mcbishop

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by mcbishop 4y ago
I'd like to think that, with emotional maturity, one can choose at times to not engage with others in the common space... without that feeling awkward / anti-social. But otherwise, yeah, the social obligation to always say hi and
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by mcbishop 4y ago
We just bought a home, and the bank required wet signatures on a few of the (then scanned) documents. This app would have saved me time.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
Heat pumps are different than heat engines... I don't think Carnot efficiency applies. A heat pump can move several units of heat energy per input unit of electrical energy (thanks to awesome compressor / refrigerant / phase-
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by mcbishop 5y ago
Word, that threw me off. And then the article came to an abrupt end.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
Iron-air batteries are another potential low-cost option for long-duration storage (e.g. https://formenergy.com/technology/ )
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by mcbishop 5y ago
Monkey Island 1 was THE game of my childhood. I'd watch an older neighbor kid play it for hours. Every once in a while I'd throw out a bad idea (try Pushing that bush). I'm excited to play the new one with my 7-year-old.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I do field work 3-4 days a week. In the other 1-2, I set aside time to do software. Relying on electrical work for income, the pressure is off to monetize the software work. ...This has made it more fun. Yeah, people learn / master at
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by mcbishop 5y ago
After 15 years doing software development, I started training to be an electrician a month ago (in the Bay Area). The two people I work under are chill / patient. Sometimes when dragging myself and wire though tight rat-shit crawl spac
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by mcbishop 5y ago
The three major California utilities have an oAuth 2.0 option (PG&E's is called Share My Data). I wonder if Pelm has considered supporting that.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I dumpster dove for food 7-or-so times last year in the Bay Area. I always came home with a heap of fresh-seeming organic produce. So easy, pretty fun. And saddening to leave so much healthy food, to rot in dumpsters > landfills.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
> A black start would have required carefully rebooting a few power plants at a time and using them to jump-start others, thereby restoring the grid piece by piece. It’s not a matter of flipping switches. The steps required for a black s
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I appreciate your feedback. But I agree with the other poster's comment that the reference to COBOL is a shorthand way of indicating that it's antiquated. Ways this manifests for the user are evident enough (e.g. 2-3 day ACH trans
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by mcbishop 5y ago
Elon Musk in the exchange above: > I think I have a pretty deep understanding of what money actually is on a practical day-to-day basis, because of PayPal. His comments in the exchange seem insightful to me. I assume you didn't both
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I see, thanks.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
So you're ultimately saying people should be given 5 hours for the car trip, even though giving them 10 would only result in a ~6-6.5 hour trip with healthy bladder relief?
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I had a closet full of clothes that I mostly didn't like. Now I have one pair of clothes I wear almost every day, and one backup pair for laundry day. I love every item I have. This is much better for me, and I don't smell bad. I
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I assume most note-taking apps originated with someone figuring out what system / process resonates for them . But ultimately that system / process is optimal only for that person. I've given up on adapting an off-the-shelf
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by mcbishop 5y ago
> In biological construction, there is no clearly defined blueprint that shows the final structure. Instead, our genes contain the information to make the structure by controlling a sequence of events during morphogenesis. This seems obv
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I've pulled so much pristine organic produce out of grocery-store dumpsters. It's been a very satisfying urban-foraging pastime. Nightshift employees smile and wave at me. Consider trying it.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
> If one of them is rude to me, then the quintessentially British approach of a faint frown and a tone of mild reproof (or its email analogue) generally gets good results – probably a lot better than mouthing off like a sweary 13-year-ol
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by mcbishop 5y ago
I did Ayahuasca once. This sounds cliche, but I don't think I've ever felt so strongly connected to the natural world. I'd like to do it again.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
No worries, thanks. I have internal work to do.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
You write as if one's passive racism and one's past exposure to racist sentiments are entirely separate. I think the former largely reflects the latter.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
When I hear "welfare queen," I think of a black woman. Because I'm racist (sadly). From that, the racist idea that free services (e.g. universal healthcare) are unduly exploited by black people (or immigrants).
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by mcbishop 5y ago
My significant other is my only Telegram contact — used only for urgent stuff. We used email for non-urgent communication, but I didn't like having our one-on-one writing mixed with all the outside noise. We just switched to Pony for t
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by mcbishop 5y ago
Yes. And it warms my heart to hear that Elvis openly showed his reverence for BB.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
> The U.S. installed 5.7 gigawatts of solar PV capacity in Q2 2021 to reach 108.7 gigawatts of total installed capacity, enough to power 18.9 million American homes.[1] > EIA expects that most large-scale battery energy storage system
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by mcbishop 5y ago
The potential with mind maps seems so awesome. But, yeah, clunky implementations abound.
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by mcbishop 5y ago
The PARA method (introduced to me by Tiago) has helped me. Who created that?
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by mcbishop 5y ago
> Building a system that evolves to fit my needs, being flexible with myself, rather than trying to jam myself into someone else's system... I've concluded that this is a necessary journey for me. It's a slow process, tryi

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