pascalo

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by pascalo 5y ago
I'm a Linux user on my own hardware and was just put onto win10 at my current gig. WSL has made this workable, really. Not the nightmare I expected. But the rest of windows still sucks. As for apple stuff, I used to use Macs for a deca
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by pascalo 6y ago
Came on here to say it's exactly what I use cycling for. 5 hours on the bike means 5 hours not looking at my phone or laptop. Just turn the legs over and let your mind wander or stare into the landscape (or deal with traffic, which suc
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by pascalo 6y ago
Me too. The most infuriating bit is the settings that require a login. That should never be needed.
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by pascalo 6y ago
Yes please to the API bit. I'm maintaining the "unofficial Sonos controller for Linux" and it'd help a great deal if I didn't have to Wireshark the protocol all the time. https://github.com/pascalopi
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by pascalo 6y ago
Freeze and shatter? Car jack?
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by pascalo 6y ago
For vaccines, the clinical trials are basically customer feedback collection via closed alpha and beta releases, no?
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by pascalo 7y ago
I use use a git-like cli binary to sync my google drive ( https://github.com/odeke-em/drive ). Really like it, and there's no weird background process or automatic syncing going on that's chewing up resources.
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by pascalo 8y ago
That shadow of the beast track ... oh man!
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by pascalo 8y ago
I think you're spot on with that observation. One reason for me to never ever consider going back to Germany.
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by pascalo 8y ago
I seriously wonder how that would work in practice? "Hey Joey, will you work on the fizzibizzi feature that does xyz?" I can't, I have other stuff to do? "What kind of stuff? This feature is the top priority for the whol
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by pascalo 8y ago
He was a push over on metadata retention, why would it have been different this time? What a joke!
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by pascalo 8y ago
I don't think the earlier Sonos models even had a microphone built in?
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by pascalo 8y ago
Also, I forgot to say: There is no way I'd put an Amazon alexa or similar device in my home, period. I take a "speaker company" instead any day.
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by pascalo 8y ago
I've got lots of Sonos speakers, one in every room of my house. Before Soundcloud was an option I wrote my own SMAPI service to get that going for myself. Then, when I switched from Mac to Linux I created my own client app [1] to contr
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by pascalo 9y ago
The really big 2016 blackout in SA also wasn't caused by wind or solar energy, but that doesn't mean that stabilising the network isn't something that won't be required if the energy production develops more towards rene
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by pascalo 9y ago
I should qualify why: The South Australian power network, due to its increasing reliance on Wind and Solar, struggles with fluctuations in the network. The battery will aid to stabilise the grid in peak demand times.
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by pascalo 9y ago
When it comes to power generation, tried and tested also means to rely on something like gas or coal fired power plant. Do not want.
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by pascalo 9y ago
This is certainly a step in the right direction for South Australia.
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by pascalo 9y ago
Same in Adelaide, Australia
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by pascalo 9y ago
Just when I was doing my pull request.
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by pascalo 9y ago
+1 ... plusa nice command to clean out unused kernels
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by pascalo 10y ago
Got the previous generation (9333) running Ubuntu 16.04, no troubles.
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by pascalo 10y ago
Exactly my use case[1]. Switching from React was trivial, and the performance increase was really noticeable. [1] http://pascalopitz.github.io/unoffical-sonos-controller-for-...
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by pascalo 10y ago
Maintainer here. I'd really love some feedback, but even better would be people contributing, especially if you know about Sonos and the way it deals with Services, auth tokens etc.
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Show HN: Unofficial Sonos Controller for Linux(github.com)
8 points by pascalo 10y ago|1 comments
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by pascalo 10y ago
Berlin has had a nasty culture in its labour market for a long time. People working low paying or even unpaid internships to get a foot in the door would get sucked dry by digital and advertising agencies. I knew people in their mid 30s sti
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by pascalo 10y ago
In German law there is. In Australia unfair dismissal can only be claimed after 6 months of employment. Not really sure about the UK, but I am fairly sure it's not just cut throat firing like in the US, and you can claim unfair dismiss
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by pascalo 10y ago
To provide an outside US perspective, it's not that easy to fire someone in Germany, the UK or Australia. Once you're past the probation period, you'd probably have to get one or multiple sorts of negative reviews and written
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by pascalo 10y ago
The way I read it he used the age and gender info in his comment to illustrate that it would be harder for the person to get a job. Hence it being extra cruel to use the weird lingo and act like it wouldn't be hard for her.
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by pascalo 10y ago
Would you say companies the size of Amazon, Netflix and HubSpot still fall into that bucket? To me they are large tech companies that have kept some sort of startup canon in place, and not in a good way.

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