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joezydeco commented on World Wide Lightning Location Network wwlln.net/... · Posted by u/perihelions

Catbert59 · a day ago

There's also Blitzortung.org which is a very interesting project.

They are receiving Sferics on the lower HF frequencies and tag them with GPS timestamps (with the PPS signal they are in the Nanoseconds precision range). A central server will then do the triangulation.

All with off-the-shelf hardware (STM32, etc.).

Their service is stable for many many years now.

(Offtopic: The STM32H7 ADC is great for many many things)

joezydeco · 18 hours ago

Blitzortung is a little long in the tooth. Great tech, but the mapping doesn't let you get any detail. Lightningmaps.org scrapes the feed but will sometimes just completely stop functioning and never come back.

joezydeco commented on Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat aggressivelyparaphrasing.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

binwiederhier · 3 days ago

I love hearing that. Anything worth sharing? I love hearing how people use it. My favorite one is the guy protecting his apple tree from thieves by adding a camera and motion sensor and then sending himself a notification with the picture to catch the apple thief.

joezydeco · 2 days ago

I have a few things. One is home security, I get basic notifications when something is in the driveway. I'm working on getting Frigate running to hopefully give me the names or license plates of people when they arrive.

I also have one tied to a manufacturing database at my company. When a batch of products rolls off the line I get an updated count of units made. Kind of a way to know production systems are running and there are no problems at the work cells.

I also made a rickety-ass system that scrapes the local commuter rail API and fires off a notification when one of my trains is late or cancelled. That's been pretty helpful. The rail company has a Twitter account, but I don't go there anymore. So I rolled my own.

ntfy makes this all incredibly easy. I love it.

joezydeco commented on Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat aggressivelyparaphrasing.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

binwiederhier · 3 days ago

Disclaimer: I am the ntfy maintainer. Pleasantly surprised to be mentioned, hehe.

Pushover is an amazing tool and works well. In my obviously biased opinion though, I think that ntfy has a ton more features than Pushover and is fully open source. You can self host all aspects of it or you can use the hosted version on ntfy.sh for free, without signups, or pay for higher limits.

I suggest you try out ntfy;-)

joezydeco · 3 days ago

I use ntfy for a whole bunch of personal projects. THANK YOU for keeping this service up and running.

joezydeco commented on The Open-Office Trap (2014) newyorker.com/business/cu... · Posted by u/cebert

jasode · 3 days ago

>What amazes me about this phenomenon and so many others is just how long the executive class are willing to stick with a counterproductive trend. RTO, open offices,

The issue is that executives and managers don't see it as counterproductive because there's no compelling business evidence out there to change their mind.

Instead, here's what people actually see...

Microsoft of 1990s brags about their programmers having real offices with a door. But the later Google startup with "counterproductive" open offices beats them on a search engine and mobile phone. Microsoft's newer campuses are now open office.

Fog Creek Trello had blogs with photographs of their offices for the developers explaining all the great benefits... but they also stumble and eventually get acquired by the open-office Atlassian.

Where are all the business cases of the closed-office-with-doors beating out the unproductive-distraction-chaos-open-offices?!? Can't think of one? There lies your problem.

The person who wrote this thread's article, Maria Konnikova -- is a journalist and book author -- and not a tech CEO who bet her company's productivity on a running a dev shop with private offices. That is why executives don't listen to her and are not swayed by articles like this.

If we want to get rid of open offices, it has to be done with real businesses and not magazine articles.

joezydeco · 3 days ago

Google fooled everyone. We all thought the bean bag chairs and foosball tables and 5-gallon pails of M&Ms caused massive surges in creativity and productivity. In reality, it was a firehose of advertising money that paid for it all.

joezydeco commented on The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis statsignificant.com/p/the... · Posted by u/gmays

joezydeco · 4 days ago

I knew the ringtone was officially dead when I watched an Apple-produced show on AppleTV+ and they used a vibration noise as a sound effect for a phone ringing.

joezydeco commented on Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't betterthanrandom.substack... · Posted by u/spking

fossislife · 6 days ago

What is a BRG?

joezydeco · 6 days ago

Business Resource Group. In-office clubs to support minority employees, LGBTQ+, women, etc etc etc.

joezydeco commented on Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't betterthanrandom.substack... · Posted by u/spking

perrygeo · 6 days ago

My rule for discussing ANYTHING at work: Does this move the current project forward? Are we painting bike sheds and shaving yaks and beating around the bush? Or are we here to get shit done? Everything else is a waste of time, politics included. If you want to be friends after work, we do that after work where I'm more than happy to discuss my thoughts on the current government.

joezydeco · 6 days ago

Advanced topic: If a company is progressive in their HR policies and is very strict about discrimination and harassment, do you need BRGs?

joezydeco commented on Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis utilitydive.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/walterbell

bloomingeek · 6 days ago

This is a terrible idea. We live in the digital age, so almost everything depends on data. As in all mechanical devices, generators have a tendency to either break down(Let's not forget about associated switching gear.) or become subject to maintenance cut backs instituted my buffoons in management. We cannot depend on human errors, we can depend on the electric grid, if properly handled and maintained. Depending on generators just adds another link in the failure chain.

Texas is the perfect example of how not to run an electrical grid by not allowing other states to assist in an emergency.

joezydeco · 6 days ago

I'm happier with Texas being independent. Why should my state brown out because a bunch of companies put data centers in the hottest part of the continent?

joezydeco commented on Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors thedrive.com/news/modern-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

bgnn · 7 days ago

In Germany you get the fine with the photo where the face of the driver is very visible/recognizable 99% of the time. Even in villages have this type of cameras so they can't be expensive. Oh you get fined for driving without a seatbelt too.

joezydeco · 6 days ago

The solution there is to drive a British car.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081607/Speeding-pu...

joezydeco commented on Is air travel getting worse? maximum-progress.com/p/is... · Posted by u/mhb

drewg123 · 9 days ago

I wonder how much of the increased schedule times are due to baggage fees? Here is my theory:

In 2008, airlines began charging for checked bags[1]. This was done both for the immediate revenue increase, and also to prod flyers into airline loyalty programs or airline credit cards to get a free checked bag. However, that caused a lot of casual fliers to go carryon-only. That, in turn, causes it to take longer to board/exit planes, leading to longer turn around times.

I've long contended that airlines should get rid of checked bag fees. And if they feel like they really want to be evil, switch the fees to carryons. That would decrease the number of carryons and decrease the turnaround time.

EDIT: From the article "Starting around 2008, Scheduled flight times began increasing even faster than actual ones" This has me convinced that the bag fees really torpedoed turnaround times.

[1] https://www.farecompare.com/travel-advice/airline-fees-bags-...

joezydeco · 9 days ago

I agree 100% and when I encounter people that don't believe this theory I point out that, once upon a time, Southwest Airlines used to be able to turn an entire 737 in 10 minutes.

https://southwest50.com/our-stories/a-turning-point-the-birt...