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by randomstring 6y ago
Thanks! In the close up it's much more clearly a dog.
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by randomstring 6y ago
Speaking of the artwork. To the right of the chicken is what looks like a horse. Or is it a dog? Maybe it's meant to be a cow? No mention of horse meat in the article, although they do mention beef. I think I answered my own question w
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by randomstring 6y ago
Pandora's suggestion algorithm is much better than Spotify's. What you describe is what I used to do with Pandora. I migrated to Spotify several years ago. Spotify generates some decent genre based playlists based on my listening
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by randomstring 6y ago
I rode the majority of the route through Washington in 2018. Parts were clogged with mud and another section blocked with a wall of tumbleweed at the time. I had to cross the Columbia River on I-5 at 4:30am to avoid traffic as there is no s
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by randomstring 6y ago
Reminds me of this post comparing the CPU and RAM of the Apollo 11 flight computer with modern USB chargers. (spoiler alert: the USB charger wins) https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-charge... Hacker News
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by randomstring 6y ago
I see support for Debian and Ubuntu ( https://support.1password.com/cs/getting-started-linux/ ), but I don't see anything about Raspbian or running on the Rasberry Pi. Hopefully Pi support isn't far behind
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by randomstring 6y ago
What luck, I chose today to install a new piece of network gear. I thought I had managed to totally FUBAR my network. DNS was failing, "ping 1.1" (my current goto test "Am I connected to the internet?" as it requires the
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by randomstring 6y ago
Uhg. Site is down at the moment. Even these suggested searches are returning an error page. Top Tip to future search engine builders: cache, cache, cache. Especially the canned searches on you press releases and HackerNews posts.
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by randomstring 6y ago
Cuil did that, just in a surrealist way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory
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by randomstring 6y ago
My last company had something like that and included response time percentiles (50th, 90th, 95th, 99th) and we had these values graphed and displayed on a big screen in our office. Along with a ton of other performance stats: queries per se
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by randomstring 6y ago
Yahoo isn't a search engine and hasn't been for years. Just check the "Powered by Bing™" at the bottom of every search result. That leaves just two search engines, Google and Bing. Not counting non-US search engines that
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by randomstring 6y ago
Owntracks is my backup plan. Integration with Home Assistant is a must. There's a little backstory to choosing Life360. The clock was a surprise for my wife and I needed to get her to willingly install and run a tracking app on her p
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by randomstring 6y ago
Cool! I have a collection of related projects here: https://github.com/randomstring/WeasleyClock#related-project... I hadn't seen yours, I'll add it to the list.
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by randomstring 6y ago
I purchased the artwork from Minalima, https://minalima.com/product/the-weasley-family-clock/ and used that. It's officially licensed artwork. I consider the background a feature as it is intended to also be
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by randomstring 6y ago
You might not like that the clock shows you to be in "Mortal Peril" when you travel over 75mph. :)
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by randomstring 6y ago
As mentioned in other comments here and I discuss in my build log. There's Apple's Find My Phone service, but this is iOS only. The authentication API for Find My Phone changed while I was working on the project and Life360 has re
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by randomstring 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from on this. I do not think the the service itself is a source of emotional abuse, it's how it's used. Can it be used to abuse privacy? Absolutely. I've seen other parents who have haras
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by randomstring 6y ago
It was a year from idea to finished, installed clock. 1000 hours? Maybe. Yes, if you include time spent worrying about how to make the clock hands look good and stay on.
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by randomstring 6y ago
Project creator here.. AMA. The hands don't just show the person's state. When "In Transit" the hand position in the sector shows their distance from home. At a glance you can tell if they are close to home, in town, or
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Build Your Own Weasley Location Clock(github.com)
130 points by randomstring 6y ago|46 comments
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by randomstring 6y ago
I'm a long time Strava user, I have a four digit user id. Except for the year I won a free subscription for a year, I've always paid for the service. I'm a data nerd and cyclist. This change in Strava's policy makes me v
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by randomstring 6y ago
I loved Salinger's books when I was a teenager in the 80s. I just don't think his work is relevant today. The major themes are about how everyone else is a conformist and a phony. Both ideas have been turned inside out since Sal
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by randomstring 6y ago
Check out _The Eden Express_ by Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt Vonnegut). It is a memoir documenting the author's own psychotic breakdown. Reading this gave me insight into the human mind and what it's like when it goes off the rails.
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by randomstring 6y ago
Emacs elisp hooks for controlling your sex toys? Yep. The examples are priceless. For instance tying completion of Org-Mode tasks to various vibration settings to "provide reward for task completion or motivation to get it done."
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by randomstring 6y ago
I worked at Sun in the late 90s. I Never used pizza tool, but I did order burritos with the command line burrito tool. It would fax your order to Burrito Real in Mountain View. By the time you arrived at Burrito Real, your burrito would be
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by randomstring 6y ago
I recommend the meta-cognition course: Learning how to Learn. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn The primary instructor, Dr. Barbara Oakley, wrote the book, _A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math a
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by randomstring 7y ago
To be fair, my HS exposure was in honors Math, and it was very limited exposure: matrixes, determinants, and how to represent systems of equations.
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by randomstring 7y ago
I wish I had this when I was learning Linear Algebra. When it was taught to me, both in HS and College, there was not a word of motivation about why we were juggling numbers around in boxes. It was tedious and had seemed to have no connecti
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by randomstring 7y ago
This is very close to what I do, with a few modifications. Biggest difference is that I use Emacs Org-mode ( https://orgmode.org/ ) which automates things like date strings, building a daily agenda, adding due dates, and the
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by randomstring 7y ago
Back in the 1990s UIUC had a virtual Archaeology lab running on PLATO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) You had to pick where to dig test pits and how deep to dig in order to find artifacts. If you

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