Heavybell

Heavybell , 8 hours ago

Income tax is such a bitch to deal with. I used to support the idea of replacing it with GST/VAT because then I’d not have to deal with it. But then someone pointed out that disproportionately benefits the rich (who mostly just hold wealth rather than spend it) and disadvantages the poor (who cannot avoid paying for things).

So fuck it. Make it all income tax and get rid of the others! :P

(In before this is also a bad idea somehow)

Heavybell , 6 hours ago

Darn it, you’re right.

Heavybell , 8 hours ago

So I have never actually understood the name of this meme. Why “supply side”? What does that mean?

Heavybell , 6 hours ago

Ahhh, thank you.

Heavybell , 1 day ago

Man, I really liked LoL once, around what they dubbed S2 and maybe still in S3. But then the pace of changes got too much, and also the types of changes. Every now and then I’d think about checking out where it’s at, but now they bundle that awful anticheat malware of theirs that’ll never happen again.

Heavybell , 4 days ago

1. Ban anti-Russian separatism.
2. Annex territory. It’s part of Russia now.
3. Arrest anyone who isn’t jazzed about being annexed under new law.

Something like this, I assume. :/

Heavybell , 14 days ago

I’m not super into cars, but it’s my understanding Holden was a local manufacturer that got bought out by GM? Or if not that, then they were making specifically Australian vehicles despite being part of GM, much like Ford Australia used to. Both ended up shutting down operations down here, so now we have nothing local.

Heavybell , 13 days ago

NGL I kinda want a Polestar.

Heavybell , 13 days ago

It was a strong point of the original and Cataclysm…

Heavybell , 13 days ago

The antagonist of Cataclysm is actually legitimately scary.

Heavybell , 16 days ago

Is there still gonna be a debate? Didn’t Trumpo just get convicted on 34 felony charges? Surely that disqualifies him from running. (Not a USian so I dunno)

Heavybell , 16 days ago

Huh, didn’t know that. Even if he ended up going to jail (hahaha), he’d still be eligible?

Heavybell , 16 days ago

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

That’s the only thing I can think to answer your question. There are some problems that are best solved with other tools, like text parsing for example you might want to call out to some code written in a functional language.

Heavybell , 16 days ago

The ATO’s myTax system is pretty great, I hope with this you guys finally get something as nice.

Heavybell , 15 days ago

Some people will do it. We’re talking about people who can afford powerful rigs here, they can afford it if they care enough. So it’s not entirely stupid for Sony to try this bait thing.

Guess that we won’t see Demon’s Souls or Bloodborne until they have an exclusive sequel locked away, tho. :(

Heavybell , 18 days ago

There’s a video of astronauts doing the heavy thing vs feather in vacuum experiment. I think it was a hammer rather than a bowling ball tho.

Heavybell , 18 days ago

Yeah

Heavybell , 19 days ago

Could be worse, they could have evolved a taste for a nutritionally empty, toxic leaf.

Heavybell , 23 days ago

Xitter is doing something I want? What’s the catch?

Heavybell , 20 days ago

I never liked the idea of my “likes” being a browsable list. What’s the point of retweeting, if likes are browsable?

Glad it 's finally changing. Broken clock, I guess.

Heavybell , 22 days ago

I really want to know how they think a regular license plate means the vehicle is for hire.

Heavybell , 24 days ago

Maybe if they were taxed per use…

(Not a serious suggestion :P)

Heavybell , 27 days ago

This looks like nonsense, but what do I know? In any case I prefer not to think about it. :P

Heavybell OP , 27 days ago

I’m sorry to say I don’t. :/ You can grab dev boards off aliexpress for cheap, and they’re really easy to play with. Just connect the to your PC via USB to load your initial ESPHome script, and they spring to life. From there you can do basic testing, since they’ll get power from the USB. It’s just a matter of what you decide you want to hook up to them after that. I assume you’re looking for like a hobby kit, like you can get for arduino boards? Something that comes with a bunch of LEDs and I2C components you can fiddle with? Unfortunately I don’t know of any that come with ESP32 dev boards, but I’ll admit I’ve not looked. Sorry.

Heavybell OP , 27 days ago

When you put mail in the box, unless it’s a REALLY small bit of mail it’ll land so it obscures at least one of the proximity sensors. This then sets the ‘got mail’ statue to ‘on’ in Home Assistant. From there, I have HA set up to send me notifications to go and check the mail.

Before you say so, yes this was a lot of work for something so trivial, but it was fun. Plus I actually get so little physical mail that I can forget to check the mailbox for weeks at a time. Which would be very bad if I got some actually important mail. And actually, that exact thing happened just days after I finished installing the thing. So it has already potentially saved me from a fine.

Heavybell OP , 27 days ago

Oh interesting. Can you link the detector? I could use that for something else.

Heavybell OP , 27 days ago

Okay so that is an issue with the ESP32, sure. There are a lot of variants.

So from what I can tell, the ESP32 is the SoC chip and what you usually get is a dev board which has that plus a bunch of power regulation bits, a USB connector and UART so you can easily program it, etc. That part varies mostly by pinout. I.e. Same features, different pin location.

There are also variants of the chip, but those are usually more costly and will be named things like ESP32-S2.

Every one I’ve seen can run off 5v or 3.3v and uses the latter for logic, so if you got yourself an arduino kit and then just bought an ESP32 dev board it would almost certainly work with whatever is in the kit. Both are microcontrollers, not microprocessors, so they tend not to have OSes or screens.

Heavybell OP , 27 days ago

No problem. The one I used is an ESP32 DevKitC, and you can find info about it on Espressif’s site, or just google the pinout diagram. For basic tasks it should be all you need since it has lots of binary pins, two ADC channels, two DAC channels, realtime clock, special pins for waking it from deep sleep, two I2C, etc. Though if you want to do video input you probably want something else, I’m learning.

Anyway, if you can spare the money to get one just to toy with I’d definitely recommend it.

Heavybell OP , 26 days ago

Awesome, gonna bookmark those for later. Thanks!

Heavybell , 29 days ago

Oh, it looks cool, you’re not wrong. It’s just a shame it’s apparently shit.

Heavybell , 30 days ago

Reminder that Asimov devised the 3 laws then devoted multiple novels to showing how easily they could be circumvented.

Heavybell , 29 days ago

I would prefer if my software did not attempt to “speak to me” at all. :P Display your information, robot! Don’t try to act like a person.

But I’ve been grinding this axe since Windows Updates started taking that familiar tone.

Heavybell , 29 days ago

Yeah, I mainly take offence when it’s a familiar tone. LLMs can talk clinically to me.

Heavybell , 1 month ago

I wanna cave this guy’s face in. Not because of the milk, sushi, okay sign or lack of eye contact. He just seems like an arsehole and has a super punchable face.

Heavybell , 1 month ago

It was an American company doing a teardown of the vehicle that said it was well built.

Heavybell , 1 month ago

Why is it so shocking? Has the US car industry meaningfully evolved in the past several decades, pre-Musk Tesla aside? :P

Heavybell , 1 month ago

This is true, but compared to the prevailing alternative I’ll take it. Unless there’s a viable FOSS alternative for whatever software we’re talking about at the time, of course. :P

Heavybell , 1 month ago

The article says it works by messaging systemd to run the process as the given user, rather than being a SUID binary. So it wouldn’t work without systemd.

Heavybell , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The legitimate reason is for crossplay. Sony said in the announcement it was for player “protection”, so they could ban people. Plus there is no doubt some data tracking going on.

Heavybell , 1 month ago

Did it? I stand corrected, then.

Heavybell OP , 1 month ago

Agree on the bullet sponge thing, god I hate that. Helldivers 2 does it best, IMO. Not deadlier or more resilient enemies, just more of them and deadlier types.

Heavybell OP , 1 month ago

I kinda agree with you, tbh. Tho I’d apply that logic to more than just difficulty.

That said tho, I’d also be okay with the devs putting the most work into normal mode but also tossing in barely tested, unbalanced easy and hard modes with a “this is not the intended experience, use at your own peril” warning. I know no AAA dev would do that but I’d honestly be okay with it.

Heavybell OP , 1 month ago

It’s only controversial if you want the game to have easier options. ;)

Heavybell OP , 1 month ago

I don’t think it’s fair to point at Mario’s challenging bonus levels as examples of adding to the experience by adding challenge, because they are part of the original experience. They are part of the developer’s intended product.

Heavybell OP , 1 month ago

This is a fair point. I have seen violent reactions to casual statements, but I have not seen hyperbolic calls for hard modes nearly as much as for easy modes, it`s true.

Heavybell OP , 1 month ago

Right? :P

Heavybell , 1 month ago

“Buying American” would be exporting money for me, and there’s no domestic car manufacturing anymore. So I’m sending money overseas no matter what I buy, and it’s probably all made in China anyway… :P