rimunroe

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by rimunroe 7mo ago
> A heat pump house uses perhaps 40-50kwh in deep winter. Over what time period, and where? My geothermal system draws about 1200 watts when heating our large house on the coldest days of the year
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
No idea. I was just chiming in to say that is indeed the case with YouTube for some people.
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
To elaborate, I think experts usually use these terms as follows: an addiction is something where you have a continuous and difficult to resist drive to keep doing/using something due to it being inherently rewarding. A dependence is s
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
I knew someone who had exactly that feeling about YouTube. It was a genuine struggle for them to stop even though the amount of time they spent on it was negatively impacting their life and the content was making them more anxious.
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
You can inject these things pretty easily. They're about the size of a grain of rice, and pretty popular in some circles.
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
They waited on the line until I said I'd deleted it and then immediately reactivated my connection.
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
Funnily enough the only time I ever got in trouble for torrenting anything was when Cox was my ISP circa 2009. I'd been torrenting some PSP game and my connection went down. When I called the helpline they explained what happened and s
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
Thanks! I forgot that article, but now I remember that I read or skimmed it when it made the rounds last year. It's actually where I first learned that the aqueducts were uncovered!
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
I was surprised to find out it was largely uncovered, though I guess it probably makes it much cheaper to construct. I usually think of aqueducts as pipes or tunnels, like Persian qanāts. I wonder how much water is lost due to evaporation.
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
> If wife and husband are home during her most fertile time window in a cycle, she will instinctively “find him” [...] Have you known many couples who had trouble trying to conceive? There's a reason fertility monitoring strips, app
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
I worked for five years at a shop where a few years in we started pair programming aggressively. One of our most experienced engineers was really into XP and agile work (in the “purer” meaning of the term). He often suggested pairing when t
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
> I'd say this is the crux of the matter. That's why my opening paragraph and final paragraphs were devoted to it :) I feel like a lot of the things I hear from other folks is that I'm missing the possibility of programmin
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
Exactly. I said this elsewhere in here, but I’ve felt extremely lucky that for the last 13 years I’ve gotten paid to do something that would otherwise have to be a hobby. The problem is that I have other hobbies already and am a parent with
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
> Craft lovers can still lovingly craft away, even if they have to do it on their own time instead of on their now-AI-dominated day job, just like in ye olde days. Nothing's stopping them. …except time, which sadly is limited. I’m s
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
> For example `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(Temporal.PlainYearMonth.from({year:2026,month:1}))).subtract({ years: 1})` won't work, because it misses the prototype and is no longer an instance of Temporal.PlainYearMonth. I don't kn
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by rimunroe 7mo ago
> Although coal is very useful for production of steel, it is not essential as wood can be used instead. Wasn't the production of charcoal in Europe during the middle ages the cause of rather massive deforestation?
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
> My guess is that since I couldn't possibly fill the dishwasher before using it Do you own very few dishes or something? That's the only reason I can imagine not being able to fill it before needing to run it. Even before havi
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
> The way I wash dishes uses less water than a dishwasher. Could you elaborate on this? My understanding is even if you're using a sink/basin filled with soapy water this is still almost always less efficient than a dishwasher.
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
I do this simply to keep on top of dishes. I always run the dishwasher at night regardless of how full it is. If it's significantly full after lunch I run it then too, even if it's not all the way full. Otherwise, when dinner come
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
I linked the "why do magnets do that?" interview elsewhere in the comments, but if anyone else missed it I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lL-hXO27Q
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
No worries! That makes sense. I got tripped up by "just came up with the unique arguments [...] and gave the lectures" and "Leighton and Sands [did] most of the work of knitting it into a cohesive, coherent book". It fel
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
> Leighton deserves the credit for this. Feynman did share his notes, but Feynman's notes are.. an adventure.. to work through. It's pretty clear he also used the recordings of the lectures themselves. Otherwise there'd be
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
Do you mean he didn’t write the lectures he gave to students? I know the books weren’t put together by him and were substantially edited, but I thought the original lectures as delivered by him were either all or largely his work. I once wo
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
I know what you mean but this framing is dismissive. I think the larger change is that it's become a bit more acceptable in the society as a whole to acknowledge that many men we've held up on pedestals were actually flawed, or at
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by rimunroe 8mo ago
> For example, I experienced occasional crashes in Safari. I managed to find a workaround, but I strongly suggest being careful before using anything from this article in production. Also, while I haven’t checked on other devices and non
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by rimunroe 9mo ago
I keep my ~25 year old Ti-83 or 84 from middle and high school in my shop because I find using it while working on stuff with dirty hands much easier than my phone or tablet. I just need something which basically never needs new batteries a
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by rimunroe 9mo ago
I don't know about that exactly, but my understanding was that this is similar in justification to compelling a person to be fingerprinted or give a DNA sample. To me there does seem to be a fairly major difference between forcing some
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by rimunroe 9mo ago
My understanding is that this and similar techniques don't get you back into the before first unlock (BFU) state. To do that as far as I know you have to shut down the device. Otherwise--even if locked--your phone will be in the after
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by rimunroe 9mo ago
> You can get rid of all human enemies by knocking them unconscious (I play expert mostly so killing is forbidden anyway). But right, if you go rambo even on lower difficulty levels, you'll most likely get overwhelmed I can't r
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by rimunroe 9mo ago
On a related note, I believe the the engine they developed for the first two Thief games and System Shock 2, the Dark Engine, was also the first to use an entity-component system.

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