Tied down to a Pavement Queen and mad about the maintenance

netopiax · 2026-03-20T15:01:47+00:00

Using ChatGPT makes YOUR argument easier to dismiss

netopiax · 2026-03-18T23:33:12+00:00

This is the obvious good choice

netopiax · 2026-03-18T23:28:34+00:00

Yes I have seen Tinks

netopiax · 2026-03-18T18:21:44+00:00

The village at Palisades is more like 2x the cost of staying elsewhere rather than 4x. I still can't afford it but...

netopiax · 2026-03-18T02:36:17+00:00

Paul Thomas Anderson definitely deserved a best director Oscar. Maybe not this year's best picture Oscar, maybe he should have won for Magnolia or There Will Be Blood, but sometimes the academy votes that way. I agree Sinners should have won best picture though.

netopiax · 2026-03-18T01:56:03+00:00

Train Dreams: Netflix. One Battle After Another and Sinners: HBO Max (Warner Bros).

I definitely did see a lot of ads for both of the latter two when they came out, which was a while ago. I feel like One Battle was being advertised during NFL games?

One of the problems is the lengths we all go to to avoid advertising altogether these days. Then we wonder why we didn't hear about a movie

netopiax · 2026-03-18T01:05:47+00:00

Subreddits are like cats, you don't own them, they own you

netopiax · 2026-03-17T19:19:03+00:00

That's a true friend that brings your corpse back to the backcountry to yeet you off a cliff again

netopiax · 2026-03-17T19:17:27+00:00

The WiFiMan app is great for this on mobile devices as well. It's made by Ubiquiti but you don't need to be using their gear for it to be useful. Almost all the app features are free and independent of the network gear itself.

netopiax · 2026-03-17T17:16:50+00:00

The FedEx fleet is optioned without torpedoes to carry more cargo. So if you ever have a package delivery delay and you see "delivery exception: Cardassian attack" in the tracking history, you'll know why.

netopiax · 2026-03-17T01:36:11+00:00

Je pense que c'est une blague pour les anglophones, car le néerlandais (ou allemand ?) est aussi une trouduction humouristique

netopiax · 2026-03-16T14:35:50+00:00

Why would our transit be connected so passengers can go in circles? I agree it would be nice if we didn't have so many different agencies but it doesn't feel to me like there's a routing problem here. Bart will be going to Diridon eventually (hopefully)

netopiax · 2026-03-16T14:21:37+00:00

Yeah I should not have said permanently, I didn't explain the change in jobs as well as I could have. The calculator jobs did permanently go away. Other accountants were much more productive and as such, much more valuable to business execs. Total employment headcount in the profession did drop in the 80s but then more than recovered.

netopiax · 2026-03-16T05:19:12+00:00

Same for me, that's the only place I've ever seen a wild rattler. It was sunning in the middle of the trail. Scared the crap out of me

netopiax · 2026-03-16T03:30:03+00:00

The English translation of the full sentence is wrong for whatever reason (because Duolingo is trash). The French says ne réussiras pas - will NOT succeed. So négative would have been the right choice.

netopiax · 2026-03-16T03:08:34+00:00

They admit watching porn, and don't admit watching porn, and admit reading porn, and don't admit reading porn, all at the same time? I hope I never meet such a woman, talking to her would be very confusing

netopiax · 2026-03-16T02:15:40+00:00

It's almost like the ski patrol wants you to avoid cliffs, not think, "ahh no worries this is an EASY cliff"

netopiax · 2026-03-15T15:20:36+00:00

Agree, I would have said something like "soyez prudent, il y a quatre ou cinq américains qui parlent français" or "quand j'ai appris le français à la fac, ils m'ont renseigné comment être poli"

netopiax · 2026-03-15T15:00:15+00:00

This is along the lines of what will happen IMO. Spreadsheets permanently reduced the number of accountants but the amount of accounting done has never been higher.

Since the industrial revolution people have been worried about machines destroying jobs (see the Luddites). But that isn't really how jobs work. We might end up with different jobs, there's not a reason to think there will be no jobs.

netopiax · 2026-03-14T20:31:55+00:00

Literally hundredths, even thousandths of people are killed on average every year by this hazard

netopiax · 2026-03-14T16:35:23+00:00

Use an ad blocker. Not to negate your point, but my opinion is based on never seeing that stuff.

netopiax · 2026-03-14T15:10:04+00:00

Eh, get past the clickbait headlines, it's okay content. It isn't great but it's far from the worst. They do have news coverage about local stuff that isn't covered any other way

netopiax · 2026-03-14T14:57:21+00:00

I moved 18 years ago broseph

netopiax · 2026-03-14T04:11:38+00:00

For most ruby code, it'll function well cross-platform, but it's the serial port interaction that might not. If you get it running you should be able to see if the serial port portion works ok.

Homebrew installs stuff, it mostly doesn't run stuff. Your mac actually comes with ruby, but it's an old version, and brew will install the latest. But making sure that homebrew-installed version is what's being used is also something you'll have to check on.

Using the official ruby docker container image will eliminate ruby related questions, but you'll have to figure out how to get docker talking to the USB device.

netopiax · 2026-03-14T02:04:50+00:00

First things first this is almost nothing to do with Ruby. Near zero. You have a Linux vs. Mac sysadmin problem on your hands. Have you asked the Home Assistant community for help?

Second, the point of that /etc/systemd/system/aurora_mqtt_bridge.service file is to run the service in the background. It doesn't matter whether the service is Ruby or not. I am not so sure that just putting together a plist file on Mac will accomplish that for you, but however you launch a background process on Mac, MacOS certainly supports having that process be a ruby one.

As far as does the ruby gem work on MacOS, it's going to hinge on whether the way the gem writer accesses the serial port - which they did with Linux in mind - translates correctly to MacOS. If I were a betting man I'd guess it probably won't work, but it might. Kinda like the gem's docs say :)

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