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by rconti 2y ago
Oh. But I mean, you'd still be much better off with insulation. FWIW I wouldn't want to live in SoCal (hot) or Hawaii (hot and humid) without A/C. We don't have A/C here in the bay area, and I wouldn't want to
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by rconti 2y ago
why would you be able to "get away with it" specifically without A/C? Seems to me having A/C would make a house with an uninsulated attic at least somewhat less miserable.
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by rconti 2y ago
Thanks for the tip, installing now. Combination of too many toys and being too much of a luddite means I never played with it. Or knew it existed.
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by rconti 2y ago
My Sonos Era 100s have the alexa integration and have my spotify account linked to them. You just gave me an idea! ... except, my Sonos Roam responded, and started playing. Not my stereo pair of era 100s on my desk. Let alone all the speake
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by rconti 2y ago
I had weird issues in South America where (say) Visa was accepted, but MasterCard wasn't. As a(n) (North-)American, i've always considered the 2 as precisely equal because the processors that handle one always seem to handle the o
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by rconti 2y ago
And on the racetrack: car in front of you out of control? Drive to where it is, because it won't be there for long.
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by rconti 2y ago
Same. I figured "welp, 'top' is yet another weird phenomenon in the world of Phishdom".
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by rconti 2y ago
This is a completely incorrect understanding of tax brackets. If you make $1 more than your 'old' bracket, you only get taxed 32% on that $1.
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by rconti 2y ago
https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks I'll add: Generally, everything works just as well as it needs to, and no better.
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by rconti 2y ago
> 2 or 3 battery replacements would be a reasonable guess in that time frame. It absolutely would not. "0 battery replacements" is the correct number in 9 years.
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by rconti 2y ago
> Also, a Camry is substantially cheaper to maintain and repair. I wouldn't say this is a given. We've had a handful of small issues in 100k miles on our early-production 3 that I doubt a Camry would have had, but parts have be
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by rconti 2y ago
is this supposed to read "_wasn't that_ the US was going to bring any charges at all?" Either way, I don't follow, but at least it would grammatically make more sense.
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by rconti 2y ago
This was a good experience. SCSI adapters (with their onboard I/O) and burners were for the rich. The bad experience was anyone stuck using IDE drives, which relied on the CPU to handle all the I/O. They were the ones getting buff
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by rconti 2y ago
It was impossible for me to tell the difference between "Temperate - Dry summer, warm summer" and "Temperate - No dry season, warm summer" on the map.
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by rconti 2y ago
Well that's obviously not true, I know people who have had their body damage fixed elsewhere. In fact, I doubt Tesla service centers do _any_ of their own bodywork, so it's entirely possible your comment is the exact opposite of t
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by rconti 2y ago
Unfortunately the article is short on details -- I've gotten my Tesla repaired both at independent shops (broken rear triangle glass, which is a tesla part, not a repro), and at Tesla service centers. I've (online) heard horror st
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by rconti 2y ago
I think this is a significant contribution to imposter syndrome. It took me a long time in life to realize that the confidence some people have in their opinions rarely comes from true expertise; rather, it comes from their personality.
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by rconti 2y ago
Every time the topic of perfectionism comes up, a lot of people come out of the woodwork with a weird fetish for arguing that the psychological establishment is using the term wrong. To what end, I'm not sure.
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by rconti 2y ago
> "Don't spare the rod" parenting, beats children until they stop avoiding things (ie., an approach-side policy: encourage approach). Unless the "don't spare the rod" parenting is beating the children over s
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by rconti 2y ago
As a WA native: happy for the edit of the ambiguous and US-centric acronym WA -> Washington. Also as a WA native: screw those DC assholes, why are we the only state that have to append "state" to our name?
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by rconti 2y ago
Wouldn't be altitude since it was at sea level, but maybe air pressure due to temperature? But, at sea level, seems like he'd be cutting it way too close regardless.
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by rconti 2y ago
It looks like during last year's heat wave, California FINALLY broke its previous all-time peak load of 50,270mW in 24 July 2006, with a whopping 52,061mW on 6 September 2023. Still, peak usage year over year looks flat to my eyes. I&
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by rconti 2y ago
Wow. That sounds like a LOT more than "inching up". I got the feeling from the article it must be significant, but their use of the term "inching up" made me think maybe it was somehow not all that great.
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by rconti 2y ago
> And rent in that city has exploded, up 80% since 2016. What’s odd about this price increase is that vacancy rates have been inching up, and when there’s more supply, prices should come down. But they aren’t. I'd be curious to see
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by rconti 2y ago
TIL there's a product called Spotify Duo that I could downgrade to from my family plan. Unfortunately I won't save money, but at least I'll avoid a price hike.
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by rconti 2y ago
If you're young, I really suggest you look at the price of CDs in the 90s, calculate for inflation, and _get off my lawn_! Serious question - Do the DRM free albums represent a broad swath of music? Or is it just a niche "a few ar
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by rconti 2y ago
If someone has a defined benefit, they still pay into it. That's not to say defined benefit programs aren't a great deal for the employee -- they are, and most of us would love to have one. It's just to point out that you can
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by rconti 2y ago
Source that all federal, state, county, and local employees employed by any government in the diverse country that is the US all magically get the same retirement structure?
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by rconti 2y ago
[citation needed] This is almost certainly not true, given that comp would be state by state and county by county and district by distrct.
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by rconti 2y ago
> modern vehicles are so complex and if something breaks it actually is cheaper to just go bet a new car it's not.

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