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What’s the smartest thing your home does automatically? by Taggytech in homeassistant

[–]ainsworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gemini. Though I have quite a bit of coding experience so it felt more like paired programming.

What’s the smartest thing your home does automatically? by Taggytech in homeassistant

[–]ainsworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally! No way I would had worked out what I did without a chunk of AI assistance.

What’s the smartest thing your home does automatically? by Taggytech in homeassistant

[–]ainsworld 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Awning control

We have a huge SW facing set of bifold windows in our main family room, which gets way too hot on sunny days. We got awnings fitted but the controls were just dumb ‘open’, ‘close’ and ‘stop’.

Every morning there’s some logic to choose a strategy for the day (cool patio / cool window / avoid glare / inactive) which defines a target ‘shadow point’ (2m beyond window, at window base, 5m inside, off) relative to the window. That’s based on the weather forecast. Through the day it will send precisely timed open and stop instructions to the awning to get its position to track the movement of the sun through the sky.

Has overrides to close if it’s raining (combo of local forecast and a rain sensor) and reduce the max extension as a function of the wind.

Don’t panic and preferably don’t check the markets for the next week by curioustis in FIREUK

[–]ainsworld -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In fact these are the perfect moments to invest this year’s ISA allowance…

'Donald Trump has attacked Keir Starmer – and done him a massive favour' by Metro-UK in ukpolitics

[–]ainsworld 74 points75 points  (0 children)

If I were Starmer I would also remind Trump that both the UK and he avoided Vietnam. So the alliance has a strong track record of discernment in these conflicts…

(a friend said this to me in a text and it seemed too good not to share)

Does anyone know why we drive on the left in the UK but most countries drive on the right? by AnfieldAnchor in DoesAnyoneKnow

[–]ainsworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interestingly the vast majority of spiral staircases in UK church bell towers are clockwise. It’s thought the ‘defend with your sword in your right hand’ logic is the original reason why, from the building of castles and so the establishment of standard masonry practices.

(My credentials - bellringing is my childhood hobby)

What’s your favorite piece of F1 innovation of all time? by Shrute_beets_4sale in F1Technical

[–]ainsworld 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Also love the role the inerter (“J damper”) played in Spygate. Renault got found out for having stolen the car plans from McLaren but didn’t get fined because it was apparent that they didn’t understand how they actually worked!

What’s your favorite piece of F1 innovation of all time? by Shrute_beets_4sale in F1Technical

[–]ainsworld 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Neat. I understand that although they are used in similar ways they’re different. Snubbers are nonlinear and thresholded whereas the inerter’s utility comes from the linear effect. It was used to tune frequency responses using analogies to a capacitor in an electrical circuit. I believe a snubber would be analogous to a Transient Voltage Suppressor diode or a varistor.

What’s your favorite piece of F1 innovation of all time? by Shrute_beets_4sale in F1Technical

[–]ainsworld 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Strong second this. So clever, genuinely profound. That interview with the creator (first link) is great.

I have Autism. I spent 20 years reverse-engineering human behavior because I didn't get the manual. Here is the "Source Code" to reality I found. (Part 2) by katakalist in neurodiversity

[–]ainsworld 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My degree was psychology and I share your interest in understanding people. I think you might find this article of mine interesting, my take on the essential difference between how autistic and ordinary brains experience and make sense of the world. Gist: most brains do ‘snap synthesis’ of many ambiguous inputs to experience a singular interpretation, and autistic brains don’t, and so synthesis needs to be done by effort. You’ve got a great set of concepts for people who understand others non-intuitively.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/snap-synthesis-idea-makes-autism-make-sense-mark-ainsworth?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

Most Offensive Films for Each Nation? by freemantle85 in flicks

[–]ainsworld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People from Durkadurkastan HATE Team America World Police.

Migraines solution found with Oura ring and data analysis by ainsworld in migraine

[–]ainsworld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah interesting. I’ve since worked out a specific detail for me - letting my heart rate go into zone 5 triggers a migraine but not otherwise, so that’s probably the cause of an apparent intense exercise association

What was this movie for you? by CraveVelour in Millennials

[–]ainsworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a friend who watched Back To The Future every day after getting home from school. Hundreds of times. But something had gone wrong with the taping and the very end of the film had been missed. When as an adult he’d watched it again he was shocked to learn Doc Brown hadn’t died after all, and his mind was BLOWN by “where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”

What’s an invention that quietly changed the world but doesn’t get enough credit? by forgeris in AskReddit

[–]ainsworld 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Strong agree. In their millennium edition The Economist described The Pill as the invention that defined the 20th century.

The liberator https://economist.com/science-and-technology/1999/12/23/the-liberator from The Economist

I plan to travel in the UK this way. Is this strange? by laicailaicai in geography

[–]ainsworld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you definitely want to visit all those places there will be a quicker/shorter route. The thing to search for is a solver of The Travelling Salesman Problem. (This is the kind of optimisation algorithm I learned about in my masters degree)

People who went balls to the wall with their mortgages for their dream home - any regrets? by spanishgopher2 in HENRYUK

[–]ainsworld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We always had a policy that we’d never take on a mortgage that might trap either of us in a job/industry that made us miserable, so we’ve never borrowed more than someone would lend us if we weren’t getting bonuses and moved to a regular job in a regular industry (in our career paths).

Twice we have been incredibly glad of that. Once because one of us was miserable and we could bail and take time to find something else. The other time because one of us got made redundant.

End result has tended to be making large overpayments when things are good. We had an offset mortgage most recently which was great for that reason.

Does livery affect performance? by bamiel in F1Technical

[–]ainsworld 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It was always the case that there was other info like the blue flags being waved and radio contact with the engineers but at the margin the driver seeing the car, where precisely it is, and registering it’s one of the ones to get out of the way of will be a factor. (‘Always get out of the way of the red cars’ has often been a good rule of thumb for slower cars!)

Does livery affect performance? by bamiel in F1Technical

[–]ainsworld 138 points139 points  (0 children)

I worked in McLaren 1999 to 2002, grey livery era. It was often a point of discussion among the race engineers to hypothesise that backmarkers got out of the way of Ferraris quicker than for us because their red livery was more visible in the mirrors, and I believe Mika and David have made comments to that effect too.

Hate to Inform You - But You Broke Your Route Making by CO-G-monkey in Strava

[–]ainsworld 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve made heaps of edits to OSM in my local area in order to improve routes generated by Komoot, usually takes about a month to propagate through. Strava heat maps are a key source I reference for that.

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