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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

In the US, white, rich and influential people don't get arrested just because they committed a crime!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I once read a SciFi story where people lived in a way-post-scarcity world. There must have been machines somewhere, but they did not play a role worth mentioning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Regarding comprehensive knowledge: there might be a lot of topics where you lack the knowledge to write a good and detailed answer. There might even be topics where you don't even have a clue what they are actually asking about.

But I am sure there are topics where you are the person in the know. And someday, someone will ask a question where you are the person perfectly qualified to answer it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

That's how I got a free netbook. The netbook had 32GB flash with windows and office occupying 27+GB. Then windows wanted to do an update - with an 8+GB file. Spot the problem. And windows can get quite annoying with updates. As the netbook could not be expanded, and attempts to redirect the update to a USB stick did not work, a newer netbook was bought, and I got the old one. Linux plus libreoffice plus a bunch of extras happily sat in 4GB...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

Weirdo. Through and through.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

Don't worry, the money is not gone. It is just with someone else, probably one of the billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

That platform is the nationwide assembly of nutjobs in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A friend of ours was approaching her 40th birthday. But she only admitted to having a "round" birthday, and even forbade her kids to talk about mommys age, even though we made a big production to learn her age with trick questions and all. And then we told her that if she keeps mum about her age, we'll just guesstimate it.

That's how she got sent loads of cards for her 50th birthday. She was a bit pissed when we arrived for the party. And then we handed her the real cards for her 40th.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I was about to post it. Can you imagine, there is actually a DVD with that film - and a load of extras from the creators.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I have seen such an idiot riding downhill with 40km/h and texting. I stayed far behind him so I at least had a chance to break in case he made a meat crayon. Luckily I had to leave the road shortly after while he was still texting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Actually, both.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So those MAGA women actually have two jobs: Vote early for Harris, and keep their husbands occupied on voting day...

 

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.

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