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by lsllc 3y ago
Boston MA is twice a month (depending on the neighborhood, usually something like the 2nd and 4th Wednesday, but only usually one side of the street, the other side would be 1st and 3rd) from April 1 to Nov 30. Signs are posted, but usuall
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by lsllc 3y ago
Definitely got played. Unless your daily driver is a train and you only go in straight lines, it won't matter about differences in the tire circumference. Every time you turn the steering wheel (even a little, let alone make a turn)
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by lsllc 3y ago
I make it a point when driving through NJ to fill up with gas before crossing into NJ (or making sure I have enough to get through it). I made the mistake once of needing gas on the NJ Turnpike, stopping at a rest area and having to wait fo
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by lsllc 3y ago
Discussed a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501468
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by lsllc 3y ago
Well quite. But yet you see them stopped all over and the cops don't seem to do anything about it (the cars are not generally stopped for more than 3-5 mins while they pick up, so there's little point in calling the cops, if they
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by lsllc 3y ago
There needs to be a reckoning on this sort of thing, aside from the person mentioned in the article who was dragged by the car, how many others missed out on or got delayed life-saving care because the emergency services were blocked from g
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by lsllc 3y ago
I think it best we keep the folks who like to write that sort of C code busy with the IOCCC rather than out coding in the real world! /s
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Keeling Curve hits all-time high [CO2 tracker at Mauna Loa](axios.com)
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by lsllc 3y ago
Neovim with Lazyvim is pretty good out of the box. In the old days, both Emacs and (Neo)vim although highly extensible, well, it was hard to configure and set up for the things you wanted to do. Now, we have Spacemacs, Doom Emacs and Neovi
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by lsllc 3y ago
Yes! I’m pretty happy with Sublime Merge. It’s also cross platform (like Sublime Text) which is very handy.
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by lsllc 3y ago
Sublime Merge does this really well.
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Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors(bbc.com)
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by lsllc 3y ago
I think it's mostly because most roads in FL seem to be multi-lane highways with speeds in excess of 45 mph. Oh and traffic lights that seem to have 7-10 minute cycles, so people tend to run the lights (at great speed) because they&#x
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by lsllc 3y ago
You are correct! Around here (NH) the artesian nomenclature usually means drilled vs a dug well (i.e. a covered, but relatively shallow pit that fills up with ground water). The drilled wells are usually around 300+ ft deep and have a sub
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by lsllc 3y ago
That's interesting, I hadn't yet seen any heat pumps capable of producing water that hot. As far as replacing baseboard goes, if you're going to go to that expense, then probably it's just best to switch to forced air si
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by lsllc 3y ago
I have a Trane/Mitsubishi mini-split for a garage and it works via a Nest thermostat, so that's how I monitor/automate that. Google have APIs for Nest ... YMMV.
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by lsllc 3y ago
The ideal design (IMHO) for a cold-climate (such as New England) is forced air ducting with a heat pump (better GSHP than ASHP if possible) with a 2-zone high efficiency natural gas boiler for domestic hot water and AUX heat. People always
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by lsllc 3y ago
The big issue in New England is that heat pumps (ASHP or GSHP) are only really possible for new builds. Most existing homes will likely be forced hot water and there isn't any heat pump out there that will produce water hot enough (e.
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by lsllc 3y ago
Unless you live in one of the few big cities in NH, you'll likely already have an Artesian (drilled) well. Swap out the pump for a variable speed pump and you should be good to go for a GSHP -- a much better option for NH vs an Air So
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by lsllc 3y ago
If you didn't have an actual heat source in your bathroom, it'd almost certainly freeze when it's <20F out. I'd also imagine that most of the mini-splits you see around the Boston area are for cooling and probably ar
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by lsllc 3y ago
For a forced hot water system, with a heat pump you can get maybe 120F water out of it, but the design guidelines for baseboard (and rad[iator]s) typically are based on 185F input water. So for example a if a room has a heat loss of 10K BT
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by lsllc 3y ago
It just switches to cooling mode and activates the AUX heat to dump heat into the outdoor coils for a minute or two and then goes back to heating. The AUX heat is just a thermostat relay closing, so it can activate an electric-resistive coi
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by lsllc 3y ago
With forced air -- absolutely. The heat pump provides most of the heat and all the cooling, and you have a high-efficiency gas boiler with 2 zones, one for a DHW storage tank and one as the AUX heat with a hydronic loop in the air handler
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by lsllc 3y ago
I would not want mini-splits in a house in the north east. it gets cold and you need to heat evenly. Plus you'd need them in every room incl. bathrooms so the pipework would be nuts! Mini-splits are not uncommon for cooling in the
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by lsllc 3y ago
You can look at the State of New Hampshire’s Dept of Energy comparisons here, updated weekly: https://www.energy.nh.gov/energy-information/nh-fuel-prices Actually right now #2 heating oil is now somewhat cheaper per MB
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by lsllc 3y ago
Propane is no better than oil in terms of cost per BTU (except propane boilers are usually slightly more efficient). Natural Gas (from the street) is significantly cheaper than either oil or propane per BTU and particularly if used with a
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by lsllc 3y ago
How is the heat delivered? Forced air? If so no problems with heat pumps, the modern air source can produce heat at very low outside temps and a ground source is excellent in very cold climates (if you have artesian well, or ground loop).
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by lsllc 3y ago
The problem with heat pumps in the colder states is that they only work with forced air and also don’t produce (enough) domestic hot water. Particularly in the North east you are going to find steam or forced hot water systems fired by gas
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by lsllc 3y ago
Makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash and when Da5id views the scroll with the meta virus and ends up "crashing" (that's the snow crash!). The analog here would be a if you looked at the "wrong" thing (
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by lsllc 3y ago
How about $8500 for 2 hrs in the ER to get 5 stitches after slicing my finger with a utility knife? (that also didn't include the later removal of said stitches).

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