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by mcbishop 4y ago
Herpes flaring up again eh? [kid me loses again]
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Read: Reinventing the Organization
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by mcbishop 4y ago
The city of Oakland recently legalized tiny houses on wheels. https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/Oakland-legalize...
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Alas. Well, the phone-call story alone makes me a fan of the queen.
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> From commoners to heads of state, the queen has been known to smooth over embarrassing situations with a gentle quip or two. According to Blaikie, at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party, a woman was chatting with the queen when her cell p
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Holy cow, seven times more energy in summer months. Hydrogen storage sounds compelling in that situation.
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Thanks, it's good to know about this picea system. For now and maybe always, it's probably more cost-effective to size the solar-electric system for winter months (if adequate roof / ground space).
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> I hope you are kidding. I don't think that snark is merited. There's been a natural carbon cycle underway for millions of years. Wildfire is a core character. I'm not saying that tree farms are good or that we aren'
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> it will take, I don't know, a thousand years to get it back Is there math behind this? Even back-of-napkin math?
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But those burned trees pulled the fire-released carbon from the atmosphere not all that long ago. ...Vs. the carbon in fossil fuels, which has been underground for literally millions of years.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I agree. A successful natural-gas ban would require impeccable execution (with huge public investment). I wouldn't trust federal gov't or state gov'ts to pull that off.
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Like other commenters, I wouldn't support this ban. With that said... I went to the Pickathon music festival last month (near Portland). The festival requires that all food from vendors be served in a reusable wide/shallow plastic
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> We need dedicated programmers who commit their careers to single applications. Rewriting them over and over until they’re perfect. I love this.
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> Often people simply choose bad abstractions or wrong ones... This is me. They tend to lead me to good abstractions (after merciless refactoring), and I'd like to think that I'm sucking less at this over time. But my overall p
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> and you also probably want a variable furnace Or just get a variable-speed heat pump to handle cooling and heating.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I like to use a long dash instead. It gives the two statements more breathing room.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I'm here in my break from a coding all-nighter. ...Thanks for tempering my anxiety around causing long-term damage.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
I wonder what it'd be like to have the slow quiet starkly-beautiful Monkey Island 1 vibe, but with year-2022 technology somehow leveraged.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Adventure Playground in Berkeley, California is a throwback to wilder playgrounds (and then some). They hand out saws, hammers, nails, and paint to 5-year-olds. Kids can modify / extend play structures however they want. The slides see
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by mcbishop 4y ago
that grug say many variables good. make this grug many happy.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
We'll know that AI is really coming along once cars also break to gawk at camels.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Yup, my electrician friends refer to lineman's pliers as "the electrician's hammer".
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by mcbishop 4y ago
> what i find the most interesting is how most are just nice people. This is my experience too. Which is a testament to the human spirit, given how shunned they are. > a lot of their mental issues stem from lack of sleep I lose it aft
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by mcbishop 4y ago
My uncle recently talked with a homeless person... learned that his dad killed his mom when he was a child. I don't know how challenging it'd be to be a healthy contributing member of society with this sort of background. It'
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Once an EV battery's remaining capacity is too low to be practical (eg 30% of original), it can be removed (replaced) and used as an on-site / stationary battery. ...Its remaining capacity would likely still be a lot higher than a
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Now we have an electric car, and it handles fast acceleration so easily. By comparison, gas cars seem to painfully lurch forward. Modifying a gas car to make it louder just draws more attention to the struggle. Like its driver... it's
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Those are the same sounds and music I once heard in an Indonesian rainforest. I finally understand... there must have been gibbons in the canopy.
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There are native plant nurseries.
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by mcbishop 4y ago
Next level is showing virtual lines on the roof (to guide the installation of solar-system racking) in mixed-reality / AR glasses. EagleView supports that with image-derived measurements... but they don't offer mixed-reality glass
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One use case: In solar installations, we spend a lot of time on the roof taking measurements and snapping chalk lines. This could be replaced by aerial measurement and mixed-reality glasses.

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