pageflight

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[–] pageflight 1 points 3 hours ago

Fun to see the DC solution though, thanks.

[–] pageflight 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh nice, yes the relays are dual throw and I had forgotten to consider that!

 

My house was previously multiple units, and has nice sounding chime doorbell for two floors. I've set up a relay board so family members can ring one or the other bell from HomeAssistant. If someone comes to the front door, I'd like them to press a button to ring both.

Obviously I can use a smart button and a simple automation to trigger two relays. But is there some way I'm overlooking to have a dumb, standard wired doorbell button that will ring both chimes without causing either relay to also ring both?

Maybe there's a DPST weatherproof push button out there that would look nice on the wall?

[–] pageflight 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What horrifying asses Trump and JD are.

[–] pageflight 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, about half the time I refresh the page I get "access denied FE". Not that I refreshed it that many times, that could cause unnecessary load on the site.

[–] pageflight 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TIL, I would have thought (if done correctly) you'd just pass out and then die. Though I guess altitude sickness is pretty unpleasant. Anyway, still opposed to the death penalty — too easy to be wrong, no need for state sanctioned murder in this age, etc.

Those who administered the method, according to Greenberg, described graphic scenes that included seizures, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and other issues as the animal died. Those in attendance of the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia shared similar disturbing details after attending the execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama earlier this year, who was the first person to die in the U.S. by administration of gas for execution.

According to Death Penalty Info, wit­ness­es report­ed that Mr. Smith appeared awake for sev­er­al min­utes after the nitro­gen gas began. They observed that he “shook and writhed” for at least four min­utes before breath­ing heav­i­ly for anoth­er few min­utes. “This was the fifth exe­cu­tion that I’ve wit­nessed in Alabama, and I have nev­er seen such a vio­lent reac­tion to an exe­cu­tion,” said media wit­ness Lee Hedgepeth.

[–] pageflight 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Quite the virus:

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known. The virus travels through the air and can linger in the airspace of a room for up to two hours after an infected person has been present. Among unvaccinated people exposed to the virus, 90 percent will become infected.

In the US, about 20 percent of people with measles are typically hospitalized. Five percent develop pneumonia, and up to 3 in 1,000 die of the infection. Later in life, measles can also cause a fatal disease of the central nervous system called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. And the virus can erase immune responses to other infections (a phenomenon known as immune amnesia), making people vulnerable to various illnesses.

From Beth Mole at Ars.

 

Harbinger just builds the chassis. Everything on top comes from somewhere else.

"Most medium-duty vehicles are built by one company building the chassis [and] another company installing the body," Weicker said. "So this made the perfect sense for our first product because we're going to be focused almost entirely on the differentiated aspects. We don't have to deal with the high capital investments for body in white, paint shop, [and] a lot of the things that have cost EV startups lots of money just to get to a table-stakes position with their incoming competitors."

"Where we're pricing the vehicles, we need that 45 W if we want to undercut diesel, and that's what we're doing," Harris said. "With 45 W, we can undercut the typical diesel vehicle by a few thousand dollars."

But even if that credit goes away under the current administration, Harbinger has some price flexibility to remain competitive, he added.

That's doubly true if you factor in operating costs. Harris says the average cost to operate a medium-duty vehicle like this is $0.50 per mile for fuel, or $0.85 if you factor in all costs relating to the vehicle itself. Harbinger is aiming to halve that, targeting $0.40 per mile. But, Harris says, Harbinger doesn't need to lean on that total cost of ownership (TCO) logic.

 

Very pleased with the result. With olive oil I have no complains, plain it may be a touch dry.

The America's Test Kitchen recipe has you heat some flour + water to make the starch absorb more water, in an effort to have a higher hydration dough without sacrificing workability; and the dough was very easy to work with while producing nice light crumb.

Fresh out of the oven (egg white wash + sesame seeds):

full loaf

I made it staying in an AirBnB. I was trying to figure out where to prove the loaves, lacking my usual options, but the house has sub-floor heating in the entryway. Worked great, and nobody stepped on the loaves!

proving

Infra red image (Topdon camera) below. Quite a treat to put on warm shoes in 10-20F weather, too.

infra red

[–] pageflight 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most EV drivers rarely use all of their battery range; they only need it on long trips. Therefore, batteries built into load-bearing automotive components would not be needed for daily use; they could be maintained at the ideal charge level for the battery formulation and rarely used except for long trips

I wonder what the user experience for that would be. If I want some charging target amount for daily use, but the car wants hard-to-reach battery cells to float at 66% or something whereas I want overall 80% of range, maybe the charge selection screen would just suggest "76% for best longevity"? Or hide it all behind "80%" but the ramp to 100% isn't quite linear?

[–] pageflight 5 points 1 week ago

Reuters if folks prefer that.

[–] pageflight 3 points 1 week ago
[–] pageflight 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree. Anyone with starter is going to be delighted to share. A digital kitchen scale for $20 is probably the most essential equipment you may not already have that you'd need for good results, and a bench scraper is handy for this and lots of other baking. I use a dutch oven, but just scissors instead of a lame, and prove in a mixing bowl. Other than that just get a bag of bread flour and try it out!

[–] pageflight 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just waiting around for tens of minutes wherever you were supposed to meet someone, when they didn't show on time.

 

Documented here

It would be nice to render collapsible sections for

things folks might want to skip

Like super secret gameplay details or triggers

[–] pageflight 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks!

Rat King

Ah, that's what that blue bull with yellow hair is.

some additional details

Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs

And they always face each other.

Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him

And they always face away from the chest, but turn towards it when you open the chest.

Dragon - Defeat it to end the game with a win.

Defeat it to get 13 gold, pick up gold to reveal crown, pick up crown to end game. But if you're trying to collect all the gold you can, it's OK to defeat the dragon and keep going a little.

Romeo and Juliet

Face each other equidistant from the center line.

P.S. Syntax for spoiler markdown.

 

Ars called it their favorite of 2025 so far, and I'm enjoying it. Adds a nice if minor level of resource (health) management on top of regular Minesweeper. Free to play online.

 

The teeth feel much catchier after filing them with a triangular jeweler's saw (left half is done), but it still takes a minute of rocking the but back and forth to get through 3/4" plywood.

 

Glad for advice on getting mitered corners more precise, I ended up with little gaps using both a table saw crosscut sled and miter saw. I think part of the issue is holding the small pieces of wood totally still.

 

I was looking to see what would happen on the 3rd floor with a ceiling-mounted AP on the 2nd floor. New to Unifi, I keep being surprised with delight how much useful tooling & info there is.

Here's for the U6+:

radiation patterns

 

Something to break the infinite scroll.

 

Not the most beautiful, but pretty tasty, and I think that was the right timing -- crispy and just starting to brown on the outside, moist and flaky inside.

 

I don't have a 3D printer, but I have a wood shop, so I carved a mount for my analog adapter board + TBS Fusion to clip onto my Walksnail Goggles X strap. Works well so far!

clipped onto goggles

separate

It would have been easier to drill the holes for the side where the cords plug in before cutting out the interior. I ended up finishing the profile with a jigsaw, just going very slowly to avoid splitting off the side.

cutouts

I used a scrap left over from turning a piece of birch.

bandsaw

 

Temperature of the oven (green) and the oil / Yorkshire puddings (yellow). I think I did not heat the oil quite hot enough this time (looks like about 410F), since the batter didn't sizzle as much as usual when I poured it in and I didn't get good cup shapes.

Batter is equal mass of eggs, soy milk, and all purpose flour (200g each / 4 eggs), whisked and rested overnight in the fridge.

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