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hurflmurfl 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Promethe...

A bit funny, but I personally found "please learn to never..." to be MUCH more off-putting and patronizing than the "why not just...".

Maybe just something about the latter being interpreted as a question, and the former being interpreted as an order.

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