The garage door is not connecting to the pi... The pi will be using gpio to trigger a relay switch which emulates the pressing of the door button. And will read from gpio the position of the door based on some sensor that you would mount. If I could afford to replace my door with a smart door it’ll handle this for me…

Given the raspberry pi 3 has Bluetooth I wonder how hard it would be to pair it with the car and once it loses Bluetooth connection to the car if the door is open shut it.

What I do is take my left over roasted chicken bones and simmer them on low as long as possible - overnight is great. This is technically stock not broth though, but it makes the best soup.

Most people don’t get to speak to the seller when buying a house until closing. In my state buyer and seller never meet as closing is done separately. Plus, if you’re the seller and you’re selling for a bad reason, why would you disclose that? You’re more likely just to say “we’re upgrading” or “we’re downsizing”, or…

Try working with a friend where you put a backup computer on each other's home network and rsync over ssh to back it up. Or just go to their house periodically to do your backup. Back in the day I had CDs at a friends house as a backup.

I7 and I5 are marketed for different purposes. Here’s one to consider, for example, if longer battery life is important, especially in a thin and light laptop, stick to the i5. If all you are going to do is work on a few word documents use Facebook and play a few Facebook games, maybe even an i3 is good enough, but…

I find that 2/3 cup oatmeal to 1 cup milk works great and on my microwave, 3 minutes high, stir, 3 minutes 50% stir and serve. Also if you like dried fruits, try adding it before cooking and they'll plump up deliciously.

Nice! I was an iGoogle user at one point however I stopped using it somewhere in one of my reloads. Of course, with some html skills, you can build your own for free and not have to worry about the service being shut down.

I never use ftp anymore in my day job. A good thing to know would be cloud deployment of webapps in both public and private clouds. Also you should know webservices too, both SOAP and REST. There are people out there who will advocate only REST but that's not going to help you when you need to call a SOAP service. Add…

You could always carve the soup with a chainsaw like the ice sculpture people do. I would wonder if an electric carving knife, blades periodically removed and dipped in a sink of warm water, would do the job

Region locking is as much about video age ratings and censorship. Different countries have different rules and their movies are edited slightly differently because of this. The U.K. And USA versions definitely have their differences - I used to order USA DVDs online as I got an early DVD player in my computer that was…

Melt it in a double boiler and whisk in some cocoa :)

Also consider that if you are interviewing at a large company you will probably change bosses frequently. During the 11 years I’ve been at my current company I’ve had 11 different bosses. Reorganization is quite normal here, plus I've changed jobs 3 times for better opportunities myself. Worrying too much about the…

Looks like an instructible on how to build your own is about to get written...

I’m advocating not eating the fried food a second time - you can peel off the batter and use it as a non fried dish - the batter is junk anyway. Or you know, split a meal out or go hungry and eat the whole lot.

Add Manic Monday by The Bangles esp if it’s Monday morning!

Buying a bunch of routers to find the one that works best for your home isn’t necessarily evil - just be upfront about what you are doing, and, if you go to a smaller retailer and they will probably be more than ok with it. They might even suggest some others to try! Just be sure to reset the settings before you…

And turn off Facebook background app refresh (settings->general->background app refresh) - let it pull the updates when using the app but not in your pocket!

When it comes to friends and family I have discovered it’s best to never loan money with any expectation of being paid back. Just tell them not to worry about it and it me back when/if you can and then drop the issue. Nothing hurts a friendship more than a debt that never gets repaid -if the lender feels cheated or…

“Thank you for eating my leftovers - unfortunately for you I have a horrible case of mouth ulcers right now that the doctor told me not to share cups/glasses/silverware with anyone until they clear up. Hope you enjoy them when they start appearing because quite frankly they are miserable.” Pick your own condition to…