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by rssoconnor 2y ago
The demand comes at the coldest part of the day, which is typically overnight, which is far off peek demand times.
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by rssoconnor 2y ago
> than having a heavier heatpump for the rest of the year that can not modulate back as much as a smaller heatpump. Aren't basically all modern heatpump variable speed, and thus can modulate back? That said, I totally agree with you
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by rssoconnor 2y ago
Can you tell me more about your watch use? I wanted to do something like this, but I got the impression that even if you get an Apple watch with a SIM card, you still would practically need an Apple phone paired with it.
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
While you don't get action at a distance, you do get something like "correlation without causation". This ability does let you "cheat" at particular games of chance, which is spooky in its own right. https:/&
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I very recently replace my forced air gas furnace with a forced air heat pump (with 10 KW of auxiliary restive heater as well) in southern Ontario. Over the last 11 days or so (February with a combination of cold and unseasonably warm days)
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
For me, the Heaviside step function was unexpectedly named after someone, rather that denoting a function with all the "weight" on one side.
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I ended up getting the ZSA Moonlander, which I'm quite happy with. I probably would have gotten the Advantage 360, but the measurements indicated it would be too tall to fit on my keyboard tray and still slide under my desk. That said
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
When we moved into our house we were disturbed by the house centipedes. I did a quick search online about how to get rid of them, and I mostly found stories of the form "Help, I got rid of all my house centipedes and now my home is inf
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Ah. "The Problem of the Missing Baseball"
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
You are correct about the Lorenz attractor being dissipative. I just assumed the chaos of the Lorenz attractor and, say a frictionless double pendulum, were the same phenomenon. However it seems they are, in fact, quite different. Even st
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
> (They asked early on for my phone number “for the tracking information,” which in retrospect doesn’t make a lot of sense.) When I have shipped parcels (legitimately to people I know personally), the courier services have a place on the
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Replying to myself: Apparently strange attractors can only occur in dampened systems: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/125931/does-a-si... So my analogy between the Lorenz attractor and phase-space chao
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Do you have a reference on this? I don't think the space of subsets is going to be bounded, which means the Poincaré recurrence theorem won't apply to it. That coupled with the fact that starting our Lorenz equation on a box shape
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I wrote about this at https://r6.ca/blog/20100802T005835Z.html . Basically entropy is a function of descriptions of state rather than states themselves. So when you talk about jar of gas having a certain volume and pres
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/Generator/comments/15uy9dw/ac_start... an AC can require 79A on startup. Though apparently there is a thing called a "softstart" that can be installed to m
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
The "take the BLS numbers and add 3.5%" methodology isn't a real methodology. And regardless of their methodology, the numbers given by ShadowStats are just manifestly wrong. You can calculate the implied cumulative effectiv
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
> Possibility to use single axis sun tracking mounts for panels, so a unit of capacity generates more electricity each year I read an HN comment earlier this week that noted that solar panels are so cheap that is is more economical to ju
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Shadowstats is complete garbage. Their "alternative measurement" of prices is to take the BLS numbers and add 3.5% to it. That is it. See "The [$175] subscription price of hyperinflation-predicting ShadowStats hasn't c
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Can you say more about this? I've been thinking of ditching phones completely and just having the Apple Watch (currently I have no Apple products). Though I think I'd miss the ability to tether, which the Apple Watch doesn't
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Today I had my hose replaced in my portable dishwasher (costing me half the price of the dishwasher for parts and labour). I watched the whole processes, and while it isn't all that complicated, I'm left skeptical that I could h
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
> Even so, after taking into account the confounding factors, the researchers found that moderate drinker was still more likely to live longer than the abstainer or heavy drinker.
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Related: https://www.secretcodex32.com/ Codex32 is another paper-based computer design for performing secret sharing for Bitcoin Master Seeds (and could be repurposed for other similar secrets). It comes with a set of volve
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I've been using home-row mods on my moonlander layout (a modified miryoku layout[0]). The big problem has been the timings. Sometimes I get two letters, instead of a shifted key, and sometimes I get my GUI key pressed instead of the
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
> do you use Cantor-style diagonalization for the fixed-point theorem? If you think Kleene's recursion theorem and Cantor's diagonalization are the same sort of argument, then I'd say yes. I don't know if people histo
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
My biggest mistake was following the traditional single variable definition of substitution. I now understand that modern CS definitions of substitution typically substitute all (free) variables simultaneously. For variables that you don&#
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I didn't watch the video, but FWIW I have personally formally verified the First Incompleteness Theorem (Goedel-Rosser variant) within the Coq proof assistant.
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
Maybe my link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395058 will help? Though even I kinda gloss over how to define sub. It is, in my experience, the most technically challenging part of the proof to actually formally
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I have a blog post that does a somewhat deeper dive into how to build a self-referential sentence @ https://r6.ca/blog/20190223T161625Z.html where I attempt to answer the question: > I never understood the step abou
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
I finished re-reading Anathem last month. Unfortunately, AFAICT, the tiling problem depicted in the book is fictional. Though I keep wondering if it is possible to make a real puzzle conform to the (somewhat vaguely) specified problem in
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by rssoconnor 3y ago
%s/Smart/Start/g I didn't realize that Start.ca was sold this year. TIL

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