It is cool from time to time to spill out your innermost thoughts to the world and see what comments come back, but this blog doesn't generate any interesting comments, in fact I have no idea who even reads it. Quite often you can find help or inspiration from others.
I was quite inspired looking at a the Adam Savage interview video about The Martian. I would recommend reading the book before watching the movie. The way he published the book was cool, wish my dad would try the same way, but I guess he started too late and won't blog.
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
daydreaming
Weekend, yay, don't have to work, however I still wake up before dawn today and it is nice and quiet at that time so I can think and play 16384 which has cured my addiction to 2048, by giving me a harder puzzle. It feels like you are very creative when you just wake up and perhaps I should setup the blog earlier and type rather than play, who knows maybe some ideas will be useful.
Today I was thinking about how to better do sustainability and use prison labor to feed itself, after all they got nothing bit time to work on farming. I guess that was the logic behind prison ships to Australia. Maybe someday we will colonize the universe the same way. I am not sure why in this age of technology we still burn fossil fuels to move tractors and food to cities. I often wonder what life would be like in the countryside, if we were tech workers there. There is no reason we need to commute to our tech jobs. But farming isn't easy and we probably don't have the skills so back to my premise of farming prisoners, might be a good way to reform people by teaching them farming and tech out in the countryside.
Last night watched Shark Tank for a few min, than 20/20 had an interesting case, that they managed to work into the morning news, oh TV what a wasteland of commercials and factory built programs, but it is easy to turn on and you get so much content on an antenna these days.
Not quite sure anymore who I am writing for, I know the ads on a blog don't get you any money.
Today I was thinking about how to better do sustainability and use prison labor to feed itself, after all they got nothing bit time to work on farming. I guess that was the logic behind prison ships to Australia. Maybe someday we will colonize the universe the same way. I am not sure why in this age of technology we still burn fossil fuels to move tractors and food to cities. I often wonder what life would be like in the countryside, if we were tech workers there. There is no reason we need to commute to our tech jobs. But farming isn't easy and we probably don't have the skills so back to my premise of farming prisoners, might be a good way to reform people by teaching them farming and tech out in the countryside.
Last night watched Shark Tank for a few min, than 20/20 had an interesting case, that they managed to work into the morning news, oh TV what a wasteland of commercials and factory built programs, but it is easy to turn on and you get so much content on an antenna these days.
Not quite sure anymore who I am writing for, I know the ads on a blog don't get you any money.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
IoT
I had a great followup session on IoT using the Electric Imp. Result is I can now do stuff like: https://agent.electricimp.com/cX92T3zQwb4l/set?state=off and a light turns off on my Imp. Or the next iteration was curl https://agent.electricimp.com/cX92T3zQwb4l/set?state=1 -H "x-api-key: somepassword" because we do need to have security built in :)
We even touched on the Rocky Framework.
We even touched on the Rocky Framework.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Lyft
I usually bicycle around Silicon Valley leaving my car parked. It usually starts, but sometimes it seems the starter just spins, oh well, with a manual transmision it isn't the end of the world to have to push it on. However yesterday I decided to try 10 of the $20 rides that Lyft gave me, thanks it now feel like I have to blog about this. Get your $20 with code: ralf4 I wanted to go to Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS and Big Data in Apache CloudStack (Hosted at Apple) so there were 8 cars swarming around and one came in 9 min, didn't show up in the right driveway so I walked a bit, but a quick call solved it.
Once you get there you get a clear email showing you what was charged.
Had no bag, just to travel light, but given the way this works, it is pretty good, can bring a few people, cars usually have 4 empty seats, maybe 3, not sure, but it works well fast and I can rely on it, costs are higher than driving yourself, of course.
Keep in mind the prices below are in Silicon Valley, look up your pricing.
It is rather annoying that you can't use Lyft or Uber on the computer, as Chrome also has location available, it should be seem less to hail your ride from the computer to than move the experience to mobile when you leave your desk. So this is smart phone only. Lyft works on iOS and Android, haven't tried it on a tablets it seems to be discouraged due to worst GPS and connectivity.
You come to realize that future versions of Taxi's will be self driving, after all the cost of this would so sink if you had electric self driving cars parked at a charger while they wait for you to summon them. These app based taxi companies seem like the perfect place to try them first.
So I could drink beer at my meeting or wine, no problem, 4 min after asking for a Lyft, one was roaming the parking lot. My second driver also had an Uber phone as did the 3rd driver, seems common.
So try them while they are viciously giving out the free rides, this is better and cheaper than a taxi, although it is P2P so you really depend on the algorithms to weed out the bad players. However is it worst than a taxi in that sense, I think not, the rating system should weed out bad players and the rally bad players, there are a small percentage of people anyhow, they could just as easily drive a taxi.
Once you get there you get a clear email showing you what was charged.
Thanks for riding with Bachson!
Ride ending February 24 at 6:04 PM
 |
| Ride 11.0 mi & 41 min: | $28.19 |
| Trust & Safety Fee: | $1.50 |
| Tip: | $2.00 |
| Lyft Credits: | -$20.00 |
| - | |
|
| $11.69 |
Keep in mind the prices below are in Silicon Valley, look up your pricing.
Lyft Pricing
| Base Charge | $2.25 |
|---|---|
| Cancel Penalty | $5.00 |
| Cost Minimum | $5.00 |
| Cost Per Mile | $1.35 |
| Cost Per Minute | $0.27 |
| Trust And Safety Fee | $1.50 |
Plus Pricing
| Base Charge | $3.37 |
|---|---|
| Cancel Penalty | $5.00 |
| Cost Minimum | $7.00 |
| Cost Per Mile | $2.02 |
| Cost Per Minute | $0.40 |
| Trust And Safety Fee | $1.50 |
It is rather annoying that you can't use Lyft or Uber on the computer, as Chrome also has location available, it should be seem less to hail your ride from the computer to than move the experience to mobile when you leave your desk. So this is smart phone only. Lyft works on iOS and Android, haven't tried it on a tablets it seems to be discouraged due to worst GPS and connectivity.
You come to realize that future versions of Taxi's will be self driving, after all the cost of this would so sink if you had electric self driving cars parked at a charger while they wait for you to summon them. These app based taxi companies seem like the perfect place to try them first.
So I could drink beer at my meeting or wine, no problem, 4 min after asking for a Lyft, one was roaming the parking lot. My second driver also had an Uber phone as did the 3rd driver, seems common.
| Ride 7.9 mi & 22 min: | $18.95 |
| Trust & Safety Fee: | $1.50 |
| Tip: | $3.00 |
| Lyft Credits: | -$20.00 |
| - |
| Total charged to credit card ***xxxx: | $3.45 |
So try them while they are viciously giving out the free rides, this is better and cheaper than a taxi, although it is P2P so you really depend on the algorithms to weed out the bad players. However is it worst than a taxi in that sense, I think not, the rating system should weed out bad players and the rally bad players, there are a small percentage of people anyhow, they could just as easily drive a taxi.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
new body
Given that we get old and our bodies get worn out and broken, I would like to be able to upgrade my hardware. However I guess the closest thing to this would be reproducing and programming the new firmware.
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