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by tcbawo 3y ago
I didn’t say anything about making a choice. My point is that if you’re utilizing wartime powers to combat climate change, there are additional options left on the table. FWIW, there is a federal 30% tax credit for installing geothermal
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I was comparing air sourced heat pumps to traditional forced air systems. Geothermal heat pumps are much more common outside of the United States, have a much higher upfront cost, but significantly lower operating and energy costs after th
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I am looking into it for my own home. Air sourced heat pumps are slightly more energy efficient than traditional forced air, but geothermal heat pumps are significantly more energy efficient than other options. But hey, I thought this w
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Around me, the bottleneck is with drilling, not the heat pumps themselves
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I wonder how many ransomware/hacking groups are being clandestinely paid by the sort of firms that would short the stock and benefit from such a disclosure. Or maybe these groups already plugged into the option markets and are profiti
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I don’t have a Thinkpad, but the plastic surface of the keyboard feels like a slight step down from other keyboards I’ve used (like my Logitech MX Keys). It’s not as smooth — the plastic of the key is rough, almost chalkboard-like. I haven
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Locality also improves readability. Lambdas for std::algorithm functions are intuitive and concise. Like everything, they can be misused.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Cryptocurrencies turn every investor into an evangelist for their investment. On some level, it’s a multi-level marketing scheme. Many (most?) people bemoaning any safety barriers to investors are talking their book.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
The only reason I have Windows is for seamless device driver support. Most things work and don’t break with a system update. I don’t want to spend a single minute debugging issues on a forum, resorting to OS reinstall due to something bei
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I guess when you’re probably talking about millions of customers, it depends on what services they offer. Although when the API is exposed to unfiltered external requests, I think the answer is no amount of cloud services is enough.
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Knowing someone involved with the Chamberlain technology stack, it sounds like certain users had reverse engineered the API and suddenly caused a DDOS on the Chamberlain cloud with their requests. This is a cloud service with real costs. C
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Coming from an absolute outsider (recent ambivalent iPhone switch, previously Android), how can I know that GrapheneOS is secure and the provenance of my build is legitimate, so that I can trust it with my banking, email, photos, identity,
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by tcbawo 3y ago
One thing I use this for constantly is plain text paste. It’s so nice to be able to paste directly without any colorization or font stylings.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Carl Sagan was very wise. I find his insights thought provoking and salient. However, the cynic in me is sad that the default of human nature is to be gullible, tribal, delegate fact checking to authority figures, and prone to confirmation
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Where I’m at, $100-150 is more likely (introductory rates) for cable TV + internet.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
This is an interesting video highlighting the potential for the device as an educational platform for kids without the potential for distractions like YouTube and social media to leak in. In an ideal world, I think this would be great. I
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by tcbawo 3y ago
He can be entertainment, while still being informative. Richard Prior was the greatest standup comic to ever live, but yet his social commentary was poignant and thought provoking.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Started my career as an embedded software engineer in telecom. Around age 30, left and went traveling for a few months. Came back, fell into a software dev role in fin tech. I stayed in the financial realm, and made significantly more mon
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by tcbawo 3y ago
This ordinance sounds like it was created to discourage people from flying drones and photographing residents without their permission. If I had to guess, some hobbyists probably tried to claim what they were doing was business-related. S
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Even IC trucks are pretty close to 70k these days
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Equating underperforming students with disciplinary problem students seems to be a common problem in this thread. There are many underperforming students who would perform much better without being subjected to a threatening or harassing e
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by tcbawo 3y ago
All histories are a simplification of reality into a digestible and memorable form. It is never the complete story. The further back you go, the more of a caricature historical figures become.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I agree that the utility of money is nonlinear. However, donating $100 million of $1 billion income seems pretty not insignificant to me. Like, it’s significant enough that they’d probably want to make sure it’s spent wisely. Also, I don
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I get what you’re saying. But, a 10% donation is significant regardless of your income level. It might increase hardship in a poor person, or increase inconvenience in a richer person. There is no “right” amount. The fact that people ar
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by tcbawo 3y ago
What does “Jeff” mean in this case?
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Not all not-for-profit institutions are government run. Supposedly, there are more non-profit hospitals than for-profit hospitals. Although I am not in the industry, the cynical part of me suspects that some of these exist to shelter liab
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by tcbawo 3y ago
For businesses, the hardware cost of technology is much smaller than the investment they make in their workers or software systems. Having multiple interoperable hardware vendors to choose from in addition to an OS obsessed with binary bac
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I mentioned this in another comment, but the presence of interchangeable clones created a form of distributed long term support for business software. This was the killer feature that propelled business investment. Companies invest a lot
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To build on your idea: the presence of PC clones meant that a business that invests large sums of money in off the shelf and custom software solutions could be retained if their hardware vendor went out of business or failed to keep up with
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by tcbawo 3y ago
When you have for-profit healthcare, it’s not surprising that the system optimizes for short term profits over the well-being of healthcare workers or patients. People are willing to pay almost anything to stay alive and/or healthy.

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