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by xnyan 4y ago
It may be possible to run it off of a 1500w AC source. Compressors/pumps need a lot of current for a very short period of time to start, and much less power to run. Sometimes you can use electronic trickery to "soft start" a
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by xnyan 4y ago
I've installed this, the price approaches/exceeds the cost of entry level automatic transfer systems but with the functionality of a manual system. I think most would get more value out of something cheaper or more expensive. Also
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by xnyan 4y ago
That’s already the reality. By definition the ruling class rules, this of course includes armed forces. All the privately owned weapons in the united states are a joke compared to the weaponry possessed by state. If private weapons were a t
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by xnyan 4y ago
A mini rant - short term residential rentals are the housing equivalent of payday lending in finance - a market that exists by extorting impoverished people. I was an electrician’s apprentice in college and did work for countless rental pr
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by xnyan 4y ago
You would be surprised how many people develop directly from github, either by using github’s web editor or a third party editor. Even if one does not do this, poor backup hygiene is the norm not the exception - for most devs I would would
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by xnyan 5y ago
Good bread is both available and cheaper in the US than Germany. I think Germany is a better place to live, but essentially everything is more expensive there.
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by xnyan 5y ago
He said on a podcast that he spent "6 months" developing it. I very much doubt that was 6 months of full-time work, but even if that was only 10 hours a week, and even if the "cost" was let's say $100 (probably much
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by xnyan 5y ago
> why is your State DOT planning and executing projects in the city of Portland at all? Your argument is being made in isolation of political-economic reality, at least as it currently exists in the united states. Tax receipts that could
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by xnyan 5y ago
Use of checks is rapidly dying in the US. My credit card gives 1-3% cashback for purchases, I use it for everything possible and pay the bill in full each month, so no interest. As late as 2015 some common entities would not reliably accept
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by xnyan 5y ago
>People are significantly more exposed to the stock market these days than in 1910 >Considering tons of people's 401k's I'm surprised to hear this, because my understanding is the opposite. Something like 60% of America
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by xnyan 5y ago
Bosch has a lot of product lines at many levels of quality/value and features. A buddy of mine was an engineer on a project that cloned the Miele G7xxx (their top-of-the-line dishwasher), their version is in the same class as a Miele G
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by xnyan 5y ago
I have to sort-of disagree with you! I've used 100s of dishwashers (used to work at a test lab) and Miele dishwashers are indisputably "better" (more on that below) than anything else on the consumer market, and I would be co
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by xnyan 5y ago
And you lose the 2x bandwidth increase you get from using two sticks of RAM. Oof.
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by xnyan 5y ago
I vividly remember visiting NYC for the first time and being shocked that while starting to cross 8th ave and 15th st, that a yellow cab was already making a turn the second I put my foot in the intersection and was slowing creeping towards
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by xnyan 5y ago
This kind of comment is not appropriate for hacker news, if you are really worried send an email as explained in the guidelines: >Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the l
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by xnyan 5y ago
Second for moonlight. NVIDIA pulls the data right from the GPU framebuffer and compresses in-hardware. There are solutions that offer better quality (if you're a pro streamer it may not be rightfor you), but at the cost of more CPU and
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by xnyan 5y ago
Noting that someone is using a rhetorical tactic vs engaging with the argument shows me nothing other than that you will not or cannot engage with the argument. Try again.
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by xnyan 5y ago
Trading class war on the educated rich for class war on the less educated poor (gains have generally gone to the very rich for ~40 years) is not any better.
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by xnyan 5y ago
This is nothing new to COVID, in my first job (fast food, 14) I was told in training not to come to work sick, but whenever I was sick I was told to come in anyway unless I was visibly (to the customer) ill. Americans largely have no saving
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by xnyan 5y ago
It sounds like you have an anxiety disorder. I do too! It's not a simple fix, but I've gotten huge value from therapy for my anxiety. CBT gave me fast and cheap results that really helped. Psychotherapy has given me a more long te
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by xnyan 5y ago
Whether or not the laser is in the visible spectrum matters quite a bit for it’s classifications/safety. According to IEC 60825–1 a laser from roughly over 1/2 a mW up to 5mW goes from class 2 to class 4 if it’s outside visible. A
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by xnyan 5y ago
>what the hell does “cheugier” mean? I think you're completely missing the point. Cheugier (or "cheugy", it's more commonly used as an adjective) is a zoomer word to refer to outdated millennial interests just as boom
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by xnyan 5y ago
I'm running openWRT on my edgerouterX, and so far (about 2 months) everything has been really well supported including hardware offloading of various features. In most cases, I'm getting better than stock performance. UI is much b
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by xnyan 5y ago
> as has been pointed out by so many news outlets recently that even the CDC was bullshitting Source please?
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by xnyan 5y ago
I hear this opinion (or something like it, basically that property crime is only an issue in the west because city governments are not harsh/violent/punitive enough) repeated often. My anecdata: I live in a city where cops can and
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by xnyan 5y ago
Mini-rant: people on hacker news frequently undervalue their knowledge and don't consider the things they know to be of much worth. A classic example of this is the "I can't see why dropbox is a thing, simply build a cloud fi
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by xnyan 5y ago
Millions of people in various sectors outside healthcare (by the way, since when is healthcare a "small sector"?) have had vaccines required as a condition of employment. , mostly people with plenty of risk like teachers, the mili
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by xnyan 5y ago
>We were promised this wouldn't happen by our governments last year right? We were promised that a company can't require a vaccine as a condition of employment? Seeing as some companies have required vaccines for as long as the
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by xnyan 5y ago
>...3G has another 12 years ahead of it "Assembly Research founder Matthew Howett told BBC News the change would probably come sooner than the government's 2033 deadline." 12 years is the deadline by which it must
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by xnyan 5y ago
This is not exactly true. There are many tricks in the NAT traversal toolkit, depending on your configuration it can be fairly simple to work around. In every case where you use NAT, you also use a firewall. 100% of consumer IPv6-capible ro

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