Treczoks

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Instead of yellow, black, and white it should be red, black, and white. This way, everyone can see where capitalism is heading to.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I had never heard of canola before. But I learned today that this is a Canadian brand name of rapeseed oil.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

Ah, the good old power of projection.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago

If a university in the US has lawyers and good connections to lawyers elsewhere, it is probably Harvard. This is going to be very interesting.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

For me, "civilized countries" explicitely excludes the US. Does this make me a racist, or just a fact checker?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

There is always something to sell for cash if you are old enough not to care for the future.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

It is better for the bird population, too.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would not heat up olive oil to that point.

The table is missing Rapeseed oil.

And: Fahrenheit! What the f...ck?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

That is a question I would send to XKCD. They need something to feed their pool of "What if?" Questions.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I currently write a number of little programs, each running on a small processor that lights up a module of my model. They all communicate via WiFi with a Mosquitto broker that coordinates the lighting and the visitor interaction modules.

The test case is a moon base with about a dozen nodes, and later I'll do the city with nearly a hundred processors.

And that's just one project. I also wrote an ERP system for the parts I need for building, or tools for text processing, or a mediaWiki extension.

And yes, I do all this on Linux.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I'm currently designing a digital sythesizer running on an FPGA to add sound to one of my models. Just to show you that all kinds of programming can be done on Linux.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Thats basically me.

I have just been to the garden center. "I need to buy a rose" - "What kind of rose?" - "No idea, I was sent by my wife, who was tasked by her boss to buy a rose as a gift. Don't ask me for details, I'm just the bottom of the totem pole."

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

That's about what the Nazis thought about Jews.

Gaza is just Warsaw 2.0.

 

I don't have a YouTube login on purpose. After having had issues with some random videos asking me to login to confirm my age (no porn or anything, seems to be random harrasment), I now get "log in to prove that you are not a bot" (rough translation).

 
  1. Januar 1933: Paul von Hindenburg: "Wenn er erst mal Reichskanzler ist, haben wir ihn unter Kontrolle"

  2. Januar 2025: Friedrich Merz: "Wir werden nächste Woche in den Deutschen Bundestag Anträge einbringen, die ausschließlich unserer Überzeugung entsprechen. [...] Und wir werden sie einbringen, unabhängig davon, wer ihnen zustimmt."

 

Because you now did it to yourself.

 

My problem: I want to create an inventory of my parts. For that I need data I could look up on BL. Sadly, my storage has no internet whatsoever, so I need an offline solution.

I have found the LDRAW library inside the Studio installation, which gives me the parts and their design. They contain the name of the part, too, but only as a comment, and I have yet to verify if this is consistent. I think I could rig a software that renders me the picture as I need it for my application, so that's that.

But there are other files inside the Studio installation, and I wonder if there is a way to find the following information from this:

  • BL Category (Like "Brick" or "Plate Modified")
  • LEGO part numbers and colors that exists for a certain design
  • Parts Weight

I don't need any rapidly changing data like price or availability.

Has anyone here done this, or knows a software that does this?

 

Sounds easy? Well, it should have been. I'm not talking about a "Hello, World!" (although it is more or less on the same level for me). The goal was to write a set of three MQTT clients that properly talk with each other and interact nicely.

So I had to learn Python and MQTT on the same day. Should not be an issue after 40 years of programming. But it quickly turned out that the Python library/package for MQTT on Ubuntu was heavily outdated (1.6), and did not supply all the functions the documentation and examples (2.0) asked for. Using pip3 didn't work, as it complained that the package structure was maintained by the OS. In the end, I had to virtualize the python3 system and pip3 the 2.0 package there and run it.

After about three hours, I had the clients working as they should. Yes, I think MQTT is a good base for the next project.

 

The new Eldorado Fortress is listed at €214.99. Is it just me, or is this set much to expensive for what it is? When I saw it, I thought "Maybe €150, €170 tops", and was shocked when I heard the real price.

I know (who doesn't?) that LEGO is not cheap, but this is not a Starwars set, it is 100% their own IP.

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