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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 h…

Is there an alternative to HN out there where I can read threads and see people actually discuss developments in AI in a positive, mature way? I just fired open the GitHub founder'…

> When I was taken to the Tate Modern as a child I’d point at Mark Rothko pieces and say to my mother “I could do that”, and she would say “yes, but you didn’t.” Yes, but you didn'…

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 p…

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…

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 g…

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 …

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…

I distinctly remember in one of his talks he said words to the effect of “I wrote corporate C++ and Java for years and eventually realised I had to do something else, or else quit …

It's useful to have as a resource that you can dip into; for instance to check a specific thing like "how fast do I metabolise caffeine (bad example as youc can get that from a SNV…

Tailscale has that Taildrop thing now, too: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop

I used to have mine in LaTeX, rendering a nice PDF. But here's the thing, you're up against automated CV parsing systems that you don't have any insight into - a total black box. A…

I've used this in the past, it's really great.

In case you want another of his videos and know much about eMacs then this one had me on the floor: https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc

If you could pre-sign the queries to prevent abuse (user edits to queries making them potentially slow) then IMHO it would be a nice idea in a load of cases. Datasette actually doe…

I think you’re somewhere off base here. Yes, you understand React very well, but many don’t. And HTMX gives you a lot of leverage without needing to (1) deal with learning React, (…

Everyone wants to use k8s and like 1% need it in any shape or form. It basically acts as a conspiracy between otherwise-redundant ops level people and those running Kubernettes aga…

I remember this paper, and was at a company at the time that was one of the first to use MapReduce, so saw this all play out first hand. I appreciated the paper. Then and now devel…