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by sokoloff 1y ago
Typical seasonal average? Sure. At -5°F? Hell no! At +5°F, they rate their own equipment to have a 2.0 CoP. https://mylinkdrive.com/viewPdf?srcUrl=http://s3.amazonaws.c...
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There are air-to-water heat pumps that can run hydronic heating (even radiators, though underfloor is a better match due to the lower return temps). You can then make your own hybrid with a resistive electric boiler or a gas boiler wired to
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by sokoloff 1y ago
100% efficiency is terrible for a heat pump. Electric resistance heat is 100% efficient.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
They have good heat output down to very low temperatures, but not good efficiency. The CoP is often around 2.0 at those very low temps, though (and of course the heat energy demanded is higher).
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> the price business has to pay because of developer insecurity Is it mostly developer insecurity, or mostly tech leadership insecurity?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> It is more about reserving a part of the ram to have very fast swap. I understand all of those words, but none of the meaning. Why would I reserve RAM in order to put fast swap on it?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think the insides of a PC look more interesting than a flat piece of sheet metal. Adding addressable LEDs make that even more true. Visually, I don't care particularly much one way or the other, but on a 6-12 layer PCB, there's
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> It's pretty evident I'm talking published research in my example. It may have been in your head, but it was not at all evident in your words.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Whatever was implemented as this poorly-thought-through fail-safe would be implemented in the furnace itself, thus that furnace implementation could manage any safety-related concerns, though heating equipment is overwhelmingly rated to 100
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> What if it's leaking CO into your house While I agree with your overall point, this clause is irrelevant to/not supportive of it. The presence of a thermostat wasn't going to help you here either and there are vastly mor
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Which is only extremely tangentially related to "if I pull my thermostat off the wall" The overwhelmingly most common connection between a thermostat and furnace is a contact closure when calling for heat, with no ability to diffe
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Despite being disconnected from the cloud service, the system kept running its schedule, when I would have expected it turn off in order to conserve water. I'd have expected (and strongly prefer) that it keep running with whatever
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think you'd be far better off to make a custom PCB in whatever shape you like from the like of JLCPCB, PCBWay, or others. The WS2812s here all connect to each other in series, so if you cut the board down, you'll have to replace
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Risky and irrational are different in my mind. If the best available means to perform an experiment carries some risk, it could still be entirely rational to do it rather than forfeit the knowledge gained from the experiment.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s absolutely fascinating and mystifying (and dismaying) to see educated and otherwise smart people in engineering in the US hold an opinion that two countries with over a billion people each can’t accomplish anything in engineering or
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think that’s as much a matter of game-playing to be able to give breaks now and make the budget impact evaluation work out by making them temporary. Or less politely, make it future citizens’ and another administration’s problem.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Broadcom turned up the heat on our pot fast enough that we’re evacuating over to proxmox. I and several others in IT had run it at home for a while, so when Broadcom made the definite losses to continue on VMWare far higher than the likely
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Really? Assuming similar elevation, I'd expect the temperature of two points 60 miles apart on earth to average the same with fairly low standard deviation. Is there something specific to your geography that leads you to assume the tem
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You know that when you cut the last two words off the quote “is not the universal answer to Uber and non-Uber” and respond to only the part you quoted that it leaves the impression that you’re arguing in bad faith, right?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> If you want to pay someone to do something employ them. There is a purpose for casual/contract labor. If I want my lawn mowed, some basement junk hauled away, or my house painted, I want someone on contract/gig to do somethin
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> But by then the marginal utility of a promotion starts dropping sharply. If you're already earning upwards of $450k as an E5, $550k or even $800k isn't that attractive. Going from $450K/yr to $800K/yr probably tripl
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> If only ETF's enjoyed the same treatment Isn't the annual property/wealth tax on an ETF €0?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> "this person created a piece of art that people pay to see", but I doubt that's what they're getting at. I also doubt that's what they're getting at, because if they were, there's a fairly straightfor
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The cloud is 100% humidity, I suppose.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
This is known as the Lindy Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Would recommend switching to acrylic for the final items. No soot to clean and when you get it reasonably dialed in, you get a smooth, almost flame-polished edge. “Glues” quickly, permanently, and tidily. And clear can be surface engraved a
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Everyone to whom I’d explain that was cared for as a helpless infant. If at any point we’d have stopped doing that, we wouldn’t be here to be arguing about it.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
GNU? Depending on how you want to treat FSF and PSF, gcc, emacs, python (are FSF/PSF/Apache corporations? Does PSF’s donations from corporations make python corporate sponsored?)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I would posit that caring for helpless infants is an objective good. It’s not clear to me how I’d explain that to someone who doesn’t inherently understand it.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I don’t think age of copper itself matters (assuming it supports TV already), other than what might come along with that. https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1... will give you som

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