HamsterRage

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HamsterRage,

Not in England. 240V boils water faster than you can get the teabags out of the cupboard.

Is there any way to turn my Linux machine into a docking station?

The thing is like this: I have a windows laptop I use for work, and a Linux desktop machine. I have a single screen keyboard etc. and I switch between the two using a docking station. But, I wonder if there is a way for me to “cut the middle man” and just plug/unplug my linux machine....

HamsterRage,

Deal with the ethernet port issue by purchasing a 5 port ethernet switch. Maybe the rest of your issues go away?

HamsterRage,

Death Valley appears to be a very contained thing. When I was there, the temperature in Las Vegas was 108. When we started down into the valley the temperature started to rise dramatically. Half way down, it hit 117 and I had to stop to get out to see what it felt like.

But then the temperature kept going up as we went down into the valley. We hit 126 for a while approaching Badwater, and it was 124 when we got out at Badwater.

And this was in May, around 15 years ago.

The point is that when you go there, you see that Death Valley is a meteorological phenomenon created by, and contained by the geography of Death Valley.

Yes, 108 is hot, but there was an almost 10 degree increase as soon as you crossed the ridge into the valley and started down. The idea that Death Valley climate will somehow spread to the surrounding area just doesn’t make sense.

HamsterRage,

We need one that says, “Front towards solicitors”

HamsterRage,

As a Canadian driving around the UK I always found these signs strange. When passing one we would raise our fists in the air and shout, “End road work…end road work everywhere!!!”.

It amused us.

HamsterRage,

That is Mademoiselle Nobs.

HamsterRage,

For me Bazzera Magica and Baratza Vario grinder some time back. Better coffee than most cafes.

HamsterRage,

Ozric Tentacles

HamsterRage,

Grandma’s on the roof and we can’t get her down…???

HamsterRage,

Except this is Canada, and $7.50/hr is about as relevant as comparing it to child labour in a t-shirt factory in Bangladesh.

HamsterRage,

For those who don’t know, Shoppers is a huge, huge chain in Canada, owned by Loblaws. There’s no excuse for this BS.

HamsterRage,

There’s two kinds of issues: instance and pattern. The first time or two, it’s instance. You deal with those with specificity. Something like, “I would prefer not to talk about this subject with you, please stop”.

If it persists, then it’s a pattern problem. You deal with the pattern, not the instance. “I’ve asked you not to talk about subjects like this in the pant, but you haven’t stopped. This makes me feel like you don’t respect my boundaries and it’s making it difficult for me to work with you. Why are you doing this to me?”.

You can escalate from there, and this might involve management involvement but at least you’ll have the clarity of having made the situation clear before it gets there.

Honestly though, unless the coworker is actually deranged, they’ll be mortified when they find out they are making you uncomfortable and they’ll stop right away.

What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?

I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....

HamsterRage,

I think that a good starting place to explain the concept to people would be to describe a Travesty Generator. I remember playing with one of those back in the 1980’s. If you fed it a snippet of Shakespeare, what it churned out sounded remarkably like Shakespeare, even if it created brand “new” words.

The results were goofy, but fun because it still almost made sense.

The most disappointing source text I ever put in was TS Eliot. The output was just about as much rubbish as the original text.

HamsterRage,

Paywalled

HamsterRage,

Bring on the feather!!!

HamsterRage,

Kermit on top of FTP can work really well. Kermit has its own communication and transfer protocol, IIRC, but updates in the 1990’s allowed it to be used with TCP/IP and FTP. So you can write a script to log into a remote system, run some commands and then initiate a file transfer. The scripting allows you to wait for responses and act on them.

HamsterRage,

Keep in mind that it has been decades since I last used Kermit, but I’m pretty sure the use case it was originally designed for was…

Connect to a serial port, which had a modem attached. Talk to the modem and get it to dial a number. Presumably, the remote end answered and the port attached to its modem would issue a login prompt. Negotiate the login and then issue a bunch of commands to change directories and then launch Kermit on the remote system. After that Kermit to Kermit communications took over until you terminated the session. Finally, log off the remote system and hang up the modem.

All of this stuff could be done via scripts. I seem to remember that it would actually wait for a response, and then parse the response in the script. I don’t remember ever doing polling loops.

If you’re on a *nix box of some type, it’s totally possible to open up a serial port for manual I/O even in something like a bash script. Even if you have to reverse telnet to a terminal server.

HamsterRage,

the end stop in external to the serial communication

Does this mean that you have some kind of other signals or pin-outs? If so, this is starting to sound like a great project for a Raspberry Pi, because the GPIO pin array can handle that.

HamsterRage,

Maybe then you need to move one stop up from scripting into something closer to actually programming. I’d be surprised if Python doesn’t have the library support on a Pi for dealing with both serial and GPIO I/O.

HamsterRage,

I looked and Python has the library support for the GPIO and to do background threading to poll pins. My preference would be to go with a JVM language like Kotlin, but then I’m a programmer. Python, from the little that I’ve mucked about with it is really just one step in complexity from scripting. Maybe even easier, because some things in shell scripts are super difficult to do.

HamsterRage,

Yes, $15 CAD/day to “roam like home”. I have an Orange eSIM that I can keep alive if I use it at least once every 6 months - with a local french number that stays mine. It costs me about $40 CAD for a 30 day - 20GB top up. My wife uses Nomad for data only, we both don’t need local numbers, and it generally costs $12 CAD for 5 GB 2 week top-up.

So I figure about $60-70 CAD for 3 weeks travel virtually anywhere in Europe. Calls and SMS included (for one) without long distance charges. Compared to $630 for “roam like home” for two people from a Canadian carrier - doesn’t matter which one as far as I can tell.

We both recently got new phones to be able to use eSIMs.

And the physical SIMs stay active. So my elderly parents can call my Canadian number if there’s an emergency and it will ring through.

In fact, on our last trip to Rome, when we used a credit card at the hotel, it was refused and then seconds later I got a text from the bank asking for confirmation on my Canadian number. I had no choice but to text “Yes” back, and that single text activated roaming for the day and cost me $15.

HamsterRage,

I think it boils down to where you define the extension functions and how that impacts coupling.

At some level you want to divorce the repository storage of the data from your domain object. Let’s say that the repository changes, and “name” is no longer just “name”, but now “firstName” and “lastName”. The body of your application doesn’t care, or need to know that the repository has changed, as it will still just deal with a name, whatever that is.

So something has to put “firstName” and “lastName” together into a “name”, and it needs to be consistent with how the application has always received it. Is it “Fred Smith”, “Fred, Smith” or “F. Smith”? And who “owns” that logic?

From a coupling perspective, you don’t want the application logic to know anything about the repository or the internal structure of the DTO. On the other hand, you don’t want the repository service layer to know about how the data is going to be used.

Let’s say that you have two different applications that used the “name” field, but in different ways somehow. So the conversion from the two “name” fields into one might be different for each application. Yes, you could argue that recombining them back exactly the way the repository service originally delivered “name” would be transparent to the client applications, but what if the change to the repository was driven by one of those applications needing split data?

That’s usually why you put your adapters in some neutral place, associated with the client application but yet somewhat outside of it.

You could use extension functions to provide the adapter, but you need to make sure that they’re not co-mingled with you application code. Otherwise you’ve just reestablished the coupling between the repository and the application that you where trying to avoid.

HamsterRage,

Most people aren’t going to need to top up more than 30-40km worth of charge every night anyways. So that’s probably only a couple hours on 15amp.

HamsterRage,

An small InstantPot does the trick just as well, and you can use it for other stuff as well.

HamsterRage,

St Peter the Martyr!!

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