imurray

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   by imurray 17y ago

   If you use a standard electric heater, like a bar heater, I agree with you. Heat pumps can out-perform heaters (they seem to have >100% “efficiency”) by working in a different way. Rather than spending 1kWh to heat a room, you spend 1kW
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   by imurray 17y ago

   This is a common misconception. 1) reducing electricity consumption will reduce use of fossil fuels in power stations (in most parts of the world). Burning fuel in your own home bypasses the inefficient conversion to electricity. 2) if you
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   by imurray 17y ago

   “order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses, etc, and the second page tells them the price” This would annoy me as a customer. If they aren’t going to tell me the
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   by imurray 17y ago

   Always use "$@" (including the quotes) instead of $* when passing on command-line arguments. If your directory name contains a space, the above function won’t work. Note that putting $* in quotes would be interpreted as one argument, so tha