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I have a 2nd gen Nest thermostat since they first came out in 2012 or so with a hot water system, so I can speak from my experience.

There is a setting on the thermostat (True Radiant) that takes into account the long heat-up times of radiant systems. With this setting off, overshoot is real. On cold days, True Radiant does start the system earlier. For example, it take about 2-3 hours in the deep of winter vs 30-60 minutes now.

However, it seems to be based to on a look-up table rather than an algorithm. It doesn’t take into account forecasted conditions, such as a temperature rise overnight, strong winds or decreasing/increasing radiance of the sun over the season. Those latter factors do make a difference in whether the house reaches the target temperature on time or whether overshoot occurs, and whether I am slightly uncomfortable.

As far as I can tell, there is an automatic set-back for heat pump systems. I wish this was given as an option for manual scheduling in True Radiant mode. To this day, I can’t tell whether there is an effect on efficiency (based on run-times which the thermostat dutifully displays).

I also wish the thermostats (in a dual-zone system with a single boiler) be “genlocked” or run on common firing times with demand prediction for temperatures to make use of boiler run-time, rather than running the boiler just when there is a request for heat in one zone.
I would wager that at all of these companies, how “cool” your job is depends heavily on your specific team and role. I’m sure there are thousands of people with very uncool jobs at Google, and thousands of people with very cool jobs at FB. Comparing two companies of that size and saying one is cooler than the other is probably an oversimplification.

That being said, I share your perception that Google and Apple are cooler than FB. :)
So very true!

I also maintain 10,000+ GitHub starred OSS database (https://github.com/amark/gun), and can relate to a lot of these points.

Worse than the jerks, though, are the bike-shedders. It is emotionally much easier to confront jerks, even though it is hurtful.

But the people who "Why isn't this written in X language?" or "Here's a PR to turn tabs into spaces" are honestly well-intended but naive and short-sighted.

Explaining to those people why you have to reject their PR because it provides no additional value and is purely an arbitrary distraction takes quite a bit of time trying to be delicate, but is nearly as much waste of time.
> 'What we need at this point is people paying off their debt!'

Debt... ('contextless OT') ...shortage... damn! Just for a second i remembered a picture of the historic, ancient egypt, where organs were 'weighted' - and that the last time i had seen it, was in the movie repo men ^^

> [P-:] //wiki/Repo_Man_(film)
or use linux :)
I don't see how that is even a question without 100% autonomy and proven above-human performance, human drivers on the same roads still have to react so different speed limits don't seem to make much sense.
> I do appreciate now that by having two kids that they mostly spend their time at home playing with each other, as opposed to when we had just the one when we had to always play with them. I guess that scales well with more kids.

The traditional way is to delegate age-appropriate amount of caring for the younger children to the older children.
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Nobody "considered" them, it was what the music industry demanded at the time.

In fact, as far as major services (e.g. major distributor and not some niche music market with "indie" artists only) iTunes was the one that spearheaded the un-DRM of music (with Steve Jobs' call to end music DRM: https://betanews.com/2007/02/06/apple-s-steve-jobs-calls-for... ).
Yes but no. Rather there's a threshold. On top of that, no input doesn't stop one from being creative in a unique way. You're bound re-invent already existing things though. Some input helps you to jump ahead and keep improving on top of what is already created. Too much input causes fatigue.
Or even worse - someone could steal my identity and start answering to JavaScript questions just to frame me.
> The host or platform shouldn't affect your ranking/SEO this much.

This is true for medium, but not universally true. It's pretty reasonable to rank an article in a well known credible publication than a random blog, as there is likely some editorial quality checks in the publication. However, with medium, there is no editorial check, they just know how to game the system better than a casual blogger.
Why would you need to? Just test things on another WebKit browser, it will work just as well on Safari.
This is only possible when you have a row for each available seat, though. Consider the case where you don't want to represent each seat in your application.
>Is there an app that can play both Spotify and imported files and present them in a single UI?

Spotify can play and sync your own files. You add them in a list of folders it checks.
> Teslas with Autopilot on crash roughly once every 3 million miles.

I also wonder if this statistic includes situations where the autopilot had disengaged immediately beforehand and the human had failed to respond.
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Your comment about liking say 2 songs on a album is interesting.

I bought the double disk Led Zep Remasters CD in 1992 just for Immigrant Song. And since then have grown to love all of their stuff.

Sure, since ~1990 I have amassed lot of complete albums (almost 2,000 of them) which cost me a lot of money. Spotify Premium at €10/month for all those years is €3,480. Suspect Spotify is cheaper but I've developed this crazy distrust for anything I supposedly own but isn't DRM-free on my PC.

Yoar approach is easier, no doubt.
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Yes, because:

1) I don't believe we'll go "autonomous cars only" for predictable future. I can see that happening on limited set of streets(say, strict city centres), but not overall. Mostly because I think requiring everyone to buy an autonomous car is ridiculous, and then there are cars made even right now that I can totally see people driving in 20/30/50 years from now. We'll always allow manual cars on the road, just like we still allow horses - it just became so rare that in practice it's not an issue to have an animal with no safety features on the road next to modern motor vehicles.

2) there will always be users of the road that cannot be made automous - motorcycles. Unless you believe that motorcycles will be banned, but I don't think that will happen.

So yes, I think any speed limits of the future will be set for humans first and foremost. I do look forward to those speed limits to be revised up though - cars are far safer and more efficient at higher speeds than they were few decades ago, and yet speed limits have never been revised to reflect that. US is particularly bad at this, with empty stretches of straight road having a speed limit of 50mph for instance. That should have been fixed years ago.
Perhaps such artists are not recommended (pun intended).
I doubt it. It's unreasonable. "Upstream first, patch it if that fails" is good enough. There are widely used packages that did not have release in 5 years and distros have to carry around patches just to make them compile with openssl 1.1, or fix known CVEs, or whatever.
So the sensor is completely useless on a straight road.
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That only gives you backtraces for panics, but not for errors based on the Result<,> type.
Slackware prefers not to make changes to the upstream version.
> 5-HT agonists, or whatever are far more neutral (if overly broad) terms and those should be used if you’re being careful

Google ranking doesn't care how technical you are. If you do a google search about anything somewhat nutritional or health related, you get a slew of low credibility websites with dubious information. Getting to any scientifically rigorous papers is a real research project.
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Is it #IntelFail if Intel had supply issues in last year? It doesn't look like demand was affected by much.
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We act like we can control the internet, like a drunk thinks they control the booze.
>When did reading stuff on the web become pay to play?

At the moment authors wanted to get paid. When did somebody else's writing became a free for all?

If, as you say, that [Medium] is where "all your favourite content lives" (which means you appreciate the content), then it's troubling that you don't want to pay for it.

>Just so we are clear. Medium takes your content, rolls it up into a pretty SEO friendly package for themselves and sells it. Oh, and turns us all into seals waiting for someone to throw us a fish in the process. If you are lucky, you might even get a cut. You know. Like the sort of cut artists get on Spotify. Profit share I think the cool kids call it. So why is everyone still publishing on it? For what? More eyeballs? More attention? More reach?

All of the above. More eyeballs. More reach. More attention. A primed audience looking to read something. And also some authors make decent-ish money (far more than Spotify) on Medium. So there's that.

>Please. It’s 2019. Learn to market yourself and your content. Quit being lazy waiting for Medium to do it for you. OWN YOUR PLATFORM.

Yeah, and how does that work for you? We've only read your blog because it was picked by an aggregator (HN).
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What makes impossible for archive.is to go down? Last time i checked it was developed and funded by a single guy (who even seems to have some sort of agenda against cloudflare for some reason).
Trying to reproduce across browsers is good policy too, IMO
I assume this is a joke? I was being serious in my comment -- and I was referring to other StackExchange sites, not StackOverflow.
Colleges aren't a zero sum game. The more qualified college goers there are over time, the more total college spots will be available. It's not like the number of universities (and the size of each) is some fixed constant. The entire pie can be, and is, grown.
Who are their returning customers? It's strange to refer to literal extortion as a "business model".
They recently had a lawsuit of $32 million for a failed website redesign [1].

It's only appropriate to assume that people (at Hertz) who don't know how to manage just their website, can least be expected to deliver underlying critical systems.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737070
Infinite content that interests you, on demand. TV never had what YouTube offers, and so there was always reason to move away from TV and do something else when it was the main babysitter.

Now, that's gone. You cna find infinite hours of whatever interests you on YouTube, and just spiral downhill forever. Coupled with the fact that there's nobody else their age who can have a conversation, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Definition of mole changes too.

One mole contains exactly 6.022 140 76×10²³ elementary entities (as opposed to the number of atoms in 12 grams of ¹²C). Effective 20 May 2019.
We’re now invulnerable to rootkits?
That throws away entropy, but I suppose so long as very few hash collisions of a password are likely to be real passwords themselves it would be harmless.
I don't see any need to call her as a witness here.

Her testimony is on file, and some parts of it are even a matter of public record. She has already extensively testified in the past.

In most court cases, there is a wish to limit the number of witnesses in a case. Where you can take testimony by reports, affidavits, and other records, you take it, as it speeds up the process considerably.

The only reason to call Manning is if you believe that you can show that new testimony conflicts with old testimony.
Try putting your phone in airplane mode, or possibly Spotify's own offline mode. I've found that Spotify works great when you have a good internet connection or when you have none at all. It doesn't do well when you have 1 bar of edge reception, or your phone is struggling with cell/wifi handover.
It’s not easy to build an app at the scale of FB. If I saw FB experience on a candidate’s resume, I would view that as a positive.
I can also picture it organically happening: if I were a core dev, would I focus on the issues "anyone" could pick up, or the ones that only someone as deeply invested into the code base as me would have any hope of untangling?
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Instead or privacy terrors you have other terrors like wondering if the CD will even play, especially if you've listened to it a lot over 5+ years, even with good care.

I'm surprised the article doesn't cover a more relevant approach like just playing local mp3s from your computer. You get the same no ads, no privacy issues, no algorithms but you have the added benefit of not having to lug around a binder of CDs to play the songs you want.

This is how I've been listening to music for around 20 years and it works nicely. Been using foobar2000 since the beginning too (shortly after the Winamp rewrite that made it suck). It's a minimal mp3 player that uses about 5mb of RAM but has every feature I'd want for play back.
I personally was never addicted, but once tried to instill interest for game programming in kids who were beginning to show signs of addictive behaviour. I still believe it's a good approach, though it didn't work too well in my case.
It is quite unlikely that the "unlimited" traffic you are paying for is truly unlimited. There is always a catch with such "unlimited" offers.
I think holding shift just works for autostart when booting up. Autorun/autoplay of CD's can be disabled in the system settings.
Sure, but cards are even more centralized.

The "feature" of WeChat is that it can be used for almost anything. It is a cash successor more so that a card alternative. Anyone can print, display or scan a QR code. Doesn't matter if it is a store, a friend or a random person. Doesn't matter if it is in the physical world, on a website or in a chat. And it is easy to do. And almost everyone uses it.

Contactless cards only matches WeChat in the same way something like Apple Pay does.
this would fit perfectly in socialist country. Want toiler paper? get papers and wait in line
There is a reaction delay but it is added on top of all the other delays. If the monitor is delayed by 1/25th of a second and your perception is delayed by 1/25th of a second then the worst case latency is 2/25th of a second. That is a 100% increase in reaction delay. If you think a 100% increase isn't significant what do you think about the 250% (or more) increase that streaming will cause?
I'm really surprised - and a little impressed - that one hung on that long. :)

From various encounters over the decades they all seemed to come with feint smell of burnt dust or just dust. By the eighties it was usual to see a radiator in front of or above the old vents, or the vents simply boarded or painted shut.

No idea why it was so comprehensively and quickly rejected despite that brief popularity. Maybe the impossibility of proper cleaning or expense? Though I wonder what they do for cleaning in the US. It's the only approach that hasn't managed to keep some spot in the market even after large declines - like storage heaters or, more surprisingly, even coal have.
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I don't read medium. It's just another stupid website that takes your time and gives nothing.
Any way you slice it it's an Intel Fail. They've basically had to lower the performance of their existing chips, they've failed on the road map for new chips, and they don't have capacity for more of the existing chips because they thought 14nm would be winding down by now rather than peak production.
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Your page still won't display in built-in webview of Materialistic Android HN client. And it has trouble parsing HTML. Just like Medium and many other modern (=broken) websites full of javascripts and ads.
Except that's not what the algorithm does at all. It shows you things SIMILAR to what you've already watched, but not exactly the same. Of course no one wants to listen to the same songs over and over, but Spotify recommends you SIMILAR music so that you have a chance of finding something else that you like.

Sure, if your goal is to broaden your horizons and find media that's different to what you normally consume, then those algorithms probably won't allow you to do that. But for Youtube and Spotify, it means their users are constantly finding more things on their platform that they enjoy, which means more time on the platform and ultimately more ad revenue (or revenue from other premium services they offer).
I think all these algorithms reward novelty to keep you engaged, which means snipers making phony compilations beat the original.
Probably a really stupid question... but how do people detect an intrusion like this?
Maybe she should try to become a politician after this experience. It seems that they are the only allowed to do anything they want and get away with it.
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Hard to tell if this is a sarcastic comment or not.
>A standard Red Book audio CD cannot install malware to your system. //

I don't think I'd ever be so confident as to say that given some of the incredible hacks I've seen ;o)
"or" here really simplifies things. Nowadays almost every 70s-90s album on streaming services is a remaster with overloaded levels and clippings. One has to resort to torrent sites to find rips from original CDs or vinyls.
This is part of the law in some countries. Usually it's referred to as Artist's Resale Rights.
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I think that's where CDs come in: for a lot of artists this is the only way to buy an album and end up with non-DRMed, not watermarked plain MP3 you can listen to on whatever you want. You end up with unnecessary plastic waste on your shelf, sure, but at least you have you own, independent music files – and at least you got more value than someone who straight up pirated it.
There is indeed such a service, it's called "versioned remote backup". As long as the ransomware is not specifically targeting the backup client in order to damage the backed-up files, you just reinstall and restore.
The reason the mole is in the SI puzzled me too.

It seems that the reason is that chemists don't care how many atoms there are in their reactions. It would be inconvenient: fractions of atoms don't make sense, and the numbers are far from human scale. They just want an agreement, so that even if they don't know the exact number of atoms in their test tube, they know they all have the same number. That's what units are for.

The definition of units are done in the most convenient and precise way possible. And they are updated as science progresses. For the kg, the artifact used to be the best we had, alternative methods weren't precise enough, they changed that to the Kibble balance because now, it is better. It may change again at a later time if we find something better.

Back to the mole, it used to be defined as the ratio between the kilogram and the mass of a 12C atom because it is the best we had. Now that we can count atoms with more precision, we decided to change it to just the Avogadro constant, which becomes fixed. Again it might change. What may happen (or may have happened, see Avogadro project) is that we can define the kilogram using the mole, making it fundamental.
I'm sure you could apply this to any mobile device that can run If This Then That - https://ifttt.com/
Or "Jesus, take the wheel!"
No, message was a bit more inconspicuous.
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Don't get married to Intel, if you need big beefy xen or kvm hypervisor machines, there's lots of good EPYC based motherboards.
Right was meant as necessary to achieve that effect (sorry, English is not my native language). Obviously this is not a recommendation but just to point out that its configuration ranges from negligible to (on today's computers) forever.
What if this credit could be not equal for everybody but adjusted by how useful persons contributions are for other people? It could be dynamic!

Wait, we already have that. It's called money and doesn't help all that much for polution from single use, forever trash items. Maybe they are just priced wrong?

I think if government just cleaned up the oceans and sent bill to Coca-Cola for each bottle, market would solve things fairly quickly.
Fair comment. Unfortunately (for me!) I'm going to have to look like a bit of a wally. I can't elaborate on it and my stance has changed in the time since I posted (while looking up my former 'facts').

1) Based on the GDPR comment. If you're really careful with how you do things the IP address could be argued to not be personal information (never let a user associate IP with any other PI - e.g. if a user can ban another from their channel something, don't let them see the underlying IP ban in place. Not sure how IPs are handled across ActivityPub).

2) People scared of p2p.. I'm still on the fence a little. For instance the opt out issue at Peertube[1] displays a snippet of p2p-fear however it should be noted that a feature to opt out of the p2p part is implemented in Peertube specifically now so may just be a non-issue. p2p fear needs to be determined with a simple "do users use this opt-out" before I can sway one way or the other

[1]: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/685

Thanks for calling it out, I might not have found out that what I knew was outdated otherwise :)
Worth noting here that ripping a CD is a copyright infringement, yes even for individuals, here in UK. We had about 2 years when it wasn't.

Yes, that means Apple iTunes and the like provide tools for copyright infringement -- far worse than the young adult that got extradited to USA for providing links on a website (which is allowed in UK law) -- and in theory could be sued for contributory infringement.
To my understanding, this is why they don't have a real model of the world. They don't understand that the road signal right ahead of you poses no danger, because you're actually in the middle of a curve and your trajectory won't actually intersect it. Or that driving below a bridge is fine, even though you're pointing straight at it.

Once they are sophisticated enough to have an actual world model (something which, to my knowledge, only Waymo actually has ATM) they can stop ignoring static objects. Until then, they would keep slamming the brakes every 30 seconds for all the stuff they don't understand.
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Or a properly configured windows. Not even windows 95 would autorun a CD if you didn't tell it to.
You mean "over", not "or"?

I've somehow caught the Slitherlink bug and solved countless Slitherlink puzzles. For that use case, I suppose automatically generated is the only feasible way to go.

Maybe it also makes sense to use computer assistance in handcrafted puzzles at times.
They can't force her to testify if it would incriminate herself. That isn't what is happening here.

If she has been offered immunity then she can't incriminate herself. Also answering questions regarding an offense she has already been convicted of isn't incriminating herself.

If during her testimony she believes that answering a specific question would incriminate herself she can refuse to answer it upon that basis.

What she can't legally do is refuse to answer any questions whatsoever.