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After 16 years, Ecobee is ceasing support for original smart thermostat(theverge.com)
50 points by derbOac 2y ago|48 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
I don't disagree although as a physician he has a bit of conflict of interest in the discussion. I'm not sure it invalidates what he has to say but it's a context that might be kept in mind.
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by derbOac 2y ago
I don't know. My experience is that as you get older, you're constantly evaluated against what could have been, and experiences that in youth would have been seen positively become discounted or, strangely, even held against you.
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think lots of times this is the essence of agism: that old dogs can't learn new tricks etc. I'm not sure path dependence needs to be as strong as it is, but it often is because society disallows it.
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by derbOac 2y ago
Yes, the disqualification says more about the awarding body than the entry.
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by derbOac 2y ago
Related: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091118/climax-f...
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by derbOac 3y ago
Self-serving, manipulative, false, and offensive.
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is Taleb's point I think. In the standard gambler's fallacy situation, it's assumed known that the coin is fair. However, in real life there's always some probability that the assumption is incorrect. One way to thi
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Nostalgia for a Dating Experience They've Never Had(theatlantic.com)
4 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
Not sure what's going on with that page but for me it loads, and then just freezes like it's waiting for something else to load and can't. I didn't wait long though because I didn't want to find out what kinds of re
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by derbOac 3y ago
I guess I never understood the problem with saying we have hundreds of planets, and then to classify them.
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by derbOac 3y ago
One thing about these messages is that they kind of give a broad snapshot of everything going on in text form. So you get messages from people mixed with background automatic messages from news websites and so forth, with system messages du
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think measuring by mass is almost certainly more precise in theory, but in practice sometimes measuring by volume is easier to do, and therefore can be more accurate in practice sometimes. Most of the arguments about actual composition of
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by derbOac 3y ago
My intuition is there's some fundamental equivalence between time and some information-theoretic concept unknown to me. McTaggart might have been right to recognize the importance of change, but the card exercise is also fundamentally
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Does the ISA Matter? A Simulation Based Investigation (2019)(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
3 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
I wonder if someone more knowledgeable than me about this could say something about nitrogen concentration in the water: https://www.animals24-7.org/2024/04/16/nitrogen-kills-florid... I'm wary of that s
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by derbOac 3y ago
I felt that way until the other day. There was a post that got upvoted, seemed wholesome and innocuous, and then eventually someone pointed out it was borrowing material from an earlier post. So I go to check, and sure enough, the pattern o
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by derbOac 3y ago
I agree with you, but also think corporate hiring and HR practices also deserve a lot of blame as well. I think this is a big part of the antimeritocracy sentiment that's started rising in the US. It's not so much antimeritocracy
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There's Now an FDA-Approved App to Treat Depression(lifehacker.com)
3 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
I've been using Kate for long time. I try other things but seem to gravitate back to Kate. It's relatively resource efficient and fast, very full-featured, open source, and I can use it on different OSes and it's pretty much
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by derbOac 3y ago
I loved this, although I wish there was a wordnet-like way of browsing it, or a thesaurus or something.
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by derbOac 3y ago
The answer is implied, right there in the first paragraph: "... I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental illness." At least in the US, there's a kind of masochistic pride in the physician community, that everything he describe
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by derbOac 3y ago
The problem is, based on my own experiences and those I know, I don't know what self-respect is anymore in terms of how you operationalize it. Does doing X in a given situation mean a lack of self-respect or an abundance of self-respec
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by derbOac 3y ago
I wonder what happens when there's lots of noise in the estimation of quality or fit (or whatever underlies the preference ranking). I imagine this has been done?
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by derbOac 3y ago
reconsider?
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think the author is correctly describing a phenomenon at some level and the DDOS analogy isn't such a bad one. But I think they're kind of misidentifying the nature of the cause at some level. In some ways it's a bit worse
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by derbOac 3y ago
In their application instructions they mention that rinses such as chlorhexidine might eliminate the new bacteria: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1m2SEWL_rrlQLEi1OiD9K...
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by derbOac 3y ago
Their application instructions are worth reading as well (linked from that link but worth highlighting): https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1m2SEWL_rrlQLEi1OiD9K... Among other things they mention th
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by derbOac 3y ago
I agree although late is also better than never.
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by derbOac 3y ago
Thanks for posting. Putting the book on my to-read list. I'm now convinced that just about any idea that is put into print has probably crossed at least one other person's mind at one point. The sorts of sociological factors menti

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