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beembeem··on A Dutch city testing the future of urban life
Composting and rain water harvesting give you much of what you need. Not much is needed from far away.
beembeem··on Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life
Agreed on the "smart" features.

When I moved into my current house we had painters working on one floor. They cranked the newly programmed Nest that was in learning mode to 90 degrees for one night to keep the paint warm while it dried. I, of course, had no idea they had done something that silly, but for weeks afterwards this smart thermostat will crank the heat to 90 and I have to manually turn it down. I'm convinced that it will not be able to unlearn and I'll have to delete the profile and recreate it. I should set it on a schedule as you mention.

beembeem··on Show HN: M3O – Universal Public API Interface
I'm just here to say, this is a very thoughtful response. Thanks for replying to the criticism and providing context.
beembeem··on Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq
https://github.com/robots.txt

I don't see anything here about wiki specifically but maybe one of the rules hits wiki pages?

beembeem··on TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
When I'm done filing mine this year I'm going to take a serious look at contributing to this project on Github.
beembeem··on Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981
I would be curious if you could point to a foreign offshore wind farm connected to the US grid. I've never heard of this. Presumably they're all within US controlled territorial water.
beembeem··on Mortgage rates just hit 5%. Buying a home has become a lot more expensive
Did you account for the fact that equity gains in real estate for primary residences in the US are tax free? Your equities, even long-term, are taxed at a non-zero rate.
beembeem··on Mortgage rates just hit 5%. Buying a home has become a lot more expensive
A local realtor in my hot market on the west coast indicated to me that it was as much as a third of sales they saw in the last year FWIW.
beembeem··on Arducam Pi Hawk-eye is a 64MP camera for Raspberry Pi 4/CM4
I'm hoping this will meet expectations for a home security camera. Too bad none of their sample photos have a face in it.
beembeem··on Debugging with GDB
This! I recently discovered this as well and it makes gdb feel like a modern-day debugger like windbg.

`C-x a` to toggle it on

`C-l` to re-draw screen when stdout gets spit out and messes up TUI

`C-p/n` for scrolling gdb history

`up/down` for scrolling code

beembeem··on Bill to require job postings to include salaries passes Washington Senate
> Microsoft and Amazon might move out of Washington.

I highly doubt Microsoft would up and leave over this one piece of legislation. See multi-year spending on new campus which isn't open yet: https://news.microsoft.com/modern-campus/

beembeem··on Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
Yes. As long as the pulp of the tooth is healthy.

From what I've read, there's a tradeoff with time prior to removal however. The earlier in your life you take them out and freeze them, the higher their regeneration factor is. The DPSC (Dental Pulp Stem Cells) should always be there as long as the tooth is alive.

beembeem··on Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
I've done this with my wisdom teeth when they needed to come out. I used this company: ndpl.net. There were a few competitors but it's been years since I looked into it. My stem cells are sitting in a lab, frozen, awaiting my command to send them anywhere in the world for medical treatment.
beembeem··on Grep flags – the good stuff
"-Irs/-Iirs --color=always" is my standard set of flags

-l/-h/-v/-o show up every now and then

beembeem··on Balcony solar panels – one-year results
Just to add: During certain hours of the day (2-6PM) in August heatwaves, spot prices to consumers can exceed $1/kWh in Southern California for SDGE.
beembeem··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Hold the phone. Your employer PAID Equifax (Talx) to take this data off their hands.

source: me, having read the contract at megacap tech firm

beembeem··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Correct. There's no legal requirement to give salary data or any employment data to a private third party CRA.
beembeem··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Employers are outsourcing what should be an internal HR function of employment verification. Except in specific cases regarding government contractors, there is no legal requirement for employers to provide this data to a third party like TWN.
beembeem··on Closed-loop geothermal energy recovery from deep high enthalpy systems
Horizontal drilling is very expensive.
beembeem··on CPUC Proposal Aims to Modernize State’s Decarbonization Incentive Efforts
Page 153 from the proposal: "Step 4: No later than 120 days after the adoption of this decision, the Commission will implement a tariff sunset on NEM 2.0, after which time no additional customers will be permitted to take service under the NEM 2.0 tariff."

So 1/27 + 120 days = 5/27 is the earliest deadline for residential customers to lock in NEM 2.0.

beembeem··on CPUC Guts Solar Power in name of “equity,” adds $8/kW monthly charge paid to PGE [pdf]
Page 153 "Step 4: No later than 120 days after the adoption of this decision, the Commission will implement a tariff sunset on NEM 2.0, after which time no additional customers will be permitted to take service under the NEM 2.0 tariff."

So 1/27 + 120 days = 5/27 is the earliest deadline for residential customers to lock in NEM 2.0.

beembeem··on Americans are rethinking where they want to live
Yep and zoning is front and center the problem here. There's a reason developers are building skinny, tall units instead of 3 bedroom flats or heck just duplexes/triplexes/quadplexes.
beembeem··on Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’
they are literally the only service I've been able to find that quotes you for free without needing an SSN/email on file.
beembeem··on Keep a Log
My append-only system for *nix, sits in my .bashrc:

  # Open Personal Logfile at end, optionally appending log entry for today if it doesn't exist
  function ed ()
  {
    local _cur_date _most_recent_date;
    _cur_date=$(date +%m/%d/%Y);
    _most_recent_date=$(grep --color -o -E "^# [0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}" ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME} | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2-);
    if [[ "${_cur_date}" != "${_most_recent_date}" ]]; then
        echo -e "\n#\n# ${_cur_date}\n#" >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
        echo "Command                                 Comments" >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
        printf "%0.s-" {1..81} >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
        echo >> ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME};
    fi;
    $EDITOR +$(($(wc -l ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME} | awk '{print $1}')+1)) ~/${LOG_FILE_NAME}
  }
  
  >>>
  
  #
  # 12/03/2021
  #
  Command                                 Comments
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  <some cmd>                              # My description of what cmd does, in my own words
beembeem··on Plunge in lithium-ion battery costs
Interesting metric. I recently came across this team [1] in Seattle that is building what you mention. Disclaimer: after coming across the team I decided to invest in their equity crowdfunding effort.

[1] https://joulecase.com/

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