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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

(...I think you may have gotten whooshed...)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's missing the text, "...then the Planck X would be..." for the first two.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't think this is the black and white issue that the headline suggests.

Homeless advocates appear to be on board with this, at any rate: https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds

It sounds like the "more beds" campaign promise was somewhat misguided, as slapping a bandaid on homelessness isn't a fix; more beds is, to an extent, just for show. Hopefully we'll be able to get actual, research-based solutions to homelessness here.

I'm not super optimistic, but changing course on a campaign promise because the experts and advocates say your current plan is bad shouldn't be criticized out of hand IMHO.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550465000/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-rock-solid-sewer-blockage

You're not just "sticking it to the man" when you do this though


you're being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

Alligator Alcatraz ~~detainees allege~~ proponents boast about inhumane conditions at immigration detention center

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 3 weeks ago

And a big plastics shill, unfortunately.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time

Are you referring to getting, I dunno, yogurt in places outside the digestive tract?

My understanding was that gut bacteria play a pretty crucial (beneficial) role in overall health, not to mention the whole gut-brain stuff.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Pretty sure those "horrible little scalawags" play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or just a San Francisco resident


these ads are everywhere on BART (+Muni I guess) right now. (As far as ads go, they're pretty good I guess


and no, I don't even use them, much less work for them.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 3 weeks ago

For back-of-the-envelope or mental calculations, pi is often 3 or 10^(1/2).

The latter is better than 1% accurate, and has nice properties when doing order-of-magnitude/log space calculations in base 10.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago

ZigBee router thing:

I've been happy with the SMLIGHT SLZB-06M. You can easily flash firmware, and it has PoE which was important for me. I believe it also supports Thread, but I haven't tried this yet (and I'm not sure if it supports it at the same time as Zigbee).

Zigbee smart plugs from Third Reality have been pretty solid in my experience, and they report power usage.

For circuit breaker level monitoring, I have an Emporia Vue2. I have it running esphome, completely local


unfortunately this requires some simple soldering and flashing, so it's not turnkey. But it's been rock solid ever since flashing it. (Process is well documented online.)

I've had decent luck with cheap wifi Matter bulbs, but provisioning them is finicky, and sometimes they just crap out and need to be power cycled; Zigbee bulbs (e.g., Ikea) have generally been reliable, though sometimes I've had difficulty pairing them initially. After power cycling a Matter WiFi bulb, it takes a while for it to respond to Home Assistant; Zigbee bulbs generally respond as soon as you power them on.

I have a wired smart light switch from TP-Link/Kasa (KS205), and it's been completely hassle free (and totally local


Matter over wifi). The Kasa smart switch dongles I have work flawlessly but need proprietary pairing, and I'm afraid to update firmware in case they lose local support.

Good luck! Fun adventure :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

ASCII wasn't around then, so it would perhaps be stored in 5-bit ITA2, or 6/7-bit FIELDATA. So likely a 5/8 to 7/8 space savings (unless the numbers are for compressed War and Peace).

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