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Can’t both be true? It can be true that Roblox keeps kids hooked through shady practices but if not them, kids would have sought other places. Club Penguin, RuneScape, WOW, Xbox Live, all served similar functions for myself growing up, I don’t find it hard to believe I would have ended up on Roblox
Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:09PM (#40989864)
I thought I could escape this meme on hn, but alas
I feel exactly the same way. The first night of real rest feels as if my body “caught up” to how sleep deprived I was and I often don’t accomplish much that day.
Re:The curse of being good in IT on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:22PM (#35576109)
Off-topic, but why do you cut the power at 4AM?
Re:Egg Boxing on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:19PM (#32872127)
My family would play a similar game at Easter. We paint hard-boiled eggs a day or two before, then on Easter, we each pick our "fighter" and attempt to break the other person's egg. Point to point is allowed, and you have several attempts with the different sides of the egg before the bout is over.
Re:Fry's Electronics is closing all stores on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:55AM (#26248339)
They sometimes have deals that beat NewEgg and Amazon prices, like CPU motherboard combos, parts on clearance, etc. They also will price match Amazon and NewEgg prices. The staff at my closest Micro Center is knowledgeable, and of course it’s nice going to a physical store. Shopping for monitors was much nicer being able to physically look at it, rather than trying to comb reviews and hope the one you ordered online looks good.
It appears humidity doesn't really impact an already burning wildfire, but lower humidity means drier fuel which makes the fire more likely to spread. Conversely, higher humidity can make a fire less likely to spread to moister fuel[1]

[1]http://www.auburn.edu/academic/forestry_wildlife/fire/relati...

Re:I Built a Smart Thermostat on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:05PM (#25438922)
I wasn't a fan of messing with the thermostat housing but just now after pulling it off, I think my thermostat isn't anything fancy like that, just two black load and two red line wires. It's also important to note that my thermostat connects to baseboard heaters, not an HVAC system.
Re:I Built a Smart Thermostat on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:50PM (#25438473)
I previously put together something like this, but my only gripe was having the usb cable hanging down to an outlet to power the whole thing. I tried a solution by scrapping the Pi, using a nodemcu with a portable power bank and putting the node in low power mode and only regularly coming on to check for updates and to update the thermostat state, but then it became just another thing to charge, so I scrapped that too, maybe a revisit is in store.