If cameras are still around why not just write out the text on a metal tape, like aluminum foil, with holes where ink would be if printed. That way, the encoding (QR or whatever) is not the issue.
Yeah, I gave up on Raspberry Pi when they prioritized volume commercial customers over long tail users like me that needed just one.
The real question is "what's next?" The niche is "a single board computer for hobby or technical experimentation". So:
- low cost
- low power
- as much compute as you can get for that low power
- built-in standard peripherals, ditto above — with respect to radio you can get for that low power
- extensible (I/O pins are nice but what's really needed is a standard bus people can build on)
- wide support infrastructure (IDE, libraries, circuits, hats, etc.)
- hate to say it, but "AI ready" in the hushed tones of people running 28.9M parameter Large Language Models (LLM) on an $8 microcontroller (ESP32-S3) https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai/tree/main to push the inference to the edge
I'm thinking it will be RISC-V and not based on proprietary System on a Chip (SoC) technology.
I'm keen to learn what readers think it will be.
Change my mind.
Despite Georgia being a sun-soaked state and the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) being less for solar (and wind) than gas turbines, these assholes will be adding double the amount of natural gas generation (https://www.georgiapower.com/about/energy/plants.html) than is still deployed in Georgia. I don't know how you can get more dystopian than that, but hey, it's the United States, which has a buffoon for a leader and no plans to stop global warming — "drill baby drill".
IANL, but just from a position of getting specific policy in place, Tier 1: Universal Rules "Prohibited by Canadian Law " should have a reference to Canadian jurisprudence, just like the "Rule 2: Hate and Discrimination" references https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-318.html .
Are there no Canadian legal rules around "Rule 1: Violence and Threats ", "Rule 3: Child Safety", and "Rule 4: Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery"?
It seems these rules, as drafted, are just "nice to have's" without a corresponding enforcement avenue -- assuming of course that all users are subject to Canadian law, which is probably not the case.
Take articles that have positive, uplifting, long-term improvements in societal well-being and republish them on social media. e.g.
- https://c.im/@derrickoswald/115680211616975044
- https://c.im/@derrickoswald/115649758650439247
- https://c.im/@derrickoswald/115648908739287836
- https://c.im/@derrickoswald/115644969116272728
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
binding
That's the answer I was looking for. Thanks. But now, the skill level required has increased from Beginner to Intermediate, and I have to find something to use for binding material.
(just visualize a very rough, thick, quilt/rug to go on the floor)
I've sewn a bunch of old jean pieces together, mostly to learn how to sew jean material with a twin needle (only broke one so far) on my cheap sewing machine, but I didn't think the project through completely.
There are two problems.
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It seems the quilt batting I can find around here is pretty thin (1cm) and pretty expensive: CHF18 (US$23) per meter, and it is only 150cm wide. So to double or triple it up to get some decent thickness, for an ~84cm × ~84cm top and my scrap project is starting to look a tad expensive (like near enough to half the cost of a sewing machine). Any thoughts on stuffing material (it's just a dog bed after all) - or should I just suck it up and buy the batting? I've looked at using a rug purchased from a low-end Ikea-type store, but they seemed too thin and too expensive - and it goes against the reducing waste idea, right? I thought maybe I could piece together a second layer of batting from the remnant of one purchased meter, to get a bed that's at least a couple of centimeters thick, but wasn't sure how much integrity a separate strip would have when just tacked in (see problem 2). Or I guess I could cut the cover down to under 75cm × 75cm; it's not that big of a dog. Any feedback?
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I was planning on using an old shower curtain for the bottom under cover, with through tack stitches, instead of buttons, at the checkerboard corners: no problem there I think. But making a bag, to put the filler in, by sewing it inside out leaves one edge different than the others (as the last closing seam) when it's turned right-side out. How do quilts normally get closed on all sides?
Here's a link to a site that works in Europe instead of the idiotic USA Today Sorry, this site isn't available in your region. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/americans-with-six-figure-incomes-are-in-survival-mode/ar-AA1Qr3t1
I think there are a number of word phrases in English that would be, what are called, Trennbare Verben in German. To give English speakers the idea, when somebody says they "work out", it's not like just "work" - it has a specific fitness idea because of the additional word "out".
In German, the equivalent verb would be "outworking". In common English grammar, the "out" is always separated. In German, many words can be inserted between working and out - so like "working on the elliptical machine out". That need not be the case in English, but it often is.
In English I would like to say "I outbuffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé.", or "I uppicked a record from the flea market." or "I uppumped my tires last week." or "I downfell and broke my ulna while skiing."
Which is more correct: "I pumped up my tires last week." or "I pumped my tires up last week."?
In German it could be "I buffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé out.", "I picked a record from the flea market up.", "I pumped my tires last week up.", and "I fell and broke my ulna while skiing down."
I'm just saying we should normalize these two-word combinations as a "standalone verb" concept so the trailing qualifier is not so difficult to parse and locate correctly in a sentence - since each of the meanings absolutely requires both parts of the verb.