cranky908canuck

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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Seems like a compendium of devices and processes that violate the laws of thermodynamics. "Converting water to fuel" isn't hard, doing it without a source of energy seems not only hard but, um, "imaginative".
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Fair enough. I have dealings with Gen(xyzqbvwhatever) that don't respond to the 'more considerate forms' in a timely fashion. So after a grace period, I jangle the bell. I get the other side of this. I get a ping for a mess
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
I do not see a link on the page for the creator of this. If they are about I have some thoughts about this. (over and above "why have you allowed me to waste so much time on this" --- wry grin)
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Seems backward: carry-on capacity is a scarce resource. Allow charges for that. There's value in that you 'just walk out of the airport', vs wait (and, maybe wait and wait, and wait, at the carousel). But ban checked bagga
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
I suppose I didn't start the debate properly, in the direction I was attempting. I was looking for discussion not of "ok, don't call in sick three days a week during notice", but how to deal with the second level effects
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
So the response from the host of the column is "don't do that, that's abusing the benefit". I get that. I do think there are a lot of other issues though... in some environments, for some people, sick days are another fo
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NYT: Discussion of Sick Day Usage(nytimes.com)
3 points by cranky908canuck 1y ago|5 comments
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
discussion of "should I spend my sick days when I'm quitting".
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
I will willingly risk karma hazard by suggesting this isn't about "bugs leaking into later phases" but about "corporate culture allowing endless nitpicking". (Which I reckon is what my parent comment is saying too!.
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Yes, I think... I'd like to be in a place of "I can pick it up" .. ok, so "I can manage to lift it"!, so no more than about 25kg/60lb. This keeps the output to about 2kW, which I think is ok (I have no experie
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Dual Fuel Generator: need both?
3 points by cranky908canuck 1y ago|5 comments
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
I think you are correct. In this case, though, the excess heat is a major burden, so there is room to negotiate with a district thermal provider that pays that provider to absorb and redistribute the heat, as long as it's less than the
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
To me, 'disable abovegound regen' feels like not likely to solve the problem, just from a feeling that those systems are not that closely coupled. Otherwise, it seems easy to just keep on doing regen and set up (maybe not even ne
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Hmm. I remember reading decades ago (before injection became the norm) a book on "maintaining your British car". Lots of tongue-in-cheek, the author didn't have a high opinion of them but it had a lot of useful advice on mai
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
The technical work is lovely. I would have liked to have seen (though I respect that it might be personal or PII) a working out of the accounting, specifically about the amortized cost of batteries vs just eating PG&E costs and treatin
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
Yep. The hard way.
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by cranky908canuck 1y ago
This is true but it's 'truer' for some institutions than others. I deal with two banks, and the quality of the websites and services are way different. Fortunately the better one is the one with the majority of my business.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Agree with comments below, am observing that the British (commonwealth etc) plug standard is a good common denominator (and a perfect calthrop. grin!). Living in North America where the 110 V is standard... the GBR plug/socket is a lo
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
You missed the /sarky at the end.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Maybe not, but if the cognition that makes me what I am is failing, now what?
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Big laugh, JD site is refusing to accept feedback from canadian IP's, or at least making doing so very difficult.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Tough Nugs
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Maybe. What I was trying to get at was, some banks (the 'orange one') don't provide sane semantics, so even if the input format is compatible, reconciliation can be a nightmare. You may not be dealing with your 'orange
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
For planning purposes, could you look at a year's postings, then come up with "good enough" breakout allocations going forward?
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
"banks allowing export of transactions" is only the start. I deal with two banks for credit cards. One (call it "Blue Bank") allows me to download a statement. I filter out a couple of things (payments mostly), check th
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Fair enough. I guess the original post doesn't give that amount of background. You're discussing the hard details about managing a farm of generators, the original article suggests something more like generator hoarding.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
"Multiple generators?" (later says two). Given the age and family history described, I wouldn't rule out dementia.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
You forgot: rub your head clockwise, and your belly counter clockwise, while repeating "I am master of my notifications". ... /sarky I get all this, but I'm starting to see things the way that that my friends who have n
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
I'll suggest to the CAN powers-that-be to impose an export tariff on the intellectual property.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Exactly. When this first came down, many Canadians (including me, true confessions) had their petty quibbles at the till about rounding (ok the rounding was sometimes wonky, hence the petty quibbles). Most of us have got over it.

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