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Comment Mixed feelings (Score 1) 44

Having built two primarily zigbee based home automation networks over the last 10 years, ikea had become indispensable. Their devices were at a reasonable price point and worked really well. You did not need to use their hub either and just had to use any zigbee hub that offered drivers or so form of generic implementation for the device type.

While matter and thread have been around for a couple of years now, I would deem that they are still in their infancy. It is likely that problems that were previously solved are going to reappear.

And given that these are devices that are foreseeably going to be in service for a decade if not more, any new mesh network is going to have to be built up gradually unless someone replaces all of their devices. My network would not work without the meshing as some devices are too far away from the hub to operate. I'll probably need to stock up on some ikea devices if I want to support my existing zigbee network for many more years
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CNN: NASA Discovery Reveals There May Have Been Life on Mars (cnn.com) 100

"News from Mars," CNN reported Friday. "Not just that water was there, perhaps millions of years ago, but also these organic compounds."

In an interview with the head of Earth Sciences collections at the UK's Natural History Musem, CNN asked the million-dollar question. "How much more likely, if you believe so, that that makes it that there was life on Mars at some time." A: So what we've found with data that's come back from the Rover and has been studied over the last few months is that we see igneous rocks -- so these are rocks that have been formed through volcanic processes -- which have also been affected by the action of liquid water.

And that's really really interesting and exciting, because liquid water is one of the key ingredients you need for life to start. So if you've got the chances of life ever being on Mars, you'd need to have somewhere that had liquid water for at least a period of time. And we've got good evidence for that.

Now that's combined with the fact that we're seeing, using instruments like SHERLOCK, which is an instrument that I'm involved with, also the presence of organic molecules. And organic molecules are chemical molecules made of the elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sometimes bits of sulfur, sometimes bits of phosphorous, and maybe some added-up things. And those are really really important, because you need organic molecules for life to start.

And the other thing that's really interesting about organic molecules is they can actually be sort of fossil chemical evidence of potential past life.

Comment Feature Toggles (Score 2) 324

In addition to the feature branching you could also look into feature toggles. A feature toggle is a variable used in a conditional statement to guard code blocks, with the aim of either enabling or disabling the feature code in those blocks for testing or release. While this approach would not prevent unapproved code from being in a release, it would act as a gatekeeper to determine if a specific feature should be exposed to the end user. I however am not sure how you could address your concern for the database

Comment Reasons (Score 1) 1

I wrote this message hoping that someone would read this and come up with a solution. I could always myself one, but with my schooling and lack of time I am unable to start any projects. Wouldn't it be simple for them just to add ssl support to there websites, they could even use a self sign certificate, at least it would still work at some extent.

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