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- Comment on Router died - Replacement/solution recommendations 2 months ago:
I used to use OpenWRT on various devices, but two years ago I got a UDM-Pro, a USW-16-POE, and a few Unifi APs and cameras. I run pi-hole on the UDM-Pro. I have no complaints. It is more expensive than piecing it all together using OpenWRT and some Raspberry PIs, but way easier.
- Comment on Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons? 2 months ago:
You could use multiple USB microphones and do the mixing in software. I prefer using an audio interface (e.g. UMC204HD) because it is simpler to set up and adjust levels, and because it lets you use any widely available microphone, or plug in an instrument (e.g.: electric guitar, electric piano). You can plug your headphones into the audio interface and adjust the relative level of your own sound and what is coming from the computer (e.g.: your teacher). sweetwater.com has the UMC204HD and the UMC404HD on sale right now.
I do not have any experience with pick-up mics.
- Comment on Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons? 2 months ago:
I tried Jitsi, but was unable to match Zoom’s audio quality.
The difference between Jitsi and Zoom was noticeable, but less important than the difference between the mic built in to the webcam and good mics. I use an SM58 for voice and an SM137 pointed at the cello just below the bridge, through a UMC204HD.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
To be clear, it is four times that pedestrians have to cross, not four times that drivers are encouraged to not slow down. Drivers are not explicitly encouraged to not slow down, but the point of the diverging diamond is to make drivers not have to slow down.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
This is expensive to address because you have to separate cyclists out to the right before the right car lane splits for right turns before the crossover. And then you have to build a bridge or tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians. On each side.
Really, any road busy enough to justify a diverging diamond probably already needed separated bike lanes. But in America (motto: “If you aren’t in a car, you don’t matter”), there almost certainly was not any cycling infrastructure there before.
There is one of these near me. Their solution for pedestrians is to make them cross the high speed outer lanes where drivers are encouraged to not slow down FOUR times. Their solution for cyclists is take the lane and pray or get off and do what the pedestrians have to do.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
Diverging diamonds are great if your only consideration is car throughput.
If you are considering people walking or riding bicycles, they are shit.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Get an A/V receiver, a computer monitor or dumb TV, and speakers. Then you can get a Roku streaming player and it cannot show you anything when you do not have its input selected on the receiver.
Even an inexpensive pair of bookshelf speakers placed on either side of the TV will sound better than built-in TV speakers. Add a center speaker and a subwoofer drastically improved sound.
Non-4k AV receivers are dirt cheap used.
- Comment on EVs are one step closer to becoming roaming grid batteries 8 months ago:
The use case (as opposed to public transit and stationary grid batteries) is that rich people get to feel good about themselves while still being subsidized by and separated from the working class.
- Comment on And a hearse in the background 9 months ago:
And a place name with twice as many letters as are necessary.
- Comment on xkcd #2881: Bug Thread 9 months ago:
Yet another XKCD where he delivers the punchline, and then goes on to explain the punchline.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 9 months ago:
- CEO wastes a ton of money on generative AI
- CEO fires a bunch of people to hit quarterly profit targets
generative AI resulted in job cuts.
- Comment on xkcd #173: Movie Seating (20 Oct 2006) 9 months ago:
It is cringe because the XKCD guy does not know when to stop. The second part of the comic (the white on black part) makes it worse. The graph is the punchline. But then he keeps drawing, and ruins it.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
The P in HIPAA is for Portability, not Privacy, and the S is for security.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 10 months ago:
Non-profits, just like for-profits, need to keep revenue at or above expenditures. Just like for-profits they end up run by executives who prioritize bringing money in to sustain the bureaucracy over doing good.
- Comment on Is It Worth Learning Spring Boot in 2023 11 months ago:
Spring combines combinations of environment variables, system properties, files, and classpath resources, and handles a variety of patterns (e.g.: aConfigOption could be configured by system property
A_CONFIG_OPTION,aConfigOption, or several other possibilities), so tracking down where the configuration came from is not always easy. Sometimes you think you can just set a property, but it turns out another property triggers loading a resource that overrides yours. This would be fine if applications/libraries clearly documented how to configure them, but most say “config via spring, good luck lol”.And good luck if you are trying to use two different components both built on Spring, and they both rely on the dependency injector settings “db.url”. Now you have to start playing games with dependency injector scopes.
- Comment on Is It Worth Learning Spring Boot in 2023 11 months ago:
Nothing? I just use the language features and I use libraries for specific things.
I do not use an automagic configuration and dependency injection boondoggle. I read config in
main(), create the objects I need, and do what I need. It is easy to see what my program does; it is easy to see where configuration comes from. It is easy to test any component, because you can clearly see what you need to provide to build the entry point objects. - Comment on Is It Worth Learning Spring Boot in 2023 11 months ago:
While you are mastering Spring, I am mastering libraries that do the thing my program needs to do.
While you are trying to debug to your Spring app, which is a huge PITA because Spring is a rat’s nest of conflicting configuration paradigms and overlays and fills your call stack with dozens of layers of generated methods, I have finished my work and am
at the beachhelping my coworker debug his Spring app because he didn’t listen to me when I said not to use Spring. - Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 1 year ago:
Mountain bikes have to be lightweight and strong, and production volume is low. Suspension design takes R&D, and adds moving parts. Start pricing components and you hit $5000 easy for a full-suspension bike. For hardtails, you are making a lot of compromises at $1500, but $2500 gets you a nice bike.
For road/gravel bikes, once you get over $2000, you are paying a lot of money for tiny weight savings, negligible aerodynamic improvements, and electronic gizmos.
For either mountain or road, if you want a custom/hand-made frame and parts made in the developed world paying living wages, you are going to spend a lot more. Taiwan makes a lot of great frames, but if you want a frame made buy a dude in Denver who names all his bikes after craft beers, add several grand.
For city/commuter bikes, you can get something perfectly good for under $1000, but if you can swing $2000, get a Brompton.
- Comment on Tesla Under Investigation After Fatal Crash May Have Involved Autopilot System, Report Says 1 year ago:
“This thing that does not exist and nobody has any idea how to make it” will totally be safer than human driving.
You know what is safer than human driving and we know how to make? Trains.
- Comment on What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day? 1 year ago:
fruit smoothie