Huh, that Iggy Pop sure doesn’t like shirts does he?
@danhon Hah, I did this very thing recently and have been meaning to blog about it.
In lieu of that post: Home Assistant + ESPHome + ESP8266 + VAC-to-VDC converter + reed switch inserted next to the doorbell striker electromagnet.
The result is both my wife and my phones go "ding dong" when the doorbell chimes
@danhon Heh, I look like I know because I did a bunch of stuff that didn't work, first. 😅
Like this nonsense attempt to measure current in the doorbell wire - which might be doable by someone who knows what they're doing, who wasn't me
@danhon Most of my complication came from not wanting to fully disrupt the existing 24VAC system in the house. Oh and the doorbell button is illuminated, so that means it's not just a simple button but effectively a variable resistor.
If you're just dealing with a non-illuminated button, that's maybe easy Arduino stuff. (He says knowing it never ends up easy)
A thought just now: "Who the hell is calling me at this hour?"
Wherein "this hour" is any hour within the 24-hour day / night cycle of a terrestrial day.
@astatide I'm always the bravest in interviewing when I don't need to be interviewing. Otherwise... it's a self-harm reduction exercise in seeking favorable outcomes. :blobsadleft:
@Macross What, is it a shootout but like at the opposite of high noon?
@astatide GPA? holy crap, that's a banner of a red flag right there.
But also like, yeah, gimme that red flag and I'll shamefully wear it like a toga if I have to make rent. (and hopefully make another plan from there)
Of course, these situation have never quite worked out well, so I wouldn't say mine has been the right choice when I've made it
@astatide (Not that this helps with your feeling despondent, I guess, other than that you have my what, sympathy? condolences? ugh)
Bad vibes at the Circle-K. Strange things were afoot, but they did not wend in a direction of whimsy and time travel adventure
@rafial Bogus, indeed.
@astatide Yeah, that's a hard balance, taking what might be open but bad fit and you're already looking for something else - versus holding out for the right fit. And yeah, all the waiting. Fuckin Kobayashi Maru shit right there.
And also yeah, GPA and similar metrics, all lazy biased ways to judge fit from the recruiting side IMO
@astatide Oh yeah and of course the bad fit is just trading sanity points for money points and ugh
reddit API mess
Oh boy, you sure know your AMA is going splendidly with comments like this
@astatide These are the thoughts which have me considering just how bad really would it be to wander off into the woods and fail at building a mud hut
re: reddit API mess
@ramsey Yeah, he's the CEO and that's his AMA thread
re: reddit API mess
@andybaio :oof:
@danhon @Adrian IIRC, that widget doesn't work with an illuminated doorbell button. I think I looked at that thing and ended up not going for it because of that. (i.e. it treats the button as a simple button to trip a relay to activate the physical doorbell, but supplies no power to the doorbell light)
@simon I don't understand why some folks love trains so much, but I'm really happy for them and hope to find stuff that makes me as happy 😁
@simon although, i will say this encounter of mine with a train on a bike ride was pretty neato https://hackers.town/@lmorchard/109452917268487025
@loresjoberg Also probably even less comprehensible after accessing the contents, if that's anything like some similar bags I have around here
So, I've acquired an android color e-ink tablet (BOOX Tab Ultra C) and am getting acquainted with it.
Early impressions: twice as heavy as I'd like. The UI is a little janky. None of the software enjoys encountering my handwriting. But overall, I think I'm really liking the screen, and can probably find ways to meet it half-way for entering info with the stylus.
I kinda yearn for Palm Graffiti on this thing, but I have found that a small floating Gboard sorta works in swipe mode as graffiti for whole words
I gotta say that Obsidian notes, comics, and PDFs work great on this - which are all the main reasons for which I got it.
The neat thing is that all these photos are with the front light turned off, just on a table near a window on an overcast day.
@cinja The screen here is not too bad. A little "pastel" (i.e. washed out) as they like to describe it, but it's rather adequate and looks pretty nice for comics
Most computers (and some people) tend to hate my handwriting, though. Still getting used to the stylus on this thing, but that's not the entire excuse. That said, the "AI" feature thinks my writing is line noise
There's a part of me who wants to learn some machine learning and see if I could train a model on the last 7 years of my handwritten journals.
Maybe impractical because I imagine that I'd need to, like, transcribe most of all of that myself before the machine got the idea. Still, it'd be great if I could convert all my scrawlings reliably into text.
Because I think my scrawlings are pretty internally-consistent, so I would think that a model could capture that with enough data
@madcodger So far, mostly it's that Obsidian runs and looks pretty and I can sync all the notes with my NAS via SyncThing. Not much in the way of BOOX specific features integrated that I've found yet, though
Reading some web dev articles about using WASM to speed up bits of JS - and I'm transported back to the 80s, when we'd write bits of 6502 assembly to speed up BASIC programs.
I am also reminded that one of my high school teachers absolutely hated this sort of small-caps handwriting I picked up after I took a class in drafting. It's morphed into kind of my own weird "small-caps but sometimes run together like cursive" style
US politics
Today in SMS spam
@spottyfox Have you seen Mythic Quest? I only saw the first season, but it's got a bit of that Silicon Valley vibe
You know when they're getting all indignant about "leaked" call recordings, they're antsy about the content of said recordings
(this is a subtoot of multiple situations right now :thinkspin:)
@andybaio Oh, this sounds delightful!