iUsedToCode

Tarsnap is great. I love supporting it.

you can go as high as 4 in most heat pumps. Obviously, it strongly depends on the outside temperature. But if it's above 4 degrees C, you should be fine.

Certainly. I heat a small flat (~35 m2) using just a AC unit and it works great: low costs, very comfortable. The only problem is increased dryness of the air.

But for a bigger place the setup is costly: you either need a couple units or a proper design, otherwise you'll end up with a only a portion of your home warm. Plus, AC units are still significantly more expensive than just a "trash-burner" type of furnace that is the most popular.

Electric heat should be the cheapest form. That would end a lot of air pollution that is a very serious health risk in Poland.

I think demand is far greater than what is currently visible, but the price is still way to high.

I'd move to electric heat in a heartbeat, but it's 2-3 times more expensive than coal, natural gas or oil (those are the most popular choices in Poland). If the price was 1/3rd of current, tens of percent of all citizens would move to a different heat source, using a lot more energy than they do now.

So it's just a price problem. Make it cheaper (maybe renewables will) and the demand will come quickly.

I'm not sure. In a big city owning a car is a headache. Parking, insurance, traffic jams.

I would switch to a per-mile-rent if it was affordable. Electric, self driving cars will be cheaper than people.

I had to send more than 500 emails / day. So i switched over to FastMail.

It works well, and i like having unlimited aliases that i can kill at any moment. But there's no way of disabling deleting messages. I wanted to be extra sure i wouldn't loose any messages and what support said was basically "just don't delete them and you are all set".

What is worse, they accept the default deleting of messages of some email clients. Gmail won't allow deleting from a POP email client, which is much saner in my view.

You cannot cheat biology with feminism or education. Some things are impossible to change overnight, regardless of the social pressure or guilt.

Men are attracted to fit, young females. Maybe because women in the past tended to pick not the youngest but the most powerful (in this particular social circle?). Thus humans learned that both parties are ok with age difference.

It seems a bit gross, a 70yo with a 25yo girl. It happens less often now (a wild guess), so maybe social pressure helps a little bit. But i believe that men still prefer fitness over education in women. Not 100% of the time, not in edge cases, but in general. Even in the press, a guy is more often smart, funny, successful and a girl is beautiful, elegant, and so on. Not always, but more often than not.

God, i love human ingenuity. You are real engineers. I only have experience doing real high level stuff -- the easy parts, so i didn't follow most of the text. It's impressive that there are people who understand the boxes we all take for granted and can fine tune them.

It's also awesome how it all isn't a huge, inexplicable mess. I cannot make a CRUD php app without dirty hacks, you mess with 40 years of programming effort by thousands of people and it still behaves sanely.

When the AI comes, will it appreciate how hard we tried? I sure hope so.

Sorry for being off topic. IT is great and it's stuff like this that reminds me of it.

Well, i can see a point in continuous R&D. Maybe they could improve something else beside efficiency? Like size, weight, cost?

Let them study all the things!

Dropbox is cool and all, but i hate their pricing model. I just want to keep about 50-100 GB there (i don't hoard stuff). I don't wanna pay $10 / month for that. At backblaze i pay less than $0.5 / month. I could pay quadruple, since Dropbox is a lot better service (and quite a different one, too). But not 20 times as much.

I know that Dropbox doesn't care about my tiny dollars and all. But why not let customers pay for what they use? This "constant growth" bullshit is probably the reason they don't care.

Or rather "probably not, but now you'll never know for sure"

Sorry, but American bread (at least on West Coast) is really bad. Maybe you can find something edible somewhere, but most of the shops carry only the worst of worst IMO. In Europe (not including UK) the quality is like night and day. I've noticed bread getting worse as it's produced in bigger batches since couple of years, but american stuff is in its own category of bad.

I hear that East coast has more european style (of cities, buildings and cuisine), so maybe it's better there. OTH, perhaps just missed all the good bakeries.