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by zbrozek 5y ago
Whole-house air filtering costs me around 100-200 watts depending on filter state. It runs continuously roughly from the end of June to mid-November (particulates season).
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Because of the cognitive burden of trying to optimize and work around ludicrously high rates with changing windows. It's why I cling to my outdated tiered plan - I just don't want to let yet another thing steal my attention. Bakin
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm literally missing one of my exterior walls and have been unable to repair it properly because getting permits through NIMBY municipalities is slow and painful by design. I've done my best to tarp over the hole and abandon and
694.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I grew up in homes built in 1975 and 1995, both of which have no gas hookups. They're great homes. But now that I'm living in California, electricity is so expensive and time-of-use so annoying that I can't imagine electrific
695.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I borrowed (actually traded; swapping with my truck) a ~2016 Prius for a month and hated driving it. Merging is slow; I ended up flooring it and only reaching ~50 mph by the end of the onramp. Bay area ramps are, however, very short. Try th
696.
by zbrozek 5y ago
You can convince the i3 to believe it's a European car which increases the range extender's utility dramatically. You can unlock more fuel as well as have the generator turn on whenever you want (as opposed to at only very low SOC
697.
by zbrozek 5y ago
It is (on most clients anyway, I think maybe only recently added on their Linux client) but the default is wrong. Unbidden surprise fullscreen is a terrible idea.
698.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I typically use whatever I have laying around. Right now I've gone atypical since I currently have a 10 gbps symmetric connection and my leftover hardware isn't quite fast enough to route it.
699.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I know! All sunglasses are polarized the same way. Gadgets seem to not be consistently designed to work with that polarization and review sites don't tell you. Phones are often diagonally polarized to work around this regardless of lan
700.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Ditto; I only buy wireless hardware that can run openwrt on the day that I buy it. I may not flash it on that day, but I like to know that I can. My router is an x86 machine running opnsense.
701.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Before we get that deep down on monitor tech, I want review sites to tell me whether I can use the monitor/tablet/phone/laptop with sunglasses.
702.
by zbrozek 5y ago
A symmetric gigabit with unlimited transit isn't terribly small though. And the super-awesome side tail of residential service continues to march forward. My own home connection is symmetric 10 gbps.
703.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I don't follow. How does increasing supply also increase prices?
704.
by zbrozek 5y ago
https://www.zillow.com/home-values/ 19.2% according to Zillow. Sure there will be differences between metrics, but housing is clearly more than 0.5%. We desperately need to dramatically curtail municipal planning autho
705.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm licensed and finally have an awesome internet connection. I'd be interested to try this out and see how it goes.
706.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm actually glad that they haven't overhauled the UI. It would be great if they made tiny improvements, like making the font size and color defaults more pleasant. Deep blue on black as the default plot is less than stellar. Also
707.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I tried that and got such a runaround that I gave up. They don't provide a sufficiently valuable service to be worth the effort.
708.
by zbrozek 5y ago
It's a pretty incremental and small opportunity, but one worth seizing nonetheless. SiC devices have a better figure of merit (Qg * Rds) at high voltages than Si devices. The lower gate charge (Qg) means you can switch them more quickl
709.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Paypal doesn't, however. I wanted to switch bank accounts associated with PayPal and just... couldn't. That account is now dead, and I've switched to carrying a checkbook with me to settle up dinner with friends.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I love watching the QEMU ecosystem develop. I use it for running a handful of VMs on a host server: a Windows machine to run my label printers and their terrible software, opnsense to be my router, and then a couple test beds that I use to
711.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Nothing solves the problem completely. Redirecting DNS at the router to a blocking DNS server goes a long way, but DNS over HTTPS is a tougher nut to crack.
712.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Folks are lazy and that's expedient. It's good (in the short term, at least) for the people who make the decisions and bad for their customers, who have little agency.
713.
by zbrozek 5y ago
That's how I interview for some roles! I don't work for Lutron though.
714.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm not sure that we build at all. Out, up, down, or anywhere else.
715.
by zbrozek 5y ago
They're going to pass an ordinance that tries to apply maximally restrictive rules (e.g., limit homes built to 800 sqft and a single story) to any project they think benefits from SB-9. That's probably legal, even if against the s
716.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm really excited about SB-9 to remove some of my town's ability to slow down and prevent me from merely fixing the house that I have. Unfortunately they're already coming up with ways to resist change - some probably-legal,
717.
by zbrozek 5y ago
My social circle is in CA. None of us pay any attention whatsoever to prop65 labels. They're about as useful as any other type of product or business labeling: there's so much of it that it's just visual noise that's lon
718.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I had a similar experience, but in my case it was less that the school was blocking particular sites I wanted to visit, and more that there was a single very-slow proxy server for the entire state's educational system . So I ssh tunne
719.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I've heard this stated a few times - that flat roofs are meaningfully cheaper - but really? How? The tiny bit of extra material to add a bit of height to some ridge seems trivial. Where's the cost?
720.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm trying to pitch a flat section of roof on my house because it leaks. Flat roofs are sometimes flat because of too-low or badly-defined building height limits. Boringness also probably comes from increasing numbers of people involve

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