Its not that hard to stop a Trane Six years ago, I replaced the old HVAC system that came with our house, a central forced air system installed in 19951. The new system is a Trane XR AC paired with an S9V2 96% efficiency forced-air gas furnace. And it ran great! Better efficiency, quieter, multiple fan speeds so I
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On keeping a packed suitcase Update (Nov. 6): I’ve closed the comments, as they crossed the threshold from “sometimes worthwhile” to “purely abusive.” As for Mamdani’s victory: as I like to say in such cases (and said, e.g., after George W. Bush’s and Trump’s victories), the silver lining to which I cling is that either
The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC The Arduino Uno Q is… a weird board. It’s the first product born out of Qualcomm’s buyout of Arduino. It’s like if you married an Intel CPU, and a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller—oh wait, Radxa’s X4 did that. Arduino even tried it before with their old Yún board, which had Linux running
An Experimental Program for AI-Powered Feedback at STOC Guest Post from David Woodruff This year for STOC, we decided to run an experiment to explore the use of Large Language Models in the theoretical computer science community, and we’re inviting the entire community to participate. We—a team from the STOC PC—are offering authors the chance to get automated pre-submission feedback from an advanced, Gemini-based LLM tool
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Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted My normal process for transferring video footage from my Sony cameras to my computer is as follows: Jeff Geerling October 23, 2025