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by mcbishop 3y ago
My hack was to offer two months of free work to a local electrician (I was fortunate to be able to do that). He took me up on it, and it worked out. He and I now have an arrangement where I can do my own electrical (solar) projects under hi
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by mcbishop 4y ago
The alien focus and love platitudes can be annoying. But overall I really enjoy Lex's interviews. His basic questions help me not be hopelessly lost when he's talking with nuclear physicists and the like.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
A strictly-enforced style guide can remove that confusion. My struggle with VBA is mostly around idiosyncracies in the Microsoft Excel object model (e.g. a "window" object has members for both the entire workbook and for a single
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> Nissan arguably excepted Why arguably? The Leaf is awesome. Nissan blazed the trail with bidirectional charging.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> Just time your charging so it's when you're sleeping, not cooking and doing laundry. But there's also passing inspection.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> So to add a charger, I have to get my home's service raised to 400 amps. National Electrical Code 2020 says you can use a "power control system" (i.e. software) to ensure your busbar isn't overloaded (avoiding the s
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I read Calvin and Hobbes to my daughter tonight. Calvin is so naughty. ...It's a special break from all my (sometimes-obnoxious) messaging around being kind and respectful.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I've only been on HN for a few years, so I get to think it's an awesome community.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I roll in his interviews like a dog in dead fish. Really thoughtful and introspective. Some are very technical (i.e. I have to listen to them twice).
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> I'm not sure how you even thought it would be possible to have an inefficient heater They're inefficient relative to a 250-500% efficient heat pump.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I assisted with a few residential electrical-service upgrades last year (in California). ...If the plumbing pipe could be used as one of two paths to ground (i.e. conductive all the way), it was. Otherwise two grounding stakes were installe
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by mcbishop 4y ago
This nuisance tripping is the bane of my electrician friend's professional life.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> without having to look at your keyboard Function keys are faster / more direct for people that do 100% touch typing, right?
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I hear that Mr. Cool is a good DIY heat-pump option. The refrigerant is "precharged" / included (i.e. you don't have to mess with refrigerant). https://mrcool.com/diy-4th-generation/
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by mcbishop 4y ago
The VBA code seems to be a good starting point. I'm impressed!
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I think that not feeling personally attacked when someone expresses an opposing opinion... is helpful regardless of one's class status.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I'd like this article more if it actually went into the sorts of problems these competitors were asked to solve.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
tl;dr: giving users the ability to show / hide some features.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Me too. I'm eating Beyond pattie in my veggie bowl right now and I think it tastes fantastic.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I think that was a reference to dark sprawling data centers.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Having multiple frames within one webpage, to show broader context alongside nuanced comments and references (in a user-managed way)... all to invite deeper engagement with a poem. I dig it. 2002.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
It really depends on the writer's motivation. Practicing regular public writing... awesome. Trying to rank for keywords... blah. You have zero obligation to engage with someone's personal blog (that most likely will never show up
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Multiple workspaces on one monitor works great for me too (on Windows). Swiping the trackpad to move between them... works great.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
There's an option of overbuilding PV to fully accommodate cloudy days or the winter season (with extra PV going to waste on sunnier days). ...Versus making up the difference with stored energy.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
And yet, somehow, some amazing features have been added to Excel recently. Dynamic array formulas and lambda functions have taken my Excel use to the next level. Let alone new standard functions (e.g. sort, filter, misc. text-manipulation f
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Later in the thread, there was discussion around using inverters in offline mode. Sorry for throwing the whole thread at you.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I'll be installing in East Bay, California. And I'm only planning to install one or two systems a month. ...I think I can find my little tribe of privacy people. But, yeah, I'll have some other differentiators.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I'm slowly working to start a solar-install company — your post helps confirm my belief that offering a private no-internet option... is a worthwhile differentiator. I have a lot to learn, but the Sol-Ark inverter or Outback (Radian) i
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by mcbishop 4y ago
The animation is so beautiful. I watch it again just for that... hanging out in that weird dreamscape.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
*Hemorrhoids

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