CalRobert

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by CalRobert 23d ago
I thought this was going to be an eats, shoots, and leaves style discussion. A wart-covered pea plant is what they refer to (near Cork, Ireland)
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by CalRobert 25d ago
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by CalRobert 28d ago
Bubbles.town is sorta there, but there’s a lot of fluff
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
I mostly think about what they did to Aaron Swartz.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Is this a heat pump water heater? That's interesting since they should have a very large tank but also take more than 40 minutes to heat up, usually. A backup resistive element could make this faster of course.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Having just added airco in NL I do worry about this - I actually suspect we could get a _long_ ways with more intelligent timing around power use. Your car can wait to charge while your hob boils a pot of water, etc. House batteries can hel
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
True, if your house is actually hotter than outdoor temps (so in the evening if your house was roasting all day). Awnings and window shades are really important here. It's insane we don't have every south facing window with an ext
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Pretty hard to have a strong economy when half the randstad is under water. Not to mention crop failures, war, etc.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
How is the green transition ideological?
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
I always knew Europe had high taxes, but when I lived in Ireland I was shocked that the top tax rate kicks in at the princely sum of €44,000 a year.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
wind, solar, batteries, perhaps nuclear.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Yeah, they're pretty close-minded about cooking. In more ways than one.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Insulation helps with both staying warm and cool, though. After all, a big foam beer cooler is just a hollow box of insulation. I think for a lot of Dutch houses the real issue is draftiness. No amount of insulation fixes that. Hell, the wi
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
I agree, if we were run by people good at weighing short vs long term decisions, but we often are not. That being said, I do worry that that outcome of this isn't "stop using gas" but "keep using American LNG", whic
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Hopefully we get much better renewables support (and with it lower public transit fares...), fixes for the insane box 3 rules due to come in to effect, yimby reforms to let people actually build homes in cities, and the right to air conditi
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
"The government is demolishing the wells to prevent a future government from reconsidering its decision to stop producing gas." As well they should. This country should be electrifying much, much faster. A place literally below se
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Yesterday in a meeting I said "here's the thing" and I hate that I can't say that anymore without feeling self conscious. This was on on a call too!
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Absolutely, just not in writing :-\. Nothing like losing 100 pounds to show you how profoundly lookist society is. It's been great.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
It's an issue with inflation calculation too. Sure, product X (house, car, whatever) is twice as big, but now it also costs twice as much - can we really say that doesn't represent inflation when the smaller, cheaper version is no
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
I dunno, this could be it but living in rural Ireland showed how many obnoxious teenagers will completely destroy a playground just for kicks. I'm sure a public toilet would fall prey to the same impulse.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
It’s not a throwaway
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
When a house can’t be financialized it can be much, much, cheaper.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
It seems like a lot of people are disagreeing with something she isn't saying. Surely it makes sense to have some concerns before dumping a bunch of kids' personal info into an AI? Aside from that, the AFL doesn't seem to rea
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
GDPR absolutely, 100%, applies to work people do for their employers. That's mostly the point of it! In this case I was wondering about the processing of the personal data of minors.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
I was thinking more about the rights of the children in question.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Does Australia have privacy provisions similar to the gdpr?
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Mnemonics made keyboard shortcuts obvious but they’re basically dead now. Holding alt sometimes reveals them.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Heh, this is how browser accelerators from the dial up era worked
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Speak for yourself. We’re not all raising gas guzzling kids who eat beef three times a day.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
“Lol dude can’t their mom do that?” -Random manager ca. 2018 when I explained I couldn’t join an 8 AM meeting because I had to take my kid to daycare.

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