temperatures is metal production.

To me, if we're serious about solving climate change, this is essentially a problem that solves itself: we absolutely need to make a MASSIVE amount of green hydrogen.. for trucks, ships, planes, e-fuels, fertilizers, steel, etc. That's a HUGE amount of load that can easily be load-balanced to follow the production from renewables. You can even feed some of the stored hydrogen back into the grid in rare cases with extremely low production, probably using existing gas peaker plants.

I'm not against nuclear btw, but feels like the most enthusiastic nuclear proponents often have a very myopic view of the problem. That is, they assume in 20-30 years, everything will look exactly the same as before, except all electricity is nuclear+some renewable. Assuming we don't solve the energy storage and load balancing problem is equivalent to assuming we don't solve the climate crisis, because CO2 emissions are about so much more than just electricity production.
> It's objectively worse, dramatically increasing the attack surface

Any 2FA - no matter how weak - should in theory not be weaker than no 2FA. In practice of course these things can often be used as the only factor to "recover" access to an account so yes, weak 2FA like SMS can make things worse.
Show HN: A design studio that uses code as their primary material
must admit I didn't read past the main tweet!
This video is what should get you into APL

https://youtu.be/_DTpQ4Kk2wA
USD has the same issue. The dollars continually get "used up" and need reprinted. Transferring electronic money burns energy and labor, and costs labor at the treasury and fed to mantain.

If stablecoins are a pyramid scheme, the USD is too. Virtually every currency is negative-sum, destroying value every time they are spent.
Glad you find it cool! My PhD was in Mechanical Engineering.
A lot of these smartwatch sensors have questionable accuracy. No doubt Samsung will rush out something that hardly works.
> My washing machine beeps, for the best part of 10 mins, when it's finished. Also nice when this happens in the wee small hours.

My washing machine loudly plays a lengthy fecking song when it's finished!

I do wish that, at the least, there was a way to reduce the volume of all these beeping things...
I'd literally trust the current pope to be a better guardian of free speech than Elon Musk.

If you want to judge how much someone values free speech, look at how they treet the speech of people they dislike or whose speech might be to their detriment. Feel free to check how Elon Musk treats free speech within his companies, especially of employees trying to unionize.

Free speech for me but not for thee.
What failure are you talking about? The German Energiewende despite significant opposition from lobbying groups has lead to >20% of electricity generated from renewables. It also kicked off a large boom in renewable energy research and industries, Germany was world leader in solar and wind industries (the following governments policies toward fossil and back to nuclear ran into the ground)
Pimoroni also make a Macropad based on the 2040. It's a little simpler in design but works on the same basis.
There is aktiia.com. They force you to calibrate every 4 weeks. And the values seem to be reasonable most of the time.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/infrastructure-bill-track-...
Have you tried selecting a ring and then holding the "reduce power" button for a moment? I've found on some units this is a faster way to get to full power. And I had one where holding the up and down buttons together skips the selected ring straight to zero.

Delighted that my new place just has knobs!
You'd make a great leader.
Just last year I moved to a new home and was installing ethernet around the house. I could've easily made an extra port or two in the kitchen.

I generally like receiving a notification when the dishwasher is finished with the dishes, but with the current WiFi setup it's always broken and I don't have the energy to fix it. So I would've used it if it were working over Ethernet and I'm not using it now when it can only work over WiFi.

Out of home automation devices Philips Hue works only over Ethernet, though there you have the advantage that you can place the hub anywhere you like.
top500.org is down. That seems unnecessary.

Was going to say that it's always great to see GPU machines performing well. Looking forward to seeing how far off theoretical peak the benchmark hit.
I cannot remember where I read this, but it was a view that basically the mere concept of a "company" is a collective fiction that we all believe in. As are nations, laws, etc etc. The idea that "tesla" is an entity one can interact with. That this "tesla" thing has value in and of itself. They're derived from beliefs in a system. Which could evapourate and render the idea of value meaningless.

I don't think this is very useful, since "yeah but without society there are no companies, money is nothing" doesn't take us very far! But hey.
So which regulations are superfluous and expensive? There's much talk of overregulation from nuclear proponents, but I've yet to hear of specific examples. Specifically, I want examples of laws that are expensive to comply with but clearly unnecessary.

The thing about nuclear is that regulation is clearly highly necessary in the industry -- there's still plenty existing power plants like Fukushima that are not safe to walk away from, and that can only exist safely when they're competently monitored, and their weaknesses are shored up.

And in fact, accidents result in more, expensive but reasonable regulation. One of the conclusions from Fukushima was that you needed the ability to hook up emergency power and water to a power plant in the event of a disaster, even one that destroys roads. Had people gotten to Fukushima in time with the right tools, it'd have been far less dramatic and less expensive. So that's a quite reasonable thing to want.

However, this means that now there need to be tools and spare parts that can be carried by a helicopter in reasonable time. The existence of those tools, parts and helicopters however all costs money, and so is their continued testing and maintenance.

And yet again nuclear gets more expensive as we patch another hole, while renewables are not affected.
Someone paid them to add it to the bill
Brilliant and concise, thanks!
> The failure of the Germany energiewende is a great example

Except it's not as big of a failure as many try to claim. It's meeting huge challenges, for sure. But part of the problem has little to do with inherent flaws of renewables.. like the politics around building more grid transmission lines from north to south (if you hold this against renewables you have to hold political resistance against nuclear too).
I live in an area with no cellphone signal, so if they brick themselves without that then it's going to be a problem.