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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I would not buy a watch rated less than IP68/IPX-8, annd ideally it would be much more water resistant. Apple Ultra watches are rated to 100m of water which is well beyond that. The watch I am wearing right now is a steel automatic tha
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The fetus is inside of an adult human with a life they’re living. The decision is theirs to make, nobody else should have input, but unfortunately that isn’t the case in some places. Someone having an abortion have zero effect on a person
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> A lot of people aren’t going to have that $433 at the end of the lease to purchase the device outright If someone can’t plan ahead 2 years for a $433 expense, they definitely should not have a top of the line iPhone. When my income was
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
This scene from The Big Lebowski is how all cops treat personal property theft cases (They got us working in shifts!): https://youtu.be/N0rOe59wKAc Save your time and don’t get laughed at behind your back. By all means, rep
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
If someone is morally opposed to abortion, they don’t need to have one. That’s where it should end, there’s no need to control the bodies of others due to a moral belief that other people don’t hold.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> Usually the exposed metallic parts will be “grounded” (bonded to the ground / protective earth / equipment grounding conductor / whatever your jurisdiction calls it at the inverter). It’s not usually, all of the panels a
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I was just pointing out that a solar installation with only an inverter and no transformer does not need a separate ground since it’s not a separately derived system. An auxiliary/supplementary ground rod is allowed by the NEC (250.54)
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
If you read between the lines, this piece is just “Oh my god we (OpenAI and Anthropic) accepted too much investment and are totally fucked if these open weight models are competitive, please rescue our equity bags by banning open weight mod
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
PTFE is perfectly safe as long as you don’t get it too hot. So, not the best material for non-stick pans. The thread tape on all non-compression screw-type plumbing fittings is made of PTFE, and so is Gore-Tex. I’m well aware of the danger
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I suspect the pork ban is twofold, preventing foodborne illness and also pigs can’t eat hay/grass like cows and goats, they eat what humans eat.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Everyone is paying more for RAM these days, I expect Apple to maintain their margins.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The system in question does not have a transformer so a grounding rod is not required as it is not a separately derived system. The equipment grounds should be tied together to prevent any difference in potential though.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Fan coil units work just fine, you’ll need to install a condensate drain but other than that it works like a mini-split evaporator/fan air handler. You just have the added equipment and maintenance for the water/glycol loop vs an
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
That does nothing to remove the moisture in the air; an air conditioner removes water from the air which makes the apparent temperature much cooler than relying on sweat evaporating. I just spent an entire weekend in 100F/38C weather a
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
You are allowed to not have a fence at all if you so choose, assuming an HOA isn’t telling you otherwise. Property owners have no liability for wild animals transiting their property. If you are keeping pets and they get out I would assume
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
No, there has not. One state is using a substantial amount of resources, US and others are donating EOL equipment and pocket change and Ukraine is managing to hold back the country expending a lot of resources. WWII had multiple global powe
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
This setup uses the Haber-Bosch process. It’s different because it’s not tied to the grid (it’s not actually different at all)
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
A heat pump is just an air conditioner with a reversing valve so the heat can either be rejected from or added to a space, depending on which way the refrigerant is flowing.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> Also thoughts of mine recently: why are we not doing subterranean datacenters, why are we not doing tall/skinny skyscraper like datacenters (versus enormous sprawling warehouse-style). Because it costs an order of magnitude more m
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The average person is familiar with sound mitigation enclosures for generators and chillers? I kinda doubt that. If noise regulations are in place where the data center is being built, companies that make chillers and generators will sell y
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
You can buy chillers with enclosures that limit the sound to a reasonable volume, Google “chiller noise attenuation”. You can add walls around lots of chillers to further limit the noise. If the data center follows the city statutes for noi
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Why is that a problem? It might raise the temp within a few hundred feet of the chillers by 0.5-1F which is substantially less than an urban heat island temp delta vs surrounding rural land. A sane municipality will require sound mitigation
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
It takes 2.5 million solar panels to generate 1GW of electricity assuming 400W per panel and direct sunlight. 2.5M times 18 sq ft per panel is about 1000 acres or ~1.55 sq mi. That would work for a 1 GW data center, during the day, without
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> The problem is that everyone doesn't know this to be false. A substantial portion of the population "knows" it to be true. If they choose to believe a histrionic liar, that’s their problem. The rest of us don’t have to e
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I thought he got rich conning Mattel to buy The Learning Company in 1999? They paid $3.5B for it and gave it away a year later. Then there was a lawsuit with a $100M+ settlement. Kevin O’Leary also published pictures of him shedding tears
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Not in the slightest. Telling yourself “this is a drug that is altering my perceptions and it will end” is enough for me. That’s all the grounding LSD and mushrooms require and I’ve never had a bad trip, but I have plenty of drug experience
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> Probably the same theory for how a microwave cooks food. At 60 hz? I think that’s a bit low for microwaving.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The ground sounds like a bad place for lead paint and asbestos, two things which can be found in demolition waste. When we need fill in the US, a big truck comes and dumps actual soil and rock so that lead and other things don’t leach into
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Yes, the RAM Rampage is comparable to a Ford Maverick which is a unibody vehicle with a truck bed. The massive truck they likely meant would be a RAM 3500 HD super crew cab full size bed Cummins diesel dually rear axle with a vertical dual
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Propress compression fittings which use a hydraulic press are effective enough for domestic water pipes, along with traditional solder joints. Electrical compression fittings are excellent too, but some engineers still specify exothermic we

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