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If your plumber was doing regular work for you that brought you significant, expensive-to-replace value then you _should_ pay him more.

Rather than outright disabling it, I wish it was a permission the site would have to request.

That way trusted sites that used it responsibly could be given permission, but it could not be used by any random site.


This is the way.


I could definitely see value in filters for "has RSS" and "has recent posts"—maybe even as the default view—but I absolutely agree that this is much less interesting to me without the wider world of interesting, small sites.


I'm pretty sure that NobodyNada knows this, but for pedants out there using Bb instead of A# is specifically a classical European music notation thing.

There's nothing wrong with using A# and plenty of other notations do. For a modern, hacker-y example, tracker notation only uses sharps).


Corporations will do anything they can get away with. Without consumer-friendly regulation I don't really see why all corporations _wouldn't_ eventually do this type of thing in markets like this.


I am NOT a "consumer". Those just buy buy buy, the same way locusts devour everything.

I am a "customer". I think about purchases, research if its sufficient, and will actively walk away if the deal is garbage.

At this time, all electric cars seem to be a DRM ridden hellscape, and/or a surveillance platform on wheels, and/or 100% remote control by mothership, and/or subscription hellscape (heated seats, better battery).

I'll take my ICE mostly mechanical cars thankyouverymuch, as they are more repairable.


You’re still a consumer, though. A single locust doesn’t wipe out thousands of acres on its own — it’s the swarm of individuals all buying (eating) “only what they need”.


"No u" isn't a valid argument here.

I'm following the body of capitalist thought, as you can see here:

https://uk.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/consu...

They are demonstrably very different. And from a 10000 foot view, consumers are reactionary and impulsive and easier to control.

Customers are the ones who give thought in how they purchase.


Okay, semantics aside, companies will not make things more repairable if they aren't required to do so.


What's your point?


Ideally build it in away from your house, as others have said, but in terms of actual safety systems:

-get a high quality BMS from a reputable source, it should supports current limits and thermal probes - configure current limits with as much overhead as possible, the less you drive them, the cooler they'll stay - make sure you have sufficient thermal probes inside key points in the pack(s) and that they're configured in the BMS to cut draw - add thermal fuses as well, knowing where to put these is important, too - house the packs so to minimize fire risk and cascading issues, especially if space is not a concern


In the language learning world there are some great tools already for adding content-awareness.

AnkiMorphs[1] will analyze the morphemes in your sentences and, taking into account the interval of each card as a sign of how well you know each one, will re-order your new cards to, ideally, present you with cards that have only one unknown word.

It doesn't do anything to affect the FSRS directly—it only changes the order of new, unlearned cards—but in my experience it's so effective at shrinking the time from new card to stable/mature that I'm not sure how much more it would help to have the FSRS intervals being adjusted in this particular domain.

1: https://mortii.github.io/anki-morphs/intro.html


Reading the thread, I definitely overlooked language learning solutions. Thanks for sharing!


If you really want to allow for another browser to authenticate a login request, you can at least limit it to sessions coming from the same IP.

That would let you authenticate your desktop browser from an email you opened on your phone if you're on your home network, but without becoming widely exploitable by phishers.


Most expensive homes yes, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of livable homes and apartments that are _empty_ at any given time. Canada has a lot of vacant houses.


Canada has one of the lowest home vacancy rates among the OECD countries and currently at the lowest rate it's been in 40 years:

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/data/datasets/affor...


That paper doesn't disprove my point. It indicates ~7% home vacancy, which means the total number of vacant homes is higher than the number of people without homes.


> I'm getting multiple downvotes here. Am I wrong? What am I missing?

I wouldn't have downvoted you for it, but it sounds like you missed this from the article:

> While the rice cooked in the inset pot, a bimetallic switch measured the temperature in the external pot.

While more modern rice cookers may use curie point magnetic switches, that's not what the original rice cooker used.


The user did not "miss this". They've reacted to it by saying that they have thought rice cookers work differently. Which indeed many of them do.


They replied to a comment about the bimetalic switch in this cooker with "I thought the circuit that powers the cooking was …".

While both you and they are correct that more modern devices work that way, that's not how this one works.

It's possible that they didn't miss that fact, but their comment reads as being a direct response to the discussion of the control circuit of the first rice cooker.


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