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Books in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Lucky me has been a speed reader basically from the start. I cannot imagine how painfully slow 238 words per minute must feel. The brain has probably forgotten half of the story when the reader reaches the end of a book weeks later. As a teenager, I already read about five books a day. Autism has its advantages...

America First or Israel First? Will Trump Join Netanyahu's War on Iran? - Daniel Levy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

20 years in Afghanistan brought a regime change from Taliban to worse Taliban and cost trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives.

Changing Iran from mullahs to worse mullahs will be in the same ballpark.

Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

It only needs one right drone with the right payload at the right place and time...

Trump Jr. blames trans people for Melissa Hortman's murder in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

They can hardly blame themselves, can they?

A friendly reminder, the USA took 4 Presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollar and 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Like in the first episode of Beverley Hillbillies: "They offered me 125 dollars for the bog. But I don't know what kind of dollars. I know gold dollars and silver dollars, and even those newfangled paper dollars. But what is a million dollar?"

A friendly reminder, the USA took 4 Presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollar and 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Expect the exchange of mullahs in Iran to be about as costly and successful.

No words needed... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Some genius person designed that just to mess with religious minds.

Many people instantly know what THIS is. Others don't have a clue in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I have not seen those in many decades...

Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, indeed. Can you buy or build a drone in the US? No problem. Can you get explosives or other nasty stuff to arm it? No issue for a determined group. Can you find an undefended soft target? Of course, there is a smorgasboard of those.

Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Just look at the list of countries that the USA has pissed off in the last whatever years, and choose one at random.

The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Those ticks carry a load of shit. Like one infection that makes you allergic to eating meat.

The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Too many Ticks? You need more Tocks, then.

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Newest Shennigans from YouTube (lemmy.world)
 

I don't have a YouTube login on purpose. After having had issues with some random videos asking me to login to confirm my age (no porn or anything, seems to be random harrasment), I now get "log in to prove that you are not a bot" (rough translation).

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Geschichte wiederholt sich (lemmy.world)
 

  1. Januar 1933: Paul von Hindenburg: "Wenn er erst mal Reichskanzler ist, haben wir ihn unter Kontrolle"

  2. Januar 2025: Friedrich Merz: "Wir werden nächste Woche in den Deutschen Bundestag Anträge einbringen, die ausschließlich unserer Überzeugung entsprechen. [...] Und wir werden sie einbringen, unabhängig davon, wer ihnen zustimmt."

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Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany (lemmy.world)
 

Because you now did it to yourself.

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Extracting Data from Stud.io 2.0 (lemmy.world)
 

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?

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Wrote my first longer Python program (lemmy.world)
 

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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Anyone else thinking that the new Eldorado Fortress is too expensive? (lemmy.world)
 

The new Eldorado Fortress is listed at €214.99. Is it just me, or is this set much to expensive for what it is? When I saw it, I thought "Maybe €150, €170 tops", and was shocked when I heard the real price.

I know (who doesn't?) that LEGO is not cheap, but this is not a Starwars set, it is 100% their own IP.

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