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- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
npr.org/…/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-roc…
You’re not just “sticking it to the man” when you do this though — you’re being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 week ago:
Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time
Are you referring to getting, I dunno, yogurt in places outside the digestive tract?
My understanding was that gut bacteria play a pretty crucial (beneficial) role in overall health, not to mention the whole gut-brain stuff.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 week ago:
Pretty sure those “horrible little scalawags” play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome…
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Or just a San Francisco resident — these ads are everywhere on BART (+Muni?) right now. (As far as ads go, they’re pretty good I guess — and no, I don’t even use them, much less work for them.)
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 week ago:
ZigBee router thing:
I’ve been happy with the SMLIGHT SLZB-06M. You can easily flash firmware, and it has PoE which was important for me. I believe it also supports Thread, but I haven’t tried this yet (and I’m not sure if it supports it at the same time as Zigbee).
Zigbee smart plugs from Third Reality have been pretty solid in my experience, and they report power usage.
For circuit breaker level monitoring, I have an Emporia Vue2. I have it running esphome, completely local — unfortunately this requires some simple soldering and flashing, so it’s not turnkey. But it’s been rock solid ever since flashing it. (Process is well documented online.)
I’ve had decent luck with cheap wifi Matter bulbs, but provisioning them is finicky, and sometimes they just crap out and need to be power cycled; Zigbee bulbs (e.g., Ikea) have generally been reliable, though sometimes I’ve had difficulty pairing them initially. After power cycling a Matter WiFi bulb, it takes a while for it to respond to Home Assistant; Zigbee bulbs generally respond as soon as you power them on.
I have a wired smart light switch from TP-Link/Kasa (KS205), and it’s been completely hassle free (and totally local — Matter over wifi). The Kasa smart switch dongles I have work flawlessly but need proprietary pairing, and I’m afraid to update firmware in case they lose local support.
Good luck! Fun adventure :)
- Comment on As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave 3 weeks ago:
Not parent, but when a minute isn’t quite enough, 77 seconds might do the trick. Multiples of eleven are quick to enter, and with a simple number with no “minute” button, 66s is easier than 1:00.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 5 weeks ago:
I think a lot of companies view their free plan as recruiting/advertising — if you use TailScale personally and have a great experience then you’ll bring in business by advocating for it at work.
Of course it could go either way, and I don’t rely on TailScale (it’s my “backup” VPN to my home network)… we’ll see, I guess.
- Comment on Hell 5 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it’s in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.
If social anxiety is a factor, that’s a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.
- Comment on this is my hole! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 1 month ago:
In my head it was definitely Cave.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 1 month ago:
“Full term” pregnancy is ~40w from last menstrual period, or ~38w from conception. There are ~4.345 weeks/month, putting full term at ~8.75 to ~9.2 months. Note the 9.2 months includes ~2 weeks before fertilization.
- Comment on Today is June 1st, the start of Pride Month. This scene from "Blood Oath" weighs heavily on my mind. 1 month ago:
Because not all humans strive for honor.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 1 month ago:
People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that’s neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 month ago:
Yep, you’re right — I was just responding to parent’s comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 month ago:
That’s…not really a cogent argument.
Satellites connect to ground using radio/microwave (or even laser), all of which are electromagnetic radiation and travel at the speed of light (in vacuum).
Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum — light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum (depends on the fiber). In contrast, signals through cat7 twisted pair (Ethernet) can be north of 75%, and coaxial cable can be north of 80% (even higher for air dielectric). Note that these are all carrying electromagnetic waves, they’re just a) not in free space and b) generally not optical frequency, so we don’t call them light, but they are still governed by the same equations and limitations.
If you want to get signals from point A to point B fastest (lowest latency), you don’t use fiber, you probably use microwaves: arstechnica.com/…/private-microwave-networks-fina…
Finally, the reason fiber is so good is complicated, but has to do with the fact that “physics bandwidth” tends to care about relative bandwidth (“frequency divided by delta frequency”), whereas “information bandwidth” cares about absolute bandwidth (“delta frequency”), all else being equal (looking at you, SNR). Fiber uses optical frequencies, which can be hundreds of THz — so a tiny relative bandwidth is a huge absolute bandwidth.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 month ago:
80% of the USA lives within urban areas (source). Urban “fiberization” is absolutely within reach.
Agree that running fiber out to very remote areas is tricky, but even then it’s probably not prohibitive for all but the most remote locations.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 month ago:
So the irony is
I see what you did there…
- Comment on Technically the truth 1 month ago:
Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.
And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That’s part of Newton’s (apocryphal?) apple story — he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn’t also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it’s just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).
- Comment on Misunderstood the assignment… 1 month ago:
“Can you hold it” was meant as “abstain from pooping for just a little longer,” but was instead interpreted as, “poop, and then hold the poop in your hands.”
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 month ago:
I think you mean more scrupulous, not less.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 month ago:
If you lose power, you can use one of these cables to power your house (or at least, the part of your house on that phase).
This is not how you should do this, but it can work. It is not a good idea (possibly illegal?).
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 month ago:
Hopefully you can publish in an open-access journal — if not it would be great if you could share an arXiv preprint :)
- Comment on *play imagine being sung by random white celeb* 1 month ago:
You said that no one…
I don’t think that was the parent commenter though…
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
You experience the passage of time as ever increasing in speed, and before long the universe has died, leaving you — immortal and sentient — alone in the cold, dead cosmos, for eternity.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 1 month ago:
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
— Richard P. Feynman
I think the same is true for a lot of folks and self hosting. Sure, having data in our own hands is great, and yes avoiding vendor lock-in is nice. But at the end of the day, it’s nice to have computers seem “fun” again.
At least, that’s my perspective.
- Comment on Selfhosting on old MSI laptop 1 month ago:
Whatever you decide for your laptop, I’m a proponent of a barebones off-site setup if you’re trying for 3-2-1 backup or similar.
I use a raspberry pi 3 with a single HD (ZFS) retaining some number of daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. Daily rsync, everything over WireGuard+VPS (TailScale would work too).
- Comment on Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus? 2 months ago:
Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:
“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 2 months ago:
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I just wish we’d have neither inflation nor deflation.
Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today’s dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999 — cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.
(Macs are just an example since Apple doesn’t have a very extensive product list, so there’s only one “entry level” laptop to choose from. And yes it’s fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite — the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 2 months ago:
I am the Walrus?