hallidave

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   by hallidave 4y ago

   I only eat homemade bread. I slice unused bread and put in the freezer after a day or two. Thaw it out with a toaster. It will easily keep a few weeks.
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   by hallidave 4y ago

   In cold climates, heat pumps are usually supplemented with electrical resistance heating (or even gas in some cases). The switch over is automatically controlled by the thermostat. No need for a wood stove or other hassles.
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   by hallidave 4y ago

   Space-based ADS-B is now a thing. It is used for coverage of the north Atlantic. https://www.navcanada.ca/en/air-traffic/space-based-ads-b.as...
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   by hallidave 4y ago

   On commercial aircraft, which have more of a safety culture than cars, they go so far as to have different knobs and buttons with different shapes so that a pilot can tell by feel that they have right one. For example, the knob to change sp
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   by hallidave 4y ago

   One scenario where the "believes anything" might be useful is to use ChatGPT to get alternate takes on opinions. If you have some great idea or strongly held opinion, get ChatGPT to take the other side of the argument and poke hol
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   by hallidave 7y ago

   Also this, for free: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Jules_Verne
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   by hallidave 8y ago

   I recently read The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung and in it he states that bariatric surgery is little more than surgically enforced fasting. Most people can fast without doing the surgery. I highly recommend the book. It's more like