> We have efficient heat pumps and solar panels, but it's still a disturbing amount of energy usage and something I'm trying to debug. Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too much sunlight... External window blinds work wonders with that - your AC doesn't have to work hard to get the heat out of the greenhouse you inadvertently built if you avoid the heat getting in in the first place. But yeah, these might b…
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I'm putting external shutters on my house in London this winter. This summer was crazy. I've never seen them further north than Barcelona.
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#62> The cabinetry is just a bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few screws and hinges. Whereas the computers in total contain more than a trillion transistors, each of which had to be carefully etched in the right spot connected correctly to all the others. A trillion! That's 1,000,000,000,000! Really cool house, but describing the cabinets as "bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few s…
> Really cool house, but describing the cabinets as "bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few screws and hinges" shows little understanding of what goes into building something like that.
I mean, the whole place looks like a cookie cutter office block. The lack of appreciation and want for good design goes far deeper.
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He spent more on gaming computers than my yearly salary, and then follows it up with
> I actually find it funny how cheap computers are.
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#65MTV used to have this show called Cribs where celebrities showed their house around and cars and everything. Basically bragging about their rich life. I have the same feeling opening this site. Maybe we need an MTV Cribs SV edition.
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#66>All network equipment and cameras are UniFi.
Wow. Imagine having this budget and then doing this.
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