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by orev 1y ago
If they’re fully dry by morning, that implies the machine is using a heating element for the dry cycle. In that case, I’d be for more concerned about the power usage than the water usage. Most machines will let you disable the heating eleme
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by orev 1y ago
It’s my understanding that “category 5” means “total destruction”, which is why this hasn’t been done in the past. However if it helps to get the point across about climate change, it would be helpful for marketing purposes.
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by orev 1y ago
> a laptop that's designed to be shut down For the people who do shut it down, they do it by holding down the power button for 10+ seconds, because that’s how phones do it. On Windows at least, that causes a forced/crash shutdo
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by orev 1y ago
They’re using the stored heat energy as heat, not converting it back to electricity. And if it’s very cheap, does it matter if the conversion is wasteful?
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by orev 1y ago
How would you move the solar energy into the piles of dirt? You’d need something like an array of mirrors focusing the rays, which has definitely been done already but has drawbacks. Electricity can easily be moved to where it’s needed.
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by orev 1y ago
I doubt this is doing anything. Static electricity is the difference in latent charge between two things, and if neither of those things is attached the the actual ground, touching the mains ground (which is attached to the actual ground) i
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by orev 1y ago
It’s very easy to become blind to UX issues even after just a few exposures to it. Once you “figure it out”, it’s not a problem anymore. The thing is that you can easily lose many potential users who don’t want to give any time at all t
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by orev 1y ago
That “blank stare” isn’t lack of comprehension. The IT teams already know this, but are powerless to prevent it because the Business-people want IT to “just make it work”, “every other company is using it so obviously you’re just being para
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by orev 1y ago
Salaries are usually quoted in before-tax dollars, while paying rent happens after tax. Any place where rent is around “a grand“ also requires a car (and insurance) to survive. That 50k gets used up quickly.
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by orev 1y ago
It reminds me of “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place” (Brian Kernighan). If you use AI to write the code, did you ever make it to the 1x level to begin with? How can you be 2x smarter to debug it if you didn’t
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by orev 1y ago
> Occasionally someone (usually at work) will ask “why do you know that?” or “how did you learn how to do that?” This comes up a lot from business people, and I think at least one answer is because learning to program is a master class o
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by orev 1y ago
There are definitely many products that need no account or cloud functionality at all, but still make you sign up for an account. Philips Hue did this recently for their app, when the bulbs only need local WiFi or ZigBee, but then decided t
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by orev 1y ago
I consider it a requirement of any smart home that alternative methods need to be available during failures. Simply having other devices around that aren’t smart, like an old fashioned light bulb and physical switch to get you through until
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by orev 1y ago
They didn’t say “new car”, just “car”. You can get a loan for a used car as well. In almost all places in the US, a car is a requirement for daily living. You cannot go to work, get food, or do anything else without one. None of this is abo
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by orev 1y ago
That’s a commonly held idea for spam emails. This is about services you’ve signed up and pay for on a recurring basis, and was targeted at companies who make it very easy to open an account, but then require byzantine methods to cancel.
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by orev 1y ago
This whole response is being written using slide to type, and it definitely adds spaces after each word. Maybe you’re unaware that it will leave the cursor at the end of the word, with no space, which indicates that if you backspace it will
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by orev 1y ago
I think you’re thinking that the fingerprint is reported as a single hash (e.g. SHA512) of multiple attributes, which would of course change if a single bit was different. But there’s no reason they would be reported that way. It could be (
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by orev 1y ago
People working in specialized fields (doctors, programming, etc.) don’t get paid by the hour, they get paid for their expertise, so less time spent doesn’t mean a lower price.
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by orev 1y ago
Some allergy pills (diphenhydramine) are also so good at causing drowsiness they’re sold as sleep aides. Make sure you control for that in your personal testing.
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by orev 1y ago
Can an organization that has “tens of thousands” of computers running Windows really be considered “medium sized”?
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by orev 1y ago
Apple makes a big deal about how much they focus on accessibility (which they honestly do), so it might be that the Accessibility team is the only group that has the internal clout to push back on these types of design changes. As long as t
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by orev 1y ago
Seems like exactly the wrong time to be sharing something like this with him. Assuming he put any effort at all into studying for the test, it’s easy to read this as saying that effort was wasted. You don’t want to be demotivating him just
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by orev 1y ago
You take one hour a week to go grocery shopping and then you have everything you need to stay alive for that week. Then another two hours on the weekend to cook everything and clean. It’s really a non-negotiable activity that’s essential fo
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by orev 1y ago
Unless you’re working 16h per day, every day, you have time to cook. There are many things that are very easy to cook and don’t even take that much effort, but people just refuse to learn how to use the tools they have. All you need is an o
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by orev 1y ago
Absolutely. Remote controls that only provide a power toggle instead of separate on/off signals make automation almost impossible.
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by orev 1y ago
The Bond bridge is a very easy to use puck that bridges WiFi and these frequencies.
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by orev 1y ago
There’s an incoming cohort of people who only ever used a touch screen to type and a physical keyboard is a new thing. They do things like activate caps lock, type a single capital letter, then deactivate caps lock, because that’s how a pho
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by orev 1y ago
Stack Overflow harnessed the good attributes of tech people (I’m not saying that only tech people have these attributes, but I do think they’re very common in tech people): the joy of learning and the joy of sharing/helping others le
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by orev 1y ago
I think you need to provide more details on what VM software you’re using. On VirtualBox what you describe is very noticeable, and it didn’t have that delay in older versions. So it could be just an issue with that VM software and not a gen
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by orev 1y ago
I don’t think this is context switching, which would be about moving your attention to an entirely different topic. Addressing the same topic using a few different tools doesn’t require your brain to unload and reload a whole set of context

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