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My mind went to K&P rap confession skit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs

Any recommendations on pre-cut wiring kits?


Yes, actually!

Depending on the complexity/situation/mood/need for permanence I use some combination of double-headed (male) jumper wire and pre-cut breadboard wires. I buy my jumper wire as tear-off ribbons because sometimes I need 14 in a row for a GPIO bank or similar.

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Jumper wires are the fastest and easiest to work with, but as complexity grows things quickly get out of hand visually and spatially.

Pre-cut wires are great, though I have some hot takes. First, for a long time I would carefully remove them from previous projects for reuse. I now believe that this is objectively bad because they grow brittle and become harder to re-insert. Instead, think of them like sandpaper, which has an obvious point of diminishing return. Throw them away as you use them up and order more when you're running low.

My main beef with pre-cut wires is that for reasons that anger me every time I think about it, they all come in lengths that increment by one 2.54mm unit up until about 10 lengths, at which point they start jumping to arbitrary lengths. So you end up either a) using two wires to cover a distance or b) with an overly long wire that you need to manage.


I ve modified my ZigBee bathroom led light. Replaced the daughterboard with an esp32, integrated a humidity sensor and a presence sensor, another rely and a power circuit, and I now have a bathroom light that lights up automatically when someone is in the room, and turns on the extractor only if the humidity is a ove a certain level.

I ve done all this by taking photos of the circuits and asking Gemini how to do it.


Look into cooperative game theory. If I remember correctly, trust is modelled as a way of exchanging information and influencing the probabilities that other players place on your next action


I am sure the coca-cola boss limits his kids soft drink consumption too.


I expect Sergey and Brin run ad-blockers as well.


What about Larry and Page?


Them as well.


Does it really matter? Even if a billionaire’s kid gets hooked on Coca-Cola or social media, they still have vastly more resources (therapy, education, support) to overcome it. Meanwhile, kids in underprivileged communities don’t get that safety net. For CEOs like Zuckerberg or Coca-Cola’s leadership, that disparity is just a small price to pay for the profits their products generate.


It's part of the parental responsibility to provide enough structure and instill enough discipline to your kids so that they grow to be complete persons. Sure it will be nice if social media was restricted like tobacco, and I am sure one day it will, but you can't relegate all responsibility for everything to the state. I don't want to live in a bubble wrapped society for the sake of the children.


I've been programming esp32 connected with soil moisture sensors and solenoid valves to water each individual pot of plants according to its own readings, instead of having a centrally controlled irrigation system. Overkill, I know, but with a cost of 8-10usd per set up it is not expensive


Photos? If you have a blog post, it may be a good post for HN. (Bonus points if the plants survived :) .)


Don't know about mRNA but individualized remedies based on CAR-T technology have been making significant strides in this area, with major commercialisation expected in the next 1-2 years


For some reason I thought this would be about dealing with very large insects


There was another headline about “top models” getting in trouble for “history leaks” that would have been very confusing to 15 year old me.


Me too


I am doing my movie selection via Plex, which has both tomatoes' and IMDb scores in the movie description


You guys are opening yourself to manipulation. Why not just be open for surprises? That’s what I do. Most of the time it’s bad surprises, but the occasional masterpiece that everyone else seems to hate make up for it. I do seem to not have the same taste as most people writing reviews though. I almost always find other people’s opinions ludicrous.


Power to you, but you probably miss out on masterpieces in the other direction though. The ones you would be more likely to watch if you spent more time watching those 'conventionally' liked movies, given the limit of time.


I read some of the IMDb reviews and a person making a case for a film with a low score can tip the scales for me.


I appreciate the sentiment, but time in life is limited. Streaming is 95% slop so it really does pay to let others curate you the best films, with tolerance for a lower rating if it's a genre you particularly like.


Jellyfin also has this


You grossly underestimate the pettiness and pedantry of those involved


Lol, I guess this is what happens when two assholes surround themselves with sycophantic yes-men for far too long.

Nobody taught them how to play nice. I've met eight year olds with more civility and maturity than those two...

Oh well. Reminds me of that Alien vs Predator movie: Whoever wins, we lose.


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