ragall

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by ragall 8mo ago
I'd rather not. I expect more from a modern house.
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by ragall 8mo ago
I responded to "You're contributing back to the community you've taken from" which implies that one has some obligation to accept a patch (calling it a contribution). Just because you're offering doesn't mean t
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by ragall 8mo ago
> None of them have any issues with mold. ... or so you think. Mold contamination is most of the times invisible and triggers long-term chronic intoxication. People only realise there's a problem if the mold starts growing on the wa
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by ragall 8mo ago
> To each their own I guess. I’ll happily move walls, add or remove a bathroom, add windows, etc. A sign of the restlesness. Once you find a house to settle in, why would you need to change it ? European houses are typically versatile, U
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's a problem with PB because it requires everything to be typed (unless you use Any), which requires all middleware to eagerly type check all data passing through. With JSON, validation will be typically done only by the endpoints, w
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by ragall 8mo ago
A properly built house doesn't need a teardown for centuries.
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by ragall 8mo ago
My main point is that modern European houses, if well built, don't need maintenance at all. The expectation if you buy a new house or renovate one, is that you won't have to do any maintenance beyond cleaning the roof gutters, for
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by ragall 8mo ago
To properly redo an old house, you'll have to redo the siding and probably the roof too.
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by ragall 8mo ago
What you call "carving out" concrete or brick is not a big deal. You hire workers that will do it, period.
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by ragall 8mo ago
The average quality of construction, due to use of low skill workers, is very bad. That's been my experience living and owning houses in Canada and the US.
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's not just the drywall, for comfort you need to soundproof the floors and the structure as well.
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by ragall 8mo ago
I'm from Italy and buildings from the 19th century are pretty common at the center of the cities. They were rich people's residences and have massively thick walls that make them very comfortable to live in, both because of therma
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by ragall 8mo ago
Why wouldn't I want to stop the noise of my neighbour's lawn mower, or the garbage truck very slowly passing by at 7:30 when I should be sound asleep, or the washing machine furiously spinning, or my visiting inlaws cooking in the
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's not any different from having to renovate a 40's house in the US. You'll have to redo all the plumbing and electrical system to current code. Corrugated tubes have been common since the 90s and mandatory shortly thereaft
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by ragall 8mo ago
Sometimes people want stupid things. It's not difficult to hire masons that will redo internal walls. It's just a bit more expensive.
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by ragall 8mo ago
Maybe in your country. In Italy it's illegal not to use appropriate corrugated tubes.
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's not the unavailability of trees. European countries have wisely decides that cities built of wooden houses are prone to massive fires. USians haven't learned that lesson and the Los Angeles fire isn't going to be the las
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by ragall 8mo ago
Very few are properly built, especially in the last decades. Asymptotically to zero.
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by ragall 8mo ago
Have you ever done a mold spore count in your house ? There's a hypothesis that, due to living in stick frame houses, a large part of the American population might be suffering from a low dose chronic mold intoxication which shows up a
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by ragall 8mo ago
Nobody does it. Not even supposedly "luxury condos". And that's assuming it's really that cheap, which it isn't because to be effective, one needs to stop all sound transmission, not just for walls, but floors too,
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by ragall 8mo ago
I'm not familiar with life in SE Asia. All I know is I've been to Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the levels of humidity were gruesome. I once wanted to bring a leather bag as a gift to a friend in Taiwan and he asked no
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by ragall 8mo ago
Most houses have asphalt shingles with an expected lifetime of ~15 years after which they start leaking and subject the house to the risk of mold. Contrast with ceramic tile shingles which easily last 75-100 years. Of course you might say t
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's a problem because with stick frame and drywall, the builder has to take special effort to noise-isolate a house, which in effects ensures that not even 0.1% of housing has those properties. European regulations make for a much hig
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by ragall 8mo ago
> Our houses are way too over constructed They're not. The long-term reduction in maintenance costs more than make up for it. Tell a German that the "normal" North-American "common sense" is saving 1-2% of the ho
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by ragall 8mo ago
They're happy until the long-term effects hit them, as stick frame houses need repairs a lot more often. Nowadays, European companies have developed many modular building techniques that have reduced the labor considerably, from robots
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by ragall 8mo ago
Stick frame buildings are prone to dry rot, very susceptible to molding, and the addition of drywalls* make them objectively inferior for any building that's expected to last more than ~40-50 years. It used to be, 100 years ago, that t
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by ragall 8mo ago
> You have to break open the wall to fix things The best is to build in such a way as to not have to fix them in the first place. European standards mandate passing all wiring through corrugated tubes. Builders add spare empty ones for f
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by ragall 8mo ago
Some software providers sell software including support, no restriction on number of deployments as well as the possibility for private modifications, then publish under a permissive licence two-three years after a release. That seems to me
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by ragall 8mo ago
> They do a ton of this by hand, it's really fascinating They used to, but now they have robots that plant tree seedlings.
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by ragall 8mo ago
There's a non-profit called "Planet Wild" that funds re-greening projects all over Europe, Africa and even India. Here's one in Scotland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiDBAU2d7oE , or Spain https:&#x2

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