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Be wary though. Miele started fucking up their value proposition too. Parts may no longer be sold by repairfolk not associated with Miele. That's usually the start of the slide down the quality and repairability scale.

See this message from an independent parts seller:

https://spares2repair.co.uk/search-results?main_page=advance...

> Miele have unfortunately changed their sales policy in UK and Europe.

> This applies to all online spare parts retailers including Miele directly.

> Most Genuine spare parts are now only to be available to repair engineers and not directly to the public.

> Unfortunately we have had to remove thousands of parts from your view.

> Hopefully Miele will change their sales policy again in the future.
There's a lemon laws for cars in many places, where if it breaks too much you can just return it to dealership for a refund. No such thing for appliances, unfortunately.
So everything you've bought you didn't actually want and were cheated on?
Something like this was actually my plan for a feeder if I couldn't get the one in the article to work. Except instead of a purpose built catfood dispenser, it was an old BBQ wood pellet feeder I found on the local craigslist-equivalent for $20.

Basically a big metal bin with a powerful auger and chute out the side of it
I purchased a separate dispenser that takes 5 gallon drums of water. I strongly prefer the extra space over the convenience of water in the fridge door.

Mine's an LG, we've had it for roughly 10 years now and never had a problem with it. But we don't even use the icemaker in it (we have a separate ice maker as well).
I am reminded of Mochizuki’s claimed proof of the abc conjecture: an impenetrable paper, building on other work of the same author, building on work in an already complex and abstract subject. It was said that the only people who had done enough of the background reading to understand the paper were the author’s own students - and therefore not independent enough to validate its claims. The legendary Peter Scholze got far enough to offer a debunking, but the trial continues…

It seems inevitable that the theoretically infinite world of math will be finitely bound by the limits of the human mind. There’s only so much time in one lifespan to do all the pre-reading.
So, important game mechanics and interactions, not the entire game.

If it's fun even without full-fidelity, it's fun. But if it's not fun, it might just be the lack of fidelity - not believable enough. I guess one needs an opinion for how much fidelity is enough to know, for the specific mechanics/interactions.

EDIT can always increase fidelity.

Through this discussion, I realize I'm more interested in "feel" than fun as such - e.g. a sense of place, being somewhere, in a walking simulator; or the feel of guns in COD. Not a mechanic; but perhaps a kind of interaction.

Not necessarily "cinematic", but probably more akin to issues in cinema than game mechanics.

I suppose one can still isolate an aspect and iterate on it; but it seems fidelity is important here...
> Electricity in the US is expensive, so if it's using 2%

I believe much of it is stolen. Like sysadmins running it in schools during the night. Or someone tapping a communal powerline etc.
Companies creating quality are stupid. Making devices that break sells much better and consumers outside of Japan are stupid/overwhelmed/feature dazzled enough they don't really care. Also, everyone (outside japan) does it, so they don't have a choice.

Capitalism in action
As French fries, which actually should be Belgian...
If you're talking about renormalization, let me say that as a working physicist, this critique is misguided. In a Wilsonian picture there are no infinities. Lattice field theory, for example, has none.

After my first two QFT classes I found renormalization extremely suspicious and mystical. But then I started doing lattice QCD. My PhD advisor said:

"""
Look, you do a simulation on a lattice with some lattice spacing. You adjust the parameters of the simulation to reproduce some physical result.

If you change the lattice spacing but want to get the same physical result, you've got to change the parameters you put into your simulation.

That's renormalization.
"""

and I was enlightened.

Some QFTs don't have a UV fixed point and this doesn't work. But that's a signal that the theory isn't good all the way into the UV. QED, for example: weak physics comes in before any badness from pure QED has the chance to bite you.
I'm not sure a zero-shot foundational model for time series makes sense at all: if you only look at the numbers it's the "continue the sequence" game, nowhere to apply your "foundational knowledge" really.

A one-shot model that takes a prompt like "this sequence is a voltage of a PV-cell every hour" will have a chance though.
> Kindly, why the hell would I even watch 4K video on a laptop

How about if you have a 4K monitor plugged in? Or if your notebook display is itself 4K (which is a completely valid configuration nowadays)?

I have a pretty beefy laptop with an RTX 3080. I regularly watch BDRips that exceed 50+ Mbps, and software decoding even on my 8-core Intel Xeon will cause some stutters. Hardware decoding is just so much faster.
But I’m saying “Wealthy” doesn’t mean “being in the top 25%” when you emphasize lifestyle and what options you have.

There is a massive difference between the lifestyle of the (e.g.) top 5-10%, 2%, 1%, and 0.5%. Those numbers are basically jumping from “still has a mortgage” to “has a 80-foot yacht.”

There is almost no difference in lifestyle when you compare the top 50%, 25%, 20%, 15%, maybe even 10%. It’s the same deal: depending on a continuing wage, getting 1-4 weeks of time off every year but no more, needing to use a financial instrument to pay for kids’ college, having a house and probably a car loan. All of those attributes stay the same.
BSH is fully owned by Bosch since 2014
There are a few projects out there that were based around reverse-engineering, and running a local server with DNS hijacking to make the feeder use them as its CC server[1]. But I mostly just wanted something that could sit happily in HomeAssistant along with all the other automations, so ESPhome based device it is

And yeah, I'm not an embedded guy, but I've updated the article with an addendum

[1]: https://github.com/feedernet/petnet-feeder-service/wiki/Gett...
No, not if it's dividends, as I mentioned. Dividends are paid out of profits.
Accidental Dyscalculia
In overpass the query to do is 'craft=brewery'.

http://overpass-turbo.eu/

With mapbox, this is probably not too hard to create, though I have never worked with mapbox.

For arcade games (and pinball machines) the leisure tag would be appropriate: 'leisure=amusement_arcade'.

About licensing issues, these are facts and not covered by copyright, correct?
> The message sent by popular culture is clear: If you want to get ahead, you’d better be a jerk.

Next article: You Don't Have to Take Popular Culture Messages Seriously to Succeed
SPOILER well The Village benefits from the fact that the monsters were in fact just the other characters in rubber masks. Practical effects would have been entirely accurate anyway, no VFX required. I expect that money was mostly spent on color correction and removing phone lines and such.
Anything that doesn’t involve coolant bleeding can easily be done yourself or by a handy pal via the university of YouTube.
Yes and your very complex linear branch and bound solution won't run in 5 min.

That's what I'm getting at
One thing I don't get about the "store of value" belief in Bitcoin is: why specifically this chain? It has only network effects going for it. Mindshare is a fickle thing.
Yes they are. Things are often invented in fancy cars that get market-tested (at the rich customer's expense) and ones that are popular come to the mass market once the kinks have been ironed out. Also, people who work on yachts buy cars.
Watch out for the LG "linear compressor", and it's in other brands too like Kenmore I think it was.

Even without brains, new appliances are shit.
Why many developers are struggling is beyond me, and so much git-hate, too. It is a powerful tool, but you can get started and a long time (or forever) around with few commands to accomplish your companies workflow - takes half an hour to learn these and put them in your notebook. If you struggle with git, how do you do with your programming language, IDE, debugger? All are vastly more complex.

Imo it is some internal objection (due to hate? laziness?) to deal with it.

Yes, the UI is not intuitive in all parts and partly ugly or from some viewpoints inconsistent, but that lately improved much. Nevertheless, complex is different. Much more effort went into mastering chosen shell, much more unintuitive is the IDE I have to use.. but those are tools, and that's my job.

> WTF is "detached HEAD"? I've looked it up dozens of times, and as soon as I get past whatever I'm working on, I forget what it means.

Don't wanna be mean, but again I wonder how you learn and handle e.g. complex data structures (vs that super simple thing..) or other hard problems in whatever you do.

> And on any team I've ever worked on, the branch history is a nightmare to look at.

Because teams have many people that don't care. I like git, shuffle commits around, rebase easily, conflicts are easy to resolve (there are merge tools that exist to help on top?) or would be hard with any other tool the same? (need to try jj). At least I have seen same shit happen with cvs, svn and also the short time I used hg - people are always at fight with their version control, I don't know why.
I'm glad if there is a new tool that finally solves this, buut, I doubt it ;) Let's see.

> I want a dead simple VCS for small project use that doesn't come with so many footguns. I know simpler VCS exists, but without wide

Sorry, but lame excuse, just chose and try one and see, don't spread that much git-hate if you have not even tried, and mastered, another one? (And here you are with jj!)
Nah, Orion for iOS works great with built-in ad blocking and Firefox+Chrome extensions support, and the satellite SOS helps my family with peace of mind (I had to be helicoptered out of Nevada a few years ago). It's is way less bulky and less expensive than the inReach I used to carry.
Theft is how to ensure hostile accumulation.
You must seriously lack imagination if you can't think of a worse excuse.
As JL Borges said,

> [...] If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because it is famous, don’t read it because it is modern, don’t read a book because it is old. If a book is tedious to you, leave it, even if that book is 'Paradise Lost' — which is not tedious to me — or 'Don Quixote' — which also is not tedious to me. But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, so I would advise all possible readers of my last will and testament—which I do not plan to write— I would advise them to read a lot, and not to get intimidated by writers' reputations, to continue to look for personal happiness, personal enjoyment. It is the only way to read.”

Anyway, being science/academic books/papers the point of discussion in the thread, I doubt one would always have the privilege to just leave it.
The context of "resistance" is the October 7 attack.

Some activists push the idea that Islamist terrorism can be defined as "resistance" and therefore vindicated from the moral and criminal dilemma of terrorism. Most rational people will define October 7 as an extreme terrorist attack on a massive scale, because that's what it was.

Allahua Akkbar is commonly yelled by Islamist terrorists before, during and after their brutality. A fact easily verifiable from countless videos of terrorist attacks, the horrors of which are a click away if you bother looking.

In the context of October 7, non-Muslim Australian children skipping school and holding signs given to them by Socialist Alliance activist groups, is unprecedented and wrong.

> "It's very clear that you are afraid..."

Instead of addressing my points, you've taken the ad hominem road. My objection to school children chanting Islamist war cries in the streets, has nothing to do with fear and everything to do with objecting to the indoctrination of children by activist groups with loaded religious and political sentiments. Hopefully I've been very clear.
I suppose you don't worry about the termcap madness and just rely on terminals being compatible enough?
Ask HN: Any script to filter users/domains on Hacker News?
Is there any userscript or extension to filter
HackerNews, like e.g. click an icon next to user/domain to
block it?
If it's truly a service that's being provided by your superdownvotes, I wonder what would happen if you let people opt out of it.

I would rather see the highest voted comments, and I'm pretty happy to just scroll down myself if I find the top comment to be useless.
educate yourself

https://quinnanlaw.com/criminal-defense/elements-of-criminal...

It isn't polite speech that needs to be protected and the tests for whether something is an actual threat or not is well understood, there's no excuse for you not knowing them unless you don't live in the US.
Apple Vision Pro: What About Comic Books?
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For some reason it's unpopular here, but that "place to go" is the altweb of crypto and other networks like I2P, often dubbed "web3". Yes, all of the scams and beige this-or-that are there. But it's so vast and so granular right now that you can definitely find your dreamers and weirdos doing interesting things.
It's not the horrible thing it's made out to be. Some people may even find it preferable to unsanitary, unsafe restrooms.

Heck, during the recent pandemic, all the public restrooms were locked closed.

What do you think people do when they go hiking?
Ok I will answer this question with years of failure and almost quitting tech and then earning $4 million profits last year.

You should always start a business. The way these things work, is that you need a unique set of lenses to align in order to make it work. And they are mostly out of your control.

The two biggest ones that you do control are : your interests and the market you are targeting.

You got to take your interests and building something in a growing market over and over again and eventually you will hit something which takes off.

And take off = 100s of new signups everyday. Paying you $99 / month or more. You can go from 0 to $10,000 MRR and then from that another 30 40x in days and months once you find product market fit.
Sure, the miners pay for the electricity, but everyone pays the price of having more climate change.
I'm still not sure what exactly it does
Have California cell networks gotten to the point where they'll be able to handle the mass calling that follows disasters? Curious how people will contact emergency services and friends/family in the critical time following an earthquake/fire/etc.
Yes, I agree. I'm not a luddite per se - heck, I make a living out of making stuff talk to one another on a network. But I don't get the appeal, from a customer standpoint, of having all physical objects talk to you or to the Internet. Like, why?

I get it when it comes to alarm systems. Being able to get a notification when someone breaks in is nice, because the alarm system is mostly doing its job when you're not at home. It makes sense.

What it does not make sense, in my humble opinion, is pretty much everything else. Why do I need voice activated lights, outside of a cool party trick ("hey, I can turn the lights on with my voice")? Why should a vacuum cleaner, even if a robot one, be able to upload a picture of a woman on the toilet to the Internet (which has actually happened)? Why should the fridge talk to you?

Ironically, this kind of stuff might become less and less appealing with remote working. If you're at home anyway, can't you just stand up and look at the fridge or turn that light on?
Nobody makes anybody work for Amazon. You're also free to create your own Amazon and run it as you see fit.
This frustrates me to no end.

Nearly every industry feels like a scam now.

Outright lying to customers, over-charging them. Heck, I get it, they’re a business and need to make money. But there are reasonable limits.
It's talking to the author of the article, who rather ludicrously diagnosed the problem with the Messenger as it being not biased and ideological enough.
This week in KDE: converging on a release
Wow. Cool! I’m a CS teacher and definitely going to use this. Thanks for your work! (Anyone aware of a Windows or Mac equivalent?)
> Only in the sense that modernity produces a lot more wealth than any other system humans have come up with.

Wealth, as measured in GDP. A metric that has proven itself a poor predictor for happiness and fulfilling lives, and we do all this at the cost to our environment https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/.

> No, it isn't.

Our economies, political systems and culture are all built on the concept of infinite growth. Argue as much as you want, physics makes that impossible in a universe with limited resources.
You’re seeing the entire society now.

In the early days it used to be a very selected bunch.
You can practically because reality isn't binary, it would be much harder and perceived much worse by the public if MS hacked into your password manager and imported all passwords to its cloud just because the OS knows your passwords since OS unlocks your manager
A bit niche, low volume:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UX_Design/

The motherlode, probably a good place to ask if there are interesting niches for whatever particular thing you are interested in. Good luck!

https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/
Math and adjacent literature are there to rewire your brain, they will always be a struggle to read since rewiring your brain takes effort. The exception is if you already know the topic really really well so you don't have to rewire anything, you just put it in places you have already created, but that is impossible for topics new to you.
On Windows it never did, and on other platforms, other than Linux, it has been forced to accept that isn't the way OS vendors play the game.
I'm pretty sure Verizon is doing similar things with their copper infrastructure on the East Coast – they've more or less abandoned it in favor of fiber in certain regions. For anyone curious, Camp Seco is not a particularly remote part of California but it is pretty sparsely populated. It's about an hour outside of Sacramento and Stockton according to Google maps.

I wonder if AT&T will ever get the bright idea to try this in a more populated area (like the Bay Area). The condo I'm in now has underground utilities. Sonic's abandoned DSL and their rebranded AT&T fiber. If they ever roll out fiber, the HOA's on the hook to trench from the street and to each of the buildings because Sonic cannot / will not use another utility's conduit. The phone wiring predates twisted pair, and I'm betting the coax is equally antique. High speed internet? Yeah, right.
So this thing is essentially an IR blaster with a temperature sensor + other sensors?

Generally, I'd recommend capturing the cloud traffic while you still can. Including the procedure that joins it to your Wi-Fi network!
This will make things much much easier for you.

Check if it is encrypted at all. If not and if there is no magic authentication mechanism that uses secrets on the device, you might be able to mock the cloud quite easily.

If it is, check if it's implemented properly. Does it use HTTP? Is it HTTPS? if so, does it validate certificates correctly? Can you just give it something else? A self-signed one? A valid one for a different domain?

Does it use something self-built with static keys?

If that fails, the next thing to do would be to take a look at the hardware.

The Ambi Climate Mini 2 looks the most hackable of their products as it comes with an ESP32 and tooling for that is readily available. Maybe it could run Tasmota?
Waste more time clicking useless buttons
legally, maybe not, but in my experience, every time you reactivate the service, they ask to replace that wire from the street to the home even if they don't need to so that they can overcharge ATT/customer... they even often try to replace the existing box on your house with an extra huge one for no practical reason.
1000x this.

I’ve started to learn how to do everything myself via YouTube.

Am I an expert? Heck no. Can I do a dang reasonable job for easily 1/10th the cost? Sure seems to be true.
On the garbage disposal, I've heard that water treatment facility managers hate them (or at least one does), because it encourages people to put through food waste.

I've also heard landlords say garbage disposals are a net-negative for maintenance visits: disposal-related problems are more costly than the occasional clog because someone put down something the disposal would've stopped.

Also, in multi-tenant buildings, disposals can be a nightmare. Too many people with varying folk wisdom of what's good to put down it. Some people create blockages for the entire stack or more, which ends up causing powered backflows of nasty wastewater into some units. And then what eventually gets snaked out of the drain, and dragged across their kitchens... mere bleach will never get that sufficiently clean. (Even after 3 of these kitchen-apocalypse episodes, you just can't get some people to understand that they can't keep grinding orange peels in their disposal to freshen the air, even when the rot of previous orange peels in the increasing blockage they created might be the reason they want to freshen the air now.)

I try to tell people that pretty much only water and dish soap should go down the drain, and that one of those few-dollar mesh drain strainers is a great tool to help follow this rule. (Also, a container for collecting most of the grease/oil that would otherwise go down the drain.)
Watch enough movies and you'll know that certain things don't test well with audiences.

Is a young girl in peril? Don't worry, nothing will happen to her, the audiences won't like it.

Have we been focused on one guy for the first 20 minutes? He definitely won't die, at least until the end. And he will achieve something great regardless; it won't all be for nothing.

Did they show a gun in some scene? That's important for later; some guy called Chekhov wants it back.

Once you see the boundaries in modern storytelling, it definitely makes things rather predictable.

If you want to see a film that breaks some of the rules, watch Brimstone.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1895315/
Somehow I live in a different reality where my actions have consequences and I think about them. In that reality, free markets are just a tool. To be used when appropriate.
Related, I am not sure how to teach a toddler to call 911.

My cell is locked and I'm not giving them the pin or face.

Without a land line I am considering an exterior alarm wired to an inside panic button. In the evert I collapse from choking on a banana slug what does my toddler do? So far the I instructions are to ring the trusted neighbors.
That's a government person calling for an attack on another government. This is a citizen calling for an attack on a group of individuals, government-involved or not. It's not even remotely the same.

It's literally illegal to give death threats (not that I think this qualifies as a particularly serious one). But that's the difference between this and your argument with politicians rattling sabres. (Just to make it clear, I don't feel so strongly about the whole situation, but I do think making false equivalences is misleading)