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811.
by sjwright 7y ago
That's entirely reasonable. I mostly posted that as a PSA for anyone who assumed that vacuuming was only about cleanliness, not carpet life.
812.
by sjwright 7y ago
Not inherently, no. I'm building out my home automation with mostly ESP8266 based sensors, relays, modules etc. About half of those are NodeMCU, the other half are commercial devices flashed with custom firmware. My biggest "win&q
813.
by sjwright 7y ago
Regular vacuuming makes carpet last longer because when grit gets between the carpet fibres, it acts as an abrasive and literally wears your carpet away with every footstep.
814.
by sjwright 7y ago
The one obvious Achilles heel of a clapper is that you’re limited to one action per acoustic space.
815.
by sjwright 7y ago
Voice recognition isn’t automation, it’s an elaborate remote control. Real automation is having the room lights react to stuff like motion, presence, time of day, ambient brightness, and whether you’re watching TV. Telling Alexa to turn the
816.
by sjwright 7y ago
I agree, I’m not the person arguing that.
817.
by sjwright 7y ago
Ugly and unattractive aren't the same thing.
818.
by sjwright 7y ago
Half the companies you listed are the same company.
819.
by sjwright 7y ago
Speaking for myself, I prefer reverse parking because it allows you to deal with the slower reversing manoeuvre when you’ve already got full monopolisation of the lane. Plus it makes exiting safer, easier and much less prone to assholery.
820.
by sjwright 7y ago
Don’t you think it’s weird that we let all processes on a computer have unrestricted access to the network/internet by default? Isn’t that the problem? Access beyond the computer should be by consent only.
821.
by sjwright 7y ago
And reducing salt has a devious unintended consequence: encouraging a diet higher in carbohydrates and fructose specifically—almost certainly worse than the salt for most people. Salt is one of the most effective ways to make healthy low ca
822.
by sjwright 7y ago
There are countless ways to improve the situation for the poor from being gouged in countless other ways. Telling the environment to fuck off isn’t among the more sensible ones.
823.
by sjwright 7y ago
Calling people who disagree with you "apologists with an agenda" isn't really within the spirit of Hacker News, nor is it conducive to healthy discussion. The disaster that hit Fukushima was a tsunami. Only a very small secti
824.
by sjwright 7y ago
I agree with you in principle, but let him focus on thorium during the election process. It's his way of letting us know he's on the correct side of the broader issue without freaking out the hippies.
825.
by sjwright 7y ago
And it's important to remember that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has caused one confirmed death so far. I'm not saying that it wasn't a horrific disaster, but it's like comparing one dramatic aeroplane accident to the
826.
by sjwright 7y ago
Exactly. The takeaway should be that Yang is approaching this issue from a position of technical merit and not on an irrational emotional basis like most others. This is to his credit. Properly technocratic leadership is rare in the USA and
827.
by sjwright 7y ago
Use it on landfill and you get to mine many desirable materials in one place.
828.
by sjwright 7y ago
You’re prioritising truth over social cohesion. I like truth but without social cohesion, no amount of truth matters.
829.
by sjwright 7y ago
The economy is already massively skewed against low income people; they’re already “gouged” in a dozen other ways. The solution for that is UBI, not giving up on the environment.
830.
by sjwright 7y ago
True, but the upsides would massively offset the downsides.
831.
by sjwright 7y ago
Is an aluminium can trash? Or is it highly recyclable material? That’s largely a decision of the consumer, not the manufacturer.
832.
by sjwright 7y ago
There’s an easy solution: tax landfill by 1,000+%. If consumers had to pay a significant amount for each load of trash removed from their home, you’d see the market for ultra low waste products skyrocket. And then the economic value of recy
833.
by sjwright 7y ago
Until someone creates a machine that can pulverise anything into a fine powder and progressively sort each granule into their constituent metal, plastic, silica and organic type.
834.
by sjwright 7y ago
It doesn’t matter how autonomous and free thinking you are or any other individual is— social media is transforming us into a collective. Like ants excreting pheromones, our actions in aggregate are more powerful than any individual, the re
835.
by sjwright 7y ago
On the contrary, by not using the brand at all it ensures that third parties are not in a position to violate Apple’s brand guidelines.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Apple doesn’t tend to hand out their logo for industry groups and open source projects. That’s fine, it’s their support that matters. And it’s not like their name lacks brand recognition! Here’s another example; same idea, different font:
837.
by sjwright 7y ago
And tomorrow it’s forecasted to be 42°C in my inner Sydney coastal suburb. This is insane.
838.
by sjwright 7y ago
I’d include Razer in the dumpster fire pile. In my estimation, the custom drivers of most HID products seem to be as bad as printer drivers back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Actually worse because of all the RGB nonsense and cloud bu
839.
by sjwright 7y ago
> is it normal to own a bus in Australia? No. The market for three row vehicles exists but is small, served mostly by a few mid-sized* SUVs with a third row only suitable for small children. Most people I know with families of 5 make do
840.
by sjwright 7y ago
I realise the parent comment is being voted down, but I think it’s a good point. If you’re buying a managed service, why should it matter if Amazon twiddled with how it stores data? What matters is that it behaves exactly like PostgreSQL in

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