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by thaeli 4y ago
I'm in the US and have had a heat pump for 15 years. It was a fairly small cost add from a straight cool. I get this depends on region, especially for the older units, but I never understood why they were such a hard sell even in mild
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by thaeli 4y ago
I've often wondered why this is. My best guess is that the EPA cert (not actually hard to get) has been turned into some sort of weird quasi-guild-membership thing. I can walk right in to a "to the trade" electrical or plumbi
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by thaeli 4y ago
As a backup option, the incumbents already make this. Carrier Infinity is a good example. Proprietary protocol (RS-485 based, so it can run over existing thermostat wiring) between the smart thermostat and the furnace, and between the furna
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by thaeli 4y ago
In the last few years, the US has finally started allowing small appliances containing limited quantities of flammable refrigerants.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Except that gaming these metrics is in the interests of so many people up and down the chain. The "park everyone strategy" for getting drive thru times down should be a blatantly obvious cheat in the data, but no one cares to go l
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by thaeli 4y ago
This reminds me of the reason Five Guys has open containers of peanuts prominently displayed in their stores: they fry in peanut oil. Ironically, peanut oil doesn't have the allergen that triggers most peanut allergies, but explaining
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by thaeli 4y ago
Yeah, it was the Cambridge Analytica scandal that killed this off iirc.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Many of those are viable "enterprise" use cases.. which usually means expensive hardware, but we're already seeing several of those deployed. Microsoft seems to have made a very good decision with HoloLens to ignore the consu
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by thaeli 4y ago
So basically the same experience as a thermal monocular. Which is pretty decent "augmented vision" once you get used to it.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Or, hear me out.. it could be _targeted advertisements._ /s Seriously though, I'd love to have a wearable adblock. Detect anything that resembles an ad, blank it out. Obviously not while you're doing anything safety critical,
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by thaeli 4y ago
The Google Glass backlash (which may well have happened to any AR glasses) has set back practical use of AR in private life so much. It's frustrating, especially because of the splash damage it's had. What's particularly odd
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by thaeli 4y ago
Yes, but they are now forced to give up their American citizenship to do so. That's a very steep cost.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Especially since the other market willing to pay for their expertise (China) just got effectively closed off..
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by thaeli 4y ago
I worry that those filter models will eventually end up being censorship* machines. * yes in the figurative sense of the word, I know the "it's not censorship unless the government does it, otherwise it's just sparkling censo
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by thaeli 4y ago
The one thing I really miss about svn is the central,authoritative, auto-incrementing revision numbers. Git hashes are less friendly to use - in the svn days it was easy to tell at a glance if you had an earlier or later version. Yes, I kno
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by thaeli 4y ago
Ergonomics still mattered for making the punch cards in the first place - and the machines for that used similar keyboards.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Probably more like the floppy disk imagers we use today in preservation, that preserve far more information than the nominal disk size. (This is particularly important because the golden age of floppy-based copy protection used all manner o
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by thaeli 4y ago
Note: This is a US (and Canada) based answer. Things can be quite different elsewhere, especially if you need to interact with landlines. It looks like the rest of the world is probably going to end up adopting some version of STIR/SHA
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by thaeli 4y ago
I'm more concerned that we would see these essays being _graded_ by systems that make these sorts of errors.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Oh, they can. There is a "quality sensor" in the DEF tank, and the ECU is required to "derate" the engine if that sensor isn't happy. Which in practice means go into limp mode.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Construction in the US is highly mechanized, the vast majority of laborers have been replaced by machinery.
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by thaeli 4y ago
A tight fitting (in occupational health this means "proved via fit testing") N95/FFP2 or higher filtering facepiece respirator is excellent protection for the wearer regardless of what anyone else is or isn't wearing. As
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by thaeli 4y ago
Yes, insulators were (and still are) used between track blocks. The maximum length of a block with this system (versions of which are still used today) varies greatly depending on local conditions. I've seen 2k to 10k feet as a general
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by thaeli 4y ago
Losing brake boost in a failure condition is the typical failure mode in most vehicles with hydraulic brakes. A hydroboost failure in modern medium trucks reduces braking performance just as much as an air pack failure in the deuce and is j
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by thaeli 4y ago
It's also proposed to be funded by Isaacman. Reading between the lines, he's probably planning to go to space personally and fix the Hubble. Which is kinda a vanity project at that point, but hey, I'll take it.
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by thaeli 4y ago
Why are they allowing you to run npm, pip, etc from public repositories at all? That's a huge supply chain risk. If builds are worth doing on prem they also need to be pulling solely from internal, vetted repositories.
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by thaeli 4y ago
See this action: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files
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by thaeli 4y ago
Steps that only cache their final artifact on success, and an if condition on the skippable steps that only runs if the artifact doesn't exist. I'm using this to prevent re-running builds when a successful build for the same SHA a
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by thaeli 4y ago
The time horizon on that payback is very long and the risk of total project failure is very high.
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by thaeli 4y ago
I don't trust Subscribe & Save because of Amazon's dynamic pricing. The discount doesn't matter if the base piece tripled because of Amazon pricing shenanigans.

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