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anotherandrew

@ anotherandrew @mbin.mixdown.ca

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@anotherandrew, testing my own mbin instance for a while before committing to moving over permanently.

Embedded systems engineer for hire. Hardware, software, HDL. When not working I'm devoting the rest of my time to my kids and their curiosities. GPG EAF7ACB0

  • 6G mobile could divide the world

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  • this is just personal experience but IIRC I seemed to have much better power consumption with 4G/LTE over anything before. 5G/5G+ is good too but that is likely with recent buildout in my area. Weak signal support I have a hard time gauging as the phone bounces back to LTE where I seem to still have good 5G service.

  • YSK: You can continue to access most subscription services (even trials) after cancelation until the next billing cycle

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  • every subscription I’ve had through Apple ends at the end of the billing cycle, not immediately.

    and yes if you contact them right away they’ll refund you. had this happen a couple of times when I was a day off on when I thought the subscription was renewing.

  • Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

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  • you're not treating him as a dumbass but he sure is acting like one. And I say this as a fairly big apple fanboy with a macbook pro, ipad and iphone. :-)

  • World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing, Device translates thought to speech in real time.

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  • it's 256 electrodes, yes, but the article doesn't say whether those electrodes are simple digital signals or if each one has some analog range they resolve. Even if it's 100% binary, the tresholding (what level of neural activity is considered a 1 or 0) could be adaptive.

    This is amazing technology. I can't imagine how it would feel to have your ability to speak and even sing back after losing it.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • I think mass media reporting makes it feel that way but it’s been my experience that it’s not true. I think the average American is doing their best to be a good person with what they’ve got. Their electoral system is broken in a similar way to the Canadian one: boiling down to a binary, two party decision that has no basis in reality, and a media that encourages extreme, polarizing positions.

    Even this last election doesn’t (in my mind) reflect the average American. Less than half the eligible population cast their ballots. That’s a separate issue (voter disillusionment) but to me it means that those who did vote aren’t actually representative of what the average American wants or feels.

    This all could be me being completely out of touch with the average American, but I don’t think it is based on my daily in-person interactions with them.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • This is exactly how I feel. it’s like somewhere after 2000 people just gave up being civil, not just in politics although it feels like that’s where it’s become not just acceptable but almost required to demonize your opponent.

    I’m not quite old enough to really have first hand experience or interest in politics before 1995 or so, but a lot of people seem to mark the time around Reagan as an inflection point.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • Calling anyone who doesn’t immediately agree with you a nazi doesn’t make it so. That’s just a weak excuse for not having to think critically, which is the very definition of an echo chamber. A left-leaning Canadian is a “left leaning nazi”? Are you calling all Canadians nazis? Did it make you feel brave to do that? Did your internet friends congratulate you on standing up to someone who doesn’t think just like you do? Give your fucking head a shake and go touch grass. What a joke.

    The internet is what you make it to be. I use it for information exchange; it appears you use it to feel safe, safe enough to make ridiculous accusations and pithy remarks to people you not only know nothing about, but don’t care to.

    Like I said: enjoy your echo chamber.

  • An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"

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  • I don’t know about you but if I’m on the ground (protesting or not) the last thing I want is a helicopter coming down anywhere near me.

  • What’s your favorite food of all time?

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  • a good old fashioned German rouladen. Gotta dice up the bacon though, no cheating.

    After that, maybe Romanian sarmale, but only my wife’s. I’ve had dozens of variants, including what my wife says is superior, but it’s hers that’s the best.

    After that, a specific Mici recipe.

    Dammit, now I’m really hungry!

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • you could be right; I’m not great with keeping up with the right terminology. I mentioned in another reply that what I’m really after is finding the quieter “middle 80%”; the problem is that the nutters on either end get all the media attention and ratchet up the rhetoric because they’ll do anything to keep the attention.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • I agree: it’s extremely difficult to find what I would call the “middle 80%” since the only people who tend to get all the media attention are the extremes at both ends who are hell bent on maintaining their airtime with ever more insane stunts.

    I don’t understand how people can vote for someone who did such a piss poor job his first time around, but then again my province elected a drug dealer who ran with literally no election platform whatsoever and won, twice. It boggles the mind. Populism is a cancer.

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  • Your original comment still shows up for me, but I struggle to understand how weak your positions must be if you simply cannot stand the thought anyone not being in total agreement with you to the point of dismissing complete strangers as being weirdos and telling them to fuck off.

    I mean seriously, how do you function in society with this kind of mentality?

    I’m definitely not conservative in the sense you must think I am, and even at its noisiest there is still only one voice in my head. Do you jump to conspiracy being the only possible explanation for everything you don’t agree with or is it just me which makes you feel this way?

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • 🙄

    Enjoy your echo chamber.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • None of the above really; I'd consider those more far-right and not at all interested in. I'm talking about people aligned with ideas like smaller government, government accountability (particularly with respect to spending), the combination of personal responsibility and freedoms, etc.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • Not OP, but interested in right-leaning communities that aren't pants-on-head insane, just like I am interested in left-leaning communities with a similar constraint. /r/conservative generally isn't bad (I find they tend to be a LOT more level headed than /r/politics, for example) but things like /r/the_donald or whatever it was called is way too out there for my tastes.

  • Actually right leaning communities?

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  • the tolerant left, right here on display for everyone.

    I actually (as a left leaning Canadian) seek out conservative/libertarian/right-leaning news sources because I believe it's important to take in a wide variety of information, especially from sources which I might not agree with. There is a lot you can learn from anyone not on the extremes.

  • Is there an easy way to remotely monitor another person's pulse?

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  • It's funny; I recommend Apple stuff for practically all the same reasons you don't. The walled garden pisses me off sometimes but when I talk to friends using Android stuff and their gripes it really reinforces that I made the right decision for my family, just as you have for yours. What I find even more amusing is that I design embedded linux devices, all my servers/vms are Linux based and I really enjoy using Linux... just not supporting/using it as a primary UI.

    Not shitting on your choices at all, I know that many people really like/enjoy the Android side as much as I do the Apple side. Chacun à son goût and all that.

  • Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc

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  • Interesting that OpenProject is actually a fork of Redmine -- I've got an old Redmine instance I've been using on and off for well over a decade and now I am going to see how tricky it is to migrate over. It sounds like it used to be straightforward but I don't know if that's still the case.

    Thanks for the lead!

  • Devices continuously dropping off my ZigBee network

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  • I don't know if that's the (entire) story -- the mesh is supposed to occasionally reroute based on the link quality of the individual nodes and the repeaters they can see.

  • Devices continuously dropping off my ZigBee network

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  • I've got a fairly extensive Zigbee network (32 devices) - using a CC2652 USB stick hooked up to an rpi with socat connecting that to my HA VM. I have probably a dozen wired devices (in-wall switches, plug-in outlets, etc.) scattered between the two floors and even the wired devices occasionally fall off the mesh, while most of them (and about 50% of the wireless devices) are pretty robustly connected. I've found no real link between LQI/RSSI and a device's stablity, nor have I found any real link between manufacturer and stability. Sonoff, Aqara, ewelink, lumi. It's frustrating, because some of the devices that fail to stay connected are within 3 meters of either the hub or a wired device and report great signal strength. I just don't feel that Zigbee is all that awesome for a robust low power network.

    When I'm at the house next I might try moving the entire network to a different channel, as tedious as that is going to be.