Notices by Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)

@rotopenguin @tokensane @gavin57 @CaffeinatedBookDragon @cstross @Oggie @pluralistic Not a problem in the UK - we don't need AC.

@gavin57 @CaffeinatedBookDragon @cstross @Oggie @pluralistic Thing about a dumb wired thermostat is that you can't turn the temperature up remotely a day or two before you return home.

I've wired a smart relay in parallel with the dumb thermostat so that I can do that. We'll see if it works in a couple of weeks.

@tokensane @gavin57 @CaffeinatedBookDragon @cstross @Oggie @pluralistic My dumb thermostat has a prediction feature! - there's a resistor in it which heats up faster than the radiator and turns the heating off before the radiators overheat. Unbelievably crude, but they've been making the same device for several decades so someone must think it works.

This resistor is however the reason that someone bothered to run a neutral wire to the thermostat, so there was a neutral available where I tapped into the cable, which is good because the smart relay needs a neutral.

I'm controlling the smart relay with a #HomeAssistant virtual thermostat run from a temperature sensor in the living room (as compared to the dumb thermostat which is in the hall, which we have no particular desire to heat). Left to itself it keeps the temperature to within 0.1°C. But it's not always left to itself, eg if the cooker is on the temperature overshoots.

@inthehands Go on, then, let's see a noughts and crosses game coded purely in HTML - if it can't be done it's not a programming language.

@FranceskaMann @anarchistquotes @Radical_EgoCom I have plenty of other things higher up my list of things to think about. *Nobody* can think about *everything*, there's just too much "everything". And the world wouldn't work as well if we all thought about the same things and we all ignored the same other things.

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes Ah! Meta-squabbling! - Luvverly!!

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes I don't have any perception of Marxism other than that lefties are always squabbling with each other (there was even a film scene about it), which I don't think you can claim is "incorrect" with a straight face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes In which case *everybody* "chooses ignorance" about *most* things. Which is a somewhat obvious, and therefore not interesting, observation.

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes I choose to prioritise my finite bandwidth for learning things in other directions, that's all.

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes If I heard "dictatorship of the proletariat" I would think "Trots squabbling amongst themselves, BAU for them, none of my business" and I would get on with something else having felt no need at all to educate myself about the various factions of lefties.

@aei What pisses me off is having to show a boarding pass to be allowed to buy a bar of chocolate in an airport. WTGAF is that about??

@dalias @robpike Yes well, my web site has dropdowns for dates because I'm too lazy to write any decent validation, but at least it almost always defaults to the date that the punter wants.

@dalias @robpike Isn't it an ancient attempt at a security device, harking back to the days (last century?) when there were malware thingies called "key loggers" which could capture what you typed in a text box but couldn't capture what you selected in a scrolling widget?

@pvonhellermannn It exists. How can one not "believe in" it?

@ChrisMayLA6 @PaniczGodek Once Upon A Time mortgages were regulated and limited to three times salary.

Guess what houses cost then? Yup, you've got it, three times salary.

@Radical_EgoCom @cbontenbal @graemearthur I suspect the reference is to today's post-facts political climate, in which case your request for "proven" is also irrelevant.

@Radical_EgoCom @graemearthur As far as we know "free will" isn't a thing as there is no physical mechanism that can deliver it.

The usual way out of this seems to be to say "in practice it's too complicated to calculate what someone will decide to do, so we might as well live our lives as if free will is actually a thing".

@paraw @mekkaokereke @craignicol Someone called the cops on my grandma because she was going for a walk. In a Miami suburb were apparently nobody ever walked this counted as "suspicious". As she was elderly and white and female, rather than young and black and male, at least they stopped to talk to her rather than just shooting first.

@jwildeboer @Flo_Rian @gunstick Pessimists are happier people than optimists.

Because optimists only ever get nasty shocks, whereas pessimists sometimes get nice surprises.

@jwildeboer @gunstick Yes. The export price will come down and people will stop buying solar panels.