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by stdbrouw 4y ago
> There's also the factor that people are more comfortable with changes that inconvenience others, but don't inconvenience them much Religious-like penance and "I can't do anything about climate change, but you should
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
There's a much simpler explanation: people are worried about the environment and global warming, so they are willing to try out a lot of different things that they think might help, but lo and behold, it turns out that some of those th
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Yeah, a lot is possible with current tech (e.g. you can tell Hue lights what to do after power is restored) and I think my own home automation gets pretty close, but I guess I was hoping to see a blog post from someone who had really though
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
So, not like the "slightly intelligent home" is a term of art or anything like that, but what the author means is simply that he doesn't have as much home automation as some other folks, good for him, but perhaps a nicer kind
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Yeah, especially for a toolkit that is aimed at one-off analyses, I don't really see the point in API conservatism. R went through a period where many of the tools in the hadleyverse/tidyverse drastically changed from one year to
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
FWIW, it's biodegradable but it doesn't dissolve in water. If you've never handled a kombucha scoby, it's very rubbery and tough.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
My first impression was also "huh, why would you need a neural net for that?" but I suppose it's a little like brute force calculations in science in cases where probably with some effort you could find an analytic solution -
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Even if you think you'll win a case, there's still the distraction and economic cost of being dragged into a lawsuit. Fear of libel suits probably does make the gutter press slightly less trashy, but it also has a chilling effect
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I'd be wary of putting all of these examples into the same box, though. If kids can't play outside anymore because of overprotective parents or an overprotective society, that feels to me like a net negative. If newspapers are afr
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
FWIW, the way roofs are designed these days (at least over here in Belgium) there is supposed to be a little bit of airflow underneath your roof, which is achieved by letting the ridge and hip tiles hover over the roof (instead of cementi
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
How do people feel about this when it happens at work? Personally, I kind of like that at my place of work we're expected to (sometimes) clean the coffee cups, organize our own office party, haul boxes of old documents to the shredder
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. Almost every modern boiler will bump up the temperature to 60C / 140F once a week to prevent Legionnaire's, may even be a mandatory feature depending on where you live.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Huh? Regular thermostatic valves do not provide perfect regulation but they do in fact provide a fairly stable output temperature regardless of cold and hot water temperature, by entirely mechanical means. I have a cheap IKEA shower control
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I used to have a huge aversion to any kind of smart control, but the new generation of home automation (2010-now or whatever) is fundamentally different from the kind of 80's and 90's domotics that we all have vague memories of. O
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I thought Matt Levine's take in Wednesday's Money Stuff was insightful: > If you go around talking up the value of the FTX’s business and its tokens, you might be able to talk someone into paying a lot of money for them; maybe
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Fair enough, my apologies, I did skim the video and read the page but didn't watch the video in full so I missed that part. I still feel like you're failing to engage with the issue here: * NREL, just like the UK grid operator, i
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
The video you link is about that second scenario: intermittent high availability of renewable resources that can't be used, which is fine for the very same reason that when you're putting solar panels on your own roof you design f
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Again, that's not what the article is about. If more wind power gets built in Scotland to serve needs in England, then increasingly more of that output will have to be curtailed because we simply can't move the energy to where it
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Any chance you've got little kids or for some other reason are not getting enough sleep? Lack of sleep can be very insidious because you can get to the point where you don't notice it anymore except for maybe a vague feeling that
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
> The 485 didn't sound very controlled ("asked to eat larger meals at a certain time") This is typically how it's done though: if you were to make a subselection of the treatment group to only include those that adher
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
To understand Feyerabend, you have to understand the project of 20th-century philosophy of science, which was to figure out the secret sauce, the one true scientific method, so that it could then be more rigorously applied and policed in va
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Obviously there's much to laugh at in this initiative and a legitimate worry about thought being policed. That said, if you are open to changing your mind, there's an excellent 9-minute bit of stand-up comedy from Stewart Lee abou
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Hadn't thought of it that way, my bad, thanks for the clarification!
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Language nitpick: a reactionary reacts against reform and favors the status quo, in authoritarian regimes revolutionary thoughts become unbearable.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I don't understand this kind of inferiority complex. In software engineering we can often afford to wing it in a way that other kinds of engineering can't because they are strongly locked into what they've built already and b
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Tangential to the post, but I think it goes from being cool to being off-putting when there's a performance element to being a ___ guy or ___ friend. Someone who puts "caffeine addict" in their Twitter bio is making a careful
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
I can't imagine this makes much of a difference unless users with a paid Spotify account have vastly different tastes than the non-paying ones, and even then it would depend on how much less the revenue per user they get from commercia
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
The comparison to devops is an interesting one, but for it to work you really have to transport yourself into the absolute most stale kind of enterprise development you can think of, where software architects feel too proud to do any coding
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Let's say the price in your desirable NYC neighborhood is between $1,000 and $2,000 per square foot. New construction is between $100 and $200 per square foot, so $900 to $1,800 has to be for the land it's built on, no? (And if th
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
One thing the article doesn't clarify is how knowledge of these dry season hiding places could help with eradication, especially given that they go dormant and do not breed during this period. Apparently the researchers already know wh

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