flyingfences

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by flyingfences 4y ago
Some things you don't have to can right away. For example, we found that we can pick strawberries in-season, wash and top them, freeze them in gallon ziplocs, and then make jam later in the fall and it comes out the same as if you jam
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Gas/Oil Furnaces/Boilers still need electricity to run the blower (air into the firebox) and circulator (hot air/water from the unit to the rooms) motors.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> The batteries would need to somehow be kept warm though. If I were buying such a setup, I'd just put the batteries in the basement. Plenty of space, and it stays 40-50°ish year-round here.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
And for every day of most years in Maine, the heat pump alone "just works". Cold this cold is very rare. Usually, the heat pump only goes out when the power goes out, in which case oil and gas heat goes out, too -- no power means
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by flyingfences 4y ago
https://archive.is/SqciI
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by flyingfences 4y ago
There was a thread [0] on /r/Maine in the aftermath of the extreme cold snap last weekend, when outdoor temps dropped into the negative double digits, where people chimed in on how their heat pumps held up. By and large, they conf
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by flyingfences 4y ago
variable_or_function CONSTANT_OR_MACRO StructOrOtherType
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by flyingfences 4y ago
A 737-900, fully loaded and fueled for a transatlantic flight, weighs 70 - 80 tons and takes off at 150 - 180 mph. That's a lot of energy to dissipate in a hurry.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
"'Real' socialism hasn't been tried, so you can't say it doesn't work."
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by flyingfences 4y ago
It really depends... I'm sure they're not going to be using one single key for everybody; it'll be 802.1X, which a lot of devices don't support.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
For me, what worked was switching to a new layout (QWERTY -> Colemak) which made looking down entirely useless. Tape a printout of the new layout to the top of your monitor for the first few days until you've got it, no matter how
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I still can't believe they gave it a nipple mouse without a middle button.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Biden has been "in charge" since January 2021. Waiting until August 2022 was not the right move.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
... unless that religion is Christianity, in which case, fire away!
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by flyingfences 4y ago
yes
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Dialectically, "pizza" is an uncountable and "pie(s)" is the unit.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
And they were right then, too. I despise the television.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
There are other ways to socialize that don't involve being a cog in the machine for half their waking day. Extracurriculars can fill that same need: boy scouts, sports teams, music lessons, whatever the kid's into.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Nobody's mentioned Touhou yet? Not only does Zun do all the programming, he also does all the graphics, music, and scriptwriting.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Or as few as two cats, depending on the breed.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
On a chip with integrated graphics, though, throughput starts to matter a bit more.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Does the file picker show thumbnails yet?
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> People made this very argument about tv. And they were right then, too. I despise the television.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Such as?
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> non-NSFW ...yet my W's web filter still blocks it.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I simply do not care about other peoples' biases; they do not affect me nearly enough to be worth navigating against. I care about my own (in)ability to sit down and get something done. That inability is far and away the prime detracto
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Even if stigma gets in the way, it's not something about which I can do anything. Reading about it is not useful to me.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
What an unfortunate name, though... 18/F/USA totes legit
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Imgur is breaking the internet by requiring JavaScript, too. Oh the irony.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
and the 100% mortgage rate hike of the past year

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