Funny you mention. It always pissed me off that toasters often cook one side of the toast more than the other. The last one I bought (a cheap piece of crap from a big box store) did the same thing. So I gutted it, threw an ATmega16 with some power handling electronics at it, and I can now individually over/undercook each of the 4 bays of toast as I see fit. Oh, and I can toggle presets because my children are cowards who like warm bread as opposed to delicious charcoal. Just like I did with my last toaster.

I have a 1974 Simpson clothes dryer that I got as a crufty share house urchin from my grandparents, when the last of them passed in 2001. Its mechanical timer packed it in 5 or so years ago. ATmega16 and some power handling electronics. Timer, multistage heat control and delayed start to take advantage of free electricity periods here in AU. I pulled an identical unit off the curb a few years ago (also with a cooked timer) and gutted all of the impossible-to-replace parts. I don't see it failing anytime soon, and my son is taking enough of an interest in this stuff now that he may very well attempt to clock this thing out to 100 years of service. I can only dream.

My fridge got eaten by a lightning bolt. ATmega16, thermistor, power handling electronics yadda yadda blah, you get the idea. Seals would be the next thing to age out but it will likely lose gas efficiency at some point. I would have no issue buying a new unit, gutting its controller and using a RasPi to repurpose the screens and internal camera to display Donna Summers-esque video bent loops of my tofu.

I was going to integrate all of the above into my home assistant setup, but that seemed like overkill.

All of this to say that, currently, I am in fact getting away with it. There are entire online communities devoted to doing this kind of thing. Just because it's hard, does not mean its impossible. The technology to resist is available to you. like I said. Do it.

I guess my writing style has been tapped by LLM training models more than I thought. Hush now you filthy NPC.

I'll tolerate the mongoloidDB bullshit, but fucked if I'm going to sit silently and look at an ad for Gemini on a website where a majority think that LLMs, as they are currently being foisted, are pure cancer.

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Do it.

If you're a good enough dev to determine the output of a LMM is valid and worth submitting as a change, you're likely good enough to not need an LLM to begin with. No one should be submitting AI generated pulls.

Lets put aside for a moment that you are literally describing yourself without even realising it (evidently), I would take 10 overly-concise aspies over.. Whatever the fuck it is you're doing. Not even mad. I just hope you get the help you so clearly need.

Yet you block quoted text from the submission, which you appeared to respond to by saying "you blah blah blah". To everyone else, it looks like an old man talking back to the TV presenter, which based on your low UID, might in fact be true. Lrn2quote.

I need a handful of these for my various NFC based projects around the house. Would be nifty to try and clone them to work on some public systems as well. Fecked if I can work out where to buy them though, only seems to be standard cards available via the few websites I have been able to successfully cram through a babelfish.

It's nuts. The muppet in the hot seat, Bureau CEO Stuart Minchin, cited switching from HTTP to HTTPS as one of the main points during one of the regular grillings he has been getting from the media over the past few weeks, because apparently the data of Australians was on the line. On a website which requires precisely zero PII, or even general information (short of location) to use. Unless a giant infrastructure also went ahead in the background (like, from the feed horns on the radar back) it makes no sense if you're not living in the pork barrel yourself. If that did in fact happen, they need to fire whoever is in charge of their PR.

Meanwhile, just for shits and giggles, at least three consultancy firms have come out with their own versions of the front end which are objectively better in all regards than this new piece of junk, just to demonstrate how hard web dev isn't.

Gotta justify your budget somehow I guess.

Plenty of hate groups flourish on discord servers and whatsapp groups, with far easier ability to conduct and control raids real time than you ever had on a 4chan thread.

You're a naive fool to think that taking one website down will stop whatever part of the human condition it is that seeks these behaviour out. Until all the pipes are blocked and the cats are dead, there will always be another ocean to piss in.

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Can't see the forest for the trees, or, more accurately for [$CURRENT YEAR], the fire for the flames I guess.

Did Climate Central grind out their flooding projections on a Beowulf cluster or something?

The sad thing about coming across a nugget of sense while reading through pages and pages of psychoposting on your user page is the realisation that sometimes, you are not like this. I can't imagine how depressing it must be for you to face the evidence of your illness (assuming you're self concious enough to backread from time to time) only to be drawn back into it before you can do anything about it.

I hope you get help, life must be exhausting for you.

The comments on that video are terrifying.. "OMG so smart".. "I never knew chimps were so smart!c etc etc.

Jesus fucking christ.

Yeah, that's fair, didn't really consider it like that. If you're demonstrating a technology, it's generally a good idea to at least provide the base functionality of the technology you're trying to improve was my point I guess. Maybe the AI renderer it can't keep up with a 180* whip around like you can do with mouse *shrugs*

When we're talking about Wolf3D, Hexen, Duke Nukem or Rise of the Triad, you go ahead, take a sip of water, clear your throat and prepare to chime in. Quake 2 was always point and shoot, and this sloppy AI fart doesn't even get that basic mechanic right.. Or get it at all.