coryrc

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by coryrc 6mo ago
I have one page with my full history of text messages, full transcription of all voice messages, contacts information connected with every number, and I can search everything. I can configure which of my phones ring. And, possibly most impo
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by coryrc 6mo ago
That's a good one. I probably should have brought up variance though. These cache-less systems had none. Windows might just decide to index a bunch of stuff and trash your cache, and it runs slow for a bit while loading gigabytes of cr
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by coryrc 6mo ago
Every single hardware subsystem adds lag. Double buffering adds a frame of lag; some do triple-buffering. USB adds ~8ms worse-case. LCD TVs add their own multi-frame lag-inducing processing, but even the ones that don't have to load th
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by coryrc 6mo ago
Doesn't it just mean GP needs to take less?
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by coryrc 6mo ago
I misread you as saying all homes. You're right that anywhere that's sunny year round, a SFH can be self-sufficient for electricity with photovoltaic and batteries.
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by coryrc 6mo ago
I mostly agree with you, however... You don't need to colocate solar at the point it's used. Utility solar is cheaper than rooftop, by multiple. The last part isn't true. There's no way you're running a home, includ
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by coryrc 6mo ago
You'd think, but then you get Northeastern states paying poor people thousands of dollars a year to keep their oil heat going.
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by coryrc 6mo ago
And that gets into another coordination problem we're unable to solve. It's a solved problem to build apartments where you can't hear your neighbors, but the builders don't have incentive to spend the money upfront to do
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by coryrc 6mo ago
Most space heating is in the Northern parts though, so those are the ones that need to be addressed. There are solutions that are a pareto improvement, but it's a coordination problem and the USA is sufficiently broken and unable to so
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by coryrc 6mo ago
SEER, while a useful first-order approximation of efficiency, is for cooling and not heating. HSPF-V is for cold climates. Likely you just don't have a cold-climate heat pump which maintains full capacity down to -10°C (and some a litt
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by coryrc 6mo ago
That's not even close to correct. At the design lowest temperature (if <15°C), the very best get 2 COP, but most are 1.5 or lower. The problem is you have to accommodate the worst case. The average of installed units is closer to 2.
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by coryrc 6mo ago
I bet you didn't even see the tragic farce when writing your solution. Land development requiring ”2-car homes" is the driver of the problem! An apartment only has to heat one or two walls facing the outside instead of 4. That&#x2
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by coryrc 6mo ago
There's a solution that costs less than fossil fuels, but it's a coordination problem and the USA is structurally unable to solve those anymore. I guess the Soviet Union wins the last laugh? https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by coryrc 6mo ago
GP's argument is the marginal cost when building new is roughly that amount, not that any house can be retrofitted for that amount. However, it's not that far off for retrofitting, if you do it when your siding already needs to be
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by coryrc 6mo ago
Where did you get the idea that rotating is "to keep it from setting" and not mixing?
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by coryrc 7mo ago
On what page? https://gladeart.com/blog/the-bot-situation-on-the-internet-... loaded effectively instantly for me.
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by coryrc 7mo ago
GP is partly right. Most of the cost of sewers is fixed cost: employee salaries, building and maintaining X kilometers of sewers, etc. Some is variable: chemicals, but a small part. If you, a single person, cut your water usage in half, you
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by coryrc 7mo ago
If it was a traveler's union, maybe. Cop unions don't result in better outcomes for the general public, and there's no reason a controller's union won't end up just boosting pay and having a rubber room for hacks (r
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by coryrc 7mo ago
You don't need a union to have effective management. It should also be their incentive not to cause people's death by overworking employees. Which is also dumb because it costs more to overwork then hire appropriately with overtim
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by coryrc 7mo ago
Or maybe it's "the NFPA doesn't need to prevent against your wires suddenly becoming aluminum because somebody discovered new math" like "DSA encryption has been broken" affects software.
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by coryrc 7mo ago
If they hadn't lobbied to make small cars more expensive because the margins were lower, they could have built a model that was capable of being EV or gasoline, to get economy of scale for most of the vehicle. Well, worked with Daewoo
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by coryrc 7mo ago
> While that sounds like a nice idea in theory it's the same as "digitizing" road traffic. Traffic lights instead of mad max intersections are better. Then there's subway Automatic Train Control. I don't know tha
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by coryrc 7mo ago
Or maybe you're incorrect? 3G is a technology and not a speed. Not sure why you believe your web traffic sampling is accurately identifying 3G.
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by coryrc 7mo ago
The big-3 have nationwide coverage (well, at least 2 of them). But even beside that, AFAICT USCellular shut down 3G in January 2024, Appalachian Wireless in Dec 2022, Cellcom in Dec 2023, and C Spire sometime in 2022. I'm interested to
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by coryrc 7mo ago
Hello time traveler! Um, there's a pandemic coming with 2020. Buy the dip, stocks are going to skyrocket for at least 5 years.
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by coryrc 7mo ago
That's weird, because it's directly contradicting that the carriers themselves say they have decommissioned it. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/plan-ahead-phase-out-3g...
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by coryrc 7mo ago
You'll need to go to the library then, if you can't manage to watch your data use and use your free phone only for important usage. I've paid for 2GB/mo for years now. I think I ran out once.
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by coryrc 7mo ago
As someone unfamiliar with the topic, should I read this comment as very dry humour?
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by coryrc 7mo ago
I said it was, just not an "insane" one. It's not the Hoover Dam. Trains get on to boats all the time. It's innovation. Oh yeah, and we hamstring ourselves because every extra property can only be used for "affordab
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by coryrc 7mo ago
> it can't be cheaply transported from the Midwest to where buyers of alfalfa are Trains. Alfalfa isn't the only alternative, and they should switch to higher-value crops anyway. They would if they had to pay for water. We simp

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