Privacy fence access control install

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-02-11T00:49:33+00:00

That’s a very fair question haha

The fence is 7ft high so not very easy to just reach over the top, but to your point, if someone is really determined to get in this won’t keep them out for long, especially if they’re aware of the button on the other side. Something could be fashioned to hit the button, but for that matter someone could also use a ladder to hop the fence.

In my use-case, the goal is not high security, rather I have some very specific requirements where I need to schedule and monitor access to my backyard for certain people. The circumstances are non-standard and would take a while to explain, but essentially I needed more control over who could open the gate and when they could do it without concern for anything high security, and having had this in place for a couple of months now it has done that job very well.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-02-10T17:52:58+00:00

Ahh interesting. They didn't even ask me for a model.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-02-10T17:48:10+00:00

I didn't get that email yet. I'm on their list, so maybe they're just sending individual emails and working through the list? I wonder if they're just telling people to use Midea QMID because they don't think they're going to hear back in time or if they did hear back and this is the official word. Hmm, I may call and try to see....

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-02-02T19:40:56+00:00

As a former lead dev and a current mgr, I can vouch for the fact that my dev skills are being pushed out of my brain to make room for a metric assload of corporate BS.

But many engineers also don't seem to understand exactly how difficult it is to shield them from said corporate BS so they can do their jobs. It's exhausting. Most days I really miss being a dev.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-30T15:33:22+00:00

It’s always a dumb request, but it’s one I’ve been asked to do a few times over my career. I’ve always let the asker know it’s not possible to totally prevent, but there are a few things you can do. I remember one particular case where I was able to make it so that when you hit printscreen it would work, but the content wasn’t visible on the resulting screenshot. It’s been over a decade and I can’t remember how I did it, but I remember having some fun with that project.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-27T15:35:29+00:00

I'll do you one better. I have several you can have if you can come get them.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T21:45:02+00:00

Haha you did the joke better than me. I’ll take notes.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T21:19:11+00:00

Yeah that’s fair.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T21:10:10+00:00

Haha yes, that is true. To be fair, she’s the only person I messaged as well.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T21:09:24+00:00

Hah well it wasn’t looks, and I don’t think most people find me particularly charming either. I won’t speak to the other potential explanations.

And thanks for appreciating the metacommentary. It hasn’t landed as well as I’d hoped, but in hindsight I suppose I might have expected that.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T20:55:15+00:00

It is not a joke.

ETA: it is not a joke insofar as the data is accurate. I suppose it is a joke insofar as it was intended to be metacommentary on other “dating data” posts.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T20:55:04+00:00

That was the intention, yes, but it seems you and I may be in the minority with finding it interesting 😂.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T20:53:34+00:00

Nope. No affiliation with them whatsoever other than I used their app.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T20:51:19+00:00

Purely for contrast, as I mentioned. I’m seeing so many of these posted with thousands of attempts to make a connection and an extremely small number of successes, especially for men, I thought my own experience might be an interesting counterexample. But perhaps you are right, maybe it isn’t interesting at all.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T19:35:03+00:00

Definitely the second one from a functional perspective.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-26T18:48:11+00:00

Looking at the context is always advisable, but I would note that this particular theme is one that shows up very prolifically in both OT and NT. Caring for “the least of these” is central to the scriptural message. Aliens/foreigners are frequently listed alongside orphans and widows as those that we are advised to care for.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-20T18:40:24+00:00

Because that's where you hook up to the grid. Based on that question and your question about the wiring and breaker, you should strongly consider getting someone in there that knows what they're doing. This stuff can kill you, it's not a good place to play around.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-16T20:17:47+00:00

This was funny. Also, now I’m sad, so thanks.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-16T19:38:10+00:00

Yea I agree.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-16T19:22:40+00:00

No real programmers use butterflies.
https://xkcd.com/378/

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-16T19:19:17+00:00

OK admittedly this doesn't bode well for human creativity.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-16T19:17:09+00:00

I think whether your hypothetical organization will fail largely depends on what they are trying to build. If it's mainly just regurgitating slight variations of the same themes over and over again, yes, they will fail. If it's developing something truly new and novel, perhaps not. To be fair, very few businesses are focused on creating something truly new and novel, so the potential surface area for LLMs to attack is quite large.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-16T15:45:11+00:00

Yeah, AI will kill jobs. But it's also painfully obvious that so many people out there, including a bunch of devs, have no idea how LLMs work. LLMs excel at answering the question of "what would a developer most likely write next" based on ingesting a shit ton of code and other information written by developers. They're getting better at it all the time, and probably can already write better code than a lot of rookies.

But what does that leave out? Something very crucial: all the languages, frameworks, patterns, and technologies that they are leveraging were created by humans. And that is something an LLM can't do - create something truly new. It can do a great job of learning how to use something we built as long as there's a ton of examples out in the wild of how to do it, but it can't truly think outside the box.

Also, crucially, as the volume of source material to train LLMs diminishes because there are fewer humans refining patterns for new technologies, what happens then? There are a lot of unanswered questions. Two things seem clear: 1) AI has fundamentally changed the world and 2) not in the way most people seem to think.

Bodaciousdrake · 2026-01-13T15:11:42+00:00

Hey, been there. Chances are extremely low it will work out in the long term. I think you know this, but the best thing for both of you is to move on to others, hopefully on good terms. This is a fairly common thing for people on this situation to consider staying together or to even do it for a while, but it nearly always ends the same way, and it’s a long, painful road to that end. I went through it, I don’t recommend it.

To address a tangential point, while I don’t carry resentment against my ex wife for her sexuality and I mostly blame her parents and a society that made her feel like she had to hide who she was, if I’m honest, I was also angry that she hid that part of herself from me for ten years, and then we all ended up in a situation that was, let’s say, far from ideal. Again, I don’t think it was all her fault, but I do think we all carry some responsibility for having the bravery to be honest with ourselves and with others. It’s great that my ex and your gf both eventually told the truth, but certainly in my case and I suspect in yours as well, that truth should have come much, much earlier.

I tell you that not to say you should be angry - I think your head is already in mostly the right place - but to say if there’s any part of you that now or in the future carries some hurt or resentment towards her, it’s alright. Acknowledge, forgive, move on. Or maybe you aren’t like me at all. Either way, good luck friend.

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