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for 20 minutes, and then they tried to kill him

"finally"? The Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2003.

Yah, this is how I've solved this in my Home Assistant setup. My doorbell camera can see where I keep my bins when they're not out. We have three types of bins- a trash bin, a recycle bin, and two yard waste bins. Recycling and yard waste are picked up on alternate weeks, and I often forget which bins need to go out.

I have an automation that will grab an image from that camera and send it to the Anthropic API with a prompt describing where the bins are, and the color of each bin. The prompt comes back with JSON indicating which bins it can see. If it can see e.g. the yard waste bin, and it's time to take the yard waste bin to the curb, it will send me a notification.

It also reminds me when it's time to return them to their "resting" position after pickup- unless I already have.

Home Assistant orchestrates this all. I also have it hooked up to a "Bindicator"- a white 3D printed bin with a color-changing LED inside, controlled by an ESP8266 using ESPHome. When it's time to move the bin it lights up the color of the bin that needs to be moved. If I haven't moved the bins back after a day it turns orange to remind me.

Claude configured the automations for me via MCP but it's not particularly complicated. It's pretty reliable, though sometimes just because of where the doorbell camera is it can't clearly see the bins. If it can't make a ruling on the bin location it just falls back to notifying me so I will sometimes get a reminder I don't need.

or brushed aluminium

not once did I ever understand what the difference was between Claude Chat and Claude Cowork. I use both and I mostly just guessed when to use Cowork.

JerryRigEverything will deploy his hardness pick test in short order I'm sure.

If you think a Nathan Fielder project is going to rehabilitate someone's image then you don't know who Nathan Fielder is.

"oh you said 'nitter', yeah that's OK"

this is basically the inciting incident of the recent movie Hoppers

I predict "data centers" are going to start being built but they'll say it's a distribution warehouse for motorcycle parts or a factory or something. There'll be a token amount of floor space set aside to manufacture pen cartridges but then there'll just be an incidental 200000 sq ft of server racks.

Actually I'm sure they're already doing that.

If the AI (or the person) ran into a non-obvious constraint, or some externality, or there’s a plan that just isn’t implemented yet- then the comment wouldn’t be able to be divined by the AI. But yeah just pointing the AI at something and saying “write me docs” will get you something at best equally good as what’s going to be available.

I’ve left so many PR reviews in the last few months that are essentially “this looks good but delete 80% of the comments.”