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Air-source heat pumps give their worst performance when you need heat the most. Ground source doesn't vary year-round.

> really ugly winter peaks

The problem is those peaks are at the exact same time you need the heat.

Name checks out.

Yeah, it needs heavy moderation to remove the worthless fluff comments so that readers get high signal-to-noise. You can think an idea is bad but, you know, you gotta say why and have a debate about the details.

I've had to read so far down to get a single non-stupid, ignorant, or inflammatory comment. What's wrong with HN, jeepers. Some actual discussion of the thing itself and not just pearl clutching would be appropriate here.

I request you to publish it! :-D

Came to post that blog. It's awesome. Everyone should read it.

Perhaps you do ;-)

I think that the point here is that your domain registrar will pick up the phone if there is a problem, where Google clearly will not.

I worked at Last.fm from 2007 to 2012. The MIR team (think: research) developed a wonderful system called "RadioQL", which allowed you to stitch together custom ratio stations from any of a huge host of factors, joined together by AND, OR, and NOT. You could select artist radios, song radios, tags, and so on, but also combine this with things like the BPM or even some sentiment analysis. It was used a little bit inside some public-facing radio stations, but nobody outside of the staff ever got full access, and that's a tragedy as it was glorious.

Sure. I doubt that if some test at the moment takes an hour then you're getting much extra benefit at the five hour mark. The whole point of the time compression is to spread the grades out - along an axis different to "competence".

The whole thrust of the article is complaining about timed tests and some kids getting more time. That's doubtless unfair if some are overclaiming, but the real solution is to not do timed tests at all - they are only serving to produce an arbitrary bell curve so that some can have higher grades and get better career opportunities. Better to not have a timer at all, and let people's actual ability shine.

Nebula and Dante will do this for like $300, and you can get 30x coverage at every base or even 100x coverage if you pay a little more. The $1000 genome was here more than a decade ago.