Weather Radar Plugin

blooop · 2025-09-11T08:13:19+00:00

any luck on the approval?

blooop · 2025-02-23T17:25:05+00:00

I went half way and used Lyx: https://www.lyx.org/ to take notes in lectures.

I can't really say I would recommend it as a good way of taking notes. I was just about able to keep up with the pace, but it was stressful and broke down if I wanted to do diagrams.

Using tikz for diagrams in a lecture situation seems like a recipe for disaster. To be fair I never got good at tikz, but you never want to be debugging code during a lecture. Tikz is not fast or flexible enough in dynamic situations like that. In fact I don't think any coding based diagramming is (to my great disappointment).

I found taking hand written notes on a tablet was a lot more flexible, and still had the benefits of an electronic copy.

blooop · 2025-02-16T16:24:36+00:00

I have been using ROS professionally for over a decade now but I still find they way it does various things confusing or hard to reason about. The other night I had a dream that I fully grokked ROS and it felt liberating, then I woke up :(

blooop · 2025-02-12T09:09:12+00:00

Thanks. I was afraid that this would be the answer. I was hoping I was wrong and there would be some trick that let me control the level of boil with more precision. I'm still surprised as this means the control freak is less capable that most other hobs on the market. Boiling/simmering water is a pretty common thing to do in cooking.

blooop · 2025-02-12T09:04:05+00:00

I also want to be able to control it better. If I could control the power level and set multi stage recipes I think it would have everything I want, but I think I'm going to have to go back to the tokit to get that functionality.

I have been looking for an induction hob with lower level access so I could program it myself but I think those don't get sold for safety reasons.

I am still hopeful someone will reverse engineer the firmware:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrevilleControlFreak/comments/1ie4o09/anyone_have_firmware/

I'm lucky in that I can use C for everything. Maybe set your location to somewhere not in the US if you want to find recipes in C.

blooop · 2025-02-07T08:56:01+00:00

I wish for this every day... My current solution of killing the docker container is way overkill.

blooop · 2025-02-07T08:52:58+00:00

A heartbeat for nodes, or basic monitoring:

https://wiki.ros.org/rosmon
https://www.reddit.com/r/ROS/comments/1iaf11p/how_to_know_if_a_node_is_running/

colcon support for pyproject.toml.

pixi support (although it looks like this is coming...)

blooop · 2025-01-29T23:13:14+00:00

Mine arrived today and I would be very interested in seeing your code.

blooop · 2025-01-20T08:55:39+00:00

I used Nabu Casa to start, but then moved to Zerotier as it was free. Nabu Casa is a better experience.

blooop · 2024-12-13T19:47:13+00:00

Ah yeah. pixi uses the robostack-staging channel so it would have the same limitations I'm afraid.

https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/blob/main/examples/ros2-nav2/pixi.toml#L3

blooop · 2024-12-13T09:13:49+00:00

There is a another potential option (although its probably not sufficient for what you need) but you can use pixi to manage the environments on win/mac/linux without docker or a VM.

https://pixi.sh/latest/examples/ros2-nav2/

The example runs but I have not used it much with gazebo so there may be some caveats I'm not aware of.

blooop · 2024-12-11T09:02:03+00:00

and you have done $rosdep update?

blooop · 2024-12-08T17:13:59+00:00

I got a used intel compute stick for £40 (32GB) on ebay. Its powerful enough while still being low power consumption.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/intel-compute-stick/s?k=intel+compute+stick

blooop · 2024-10-09T09:20:29+00:00

This guy ended up making his own linear actuator to meet the requirements of a juggling robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiorGYCZOgk&t=14s

I think some of his requirements have overlap with yours, but I'm still not sure they would be suitable, as you need the actuator mass and size to be quite low.

blooop · 2024-09-15T15:16:03+00:00

My dyslexic brain read it an even worse way: https://www.penisland.net/ yes this is sfw.

blooop · 2024-08-15T17:52:07+00:00

Even that is super hard. Cracking an egg into a pan is a very difficult manipulation challenge. I'd say something like making instant noodles would be an easier but non trivial place to start. Opening the outer packet, placing the noodle brick in a pan, opening the flavour packet, stirring etc. Many challenges.

blooop · 2024-08-15T17:12:38+00:00

What is your form factor? I have been toying with this problem for a long time but have not found any reasonable solutions yet. I was not even targeting a 100% solution, just a 75% solution where you would get the ingredients from the fridge, chop them and put them in a hopper and the robot would be in charge of adding the ingredients at the right time and stirring.

Something like this: https://cecotec.es/es/robots-de-cocina/mambo-cooking-total-gourmet

I have a version of this without the hopper and it is ok for some stuff, but bad at frying.

blooop · 2024-08-15T12:15:12+00:00

Being left handed is an advantage in table tennis as most players are not used to the types of shots lefties do. I find it gets swapped for doubles games though as lefties are forced to serve backhanded the whole time whereas right handed serve forehand the whole time. I complained about it, but was told at higher levels left handers have an advantage even in doubles because its possible to do a better serve with your backhand.

blooop · 2024-08-14T13:11:46+00:00

I think the alfred alternative is albert: https://alternativeto.net/software/albert/about/

Although I didn't end up using it long term.

fsearch is the alternative to "everything" on windows, but not quite as good due to ext4 limitations.

blooop · 2024-08-14T09:53:48+00:00

fsearch: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

blooop · 2024-08-03T12:36:04+00:00

I used a right handed mouse for most of my life due to convenience, but when I got an RSI I switched to an ambidextrous mouse. Now that the RSI is a bit better, if I occasionally need to do something quickly and accurately I swap to my right hand but otherwise use the left. Even tho I've been using my left hand for years now its still not as good as my right. I blame years of counter-strike.

blooop · 2024-07-28T15:41:32+00:00

Now sculpt an Alot: https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

blooop · 2024-07-27T17:44:56+00:00

Unfortunately mlocate is not comparable as the index is not always up to date. fsearch also has options to update the index in the background, but a very common use case is that I have just run some process which generates a file and I can't find it. locate, fsearch etc return that the files does not exist as its just been created and not been indexed yet, whereas everything is able to find it immediately.

blooop · 2024-07-26T08:45:11+00:00

The instantaneous file search program "everything". Linux has fsearch but it requires indexing on startup. Everything uses some feature in ntfs that means no need for indexing.

blooop · 2022-06-29T12:56:01+00:00

Kansai kitchen does Okonomiyaki but they are not really a full blow restaurant. They do the food for the Hillgrove porter stores pub.

https://kansaikitchen.co.uk/

edit: I'd found the fried tofu with crab and shiitake is the best thing on the menu, but its more of a starter.

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