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  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • I bought a Honeywell Z-Wave thermostat because I have a more complicated HVAC setup than the typical American home. It was one of the few I could find that was compliant with a home automation protocol that didn't require something that announced its existence to the Internet. It's been solidly reliable, replacing my dead Nest thermostat.

    The thermostat:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HFL7R44

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • If Google assistant ends up dying this is the way I'll be going with. I've already got HA up, I'm just using stuff that predates my HA setup.

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • No need for this. A Z-Wave or Zigbee thermostat does the same thing.

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • I have three lights that were wired to one switch. With smart bulbs, I can individually turn them on and off or dim them. No "dumb" solution exists for homes that were wired in a stupid way. This isn't a niche application, it's a common reality.

  • average c++ dev

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  • The question becomes, then, if I spend 5 years learning and mastering C++ versus rust, which one is going to help me produce a better product in the end?

  • average c++ dev

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  • An acquaintance of mine once wrote a finite element method solver entirely in C++ templates.

  • A long long time ago...

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  • I have a somewhat common word as my last name.

    My first two initials are 'al', which means "to the" in Italian.

    My email is al.lastname@gmail.com

    I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.

  • 1/4>1/3 but 151>113

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  • I see this repeated all the time and I'm sure there's some truth to it, but A&W burgers are also disgusting and more expensive than their competitors. So there's that.

  • Fearful of Trump, some Americans look to make a life in Europe

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  • I can program and I have a mechanical engineering degree but I have super niche skills so I can't get hired abroad. I always read that there's a skills shortage in tons of countries but there aren't any actual jobs to take.

  • Credit to Stupid_Shiki

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  • I made a point to play every game in my library a few years ago. Every game got 2 hours at a minimum (unless they didn't work). Played some real gems like Torment: Tides of Numenera, Tyranny, and World of Goo.

  • Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing

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  • A traveling repairman or some other on-the-road professional. Let it go in the hotel overnight and have your print by morning. Or that evening if you set it up in the morning.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • Mark Rober is what you get when you cross veritasium with Mr beast. Someone who's genuinely smart but they're going to leave all that stuff out because they want the bigger audience

  • Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination

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  • You burning out is a process failure. Work normal hours and let shit fail 🤷‍♂️. Say the reduction in hours is "health related" so they can't pry.

  • You have a time machine with a single round trip. You hate everyone. And you are lazy. What is the least you can do to completely screw over the world with your one trip through time?

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  • Go back 1000 years before Europe makes contact with the Americas. Infect everyone and let their populations get wiped out, but give time to recover so first contact with Europe doesn't go as poorly. Also give them horses much earlier.

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  • If I read this post without any context I would think "this guy is too poor to hire a black prostitute" and not " this guy doesn't have a particle accelerator capable of making a miniature black hole"

  • BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

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  • Forgot about this one. I loved this phone back in the day. Remember when it would say DROID when you booted it up?

  • BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

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  • The LG Env2 would have been the perfect smartphone form factor, change my view.

  • how can i make my brain stop deleting whatever i study for an exam

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  • Depends on how you learn, and what the material is. Stuff that worked for me, in no particular order:

    • Write a cheat sheet for exams, even if you can't actually use it in the exam
    • Start homework the day the lecture that covers the material is given in class.
    • Try to explain the subject out loud to someone else (real or imaginary). Anywhere you draw a blank when talking is something you need to refresh on. Repeat this until you get it right.
    • For memorization - heavy topics, build an Anki flashcard deck

    All of these techniques are variations on the fact that people learn by repeated exposure. the closer together the initial repetitions are, the higher the retention.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • Storage data structures. Database tables are designed for fast read/write. Excel is designed for fast simultaneous parallel computation.

    To get a sense of what this looks like, you can read more about their data structures; Databases typically store data in what's called a "B Tree" and spreadsheets typically store as a format that can be easily converted into a "Directed Acyclic Graph" (although Excel lets you turn off the "acyclic" part if you allow circular references).

    Although, with Excel specifically, there's probably not much difference since it has some database functionality now.