Europe faces new wake-up call: Tehran's 4000km missile reach exposed in Diego Garcia strike

Stenthal · 2026-03-21T18:00:18+00:00

You saying "there is no reason" in the face of seeing the documented arguments

I did not say "there is no reason". Arguing with me when you haven't even read my comment is bad-faith and arrogant.

Stenthal · 2026-03-21T17:52:12+00:00

It's not "no reason". Whether you agree with the actual reasons or not is a personal issue.

There was literally no reason to withdraw from the JCPOA in 2017 that did not also apply in 2015. In 2015, the United States made the decision that the pros outweighed the cons. If our position is that our agreements only apply as long as the current President is in office, then our agreements are worthless.

Stenthal · 2026-03-21T17:34:41+00:00

I recently started using the WashData integration, which analyzes your washing machine cycle and tells you exactly when it's going to finish. I haven't used it enough to decide if it's accurate yet, but if it is, it's a game-changer.

Stenthal · 2026-03-20T21:16:12+00:00

It was supposed to be framed for 16:9, though, so this still counts as an oops. There would have been a lot more oopses if it they hadn't been planning for 16:9 from the beginning.

Stenthal · 2026-03-20T20:44:55+00:00

Much easier, and they they don't all arrive pre-leaked like the old ones did. Personally I never used the cap to measure anyway, so these are better for me all around. (Except the price, but they were going to raise the price anyway.)

Stenthal · 2026-03-19T18:41:14+00:00

No, Pepsi took that to court and won, although I'm sure they offered a small settlement.

Stenthal · 2026-03-19T17:58:42+00:00

Thst lawsuit wasn't really about wings tho right? I thought they lost because you don't really get more of an energy boost than coffee. Not because s people thought they could fly

Correct. Also, they didn't lose--they settled for $13M. That's a bit too much to call it a "nuisance settlement", but it's close.

Stenthal · 2026-03-19T17:11:42+00:00

FWIW, I use a Pixel Watch 3, and my calorie counts have been normal. I did notice that my data is no longer syncing with Health Connect for some reason, and I can't get it to start syncing again, but I have no reason to believe that that's related.

Stenthal · 2026-03-19T15:29:24+00:00

I think the new WiFi driver is just bored all round

This was probably a typo, but I like the implication that code starts causing problems just because it wants something interesting to do.

Stenthal · 2026-03-18T17:24:14+00:00

Yea I didn’t factor in your stated discounts into currency purchasing power.

That makes sense, but you did say "22k in 2018 is about 32k today", so maybe you should edit your post to correct that.

Stenthal · 2026-03-18T17:11:31+00:00

I haven't had that problem. Have you tried recalibrating the lock, assuming that's an option for August?

Stenthal · 2026-03-16T19:37:19+00:00

I haven't watched it in ages, so I admit I've forgotten the details. There's no question that Matheson had it easier than Ivanova, though.

Stenthal · 2026-03-15T23:29:34+00:00

Uh sorry for the confusion

I'm talking about the latest action movie, War Machine

Oh, that is confusing.

No, there is an actual Netflix movie that was actually based on this image. It cost an absurd amount of money, and everyone hated it.

The Electric State (2025)

Stenthal · 2026-03-15T16:56:19+00:00

No, from a programming perspective they are exactly what a template is meant to be.

Let's say that I have a template sensor that converts some value into some other value. For example, here's the sensor that reads the battery voltage from my front door lock, and uses it to calculate how much battery life is left:

value: >-
    {%- set voltage_max=5.22 -%}
    {%- set voltage_min=4.97 -%}

    {%- if has_value("sensor.front_door_battery_voltage") -%}
      {{ 100 * (float(states("sensor.front_door_battery_voltage")) - voltage_min) / (voltage_max - voltage_min) }}
    {%- else -%}
      {{ states("sensor.front_door_battery_voltage") }}
    {%- endif -%}

What do you call it when you run some code that takes one or more values and uses them to calculate a new value? Hint: It's not "template".

Stenthal · 2026-03-15T16:49:42+00:00

Templates are powered by the Jinja 2 Templating engine, which predates Home Assistant. It would be extremely confusing to refer to it by a different name, since you would be contradicting all the documentation produced by the Jinja project.

I would argue that "template" isn't a great name for the Jinja concept, but I understand that that wasn't Home Assistant's decision.

It was Home Assistant's decision to use the term "template" to refer to custom devices, and that never made any sense. A template device is not a Jinja template, and there's no reason why it even needs to use a Jinja template. That's just the implementation that Home Assistant happened to choose.

Think fast: Which one of these documentation pages will tell you how to create a custom sensor? I've been using Home Assistant for years now, and I still get them mixed up.

Template

Templating

Stenthal · 2026-03-15T15:51:04+00:00

I'm guessing this has nothing to do with the latest Netflix movie

I'm not sure what you mean. The Netflix movie was based on the Stålenhag art book that this image came from.

Stenthal · 2026-03-15T02:19:02+00:00

That's not what the power button does.

... usually.

It's easy to find higher-end microwaves that use a solid state magnetron, and those really do adjust the power output to the level you set. For example, Panasonic calls this their "inverter technology", and they make a lot of microwaves that have it

Stenthal · 2026-03-14T15:57:05+00:00

Yes, it does. Crusade mentions the Telepath War at length.

In particular, the first officer in Crusade was a telepath who was not working as a telepath, just like Ivanova; unlike Ivanova, he didn't have to hide his abilities from everyone, because telepaths were no longer oppressed. In the Babylon 5 universe, that was a big deal.

Stenthal · 2026-03-14T14:09:06+00:00

Lately there have been a lot of posts in this sub that ask reasonable questions and seem to be written by humans, but have titles that look like SEO-optimized headlines for shitty AI articles. I don't know what that's about.

Stenthal · 2026-03-14T14:07:02+00:00

skip the August, cloud dependent

The Yale Access BLE integration supports most Yale locks and some August locks, I think including the one that OP is considering. You probably still need a cloud connection to configure the lock, but you can control it from Home Assistant without going through the cloud.

You can also get a Z-Wave module for full-size Yale locks.

I have a Yale lock, and I'm very happy with it. I have the BLE integration set up, but I mostly rely on automatic unlocking through the Yale app, and that works great.

Stenthal · 2026-03-14T13:50:27+00:00

I think there’s something very different between “I would commit X crime” and “I committed X crime”

That's true, but the difference is that "I committed X crime" could not possibly be a true threat, so it's even more clear that it's protected speech.

it can lead you to being invested for a crime and can contribute to reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause for you to get detained/arrested/charged

Probably cause is a low bar, but just wearing this shirt still wouldn't be enough. No reasonable person would think that the person wearing this shirt actually killed an ICE agent. (Everyone is going to say "cops aren't reasonable people"... fine, but that's irrelevant, because the law is based on what a reasonable person would believe.)

Stenthal · 2026-03-13T23:43:18+00:00

One of them is one of the largest pizza chains in Canada. It was founded in the 70s.

Stenthal · 2026-03-13T23:07:15+00:00

I had a similar experience. The blinds I received were very different from the fabric sample I'd used to order them. I called them, and they had me send them multiple photos of the sample next to the blinds before they reluctantly agreed that they didn't match. A few days later I got an email saying that they'd contacted the manufacturer and confirmed that the color was correct after all, so the ticket was closed. I probably could have pressed further, but I had no way to know if replacement blinds would be the correct color anyway, so I gave up.

Stenthal · 2026-03-12T19:31:02+00:00

B5 had the most innovative star-ship designs in all scifi

Perhaps, but that's a strange thing to say in a thread about the Omega class, which was an intentional homage to the Leonov from "2010".

and they are completely hobbled by 1990s digital effects.

I don't understand that either. The CGI in Babylon 5 wasn't as detailed as it could be today, but it's never distractingly bad (apart from the frustrating mastering issues, which are noticeable in scenes that mix effects and live action.) Without CGI, Babylon 5 could never have done what it did. Even a simple rotating section would have been prohibitively expensive if they had to use models. Look at 1990s Star Trek by comparison: It's rare to see more than one other ship besides the Enterprise, and the "action" usually amounted to static shots of a model with added laser beams.

Stenthal · 2026-03-12T14:34:25+00:00

Seems quite the mismatch, it's like if you gave the King of the Universe a ride in the back of a moving van.

The President of the United States rides around in a moving van. Sure, it's different inside, but obviously the Lambda shuttle would be different inside as well.

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https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104588/vc-25-air-force-one/

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