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for 20 minutes, and then they tried to kill him
"finally"? The Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2003.
Yah, this is how I've solved this in my Home Assistant setup. My doorbell camera can see where I keep my bins when they're not out. We have three types of bins- a trash bin, a recycle bin, and two yard waste bins. Recycling and yard waste are picked up on alternate weeks, and I often forget which bins need to go out.
I have an automation that will grab an image from that camera and send it to the Anthropic API with a prompt describing where the bins are, and the color of each bin. The prompt comes back with JSON indicating which bins it can see. If it can see e.g. the yard waste bin, and it's time to take the yard waste bin to the curb, it will send me a notification.
It also reminds me when it's time to return them to their "resting" position after pickup- unless I already have.
Home Assistant orchestrates this all. I also have it hooked up to a "Bindicator"- a white 3D printed bin with a color-changing LED inside, controlled by an ESP8266 using ESPHome. When it's time to move the bin it lights up the color of the bin that needs to be moved. If I haven't moved the bins back after a day it turns orange to remind me.
Claude configured the automations for me via MCP but it's not particularly complicated. It's pretty reliable, though sometimes just because of where the doorbell camera is it can't clearly see the bins. If it can't make a ruling on the bin location it just falls back to notifying me so I will sometimes get a reminder I don't need.
not once did I ever understand what the difference was between Claude Chat and Claude Cowork. I use both and I mostly just guessed when to use Cowork.
JerryRigEverything will deploy his hardness pick test in short order I'm sure.
If you think a Nathan Fielder project is going to rehabilitate someone's image then you don't know who Nathan Fielder is.
"oh you said 'nitter', yeah that's OK"
this is basically the inciting incident of the recent movie Hoppers
I predict "data centers" are going to start being built but they'll say it's a distribution warehouse for motorcycle parts or a factory or something. There'll be a token amount of floor space set aside to manufacture pen cartridges but then there'll just be an incidental 200000 sq ft of server racks.
Actually I'm sure they're already doing that.
If the AI (or the person) ran into a non-obvious constraint, or some externality, or there’s a plan that just isn’t implemented yet- then the comment wouldn’t be able to be divined by the AI. But yeah just pointing the AI at something and saying “write me docs” will get you something at best equally good as what’s going to be available.
I’ve left so many PR reviews in the last few months that are essentially “this looks good but delete 80% of the comments.”
Ah, so literally
a word.
I was thinking you could probably get a fair bit of accessibility by using <div>s for your text rendering- or by maintaining a separate, hidden outline of DOM elements mirroring what’s on screen.
It does seem like they were treating it as a team-building exercise almost. Which just makes me wonder because my first impulse would have been to go to an escape room or ropes course or something like that.
Why should anyone who's not a Klingon care about "honor"?
I assume this has been investigated but it's difficult to believe this stopped at one pair of critics. There are plenty of people online critical of eBay. Were they running similar campaigns on anyone else?
> Seven members of eBay’s security team, including former police captains, “worked together to harass and intimidate the Steiners”, according to prosecutors.
I hope someone's looking into the careers of the "former police captains" here. Again, difficult to believe they just woke up one day and decided to fly cross-country to vandalize someone's house with no prior history of intimidation.
if a government spokesperson provided that statement 20 years ago the story would be about the unhinged partisan DOT spokesperson, what maniac hired them, why hasn't the whole office been fired yet, and how a bizarre grievance-based policy ever got out the door in the first place. Now the media gets crazier stuff than this on an hourly basis and they just shrug.
Maybe they could issue those disposable over-the-shoe booties they make you wear at home showings
somehow having a contact at a bank who works on the weekend is more difficult to believe than a random vendor
the giant cartoon dragon with a sign that says "retired" made me guffaw
Simply hosting the website wasn't costing that much
I guess it's not like they have a really well-functioning garbage collection service
where'd they get so much broken glass that it would fill a hole anyway? They just have that much glass on hand?
Only if you count the value of the games produced as $0
$500k is a heck of a lot closer to $0 than it is to $1B
> They obviously won’t face pushback entering the US from a legal standpoint
I suspect the current federal government might push back on a Mexican EV just for ideological reasons.
Aren't you in any way concerned that you can't give a real example of the sort of thing you're talking about, and have to make one up? This should be the wake-up call that makes you re-evaluate your priors.
The reality is that reactionaries often describe "useless" scientific endeavors like "condoms for worms" that end up being the only thing stopping parasitic screwworms from infesting the US cattle herd, which will end up costing us hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve- and spike the already-high cost of beef for decades.