young_rutabaga

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by young_rutabaga 2mo ago
My favorite one is a "Share the Road" sign with a bike on it, intended to remind drivers of bikers' presence -- but placed in the middle of a bike lane. Palo Alto loves these for some reason
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by young_rutabaga 9mo ago
Snipers essentially convert the ascending-bid proxy auction used in eBay into a Vickrey second-price sealed bid auction, allowing a buyer to not reveal their preferences to other participants. In theory, with rational participants, this sho
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by young_rutabaga 3y ago
It's worth checking if room temperature is measured at the thermostat or at the return. It's a common issue with ducted Mitsubishi systems. Also, a thermostat should be away from the air flow from supply registers to measure repre
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by young_rutabaga 3y ago
Inverter heat pumps shouldn't be controlled by dumb "smart" thermostats like Nest. They send only on-off signals, while a compatible communicating thermostat sends a numerical setpoint, allowing the unit to modulate
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by young_rutabaga 5y ago
I had this issue, too. It helped to replace the AA headunit module in AIO with a binary having this fix https://github.com/gartnera/headunit/pull/174 . Since then, AA works great for me
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US taxation of expats should be fixed(bloomberg.com)
4 points by young_rutabaga 6y ago|0 comments
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by young_rutabaga 6y ago
High turnover, high costs. You flip your position too often
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by young_rutabaga 6y ago
This paper is a hilarious dump of WQ's randomly generated formulas that (hopefully) happen to pass in-sample test. Alpha#33: rank((-1 * ((1 - (open / close))^1))) This formula trivially reduces to rank(open/close -