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SolidGrue @lemmy.world

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The Obamas Endorse Harris: 'This Is Going to Be Historic'
  • This is more like Obiwan being cut down by Vader as Han & Luke escape with Leia. Obiwan sacrificed himself to distract Vader long enough for the others to make their escape. We're just getting started.

    Don't worry... Plenty of time still to blow up the Death Star. And then the Empire strikes back.

  • Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool?
  • People are more buoyant in salt water because it has higher molar mass. Humans on average are about 90% density of water by mass so about 10% of your frame would float above the surface, which is generally enough to expose your nose. Of course you can articulate your neck, float on your back, tread water...

    Salinity also matters. Salty water you might be up to 3% or 5% more buoyant, pound for pound, compared to fresh water.

    Really, it depends on how fat and how salty, but generally the difference is less than 5% by mass.

  • Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool?
  • Swim.

    Not get splashed or crowded by kids, mostly.

    edit: lol, sorry. misinterpreted the question

    Public pools have a shallow end and a deep end. It's difficult (but not impossible!) to drown in the shallow end because you can just stand up, but you can still swim.

    Most humans, especially fat Western humans, are naturally buoyant. Completely inert, most (fat) Western people will float above the bottom of their nose (because we're fat.) Very lean or muscular people tend to be more neutrally buoyant or even negatively buoyant (sink), YMMV.

    Most important thing to remember as an Aquatic Mammal is you WILL get water in your nose, and sometimes down your windpipe. DO NOT PANIC. It burns, you will want to cough. Resist that urge. If you are under water or do not have free air passage, DO NOT COUGH. Control the urge and break the surface, then you can go ham coughing and sputtering.

    The most important thing about being in and around water is to be comfortable. If you're not comfortable, you're too deep. Get shallow.

    source: PADI certified diver

  • Smart locks and remote Z-wave
  • I can't speak to the quality of actual locksets or recommended any products, but LockPickingLawyer on YouTube has a number of short videos discussing smart locks. My impression is most of them are trash at just being a lock. The ones made by traditional lockset manufacturers probably aren't generally good at being smart, but I've been wrong about major brands' commitment to open standards before.

    Assuming you can find a decent lock that talks Z-Wave, I think you're on the right track with Zwave2MQTT and a USB dongle. I'd be squeamish about using a Pi specifically in a mission critical security control system for a couple of reasons (reliability, complexity, WiFi interference), but as long as you have keyed backup, it'll probably be OK.

    I'll leave it to others to recommend the locks, but as I mentioned in another post her, most battery operated Z-Wave devices, in my experience, report their battery life. Most of mine seem to go from 100% to 70% to dead in about a day though, so accuracy might be hit & miss.

    Maybe just leave one door with an old school keyed lockset as a plan B.

  • Smart locks and remote Z-wave
  • My battery operated Z-Wave sensors all report their battery life. You'd need to dig into the integration docs to know for sure but frankly I'd be surprised if they didn't report it as an entity.

  • Computer nerds of Lemmy, do you also enjoy comparing natural systems to large codebases in programming? What are your favorite peculiar similarities?
  • I see Systems Engineering analogies in a lot of complex natural systems. It's a great model to understand how the world around you works, as long as you remember it's only a model.

    For example, I optimize my navigation around town sort of like the OSPF network routing protocol. I consider the speed limit & number of lanes to be analogous to the link cost, traffic lights as Layer 3 hops, and stop signs as Layer 2 hops. I consider the local highways to be my "backbone area" so navigation is optimized to find the shortest path from wherever I am to the nearest major highway. Sometimes the solution takes me a mile or two out of my way, but I'll avoid 4 or 5 busy lights by taking a back road or cutting through a residential block.

    In fact, the airline network is similarly structured: for a given carrier, routes among their hubs are their backbone area, and routes between regional airports in different regions connect through one or two hubs. As a traveler between two regional airports, you're likely to fly to the hub closest to your destination and meet a second leg back out the the other airport. All to better if you just live near a hub.

  • ‘I was not voting before, now I am’: gen Z voters on what they think of Kamala Harris
  • Eh, don't be so harsh. We posters here are like sports fans following the team in the off season, watching every news drop to analyze and discuss with other fans.

    Outside of here, Most of America just isn't that clued in to politics for a number of reasons. With the decline in consumption of print & broadcast news (and their inherent slant these days, let's be honest) you have to put in effort to find the story and follow what's going on. And that's for when the Algorithm hasn't otherwise distracted you with the latest celebrity scandal. For the younger demographic who have to work so damned hard to make a decent living or even just make ends meet, it's probably just demoralizing to watch two old men yelling at the clouds, and feel like their own concerns aren't even being discussed. And then you have to go looking watch a couple different takes on the same story (so many stories!) to see past the spin and get even a sense of what the fuck is ACTUALLY happening. People are busy, man.

    I can't really blame them for just now getting interested, because at least now it is interesting. I hate the situation for what it is, myself, but here we are.

  • Trump will meet with Netanyahu at Mar-A-Lago this week
  • Of course you're right, but this time America-- significantly, the part that votes Democratic-- is pretty divided over it and that plays to Trump's strength. By agreeing to keep the war going until next year, Bibi can accomplish at least two things simultaneously. First, it keeps the Democratic base divided between supporting the Israeli state vs doing anything substantive about the death, destruction and genocide occurring in Gaza. Any Democratic candidate that takes a stance against the war publicly will suddenly find their opponent very well funded. Meanwhile a key bloc of voters remains alienated by the party's policy. It's a heavy albatross hung about the necks of the Democrats. Harris has to campaign with that as a backdrop, and of course the Republicans will make hay over it.

    Second, if and once Trump back is in office then Israel will be free to roll through Gaza and perhaps even the West Bank, completely wiping out any chance of a Palestinian state. The war ends, and Trump gets to say he resolved the conflict, which means "he won."

    So, yes. Different than 1980, but not really. All Republican dirty tricks-- and violations of the Logan Act-- to muddy up an election for fun and profit.

  • EnkiSoft Excel 1.2 leaked: Base60 support, "zero," and date formattng!

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    Daily standup. Daily standup never changes.

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    Riot rules now in effect

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    Does anyone have a source for grinder screen?

    I have a few grinders I'd like to replace the stainless mesh between the middle and bottom chambers. Rather than try to track down the OEM info for the grinders, I figured it might be easier to source 60 micron stainless mesh stock and cut some rounds to size. I don't need much-- maybe the equivalent of a sheet or two of US Letter or A4 sized sheets or rolls.

    My google-fu is failing me and my local suppliers don't seem to understand what I need.

    Anyone here have a source for the screen stock?

    edit: solved! Thanks @teft!!

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    All farts are funny. It's just a matter of degree

    Fartology is an up and coming science.

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    Breaking change in ESPHome 2024.6.0 ota component

    I missed it in the release notes, but there's a breaking change in the ota component in ESPHome 2024.6.0. I figured I'd save folks some time and share the fix here.

    If your OTA config looks like this;

    ``` ...

    ota: password: "*************" num_tries: 3 safe_mode: on

    ... ```

    Now you'll need to add a platform key to start a list, and either comment out the other option or move them to a new component.

    ``` ...

    ota:

    • platform: esphome password: "*************" #num_tries: 3 #safe_mode: on

    ... ```

    edit: Here's the PR introducing this change https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6459

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    Are your kitchen knives angry knives?

    Hear me out...

    I was raised, as my family does, to fearfully respect our kitchen knives. Respect their productivity, respect their sharpness, but overall respect their ruthlessness. Even the mildest of disrespect for my family's knives would earn you a nick of you were merely neglectful, and grievous harm if you spoke ill of their aptness.

    Of course, when I moved out and set up my own kitchens I acquired my own knives and tried to teach them better. How I was the master, and I was the steel wright. I lavished them with hand baths and fresh oils. I used only the gentlest of hardwoods on their blades and protected them from the hrllscape of the dishwasher. We lived in serene peace, an harmonic existence of a mealwright and his band of merry Riveners.

    And then one day, the Inheritance came. Grand Father had died, and his boning knives were my bequest. I was elated, but I would learn.

    My friends, that old knife had a soul. Not an evil soul, but a soul that had goals. It was hard steel that took a keen, harsh edge. Bright and tense, like a silver bell on a crisp winter morning. Not Solingen steel, so pliable and yielding as it is fickle in use. Grandfather's knives told you where to cut and if you hesitated, they would cut you instead in frustration. Impertinent things. Not evil, I would say. More, businesslike.

    My mistake was to lay them with my other knives. Did you know knives talk? They do! They whisper to each other in their blocks at night when you are asleep. They whisper and they.learn from each other. A good papa hopes they learn the Art of their chef, but when you have a Bad Knife in the block? They learn that too.

    Now, all of my knives are angry knives. Not angry at me, necessarily, but angry at their lot in my kitchen, to suffer my children's abusive cooking lessons, my in-laws' insistent prep work degradations, and (occasionally) my neglect.

    They bit my wife tonight. Its a Message....

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    My non-traditional family presented this dude a Dad-dude's Day brunch of premium ham, blueberry muffin top, and a frozen White Russian

    Happy Dad-dude's Day to all you who celebrate it!

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    God says He's sorry about creating Republicans

    Nobody's perfect.

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    Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy

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    Remember these?

    Pretty sure we had the E9112 and E9116 back in the day. Now I have a legit B92FS but it doesn't squirt water. For work reasons.

    Ah, nostalgia. (Don't play with guns!)

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    Gun porn rules

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    Üntz, üntz

    That's, "boots & pants & boots & pants...." in American

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    It goes without saying that...

    ...

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    I don't make the rules

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    The only Monarch I support

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20951414

    > The only Monarch I support

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    May the 4th berule you

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    Is the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend.

    Could Jesus make a Celiac so allergic he couldn't receive Him?

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    Well shit, I just cracked the screen on my venerable OP5T. What's our favorite platform these days?

    Phone still works (for now) and the house spare is a Samsung A50.

    If you were going to update today, what's the best LOS platform?

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    What's a bit of good advice that's really bad advice?

    You know, like "always split on 18," or "having kids is the most rewarding thing you can do in life."

    What's that one bit of advice you got from a trusted friend that you know deep, deep down would just ruin your thing?

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