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> Consider your state of mind when you call the HVAC tech to fix your broken condensing on an August afternoon in Texas And consider your state of mind after the tech came over 6 t…

It may not be enough but it does work . When it is 40C max by day and 22C min by night, for example, the outside is still cooler than the inside at night. So ventilating will have …

I didn't know! Google agrees with you so it must be true.

For the record, I live on a rooftop and it will indeed be 38C this Wednesday at home (Grenoble, France, not a fresh place). No AC, fans, shutters, some shadow and, admittedly, some…

> many Europeans seem to be confusing insulation with inertia That is true. I heard that many times... > during a strong heatwave there is no adaptation possible, AC is needed. At …

> People often forget about humidity when telling people they don't need AC True that it is not so humid here in the French alps. But to be clear: do get an AC if you need to. Plea…

> Even when night time temperatures drop to 17c That's pretty nice actually! I am in a brand new rooftop apartment, so pretty exposed to heat. I can keep 28-29C indoors when it's 3…

Insulation is actually helpul against heat too! But since modern buildings usually have huge windows, we're letting in about 1kw of heat from sunlight per square meter of window. T…

Letting the sun in is like turning your heaters on. You wouldn't turn on both heaters and aircon in summer, would you ? Please bring some shade and save energy. Edit: also, without…

Shades will bring your 27C to 24C so yeah, it would do much about it. I don't even get your logic here. Edit: you can still use an AC or dehumidifier on top of it. You will consume…

Would please install adjustable shades and ceiling fans first? And also plant a few trees if you can?

We can install adjustable shades and ceiling fans. Cheap and efficient. It practically pays for itself in saved energy bills if we decide to add an aircon anyway. Plus the saved en…

That works. A lot of people do that in their home when they have no other choice (renting the place, typically). It'd be better to block the sun before it hits the window though, s…

> Uncomfortable heat has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with air humidity That is not correct. Heat, wind and humidity all contribute. In a dry air with no win…

"Wait, do you mean I should pay to capture the carbon my neighbors emits? No way!" That's why. Edit: Also, as some other comment said, thermodynamics tell us that it would take an …

> I would absolutely be looking into how to get [...] at least one window air-conditioning unit if not a heat pump before next summer Before you do that, do the cost effective thin…

> you'd be out of business. Correct. And we'd be "out of business" too as a country if we decided alone to fix emissions. Other economies would have passed ours because burning oil…

So we've been stupid "solar oven" buildings for 50 years while climate scientists were warning against extreme weather events and, now that said extreme event arrives, the best we …

If loop time is a concern, I am surprised the author does not mention tests. Is it still worth it to wait for your test suite to run when an LLM can get it right quick ? Edit: I do…

> I can count on one hand the number of times I've found a bug that was due to a type issue. Most bugs aren't type issues until you make them be type issues by expressing some busi…

> I bet a lot of parents would buy them for their kids. That changes the default from "anyone can do anything" to "gotta ask parents". Defaults matter at scale. It adds friction.

Software engineers are not artists nor shoemakers. They are factory makers. A good analyst makes a hand-crafted, custom report in a day. A programmer makes a factory that makes tho…

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Groups resist to change - the bigger the group, the most resistance there is. As a leader, pushing for rapid change cannot really be nuanced lest the push dissipates into the organ…