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by leguminous 5y ago
Maybe someone with more local knowledge can correct me, but I am under the impression that most homes in Sweden, Finland, and Norway are made out of wood. They, like Canada, have a convenient source of wood in the boreal forests.
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by leguminous 5y ago
My apartment building forced us into Charter/Spectrum "community wifi" and it's obnoxious. The speed is actually decent but they screw around with the traffic. * Everyone is NATed. There's no option to upgrade to a
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by leguminous 6y ago
I find it fascinating that many of these instruments did not exist in their modern forms until around the same period. Playing clarinet in school, I had never really considered that our instruments weren't necessarily the same as the o
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by leguminous 6y ago
> Mouse, keyboard, screen. Those are the things that should run at high priority. Everything else can - quite literally - wait. I might add audio to this list.
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by leguminous 6y ago
The same thing happened to me. And I was trying to sign up/log in to Instagram through Facebook. Why am I allowed to log in to and use my Facebook account but not allowed to sign up for Instagram using my Facebook account? If they thou
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by leguminous 7y ago
The doctors in my fiancée's department (ophthalmology and optometry at a major state university) have been officially prohibited from wearing masks, even if they provided a mask themselves. They are right in front of all of their patie
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by leguminous 7y ago
There's the one true plug system, IEC 60906-1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1 It's also a fascinating example of standards proliferation ( https://xkcd.com/927/ ).
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by leguminous 7y ago
The article focuses on China, but people in America are buying some of this stuff, too. Some (mostly boutique) American guitar manufacturers offer mammoth ivory parts. It's kind of depressing how many ethically challenging materials ar
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by leguminous 7y ago
> Until this year only Tesla had that tech The Chevy Bolt (released for the 2017 model year) has a battery cooler and heater. If I recall correctly, the Volt (even older) had a similar system.
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by leguminous 7y ago
Grease spots from food? I can usually get those out in the wash. I apply detergent directly to the spot and rub it in a bit. Then I let it sit for a while (a few hours, overnight, whatever) before putting it into the wash like normal. Moder
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by leguminous 7y ago
Economists love carbon taxes, in general. Economists on both sides of the political spectrum largely seem to agree that a carbon tax is a good idea and could be an effective way to limit climate change. https://www.wsj.com/a
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by leguminous 7y ago
> There's yet to be a popular race (6 majors, olympics, world championship, even regular "city marathons" etc.) where there's an overall female winner [...] It wasn't a major city race and probably had a lot of c
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by leguminous 7y ago
They still have intakes and radiators, maybe just not quite as large. Plus it seems to be stylish to put giant grilles and even fake vents on some cars nowadays. Here's a great video showing the Chevy Bolt's cooling and heating sy
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by leguminous 7y ago
I find Turkish lentil soups to be pretty easy to make: https://ozlemsturkishtable.com/2010/11/hearty-red-lentil-sou... https://ozlemsturkishtable.com/2010/09/hearty-and-spicy-red-... If
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by leguminous 7y ago
My guess is that Canon is afraid of cannibalizing sales of their cinema cameras, like the C300. Panasonic and Sony don't seem as worried about cannibalizing theirs, which might be a better strategy in the long run. Fuji and Nikon don&#
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by leguminous 7y ago
Most professional mics have XLR connectors. Condenser mics require phantom power as well (unless they are battery-powered) which a "normal" 3.5mm audio jack will not provide.
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by leguminous 7y ago
The article references energy efficiency regulations specifically. Is the energy code in California significantly stricter than the IECC? There are nice aspects of energy codes. For one thing, potential renters and buyers have little insigh
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by leguminous 7y ago
There are vegetarian/vegan burgers available with fewer calories, often containing more beans or vegetables. They've been available for longer than the Impossible or Beyond burgers without gaining nearly as much public mindshare.
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by leguminous 7y ago
This is one of the nice side effects of the air-sealing requirements in modern building codes. The more airtight your building is, the fewer entry points there are for pests.
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by leguminous 7y ago
Just to clarify, because I assume there is a misunderstanding here: HVAC stands for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. I assume pretty much everyone in Paris has heat, since it gets below 5C in the winter.
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by leguminous 7y ago
Here's the original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09730-9 This is all I saw to address the pressures required: > Our higher operating pressures do not represent a barrier for applications be
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by leguminous 7y ago
Scanning the original paper linked by _Microft and rmbryan, it looks like the pressures the researchers used were very high, 0.25-0.5GPa. Maybe someone with more domain-specific knowledge can answer this: are such high pressures actually pr
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by leguminous 8y ago
You sometimes need to be careful, depending on climate and construction specifics, what sort of paints you apply to the walls in modern buildings. Using vapor-closed paints (or worse, vinyl wallpaper) will not allow the drywall to dry to th
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by leguminous 8y ago
That's a 30-year old building in Atlantic City, though. The building itself will have depreciated since then, and Atlantic City isn't a very desirable area any more. The current prices won't necessarily reflect the original c
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by leguminous 8y ago
As you build up, the construction costs (and ongoing maintenance costs) per square foot of livable space can increase significantly, though. You need more engineering, more expensive materials, fancy cranes, extra safety procedures, etc. Pl
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by leguminous 8y ago
Disclosure: I'm a software dev, but my fiancée is an optometrist. There are already machines (called autorefractors) that can try to calculate your prescription. They operate on more complex principles than flipping lenses back and for
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by leguminous 8y ago
> In modern houses the solution is to have an airtight layer of plastic sheeting between the insulation and drywall [...] In a building that will be air conditioned, putting plastic sheeting between the insulation and drywall is a bad i
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by leguminous 8y ago
You can actually get your home Energy Star certified. https://www.energystar.gov/newhomes Some states have even offered tax credits for doing so.
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by leguminous 8y ago
At least in the US, blower door testing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blower_door
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by leguminous 8y ago
A handful of US states have also made blower door testing mandatory in new homes, but we still have a long way to go. A few states don't even have state-wide building codes, much less efficiency requirements.

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