[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

That said: I ended up waiting like 3 years for my diagnosis (and I had to chase those bastards every single time for a response),

That sounds this close ->||<- to being some Catch 22 nonsense where they use your success in managing to follow up as an excuse to claim you're not ADHD.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

At least they're clean dishes on the drying rack and not dirty ones in the sink!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

...says the guy that thinks there's going to be a brokered convention that picks somebody other than Biden.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Still less radiation than coal plants release in normal operation.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Inb4 the "[Choco] Leibniz — [Fig] Newton cookie controversy!"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That's possible, but if that were the case I'd expect there to be a bunch of illegitimate children at his funeral.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

I was gonna comment "yeah, but Leibniz fucks!" but then I decided to fact-check myself.

"Leibniz never married, and his funeral was only attended by his personal secretary."

...well, shit. The meme checks out!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It used to be at least three felonies a day when violation of a website’s TOS was a violation of the CFAA (which can land you 25 years).

Did that stop being the case?

conspicuously on the same day as the Wikipedia Blackout protesting against SOPA / PIPA (PS: They’re still wanting to lock down the internet, which is why they want to kill Section 230).

Yeah, they've also tried to ram through ACTA, CISPA and the TPP since then.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Alternatively, for a shop to be economically viable in the middle of a swamp, it needs to be one of those tourist traps with kitschy signs all over the place for miles around.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

If you're gonna do that, you can't just have it be a normal shop! There's got to be consequences:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's nothin'! You wanna see some weird bombs? Watch this!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every definitive trait has some counter example that still counts because people “feel” it’s good enough.

There's an aphorism in statstics / science: "all models are wrong, but some are useful." I feel that the distinction between genuine off-road-capable SUVs and crossovers/tall cars/glorified station wagons or minivans is useful, even if it isn't completely definitive. Generally speaking, if it's a unibody vehicle it probably isn't very good off-road, and therefore doesn't really deserve to be called an "SUV."

So does a 2wd “suv” (by your definition) then get declassified?

A 2WD SUV is less general-purpose, but I think they still have enough potential to count (think desert-racing prerunners, which are often 2WD but legitimate off-road vehicles).

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9052986

I've got an antique lamp that needs a new switch knob, but then scope-creep happened and now I want to "smartify" it. I started off thinking that, since it has a metal body, I'd install a capacitive touch switch, but now it's escalated to wanting to put an ESP8266 or ESP32 in it to handle the capacitive sensing, Home Assistant connectivity/control, and maybe even switching to some kind of low-voltage RGBW LED instead of a 120VAC Edison-base bulb (especially since I suspect I'd need some kind of antenna sticking out the top, since the metal lamp body would presumably otherwise block the ESP32's signal).

The lamp, BTW:

(Apparently it's a Genie lamp by Laurel Lamp Company, in case anybody cares. Also, the lamp shown is the same model, but it's not my picture.)

I'm aware that the "easy" way would probably be to just screw a smart light bulb into the socket and wiring I already have, but (a) I'm picky about both avoiding "clouds" and using FOSS firmware, and I don't feel like sorting through the junk on Amazon to figure out which ones can be flashed with ESPHome, and more practically (b) that wouldn't let me turn it on and off just by touching the lamp body, which is what sent me down this rabbit-hole in the first place.

Anyway, I know this sort of thing can be done, but I'm not completely sure how. I know I could figure it out myself eventually, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask for advice in case somebody happens to be able to rattle off part numbers for the whole BOM off the top of their head, or knows exactly the right ESPHome howto to point me towards, or something like that. Any advice is welcome!

(In case it's relevant: my level of experience is that I programmed an Arduino to run neopixels (WS2812 RGB addressable LEDs) once, I've flashed ESPHome on some Sonoff S31 smart switches, and I'm a software engineer by trade but have never worked on anything IoT related professionally.)

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