gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
But how hot does the heat source have to be? Depending on the needs, resistive heating can get hundreds of degrees hot, but the best heat pumps that I know of can only raise the temperature about 60 or 70° f.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
There's a lot of different heating systems: If your heating system uses hot water at any point, (baseboards, hydro-air, underfloor, ect,) using a single heat pump makes a LOT of sense. Personally, I prefer an air-source heat pump hot w
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> Halloween `91 with Todd as the infamous Ducktape Man! https://www.millert.dev/images/photos/todd_ducktape_man.gif Uhm, how did Todd relieve himself in that costume?
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
The article omits some critical details: It says this is both a "heat pump" and also "storage" AND says that it will run when electricity is cheap or plentiful. Thus: 1: Where does it pump the heat from? (Or is this not
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
You're about 20 years behind. My heat pump is working great at 0F. It's 7 years old.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
I wonder when a "virtual person" will be able to replace carefully-coded business software? IE, before software automates a business process, it's typically done by hand, by a real person. What if someone sells a "virtua
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Seems like Microsoft needs to take an ultra-conservative approach with Windows, and instead build AI in a "new" operating system that people can elect to use.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
(Currently getting an error when I try it) One think I wish is if I could get it halfway. I don't need it to look dreary, I just want it to look real instead of overly optimistic.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
I don't think my 2018 Model 3 with enhanced autopilot ever used it radar for lane changes. As I noted above, it would just drive with the blinker on and a clear lane.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Enchanced autopilot and self-driving do.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
They seem to know. After my mother passed, I found an old essay talking about when her father (my grandfather) passed. She wrote that the last time we saw him, he seemed to know something was up, and then died that night. My other grandfath
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> And to add insult to injury, even GM Super Cruise is widely renowned as better and safer than Tesla’s current “FSD”. My Huyndai's Autopilot equivalent (I don't even know what they call it) is better than the enhanced Autopilo
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> The games definitely weren't up to to NES/SNES quality, but they were at least up to par with the average portable game at the time, which I think is what they were meant to be compared against. Which I think is the problem:
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
I don't get the nostalgia for Wario Land; I got stuck very early in the game though.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Why is everyone suddenly getting so excited about the Virtual Boy? (Other than that the games are now showing up on the Switch) I picked one up cheap with some birthday money. It was fun for awhile, but I never developed the emotional attac
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
build123d isn't Microcad
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Read a bit before critisizing: > One thing I care about that most CAD tools don't: vcad is designed to be used by AI coding agents.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
What's nice about this is that it allows for programmatic CAD, enabling things like web applications that can download an .stl file based on user input. I hope I can find a weekend or two to play with it. BTW: I spent a few weekends pl
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> Traditionally I would say it feels more like Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal. Well, that's from the Objective C history; and Objective C borrows a lot from those languages. The thing is, once you're doing systems programming, it
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Swift "feels" like C#. A lot of systems programming is done in C#. Depending on your goals, it's worth giving C# a test-drive given Swift's similarity to C#.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Please don't compare employee relationships to dog training. I've had a few encounters with poor managers (or potential managers) who wanted to treat me like a dog. I turned heel and ran in those cases. It's a bad analogy for
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
> As is a guesser who continuously hints when they want something and you don't offer. That's usually when I state that "I can't read minds."
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
I think it requires emotional intelligence to know if you should ask or guess. I've encountered a few people that just won't stop asking for unreasonable things, and it destroys the relationship very quickly, because they just won
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
I think enough of us have imperfections that we can appreciate that people who've done wonderful things have also done some very $#!tty things. Someone doesn't need to be a saint to still have a wide, positive influence.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Oh no, a well-written unit test is 100% deterministic. It's once you start doing tests in real environments with real databases and real networks that the unpredictability of the real world creeps in!
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
"East Germany" fell apart because the people stuck there quickly realized how "ridiculous" it was. (See the post you replied to.) There was a lot of contact between West and East Germans due to the awkward nature of the
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
"Stuff you should know" and "Freakanomics"
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
I suspect they underestimate the loss of quality; or underestimate the consequences.
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Yes To put things in context, it both depends on organization standards, and what the change actually is. Where I work, there are areas that, if you change, you must update the tests. There are also development helper scripts and internal w
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by gwbas1c 9mo ago
If most of your time is spent haggling, it's time to have a frank conversation with upper leadership; or leave. Some portion of your organization is not working in good faith. (In my case, the person in upper management driving hagglin

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