JustinAiken

Individual Contributors - not managmenet

I have this and OpenSprinkler in my house, and love them both.

Hated myQ even before it went subscription.

I clicked on this article with so much excitement and hope… ah darn, not my speaker.

Sonos volume control remains broken in their new (forced) app update, “reasonable control” on the roadmap for two months out

https://opengarage.io

Can’t comment on quality, haven’t got around to installing yet

I used to use this quite heavily, but about a year ago the move away from YAML made it too hard to keep a declarative config that can be checked into source control...

Ended up giving up and just have a dumb home now.

Here's cases vs time - it's pretty clear from the graph when the vaccines became available: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/pbzaeg/oc_...

COVID Death Rate per 100,000, by State

For the point the article is trying to make, this is a useless metric.

Do death rate per 100,000 starting after vaccines were generally available and the partisanship lean will be much more apparent.

I don't want self-hosted, and I definitely don't want subscription based. I, 1Password user for many years, want the local vaults!

1Password 6 is great, and I'll keep using it until it quits working on my devices, but no more after that! I used to recommend 1Password so much to people it was borderline evangelizing, but I quit recommending it once the subscription was pushed over the other options, and now that local vaults are going away I'm actively recommending against it to anyone that asks.

Guess I'll be moving to Bitwarden or Keepass myself; time to research!

Other retail investors weren't the ones that disabled the buy button.

Of course artificially removing all demand is going to tank the price.

Retail got screwed, and it wasn't by retail.

Okay, I'm probably your exact target demographic - I have about 1,300 hours in Rocksmith and I'm obsessed with it, but often find myself wanting more "pro" features like Guitar Pro has. So hopefully you'll find my feedback useful...

On the tab interface: - Seeing a blob of 6 numbers come isn't intuitive enough. The strings REALLY need to be colored. You should be able to get away with using the same colors as Rocksmith, as there's generic sets of strings using those (https://www.guitarcenter.com/DR-Strings/Hi-Def-NEON-Multi-Co...) - or at least make them configurable. It's hard for me to tell which string is which in fatpick.

- Bar lines for the beat/measure changes would be helpful.

- Chords saying their name above them would be a huge help - "G" is much easier to parse quickly than "355433"!

Practice mode: - Just adjusting playback speed isn't enough. To be actually useful, fatpick needs something like Rocksmith's Riff Repeater, where you can select a section, loop it at a selected speed, and have it increase 1% each time you get the notes right. In fact, here's where you can outshine Rocksmith, since Rocksmith only lets you select entire sections, whereas you could make it so you could really drill in on notes

Audio: - Being able to play the audio file instead of just guitar pro-style midi would be a huge bonus. Don't make it required, so you can still just import a quick GP file to play, but for curated tracks or imported Rocksmith psarcs (see my comment elsewhere about psarcjs), the real audio would be great. - Even better... multitrack audio! Just play the song .mp3 if that's all there is, but there's plenty of multitrack ogg's sourced from rock band / guitar hero floating out there. For these songs you could play with your chosen instrument removed - IE, pick a song with a multitrack ogg, pick the bass part, the audio engine wouldn't play the bass part but would play the rest.

- Some kind of effects on the guitar would be nice. Using an AxefxIII and Loopback I can mix in real guitar sounds with the game, but most of your demographic won't have that ability, so being able to pick an AC/DC song and have basic distortion effects will be a must.

Anyways, after playing with fatpick for 20 minutes I'm going to go back to Rocksmith. Will check on this in a month though and see how far along it is - there's a lot of potential here!

There's a library that makes it pretty easy to get the .xml format guitar tracks out of Rocksmith -> https://github.com/sandiz/psarcjs#usage

It's a clone of bitcoin with the brakes removed.

Actually... I like that, just phrased a little different - Bitcoin Cash - it's bitcoin with the parking break disengaged!

surrounding bcash

... if you have to result to namecalling, you'll probably a shill.

If you do use jekyll and gitlab, I made this jekyll plugin that does it for you (if you'd rather have something in-ecosystem than an npm package) -> https://github.com/JustinAiken/jekyll-gitlab-letsencrypt

I've been using it with the FileZilla docker in unraid; works but buggy describes it pretty well.

you needed to use the rocksmith adapter cable with the program

There's a nocable patch for PC, and for Mac you can create an aggregate audio interface named "Rocksmith USB Cable" so you can use any interface you like - it's much funner with Apogee gear than the toy cable!

You don't need to run a full node to send/receive Bitcoin/BCC though.

Hitting us too - something's up with Fastly.

https://status.fastly.com/

I think we need both a block size increase and SegWit (or something like it)

Yes - the former now (or last year!) to resolve the massive backlog as new adopters come in. We later need something to enable greater scale than blocksize alone, but not yet; other cryptos like Ethererum are able to handle a much higher transaction throughput. When the time comes when something like SegWit IS needed, FlexTrans is a much better solution.

So what's your position exactly? That the current issues with transfer fees and the long term usability of bitcoin are overstated?

Oh definitely not that - it's a huge problem! Places that accepted bitcoin no longer do, and bitcoin's market share is plummeting - there's no reason it every should have happened. But instead of a simple fix to the problem (upping a temporary limit put in place in 2010 - that's eight year old tech), now Blockstream is trying to push a massively complex revamping. It won't even help with the scaling problem - it only discounts Segwit enabled transactions (since Litecoin enabled Segwit, almost nothing has used it). It's primary purpose to enable second layer solutions Blockstream can consult on. Even if something like Segwit was a solution, FlexTrans is a much better way to go. Even if Segwit activated tomorrow, there'd be little-to-no backlog relieft, and Bitcoin would be forever saddled with inescapable tech debt.

No, that's what users that only post in the unbelievably censored r/bitcoin want, and what Blockstream wants. For those of us users that want bitcoin to work as intended, instead of being artificially crippled to push second layer solutions, Segwit is terrible.

..then they'll finally be able to play audio of republicans contradicting themselves! :p

But the increased complexity also increases the fragility of the system, and also adds ongoing maintenance costs. At some point there is no marginal return for adding complexity, or the return on maintaining the complexity becomes negative, so the complexity is no longer worth maintaining. Collapse.

Society collapses because of technical debt?

Ah, that's okay then!

Uuuuuugggh. Docker for Mac now won't let you uncheck "Send usage statistics"

Ugh, Docker for Mac now has two separate ads in it's 9 options in the menubar :/

For our app, both S3 and SES have been completely down in us-east-1 for hours now.

Wonderful news! Thanks for posting

Can't wait to see the source! The new site is faaaaaaaast!

While it seems trivial it can be useful if you happen to have really large images (yes, for valid reasons).

I'm curious what some of these valid reasons are - why would you have a large image instead of a minimal image with all the data linked out?