ben1040

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by ben1040 17d ago
I did exactly this with BirdNet-Go and my Unifi doorbell cam. Unifi exposes an RTSP feed for each camera so it was easy for the tool to just "listen" to the doorbell and start classifying. I have a spare e-ink display and my next
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by ben1040 21d ago
It's a bummer that while Google Wallet on Android phones supports Suica, they only offer the feature if the device was sold originally in Japan. Presumably they didn't want to pay Sony the licensing fees for the technology on non-
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by ben1040 2mo ago
This is unchanged from the upgrade program terms before. The phone is unlocked, but when you take delivery of the phone you have to activate it on a Big 3 carrier's postpaid plan.
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by ben1040 7mo ago
There are more consumables involved there beyond just reagents and a lot of it was/is proprietary. The machines all had their own consumable physical bits for sequencing as well and getting your hands on those would also be a blocker.
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by ben1040 7mo ago
Back in 1999 I joked that the ABI 3700 looked like a $300K mini fridge. Now you could actually get one on eBay and convert one for cheap.
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by ben1040 7mo ago
I worked in this space for over a decade. It's so weird to me to see the workhorse sequencing hardware like the ABI 37x/37xx series, 454, and Illumina machines now as literal museum pieces.
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by ben1040 8mo ago
I've been watching the Québécois version of Taskmaster with community-made subtitles and I love how the subtitle writers have included brief idiomatic explanations for the swearing that is constantly peppered into the dialogue.
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by ben1040 10mo ago
It's me, I'm too lazy to modify a keyboard. I came upon a spare Touch ID keyboard. I just got Command strips and adhered the whole keyboard to the underside of my desk. USB cable is clipped to the desk and goes to my dock. I&#x27
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by ben1040 10mo ago
Much of the early part of the Human Genome Project was done using gel based DNA sequencing machines that were controlled by Classic Macs. The rest of our shop was Solaris on SPARC/x86 and we had our own custom tool chain that crunched
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by ben1040 1y ago
I have a UniFi doorbell that I chose because it's self hosted and the video stays in my home. It also easily lets you get an RTSP stream of the camera feed. Earlier this spring we put a bird feeder outside the front door and it dawned
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by ben1040 1y ago
The 2 year contracts from the 2000s and early 2010s are back with a vengeance.
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by ben1040 1y ago
20+ years ago during undergrad my OO design class had us writing C++ on Solaris. We were told that unless it compiled and ran on Sun we'd get a zero. This was also before ewaste regulations came in and some engineering school departmen
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by ben1040 1y ago
When I graduated 20+ years ago I scoured trash rooms on campus before my card access got shut off. I paid probably six months of rent by taking what I found and selling it on ebay.
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by ben1040 2y ago
I stuck just the tip of my tongue on there, and it was so bitter that it was more of a sensation than just a taste. Enough that I reflexively pulled away.
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by ben1040 2y ago
Raise your hand if you tasted a Nintendo Switch cartridge because you read the plastic was infused with a bitterant to mitigate choking hazards.
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by ben1040 2y ago
>I'll never be able to read about us digitally unrolling fragile scrolls without it seemingly like otherworldly sci-fi technology. I similarly had my mind blown reading an article last week, about how sports & game card collecto
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by ben1040 2y ago
I had a Makerbot 2X in 2014 and it required constant janitoring every time I wanted to print. I built a Prusa MK4 this spring; it calibrated itself and printed a great looking piece right from the get-go. The difference is night and day.
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by ben1040 2y ago
The links on the page all go to Amazon. This page looks like AI generated SEO spam that's set up with the intent to generate Amazon affiliate leads.
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by ben1040 2y ago
30 years ago I was a teenager a friend of mine had a giant plot of empty land in his family, and so we'd go out there and do stupid teenager things things like playing with fireworks and building and shooting potato cannons. We'd
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by ben1040 2y ago
And they've been doing this for several years already, with Luminar hardware mounted on engineering vehicles with manufacturer plates. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-model-y-luminar-lid...
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by ben1040 2y ago
I flew some overseas trips on Delta 767s in the late 1990s that still had the tube headphones. I was pretty intrigued by the concept, you could hold your hand up to the tube holes in the arm rest and hear the music echo off your hand. Eith
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by ben1040 3y ago
I own one of these disks and quit using it when the news came out, expecting I should hang onto it to get money back for a recall. Didn't even occur to me I could just have brought it back to Costco all this time because of their extr
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by ben1040 3y ago
Just loved this quote from the Cooler Screen people: >When you think about it within the context of "I'm in front of an ice cream door and I want to buy," you have the ability to isolate the message to exactly what a consu
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by ben1040 3y ago
> Also NACS locks the cable on the car side while CCS locks on both sides. That means with CCS, a malfunctioning cable can strand your car. I'm just surprised they didn't consider when designing the standard that they're p
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by ben1040 3y ago
In the 1980s there was also LEGO/LOGO, a programmable interface to a line of Technic products, plus an expansion card and breakout box for the Apple II to wire it all up. There were motors, lights, and sensors you could program. One p
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by ben1040 3y ago
Mr. Munch.
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by ben1040 3y ago
In the intervening time between last Friday and today, it was ruled a suicide: https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/new-update-on-worker-...
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by ben1040 3y ago
I wondered what was up with them and actually found an interesting read about it on the way. https://www.wired.com/story/we-tried-vertus-web3-phone-it-sc... >“Vertu has changed hands lots of over the past decade, bu
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by ben1040 3y ago
Dropbox did it this way last week as well. The employees who were laid off were removed from work-related Slack channels but they had access to social channels and DMs so they could say goodbye.
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by ben1040 4y ago
During my bi-annual dentist visits they always mention the sealants on my teeth (maintained with the last touchup done when I was 16) and I'm sort of surprised they're largely intact. I'm 41 and haven't had a cavity sin

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