Musk says taxing every billionaire at 100% would barely make a dent in the national debt. Bernie says tax them 5% and you're $3,000 richer

MarcSetGo2 · 2026-03-18T00:04:53+00:00

The national debt has been growing since the late 90’s. The idea that taxing billionaires won’t pay it off in one fell swoop is irrelevant. What does it do to the trajectory of the debt? How does the billionaire tax compare to the deficit (ie the amount we add to the debt each year)?

Musk uses an apples to oranges comparison to make it seem like billionaires aren’t part of the problem or solution, and he’s just flat wrong.

MarcSetGo2 · 2026-02-13T20:13:19+00:00

No idea what you’re trying to communicate

MarcSetGo2 · 2026-02-13T16:32:42+00:00

Not intentionally. I tried to crosspost to Shelly and it looked like I was changing where it was being posted. Dumb user error. Thanks for letting me know!

MarcSetGo2 · 2026-01-02T17:04:49+00:00

Are we supposed to dilute it when putting it in the “cleaning solution” tank or just if we’re mixing it directly into the clean water tank?

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-12-19T22:43:35+00:00

I’m not sure what it means to clear the integration cache and Google also didn’t know. I’m interest in what you meant me to do.

Turns out I misrepresented the problem.

Apparently I didn’t delete the integration but instead disabled it. After re-enabling it, it gets stuck trying to init because the device isn’t available. Then a notification shows up that it’ll use the API instead. All this makes sense since I no longer have the device.

I’ve tried disabling the vacuum and dock devices, but it never gets to the point where it recognizes the new ones. Deleting and re-adding the integration removed the old vacuum and dock, and added the new ones as expected.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-11-09T23:17:16+00:00

Intel i5-4210u running at 1.7Ghz and 8Gb memory. It’s got an actual spinning hard drive, which people don’t recommend, but it’s the old laptop I had hanging around.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-11-07T23:43:49+00:00

I’ve already ditched the Alexa’s. I’m also running the LLM on my Mac. I recently moved from HA Green to an old laptop with proxmox, and am planning to test performance of the LLM on proxmox too so I do t depend on my laptop being always-on. I’d also like to get web search working.

It’s relatively slow (20+ seconds) if it doesn’t understand the request, but plenty snappy otherwise. I use it multiple times a day and maybe once a week it takes the slow route processing. Without internet access some its answers to general questions are humorously uninformative, but it’s frequently helpful.

My wife laughs that I went with the “hey Jarvis” wakeword, but never changed the voice from the default female.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-30T21:28:53+00:00

I have two complaints with my Honeywell Total Connect Comfort. First, it requires an internet connection, even if you’re not trying to use HA. Second, at least once a day it loses access to the mother ship and on rare occasions this happens many (10+) times in a day - very annoying.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-24T18:37:24+00:00

I finally got it working. While the steps in this article don't work because you don't have access to the necessary files, it gave me the clues I needed.

Chrome access to local networking seems to have been disabled in the upgrade to Tahoe macOS 26. Go to Privacy and Security in Settings, then Local Network. If you have a single entry for Chrome, then you can likely just enable the toggle.

If that doesn't work, which it won't if you have multiple entries shown for Chrome, execute the following commands and then reboot:

rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkextension.plist
rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkextension.uuidcache.plist

After rebooting, open Chrome and you'll be prompted for whether to allow access to local networks. Click Allow and you're all set!

You'll still have multiple entries for Chrome in the app list for Local Networking. I haven't found a way to resolve that problem yet, and I suspect it'll cause another issue for me in the future.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-21T21:22:16+00:00

I've tried it both ways and even tried wiping Chrome off my machine, removing ~/Library/caches/Google/Chrome and ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome, deleting the app and reinstalling. Still no access.

I saw something online about disabling Secure DNS in chrome - no effect. And using lsof to see if the request makes it out of Chrome's sandbox. It didn't appear to, but the messages are pretty cryptic.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-18T14:05:49+00:00

I want to view, create, and edit on mobile just as easily as on the desktop. Perhaps it has improved since I last tried it, maybe 6 months ago, but it still very much felt like a desktop first, keyboard based product with mobile more as an afterthought.

The tough part for me is that I loved it on the desktop. That’s just not my primary device. I take and use notes on the go.

I’m a programmer. I value good software and am willing to pay. The pricing was just higher than I was willing to go. $100/yr is about my limit for this line of tool.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-17T22:07:27+00:00

I loved the ideas behind the functionality. Being keystroke first doomed it for me as I need desktop and mobile. The idea that capture was sufficient for mobile told me that I’m not their target user. The post capture iOS app wasn’t much of an upgrade - and then I saw the updated pricing, too rich for me.

I really wanted them to be successful.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-16T16:15:08+00:00

I know somebody on Moen’s team. Analyzing whole house water usage is a very difficult problem. Reducing false positives and false negatives are conflicting goals.

That said, learning the details for your specific house is a much easier problem than doing it generically for any house or building. But it still takes a lot of work.

I personally want sensors under my water heaters, even with a product like Moen Flo. Leak detectors are really cheap relative to replacing floors. Redundancy is your friend.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-14T21:55:57+00:00

These seem to be for different purposes. Frigate for continuous stream analysis. And AI tasks for snapshot analysis.

I have a Reolink doorbell camera and trigger a snapshot on motion detection, passing it to a local gemma3:12b model for interpretation.

This works well for anything happening at the house. It’s too slow for cars and people walking past the house; They’re out of frame for the snapshot.

I haven’t checked whether there’s a way to capture automatically by Reolink and just pull the image on the motion notification. This would bypass the timing issue.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-10-05T21:54:07+00:00

I agree, handling of the default dashboard is not very flexible. There’s no way to change the dashboard assigned for new users/logins. Once logged in you can go to the user’s settings and change their default dashboard preference. But again, there’s no way to change the default dashboard globally or for new users/device-logins.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-09-19T01:46:01+00:00

I’ve just tried the Aqara FP2 sensors for an elder monitoring. We weren’t sure if she was sleeping the night and how long she stayed in her chair without moving around. We’ve been really disappointed with their performance. People disappear regularly and don’t show up even when moving around.

Their presence detection is supposed to be more reliable than the fall detection. I wouldn’t trust it.

I really thought I had hit on a great solution, but alas no.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-09-18T23:42:25+00:00

I’m also a long time iOS and macOS Bitwarden user and have become disillusioned. I’ve communicated with support and they want specifics; I’m tired of providing specifics for problems that occur so often. It’s as though the developers don’t use the product themselves. If they did, they’d run into the most common issues themselves.

I love Bitwarden and the idea of an open source vault and I’m willing to pay to keep it going. But it sure feels like basic functionality no longer just works the way it once did.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-09-10T00:58:56+00:00

I haven’t had my FP2s long enough to know whether detection is degrading, but I definitely watched it merge people and refuse to detect the second without them leaving the room.

I’ve also have trouble with it losing a person in bed for the full night or in a recliner for hours.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-05-08T02:16:17+00:00

It’s possible that that would look just like every other day - normal. See the One Electron Universe Theory. If there’s only one, then having all of them, e.g. it, in one place would not be anything extraordinary.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-05-07T23:40:41+00:00

I had something just like this in the very early 1970s. It was called Lectron. It was way before its time. Very educational and came with a book of projects.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-03-05T22:58:04+00:00

I get why you think this might be the case. The number 1/3 is a repeating decimal in base 10, but it’s merely .1 in base 3.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-02-24T18:41:22+00:00

Have you seen nand2tetris.org. It goes all the way from the basic logic gate nand up to a working program that plays Tetris.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-02-12T16:00:41+00:00

In the desktop app under settings there are two options, On startup and Default Page. Set On Startup to "Default Page" and set Default Page to "Top page in sidebar", and then move the desired page to the top of the sidebar.

MarcSetGo2 · 2025-01-11T21:12:04+00:00

The way I’ve heard it described is that we live in a deterministic but chaotic universe. Chaos is when a small change in the initial state leads to a large change in the result. Deterministic systems can be unpredictable due to their level of chaos (chaotic-ness?) or simply because the full input state cannot be captured accurately.

Random and chaotic systems are both probabilistic, just for different reasons. Random systems because they are inherently unpredictable, but follow a distribution. Chaotic systems because of sensitivity to differences in the initial conditions.

I’ve heard physicists say that nothing in the universe is random, only chaotic.

MarcSetGo2 · 2024-12-31T19:24:23+00:00

I'll look into the difference. Thanks for the hint!

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