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I don’t understand why they don’t just accept free walks
Lol, found a non dev
If it was physical I’d understand. As an engineer I’ll takr any excuse to build something. But I also need my boss off my ass about taking another walk, I can’t think sitting still
Necessity is the mother of invention
Thanks to a couple of programmers their love for coffee future historians can now build a direct time line from colonialism to e-girls.
FYI : Kodak patented the digital camera in 1975 but film and paper were too profitable
If you step back and look at every company out there, we could probably either determine they have no purpose to the greater good of humanity or they chose to ignore a new invention because they are not even close to done making money on the current one. Could you imagine where we’d be if we progressed on improving a technology because it was a better option?
Capitalism sucks. It sucks for the planet.
But hey, I made 5 trillion dollars on a stock today, so there’s that /s
20+ years ago Colgate bought and shelved a patent for an antibacterial mouthwash that only targeted bacteria that erode enamel.
“We can’t sell this shit… It will put us and the entire dentistry profession under”
So it wasn’t porn?
Guys working with computers in this era didn’t know any girls.
worth noting, e-mail however was… If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.
Ah, but you see, ASCII porn doesn’t need a girl.
Isn’t that also where “HTTP 418: I’m a teapot” came from?
Though that could have been a reference, iirc that was an unrelated April fools RFC that was filed as a partial complaint people were creating overly specific http status codes
Hot coffee in your area!
Yet another invention driven by laziness.
Personally, I prefer laziness as a motivator over greed. It’s much more likely to lead to low maintenance solutions that still keep maintenance as an option over replacement.
Though I’ve curated my laziness to the point where I’ll do chores out of laziness becuase I know they’ll be more work later.
But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
“Two days of debugging can save you 10 minutes of reading the documentation.”
TIL
At first I thought why not use a float level, then I thought oh right that’ll be disgusting to have floating in the shared coffee.
See also HTCPCP and HTTP response 418: I’m a teapot
You can/could also find Coffee HOWTO in your distro’s HOWTO package. (I found a reference back to v0.5 of the document in 1998.)
Has simple schematics.to get you started for the hardware, using the parallel port to toggle relays.
It’s a very neat little document, and inspired me to write a simple kernel module so I could
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/whatever/coffee0to turn pin 0 high on the parallel port. (This is silly, and it’s much easier to just do things in user space!)This was before movable coffee pots became common.
I have a camera aimed at my stove so I can check if I accidentally left the stove on. It never happens but it does give me peace of mind whenever I leave the hoose and get paranoid.
Maybe someone mentioned this, but I’m sure there’s a million ways to tackle this task through Home Assistant and a cheap sensor. That way you get passive notifications instead of having to actively check.
Come up with a way such that i dont have to take apart the stove and im listening.
Definitely don’t have to take anything apart. If you can’t use a smart plug on the outlet, A zigbee temperature sensor mounted above or near the range would do the trick. There’s also methane/gas detectors.
If you’ve never used Home Assistant, it’s open source and completely local, and super easy to get going. You can automate nearly everything, so getting phone notifications or persistent temp reminders would be a breeze. Let me know if you have questions about that part. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve been slowly automating everything in my house and it’s been great.I’m using home assistant for the photos right now. The problem with a temp sensor is that it could stay hot after a while even if the stove is off.
Would a methane gas detector work if the flame was on?
Why do modern stoves/ovens have in multiple ways problematic smart stuff, but no proximity sensor?
An oven is one of the few things I can actually see having an app for being useful. Preheating the oven remotely and getting notified when it is ready sounds really useful.
My stove is a dumb stove. But I’d imagine the reason they dont have it on a smart stove is often times you need to leave things to cook for a while. Eg. Pasta, stews, soups, etc.
I was thinking to install a “smart” power outlet for the very same purpose, but stoves don’t have exactly standard plugs ;)
Then again, we just moved to a flat with induction stove, where it’s not really a big deal.
Our stove is gas unfortunately. It came with the place and it’s wasteful to replace it if it works so I’m stuck with it for a while :/
I put a Shelly uno in mine on the wire that runs thru the control lock buzzer. I used it to turn on the exhaust fan, but you could also set up an alert.
If your range doesn’t have the buzzer, you could retrofit the switches with ones that have the contacts for it.
https://www.geapplianceparts.com/store/parts/spec/WB18T10454
whenever I leave the hoose
Canadian, eh?
I am. How could you tell? /s
So, you’re not Scottish then…
You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?
Yea, but the image was goatse, so we knew pretty quick who did what.
Tangentially, I often wonder if technology has increased paranoia.
I can imagine someone worried about people following them might notice a lot more ear pieces, or if the increased knowledge of them has made that kind of fear decrease.
Me and My 3d printer thank you
I got a 360° one to fuck with my cat >:)
