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841.
by Tor3 4y ago
I use a computer, and, as you mentioned later, one with a keyboard connected. However, except for simple stuff I still reach for my phone which has an HP emulator running, to do calculations with what looks like an actual calculator. Except
842.
by Tor3 4y ago
I have one, bought it new many decades ago. If the SwissMicro clones have as good keys as the old HP originals then I wouldn't hesitate buying one of those if you're interested in a 16C.
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by Tor3 4y ago
> My microSDs have already handled more lifetime writes than all IDE HDDs I ever had combined. In practice it's hard to tell without real statistics. I've had two Raspberry Pi setups running off microSD cards for many years no
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by Tor3 4y ago
The number of smokers back then was always vastly under-reported, because it was all about self-reporting. In my school nearly everybody smoked, at least women and girls did - I counted them. 87% of the girls in my school smoked. There woul
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by Tor3 4y ago
The lavatories have them because occasionally some people will smoke there, and you don't want them to drop the cigarette in the paper trash and kill everybody in the plane when it starts a fire (which apparently has happened, in t
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by Tor3 4y ago
I would never say that I don't drink. So I wouldn't be part of the (in the case you refer to) 40%. But I almost never drink, and never very much anymore. Some years I've had maybe a couple of beers. I will take a little glas
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by Tor3 4y ago
That may explain something. The other day I watched a French movie - "Other peoples' children". I had to check and re-check and check again if this was an old movie re-launched or something. In the movie the actors all star
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by Tor3 4y ago
Hotels used to have smoking and non-smoking rooms around here until some years ago. Now they are all fully non-smoking, and if they notice that a room smells of smoke after you leave your credit card will be charged (a lot ), for cleanup.
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by Tor3 4y ago
We had a few very heavy smokers at work, and they were pretty loud about the stupidity of the ban in pubs which was coming up. Six months later the smokers agreed that it was much better inside the pubs than before the ban. All the protest
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by Tor3 4y ago
I used to travel around the world upgrading software and hardware in computer rooms. In one place people smoked in the computer room - because their boss did, so they ignored the ban too. In that one computer room the hard disks had to be r
851.
by Tor3 4y ago
Absolutely not so. Smoking on airplanes was exactly as it sounds like - what you get when people smoke inside a metal cylinder packed with people. I used to fly all the time for work back then, international/intercontinental. It was
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by Tor3 4y ago
At least a few scans exist by now.. but very few, compared to American magazines. It could be that scanning initiatives were punched on quickly by the (at that time) passive owners. I used to look everywhere for scans, but could only find o
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by Tor3 4y ago
Yes, storage and virtualisation, as was said, but that sounds less different than it actually is. It feels more like a mini vs mainframe difference. AIX is vastly larger in that respect on AIX 7 than on AIX 5L, for example. IBM seems to hav
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by Tor3 4y ago
Some countries in Europe (e.g. the Nordic countries) banned the practice a decade or more ago already. What's new is that EU as a whole bans it. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-in-livesto...
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by Tor3 4y ago
A modern heat pump designed for colder regions is reasonably efficient even at -25C, as in being able to output more than half of its maximum heat and still be far enough away from its 1:1 point to make it efficient (compared to resistive h
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by Tor3 4y ago
In 1984 you would indeed see ads for the Macintosh, with its glorious 3.5" drives. And yes, people in general wouldn't use the term "minifloppy" in normal conversation (except, possibly, old-timers mostly used to "r
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by Tor3 4y ago
Eh, December issue for 1976 , I don't know how I failed to include the year. (Too late to edit original post)
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by Tor3 4y ago
My 2010 heat pump is a Panasonic model. Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Fuji, Toshiba and others have Nordic-specific models. Several of these reach 1:1 at -30C, and some of them are reasonably efficient even at -25C, which is super impressive when
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by Tor3 4y ago
They were in fact called mini floppies (or, to be correct, "minifloppy") when they were introduced. You just didn't start using them early enough. The term disappeared relatively early. I'm now looking at an article ab
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by Tor3 4y ago
I haven't needed extra heating in a decade in the area where the heat pump is - I should have been more accurate. In other posts I added that I do have (ordinary) electric heating elsewhere, the main place these days is my home offic
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by Tor3 4y ago
I actually prefer the heat pump over radiant heat. My heat pump is placed low on the wall, about a meter or a bit less above the floor, in one side of the living room. Due to the air it's pumping out I get an even nice temperature ever
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by Tor3 4y ago
Absolutely - but the important thing is that you can actually get a 20kW gas boiler, but you can't get a consumer 20kW heat pump. You can buy the most expensive consumer heat pump you can find, and it won't do at all if you actual
863.
by Tor3 4y ago
That article was generally informative, but they forgot (as far as I could tell after a quick read) to include something very important: How much heat can that Daikin heat pump provide? 3kW? 6kW? 10kW? Can it provide more than a standard ai
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by Tor3 4y ago
Heat pumps work extremely well in the Nordic countries and are therefore very popular. That's because due to the cold winters houses are already well insulated, though very old houses less so. Which means the houses are in general reas
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by Tor3 4y ago
Open fireplaces suck a huge amount of air from the room. It was once explained to me that in one particular case (a specific house) the open fireplace would typically suck 150 cubic meters of air every hour, when that was replaced with a wo
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by Tor3 4y ago
There is no lie / part skipped, what that number is meant to tell you is that it reaches its 1:1 point there, so it "works", with diminishing returns, down to that point. Which is where it's as "efficient" (to
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by Tor3 4y ago
The only heating around here these days is electrical (edit: except for wood stoves, which are usually allowed). Oil isn't allowed, and gas heating doesn't exist. So yes, "no gain" means that the heat output is equivalen
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by Tor3 4y ago
Yes it was mostly heating with electricity, though I used a wood stove as well, but that's difficult to use efficiently - so it didn't help as much as I thought it would (w.r.t. saving electricity). No gas or oil. The only change
869.
by Tor3 4y ago
I think what the post you replied to meant is that when your home needs a 10kW-20kW heater to actually be able to heat your home, then spending tons of money on a heat pump which (for the largest models) can maybe pump out 7kW of heat (equi
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by Tor3 4y ago
The heat pump I have installed reaches 1:1 at -20C, i.e. at that point there's no gain. But a) it rarely gets that cold around here, and at -10C it works fine - there was a dramatic (seriously dramatic) drop in amount of electricity I

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