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maybe try living in a climate where the weather doesn't try to kill you...?
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Or dress sensibly? I mean, we get the reverse in Australia where everyone is always cranking the air con to a ridiculous degree, because houses are being built like poo poo these days. Good insulation and dressing to the conditions (ie not expecting to be in a shorts & shirt) will surely save you far more money than min-maxxing the thermostat. Like I get that there is a baseline necessity in countries far colder than where I live, but the programmable thermostat problem seems to come more from the fact that poorly built houses are leaking heat like a sieve.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:14
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Paying a one-time $150 extra for a better interface and so you can turn on/off remotely and look at pretty history graphs is really no worse than other random house gadgets like a harmony remote. I don't see the big deal; those $25 thermostats are a nightmare to program / adjust and it's almost worth the money just to be able to do it on a computer with good visualization. I rent, and there's nothing I can do about my sieve apartment except to put the stuff over the windows which barely helps.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:16
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Bhodi posted:Paying a one-time $150 extra for a better interface and so you can turn on/off remotely and look at pretty history graphs is really no worse than other random house gadgets like a harmony remote. I don't see the big deal; those $25 thermostats are a nightmare to program / adjust and it's almost worth the money just to be able to do it on a computer with good visualization. it takes ten minutes to program a $25 Honeywell thermostat
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Feb 19, 2015 18:17
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the interfaces for programming cheaper thermostats are terrible but you only have to do it once.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:19
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also harmony remotes are hell of overrated imo.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:19
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So my apartment came with some noname non-honeywell thermostat with no instructions, it's a total piece of poo poo and I'm probably just going to buy a thermostat and replace it. If I'm already going to buy one, I might as well spend like a weekend's worth of dinner/drinks and buy a nice one. poo poo we're all yospos here, makin' 6 n a half figgies, you won't even notice the cost
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Feb 19, 2015 18:19
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krysmopompas posted:my neighbors poo poo in home depot buckets but that's ok because they hacked a cheap freezer with an arduino will somebody please loving fund me so I can do this poo poo properly? i will make good youtubes
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Feb 19, 2015 18:23
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Bhodi posted:So my apartment came with some noname non-honeywell thermostat with no instructions, it's a total piece of poo poo and I'm probably just going to buy a thermostat and replace it. If I'm already going to buy one, I might as well spend like a weekend's worth of dinner/drinks and buy a nice one. poo poo we're all yospos here, makin' 6 n a half figgies, you won't even notice the cost Suck it off.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:27
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Bhodi posted:So my apartment came with some noname non-honeywell thermostat with no instructions, it's a total piece of poo poo and I'm probably just going to buy a thermostat and replace it. If I'm already going to buy one, I might as well spend like a weekend's worth of dinner/drinks and buy a nice one. poo poo we're all yospos here, makin' 6 n a half figgies, you won't even notice the cost I don't even have a thermostat. I can adjust the radiator slighlty, but it's a single stage control, and I didn't know it was there for the first year I lived in my apartment.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:29
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ayn rand hand job posted:I don't even have a thermostat. same except i dont even have a radiator or heating, just two wall mounted air conditioning units
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Feb 19, 2015 18:35
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Maluco Marinero posted:Or dress sensibly? I mean, we get the reverse in Australia where everyone is always cranking the air con to a ridiculous degree, because houses are being built like poo poo these days. yeah lemme just be hot and uncomfortable in my own home
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Feb 19, 2015 18:36
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my apartment doesn't have heat or ac because i live where humans were intended to live
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Feb 19, 2015 18:36
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Elder Postsman posted:but you only have to do it once. y'all live in places without seasons or something? honeywell's specialty is industrial control, surprise surprise people care about UX
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Feb 19, 2015 18:38
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Beast of Bourbon posted:my apartment doesn't have heat or ac because i live where humans were intended to live where's that?
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Feb 19, 2015 18:39
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the russians just used pencils XD
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Feb 19, 2015 18:46
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i feel like we're just missing a racist just-so from sagebrush at this point, step it up
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Feb 19, 2015 18:48
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Beast of Bourbon posted:my apartment doesn't have heat or ac because i live where humans were intended to live africa?
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Feb 19, 2015 19:13
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Citizen Tayne posted:Suck it off. and the fellaters gon' fellate, ate, ate, ate, ate
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Feb 19, 2015 19:28
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JawnV6 posted:y'all live in places without seasons or something? huh. minnesota has seasons. why do you need different temperature settings in the summer and winter.
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Feb 19, 2015 19:31
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duTrieux. posted:and the fellaters gon' fellate, ate, ate, ate, ate
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Feb 19, 2015 19:42
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Necc0 posted:the russians just used pencils XD get out.
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Feb 19, 2015 19:43
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i live in the great rift valley
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Feb 19, 2015 19:50
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Elder Postsman posted:huh. minnesota has seasons. why do you need different temperature settings in the summer and winter. there's a comfortable range and you want to get to the closest/cheapest edge of that, not enforce a single number regardless of the path to it
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Feb 19, 2015 20:05
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JawnV6 posted:there's a comfortable range and you want to get to the closest/cheapest edge of that, not enforce a single number regardless of the path to it well i don't have central air so it doesn't really do anything in the summer.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:16
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Feb 19, 2015 20:18
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Sassafras posted:I bet all these Nest people waste valuable time turning off LED lights when they leave a room for ten minutes, too. ~~~VAMPIRE POWER~
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Feb 19, 2015 20:21
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FCKGW posted:yeah lemme just be hot and uncomfortable in my own home I'm pretty sure there's a line between taking the edge off the heat and creating your own 20C climate. The latter is just wasteful yet everyone seems to do it.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:24
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let me janitor that little dinky led on my battery charger that sucks up 1c of power every year
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Feb 19, 2015 20:25
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Bhodi posted:I rent, and there's nothing I can do about my sieve apartment except to put the stuff over the windows which barely helps. Would your landlord not let you install one?
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Feb 19, 2015 20:26
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Jonny 290 posted:~~~VAMPIRE POWER~ i like how the nest steals power from the hvac fan and charges its battery so it can run, as the system doesnt providing power to it directly does a good job, too  (obv a 3.7v lipo cell)
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Feb 19, 2015 20:29
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Elder Postsman posted:well i don't have central air so it doesn't really do anything in the summer. yeah, turns out lacking half the letters in HVAC affects some use cases
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Feb 19, 2015 20:33
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fart simpson posted:but if you want to go down that line of thought, i think theoretically a "smart" theromastat could be better than a simple programmable one in the sense that it could dynamically adapt to a changing schedule. like if you normally come home from work at 7 you can use a normal programmable thermostat to account for that but if you sometimes work late and get home at 10 instead then a fancy smart home thermostat could sense that you're still at work so don't bother turning on the heat yet. if you're already at home then just adjust the thermostat yourself, there's no point in having a motion sensor automatically do it when you walk by except sheer loving laziness the advantage of a programmable thermostat is the ability to adjust before you wake up/go home/whatever so the place is already warmed up by the time you get there
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Feb 19, 2015 20:45
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Sniep posted:i like how i liek how that too OP
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Feb 19, 2015 20:50
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jfc a page and a half arguing about loving thermostats goddamn
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Feb 19, 2015 21:03
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WSJ put together a cool chart with all the bubble companies in the new web economy http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/ you can even play back the positions as they changed over the past 12 months.
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Feb 19, 2015 21:12
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just got around to watching silicon valley and I'm wondering if java really is that common in startups out there or whether that's the big language the writers have actually heard of
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Feb 19, 2015 21:21
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startups should write stuff in java because then when it fails they'll be able to get jobs at real companies
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I think Java is what most comp sci universities teach, so presumably it's what most of the fresh meat would be comfortable writing in. "rockstar" coders tend to use the flavor of the month and then scramble when their Ruby on Rails project fails to scale properly at the enterprise level.
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Subjunctive posted:Would your landlord not let you install one?
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