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sbyx / low-battery-level-detection-notification-for-all-battery-sensors.yaml
Last active August 22, 2026 19:23
Home Assistant Blueprint: Low battery level detection & notification for all battery sensors
blueprint:
name: Low battery level detection & notification for all battery sensors
description: Regularly test all sensors with 'battery' device-class for crossing
a certain battery level threshold and if so execute an action.
domain: automation
input:
threshold:
name: Battery warning level threshold
description: Battery sensors below threshold are assumed to be low-battery (as
well as binary battery sensors with value 'on').
@unak
unak / history.txt
Last active May 21, 2026 11:18
The History of Ruby
* Only the releases of the stable versions are listed in principle. The releases of the unstable versions especially considered to be important are indicated as "not stable."
* The branches used as the source of each releases are specified, and the branching timing of them are also shown. BTW, before subversionizing of the repository, the term called "trunk" was not used, but this list uses it in order to avoid confusion.
* In order to show a historical backdrop, big conferences (RubyKaigi, RubyConf and Euruko) are also listed. About the venues of such conferences, general English notations are adopted, in my hope.
* ruby_1_8_7 branch was recut from v1_8_7 tag after the 1.8.7 release because of an accident.
* 1.2.1 release was canceled once, and the 2nd release called "repack" was performed. Although there were other examples similar to this, since the re-releases were performed during the same day, it does not write clearly in particular.
* Since 1.0 was released with the date in large quantities, the mi
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active August 21, 2026 23:50
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD