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by ryao 2y ago
The two are the same as far as my computation of my household’s reduction in energy usage is concerned. That is why I converted to the same units. As for needing 41MWh of heat, that is incorrect as my boiler was only 86% efficient and the o
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by ryao 2y ago
As far as the integral is concerned, the rate is a constant while time is a linear variable, so the improvement from LEDs is a constant time improvement and the improvement from running the lights less is a linear time improvement. Otherwis
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by ryao 2y ago
My thinking is that we should look at the electricity usage rather than the subset of electricity used by lighting, since the bill going down because of lighting means the bill can go up because of something new.
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by ryao 2y ago
It was a pun. It should have been quality of life. Our rooms are better lit now, as the lumen output is higher. On a more serious note, the CRI improved when going from fluorescent lighting to LEDs, when better quality LEDs were used. Thus
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by ryao 2y ago
Overall energy efficiency has improved by about 35% in my napkin math, but I find whenever I improve efficiency, my electricity usage increases. This applies to both electric sources of energy and non-electric sources of energy as something
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by ryao 2y ago
Food demand is relatively inelastic.
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by ryao 2y ago
It is related to supply and demand curves. The more supply is available for the same cost, the more demand increases to use it. In any case, technology moves forward stimulating increased electricity usage and we are healthier because of it
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by ryao 2y ago
Energy usage wise, they are the same. That is why the units match after conversions. In any case, I replaced substantial energy usage from heating oil with less substantial use of electricity. Here is a fun fact. It is more energy efficient
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by ryao 2y ago
I did not mean to imply you did. I just stated that my own data on my energy usage shows a decrease, but how much depends on how the accounting is done, and I can “cook the books” to produce some truly absurd figures by considering savings
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by ryao 2y ago
My household energy usage has decreased, but my household electricity usage continues to rise. In the early days, our heating oil usage was 1000 gallons per year. Efficiency initiatives reduced that to about 430 gallons per year. 1000 gallo
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by ryao 2y ago
Energy use applies to far more than just electricity. It includes petroleum used in automobiles and heating. While the total energy pie is decreasing (for now), the marketshare of electricity should be increasing. When there is no more ener
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by ryao 2y ago
Decreasing time for lights on has a linear impact on power usage. Increasing the efficiency of the lights has a constant factor impact on power usage. It is a big constant, but stopping particularly egregious wastes of electricity can overc
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by ryao 2y ago
> The decrease is almost entirely due to gains in lighting efficiency in households, and particularly the transition from incandescent (and compact fluorescent) light bulbs to LED light bulbs I am reminded of Jevons paradox: https:&#x2F
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by ryao 2y ago
Is there anything concerning that someone can learn from this that is not already publicly accessible? This information is in children’s science textbooks.
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by ryao 2y ago
Could DeepSeek and OpenAI swap names?
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by ryao 2y ago
n=0 for those who had health problems from eating eggs exclusively. My grandparents were among those who ate eggs exclusively in the past when money was tight and they were fine too. n=1 is patently false. That said, n=1 is all that you nee
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by ryao 2y ago
There was a medical student who ate 720 eggs in a month and his blood test numbers actually improved. The idea that consumption of large numbers of eggs is unhealthy was never true.
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by ryao 2y ago
In December, I decided to try an egg diet where I would regularly consume a double digit number of eggs per day. This has has made the price of eggs quite noticeable. I am not eating as many these days as I did when I first had the idea. In
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by ryao 2y ago
It was a deacon and I was not afraid of him. I was afraid of being drowned. I probably had some prior notion of drowning from being bathed by my mother. She was a very results oriented person that did not have any idea that the details of h
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by ryao 2y ago
To be clear, I had no idea that various early memories were from my first year until I talked to my parents about them. The memories that have been dated to my first year are: * The time in the room where newborn children are placed. The ev
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by ryao 2y ago
That would explain why everything was white except really close things like the nurses’ hands. The nurses’ hands were the only color other than white that I recall seeing that day. I had some awareness of the crib’s walls (or whatever that
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by ryao 2y ago
Everything except things up close was white. If I had to guess, I could not see further than a foot if that (although when I first was able to talk, I had thought the distance had been 3 feet or less). I did try looking around once after ma
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by ryao 2y ago
It started at some point after my birth when I still remembered my time in the hospital and given that I later successfully recounted events from that day, that my grandparents witnessed, to my parents, it is safe to say that my memories ar
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by ryao 2y ago
It is not that significantly different, although my poor understanding certainly left people with that impression. I thought the nurse in the hospital on the day I was born was an aunt. As a young child, I would later describe my baptism at
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by ryao 2y ago
My parents and I later discussed them. Anyway, I remember the room where they put children after they were born. Everything was white except for what was really close. A nurse that I had assumed at some point to be a relative kept putting t
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by ryao 2y ago
I have memories dating back to the day I was born. I was incredibly bored as an infant, so I played a game I invented where I would replay all of my memories on a regular basis. It turned out that my game was essentially a spaced repetition
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by ryao 2y ago
Not anymore. Microsoft dropped 32-bit support and there is no 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade path other than a fresh installation.
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by ryao 2y ago
They already started this slippery slope with the stocks application. I paid a premium for Apple hardware in part to not have this nonsense, yet they did it anyway after the fact. :/
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by ryao 2y ago
It actually was a recursive acronym that stood for XNU is Not UNIX. Then at some point Apple got it UNIX certified as part of MacOS.
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by ryao 2y ago
Neither of them use microkernels. They are monolithic kernels with loadable module support ("hybrid" kernels). The cores of both Windows NT and XNU were originally microkernels, but then they put all of the servers into the kernel

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