JohnSmith

joined 1 year ago
[–] JohnSmith 10 points 1 day ago

Luckily the driver behind 3 wasn’t dumb and left a big gap. After what seemed like an eternity 1 understood what to do and managed to go around 3 driving over the kerb.

[–] JohnSmith 9 points 2 days ago

Google slide was the one I had handy while on my sofa, but in principle you’re right as it’s a copy anyway.

[–] JohnSmith 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It can’t be helped, but there’s a lot of it about

[–] JohnSmith 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Having seen it unfold, I’d struggle to assign the blame to a single party, because they were all dumber than the others. Here is how it happened:

  • 1 stopped far too early in the junction to wait for 3, which was an entirely unnecessary wait anyway (1 being dumb)
  • 2 moved to the lane even though 1 was blocking them (2 being dumb) — I presume 2 did that because 3 was far away and surely 1 would make their turn well before 3 arrived at the scene
  • 3 drove close to 2 and blocked 1 instead of allowing 1 to turn, thus completing the gridlock (and trifecta of dumb)
 

I didn’t think three cars is enough to create a gridlock, but what do I know. Yesterday three very ‘creative’ drivers managed just that right in front of me.

I wish I had a picture to share as it was that special. I don’t, so here is a schematic for your enjoyment, horror, disgust, or perhaps lols as the younglings like to say these days.

[–] JohnSmith 1 points 1 week ago

🤘- metal

[–] JohnSmith 5 points 1 week ago

This guy is on fire today: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dmq88j6rro

Sort of deploying the Royal Navy to sink every small boat they can find in the channel, I’m struggling to see how he would stop the boats (tm) in weeks.

[–] JohnSmith 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice one. What software did you put on the ESP32?

[–] JohnSmith 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is the way. The more we ask and answer here the better for us all.

[–] JohnSmith 1 points 1 month ago

I have not studied their API, but I would expect to find commands to start movement (open and close) and stop movement, perhaps even to move a specific amount. If the commands result in random amounts of movement the product is totally useless and no control software will help.

If the API commands work in a predictable way, then it is definitely possible to control movements accurately with Home Assistant or some other suitable software that is able to talk to the API.

[–] JohnSmith 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would recommend Home Assistant and integration with a protocol SmartWings supports. On quick Google looks like both zigbee and z-wave are an option. Then you can control exactly from Home Assistant what they do and when.

 

“Oh William, you are so funny!” “Darling, do have another piece of cheese.” “Don’t lick the fucking camera lens.”

How can anybody be so far up their arse to think it’s a good idea to push this nonsense out.

[–] JohnSmith 5 points 2 months ago

I see, we are going meta now.

[–] JohnSmith 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is it with old people these days? Just lazing about and sipping lattes, probably.

 

I understand the need to investigate this thoroughly. I also appreciate that there are a lot of cheats and liars to shift through in this particular cluster fuck. Still, ten years to investigate is a lot of time.

The Government must ensure that this process is followed to the rightful conclusion. We need to see a bunch of people behind bars for their contribution to the 72 deaths.

 

The BBC has been on the case yesterday and today, and at least I’m somewhat interested and perhaps even tempted to go see them. But do people care?

What other band, if they got back together, would tempt you?

 

Looks like PE requirements have gone up a bit, seeming that being an olympian is not sufficient.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by JohnSmith to c/andfinally
 

Most definitely! But maybe not in the way people would want.

 

Let me describe an idea I heard from a very innovative person, which I think would be really useful right now in midst of the general election campaign.

The basic idea is to interpret politician’s or basically any talking head’s speech realtime and check the semantics against the Internet. Imagine a banner at the bottom of a TV screen with a line being drawn as the person talks.

If what the person says correlates positively with what can be found in reputable Internet sources, the line goes up and is green. There is evidence they are speaking the truth.

If what the person says correlates negatively with the sources, the line goes down and is red. There is evidence they are lying.

If what the person says does not correlate with the sources, the line is flat and brown, because they are spewing unadulterated bullshit.

I’d pay for this service.

 

Sunak comes across like the prat he is. “Labor will raise taxes by £2,000 for everybody” regardless of the question. Talking over all the time, not listening to the moderator. Appalling creature. Starmer sympathises a lot with people asking questions without answering them. Skating around or just plainly ignoring questions all the time. I can’t watch this shit a minute longer.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by JohnSmith to c/cooking_with_fire
 

The weather has been kind this weekend, so I cleaned the BBQ and made ribs & wings.

 

I’ve been watching the Rugby Cup Final this evening and fuming. They have this fancy new traveling side camera and they can’t help but use it. STOP IT!!! You are making everybody seasick. Which made me think, might you good people have examples of when somebody badly overplayed their new toy? On a completely unrelated note, do we already have a community for rants?

 

…how bloody old are you?

 

Lamb, rosemary and garlic is a match made in heaven. The only thing to do now is wait for several hours, and perhaps down a glass or three of red.

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