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by ericd 3mo ago
Sure, in which case, you can do what many New Yorkers who rent do - put in a window unit.
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by ericd 3mo ago
There was a good book recently that described Europe as an open air museum. I honestly don’t know why you all put up with that nonsense. Is your country for the living, or the dead?
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by ericd 3mo ago
Our mini split cost $3k, and it was on the relatively expensive end of options, there were many <$1k.
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by ericd 3mo ago
I’ve installed them myself, there’s not a whole lot more to it. Even easier if you have double hung windows to mount one on, though my understanding is that they’re not that common in Europe.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Heh yes, I’m aware, thanks.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Absolutely. In the northeast US we have triple redundancy on heat, because it’s potentially life-threatening to have the heat go out in a blizzard with subzero temps. I’d treat cooling redundancy as similarly important in Nevada, especially
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by ericd 3mo ago
Eventually radiates out into space ;-) It doesn’t disappear, but we don’t need to care much about infrared passing Alpha Centauri.
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by ericd 3mo ago
> "just turn on the AC and keep burning the world down" isn't really the answer. This is an outdated attitude. PV solar panel output correlates really well with air conditioning demand, no need for storage. Overcool your t
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by ericd 3mo ago
Is it that hard to drill an 8cm hole to run some refrigerant pipes through the wall?
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by ericd 4mo ago
Half of my point was to test the models, the other half was to try to get a sense of what the speed would be. Hard to do, but dropping $5k on a 128 gig machine thinking that will unlock good local AI and then realizing that you’ll need to s
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by ericd 4mo ago
You probably want to try renting some time on a dedicated box with roughly the specs you’re considering and running the open models for a bit to see if you would actually use them before dropping a lot on local hardware. A 128 gig MacBook P
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by ericd 4mo ago
I’m still on DSM 6, and just added a new unapproved drive, and it was just a click through warning. Is it much worse on the newer DSM versions? EDIT oof yeah that’s pretty horrible, I take back my Synology recc. Looks like it’s partly model
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by ericd 4mo ago
The drives are the expensive part, though - 16x24TB HDDs adds another $11k. (Not that you need that much for canceling streaming, I’d get a home Synology or diy TrueNAS for that anyway)
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by ericd 4mo ago
Ah yeah, I heard about that, I think we have the older edition. I think it's fine to just stop and provide some parental commentary about it - it can be a good forcing function for talking about that stuff. Hopefully they didn't t
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by ericd 4mo ago
Sometimes by having a rhinoceros suddenly and unceremoniously gobble them up.
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by ericd 4mo ago
Yeah, our boys read my old C&H collection more than almost any of their modern kids books. Downside, it's inspired all sorts of mischievous ideas. Roald Dahl, too, and the Uncle series. These old books have more of an edge to them
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by ericd 4mo ago
Yeah fair, we're all a bit overloaded, would be nice if that was just taken care of. I've been idly thinking about what sorts of tools might help with this stuff. Like, CR has really good data, but it's also one of the least
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by ericd 4mo ago
Heh I just mean that it's usually not that hard once you learn how to look, and if you care. In some categories, I agree, can be tough, but there usually tends to be at least one old stodgy brand that refuses to cheap out, and usuall
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by ericd 4mo ago
Ok, still over 100k not including those temporary jobs. I’m not arguing that the overall picture is amazing, just that it doesn’t seem like the narrative that AI is causing massive net job loss is true yet.
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by ericd 4mo ago
Payrolls are up about 214k in March, 180k in April, and 140k in May. The BLS data is from broad monthly surveys, not people showing up in workforce centers.
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by ericd 4mo ago
Yeah, it doesn't seem like people remember how expensive in real terms things were in the 80s.
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by ericd 4mo ago
It's not forced on you. If you do a minimal amount of research (which LLMs are very helpful with!), you can still find durable stuff. A Speed Queen washer is still built like a tank. It's just that the less durable stuff is absur
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by ericd 4mo ago
So far, there are more jobs.
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by ericd 4mo ago
I thought it was monetizing fiscal deficits due to WW1 war reparations payable only in gold?
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by ericd 4mo ago
The populist blowbacks from that were a major cause of the second world war.
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by ericd 4mo ago
Ehh I think many here would agree that first hire onward get at least a little screwed with normal market equity grants. I really like Andrew Mason's (Groupon founder's) Progressive Equity for this. First hire is basically the wor
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by ericd 4mo ago
Does this contradict the comment you're replying to, somehow, or are you trying to prove their point?
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by ericd 4mo ago
It's the execution, not the idea.
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by ericd 4mo ago
Come on. Exponentials are deeply counterintuitive, but simultaneously pretty much where all the returns come from in startup investing. I think it’s extremely illustrative, especially to a group that’s probably heard a lot of degrowth propa
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by ericd 4mo ago
Great points. Military industrial complex, he's shown how the US military doctrine we're extremely heavily invested in doesn't work too well in this new world of cheap drones, so maybe. Maybe Raytheon et al will lose their ex

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