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811.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Long waits are more common than you think. Suppose you have 100 feet of 3/4" pipe and a 1 gpm showerhead, it takes 2.3 minutes for water to move from your water heater to the showerhead. And you not only have to move the water, bu
812.
by zbrozek 5y ago
The policy doesn't surprise me, but it does sadden me. Why should the failure be contingent on trying to have a meeting with the parents? I always get the feeling there's more paperwork in CA than any of the other states.
813.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Another place I stayed in Coober Pedy on another visit had a warning at 15 seconds which mitigated the problem. Both places only let you load up five minutes of shower time, and I found that my showers took 7-8 minutes.
814.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm an American citizen and I needed to go to the hospital in Coober Pedy in 2009. It was after hours, so I rang the bell up front and a cheerful nurse responded on the intercom. My case was deemed sufficient to merit a response, so th
815.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Doesn't much surprise me, and is largely why I currently own only older cars. It'll be a problem when I want to get an EV and all the offerings come with hostile features like this. It's televisions all over again.
816.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I fixed the glitch with a soldering iron.
817.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I've seen the value of g (yes, Earth's gravitational field, the average one) labeled as ITAR restricted. There's plenty of truly trivial stuff that gets labeled that way.
818.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I don't like it either. It's a struggle to get components that don't include that nonsense. Lenovo workstations are a good alternative maybe.
819.
by zbrozek 5y ago
If you look at tool rental, it's usually cheaper to buy the tool at somewhere between a few days and a week of rental time. I don't expect any efficiencies to end up with the renter. It's so bad that it was cheaper for me to
820.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I agree that this is unlikely to start the slippery slope all the way down to plumbing permits. But it's pretty easy to imagine it putting a damper on other large-scale projects that will span administrations. Off the cuff I'd gue
821.
by zbrozek 5y ago
The loss of trust in the finality of approvals is the key thing we should be shedding tears over. It would obviously have been far better not to permit it in the first place. Suppose a big offshore wind project gets underway now and an oppo
822.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Yet somehow total tax burden for those in the state is well above other places, including those with functional public services. I wish it were easier to figure out where the money goes.
823.
by zbrozek 5y ago
This is key. It erodes trust in institutions, in this case the government itself. I personally wish it weren't permitted in the first place, but revoking the permit afterwards is the worst possible outcome.
824.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I have a fast computer, a ridiculously fast internet connection (10000/10000), and adblock. It still doesn't feel as fast as when I had @Home (10/1 I think?) in 1999.
825.
by zbrozek 5y ago
OBS is such wonderful software. It's immensely powerful yet approachable and performant. I am not a streamer, but I've found it really useful as an audio/video swiss army knife. Many thanks to the team and community behind it
826.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Ditto. Good thing the only product I use is Chat and can afford to lose it.
827.
by zbrozek 5y ago
It's true, but at one of those properties I wouldn't even consider Starlink because the cellular service is cheaper and perfectly good. 70/70 most of the time for $35/mo at 30-40 ms latency to most of the region.
828.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Indeed. And much of that 996 time will be a total waste of lifespan - too-big meetings with no outcome, creation of presentations with no purpose, over-thinking decisions where random chance would be just as good. Or incessant internal prop
829.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I've personally taken two properties off of DSL and onto cellular with pretty-respectable service quality. In both cases latency and throughput and cost improved. The competition from wireless is real and getting better all the time. T
830.
by zbrozek 5y ago
There's a ton of stuff I make (especially for hobby projects) where I'm pretty sure it wouldn't really matter. I'd love to fidget with stuff like this, especially since I just acquired a wide-format inkjet printer.
831.
by zbrozek 5y ago
The mutual benefit corporation is https://lahcommunityfiber.org and I'm now on the board. It's basically the same corporate structure as our water company and so far is treating us well. Costs are all over the map. My
832.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Most cable providers allocate spectrum to prioritize download. Even the DOCSIS standard is built around that asymmetry. Much depends on the level of over-subscription in a neighborhood. In my old neighborhood, Comcast appeared to have a rel
833.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I am perfectly satisfied with my existing (and now expired) Sublime Text license. Yet I just bought an upgrade anyway because I'm so happy with the software and the developer that I simply wanted to support them through further develop
834.
by zbrozek 5y ago
The Camp fire report was riveting after-work reading. The financial engineering to avoid opex and instead magnify capex as a way to bilk the ratepayer is ingenious and evil. Further, their operating procedures and culture seem carefully eng
835.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I just leave my phone on mute and never answer it.
836.
by zbrozek 5y ago
This kind of behavior is a good reminder of how little agency you have over accounts in your name. I turned off 2FA on my Google account (these days used only for Hangouts) because that account has little value, and the flurry of notificati
837.
by zbrozek 5y ago
That's pretty onerous, and permit fees often cost more than the work. I came from Kentucky and found it mind-blowing that there is so much red tape involved in basic land management in California. No wonder it doesn't get done.
838.
by zbrozek 5y ago
The area in that photo turns brown in the fall. It's a few hundred feet from my house. I moved into my place late in 2019. Spring 2020 was creating a defensible space around the house - trimming trees, removing ground cover ivy near th
839.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Many CA communities make it hard to cut down trees ("conservationism"), and also don't religiously enforce clearance rules that they do have on the books. The combination means that there's a huge pileup of fuel even in
840.
by zbrozek 5y ago
At least in California, the utilities are trying to make that distributed generation unattractive through lobbying. I'm slowly working towards getting myself off grid to avoid the tyranny of PG&E.

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