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by SECProto 5y ago
Storing heat as steam is actually very good and efficient - as long as you're storing the heat for location shifting, not temporal shifting. It's regularly used in combined heat + power plants (Yeah, I know I'm being both ped
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by SECProto 5y ago
> On hot, sunny days at the end of the summer, warm up the water stored. Phase change stores/requires much more energy than simple temperature change. 0°C Ice to 0°C water transition is 334J/g, 0C water to 100C water is ~400J&#
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by SECProto 5y ago
I've heard of that service before, but I don't personally trust it. As an alternative, you can just download the installers before reformatting. Personally, I keep a folder ready with up-to-date installers: any time a program upda
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by SECProto 5y ago
The depth of a road (thickness of asphalt and granular layers) is determined largely by the loading (i.e. how many big trucks will be travelling on it). The width of a road (# of lanes) is determined mostly by how many vehicles per hour are
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by SECProto 5y ago
I almost never drag a browser window, it's always full screen. Occasionally I want to switch it from one screen to another, I just grab an empty space on the title bar - it's never been an issue for me I have zero use for an actua
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by SECProto 5y ago
I don't believe there was any way to move the tabs into the title bar and to combine all the file/edit/etc into a single button in the same vertical space as the URL bar. Those are the two changes that make the modern interfa
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Kinda astounding how the firefox v1 was not great but ok, and it got overall worse in literally every redesign since then. v1 remains the best UI firefox has ever had to this day. As someone who's been using it since the phoenix&#
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by SECProto 5y ago
> So the comparison is: if you're buying a jar of peanut butter, why would you focus on what their execs are paid, rather than the peanut butter it will get you? I think we both agree on this. What they pay their execs is irrelevant
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by SECProto 5y ago
For this to be an accurate comparison, there should be two free sources of peanut butter, one that I want to donate to because it helps keep the peanut butter playing field level, while the other has a massive majority of the peanut butter
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by SECProto 5y ago
i got it after 59 refreshes
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Can you give me the coordinates you played in? I will review the "objects". Here's the osm for the pedway object, labelled a footpath. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11909462 Here's one
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by SECProto 5y ago
I enjoyed it! worked reasonably well for the city I tried. I did have a few nitpicks, but they are mostly datasource related as opposed to anything you can control - the several rounds i played included a pedway system, several walking tra
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by SECProto 5y ago
If "they're our university colours" was the reason, they likely would've said so when asked. Even if that was the reason when the outfits were chosen originally, that isn't the reason they gave when asked.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Okay, I imagined it. Converting electricity into light is inefficient (maxing out around 44% [1] excluding ballast losses), and converting light into electricity is also inefficient (topping out at 47%[2] efficiency). So you'd end up w
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by SECProto 5y ago
Speed of light is fast, even if possible you'd be looking at a lot of conversion losses. It'd be like trying to use a wire as a battery because power has to travel from one end to the other
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by SECProto 5y ago
> My experience is that induction is more efficient and powerful than gas, but is also much more uneven, more picky about cookware, and does not work well with “professional” cooking techniques which were created around gas and wood stov
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by SECProto 5y ago
> > I got a flat bottom wok > There is no such thing. Here's[1] Kenji talking about a "flat-bottomed wok". My Chinese friends cook on a flat bottomed wok and call it a wok. So I'm sorry, but your linguistic rigi
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by SECProto 5y ago
Ah, that could very well be. As I don't use lists (I just sort my feed by chronological), my only connection with lists has been when I've received notifications of being added to them
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by SECProto 5y ago
Caveat: I immediately block anyone who adds me to a list (it's only happened 3 or 4 times and it seems spammy). And I've seen a number of other accounts with "don't add me to lists" or equivalent in their bio.
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by SECProto 5y ago
It's off on both sides, but to me it looks more off on the deepfake side
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by SECProto 5y ago
Very little of my bike's value is in the frame - the components are worth much more (though if I bought this bike, that would likely change - looks like a pricey frame)
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by SECProto 5y ago
Not sure what to tell you. I do all those, obviously, I live in a place where I also experienced -25 for couple weeks straight straight (and never anywhere close to -40). Agree on clutch and LCD, agree on not using washer fluid and scraping
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by SECProto 5y ago
> I definitely know more people that have experienced -40C in their life than ones that don't. I have and I do not live in the prairies. Yes, the -40 is what I was using for my differentiator. You provided an example of a location t
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by SECProto 5y ago
Vancouver Island&lower mainland, as well as the eastern half of Ontario, southern half of Quebec, all of NB, NS, PE, Newfoundland - none of these places experience -40, and contain give or take 28 of Canada's 38 million people
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by SECProto 5y ago
Most of Canada doesn't live in Canada, if your standard is "months of -30 and lows hitting -40". That's pretty much constrained to the prairies and the territories.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> The only practical reason to let them warm up before moving is to get some heat into the passenger compartment. Which can be pretty critical for safety - my breath fogs the windows if I don't let the engine warm up for at least a
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by SECProto 5y ago
I love recipes that are written in grams specifically because I don't have to be precise: just shake in some flour til I hit roughly the requisite grams. Eyeball a quarter cup of oil by just watching the scale til it hits 50 or 60g. An
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by SECProto 5y ago
Soap isn't a good thing to get in the water. https://lnt.org/the-skinny-on-soap/
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by SECProto 5y ago
I haven't ever had an issue with stanky outdoors gear, but I've had luck removing stains from different gear by washing with either regular laundry detergent or "Oxygen-based cleaners" (oxiclean and knockoffs) as they ha
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by SECProto 5y ago
> is it worth paying much attention to smallish items that last 15 years? No in the sense of emissions and garbage creation from them are negligible. But ensure you pack out everything you pack in, not washing your dish(es if you're

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