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by war1025 6y ago
> I think GP is talking about heat pump water heaters that are working between the air in the room where heater is installed and the hot water. Correct. Every heat pump water heater I've ever seen has the heat pump directly on top o
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by war1025 6y ago
> We need to get past the idea that electric rates must be flat. I'm not aware of anyone that does minute to minute electricity pricing, but I know for many utilities you can sign up for alternate price schedules that have different
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by war1025 6y ago
> Then you may reach a different, but demonstrably more accurate, conclusion. For that to have much weight, you'd need to list somewhere that a government overthrow actually went well. History suggests that it rarely ever does.
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by war1025 6y ago
The way the parent comment is worded, he is actually advocating for not doing activities like running hot water heaters during peak load times. I know many utilities in my area have a program you can sign up for where they will cycle thro
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by war1025 6y ago
I was talking with someone recently and they recently bought a new electric water heater. I asked why they didn't go with a heat pump option, and they said the dealer told them that heat pump water heaters are basically a "robbing
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by war1025 6y ago
> Dove sorry is the key to investments. What does this mean? I am at a loss.
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I felt that way about most of the video. I never took advanced math theory classes, but I have enough background that those classes would probably have been the next step for me if I had continued on. Seemed like every time I felt like he w
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by war1025 6y ago
This is something that has made me a bit nervous to switch jobs. I don't live on the coasts, so prospects are already a bit more limited. I've spent the past decade more or less on a team of ~5 engineers as part of a ~10 person co
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by war1025 6y ago
> The biggest buzzkill for me is working on such minuscule parts of enormous systems I think that was also part of whatever I saw had to say. But I don't remember where I read such a thing, so who knows.
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by war1025 6y ago
> I've mostly worked for startup to mid sized companies in the past I saw an anecdote a few years ago about a hiring manager basically saying, "If you worked happily for a small startup, you will most likely be unable to put up
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by war1025 6y ago
For the record, I am logged in and have exchanged messages with at least one other person. The rest of my team does seem to be unable to get in though. Maybe it's because I have just had the Slack tab left open in my browser since befo
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by war1025 6y ago
Got a real kick out of this blog post as it seems to imply that code written two years ago is "old". I've been surprised quite a few times in the past year that what I thought was "relatively new" code actually ende
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by war1025 6y ago
What useful thing can I do with Bitcoin other than using it as a speculative asset?
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by war1025 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but Bitcoin seems more and more like selling tulip bulbs to me. Good for the people who timed the market right. I often think back to ~2010 when I first learned about bitcoin and thought "maybe I'
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by war1025 6y ago
The amount of interest a savings account is going to accrue in that time is negligible to the point of being worthless.
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by war1025 6y ago
My boss tried to mandate cameras during video calls. I really don't want to look at my coworkers. I turned my camera on once and it looked like garbage and that was enough for me. I always just pin whatever screen is being shared to be
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by war1025 6y ago
She has moderate dementia, which means you can't really trust her to do reasonable things if left to her own devices.
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by war1025 6y ago
I agree on the sugar aspect, but having been brought up firmly in the "salt is the devil" camp by my parents, it was an absolute revelation for me that the way you get rid of that hollow taste in food is by adding salt. I used to
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by war1025 6y ago
A thing I wondered over the weekend: Is there a correlation between frequency of bowel movements and BMI? I read a book about pigs a couple years ago. It mentioned that once of the main differences between breeds of pigs that are high fat a
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by war1025 6y ago
> you are assuming that the line that says 'wait' is a busy loop I wasn't asking if the "wait" was a busy loop, I was asking if the "check whether the temperature dropped too far" was evaluated in a bus
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by war1025 6y ago
> your minimalist home is basically now a prison cell Went home for Christmas and as part of it swung by the nursing home where my Grandma lives. She is basically in actual prison for the past nine months. For a good part of it she was c
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by war1025 6y ago
Well, yes. That seems obvious. I guess I was more wondering if running in a busy loop like that was a thing people did on embedded hardware since from my very minor experience with Arduino it is basically just a big while loop.
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by war1025 6y ago
I know to winterize a camper you fill the water lines with antifreeze. I suppose to be really protected you'd need to go that route. We live in a townhouse with a garage on the main level, so the water comes in on the main level, but b
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by war1025 6y ago
I've had half a mind to start shutting off my water and draining my pipes before leaving on trips in the winter. We've had frozen pipes several times before, but thankfully PEX doesn't seem to burst. Have been working on fixi
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by war1025 6y ago
> $27/month per user How does this even matter from a budget perspective? You are already paying probably in the $10-20k / month range for per-employee salary. Seems a lot like complaining about a dripping faucet while you have
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by war1025 6y ago
Thought this was a really interesting comment. Looked at your profile, which led to your website, which had a page about your family, which said you had a brother named Matthias, which tickled something in my head. Clicked on the rather dat
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by war1025 6y ago
Is the wait supposed to apply both to the if and else? Or does it really busy wait for the temperature to drop? Seems like that would be really inefficient, but maybe that's common practice in embedded software stuff.
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by war1025 6y ago
Having just gone through and looked up a bunch of articles criticizing Jordan Peterson (Most of them seem to be written by Matt McManus, so I guess he's trying to make some sort of name for himself by association), it seems to me that
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by war1025 6y ago
I guess that's my point. Wishing for anything different in the past means wishing away anything good that happened after that moment.
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My dad got brain cancer when I was 25. That event accelerated our decision to have kids, and as a result our first daughter was born a few days after I turned 27. The reasoning I came to is that given the probabilities of how children are c

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