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In keeping with the theme, I'm submitting this right before going to
bed.

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Could you wake yourself up with your bedctl by setting the temperature
really cold at a certain time

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They usually recommend slowly raising the temp to wake up.

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somewhat related:
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
(discussion)

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Now that's a great title (and a read)! Just ouf of interest, as we are
on the topic, have you ever tried weighted blankets and do you find
them to work for you if you have?

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I've owned one in the past, and generally like them, but I got rid of
one in a past move so I don't own one anymore. They don't help with
regulating your body temperature though, so they weren't exactly what
I was looking for here.
They can also lack breathability depending on how they're made, and
they can be expensive (though I feel like I've lost the ability to say
that compared to the Chilipad). Having done very little research, the
one I remember storing away in the back of my mind to check out later
is this one because it has an open weave that looks breathable:
https://bearaby.com/products/tree-napper

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i love my bearaby knit weighted blanket, it’s the only one i can use
that doesn’t inevitably make me a sweaty mess. highly recommend

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The important bit is that you don't need to include all of the keys,
and you don't need to wrap it in a { "control": ... }.

If you can just yeet fields via whatever structure you'd like, then
it's almost certainly they are doing re.search('set_temperature_f":
(\d+)',... in their handler

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I wanted to look into this sort of product, and eventually I'll dip my
toes in. Though according to this video, the best bang/buck solution
is... a bucket. Though I guess no API in that case!

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I actually watched that video. I fear that a Home Depot bucket does
not pass the (non-existent) spouse test 😅

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I have the same system and when I get some time I would love to take a
crack at reversing it to get local control. It’s great that they have
an API but it would be significantly better if I don’t have to rely on
their cloud servers to control the device I own.

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Keep me in the loop if you start working on that! File an issue on the
bedctl repo if you need a way to reach out.

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This was a very fun read, thank you for sharing! Small thing, I think
in your Fahrenheit vs Celsius aside, I do not think you meant to say
"Celsius is the better temperature" lol.

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Fun read, I’m not sure I got what writing this achieved though? What
can you now control? I like your comments on how your brain works, I
connect with a lot of them especially the fan.

I have a PhD in physics. I built lasers that spit out 80 femtosecond
pulses, and I did quantum mechanics simulations. I am so scarred by
that experience that my default stance on science-related (which
includes health) headlines and social media posts is "bullshit until
proven otherwise", where "proven" includes but is not limited to
"corroborated by my doctor or a consensus of medical professionals."
And to be clear, that distrust is not distrust of science, it's
distrust that nuance has been stripped away to fit into a headline,
essentially. I am not a doctor, and I'm very aware of that.

I don’t get the point of this paragraph and it feels one step away
from a dangerous line of thinking—I don’t vaccinate because I don’t
trust it vibe. But I think I get your point that your PhD made you
doubtful of taking media stating “facts” as reliable when it’s
frequently not as black and white.
What scarred you in your PhD?

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tldr:  The line of thinking goes in the opposite direction.  I'm a
physicist, but that doesn't give my "vibes" any special power in
medicine, so I don't trust my vibes there.  My best bet is to listen
to the people who have studied the material and not try to LARP as a
physician because I read a couple of articles.  This isn't blind
deference to authority, but rather admitting my own fallibility and
hoping that others would listen to me in the the few domains I have
studied.
Another physicist here who resonated with that paragraph, partially
because it is promoting the exact opposite line of thinking to the one
that you are suggesting.
I remember when Andrew Wakefield published his original paper about
vaccines and all of the headlines that came with them.  An abundance
of folks who read nothing more than a one paragraph new paper article
written by someone who has read nothing more than an article abstract
were telling me that vaccines were absolutely dangerous.  Then my high
school biology teacher, with a masters in zoology, started giving
anti-vax talks.  Having a physics PhD, I know a lot of other physics
PhDs, and three of them have ranted against vaccination.
Throughout all of this, though, the "consensus of medical
professionals" has remained that vaccines are safe, effective, and one
of the most powerful methods ever devised to save lives.  I've been
presented by a myriad credentials by antivaxxers, but every medical
research doctor I've met has been united on vaccines.
I cannot speak for the author, but what "scarred" me during my PhD was
gaining enough knowledge in my own field to see the gulf between what
was being reported in the news versus the actual discoveries.  It made
me realise how little I know and that truly understanding all of it is
not possible, so I will need to trust others outside of my area of
expertise.  However, that humility has (arrogantly) shown me how often
others rely on grade school level heuristics to understand situations
that are vastly more complicated.  Thus, I listen to doctors about
medicine, ecologists about the environment, climatologists about the
climate, etc.  Again, I've seen trained physics PhDs "disprove
experts" in each of these fields using middle school math and grade
school science, but I've also talked with the experts in these fields
and heard them talk about the gulf between the grade school science
and what we actually know of the world.  Having be "scarred" by seeing
that gap in the fields I have studied, I'm more inclined to believe
the people in the fields that I have not.

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Yep, this was pretty much exactly what I was trying to say, so thanks
for elaborating for me. I'm definitely not an antivaxxer, that's why I
said I trusted my doctor.

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