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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Heat pump is a Trane XV19 and the thermostat is an xl 1050 (supposedly trane but my understanding is it’s a rebranded Nexia) The process to update the costs (which has to be done a few times per year when my utility changes their rates) is
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Trane xl1050. It’s a rebranded Nexia
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
As someone who switched four years ago to a heat pump plus conventional furnace, I can state from experience that my thermostat takes electricity cost per kWh and gas cost per therm (other units are available, these are just the ones that m
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
That’s a very interesting idea, that the layoffs and hiring freezes -and the resulting reality that morale is at an all-time low among every one of the dozens of engineers I interact with on a frequent basis- is a consequence of leadership
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Between your post and Air Canada’s learning they have to honor policies their chat bot hallucinates and relays to customers, it seems like the zeitgeist is starting to comprehend the inherent limitations and risks of LLMs. I find that kind
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
You’re giving humanity one last chance to talk you out of your plan for global domination, aren’t you? C’mon, dude. Let us keep our books.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Continuity, truth, being able to learn and reason from published facts from verifiable sources. The ability to operate a machine without understanding its inner workings, and also the ability to crack open a book and repair said inner worki
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Obligatory Neal Stephenson: “When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Remember this simple rhyme for for your safety whenever you’re booking a commercial flight: “If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.”
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
I’m bringing personal experience based on having spent $100k with his company– befor le he outed himself as a racist doofus. You’re bringing quippy contradiction and downvotes. Are you just a fanboy, or do you work for his reputation protec
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Ed and Chelsea and Juilan probably have some thoughts on how that works out.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
It’s not destined to fail. But Elon’s jumping the shark has absolutely harmed Tesla sales. Personal anecdote: I got into the Tesla ecosystem with a model 3. All it took was one test drive and I was sold. I went on to buy solar and powerwall
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Ok, mike_d, but how do you know?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
The US sure is- we’re apparently selling weapons to the perpetrators. I don’t even care who started it. I just want it to stop.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Come on now. Can’t? Really? Maaaybe it’s against some law or privacy policy or mandatory annual training. But do you honestly believe companies follow laws and policies if they think they can get away with not? And even if you can ignore th
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
You don’t think Walmart’s pharmacy data can be correlated to the same customer’s shopping habits?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at." — André Malraux
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
I use a different email address for pretty much every company I’ve ever dealt with. There’s commercial services now which make it easy, but I’ve been doing it for decades now. The joys of running your own inbound mail server. Makes it easy
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
‘Content’ is what you get when bean counters and technologists commoditize our artistic output and cultural heritage. And the enshittified, ‘content-rich’ era is what you get when these same entities then proceed to churn out endless, mostl
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Love the downvotes for bringing facts.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
> If you look at the amount and cost of content over the last decade it was clear it was unsustainable. The amount we all were paying vs. the amount of content was/is staggering. We were in a content golden age. Nonsense. You know w
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Benevity is a company that basically administers company matching donations. Database of approved nonprofits, can set up arbitrary amounts as recurring payments, and automatic matching if you do the donations through their site. It’s not qu
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
I’m with you on all those. I just did my end of year matching gift donating through the portal at work. I guess I left out Ukraine, which needs fixing. But did get FSF, EFF, the regional food bank, and a niche human rights org. Let me tell
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Does your employer have a donation matching program? It’s a great time of year to donate to the EFF.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Well played
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
> Maybe there’s something neurologically wrong from the beginning that manifests as ADHD and later turns into dementia? I can’t speak to the dementia portion, but it would not surprise me. As for the adhd being the result of something ‘n
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nNzNo_Xps
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Meta used exclusivity as a marketing tactic when it was contending with MySpace. Judging by the current relative market caps of facepalm and MySpace, seems like it worked out ok.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Do you have data supporting that it’s valid to suggest that only the worst people in society are still interested in being teachers? I’m no saint; I work in tech for real money. But the teachers I know -and I know many, of varying ages and
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Big tech companies have a history of supporting the community where doing so attacks their competitors’ cash cows. There’s also that Oracle linux was formed from RHEL. Maybe let’s not confuse Oracle undermining their competitor’s moat with

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