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by frankus 2y ago
> So maybe half a point for “France” if that’s what went through your head. I was thinking France, but I assumed the answer was non-obvious, so I guessed St. Pierre and Miquelon. But you'd have to start somewhere just south of Tacom
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by frankus 2y ago
It's kind of baffling that in 2024 there are appliances that exist for which I have to manually set the time, or at least have to go through some cumbersome IoT set-up process, that most likely is absolute garbage security-wise if it i
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by frankus 2y ago
A subtext here might be to try sleep restriction when you have a period of funemployment or PTO and can deal with the consequences of being sleep-deprived and/or can distract yourself from nodding off e.g. by going for a walk, and whil
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by frankus 2y ago
Kind of a tangent but I'm worried that "Kodiak" is not going to pass the "a moron in a hurry" test ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry ) and could get them in trouble. I for one re
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by frankus 2y ago
I've noodled around with something like this for a climate-controlled micromobility vehicle. Something like the Nimbus but built with ebike components ( https://nimbusev.com -- godspeed to them because I really want them to
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by frankus 2y ago
A bit of a tangent, but those "distinctive" interior mockups made me instantly cringe. I'm fine with designers having a bit fun with every part of the car other than the top of the dashboard, which should be flat, dull, and
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by frankus 3y ago
No idea if it helps with this sort of thing but one hack that patio11 recommends is to own a de minimus amount of stock in the company to have shareholder relations available as a channel for contacting someone who can fix things.
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by frankus 3y ago
As a regular customer of the onboard dining on BC Ferries, I was always a bit mystified about how the cashier (maybe 20 m from the counter where you order) seemed to have some kind of clairvoyance regarding which type burger(s) to charge fo
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by frankus 3y ago
One of the draws of the DTC model (and IKEA) is the apparently heavily commission-based pay structure of the sales staff of most brick-and-mortar furniture stores.
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by frankus 3y ago
Standard time keeps noon relatively close to the middle of the day, and midnight pretty close to the middle of the night (which, as the article suggests, is the entire point of having timezones). Summer "daylight time" tweaks that
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by frankus 3y ago
Agree strongly on 4000 weeks, and I'm planning to check out the second one. Although I haven't personally engaged with it, David Chapman's Meaningness writings ( https://meaningness.com ) try to address this stuff f
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by frankus 3y ago
By all accounts the built-in speakers are amazing, but tbf not usable if you need privacy or to not annoy people sitting next to you.
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by frankus 3y ago
It has a built-in spaced-repetition system with predefined, extremely silly (but effective) mnemonics to help memorize the various kanji (and their various readings) and vocabulary. The first three levels are free, with the prerequisite of
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by frankus 3y ago
It’s worth pointing out that there are lots of ways to get people into and out of a city that don’t involve driving a private car.
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by frankus 3y ago
Can a FZ assist in enrolling a new key in the ECU immobilizer’s list of approved keys, or does it just facilitate a relatively quiet way of unlocking the doors? Because honestly there are lots of ways of gaining access to the inside of a ve
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by frankus 3y ago
The article regularly refers to Automakers (e.g. in the headline), but the actual suit is from NADA and its Texas equivalent, who represent auto dealers.
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by frankus 3y ago
IIUC it’s the minimal bioavailability of it in pill form that’s the problem, but it works ok when injected.
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by frankus 3y ago
Also if the chemo wipes out your immune system apparently you can start fresh (Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation).
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by frankus 3y ago
I like to say that the best thing you can grow in your backyard from an environmental and financial perspective is an ADU ("granny flat"). At least assuming you live closer than average to a job center. The second best thing would
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by frankus 3y ago
I think your comment is a little bit off-target but adjacent to something interesting: Putting a lot of time and effort into learning something difficult, but that isn't directly useful for survival, is a form of status signaling. Henc
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by frankus 3y ago
Now that there’s no longer a giant pool of unemployed workers in North America who could otherwise be employed to courier food orders from a restaurant’s table to its kitchen, there’s a real tradeoff between a human doing a job that only a
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by frankus 3y ago
"haha, only serious" question: Can we use something like CFCs to break down the ozone?
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by frankus 3y ago
I've never worked in a supremely functional scrum org, but as others have stated it may only really work if the whole org is on board. In places that I've worked there has always been a fundamental tension between how developers&
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by frankus 3y ago
Do you have first-hand experience with being overweight and/or losing a significant amount of weight? I think you're vastly overestimating how much of this (particularly "calories out") is under voluntary control. We&#x2
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by frankus 3y ago
Space heating/cooling, along with water heating, are the overwhelming majority of household energy use. In fact, in a heating-dominated climate there isn't much of win from having efficient lights and appliances, because the space
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by frankus 3y ago
Ground-source real-world cost effectiveness for residential use isn't that great (see here, although unfortunately paywalled: https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/geothermal-heat... ). The gotchas are the e
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by frankus 3y ago
You can do radiant cooling with an air-to-water heat pump just as you can with an air-to-air or water-to-water heat pump. The main issue is managing humidity so that the dewpoint stays below the emitter temperature.
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by frankus 3y ago
A number of newer ones are ventless (although still very much the minority in North America), but only some use an actual heat pump to recycle the heat. IME most of the cheaper ventless dryers just reject the heat (but not the moisture) int
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by frankus 3y ago
There really ought to be a law against making cancellations any more involved than sign-ups (I understand California has something like this already), but failing that a public shit-list of companies that make it a hassle to cancel subscrip
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by frankus 3y ago
I've been doing a bit of research into air-to-water heat pumps (using a conventional vapor compression cycle) as I'll be installing one soon (Bear with me—I promise I'll get to thermoelectric devices by the end). They're

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