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by whafro 11mo ago
As a long-time Sense user, this is great news for them! However, their approach seems to (in my experience) completely fail to identify heat pump loads, and it hasn't yet picked up my EV charger (~month old, so I should definitely be m
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Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense(sense.com)
1 points by whafro 11mo ago|2 comments
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by whafro 1y ago
Haven't been a Linux daily driver in years, but I love that KDE continues to have such an impact. Reminder that its built-in browser Konqueror debuted the KHTML rendering engine circa ~1999, which was then forked to become WebKit, and
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by whafro 1y ago
I think the parent's comment was unfair – you were (roughly) looking to build a self-hosted, open project for those who don't want to pay for hosted options, and that's exactly what you've done. I'm certainly a pers
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by whafro 2y ago
I’ve seen so many teams that fail to realize that once you use a domain in any significant way, you’re basically bound to renewing it until the heat death of the universe – or at least the heat death of your team. Whether it’s this sort of
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by whafro 3y ago
But you can see your Mac (running macOS) on it. In that sense, it’s “just” a monitor, but far from Apple’s most expensive monitor. Another comment mentions that you’re confined to the host computer’s “screen” and can’t break applications aw
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by whafro 3y ago
My family calls that sort of intersection “the doublecross”
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by whafro 3y ago
After being West Point valedictorian, Wes Clark was NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe – can’t get too much higher than that. But yes, McCain was “only” a Captain, and Gore served for a year or so.
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by whafro 3y ago
Might have just been based on what they could show at demo time – they can handle some core productivity stuff, but might not have had the time/access/team to put together something compelling on gaming for that date.
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by whafro 3y ago
On the other hand, at small companies, this can be a big deal. FAANG companies pretty much know how interested you are in working there, based on the fact that you’re the type of person who thinks they want to work at a FAANG company. And s
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by whafro 3y ago
Not to be a buzzkill – this is a cool story! But it’s worth noting that perfect/absolute pitch can be a negative for musicians in some contexts, especially vocal music. Since even the vast majority of musicians employ relative pitch, e
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by whafro 4y ago
Unfortunately, they (or at least mine) communicate by IR, which is not as stable as wires – two of my rooms have very intermittent response to my IR pucks.
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by whafro 4y ago
It's not the ebikes that he's saying are dangerous, it's the couriers. I got hit by a Getir rider in Brookline (probably near the parent) who zipped the wrong way out of a one-way street into the crosswalk I was using. Any ve
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by whafro 4y ago
They do this here in Massachusetts, but they aren't full-service. I just bought out my lease, and have to go to a real DMV to process the title. When you only have to handle the simple stuff, it's much easier to make it a great ex
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by whafro 4y ago
And Massachusetts.
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by whafro 4y ago
My partner took Orgo from the professor in question ~20 years ago, and described it as one of the transformational classes of her undergraduate years, though she also thought it was the lowest grade she'd ever received. Things may have
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by whafro 4y ago
Or Rembrandt.
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by whafro 4y ago
Hugo Health | Software Engineers | Full-Time | US, REMOTE | https://hugo.health/ Hugo is helping make patient health data more powerful than ever, while ensuring patients themselves remain at the center and in control. We a
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by whafro 4y ago
Totally on board with the goals, and I've done some similar work, though haven't gotten anything nearly as trim as this as the output. I'm interested in if/how this has stood up in externally-audited scenarios, like SOC2
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by whafro 4y ago
Hugo Health | Software Engineers | Full-Time | US, REMOTE | https://hugo.health/ Hugo is helping make patient health data more powerful than ever, while ensuring patients themselves remain at the center and in control. We a
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by whafro 4y ago
Good for him. I hope he comes back in a few months with renewed energy for the next evolution of kottke.org, but even if not, or he heads in a different direction entirely, he deserves it.
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by whafro 5y ago
Sure, though it's often not simply a hole, but an active ventilation system to ensure fresh air makes it into the structure. Ideally, this is a heat recovery ventilator that uses the heat in stale air to preheat incoming fresh air. Bel
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by whafro 5y ago
First, there are many gaps in pretty much every home. Junctions between drywall/plaster joints, windows and window frames, every electrical switch/outlet box, details in the attic and roof, the rim joists and sill plates, and yes,
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by whafro 5y ago
They may require more maintenance, but that maintenance may also be lighter. You could also argue that this type of construction allows more room for generational upgrades than those expected to last 500 years. Integrating PV solar into the
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by whafro 5y ago
Directionally, I agree with this, but it's important to be clear that it varies by jurisdiction. A blower door score of 3.0 ACH50 (air changes per hour at 50 pascals) is code in some states, while a less-performant 5.0 ACH50 is code in
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by whafro 5y ago
It did. However, the beeping error only occurred long after the oven was used, and seemed to never happen while operating. And given that we were aiming to have the oven turned off at/near the breaker most of the time, except when in a
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by whafro 5y ago
Quick story: On the day we were closing on our 1920s house here in Massachusetts, we noticed that the oven wouldn't turn on. Then we noticed that it was shut off at the breaker. We asked the owner why, and he said "oh, the mainboa
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by whafro 5y ago
This is quite cynical. I think the vaccines are doing pretty dang well considering they were developed in a matter of weeks following discovery of the virus, and work very robustly against not only the variants that were targeted, but also
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by whafro 5y ago
And just to bring it all full-circle in this thread, albeit a slightly different direction: NBC's chime was developed when it was owned by GE in the 1930s (the notes are G-E-C – General Electric Company). When GE sold its interest, tha
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by whafro 5y ago
I don't disagree in general. What I'm saying is that if what's dangerous is a head injury with a [purely fictional/illustrative] severity of 5 on a scale of 1-10, but this test detects only a diagnosable concussion at 8+

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