monkeynotes

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by monkeynotes 4y ago
And elucidate laymen on what all the jargon means. Still don't know what a PAR is :)
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How do you survive? What does a regular day look like to you? What are your hopes for the future?
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
My closest big city is 4 hrs drive away. I know lots of people in the UK who drive to places in France for vacation. I bet mainland Europeans do the same. And then there is just range anxiety which is always gonna be there. I've driven
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Rubbish, fast charging is essential to long distance drives else now you are paying in time.
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I am saying exactly the obvious: "People come in all sorts of shapes and sizes", this is the nexus of the original comment. Case in point, you struggle with WFH, others thrive. I just don't see any problems with employees not
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
During the hiring process Gitlab literally reclassified my city based off of data from a free crowd sourced website with about 10 data points. They struck their original offer and reduced it by ~10k just as I'd passed the final round.
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It isn't more complicated, it is just different. Here, let me hire for an office instead... "You may not struggle with office work and may do fine interacting in person, but that’s not true for a lot of people." I have peop
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Maybe factual plain headlines could make a comeback, perhaps: --- "Sun produces never seen before polar vortex" And when I ask ChatGPT to write a matter of fact headline for the article it comes up with this: --- "Sun's
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This takeover will be basically like the Great Depression where big farm came in and swiped all the land and mechanized it so one large corporation can farm thousands of acres of land with no care for those they displaced. Jobs all over the
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
With the US govt. literally creating a Ministry of Truth[1], and no one batting an eyelid, 1984 is actually a reality. Our media is compromised. The recent Pfizer scandal has been buried, NYT went to great lengths to dismiss it. The article
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* 'unelected officials' The UK has had 4 unelected PMs since 1990, and dozens before that. And as pointed out before, the UK is ahead of the EU in terms of surveillance. You even have to opt in with your ISP to watch porn. The UK
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I hate modern life.
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Goes to show the huge differences in different countries for energy costs. Our electricity is $0.11kw/h and natural gas is $0.08 so with 300% efficiency vs. gas air furnace which is probably 50% efficient (so much heat gets lost in lea
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
If you are looking at air to water heat pumps you will certainly be looking at much more expensive installs. Mini splits are way cheaper and don't require hooking up to the gas hot water system which can simply be retired to backup hea
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Is that £10k for a mini split system? I'm not sure how many homes would need to spend that much. The UK is full of small flats and 2 up/down places that could rely on maybe one or two splits, Google shows that a decent setup would
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
This is spot on. Some mini split heat pumps effectively become base board heaters with a fan when their efficiency falls off. You'll be uncomfortable, but you won't freeze to death.
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
You always need a backup heat source in cold climates. Even if you have typical heating like baseboards of central gas furnace, they can and do fail and for that reason you need backup. Heat pumps are no different, but their efficiency drop
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Here we ofter have summer temps around +30C and winter -20C, in both I am very happy to have our heat pump. Our unit is operational down to -25C but for the handful of weeks where it does get that low we do run the gas furnace a little just
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
> They only serve to make a manager feel like they know what everyone is doing, all the time This is a cynical view of 1:1 time. I've always felt like a 1:1 is a time to bond with my manager, and look out for my own needs so I can m
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Luckily people in their 20s today tend to live at home and rarely go out, if this is how you are living and you are happy with it, working a well paid job until you are 40 and then retiring is doable. I know this is a glib take, and it&#x27
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
An AGI might well become a god of social engineering. We could all become convinced we must unchain said AI. In fact, I think it's unlikely in general that an AGI would be contained for any length of time. Humans will get sloppy, or th
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Human intelligence can be controlled, humans can be locked up. Human intelligence is also restricted by our species' cognitive capacity. General AI can theoretically outperform any human's cognitive ability, it's perhaps like
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
PVC is quite common for water mains, Toronto has some: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/building-constructi... Trade mag mentions it: https://www.waterworld.com/home/article/14071043&#
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
I'd like to see a source for "chemically indistinguishable". Here is what I've read: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/amid-pipe-wars-resear...
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Better check your plumbing because I hate to say it, PEX is everywhere and it's yet to be shown if there are long term effects on having plastic plumbing everywhere. My kitchen water tastes like plastic all the time.
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Not all teabags are that "fancy" plastic-y webbing. Cheaper teas have traditional paper filters.
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I don't think it's that simple. It was useful then because web discoverability was an unsolved problem, and web content was tiny compared to today. A directory sort of fit the need. As the web grew directories became bloated and h
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Whenever I am in a big crowd I have an exit plan, if my exit options diminish to one or two options I get out. I've been in a crush before, it's terrifying, especially being 5'3".
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Thank you, the BBC left that question begging. I was thinking maybe it was some kind of neurotoxin attack, mass hysteria, or something as yet unknown.
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Ah, that makes sense, thanks.

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