Oh my gosh I am so excited the dashboard naming choices are finally here, I’ve been watching that issue for a couple months. Hopefully no more naming an ESPHome node Living Room TV Node and the dashboard instead showing nonsense like Living Room Living Room TV Living Room Node. Though, not sure if the actual entity ids will follow, that is the bigger issue. 🤔

Idk, I can think of plenty. Pricing models (finding comps and such) can be compiled in a fraction of the time! Online listings have AI-generated images of what different remodel options could look like! So on and so forth.

The background doesn’t really bother me, but where on earth did the axis labels go?

I made a pair of panel speakers (a.k.a. distributed mode loudspeakers) recently—they sound fantastic, take up almost no space being only slightly away from the wall, look like sleek fabric acoustic panels rather than bookshelf speakers on the wall, and were pretty darn cheap (~$65 for the pair with dual exciters on each). I’m still in the process of hanging them properly as my rear LR, as they’re only 2 ft squares. I want to create a pair of 2 ft × 4.5 ft panels for my front LR which should sound even bigger and fuller, especially after a little EQ magic. Even just a single panel in a room though would be pretty good.

I also got a baby bass shaker to put under the couch for movie oomph; you could go for a normal sub too if you feel the low end needs more, but try just the panels first.

I really want to do a writeup of the discoveries I’ve made once I’m done; my background and degree are in audio engineering so I’ve done a lot of research and testing. To start, I recommend using Dayton’s “high roll” exciters, I like their sound better. My panels each have one of these and one of these.

References:

• Video: Introduction
• Video: How To Build
• Video: Testing Further Improvements
• Article: Exciters Guide

concern

I mean hey, it’s in our constitution: the three unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—brought to you by Shell, Jeep, and the open stroad, respectively.

20/20 is average, should have named it 20/10. Also in conversation people would assume Vision 20/20 was something to do with learning from COVID.

I’ll also add, besides the obvious public endangerment, street racers are just soooo fricking loud. Noise ordinances exist for a reason, but even where they don’t, nobody likes being woken up by a bunch of metal death boxes screeeaaaming past their window at 3am. (Near me, it’s a posse of motorbikes. I typed that as motorbiles at first. Heh.)

This week on the No Duh podcast… 😅

I just use regular ol’ ed for jotting my thoughts on the AI-related news I see each day. After all, it is the standard text editor.

…was that not the question?

/s

If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.

Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.

125% times

…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏

Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.

I like to say “cooking with magnets” because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.

Okay cool, but what about reconsidering streets from a pedestrian’s perspective?

Wouldn’t it be nice if they were narrower, had raised crosswalks, a rough surface that’s uncomfortable to drive on too quickly, and lines of trees/bollards/gargoyles/^(trees carved to look like gargoyles holding bollards) between the road and the sidewalk to protect pedestrians and provide a better speed reference for drivers?

…come to think of it, the pedestrians (a.k.a. voting taxpayers) would probably rather not pay the taxes needed to finance all these upgrades, and would prefer the much cheaper solution of simply disallowing private automobiles on any street where that is possible. Though, more trees are always welcome. Just about everyone prefers more trees. (As long as the city plants trees of both sexes! Squirrels and allergy sufferers ^(including gargoyles) will thank you!)

I mean, aliases do exist. For example, with my typical alias schema I might shorten it to sudo syc lsu-s. But yeah, on foreign systems (e.g. random VPS’s) I can see your point.

Not even a contest, leaf sheep sea slug.

I don’t know what kind of kids show you could do with that. Maybe teach kids about the importance of conservation; it doesn’t really matter because JUST LOOK AT IT, EEEEEEE!!! (⋆❛ ہ ❛⋆) ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝

Not the case here, but just as a “fun” fact. Drunk drivers have a higher survival rate in crashes because their severely impaired reaction time means they’re usually still limp at impact.

At least it’s your own brain exploiting you instead of some shadowy cabal of advertising execs and astroturf campaign strategists?

My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It’s the female form of Aaron, with all a’s. 😄