bipson

Neat, had to reread how GP defined this "App" and it actually fits.

Although this App simply snaps the license plate and does a lookup and I think what GP meant was a "random snap of the car itself, doing some machine learning magic... But that's possibly my bias towards hn comments :)

This is actually much more helpful, although I think not every country allows for has easy access to the license-plate data for vehicle type lookup...

But not during the night...

I strangely acquired this habit at home shortly after my first son was born for some conversations...

"I need to do this now" became "Daddy needs to do this now"... It is weird, and entirely unnecessary, kids acquire understanding of "I" and "you" quite fast. It just came and never went. I think I was trying to be less ambiguous when conversations did not involve only me and the kids, but also Mum and others, or when I somehow want to emphasize the context and my role (?) I have no idea and it is fading, only a lot of company present might trigger it - or recounting stories to others.

But maybe I just never realized how weird it is - I would raise both eyebrows if a colleague at work would talk like that in a "normal" context.

And experts are pretty sure by now that it will.

Also NL, DK and the London area are already putting drastic measures up. They are not doing this just for fun.

No country on earth has vaccinated children under 5.

SA allegedly has had a huge amount of hospitalized children under 10 in the past weeks.

This alone can cause havoc. And suffering for the affected (incl. health workers and parents).

Incidence in UK over the last 12 months is not comparable to large parts of Europe.

Quite astonishing how you just "confirmed" how my premise is wrong without reading what I wrote in the first place

And this means... ?

Infection also leads to immunization.

Both GB and SA had considerably higher incidence numbers over the last 12 months than most of the EU, with GB running a very successful vaccination program.

Particularly in SA researches estimate that almost anyone has had one or more infections in the last 24 months.

All this talk about "mild" cases with Omicron are failing to grasp the whole situation at two very important corners:

- countries affected so far have excellent immunization rates, i.e. if I take these populations as a reference, I'm just checking how immunized people are affected. Not every country has had either a lot of cases or large/successful immunization programs

- if the transmission rate in South Afrika and GB is any indication (reminder, both have quite good immunization rates), there will still be enough severe cases, because there will be just an unbelievable amount of overall cases in a very short timeframe and even with Omicron and a well immunized population, some remaining x% will land in the hospital.

I would argue that at the rate Omicron currently growing in GB, NL, DK, NO, etc. this thing will go on a rampage all over Europe. The amount of spread virus is so much not comparable to Delta getting to populations that were so far better protected, i.e. child care, elderly care, etc.

Countries like Germany and Austria are seriously in for a ride. Yes, I'm quite pessimistic here and I really hope I am wrong.

Came here to say this.

I even see the mindset spreading to other activities, like writing an abstract, paper, proposal or preparing slides:

I regularly (more often than not) see students using their supervisors as "CI-chain", submitting iterations with lots of stupid errors, half-baked sentences, unclean structure... because they learned to hit CTRL-b and see what comes back.

Of course there are reasons to talk about half-baked ideas, but if your task is writing a proposal or a section, you should at least be happy with what you wrote before you send it to the Prof, you're wasting his time.

But I also want to say that CI, unit tests and quick iterations are still helpful, even if you know how to approach a problem (i.e. think, research, draft, test, revise, etc.)

I guess it doesn't serve a purpose.

Considering that these are developer tools, *anomaly-variants could be considered "milder" forms of the *anopia-variants, and further come in various degrees.

Further, people with the *anomaly variants can have severe headaches with certain color-schemes, and the best thing to avoid any misunderstandings, is to check for "safe-for-anopia", or/or use a scheme that avoids these altogether, which will also serve everyone on the *anomaly-spectrum.

But that's just my speculation.

We had handymen spraying silicone spray all over our (wooden) floor and furniture, because "it helps sliding in the rubber seal" on the doors and windows... "it might be a little slippery, but it will go away in the next days - and don't worry, we take care that nothing spills".

It was everywhere after my MIL wiped the whole house down. That spray was strictly not approved for indoor use, and it did not go away ever. My mother finally found a cleaning product that seemed to help, but this was a huge PITA for months and we were so mad. We thought about redoing all wooden floors for ~7k € (in a rented place after all).

I was also angry at me, because I know that several larger production facilities have strictly banned silicone based products from their premises, because it will contaminate everything it touches (and everything that thing touches) for the further production steps, e.g. painting. You will never ever get that product off these surfaces again, and it will continue to contaminate until you throw everything in the bin.

All the professionals we talked to were convinced that they know no way to get rid of silicone on surfaces (especially indoors in living quarters with small kids present), and sanding the floor down would probably just spread it - cross-contaminating the surfaces again.

There are uses for silicone spray (bicycle maintenance, outdoors, cars, etc.), and I would have one at home for these cases - but that whole product line is strictly forbidden at our home forever.

Don't over-interpret:

It is just way easier the way we are built, kids learn climbing stairs (and other things) way before they can safely walk stairs downwards. The smarter ones go backwards.

Standing on a step and stepping down is just ... complicated ... and requires considerably more body control.

The risk of toppling forwards and falling down the stairs (or the couch) is considerably higher than "stumbling the stairs upwards".

Great, that sounds like a perfect pitch talk discourage anyone from calling such a number or talking to someone about a difficult time in their life.

I really hope you are very wrong about what you wrote, otherwise you live in a really cold and frightening place. There sure is a hotline where you can just talk to someone, without losing your job, right? right...?

Wihtout any guarantees:

You could try skipping a lunch or only eating half of what you usually eat.

I myself tend to eat a lot more than I actually need to. A full stomach will actually drain your batteries for a few hours.

While intermittent fasting (the way I did it - 2/5) was nothing I would do for a regular work week, skipping a lunch once a while or eating just enough to not get really hungry gives me an incredible boost.

Hm, Foosball on the other hand is also a widespread word for table football...

Handegg

Hmm, fair point.

But just as much as you consider an "expectation that a user MUST do something for an open source project" is a tired point, I consider the endless ranting by entitled FOSS users an obnoxious trend.

And btw. I never said something about "must", I asked why not choosing - OK, maybe strongly suggesting - another option.

Maybe you took my question the wrong way, but (maybe just as much misguided) I took the "opinion"/"discussion" not as opinion, but for the lack of any helpful suggestion as merely a rant.

I was raised not to needlessly complain about free things, without considering to take things into my own hands.

And even if you don't know how to code, suggestions and discussions are better had in an issue tracker, right? Otherwise, what's the point?

If one is not a user, and considers something else to be better, why voice such a strong opinion?

The first thing I really like about syncthing is that it does what it is supposed to do very well (besides very seldom glitches), while not being dropbox, nextcloud, owncloud, etc. but p2p and entirely independent of any external tools/devices/etc.

The second thing I like is that it is a successful FOSS project, meaning it works and is being regularly and often improved by its users.

Your comment, as helpful as you may feel it is, is contradictory to my second - very strong - feeling.

I really think to UI works quite good, and by god, if a better solution is so obvious to you, why haven't you proposed it yet, or - god forbid - made a merge/pull request??

We hit this (what seems to be a) paradoxon in a research project a few years ago, where we modelled production facilities that needed heat and cold at the same time (industrial bakery producing freezed goods, different pipes).

Since our goal was the optimization of energy flows, being able to use e.g. energy recovery of "waste heat", we could easily get paradoxical results, when counting with "hot" and "cold' energies.

The thing is, any medium can potentially carry energy (and in fact does), but if it is "usable" to you, depends on the difference to the environment you want to use it in/against.

400° hot oil? Net plus J in an oven, but net minus J for a chiller.

Yet, generating a certain amount of that hot oil took x Joule. Same goes for cold water or saline solution.

I think the plaintiff's argument was actually very fitting.

Mine is still not technical though.

Still not "sustainable".

And not really cheap either.

Oh, they do.

Concrete has great thermodynamic properties for living comfort. It cools at day, warms at night, transfers from cold parts of the house to hot ones, etc.

It is there on purpose (and not too difficult to drill into with a "Bohrhammer", rotary drill(?), i.e. the ones with SDS(+)).

Actually, the brick-walls we have (hollow bricks with flimsy thin walls) were harder for me to figure out. They need really careful drilling with the right tools, otherwise the brick shatters and nothing will take grip.

Even at organizations that have considerably smaller networks than Google, Amazon, Facebook and Co there are just seemingly insurmountable numbers of "small" problems that discourage all the involved parties to adopt.

We had IPv6 at our research area 10 years ago. Admins changed, and it was wind down bit by bit, because "it made problems". Not only that, I learned that the the general view over all of the admin-staff in our organization (a larger "Technical university" in Europe) agreed that IPv6 "makes problems" and nobody wants it.

Change is painful...? It is a shame, but what can you do?

Oh, you got me wrong there. I do the same. Wireguard's the reason why I run OpenWRT.

(Although I'm hesitant to put a pihole up there too, it would not be the 'official' pihole or maybe in a container, both don't seem optimal).

But what I meant is: From a practical standpoint, on a daily basis, besides your subjective feeling, nobody else notices a difference if your router has Vim or not - as long as it works. And any decent router nowadays usually works.

And I think one should realize that this is tinkering for the tinkering's own sake. There are no objective benefits[*] if you ask an outsider, e.g. your partner.

And now I have to manually keep my router up to date, against all possible bugs in numerous open source packages. In 2021 at least security updates should be automatic for OSS- period.

[*] (Repeating:) UNLESS you have some specific requirements, e.g. VPN, multiple uplinks, specific software due to specific use cases, etc. In these cases OpenWRT/Tomato etc. are an somewhat easier and cheaper way to get your own stack running, compared to setting up a full-fledged OTS x86 box with Linux or BSD, even pfSense is more work and more expensive I would argue, where the benefits over OpenWRT are even less tangible.

For starters, I don't think you will get OPNsense, pfSense or the likes running on OTS router hardware. So, if this is what you intend, there is not much choice.

Then it depends on your requirements. If your homelab lands in the area of 95% of the typical use cases, you will be very fine with OpenWrt or Tomato, or actually even most original firmware. Unless you bought something that is ridden with bugs and will not get updates, there are most certainly no noticeable benefits of running an alternative firmware. (Things like bufferbloat come to mind, I prefer control over my buffers, but good routers firmwares also do this quite reasonably).

Another difference: getting OPNsense/pfSense running (and well maintained) will require considerably more time and effort, than OpenWrt or Tomato.

Actually, for most soho/home users I would recommend a FritzBox. They are really packed with features, are well updated, zero hassle. Unless you really, really need something more exotic, they will save you lots of time and money. Also: automatic updates (configurable).

There is also MikroTik. Slightly more expensive than FritzBox, also packed, but slightly different audience (larger networks, less "user-friendly"...).

Disclaimer: I have a FritzBox running PPPoE passthrough to an OpenWRT router running on a NanoPi 2RS dialing in over PPPoE, with a MikroTik CRS112 behind that running only as a switch.

I have my reasons for that setup, but the time and money I wasted on that setup is really difficult to justify to an outsider (and sometimes to myself). The FritzBox worked really, really well.

Hm, not really.

There are several reasons why you might have involuntarily diluted pupils, e.g. arousal, i.e. triggering a entirely natural response to a stimulus, even if it the stimulus is aehm "imaginary"/a thought (thinking about the sun).

This is called indirect control in the posted article.

Having voluntary control over your pupils is something entirely different, and just because you have dilated your pupils "by accident" doesn't mean your short of controlling them.

Yes, exactly! So why should I have a tool modify my home, just because you prefer it that way?

Not in a Velomobile. Actually, you need a fan for forced ventilation.

Aehm, no? After all, this is my "home", quite literally.

Thank god they swiftly banned scooters from the sidewalk in Austria. And enforced reasonable speed limits as well.

Right after Lyft, Lime and whatnot started to literally litter the sidewalks of Vienna with their (almost free) electric scooters (mind you, these sidewalks are almost always full of people), you were constantly almost run over by some Schmuck with headphones on and an arrogant look on their face, screaming "This is the future you peasants, now get out of my way..."