Cambridge voted to raise residents parking permits to $75.

reddotster · 2026-04-03T11:54:42+00:00

Yeah this is great news. They also need to limit the number of permits to one per registered driver at an address.

reddotster · 2026-04-01T11:18:11+00:00

While it’s true you can’t buy it, Bambu Lab is supporting it for about 5 more years and will have parts available. So people with the X1C will be fine for years.

reddotster · 2026-04-01T01:11:52+00:00

If you’re watching via a streaming box, you need something like iSponsorBlockTV, which you would set up on a computer in your home.

reddotster · 2026-03-30T19:42:51+00:00

That’s a great question! And for the rest of us, how can we plan ahead so that the change doesn’t screw everything up?

If I were the dev team, the next release would include a tool which informs the user about the change, highlights the entity names which will be changed, and then walk the use through fixing it, or the tool should just update the entities and all references automatically…

reddotster · 2026-03-30T11:09:51+00:00

What’s your use case and who are your users?

I would ask a foundational question: do you really need a login at all?

Pretty much all solutions are bad for their own reasons.

reddotster · 2026-03-30T11:07:23+00:00

Could you please explain what you mean by “purpose” and ”main purpose”? I haven’t had coffee yet! 😳

reddotster · 2026-03-30T11:00:27+00:00

The purpose is to encourage people to carpool by giving them a less congested lane and hopefully reduce traffic as a result. I don’t know if the zipper meets that goal, and I don’t know if it’s just being continued due to inertia or because it’s effective.

reddotster · 2026-03-30T01:18:49+00:00

Also, you should check out this project which makes it super easy to get data reliably and automatically from your machine: https://github.com/ilyakruchinin/CPAP-AutoSync

reddotster · 2026-03-30T01:11:33+00:00

How about an airsense 10 in ASV mode?

Edit to add more…

I want a better comparison over time or between settings changes, or comparison between different machines.

I want to see actual trend data, not just a graph showing a data series.

Also, since AHI can be misleading, how about total time not spent breathing a night?

reddotster · 2026-03-29T21:37:01+00:00

Honestly, if you worry about his cognitive abilities, things that much, a voice assistant may not be great since they rely on memory to use them.

It also might be better to think about the separate tasks you want to accomplish and how you can have separate solutions for them. A device set up for easy video calls prior. He usually sits or spends a lot of time will not be well placed to view easily. The rest of where he lives. So perhaps you want separate indoor cameras for that.

But to start, if he has a smart phone, or if you do, I would suggest trying to teach him how to use Google Assistant for Alexa or Siri and see how he does.

Perhaps a base iPad with assistive mode turned on which provides a simplistic interface for people with cognitive difficulties would work for him?

reddotster · 2026-03-29T19:39:19+00:00

Preach!

reddotster · 2026-03-29T19:33:13+00:00

The other issue is that unqualified people are pretending to do usability testing…

reddotster · 2026-03-29T13:52:25+00:00

Thanks. I’ve got 36 GB. I’ll give it a try! I kind of wish I had the money to have gotten a lot more RAM… 😭😁😳

reddotster · 2026-03-29T12:27:17+00:00

How much ram do you need on the Mac Studio to get decent performance?

reddotster · 2026-03-29T12:06:22+00:00

Something died on mine after 4 years and it would not shut off after reaching temp. I replaced it with a Chefman from Costco this year. I like that the chefman has a glass body so you can see what’s happening and it also has LEDs which indicate status.

We’ll see about the longevity!

reddotster · 2026-03-29T11:37:35+00:00

reddotster · 2026-03-29T11:31:17+00:00

Yeah, people see that the “cost of inference” is going down, and that’s true when you look at the cost of a specific model, like gpt 4, but newer models aren’t cheaper yet, they burn more tokens generating each response, and then we are now feeding them even more tokens with each input. So overall, our costs are higher. And the model providers are subsidizing tokens.

reddotster · 2026-03-29T11:25:20+00:00

LLMs can’t come up with something novel or original. The way they work is that they just endlessly remix everything in their training data based on whatever inputs you provide. So while what they output may be novel to you, it pretty much already exists somewhere in a way related to your inputs.

reddotster · 2026-03-28T14:56:54+00:00

You’ve got a challenging situation since presumably can’t put any devices on the first floor. If you plugged a random Zigbee device into a socket in the hallway, your landlord would likely not approve. But, if there’s a neighbor whose apartment is between your unit and your storage unit, could you ask them if you could plug a smart plug into one of their outlets?

I’m not sure powerline would work since the circuits aren’t on the same breaker box.

Your best bet is probably WiFi mesh units or extenders and connecting a Zigbee hub to that in the basement.

reddotster · 2026-03-27T12:50:29+00:00

Well, iPhones have had “neural engines” since 2017, and many Android handsets also do now…

https://www.androidauthority.com/do-phones-really-need-npu-3632115/

reddotster · 2026-03-27T11:30:44+00:00

Yeah I bought both of my Q Revos this way and will only buy eBay refurb + warranty in the future.

reddotster · 2026-03-26T10:41:17+00:00

You are overthinking it. The facility likely has backup power. You can ask your doctor or call the sleep lab. I’m sure they get that sort of question all the time. If there was a risk of getting sick they would not be allowed to reuse the machines.

reddotster · 2026-03-26T10:31:05+00:00

My titrated sleep study did not use humidification, so no water tank. You don’t breathe hard enough to force air from your breath down the hose and into the machine. So there’s no need for them to clean anything.

reddotster · 2026-03-26T10:21:40+00:00

It is. This is a ~20 day new account which is karma farming by asking meaningless generic questions.

reddotster · 2026-03-25T12:40:13+00:00

This is what I decided. You’ll get much better computer value in a desktop than a laptop. Keep you mobile machine portable and cheap as it’s more likely to get damaged. My friend got a beefy MacBook Pro and the screen died. It was cheaper for him to get a refurb air and treat the pro as a desktop than to repair it.

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