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There are mixing valves which combine the too-hot water with cold tap water to produce hot water at a safe temperature.

Jealous sitting here in MA, where we pay $0.35/kWh and burn a ton of methane to get that.

I thought I saw on the documentation that it was released under the modified BSD license. I guess they could take future versions closed source, but the current version should be a…

Do you mean US soldiers? We didn’t have a presence in Iraq in 2000, the invasion occurred in 2003.

Yes, most of the public uses the doctor which is assigned to them when they have something go wrong. The trouble is that it’s hard to distinguish between “friendly and nice” and “c…

I agree. SWP coffee usually has a very flat profile to my taste. EA is far and away the better processing method.

Just a minor nitpick. To my knowledge, Archive.today is not known to be related to the Internet Archive (archive.org).

Every year or so someone will reach out to me based on something I wrote. It’s really gratifying to solve someone’s problem.

There's substantial wafer capacity in the US, from silane production, through polysilicon granule production and wafer making. There are several different wafer makers in the US wi…

I was in a CVS a few years ago where they were selling a tincture which was supposed to help children stop wetting the bed. It contained mercury. I’m not sure how they could legall…

Heat pumps are somewhat limited in the heat they can provide. For example, it would be difficult for a heat pump to produce several hundred degrees C temperatures for an industrial…

I had exactly the same thing happen. Ended up moving all my domains to another registrar after that happened.

A lot of what needs to be done definitely is not rocket science, and much of it can be trained -- at least when things are going well. One thing I do appreciate is that there is a …

There are still plenty of people in the fab. They're not usually running product around in a modern automated fab, but there are always equipment issues to work through. When you h…

Aluminum is extremely reactive. It self-passivates with Aluminum oxide very quickly. The difference between rust and AlO3 is that the AlO3 adheres well to the base metal and doesn'…

I tend to agree. In the last ten years or so, the TSA operations have markedly improved. I’m saying this as someone who flew 80k-100kmi/yr for the last 15yr. Once precheck became a…

There is no competition in a lot of airports. I believe that OTG manages all of the concessions at EWR. There are a lot of options, but there’s no price competition as they’re all …

You know that the system is screwed up when you can hold up the Whole Foods salad bar, as being the bargain option! I’ve found the dine-in restaurant options at EWR to be of reason…

Delta.chat ( https://delta.chat/en/ ) has a decent enough UI for using email as an IM service actually.

I've been a subscriber for a long time now. Newsblur has been great. It's been pretty stable, and they haven't succumbed to frequent radical redesigns. I could self-host an RSS rea…

Tailscale works great for this application.

How is it as a speakerphone? I've considered getting one for conference calls.

The fins in the heat exchanger will get covered in dust and dandruff over time. This provides a reasonable media for the mold to grow on.

I'm currently dealing with multiple customers moving to Ariba. What a pain -- it doesn't work in Safari reliably, finding out where anything is takes several minutes.

I think the future of social actually looks more like Signal and Whatsapp groups (maybe Discord too?) than it does Twitter and Facebook. People seem to appreciate and value private…