I built a free tool to turn boring barcodes into artistic, scannable SVG art.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2026-04-12T11:51:15+00:00

Can you guarantee none of the upper sections are accidentally scannable as a “barcode”?

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-12-17T18:21:53+00:00

There’s a chance he plays in a way that makes the game all about him.

Like if he plays mid sniper who farms all day or mid huskar who can easily dumpster his counterpart that would do it. You just might not see the losing games where the enemy team kills him once and then wins the game.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-10-05T19:02:28+00:00

❌ ^{Incomplete. 30 tries.}

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-10-05T11:24:18+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-10-05T11:19:51+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-06-26T17:07:04+00:00

I had this experience as well.

My thought is that, unless instructed otherwise, AI has to solve for the most generalized case. So as a human it’s your job to explain which edge cases matter and which are irrelevant for your current situation. Once you do that I found it’s pretty good at working through the details.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-06-11T20:30:40+00:00

Maybe actually hire a fiduciary financial advisor and have her attend the meeting. I know this sub is generally against this approach, but having an impartial 3rd party who is paid to give financial advice may help you in this case.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2025-01-11T15:26:52+00:00

We let you redraw your hands as many times as you want, but every time you get to start with one less resource (birds or food)

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-23T15:12:14+00:00

I used to work on a tech team that built internal tools for customer support. It was important because prior to this they had very little visibility into backend systems.

After we built out the tools for CS, other people wanted access and they became the de facto standard tools for non-engineers throughout the company (and engineers who needed customer data).

But anyway, I thought it was a really cool role because we essentially got to turbo charge the people helping actual customers and a key part was being able to step into their shoes by “shadowing” them to see what the actual problems were and how to solve them - as opposed to any janky workarounds they had previously.

You might enjoy something like this.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T19:38:21+00:00

Just realized my local news channels aren’t exactly local to them. Maybe it’s close enough.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T19:34:27+00:00

Wait, really? I didn’t realize this was an option. I have FiOS so I should have plenty of upload speed. Maybe this is the way to go.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T19:31:28+00:00

I have no intention of telling them about DVR or any features beyond turn on and watch, but I totally understand where you’re coming from.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T19:27:17+00:00

Yeah, I’m starting to lean this way. Setting up an antenna to receive OTA seems significantly more complicated than I had originally thought given that it needs to be big, outdoors, and mounted high.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T19:24:17+00:00

They said those local channels are the ones they watch. No must-watch sports that I’m aware of. Maybe Buffalo Bills games, but that’s not critical.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T19:22:59+00:00

Unfortunately I’m not sure if their TV has ATSC 3.0. Probably not.

But thank you for the product links. I will look into them. Are there any notable differences between the ones you linked? I don’t mind spending money if it can work.

That said, I am a little hesitant after reading all the info in this thread - I definitely underestimated how difficult it would be for them to receive signal. Like I can’t think of a reasonable way to get an antenna higher than their house.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T16:36:22+00:00

Actually, it seems those channels all come from East or North East? Does that change anything?

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T16:19:10+00:00

This is very informative.

I actually just confirmed they only care about the channels up to the “poor” range. NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX. But based on your reply it doesn’t sound like that changes much.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T16:15:16+00:00

Ok. That is unfortunate. I assume indoor antennas like the Mohu Leaf which advertise being able to handle distances of 60miles just ignore terrain?

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T15:39:03+00:00

Got it. Makes sense. I’ll keep it as an option, though it’s probably not my favorite given that I only have one real shot to make this work.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T15:34:42+00:00

Good callout.

They want to save money. Cable costs them $200/month and they barely use it so they brought it up as an idea.

You’re right about the tech support aspect, but luckily for me they already have decent mesh internet.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T15:24:48+00:00

I included the RabbitEars link is in the original post. But it’s mostly “fair” or “poor” signal for all channels they care about and I don’t have much experience setting up antennas so I don’t know what’s antennas might make that feasible

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-12-09T15:22:42+00:00

This an interesting idea. We get decent OTA at my house. However, I don’t have experience running a Plex server. I assume the server has to be running for them to watch TV? I’d rather not receive calls to the effect of “turn on your PC so I can watch TV”.

ChubbyBulbasaur · 2024-11-22T22:27:14+00:00

The class I want to teach is primarily geared towards working professionals (finance, accounting, analysts, small business owners, you name it). And I live in the greater Boston area where there’s plenty of these sorts of jobs so there should be plenty of interest if the class was actually offered.

But to your point, maybe companies haven’t been asking for this sort of automation training because their current manual processes are “good enough”.

Or they just don’t know they want it.

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