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Airplay (and presumably Cast) support require a WiFi connection. I explicitly blocked external connections to mine.

Not to mention the radical cost of living adjustment, renting some hole in the wall just to squeak by.

In PID terms, this is even simpler yet - just a proportional controller. Only the error between the target and current position are acted upon by a single (proportional) gain:

(targetPosition.x - position.x)0.2 == ekP

A derivative term would be applied to the difference between the previous and current error, usually in order temper the rate of change. D terms can be a proper headache in practice, especially if you have any noise in your system...

Your point on HVAC companies not servicing homeowner-purchased systems is worth underlining.

In our case, we need some duct work to fit a 2-ton Mr. Cool system to our existing ducts. Every licensed HVAC contractor/company we've contacted has refused to touch any part of consumer purchased system, citing liability issues (context: Bay Area, CA).

This is a wonderful writeup. Puts the map back in bitmap.

Wonderfully rendered, in all senses

Thus is the way of the Oracle

I suddenly feel less alone in the world.

The relative impact of these upgrades is seriously impressive: install a FPU or upgrade your CPU Cache.

So much. Open-ended or poorly defined projects can really spiral into attentive dysphoria for me. Productive procrastination – room cleaning and the like – is particularly appealing in that state, just to feel like I'm making progress on something.

Do you mean selling uncovered calls? With a covered call your potential profit is capped, but you aren't exposed to the infinite risk of buying the stock (since you already own it) at a bananas price if it exceeds your strike.

Selling covered calls can be a fine substitute for limit sells if used carefully. Assuming one is comfortable selling at the strike price, the covered call trickles a little profit in the meantime.