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madpilot

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Melbourne based web and mobile developer. Dabbling with microcontrollers, home automation and 3D printing.

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MLE_online, to random
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There aren't enough corned beef recipes. It's basically just corned beef and cabbage, corned beef hash, reubens or make it into pastrami

madpilot,
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@MLE_online https://www.coles.com.au/recipes-inspiration/recipes/corned-beef-chowder

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lol

madpilot,
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@decryption I just assumed personalized number plates just came with every Tesla you buy?

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Issue 2071 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

  • Meta unleases Llama 3 LLM on the world

  • Tritium insolvent, calls in administrators

  • Colorado introduces privacy restrictions on the capture, storage and use of neural data

  • Three YouTube videos I thought were cool

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  • Cheap refurb Seagate HDD, Mophie USB charger, Kogan Mobile pre-paid, Xiaomi USB battery

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madpilot,
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@decryption Today's was even more excellent than usual. The Chromakey vid and the volumetric display vid were fucking unreal.

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption was just moaning about this then thought about the 10 degree delta. That sounds significant

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption it doesn’t exist yet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keralup,_Western_Australia

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption you just reminded me of Hyper magazine, which I would religiously buy.

    madpilot, to homeassistant
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    I've written a pretty niche blog post on how I turn Proxmox Backup Server on and off to only use excess solar generation using Home Assistant: https://myles.eftos.id.au/blog/2024/02/08/proxmox-backups-when-the-sun-is-shining/

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption even if it did she wouldn’t be able to hear it through her cans. Headphone level pot is also at zero.

    carnage4life, to random
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    This post brought to you by every new JavaScript flavor-of-the-month framework introduced after JQuery.

    madpilot,
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    @carnage4life worse: none of those are actually front end, they are all backend on the wrong side of the wire.

    wallamba, to random
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    Seeing a lot of Reddit posts like this. Maybe, just maybe, this is actually a growing sentiment in Australia and there's a minuscule chance something will be done about it?

    madpilot,
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    @decryption @wallamba I was literally bitching about this yesterday. There is zero reason for cars that big. Especially in suburbia.

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption ‘‘twas an impressive daytime light show

    madpilot, to random
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    Was explaining the concept of a standup to my three-year-old. She said they do the same thing at daycare - except they sing a song. That sounds much nicer.

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    Missing product: a very small battery backup UPS that can deliver a full 10A to (say) a NAS for just the second or three it takes the house to switch to battery during a grid outage. You can get high-current/high-capacity and low-current/low-capacity, but not high-current/low-capacity.

    madpilot,
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    @chendo @sentience depends on the outage type. If it’s due to slow falling frequency (ie overloaded grid), it’ll be more or less instant. Sudden drop there would be a slight delay

    bo, to random
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    Any Melbourne friends going to the EV expo next weekend? Thinking of training in from Bendigo to ogle

    madpilot,
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    @decryption @bo damn. In Noosa otherwise I would have gone

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    F*ck there are some selfish people about. On a train to Frankston and there's a person in front of us on a loud speaker call with the phone held a couple of centimetres from her ear. Use it properly or use headphones, for Christ's sake.

    [No whataboutery please]

    madpilot,
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    @skribe @timrichards “The block” has a lot to answer for.

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    @decryption as someone who worked at Dick Smith through high school and uni, today’s Sizzle image of the day hit me right in the feels.

    The beginners electronics books he produced got me hooked on the hobby I still do thirty-years later.

    madpilot,
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    @decryption I was literally looking them up for my kids a few days ago! And with cheap PCBs out of china I reckon it wouldn’t be difficult to resurrect some of those kits.

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption cad.onshape.com

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    My son is really struggling with the concept that he can’t just watch the Matilda’s game now, as it hasn’t started. Streaming services have a lot to answer for.

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    You know what grinds my gears? Websites that are clearly in acquisition mode that make the primary CTA "Sign up" and bury the “Login" button somewhere.

    I already pay you money, motherfucker - show me some fucking respect.

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    madpilot,
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    @decryption Inflation is a bitch

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    I’m at a cafe and the people next to me are talking about a divorce and they mentioned having break up sex… is that a thing?

    madpilot,
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    @chendo nods

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    I’ve totally messed up. I agreed to run a hands on workshop at work about “electronics”. Now I just have to figure out what is interesting but not too hard looks like for people with technical and non technical backgrounds looks like

    madpilot,
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    @jpm @vk3tcp literally did this yesterday. Took an ESP32, showed them how to blink the LED. Showed them some code to connect to one of the work APIs (parsed the JSON for them), let them work out how to mash the two together. Was quite well received.

    Hardest bit was getting the Arduino app downloaded in a conference venue (we ended up using sneaker net)

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