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winsome | 1 year ago | on: Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems

You sound like me. Stumbled into the industry at a startup (different than the one you're at -- you could probably guess which one) and have been around a while now. The condition of our traffic infrastructure is terrifying, frankly.

I was shocked when I learned that NTCIP was built on top of SNMPv1. To make matters worse, there are actually people in the industry against the adoption SNMPv3. That would at least adds a modicum of security via authentication and encryption. I'd prefer we build around another protocol entirely.

Imagine if folks at IBM knew we still used SDLC as the backbone of our communication in the cabinets...

winsome | 1 year ago | on: ESPHome

I would love to hear more about the integration you've setup. I, too, have an ERV but it's on a dumb controller right now.

I don't use HA yet, but it's a project I plan to tackle soon. I've also been doing some research on ESP and energy monitoring, so it sounds like what you've done is right up the same alley.

winsome | 6 years ago | on: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

I ran into this problem the other week. I was trying to buy 5 pi zeros for a few projects I have in mind and a couple of backups to have lying around. Couldn't do it. Very frustrating.

winsome | 6 years ago | on: GitHub Sponsors

Doesn't that problem still exist though? Say you sponsor a project individually and it eventually goes unsupported. Would your sponsorship live on if you never manually cancelled it?

Using stars as a proxy for sponsorship, I think, is the wrong idea anyhow. Sponsorship should imply star, but not the inverse. I think what would be best is an easy way to sift through your starred projects and "upgrade" them to a sponsorship. Then once you've done that once, you can manage stars and sponsorships independently going forward.

winsome | 9 years ago | on: How to win the coding interview

Maybe for someone with no experience in the desired language and minimal access to docs, but for someone that professes a knowledge of C# 6 they ought to at least know about the `TimeSpan` class.

For anyone with the knowledge the person claimed to have, that code should boil down to something more like TimeSpan.Parse($"{hourStr}:{minStr}").TotalMinutes;

winsome | 10 years ago | on: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

LogMeIn used to have a free product that they then took to Premium only. I used to use them extensively until then.

Now they also seem to be notorious for price hikes, although I have no first-hand experience. I'm a LastPass Premium subscriber and have enjoyed using it, but I'm worried about what the future holds now.

winsome | 10 years ago | on: Ambulances will trigger green signal

Camera based detection systems track and detect based on vehicle headlights at night. It's theoretically possible that flashing your lights will ensure that your vehicle is detected, but it won't make the lights change any faster as people presume.

winsome | 11 years ago | on: Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason

Auto Brightness has been renamed and is available at Settings > Display > Adaptive Brightness. It just has to be turned on.

And I know it's personal preference but I love the way chrome tabs are integrated into the app switcher. It allows me to focus on what I'm doing and not so much what app I'm in. Now each tab is like an app in and of itself. I think that's the way multi-tasking should be done.

winsome | 11 years ago | on: Should holiday email be deleted?

I think the comment was geared more towards corporate America where salaried employees are often expected to work 60+ hours per week with no overtime pay or added benefits for the extra effort. At least I'd hope their idea for the law wouldn't limit hourly employees who need to work multiple jobs just to get by.
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