mmaurizi

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by mmaurizi 2mo ago
You get some inter generational nostalgia going on - I inherited my grandmothers NES which I have fond memories of playing any time I visited her. I don’t play it as much as she did (I have modern games in my backlog to play as well) but I
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by mmaurizi 6mo ago
For those who want to find other jugglers to practice with, there are lots of juggling clubs all over: https://dev.juggle.org/events/clubs.php In my experience most folks go to clubs in order to do pass juggling with o
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by mmaurizi 1y ago
Why not use DDNS?
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by mmaurizi 1y ago
Ships are actually much more fuel efficient than trucks, by weight/volume. Saying it must be inefficient because it includes ship transit instead of trucking "locally" is innumerate.
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by mmaurizi 1y ago
At a past company, the two hires we made in this situation were people who were contributing to open source projects we maintained, who we hired to work on that project, so we knew they would be a very good fit.
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by mmaurizi 2y ago
They also have had no new recent models for years except for the Cybertruck, which is reportedly not selling
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by mmaurizi 2y ago
Design shouldn't be part of front end engineering - there is a reason there is a separate role for that, designer.
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
The people maintaining your building need somewhere to live, so unless they're in a rent-controlled unit themselves your maintenance costs will rise at the same rate as housing costs, as they're primarily labor.
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
They work with standard power outlets, just very slowly . Our Hyundai gets 50 miles of range every 24 hours its plugged in at home. Mostly I charge at work not at home, which uses 240v power (think an electric dryer), and that can charge t
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
The piece you're missing, beyond just "gas is cheap", is that increasing the heating capacity of a heat pump costs lots of money when installing it, whereas increasing the capacity of a gas boiler isn't much more expensi
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
Tesla removes a lot of potential points of failure - no credit card machine or touchscreen to break and the cord is too short to drive over it with your car.
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
Your info is about... 20 years out of date?
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
If you need a lot more heat than cooling, you can't just get a larger system, you have to also go from single-stage to 2/multi stage or inverter-based, so that you can scale down in the summer so you don't cool too quickly an
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
Inflation numbers are nationwide, but bay-area housing prices are not. And high housing raises the costs of all labor-intensive services (like your McDonalds), since employees need somewhere to live.
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
I did this recently when replacing our failed central AC, it was an extra $500 over the AC. It’s tied into the existing natural gas furnace. The main issue is your basic 14 SEER heat pump needs larger capacity to be able to be the sole heat
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
The Ioniq 5 is an EV, can't imagine the engine failures on their ICE cars will have any effects.
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by mmaurizi 3y ago
Financially for swapping to make sense, I think you need to be renting the batteries from the swapping company, not own them as part of the car purchase. I think Renault used to do something like that?
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
I would think an electric car would pair really well with off-grid solar - you can charge the car with excess energy during the day, and pull from the cars battery for power at night. Sure it's a big power draw, but you can significant
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
One of the places I interviewed at a few months ago said they were planning to enforce a hybrid work schedule "after Apple does". Apple does not have an office in or near our city.
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
I'm fine with choice but I'd like to see it on a team-by-team basis. As someone who likes working in person with other folks at least some of the time, that doesn't really happen in practice if everyone can decide to work fro
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
Not just seasonal, the school busses are also not in use during the day while school is in session, which is unusual for mass transit busses.
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
We run our steam humidifier just fine on 120v, but we have a relatively small townhome at 1400sqft
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
It may not be biologically possible for those who grew up on a low-gravity planet like Mars to emigrate to a higher-gravity one like Earth.
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
You're aware that control of the House of Representatives is still Democratic because the new Congress isn't sworn in until January right?
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
Likely when built the streetlights weren't LED, so the buried cables are under-capacity. Assuming they can provide 230v power at 15-20 amps, that's enough to fully charge something like a Tesla or Chevy bolt (250-300 mile range) o
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
How cold is "very cold" to you? There are air-source heat pumps that work all the way down to -15F now.
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
Thats... extremely pessimistic. I have a VW eGolf, with our 7.6kW home charger it can go from empty - full in 4 hours. It has a 36kWhr battery w/ a range of 150 miles, so in 30 minutes that's on average a little under 19 miles (pr
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
What about where you park at work? Or when grocery shopping? There are more options for 240v "slow" chargers than you'd think.
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
I've been thinking about this for a bit (I happen to live in Philly) & I think the easier answer for cities is instead of focusing on charging "at home" parked on the street, to instead go all-in on destination charging (
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by mmaurizi 4y ago
Being able to shut down existing gas power plants should free up a lot of gas for home heating.

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