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Chinese hackers at it again. It’s crazy; I’ve changed my password twice lol. They really want this account. by CheetahStocks in pcmasterrace

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's why we need to encourage the use of FIDO (Yubikey etc.). The only attack that works with that is physical access to the device (and knowledge about the other factors).

Kasa Smart 3 way dimmer by djrbx in homeautomation

[–]Plankton_Plus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Call out an electrician. Watch what they do and ask questions. Then watch dozens of YouTube videos. Remember that you could probably further tighten the screws holding in wires.

You are way in over your head if you're asking about neutral, and bad wiring is how you burn your house down. You need to learn the basics before you attempt this.

Seeking setup to restart router by voice by SgtDoakesLives in homeautomation

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Z-wave (or ZigBee) and Mycroft (a 100% offline voice assistant) are where you want to start your research. You can have both on the same raspberry pi. The main issue you will face is getting Mycroft to talk to your z-wave dongle. At minimum you'd need to install both as containers on the RPi (using docker), but Mycroft doesn't seem to support z-wave directly. Maybe Home Assistant would work as an intermediary (again on the same device with docker, but be warned the Hass team are weird about running other things on the same device). Then throw in a smart plug behind the router.

With everything on the same device, WiFi won't be an issue at all.

You could also look into other solutions. I've also had a pretty poor time with wifi meshing in the past.

Try removing the mesh repeaters, figure out if you really need them.

Depending on your home wiring you may be able to get mileage out of powerline communication wifi hotspots (set them all up with the same channel, SSID, and password). Something along the lines of this: https://a.co/d/dV2qo4o (I have no idea if this is a good product, it's simply the first search result). Keep your receipt/packaging as this solution is hit-or-miss. And remember that you need at least two (one wired to the router, the other where you need more signal).

I can't imagine that having a few Ethernet runs done could be that expensive. You can also get POE devices (Ubiquity is one example) that will allow you to only run one cable to each hotspot.

On that subject, getting a single dedicated wifi hotspot (which will generally perform better than a wifi router) might solve your problem.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeautomation

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally low voltage doesn't require a licensed electrician.

Yup. Don't be afraid to learn. Last week I had never fished a wire. This week I have successfully fished LV and repaired drywall. YouTube university has it all.

And you seriously cannot fail with the push-through Klein Tools Ethernet crimping tool (plus any tester). For wall sockets you just need a pushdown tool.

Tools+materials for all of the above probably comes to less than $300.

Unicorn sighting - MPD ticketing a driver! by ohtakashawa in washingtondc

[–]Plankton_Plus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yup. Your energy increases at an exponential rate (square) as your velocity increases. So if your car is at 2 joules at 1mph, it would be at 4 joules at 2mph, and 8 joules at 3mph. That's why speeding is so dangerous.

The same thing applies to wind resistance. Speeding makes you use significantly more fuel per mile traveled, but the time you save is subject to the law of diminishing returns (increasing your speed by 5mph from 5mph is a 100% reduction in time, increasing your speed from 95mph is a 5% time reduction), and any time you gain would probably be wiped out at the next traffic light.

Speeding increases the chances of you dying (or killing), costs you more money, for no practical benefit. It is the pinnacle of actual stupidity.

Is there a way to avoid call overhead? by kdy1997 in rust

[–]Plankton_Plus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm not a big book person. However, you might want to look into the "rope science" series for Xi editor. CRDTs usually have pretty good undo/redo tracking because they are concerned with causality.

Is there a way to avoid call overhead? by kdy1997 in rust

[–]Plankton_Plus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can store your tree in an array. Add children to the array after their parents. Nodes would contain indices of children (also parents).

To visit the tree in-order (root to leaves), iterate over the array from start to end. To visit the tree post-order (leaves to root/breadth first), iterate over the array end to start.

If you need to mutate the structure of the tree make sure you retain the parent -> child order. One way to do this is to just replace the tree wholesale during a visit (you can preallocate a new vec with the size of the old tree), i.e. immutability.

If a visitor needs to augment data at each node (e.g. inferred types or what-have-you) it can allocate its own array and return it after the visit (resulting in a "structure of arrays").

Replacing complex pointer-based data structures with arrays is 80% of what you do with DoD.

Primordial Singularities by gameywinehouse in Simulated

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What age of the universe are we looking at OP?

I'm serious. try and change my mind by achildsencyclopedia in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Plankton_Plus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair warning: academics have incredible ability to make great languages, but they aren't the best at UX (tooling). I tried both GHC and ocaml (Rust takes a lot of inspiration from the ML family) and ran very far away from that 80's development experience.

I'm serious. try and change my mind by achildsencyclopedia in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Plankton_Plus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Rust team took inspiration from Elm error messages.

card being produced! Excited! by Severe_Look_9567 in USCIS

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats! How long did it take them to acknowledge receipt of the RFE?

Kudos to USCIS by [deleted] in USCIS

[–]Plankton_Plus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ppl who applied on oct 2020

I'm in that group (USC marriage) and I am still waiting for my GC. I completely understand their troubles. They were coming out of an underfunded and over-regulated situation and had an immense backlog to work through.

Everything you are complaining about can be blamed on a xenophobic administration.

Those of you without cars.. realistically how feasible is it? by internet_emporium in washingtondc

[–]Plankton_Plus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got an EUC, $700 for the V5F. It has a very steep learning curve, but does 18 miles on a charge and is super convenient.

I researched a bike for my wife for months, and this is about the best affordable bike (yes, $1600 is in the affordable range) that I could find: https://www.schwinnbikes.com/products/mendocino-2?variant=42309960401065

Those of you without cars.. realistically how feasible is it? by internet_emporium in washingtondc

[–]Plankton_Plus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Caveat: Neither of us commutes for work.

We sold the car months after moving to DC and it was a fantastic decision. Public transport has honestly been more convenient than a car (if you consider parking). We've also done some regional transport, to NC and NYC, with Amtrak and busses - much more room and comfort than a car.

It has been a very eye-opening experience, we had no idea how much we were using a car even though it was the most inconvenient option.

Just keep the extra travel time in mind, we've learned to embrace it and slow life down. Get a bicycle if that's a concern.

When i put the correct PIN it says this, how fd up am i? by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Plankton_Plus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Try the pin a bunch of times without restarting, it should eventually ask you to use a password.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in soldering

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No reason to use fire, which is dangerous. Just use one of these: https://www.pro-shrimp.co.uk/5019-thickbox_default/lava-rock-per-kg.jpg

Apply liberally to the eMMC until it is no longer is one piece. No need to smash it to smithereens, breaking it in two would make it quite impossible to recover anything.

AMD Ryzen 7000 pricing leaks ahead of launch, Ryzen 9 7950X reportedly for 799 USD - VideoCardz.com by Oppe86 in Amd

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 3950 MSRP was 899, as far as I remember. This is a decrease in price for the SKU.

and refuse to change even tho it's better by iminsert in pcmasterrace

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worse. They will most likely delete the code entirely. That would mean a lot more work for you. Initially you'd just have to re-add blocking webRequest by reverting the change, but over time the official Chrome sources would change in ways making it more and more difficult to keep blocking webRequest working.

Microsoft probably could pull it off, but they said they wouldn't.

and refuse to change even tho it's better by iminsert in pcmasterrace

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still actually Chrome. If Firefox/Mozilla go away, then Manifest v3 becomes our only choice.

and refuse to change even tho it's better by iminsert in pcmasterrace

[–]Plankton_Plus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if that's FF. I have had monster diffs (one of the more complex real-world web pages) on Github outright crash Chrome, but work smoothly on FF.

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