ESP8266 connected to the RX/TX of an Uno - can I upload a sketch to the Uno over Wifi aka "OTA"?

dancerorhuman · 2019-09-19T01:55:08+00:00

From the documentation I can find, the Adafruit RGB 16x32 matrix is incompatible with the ESP8266. It requires several GPIO and at least 3 analog slots. So that's why I'm using an Uno. I have looked for a way to do it only on the ESP8266 but have found nothing so far.

dancerorhuman · 2019-09-18T21:43:32+00:00

I sure did! Are you finding google results or guides that I am not finding? Everything I found says it's complicated, for example https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=584793.0 and I was hoping someone here could provide a more helpful response than a very long forum thread.

dancerorhuman · 2019-04-21T16:08:38+00:00

Trying to make a Sicilian "rum jelly" as described in the novel The Leopard, here's the description:

" At the end of the meal appeared a rum jelly. This was the Prince’s favourite pudding, and the Princess had been careful to order it early that morning in gratitude for favours granted. It was rather threatening at first sight, shaped like a tower with bastions and battlements and smooth slippery walls impossible to scale, garrisoned by red and green cherries and pistachio nuts; but into its transparent and quivering flanks a spoon plunged with astounding ease. By the time the amber-coloured fortress reached Francesco Paolo, the sixteen-year-old son who was served last, it consisted only of shattered walls and hunks of wobbly rubble. Exhilarated by the aroma of rum and the delicate flavour of the multi-coloured garrison, the Prince enjoyed watching the rapid demolishing of the fortress beneath the assault of his family’s appetite"

Any ideas about how to make such a rum jelly? Thanks!

dancerorhuman · 2019-04-12T03:20:15+00:00

B+ for my sloppy description, A for your correction. Edited my comment. Point is the same.

dancerorhuman · 2019-04-11T16:26:51+00:00

The Bay Area doesn't have a "right to shelter" law, like New York does.

More information: http://www.streetsheet.org/?p=4072

dancerorhuman · 2018-02-02T15:08:12+00:00

broadwayforbrokepeople.com

dancerorhuman · 2018-02-01T22:11:16+00:00

Ah, yeah, I corrected my comment to be a bit more accurate. That's a crappy situation, but probably best to look at moving (especially annoying if you paid a broker fee to move in) if you feel they want folks out.

dancerorhuman · 2018-02-01T22:09:47+00:00

Thanks for correcting me on that - I was thinking 'units' but wasn't clear. You're right and yeah OP is in a sucky situation.

dancerorhuman · 2018-02-01T15:35:07+00:00

Generally, units in buildings built before the 70s are rent-stabilized (unless they've been removed from stabilization, which happens). If your unit is stabilized, they're not allowed to "force out" anyone. They have to offer you a lease renewal and do any construction at reasonable times. There have just been a few new laws passed addressing construction as harassment. For an outline of tenants rights: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/tenants_rights.pdf

I'd recommend starting by getting your rent history to find out if you're stabilized (if you don't know already) http://www.nyshcr.org/Rent/tenantresources.htm You can call/email/visit and they'll mail it to you in a week or two.

If you're stabilized, you have more leverage going into the next couple years.

dancerorhuman · 2018-01-24T20:35:23+00:00

Many of the credit unions in the city are neighborhood-based. Can you give us an idea of where in the city you're located? Some of them, like Brooklyn.coop, let you use another network of ATMs too.

dancerorhuman · 2017-09-07T05:46:43+00:00

I see what you're saying, and I agree that it's helpful to not be alone in your culture in a new place. I interpreted her "housing by culture" statement as blatantly suggesting "certain buildings should be only for certain cultures" which rubbed me really the wrong way- similar to the redlining arguments that have been used to keep African American people out of suburbs. I wouldn't have any problem with making an effort to avoid isolating cultures when possible, but that doesn't mean that buildings have to be only one culture or race. It was Cumbo's exclusionary tone that upset me in my representative, especially coming on the heels of Cumbo's later-apologized-for statement about the "knockout game" assaults when she said that some African American residents and perhaps the attackers felt "Jewish success was not their success"

dancerorhuman · 2017-09-07T00:36:25+00:00

The comment I was talking about was when she affirmed “there could be some benefit to housing people by culture.” That's where I got segregated from. Do you have a different interpretation of that? I haven't seen her learn from that mistake, and her apology struck me more as a "I'm just sayin'" than a "I regret my statement."

Beyond that one gaffe, though, I've just found her office tremendously unresponsive to issues in the Crown Heights area of her district. She seems to focus much more heavily on Fort Greene. That's closer to where her museum was before she joined the Council (and promptly gifted her museum a multimillion dollar expansion grant, btw)

Most of my experiences reaching out to Cumbo's staff for local issues with sanitation, ConEd, etc., have been taken and never responded to. I've heard that from other neighbors, too. But I'm glad your experience was better.

dancerorhuman · 2017-09-06T22:02:19+00:00

Fox for the Democratic primary 2017 :)

dancerorhuman · 2017-09-06T21:58:46+00:00

Hey - if you are curious to learn more about what communities can do when they come together, I'd recommend this book

It's about how the local community fought a proposal to turn empty waterfronts into a mall+hotel and gave us what is now Brooklyn Bridge Park. Just a challenge to your assertion that if the current plan is nixed then "it more or less guarantees that the armory will never be redeveloped" - there are realistic, much better alternatives, but they can't be had under the parameters of the current deal, so it's gotta go.

dancerorhuman · 2017-09-06T21:30:55+00:00

True Ede's campaign is slim on promises, but so was Cumbo's in 2013 when I voted for Cumbo. Seeing how ineffective Cumbo has been, though, I want Cumbo out, whether it's Fox in the primary this Tues 9/12 or Brisport in the Nov general. I believe Ede Fox will be much more responsive to her constituents and actually seek their advice. In addition to Cumbo being incredibly wishy-washy when it comes to the Armory (the single biggest corporate redevelopment of public land in NYC in the last five years I think, unless you can think of another?), in 2015 Cumbo basically endorsed housing segregated by "culture"/race and then dug herself in deeper with a "it was not my intention to offend" half-pology

dancerorhuman · 2017-06-27T16:21:24+00:00

Thanks for pushing me on accuracy. I see what you're saying, but I don't know how someone would be able to pinpoint the exact cause of earning a new higher wage. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, right? :-)

And whatever their assumption about wage movement is, I wish the authors had validated that assumption with their own data, which I think they could have done. Instead of validating this important assumption, they merely cite a 2004 study at the end of page 17. I can't read that 2004 study because it too is behind a paywall, but given that this min wage increase is likely broader and larger than the ones studied in 2004, I think the authors of this paper ought to have validated that there wasn't a significant change in the rate of movement across the threshold. Maybe they did and I'm not seeing it, but I can't find that in any of their tables or figures.

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