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by bkor 4y ago
> The heat pumps I have seen personally in Europe are geothermal, very big, and very expensive. In NL I saw loads of water/water heat pumps (so using geothermal) in plans for new buildings. The latest plans now seem to prefer air&#x
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by bkor 4y ago
> IIRC: heat pumps aren’t even available for sale in many markets If you've installed an airconditioning system which can cool and heat up your home you've installed a heat pump (air/air). They're hardly magic.
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by bkor 4y ago
> I hear a lot of horror stories from the UK about this, that people pay upwards of £500 £500 for what? Total cost for a month? A year? The monthly average of a full year of costs. The monthly average cost thing is common in NL; people o
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by bkor 4y ago
A nicer one is Consent-O-Magic
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by bkor 4y ago
Things you might want to add: a) Escape sequence to set the "dynamic" terminal title b) how e.g. GNOME notifies you that a long running command has completed c) how e.g. GNOME asks if you are certain to close a terminal, but only
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by bkor 4y ago
I still don't get the bit where you say 2 high is standard. It's not. Though US port infrastructure is special, it's very outdated/inefficient compared to pretty much the rest of the world.
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by bkor 4y ago
> The labor cost is often huge. In a big company it's often a hassle to pay something to a "new vendor". It usually takes a long time. > If you don't prevent fraud at the $500 level you'll have two problems I
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by bkor 4y ago
> They have a run rate > 4 billion a year even after all those layoffs? I highly recommend reading the following article: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139964806/how-elon-bought-tw... Elon Musk b
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by bkor 4y ago
> So I appreciate FOSS and use it, and I’m very grateful for it. I just don’t buy the moral arguments. If someone wants to charge money for their software FOSS isn't about it being free though. You've already stated the issue:
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by bkor 4y ago
> Banning short-term rental properties feels like a quick bandaid to gain political points, not a solution to a market with a large demand. Seems more that you want government to facilitate running a business where it's not in the i
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by bkor 4y ago
> The liability is with the person, not the company. Why would the liability be solely with the person? Especially if that company has a representation in the other country I highly doubt this. In e.g. NL the company has to "take ca
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by bkor 4y ago
That just implies that the origin country (UK) is ok with someone working remotely. You're still bound to the laws of the destination country. Further, there's a difference between what's easily possible (nobody will easily n
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by bkor 4y ago
> we're there on tour in a van full of music equipment and merchandise There are separate arrangements for touring groups. However, if you're not from the EU then good luck. You'll notice that there are huge complications
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by bkor 4y ago
> My understanding is, for an American in a EU country, is they can go and work remotely there for the 90 days as long as they are not conducting business in said country. That's not legal. To work in the EU you need a work visa. Th
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by bkor 4y ago
> I am 100% confident this has been reviewed by well paid lawyers at AirBnb who have zero sense of adventure, and that this is all water tight. I hope you're being sarcastic here, no?
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by bkor 5y ago
> All of the aggression on Ukrainian can be traced back to them moving closer to the EU, NATO, and putting western hardware on Ukrainian soil. That's what Russian propaganda keeps saying. But they ignore the huge amounts of gas that
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by bkor 5y ago
> what will happen in developed country if it can't get gas to produce fertilizer In Netherlands various farmers invested to switch from gas to alternative sources. These farmers are now way more competitive than before. Netherlands
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by bkor 5y ago
> and ensure that her home is properly insulated. Netherlands is planning to get rid off gas for a while. I've attended a presentation by the city. They planned to spend 12.500 EUR per house to switch to an local heating plan. Basic
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by bkor 5y ago
> And yet, somehow, they seem to function as humans I know various people who work in shifts. It's really bad for your rhythm. It takes months before people find a way to deal with the effects. It's worth it due to the addition
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by bkor 5y ago
This "article" looks at a problem and tries to guess what the causes are. This without actually checking if those guesses are correct, or knowing too much about why the US is so much more troublesome than anywhere else. e.g. it co
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by bkor 5y ago
I noticed the same on all in Aqara Zigbee temperature/pressure/humidity sensors. They're all inside, I could still easily see it twice (many hours apart). Though I only noticed after someone in a Home Automation topic mention
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by bkor 5y ago
To add: 14k TEU capacity is considered tiny nowadays. The biggest vessels are 20k+ TEU (e.g. 22k). A 40' container is either 2 or 2.25 TEU. The .25 is when the container is a bit higher than standard. Though nowadays loads of container
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by bkor 5y ago
It's a misleading statement. The terminal isn't accepting the empty. That's a different business from the shipping line. What likely happens is that the shipping line is sending these charges out automatically (global systems
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by bkor 5y ago
If the terminal is really slow the first thing a shipping like will leave behind is empty containers. US terminals are dead slow and often do not work 24/7. Their union is unique, it seems to be a show of power instead of making sensib
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by bkor 5y ago
US ports are highly inefficient. They don't work 24/7. That's rather unique. Same for how the terminal is organized. I'd suggest checking Felixstowe. Various years ago they were quick. They changed their terminal system.
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by bkor 5y ago
Foldable containers are investigated every few years. It's usually not worth it. There's a few savings in one area and enough costs in other areas to kill the business case. The idea comes up at every "innovation" sessio
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by bkor 5y ago
> Linux and BSD have had this for ages. Fedora/GNOME prefers to install updates during a reboot. So although most updates can work this way, it's not always the case. There are some minor cases where a reboot is better, or wher
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by bkor 5y ago
I think you meant to say _without_ a reboot, no?
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by bkor 5y ago
> A hyper efficient, fully electric bus system. Cars aren't efficient. The zoning should be such that things are close by enough. Then with proper cycling infrastructure you can just go by bike. As a result you'll need way less
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by bkor 5y ago
I knew it was doing that as well (the distributed scraping the article talks about). But I cannot figure out where I read it. Maybe they used to have it somewhere on their site, and now it's gone? What is strange that people asked for

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