Lots of digital thermostats (both relatively dumb and very smart) allow for temperature adjustments to be locked within pre-set limits. If your customer disdain drives you to want that kind of thing, then just find one…
> Most of the time, I definitely intend to run my system as hard as it can. There are only 4-5 weeks out of the year where variable speed would make a meaningful difference. The system never catches up, even at night?
> because it is both less efficient and will wear more while pulling the temperature down That's just not true. Aircon is a heat pump. It pumps heat more efficiently when more heat is available to be pumped. Warmer…
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Is that how they do it lately? I participated once or twice a good number of years ago, and it was kind of a pain: It involved keeping a paper ledger of what was watched, and when. Correspondence was all handled by…
When I buy a computer, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that doesn't necessitate any relationship at all with any app store provider of any sort (ie. Apple). (When I buy a pocket…
I think the complaint is focused on the notion that the instructions tell a would-be contributor what is not OK, and then do not help them to figure out what is OK. > Determine if any of the search results represent the…
Do we actually have a culture of cancelling people for the things they wrote when they were 12?
Man, I sure knew 35 years ago that whatever I shared in public was.... public. :) And some of it still is public from way back then -- including dumb and ugly comments, stupid flamewars, teenager stuff, and phone…
Obviously, running out of memory and resorting to swap (or other safety nets) is less than ideal. But why reject taking apparently-free steps to soften the blow? Is there some advantage in making sure that when the wall…
It's OK to care about the performance of the safety net, too.
I experienced my first go-around a few months ago, in an A321 that was landing in Tampa. The clouds had been very thick for awhile. The plane was making those weird low-and-slow vibes that it makes on final approach. We…
Just begin. You don't need an inventory. Just start by dividing them into piles on the floor, organized by role. The biggest piles can get further subdivided into more-specialized roles. There will be piles that consist…
I keep a lot of wires around because my interests and work require that, and I find great pleasure in being able to connect anything at a whim. Right now they're all pretty tidy, sorted by role into not-giant boxes on a…
It works best with short-ish cables; several meters or less is nice and quick and is simple to keep neat. Longer cables can also work but it kind of takes more space to get it done. Like, a 30-meter extension cord or…
> Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had. ...meanwhile, some folks were doing this at George Mason University were doing this back in 2015[1]: > The fire extinguisher uses…
I double the cables over until they're short enough, and then tie them into a loose half knot. No fasteners to wish for, or to fail. Both ends of every cable are always next to each other for identification at a glance.…
Your comment is unique. Nobody before you has ever written a comment phrased exactly like that. I saved a copy of your unique comment on my pocket supercomputer, including the letter "a". I didn't ask first; I just did…
I mean: I, for one, was definitely talking about telephone calls. :) But now that you mention it: Yeah, the state of common VoIP (Teams/Slack/Zoom/whatever) is also usually not very good. It's like there's some huge…
I don't have an LS-120 anymore, but I did have one at the very tail end of the floppy era. I never fed it one of the fancy disks. :-/ It worked, though, and it was really fast with regular floppies. Part of me says that…
I can understand people just fine with the voice profiles provided by Bluetooth. Strictly speaking, I don't need anything better than that. But it sure is nice to be able to make phone calls where people don't sound…
Yeah. The chaos was indeed delightful. I actually didn't get much gaming done on those days since I didn't usually have much of a gaming machine for myself at that time. My focus was instead mostly directed at getting…
Lots of digital thermostats (both relatively dumb and very smart) allow for temperature adjustments to be locked within pre-set limits. If your customer disdain drives you to want that kind of thing, then just find one…
> Most of the time, I definitely intend to run my system as hard as it can. There are only 4-5 weeks out of the year where variable speed would make a meaningful difference. The system never catches up, even at night?
> because it is both less efficient and will wear more while pulling the temperature down That's just not true. Aircon is a heat pump. It pumps heat more efficiently when more heat is available to be pumped. Warmer…
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Is that how they do it lately? I participated once or twice a good number of years ago, and it was kind of a pain: It involved keeping a paper ledger of what was watched, and when. Correspondence was all handled by…
When I buy a computer, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that doesn't necessitate any relationship at all with any app store provider of any sort (ie. Apple). (When I buy a pocket…
I think the complaint is focused on the notion that the instructions tell a would-be contributor what is not OK, and then do not help them to figure out what is OK. > Determine if any of the search results represent the…
Do we actually have a culture of cancelling people for the things they wrote when they were 12?
Man, I sure knew 35 years ago that whatever I shared in public was.... public. :) And some of it still is public from way back then -- including dumb and ugly comments, stupid flamewars, teenager stuff, and phone…
Obviously, running out of memory and resorting to swap (or other safety nets) is less than ideal. But why reject taking apparently-free steps to soften the blow? Is there some advantage in making sure that when the wall…
It's OK to care about the performance of the safety net, too.
I experienced my first go-around a few months ago, in an A321 that was landing in Tampa. The clouds had been very thick for awhile. The plane was making those weird low-and-slow vibes that it makes on final approach. We…
Just begin. You don't need an inventory. Just start by dividing them into piles on the floor, organized by role. The biggest piles can get further subdivided into more-specialized roles. There will be piles that consist…
I keep a lot of wires around because my interests and work require that, and I find great pleasure in being able to connect anything at a whim. Right now they're all pretty tidy, sorted by role into not-giant boxes on a…
It works best with short-ish cables; several meters or less is nice and quick and is simple to keep neat. Longer cables can also work but it kind of takes more space to get it done. Like, a 30-meter extension cord or…
> Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had. ...meanwhile, some folks were doing this at George Mason University were doing this back in 2015[1]: > The fire extinguisher uses…
I double the cables over until they're short enough, and then tie them into a loose half knot. No fasteners to wish for, or to fail. Both ends of every cable are always next to each other for identification at a glance.…
Your comment is unique. Nobody before you has ever written a comment phrased exactly like that. I saved a copy of your unique comment on my pocket supercomputer, including the letter "a". I didn't ask first; I just did…
I mean: I, for one, was definitely talking about telephone calls. :) But now that you mention it: Yeah, the state of common VoIP (Teams/Slack/Zoom/whatever) is also usually not very good. It's like there's some huge…
I don't have an LS-120 anymore, but I did have one at the very tail end of the floppy era. I never fed it one of the fancy disks. :-/ It worked, though, and it was really fast with regular floppies. Part of me says that…
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I can understand people just fine with the voice profiles provided by Bluetooth. Strictly speaking, I don't need anything better than that. But it sure is nice to be able to make phone calls where people don't sound…
Yeah. The chaos was indeed delightful. I actually didn't get much gaming done on those days since I didn't usually have much of a gaming machine for myself at that time. My focus was instead mostly directed at getting…