Notices by Ignas Kiela (ignaloidas@not.acu.lt)

@toast@donotsta.re I'd say it's only annoying when you're traveling far and it's a strike of some local group tbh

e.g. if I planned to go to fosdem rn, it's kinda annoying for me to make sure that some belgian strike won't happen those days

@whitequark@mastodon.social optimizing that is watching speedruns

@snacks@netzsphaere.xyz complicates PnP I think, but probably also complicates the power delivery side of things as well

I understand why it's like this, but it still hurts

@toast@donotsta.re you can do anything you want in an emc chamber 😉

@whitequark@mastodon.social the cost of that singapore server, yikes

@whitequark@mastodon.social I mean, he's not wrong - common plants indeed need oxygen to grow

just that they need more than that

@toast@donotsta.re I haven't met people like that yet

I guess I should be thankful for people recruiting for companies I work(ed) for

@toast@donotsta.re it's more that I don't want to constantly deal with it

there's plenty of stuff where if it's like a once or twice per year - sure, can do, but if it's constant, then it becomes a slog

@toast@donotsta.re oof

somewhat related - what do when you can read some language, and occasionally hack on projects written in it, but don't know how to write/don't want to primarily work with it? I feel like it's a bit of a weird thing to describe in the CV

@whitequark@mastodon.social this made me hyperventilate

and I'm not even a chemist

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me more like fixed point because entities and stuff, but yeah

sure, some calculations become more annoying to write, but that's more of a tooling issue.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me a floating point error classic

Also why I feel that floting point is the wrong choice for games (you literally waste half of the total precision on the first block, there's zero reason for that shit).

@quad@akko.quad.moe noooooo dont

I think I already chatted with you about how anything IoT that doesn't have to be wireless, shouldn't

@feld@friedcheese.us @quad@akko.quad.moe and starts to work worse and worse after you have more than like 15 devices

Wireless - not even once

@feld@friedcheese.us @quad@akko.quad.moe the theoretical limits have nothing to do with it - every device, just by existing, is eating up the available bandwidth (and there's not a lot of it), and after a point it turns to shit because the communication is no longer reliable

@feld@friedcheese.us @quad@akko.quad.moe every device shares the bandwidth. Doesn't matter that each one only needs a couple tens of b/s on average, when the total channel bandwidth is on the order of a tens of kilobytes, you simply run out after a bunch fo devices. Same with LoRa, and any wireless standard in general. The device count question is largely theorethical, because after a point, the "connected" devices no longer have a useful bandwidth. This get's worse with meshes by the way, each hop essentially uses up double the bandwitdh.

And yeah, farms use LoRa, at 2-3 sensors per acre - that's way less sensors than you'd have at, and at distances where meshing actually starts making sense, because the overlap between wireless ranges of separate devices is low enough that the double transmissions affect a very small portion of devices.And this doesn't even get into the problem of "how does your wired solution allow you to control 3-way dimming light switches while also allowing the physical switch to function too?"THE FUCKING 3-WAY DIMMING SWITCH IS FUCKING WIRED IN TO MAINS, WHY THE FUCK DOES IT NEED TO BE WIRELESS, JUST RUN A FUCKING CABLE TO ITI control the thermostat and ventilation by controller exhaust fans based on indoor and outdoor air quality and temperatures. You want me to run wires everywhere for that? Ridiculous.It's not hard, and if you have that kind of control, you (partially) renovated your home - wiring it up isn't that much harder, it avoids many of the problems, and you most likely HAVE WIRES RUNNING TO ALL OF THESE THINGS ALREADY

@feld@friedcheese.us @quad@akko.quad.moe Is your phone talking Z-Wave? No, it isn't.

@feld@friedcheese.us @quad@akko.quad.moe for lighting - DALI + whatever DALI hub you want to use, many have plenty of integrations

@feld@friedcheese.us @quad@akko.quad.moe if your home is built like shit, then I guess you indeed can't do it without ripping the walls.

But then, why are you spending a whole bunch of money on fancy gadgets for a house where you couldn't even add extra wiring?

"stupid rich people shit" is actually the "have people that know better shit"