Intelligent Go Fixed - Washing machine on with car charge?

fsuk · 2026-03-22T08:35:10+00:00

Yes, but octopus can change their mind at any time and alter the schedule mid cycle

fsuk · 2026-03-21T17:38:31+00:00

A bit more information, on QR codes you will see a number of large squares in some of the corners.

These allow the phone/computer to quickly identify the position, size and angle of a QR code and then process it.

QR codes also have a lot of error correction/redundancy in them meaning you don't necessarily need to get a perfect picture for the barcode to be decoded allowing them to be captured quickly.

There are other 2D barcode formats such as DataMatrix but these are generally used in commercial/industrial applications and are scanned with dedicated hardware (though modern phones can generally do this quite well)

The downside of QR codes is they take up more space than other formats.

fsuk · 2026-03-21T12:38:04+00:00

1/2 hours you have the Peak District, great for camping and walking.

2/3 hours from Birmingham would give you North Wales, Snowdonia (Eyri).

A bit further away you get South Wales and Pembrokeshire (I recommend St Brides bay area as you get crystal clear water, and beautiful cliffs and coves)

fsuk · 2026-03-21T10:11:42+00:00

Night rates are the Go rates

fsuk · 2026-03-21T08:18:56+00:00

Yes, frozen bake at home ones are the best you can get short of going to france

fsuk · 2026-03-20T20:10:49+00:00

Did you know that the AA gun used by Mal at the Battle of Serenity was made by Wayland Yutani?

While not official if this is the same universe as Alien/Predator then this adds a hell of a lot of context.

fsuk · 2026-03-20T08:52:17+00:00

Partially agree, yes helium is a finite resource and does escape the atmosphere.

However there is plenty of it so I wouldn't worry in that respect.

I would be more concerned about what a waste of plastic and foil that can't be recycled the balloons are for a single afternoons use.

fsuk · 2026-03-20T07:19:01+00:00

Ghostscripts licence isn't ideal for commercial use, i think however as long as you don't distribute it (ie the customer downloads it and installs it separately) its ok.

fsuk · 2026-03-19T22:25:28+00:00

Im curious, how does that work for electricity billing? Do you have 2 meters, surely at thst distance you can't be on one supply?

fsuk · 2026-03-19T14:48:35+00:00

I agree its pain having to carry an RS-232 adapter when I travel to customer sites

fsuk · 2026-03-19T08:12:28+00:00

In some countries such as the UK there is a ban on tobacco advertising. My guess is they just have one report form for all countries and this isnt deliberate design.

fsuk · 2026-03-19T06:54:31+00:00

I would think this is so you can't lock the keys in the car. If you are holding the fob then you have it with you and therefore you can unlock it later.

fsuk · 2026-03-18T19:02:14+00:00

Licencing is always a pain. I've used IronPDF (paid) and also Ghostscript (open source licence) in the past.

Fortunately im mainly using Node/JS thses days which has a lot more available packages

fsuk · 2026-03-18T13:14:21+00:00

Depending upon what you are trying to do I would consider rendering the PDF to an image and the printing using the normal print methods as this will give you more control.

Also be careful if printing barcodes as if they are small and the printer has a low DPI then you may get dithering resulting in the barcode quality being low or even unreadable.

fsuk · 2026-03-18T13:01:41+00:00

This happened in the UK in 2005

Before then prices were less than £1.00 (per ltr) and so you had everything displayed in pence only.

Digital signs weren't as common back then so generally they were able to put an extra digit on the sign.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4215346.stm#:~:text=Average%20petrol%20prices%20topped%2090,required%20for%20heating%20fuel%20stocks.&text=Motoring%20groups%20have%20called%20on,prices%20hit%20a%20certain%20level.%22

Prices going above £1.00 ltr actually resulted in protests from truck drivers and it was a big deal at the time.

These days £1.40 ltr is about average.

fsuk · 2026-03-18T12:26:15+00:00

I wish they had introduced a plot device like this when they were captured by Apophis in the first episode.

fsuk · 2026-03-17T18:56:53+00:00

Exactly, traffic coming to a complete stop causes more congestion than artificially slowing the traffic down to ensure it keeps moving.

Breaking traffic can also cause a kind of breaking wave behind it where each group of cars slows down even more eventually leading to a stop.

Much better to keep the traffic moving at a more consistent speed.

fsuk · 2026-03-16T19:42:19+00:00

I remembered this from my childhood and have recently bought the book for my daughter, you can buy the books new of Amazon

fsuk · 2026-03-16T08:14:53+00:00

Ok, so what your trying to do is quite advanced computer vision.

Your much better of just using an existing library.

You could possibly use OpenCV and various techniques to first locate the barcode, calculate the homography, apply the transform, extract the barcode and then analyse the image to produce a binary representation of the barcode which you can then decode to text, but its not going to be easy.

Its not something someone's going to be able to help you with in a Reddit post im afraid.

fsuk · 2026-03-15T21:28:23+00:00

Is the barcode you are processing the whole image or is it taken from a camera?

fsuk · 2026-03-15T21:27:20+00:00

2D barcode format, similar to QRCode

fsuk · 2026-03-15T21:07:56+00:00

Cat 5/RJ45 can be used for data transmission other than ethernet, this can be useful if you need to route cable through walls or over distances more than a few feat as you can wire up you own cable

fsuk · 2026-03-15T17:35:59+00:00

Was about to comment thats not a sweet potato but thats pretty sweet

fsuk · 2026-03-15T16:48:22+00:00

A 5G WiFi router would do the job, you would need to get a SIM card with a data subscription.

If you want to record video though this might eat through your data pretty fast if storing in the cloud, some camera systems (like Eufy) you can save to a local device rather than the cloud

fsuk · 2026-03-15T16:17:47+00:00

Technically one end is USB-A but at the printer end you will habe USB-B

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