mrb

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by mrb 4d ago
As usual, the key to explain the discrepancy between LG's claims and the paper 2024 is in the wording. Read carefully: LG claims it " does not collect screenshots, screen recordings, video recordings, voice recordings, or other au
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by mrb 16d ago
We all understand your point: you believe the feature is unnecessary in the first place, without any understanding of my particular situation why I actually need it. Regardless, this is irrelevant to the point of this entire thread, which i
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by mrb 16d ago
You still fail my challenge: design a wireless doorbell that has a user-configurable chime (eg. MP3 file provided by user), in a way that uses less software or less hardware than mine. You couldn't. Then I want you to justify why comme
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by mrb 16d ago
You completely missed the part that the chime needs to be user-configurable, ie. play a custom MP3 file. You don't provide that.
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by mrb 16d ago
" The sound is not customizable " This is EXACTLY the problem! Try finding one that I can customize with my own chime and you will only find expensive, unreliable, over engineered stuff.
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by mrb 17d ago
It would be over engineered if one could design a system providing similar functionality using less hardware and less software. I challenge you to design a wireless doorbell that has a user-configurable chime, in a way that uses less softwa
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by mrb 17d ago
That is exactly over engineered crap I want to avoid. I don't want my doorbell to depend on networking or a full blown Linux stack.
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by mrb 17d ago
The requirements are not over engineered. They are what they are. Wireless and configurable chime. They are fixed parameters. But my implementation of these requirements is absolutely not over engineered. I argue it is the simplest and most
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by mrb 17d ago
" You could have bought a bell.. " No because similar commercial products were either out of stock or not compatible with my AC voltage.
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by mrb 17d ago
I am super sensitive to over engineering. For my doorbell I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell sound. You would be surprised that 99% of the solutions out there are complete over engineered stacks that depend on wifi devices,
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by mrb 2mo ago
Oh! There seems to be a caldera around this boiling river: https://i.imgur.com/VCgS4Xt.jpeg
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by mrb 2mo ago
It's located here for those wondering: https://maps.app.goo.gl/js7miFSkRBa86t15A?g_st=ac If you click on the little resorts/hotels/towns around the area, there are many pictures and videos of steam rising of
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by mrb 2mo ago
Don't dismiss the OP so abruptly. IMHO he is convincingly making the case that there is likely a business opportunity for something between a $120k off-the-shelf system and $1.6k in DIY hardware.
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by mrb 2mo ago
Or Ireland can import electricity from France TODAY as we export on average 10 GW continuously, and most of it is already generated by nuclear :-)
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by mrb 2mo ago
Ah the old "country's worth of electricity" comparison... Keep in mind that Ireland's entire electricity needs could be covered by a one nuclear power plant (3.8 GW with 4 reactors). IOW, you could offload all Irish data
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by mrb 4mo ago
Yes Wero and Zelle are similar: real-time payment systems, where money is sent directly from bank account to bank account, and recipients are looked up with a convenient ID (a phone number, or an email).
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by mrb 4mo ago
TBH your problem sounds like a hardware issue. Maybe the PC's new location is warmer due to a more enclosed space, triggering more unrecoverable hardware faults.
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by mrb 5mo ago
Example of bugs, posted last month on HN: https://www.bugsappleloves.com/
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by mrb 5mo ago
As a French speaker, I looked up French sources and found https://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/st... - here is a snippet translated to English below. But many more references can be found by g
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Anduril Flashlight Firmware and FSM Flashlight UI Toolkit(github.com)
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by mrb 6mo ago
I live in Paris and bike nearly every day, with my electric bike, or sometimes the city's velib rental bikes, sometimes private rental bikes (Uber, Dott, Voi). I love the drastic push to add more bike lanes, and reduce car lanes. I d
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by mrb 6mo ago
Let's play a fun prediction: I ask HN readers what will be the page size of NYTimes.com in 10 years? Or 20 years? Want to bet 100 MB? 1 GB? Is it unthinkable? 20 years ago, a 49 MB home page was unthinkable .
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by mrb 6mo ago
Yup. I typed my French ZIP code ( code postal ) and this guessed a US city... But the author has a point. Combine it with some approximate country-level geolocate of the web client and this would work perfectly 99% of the time modulo edge c
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by mrb 7mo ago
"Someone who hated computers so much that she had the secretary print out her emails so she could read them was interrogated for hours about hacking into Agency networks [...] there was often a gross mismatch between a person and the
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by mrb 7mo ago
Mistral's Le Chat also fails spectacularly. Although interestingly it assumes that the "walk" option means you are carrying washing supplies back and forth in order to wash the car while it's parked at home. I wonder if
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by mrb 7mo ago
"caved to the blue bubble pressure" As an Android user, I truly don't understand this "pressure". I exchange SMS/MMS with various users, some Android, some iPhone. I am in group chats with both Android and iP
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by mrb 7mo ago
"a property of surfaces" You can conceptualize Rayleigh scattering exactly like you did so it doesn't conflict with my explanation: as light hits the "surface" of nitrogen and oxygen molecules, it "reflects&q
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by mrb 7mo ago
Ok! Ping me when you get it updated - I am very curious :-)
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by mrb 7mo ago
I suppose our hobby is related to the hobby of ground-to-ground long-distance observation. Except we don't perform the actual observation, just the math of where it is theoretically feasible :-) In my case, years ago, I did exactly the
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by mrb 7mo ago
Well this is just a personal website, so it is has much (or as little) information as the owner wants to put up. The legal notice page (in German) tells you it's the site of a certain Dr. Ulrich Deuschle: https://www.udeusch

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