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You get some inter generational nostalgia going on - I inherited my grandmothers NES which I have fond memories of playing any time I visited her. I don’t play it as much as she di…

For those who want to find other jugglers to practice with, there are lots of juggling clubs all over: https://dev.juggle.org/events/clubs.php In my experience most folks go to clu…

Why not use DDNS?

Ships are actually much more fuel efficient than trucks, by weight/volume. Saying it must be inefficient because it includes ship transit instead of trucking "locally" is innumerat…

At a past company, the two hires we made in this situation were people who were contributing to open source projects we maintained, who we hired to work on that project, so we knew…

They also have had no new recent models for years except for the Cybertruck, which is reportedly not selling

Design shouldn't be part of front end engineering - there is a reason there is a separate role for that, designer.

The people maintaining your building need somewhere to live, so unless they're in a rent-controlled unit themselves your maintenance costs will rise at the same rate as housing cos…

They work with standard power outlets, just very slowly . Our Hyundai gets 50 miles of range every 24 hours its plugged in at home. Mostly I charge at work not at home, which uses …

The piece you're missing, beyond just "gas is cheap", is that increasing the heating capacity of a heat pump costs lots of money when installing it, whereas increasing the capacity…

Tesla removes a lot of potential points of failure - no credit card machine or touchscreen to break and the cord is too short to drive over it with your car.

Your info is about... 20 years out of date?

If you need a lot more heat than cooling, you can't just get a larger system, you have to also go from single-stage to 2/multi stage or inverter-based, so that you can scale down i…

Inflation numbers are nationwide, but bay-area housing prices are not. And high housing raises the costs of all labor-intensive services (like your McDonalds), since employees need…

I did this recently when replacing our failed central AC, it was an extra $500 over the AC. It’s tied into the existing natural gas furnace. The main issue is your basic 14 SEER he…

The Ioniq 5 is an EV, can't imagine the engine failures on their ICE cars will have any effects.

Financially for swapping to make sense, I think you need to be renting the batteries from the swapping company, not own them as part of the car purchase. I think Renault used to do…

I would think an electric car would pair really well with off-grid solar - you can charge the car with excess energy during the day, and pull from the cars battery for power at nig…

One of the places I interviewed at a few months ago said they were planning to enforce a hybrid work schedule "after Apple does". Apple does not have an office in or near our city.…

I'm fine with choice but I'd like to see it on a team-by-team basis. As someone who likes working in person with other folks at least some of the time, that doesn't really happen i…

Not just seasonal, the school busses are also not in use during the day while school is in session, which is unusual for mass transit busses.

We run our steam humidifier just fine on 120v, but we have a relatively small townhome at 1400sqft

It may not be biologically possible for those who grew up on a low-gravity planet like Mars to emigrate to a higher-gravity one like Earth.

You're aware that control of the House of Representatives is still Democratic because the new Congress isn't sworn in until January right?