These instructions are hidden behind a “Toggle Instructions” button which is hidden in a popup which is hidden in a select control:
> “Once you have found the right weather station, select its indicator and click the 'Download Weather File' link in the popup. This will download the selected file to local storage so you will need to select the 'Load...' button or the 'Load Weather File...' menu item and locate the downloaded file on your system.”
I mean, I UX for a living and I’ve seen some daft shit, but I’ve rarely seen a tool so useful and polished in its presentation which presents a less-clear surface area to the user. I want to put a frame around it somehow, as The Master Antipattern.
It’s orders of magnitude easier to destroy than to create, and our culture is all about supposed experts gate-keeping with their banal comments about UX problems that boil down to personal preference.
I suppose i consider that part of the price of putting oneself out there. Its hard to imagine getting rid of that without throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.
No, rude asshole criticism is extremely rude. Well-pitched constructive criticism is a gift, although you'd be right to say that when addressing strangers it's easy to come across as a demanding prick. So if you can provide that feedback for improvement along with sincere praise then criticize away.
the nesting limit is way deeper than this, there's a cooldown timer for replying too fast in a thread. and if you view the page for the comment, you can always reply.
I.e. your comment I replied to said ‘2 hours ago’ I clicked there and replied.
Consider that you’re literally contradicting one of the foundations of the Internet — criticism and improvement. How many websites have you or I visited in the last 25 years? If none of us criticized things we got for free, most critique would never occur at all. How would we learn and improve without that? I mean, is creating a bug ticket on a FOSS Github project criticizing something you get for free? It strikes me as an odd position.
Now of course one shouldn’t be an asshole while criticizing, or hurt people deliberately. But I don’t see any of that in my comment.
They stayed on the table for three years, until I threw them away.
It's a neat and interesting visualization, though, once you get past that. I could see it being useful.
Me neither, but are there any GIS tools, that get it right?
My (limited and possibly outdated) experience with them is kind of horrible. Buttons and information overload and the workflow of experienced users is strictly memorized. I know some people (used to) make their living, just by knowing where to click around in ArcGIS and helping others who do not know the interface structure so well.
Its one of those cases where you need some techincal knowledge and its not going to make money so gets missed despite its importance.
I was thinking a smarter thermostat should be able to monitor humidity in the air and run the AC at a low level, ramping up as moisture goes down, but that doesn't seem to be a feature in any of them (product idea?).
Maybe a separate dehumidifier like the one in the article combined with an oversized system could work?
In Arizona 117 is common enough that you’d expect the AC to handle it with no problem but Texas it probably isn’t that common (guessing). Think the hottest it got since I’ve lived there was 122. People also commonly don’t cool their houses too low because it gets expensive, my sister used to have a McMansion and their AC bill was a lot (something like $400/month) and they were only cooling to around 78 or so.
Commercial spaces have giant units that cool much more than I want. What are they doing differently?
Wouldn't a "right sized" system plus dehumidifier be better? If you oversize the AC to the point it short cycles, it won't be providing as much dehum as you have now, so you'd just be shifting that load to the dehum, not helping overall.
One exception is Carrier’s Infinity system, which is variable speed. It’s relatively more expensive, still not all that expensive, and may be overkill if you don’t have multiple zones, which it can also handle. Also, you’re stuck with Carrier’s matching thermostats. But it may be a good choice if you’re looking for flexibility.
Any reason why? I would naively think that putting in a variable speed motor with a dial would be peanuts on the total cost?
Or just get a variable-speed heat pump to handle cooling and heating.
Most HVAC companies like to have a "standard" line they do and then charge dearly to deviate from that, because that's where callbacks and problems come from.
On the other hand, I'm asking them to sell me something that's more expensive and the fact that they don't want to tells me that they have some reason to believe I wouldn't be happy with the result.
The max 25 drop does seem to be a widely reported thing. For example, my first search result for "max ac drop" is this:
https://www.jerrykelly.com/blog/how-many-degrees-cooler-can-...
The temperature rises and the AC kicks on. The plenum chamber in the AC unit, which is near the roof and is hot is flushed out to the condo interior. So we get a blast of hot dry air, followed by a blast of cold dry air for a brief period. The large unit quickly cools the condo and then switches off. So on a hot day the unit is cycling all day. This still happens on the hottest days of summer [in contrast, perfect would be a unit that, in the hottest weather, turns on and runs all day, barely keeping up]. To boot, this raises the electrical bill and stresses the AC unit.
So don't get a unit that is too big. Go to the trouble to have the unit sized properly.
The dehumidifier sounds great but it will decrease reliability and be one more thing to fail. It might be worth trying. Definitely don't use it with an oversized system - use it with an undersized system!
Grew up in the evaporative zone, and it worked well, except on the hottest of days (which come now more often..). Now I live in a much more humid place, which seems to be in natural ventilation/mass cooling zones (overlap of the boxes is a tad confusing to read.
I think it depends on you and what you're comfortable with.
It’s endlessly fascinating how different we can all be.
That doesn't seem right - the evaporative cooling zone includes conditions like 40C 1% humidity.
What would dehumidification alone do under those conditions?
Dehumidification after evap cooling would make sense.
The point is if we don't care about losing the water to the atmosphere (in climates where water is not scarce), we don't need a closed water cycle. For your house outflow air, on the psychrometric chart, you follow the isenthalpic line with evaporative cooling as far as though can (the diagonal lines from bottom right to top left ending in the wet bulb temperature, which is adiabatic in our case since constant pressure). This gives the temperature on the cold input side of the heat exchanger, which cools the incoming air, which will have an increase in RH, but only due to temperature change.
I posit the system would work well to reduce uncomfortable temperatures to be more in normal range in temperate climate extremes.
I found one company that supplies exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.homevap.nl/en/overzicht-koude-bevochtiging/homev... though I'm tempted to try something homebrew using a piezo water mister.