KPGv2

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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I think the plumbing is by far the hardest part. Electrical is pretty easy. Hard to screw that up. But if you screw up the refrigerant lines, they will leak over time, and your machines will not only stop cooling and the motor will burn out
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Insurance would still cover this stuff. You sound like you came here from Reddit, where everyone is convinced that if you DIY anything, your insurance is entitled to deny claims. Your insurance will pay up. Then they will consider terminati
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I don't want just anyone with some tools competing with them. This is a machine full of gas that is awful for the environment. And yes, I'm well aware that in developing countries, a lot of installers just vent coolant into the at
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I DIY'd two mini splits for $3,000 that cools about 800 sq ft in Texas summers. Fifty year old house with awful insulation. 27,000 BTUs of cooling capacity. And I'd wager 30% less would've gotten me normal wall units, but I b
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> China and Taiwan are considered one country, even according to US Your link does not say what you think it does. My guess is you read the first sentence and saw "one-China police" and stopped. But the US's one-China poli
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The war over Taiwan wouldn't be done by soldiers on Taiwanese soil. So you wouldn't need many boots on the ground in a literal sense. But if you mean in a metaphorical sense, how long until the 7th Fleet could get to Taiwan, the a
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Xi will not be in power in 2049 because he will be dead. He'd be 96yo.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
You said it. It was over 100 F here where I live, and I was on my phone outside trying to get work done while watching my kid, and I couldn't even type because of the thermal throttling triggered just by it being so damn hot outside.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The person who creates the form has the option of only allowing Google accounts to respond. It's a per-form setting.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> After spending most of today circling around Maxims a sentence i have't heard since middle school at the local corner store with my bros hesitant about buying a lad mag
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Municipal sign installation is a decent floor approximation. Can run into the thousands if it's electrified (think: blinking lights on a warning sign). Depends on availability of electricity, engineering, weather at that time, etc. In
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Yup. These conflicts always just seem completely petty until you think about how it expands maritime rights.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Yeah you did good. I'm not the best at sounding hinged in responses online.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
A quick google reveals a Flock camera costs about $2500 and there's a few hundred dollars in install fees.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> There are several variants here, one is "dismissed with prejudice", which means that those specific charges cannot be applied again. TFA doesn't note this (or indeed much else of substance in this case), so the presumpti
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> Not that the act of calmly dissasembling something couldn't be indicted as potentially criminal (if a ham sandwich can be) Why do you doubt this? If I calmly disassemble your car in the middle of the night, haven't I committe
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Because South Korea's territorial claim over the Liancourt Islands is contested by Japan. I'm actually surprised someone can read Takeshima, can write Dokdo, but isn't aware of the territorial dispute. Edit: For anyone who is
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Every AI font proponent I've seen has been a fanfiction writer who just doesn't like AI stealing their shit to use against them.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> generally we insure ourselves against acts of nature and accidents and thieves. No. We insure ourselves against unforeseen events whose effects are financially unbearable to us otherwise. You've conveniently carved out certain unf
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> But ultimately you relied on them to get you to that meeting, and they failed to do so, so you should be compensated so that you're no worse off than if they had provided the service. By this logic, should I be able to sue Brooks
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> They raise the price and print more copies? How? Like, do you think a book published 100 years ago has a digital file sitting around a publishing house that might even exist anymore? Re-publishig of old books are often based on scans
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
>It'll live on if they publish those scans or contribute them to a national archives or something I'm not really aware of many benevolent acts Amazon has taken in the past decade. Are you?
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
More and more, I am glad that I stopped giving Amazon my (formerly) enormous amount of business.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
"Um ackshually your writing looks like AI and that is so problematic" wags finger This is how you people sound. You can't recognize AI. Nobody can without training specifically to recognize AI, and eve then, it's onl
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
There's also the often-overlooked fixed willpower issue. Research has shown people have a sort of "willpower reservoir" from which they'd raw in order to achieve tasks, and if your life takes a lot of it, that leaves les
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Hm? They have the Ausfallhonorar in Germany for if you miss a scheduled appointment. It's not a bill for healthcare. It's a punishment for wasting resources. Like at buffets where they charge you for uneaten food on your plate whe
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
They probably just don't know the name. STT is what TypeScript uses, and that's pretty well-known, though a lot of the STT power is considered "advanced typing." I write a lot in other language that uses ADTs, and I real
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The NIV has as a stated goal to preserve the "infallibility" of the Bible, which means their translation opts for internal consistency over accuracy. I personally think it's the least trustworthy translation, a product specif
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
People don't need this reminder on Hacker News. Maybe on Reddit, but even there it's dogma repeated by damn near everyone.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Yes, my inference was "people consume caffeine, and if one group is getting it from coffee, the other group is getting it from non-coffee, mostly (highly-caloric) soda water, which explains why the coffee side looks healthier."

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