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I believe these are called “monobloc” and they exist, but are rare in the US.

There is a line in 30 rock "I don't know anything. I get all my news from the radio in Grand Theft Auto” and I aspire to this level of ignoring the “News”. Even when I go coldest t…

Ha, yes, I really ought to have linked to that here. Thanks for doing that!

This article feels like a hit piece on Air Conditioning. Some groups seem to regard AC as somehow morally weak and even evil, and while the sentiment resonates with me - I grew up …

Oh, oh, one of the best things I've ever read on this topic is: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/reading-the-news-is-t... I should submit this to HN, in fact. It doesn't seem…

Humans seem to be wired to weigh negative news much more strongly than positive news. (The most plausible hypothesis I’ve found for this is that bad news - fire, predators nearby -…

I remember an interview with Margaret Atwood [0] in which she joked that while Quebec might vote to leave Canada, the first nations own the bit of Canada where all the hydroelectri…

When I renewed my H1B visa (I think after three years), I had to leave the US to do it. I couldn't renew it from inside. The permission to work got renewed just fine - I could just…

I don’t even think Costco is all that cheap! Yes, many things are slightly - a few percent - cheaper than many other stores, per unit weight/volume, but it’s not a a big difference…

Oh man, I love that we live in a world where an eight second 0-60 is considered anemic! For a truck! (Not digging at you, I feel the same way you do. I just think it’s weird and am…

Ontario, an apology is not an admission of liability: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/09a03 So very Canada. Sorry!

Nice. Another upside seems to be that every Arab country in the Middle East seems to be on the same side as Israel. Nothing unites like a common enemy!

I admire what this person is doing, but some reasons I prefer raw + lightroom over eg camera jpeg are: * Lightroom’s noise reduction is WAY better than what my camera (a D500) can …

I have a theory that the FCC bureaucracy desperately wants to extend its remit to regulate the internet, and this is just one more attempt. Previous example: https://news.ycombinat…

What kind of EV was it? I have heard that the combination of self-driving and mandatory 30-60” breaks every few hours is very relaxing. I look forward to trying it some day. Meanwh…

Darn it! You are correct! Ok, so how about: we made about as much in batteries last year as all the A380s in the world can hold fully loaded in jet fuel. (There aren’t many of them…

Gas pumps in the US are artificially capped at 10 gallons per minute, and a gallon of gasoline is about 33kWh, so petrol cars in the US “charge” at 330kWh/min ~= 20MW. But most car…

A joke I read recently: "A fortune teller told me I was going to experience the most terrible heartbreak in twelve years time. This totally bummed me out, so I got a dog to cheer m…

The radius is too big. This monitor is R4200, 4.2m. I have a Samsung odyssey something 49” monitor and it is glorious . It is R1000, and since my head is about a meter from the scr…

> What is NG good for? The biggest advantage of NG is that we can store months of it. (Currently we can store only seconds of electricity, if that. Citation needed!) I have a dream…

They have to all use the special context.

Not tiny, but I have a corner desk, and I mounted big long 16 port power strips under each “wing”: Tripp Lite 16 Outlet Bench &... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000051174 Roll of very…

British TV is doing _great_ in the streaming era: black mirror, adolescence, peaky blinders, the crown, call the midwife, derry girls, downtown abbey; and so many great police proc…