Jetzig reads funny in german something like "now-ish"
Jetzt = now [1]
German adjective suffix: -ig [2]
The German suffix -ig attaches to nouns, verbs and even adverbs. Given this flexibility, it ranks among the most common adjective endings in German. You can use -ig words to express that something is a certain way or happens a certain way.
traurig: sad, sadly
wässrig: watery
knackig: crunchy, crispy
abhängig: dependent, addicted
geizig: stingy
Hoping it will make chores more visible and fun to complete for the whole family.
I picked up a used star tsp100 printer and usb 2d barcode scanner.
Still looking for a backend though. Idealy with Homeassistant integration for automating todos that already have sensors and data such as taking out the trash.
For my setup, I have a couple of different components. I have a very mediocre and super vibe coded HTTP server running on my Arduino which is connected to the receipt printer. It just has /print and /barcode endpoints. I'd like to improve on this by using an ESP32 instead of my Arduino so I can get MicroPython instead of C++. The Arduino is connected via serial to the receipt printer with this: NOYITO TTL to RS232 Module.
I then have a Python script which will send requests to the /print and /barcode endpoint to actually print out the tasks, and it hooks into Supabase to get the task into a DB and Google's AI Studio to also print a little encouraging message. Both should fit in their free tier for this kind of project.
And then I have a small API written in Typescript which hooks up to Supabase and marks a task complete when my iOS shortcut sends it a message.
The whole workflow for me is: Print receipt with the Python script, mark it complete with an iOS Shortcut. I have a whiteboard for the receipts themselves and magnets to stick them on there. Get fairly strong magnets because the ones I got start to lose their hold at the end of the day once I've got a number of tickets stacked up.
Honestly the barcode part is the key IMO. It makes completing a task so fun and rewarding. If you / your family has iPhones you can create an iOS Shortcut that will scan the task when you complete it. I was also going to go with a usb barcode scanner because that sounds really satisfying too! For this you might need a dedicated machine hooked up to the usb barcode scanner because they typically act as a keyboard and just type in whatever they scan, so you'll need a script running constantly that's just waiting for input.
I'm not too familiar with Homeassistant and it looks like donetick would work better for you as well than most of the stuff I've got but I'd be happy to help with anything if you'd like. My contact info is in the GitHub where I have the printed-tasks code.
Lastly, I've been using this manual for the ESC/POS stuff: https://pos-x.com/download/escpos-programming-manual/ Just in case you end up wanting to manually print yours. There are some libraries already that do this, but I can't use most of them because of the Arduino situation.
Are political bots now on HN as well?
This is such a polarizing post willfully ignoring legislation and historical background. Aimed at dividing public opinion instead of discussing the topic at hand: political influence of X through feed aggregation.
That something might just be the urgency of change in things we’ve taken for grander the past ~2 generations (~60years)
Right at the top of that list:
- using fossil fuels as cheap energy
- assuming continued growth while earths resources are limited (yes tech is getting more efficient)
- relying on respected and trusted media entities (opposed to outlets bought by corporations with clear interests or maybe(?) state controlled social media trolls
Change is happening, coming fast and is becoming harder to ignore but people don’t like change.
Marion Richardson Handwriting was first published in 1935 and continued to be used in schools until the 1980s. It consists of five copy books, each with a different level of difficulty, and a teacher's book that explains the methods and materials to be used. You can download the copy books for free from this link: [Writing and Writing Patterns](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.54007.)
It is most certainly in sequence: Clarification of the 5+1 volumes and a link to the content for free right now - albeit nearly unusable quality scan - instead of a "backorder only" link to buy for $30.
This "you might be a bot" is going to be the next Red Scare or witch hunt (that the esteemed AI revolutionaries will deny any responsibility for). Just wait till the real bots learn to start saying that! [spiderman pointing gif]
I don't see any evidence that this is a bot post. It's the only post in the thread that actually points to scans of the Marion Richardson source materials mentioned in the parent comment.
I guess it doesn't matter now, since it's been flagged… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm trying my hardest to imagine someone making a bot that scours the Internet for discussions on handwriting only to post in the most succinct manner a resource that is very much on-topic.
It is a very bot level post, but the link goes to a real book (a scan so not that accessible) and it does at least give a bit of relevant summary on the topic to save a Google search (assuming you trust it). It could be better but I don’t totally hate it.
I'm wondering what value you think has been lost through the book being a scan? Virtually all of the pages contain little more than handwriting, so a scan is the appropriate representation.
The old school way is to add logic based on the strengths and weaknesses of each sensor type. My example is not specific to automotive sensors (I haven't worked in the automotive sector, but I do have now-outdated experience in obstacle detection and ranging, along with avoidance algorithms).
Sonar sensors are most accurate at medium ranges, but they are notorious for detecting ghost objects that do not really exist. Infrared range sensors are more reliable but are only accurate at very short range. So when a sonar sensor detects an object 8.4 meters away, you use the infrared sensor to double check. If the infrared sensor says there's an object 9 meters away in the same direction, you assume the object is real but is actually 8.4 meters away. If the infrared sensor says the nearest object in that direction is 20 meters away, you assume the sonar sensor made something up.
If you have enough types of sensors, you can also use a "majority rule". If two of 3 sensor types agree, you assume the 3rd is an anomaly. Lidar is excellent for this because it is accurate across a very large range, so it tends to overlap with most of your other sensors. This increases that odds that when there is a disagreement, one of the agreeing sensors will be capable of accurately measuring the distance to the object.
Thanks for this. This is what I come to HN for — to learn something outside of my field.
Do AI systems have the potential to weight or inform those transactions based on historical historical data then? The “experienced” aspect of learning all the things that turned out to be true or false in previous comparisons or data decision points would seem to be the obvious missing piece, but I have never really understood the specifics.
Statistics. "Sensors disagree" is the EXPECTED result when you get a reading from multiple sensors, and the whole point of sensor fusion is that, if the sensors have independent error models, that disagreement IMPROVES your output.
Kalman filters are like sensor fusion 101, and anyone who has attached more than one distance sensor to an arduino has attempted it. It's not that unreasonable that the average person has no idea what sensor fusion is, what IS unreasonable is the damn head of self driving at Tesla claiming that "what do you do when the sensors disagree" is even a valid question.
