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Around Vancouver our heat pump has performed adequately even down to -15C/5F. This may be related to it being a deep ground loop geothermal setup (vertical instead of horizontal), …

I like the Serious Eats format, where they provide both a brief recipe and an optional backstory. Some of the research and reasoning is interesting for certain recipes (like pressu…

Wow, I had forgotten how retro-industrial those Atari language cartridges were. I also forgot how rich the language was, given the constraints. Great memories!

That's less bad than I thought the early pricing would be (and isn't far from the highest end sushi I've seen around the west coast here).

> "Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are cen…

I used Markdown for recipes for more than a decade, where UL were ingredients, OL were steps, and you could use as many sets of both as needed. With some CSS and JS it worked prett…

The price isn't even that bad, but it produces so much more packaging waste than cooking from scratch. We enjoyed the recipes, the price was good enough, but our recycling load dou…

Previous gen didn't, so I doubt the new gen does.

I've had several things hosted on Dreamhost for almost 20 years now, and they have been pretty great.

That was my first thought. A company grows into its funding, not what it needs to do (and they raised more than $300M over the years).

A promise is a promise ...

I should have said that there is no technical reason for delaying a streaming release, nor does it really affect the quality of the watching experience (assuming people have good s…

This is the crux of the issue: that cinema hasn't caught up with streaming services. There's no reason to force people to wait to stream a movie, i.e., they could show movies and s…

A lot of guys are boring, especially for people who have studied and focused in their specialties for years and years. You have to find common ground, and that can become increasin…

I've never found developers resisted reasonable unit tests, though teams may squabble about what _real_ unit tests are, or may have been burned by poor approaches to unit testing i…

It's not exclusively a benefit, but it does have some powerful upsides: * Less commute time and cost (I save 8-10 hours a week, plus a few hundred a month in parking, fuel, and ins…

Most of these points all relate to having empathy for the developer and being kind, and focusing on the point of code reviews (which is to improve quality and reduce ongoing costs)…

Clean French press, fresh / burr ground beans (12:1, so usually ~60g ground), temperature controlled H20 (96C), 4:30 minute brew.

""considered harmful" considered harmful" _considered harmful_

> merde(`partout`);

I've had a few servers (and previously shared hosting) at DH over the last 20 years. While they have had their fair share of major downtime, it has been on par with Rackspace, AWS,…

I'd like to see the actual distributions of foods (and micro/macros) in these studies along with the human stats (ages, activity levels). I suspect that the factors are for more mu…

Also tried to apply. At least 60 years worth of experience, if you consider accelerated rate of practice. Disappointed in 500. Thhhbbbttt.

DSLs can be great abstractions and interfaces, in that they can provide a way to state program knowledge in a form that non-programmers may be able to work with more easily. One ex…

Side projects and life-long learning are the only way to stay relevant. Stop feeling guilty for not finishing side projects (only finish the good ones). Adapt not just your skills,…