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If you're being serious, my honest answer is yes. But, then, I'm the kind of person who refuses to part with my college texts and graphing calculator because of nostalgia.

I'll save my "Minecraft had it right all along" headline for a other day.

I think I can guess what his proposed solution will be.

Cash out, destroy evidence, and feign innocence and ignorance.

I think the dichotomy is false.

You could run a marathon because you love running and want to do it with other people who love running. Similarly, you could share code-based projects with a community because you love it and want to do it with people.

The ideas you mention aren't separate from community or from each other. You can have friendly competition within a community that pushes all parties to improve and be their best.

I take the parent comment's meaning to be that disentangling the journey from the destination isn't so easy in practice, especially if you're robbed of the community that was journeying alongside you.

If you were running a marathon and, halfway through, everybody just hopped in a cab and drove to the finish line, you'd be disappointed.

Thanks for this comment. The links were very helpful to understand the argument here.

It does seem that this is an unforgivable offense for many HN commenters, which makes me wonder what kind of Home automation those folks are running. Google Home? Amazon Alexa? Samsung SmartThings? Apple Homekit?

Nothing and no one is perfect, but Home Assistant is orders of magnitude better than any other home automation suite. The fact that there's enough transparency for this to be discovered, for this conversation to happen, and for the maintainer to publicly apologize is evidence of that.

As Captain Planet said, the power is yours!

I had not heard of quadlet-nix. How interesting and tidy!

Why not have your cake and eat it too with quadlets?

Thanks for this. I'd never heard of Michael Dowd, but I've landed on a secular version of this. It's nice to know there are others who share this view.

I'm glad I quickly skipped to the last paragraph, which explicitly confirmed that I'm not the target demographic of this post.

This would only be true for very short time periods (minutes) that cause the compressor to power up more times than it would have otherwise as compressor startup incurs transiently high power consumption, but a thermostat will usually do this many times a day, so the period of time that this has any practical implication is very short (<1 hour). At longer time periods, it is always more energy efficient to disable cooling and restart it only when temperature control is again desired.

Even among people who service AC units I've encountered the misconception that it is more energy efficient to keep a space at the desired temperature than it is to let it heat up and then cool it back down again, but thermodynamics say it is not so. It could conceivably be more cost efficient if your energy costs are variable.