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by Rendello 5y ago
I'm from Northern Ontario, and I agree that wood smoke can be killer, especially below -30°C (-22°F) when the smoke stays near the ground. Oven stoves, according to the article, address this. The section "Complete combustion"
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Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)(lowtechmagazine.com)
128 points by Rendello 5y ago|104 comments
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by Rendello 5y ago
Reddit already has embedded GIF comments, ie. https://old.reddit.com/r/InsanePeopleQuora/comments/kip08x/w...
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by Rendello 5y ago
I bet it was less about fanaticism and more about time. Previously, he had worked full time and made money. He wasn't able to work after the illness (I think I read somewhere that he was rehired by his old company, but only lasted a fe
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by Rendello 5y ago
Terry Davis learned in university and on the job before the schizophrenia 'kicked in'. How he was able to focus enough to write so much solid code after the illness started, I'll never know.
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by Rendello 5y ago
Terry Davis, of TempleOS fame, did a video about writing a mini JIT compiler in TempleOS using HolyC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVYXplrRkQ
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by Rendello 5y ago
It certainly wasn't the first red flag, but the weirdest for me. According to the "Acknowledgements" section at the bottom, that line is from a Chris Rock skit.
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by Rendello 5y ago
I'm not expressing feelings on the premise one way or another, but in regards to the empty "advantages" section, I instantly thought of a line from the movie Trainspotting (albeit about heroin): “People think it's all ab
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by Rendello 5y ago
It's something the average person doesn't need to think about, until some tragedy grabs people's attention. Then hopefully it will be fixed and become a problem of the past, once again something we don't need to think ab
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by Rendello 5y ago
Yes. (Shadowbanning is pretty common in HN I find, although the moderators say they will reach out to most users before they ban them.)
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by Rendello 5y ago
Part of this is that he tried to keep the TempleOS code simple, so he didn't implement things like USB or GPU code, and he eventually took out BMP support. He had a limit of lines of code he tried to keep things under.
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by Rendello 5y ago
(Context, the late creator of the original TempleOS, Terry Davis, was very schizophrenic.) This video is the definitive rundown on his life and illness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg Terry Davis, in life and o
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by Rendello 5y ago
I have a big appreciation for TempleOS, it's how I learned C after only knowing high-level programming for years. This is a project by a friend that I think is a great direction for TempleOS forks: it stays close to the source material
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TinkerOS: A Fork of TempleOS(github.com)
21 points by Rendello 5y ago|12 comments
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by Rendello 5y ago
For anyone interested in what _winter_ biking infrastructure could look like, some places in Finland have done a great job. Not for everyone, but popular nonetheless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
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Driving in the Netherlands [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Rendello 5y ago|0 comments
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by Rendello 5y ago
In my ideal city the majority of people would consider themselves pedestrians, cyclists, and (optionally) drivers, depending on the needs and conditions of the given day. Edit: And public transit-takers, of course!
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by Rendello 5y ago
> Strong Towns' ideas will make life worse for anyone who drives into the city, with basically no advantages for them, and without creating a viable alternative to driving for most of them? That's not necessarily a given: http
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by Rendello 5y ago
My observations: I grew up in Northern Ontario, where the cities are basically long stroads. Inside of a car, they can be stressful to drive in, as they combine high-speed travel with frequent and awkward turns. God forbid you want to walk
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“As far as I can make out, this is a gross hack based on a gross hack.”
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by Rendello 5y ago
I normally skip out on these things, but I've been wanting to learn Erlang for a few months now and this comment inspired me to go for it this year! It might not help with learning the OTP stuff, but even after finishing the first two
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by Rendello 5y ago
I'm self-taught and mostly work on my own projects, sometimes obscure, like TempleOS software, and more recently larger FOSS stuff. I consider myself a jack-of-all-trades. I tend to work most in Python. Always willing to learn more lan
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by Rendello 5y ago
An IRC analogue of this is https://hack.chat .
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Rocket Mass Heater(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Rendello 5y ago|0 comments
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by Rendello 5y ago
I found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mass_heater
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by Rendello 5y ago
A similar concept, but no. These ones are long, almost like a sofa, and I believe you can actually sit on the long clay part because it's not the part releasing much heat. bananabiscuit's link was a bit closer, but I believe the h
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by Rendello 5y ago
This reminded me of a cool technology that I've forgotten the name of and can't find again online. It was some sort of wood-burning stove that loaded sticks from the top and would recirculate the smoke until the fuel burned off, t
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by Rendello 5y ago
One sort-of exception is Erlang (and anything else that runs on the BEAM vm, like Elixir). It doesn't match Alan Kay's vision exactly, because the message passing is done a bit differently (for example it's asynchronous), but
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by Rendello 5y ago
> finish your side projects. It takes a lot of dedication, especially in the home stretch, but it’s much more satisfying to be able to point to one finished thing you made than a dozen abandoned works in progress. This feels so true. Rig
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by Rendello 5y ago
I had no idea there was a name for this. I tried this in college (during an extended college strike, so no classes). Starting from a place of extreme isolation and (situational/seasonal) depression, attempting to integer overflow my

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