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107·10 days agoThis just in: scientists disprove validity of thought experiment; philosophers remain concerned that they’ve missed the point.
Travelers were definitely securely on the ground. Upset, but secure.
Absolutely insulate too! It’s really cheap and easy (if you have exposed pipes in places). Heck, I insulate my cold water in my attic because it’s otherwise a naked run in my attic and that sucks in the summer.
My CA weather privilege is showing (that said, energy and water are crazy expensive here too). You’re making me recall all the hell I went through trying to modernize the 1922 house in MN 15 years ago.
I do wonder how much difference it really makes in energy since we’d be evacuating at least as much water from the tank that it would have to heat fresh anyway. We use the smart plug to set things up for time of use: 7am for showers, 11:30 for lunch, 6pm for dinner, etc. That way we can avoid a constant energy suck. I set things up for a 1-click run for the in between times too.
If your water heater is old (10+ years) and/or in bad shape, it can be full of deposits and in some cases corrosion. Apparently we’re all supposed to be bleeding a few gallons from our water heaters monthly to maintain them. I don’t know anyone who does.
Our water from the city is total crap (and also the most expensive I’ve had in my life), so we added a softener and then split all the drinking/cooking water sources off to a RO system. But I’m also the guy with infinite sparkling water on tap from the kegerator in my kitchen (again only a few hundred in equipment and then about $80/yr in CO2, most of which I had from my home brewing hobby anyway).
If you have access to your water heater and some basic tools, a recirculation pump and a smart plug can be life changing.
For about $250 (pump plus smart plug) and an hour or so of your time, you can create a one-way loop that will refresh the water in the pipes and return the cold water to the water heater.
The loop is best located at the place in the house where it takes the longest to get hot water.
You’ll have to “suffer” warm water in your cold tap, but using the smart timer to run only the time it takes to warm the water can limit that.
Anti-consumer corporations right now:
Was (not was) - Walk the dinosaur featured on the live action Flintstones movie.
45·2 months agoSo what I see there is that badly designed fonts require ligatures to correct interactions.
Like, I get that there are some neat ones, e.g. I have them turned on when writing code for symbols, but they seem wholly unnecessary and distracting in alphabetical characters.
But I’m also the kind of weirdo that thinks the world needs more monospace fonts.
/shrug
To me, that’s even worse. Ligatures that have 0 separation where it’s expected short circuit my reading comprehension.
The “fi” combination also seems problematic since they seem to intersect.
Similar functionality is actually baked into the kernel!
Good ol’ hanlon’s razor.
581·2 months agoSo that’s why they’re called “rolling” releases!
/s
Absolutely.
Sidenote: I keep seeing “xitter” being used, is it safe to assume it’s pronounced “shitter”?
2·3 months agoThey’re required by some dog boarding/daycare places.
20·3 months agoThe power team. Apparently vast amounts of sweat, tearing phone books in half, bending steel rods and blowing up hot water bottles is godly and there were several alter calls.
Then I had to see them at Jr. High the next day to preach about how bad drugs are.
Here’s an article about a visit.
That’s the Jack Welch playbook!
It’s certainly a rarity (and a crying shame!). The closest things we see regularly are chicken nuggets and battered/breaded fried fish, but I’ve never seen those premade at a butcher shop either, just the freezer section from the giant companies at the grocery store.
But this thread did make me recall https://shorelunch.com/ which is a DIY crumb. Shake-n-bake is the pervasive product.
Panko is also a popular option for the crumb.
They sure did!