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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I have to 2nd this. It's significantly easier. I used to do this in the CA drought where I would fill a bucket when waiting for the shower / sink to get hot, and then use the bucket to fill the toilet after I flushed it.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> If you’re short on kindling, sufficient cardboard CAN be used to light a big log on fire. Fatwood (on Amazon) is amazing for this kind of stuff. It's much easier to start up a wood stove with a few sticks of it than "sufficie
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine > These machines had hardware support for various primitive Lisp operations (data type testing, CDR coding) and also hardware support for incremental garbage c
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> Speeding doesn’t suddenly become legal because two or more drivers do it together. That's not true. Examples: I once pulled out my local newspaper where local judges were petitioning to have speed limits raised because they were
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
That's (the tailgaters) reckless driving and very illegal. It's a symptom of poor traffic enforcement.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> I think it's possible to write a kernel with GC, and to still be judicious about memory usage with a GC language. ... but I will still afford that it is technically possible. I need to split some hairs for a bit: Do you mean what
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I'm one of the faster drivers and I maintain a safe distance. (I usually have the most distance in rush hour.) It's very easy with adaptive cruise control or the other self-driving technologies that are on the market. The only peo
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Pretty much any car that's bigger than a subcompact is wider than a horse drawn cart.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Automatic Garbage Collection in a kernel probably won't work: I vaguely remember hearing about someone trying to use .Net in the Windows kernel. The big problem is garbage collection: If I remember correctly, the fact that "any&qu
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
When you go into the Northeast, a lot of narrower roads were planned for slow-moving horse-drawn carts.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
A day after reading this, I keep thinking about this article. I wonder if Humphreys had rigged up something that faded out the interference, and then used it when pulled over, if he could have "played dumb" enough to not get his
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
But that wasn't the agenda. That being said, I can't count the number of times I've passed someone who's going dangerously slow and drifting in their lane, only to see them staring down at their phone. If Humphreys only
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
TLDR: > In comma’s case I estimate we’ve spent ~5M on our data center, and we would have spent 25M+ had we done the same things in the cloud. IMO, that's the biggie. It's enough to justify paying someone to run their datacenter
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Here's a plaintiff's lawyer now explaining all the parties they are suing: https://massrealestatelawblog.com/tag/title-theft-concord-ma... TLDR: The real property owner contacted the town to block the buildin
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Reminds me of the story of when the Surgeon General (in the US) reported that smoking causes cancer. People stopped smoking immediately, and cigarette sales tanked. The cigarette companies laughed (with all the phlegm in their throats and l
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Thanks, that was generally how I interpreted the article. The issue was the terms. There was a lot of logic inversion that someone who's much more familiar with the terms could probably follow, especially when trying to understand how
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
A lot of the financial jargon makes the article hard to follow. I know I'm not the target audience, but I wish at times there were some plain English summaries of terms.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Might be worth reading this article about the result of a victim suing: https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/sky-top-terrac... Regarding the victim, Kenigsberg: > Kenigsberg received an undisclosed sum
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Do you understand the point of owning lakefront property?
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Either the parties involved in the sale who should have known better, such as the relator and/or seller's attorney; or the party that took the trees down. Furthermore, at least in Massachusetts, when you purchase property you al
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Makes me wonder: Back in the early 1990s I read some children's futurist book that suggested that we might send solar panels to space that would then beam energy via microwaves to the surface. The book was more fantasy than science, so
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
It'll work in this area of the country (Connecticut, Massachusetts,) because this is a known scam and relators and attorneys know to keep an eye out for this. The problem is that a 4x8 plywood sign will weather very fast in New England
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Crawling through brush to get to the water isn't fun. Besides, half the fun of the "beach" is the clearing where you can sit and read a book or play in the sand.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
My heat pump dryer does not blow cold air into the room. (My heat pump water heater does.) The air inside the dryer is cycled through a dehumidifier and then the water is pumped out into a drain. This is in contrast to a typical US dryer th
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
It could be worse: You could be in the US, where companies can buy and sell your personal information without consequence.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> If there's a specific regulation that can be shown to be doing more harm than good In Massachusetts you can't clear shoreline. Specifically, if you buy waterfront property on a pond / lake, you can't clear the shore
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
When I was in high school, (early 1990s,) there was a giant one mounted above the blackboard. It was clearly used for instruction in the past, but it looked so cool that no one wanted to remove it. Every once in awhile a teacher would spend
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
To clarify my parent post: My house is also 7 (now 8) years old and has 6 inch (15cm) walls with air-tight walls. We built with solar, which got the cost of electricity down to an estimated 4-5 cents per kilowatt hour. At that price, resist
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> That's how my ventless dryer works. Do you mean a heat pump dryer? Those aren't taking heat from the room; they work by sending the air inside the unit through a powerful dehumidifier. (I have one, it's very nice.)
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> Heat pumps can't heat up a large amount of water quickly No, it's about temperature difference. My heat pump water tank heats about as quickly as resistive water tanks; but it could never heat to hundreds of degrees.

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