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[–] [email protected] 127 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

Obviously I don't know the business in question, but it's quite possible that the company has a bunch of longer running contracts that would become a loss if the inputs become much more expensive.

Of course, businesses will use the opportunity to charge more, but sudden price hikes are a very real problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

I find it extremely frustrating how weirdly wrong-density much documentation is. It's extremely detailed in all the wrong places and often lacks examples for common use cases.

I learned a while ago that news articles are supposed to have increasing levels of detail from top to bottom. Each paragraph adds a bit more context, but the general picture should be contained in the first one. Hardly any documentation follows that pattern.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No, it's a desert planet that's legally distinct from tatooine, but still very obviously inspired by it.

Just like starkiller base was definitely not a death star and this weird mining site in 8 was definitely not inspired by hoth, it's salt and not snow afterall!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

"Umstritten"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Blut im Stuhl wird schwarz.

Wäre dann die Darmkrebskoalition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Alles andere wäre auch Betrug am volk gewesen.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

"fair and well funded" my ass.

German farmers get over 40% of their income from subsidies and tax cuts already, they're effectively state owned.

These idiots get squeezed by the food industry and instead of doing anything about it, they cry for more and more subsidies.

And one thing to remember: a whole lot of farmers are just really really not smart. They live in their farmer bubble and if the nazi editor of their farmer magazine claims that refugees steal their corn and woke people want to ban their pork, they'll believe that.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't change anything, tbh.

Apparently these people are at least complacent enough to let Trump become president. And that is horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Imagine being a doctor in this scenario. You could save them. You have the tools, the capabilities, the facility. But you have to let them die or risk ruining your own life. There are no winners here.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago

It's interesting in the sense that something went catastrophically wrong here.

This isn't just a small indie dev wasting a bit of money, it's hundreds of millions set on fire by an established company in this industry.

The fact that "no one heard of it" is exactly the point. What went wrong here?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It only started this year for me (had this number for 15 years or so), and it's mostly numbers from the UK and India for some reason (I'm in Germany).

 

I asked a while ago, how to build an automatic light switch and finally got around to actually building it.

My board is an ESP8266 mini D, and ignoring all the sensor parts, my problem right now is powering the actual light.

It's just a small LED array and I connected it directly to the 5V and GND pins (controlled via a transistor).

Measuring from the wall (so including the PSU), this whole setup pulls about 3W (so far expected), however, one small component close to the USB connector gets uncomfortably warm, and I'm not sure, whether that's ok.

The hot component is one of the two small thingies circled in the picture. I thought the 5V get pulled directly from the USB plug, so I'm not sure, why there is any circuitry involved.

 

I'm trying to build a very simple, stupid light switch for my grow light. Essentially, I want to turn on the light, if it gets too dark outside, so that my plants can survive the northern winter.

Since I'm a software guy, my first thought was an ESP32, but that seems excessive.

My current approach would be something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/313561010352 In conjunction with a relay, both powered by a USB-PSU.

If the light level is low enough, the logic DO pin should send a signal and that should be enough to trigger a small relay, so that the relay then closes the circuit to switch on the lights.

Is that idea completely stupid? With electronics, I'm usually missing something very obvious.

The lights themselves are already just usb powered and only draw 5W, so that shouldn't be problem.

What I'm concerned with is the actual switching. Is the logic signal "strong" enough to activate a relay? Would simple transistor maybe sufficient?

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