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by bgentry 4y ago
Yes, Austin is quite humid relative to most of the US, though not quite as humid as along the gulf coast (i.e. Houston or New Orleans). The ERV was easy to tap into our existing central air system (which is where the crappy ventilator was c
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by bgentry 4y ago
I have a new house (built in 2020) and it did come with an inefficient, underpowered mechanical ventilation intake that just pulled outside air directly into the home. Given the house is in Austin, Texas where the weather outside rarely mat
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by bgentry 4y ago
Looks like the household average is ~1000 kWh/month, with summer months being a lot higher. https://austinenergy.com/about/reports-and-data-library/data...
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by bgentry 4y ago
I'm in the Austin suburbs on Pedernales Electric Coop (not Austin Energy as in the city proper). In 2022 they switched away from net metering to a scheme that pays just over 50% of the cost for power returned to the grid. So I now pay
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by bgentry 4y ago
Are you sure that any of those three got an advance from Substack? They don’t appear in any of the articles listing authors with paid advances except in providing commentary about the existence of such a system. They might have all even joi
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by bgentry 4y ago
I wonder what those will go for. The triple La Marzocco goes for >$20k new and the singles about $9-10k: https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/la-marzocco/strada-ee-la-... https://www.espressoparts.com&
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by bgentry 4y ago
Subletting commercial space in San Francisco is not a simple endeavor at this time: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/sf-office-vacancy-...
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by bgentry 4y ago
There’s no jury if you plead guilty. He didn’t have to be convicted because he admitted to the crime as part of a plea bargain.
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by bgentry 4y ago
Spotify also still doesn't support AirPlay 2, nearly 4.5 years after it was launched: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/25/spotify-still-doesnt-su... I really don't want to switch to Apple Music (it
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by bgentry 4y ago
Making a 100% deadly virus more contagious, or from the other perspective, making an extremely contagious virus more deadly, certainly sounds like “gain of function” to me. In either case the virus under study has been made more dangerous &
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by bgentry 4y ago
He also got a whole bunch of discovery and the right to release much of that publicly, which is a pretty huge win given that those docs revealed explicit US Govt censorship pressure direct from the White House.
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by bgentry 4y ago
They may have been confused by the fact that Berenson recently announced his intention to sue the US government following the revelations from his Twitter suit, but to my knowledge he hasn’t yet done that. So he sued Twitter and won and
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by bgentry 4y ago
> The question of how the Biden administration has succeeded in jawboning big tech into observing its strictures is not particularly difficult to answer. Tech companies, many of which hold monopoly positions in their markets, have long f
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by bgentry 4y ago
I always wanted to do this. I would wire it up with sounds from Unreal Tournament: Double Kill Mega Kill ULTRA kill
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by bgentry 4y ago
https://archive.ph/2022.06.17-132537/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
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by bgentry 4y ago
> James, the Co-Founder and CTO of Heroku, coined the term 12 factor app That would be Adam Wiggins, not James Lindenbaum, who published the 12 Factor App :) I know this because I was there when it happened, but also if you check the bot
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by bgentry 4y ago
The core product (not data) was so mired in tech debt, scaling challenges, and operational burden post-Cedar that we didn’t ship any major new features for ~18mo. Finally shipping something major (the Europe region) was a massive effort wit
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by bgentry 4y ago
Hi, speaker in that linked video here :) A lot has changed at Heroku in the past 8 years since I left, particularly in the direction of being subsumed into the greater Salesforce org. My working assumption is that everything left there is b
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by bgentry 4y ago
Heroku/Salesforce essentially just picked up the salaries for Matz and part of his team to work on Ruby, with no other commitments as far as I'm aware.
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by bgentry 4y ago
One who passed 6th grade civics might also understand that the concept of “censorship” does not exclusively refer to US Government violations of the 1st Amendment, or even necessarily to government actions at all. Nor does the concept of “f
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by bgentry 4y ago
Despite the predominantly helpful info in your comment, you are also making assumptions about the parent commenter having an animosity and "cars first" mentality that may not be accurate or justified. See their comment elsewhere i
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by bgentry 5y ago
Oban is really great: https://getoban.pro Built on Postgres, it lets your background jobs achieve transactionality and consistency with your database. Its architecture is also well designed to allow it to scale up to about as mu
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by bgentry 5y ago
In addition to the software bug, they also used a dated camera module from the front-facing camera on the iPhone 11. They could have used the higher quality rear-facing camera from the iPhone 13, or the front-facing camera part from the i
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by bgentry 5y ago
Yes. Source: I was employee 24 at Opendoor. Zillow's pricing algorithms are and always were terrible. They tried to paper over this during their iBuying push with humans, and then in an effort to outgrow Opendoor, they incentivized gro
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by bgentry 5y ago
After purchasing the top two Wirecutter picks for electric kettles (Cuisinart and some gooseneck kettle) both died within a year. The gooseneck one was rusted on arrival, clearly awful build quality. I decided to try paying much more for a
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by bgentry 5y ago
While the article doesn't reference all these details, the NRC's denial letter to Oklo covers more of them: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2200/ML22006A267.pdf The claim from the NRC in that letter is: “Okl
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by bgentry 5y ago
There's no way that OpenDoor doesn't follow them out the door here in the next couple of months. The business model is exactly the same. Anecdotally I haven't seen any reason to think OpenDoor is doing much better around her
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by bgentry 5y ago
You're conflating income and wealth ; the latter is what this article is about. If anybody finds a reliable recent source for this wealth data, please share. I'm not seeing anything particularly trustworthy with a quick search.
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by bgentry 5y ago
I lived in CA my whole life, including the last 10 years in the Bay Area, before moving to Austin a year ago. I can’t for the life of me understand what you’re talking about. I-35 is bad, that’s about it. The freeways around the rest of Aus
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by bgentry 5y ago
>There is NO reason to not be vaccinated at this point if you can be. If you've already had COVID, especially recently, that's a pretty damn good reason to not get vaccinated given that your immunity is likely far stronger and

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