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I think you intended to link a different article. That one’s not about cooking with your dishwasher.

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I would appreciate this write up as well. Looking to do a DIY setup.

If you enjoy Slow Horses, I highly recommend the book series it’s based on. I’m not sure if Mick Herron wrote the books with Gary Oldman in mind, but it’s the perfect Oldman character nonetheless. The show is quite a faithful adaptation of the books, even down to some lines. Excellent review of Oldman in the 3rd season: https://defector.com/gary-oldman-is-gross-and-loving-it?gift...

I would love this for my David VP2 station. It looks like it’s not available in the United States but they say it’s resold by ambient weather. Does anyone know of an alternative source? If this is it that’s more than twice the EU price. https://ambientweather.com/amweatherbridgepro.html

I’m surprised you needed AC at 10k ft. I have a cabin south of FairPlay at 9200 ft and the high temperature for the year has never exceeded 81 F.

Good to hear on the heat pumps though. I’m planning to eventually replace the propane boiler with them.

Went out in Colorado for about 15 minutes. Back online for now.

Davis Instruments makes some of the best and most accurate devices. I have the Vantage Pro2 sensor suite and recommend it. More expensive than some but worth it. There are various ways to upload data to the internet.

It is definitely typical Kim Stanley Robinson in that it explores large ideas and delves into details that don't pertain directly to the plot. As a rumination on a possible non-dystopian future, it is excellent and I highly recommend it. The wandering plot and digressions into hikes in the Swiss Alps is also quintessentially Robinsonian. I loved it but you have to know what to expect.

“We hold these truths to be self evident...” is from the Declaration of Independence. It does not appear in the Constitution.

This is one of the travesties of drug enforcement and has compounded inequality in America. The imprisonment of the poor for nonviolent drug offenses continues today. That a wealthy drug user would laud this as a good outcome of drug policy is honestly flabbergasting, but perhaps shouldn’t be.

This is the inspiration for that scene in the wire, I suppose. It also was A Prairie Home Companion. https://youtu.be/P8y3jbuuzDg

The negative externalities of beef are not priced in, as with most environmental costs.

Unionization, as argued for in the op-ed, is something that’s legal right now. We just need government to enforce the laws already in place. Laws paid for with the blood of the labor movement in the early 20th century. Unfortunately regulatory capture has eviscerated the agencies and government bodies tasked with upholding those laws.

Which rights have been given up, specifically? Clearly not gun rights.

According to Wikipedia it’s a nickname for Alaska but also can refer to any region above the Arctic circle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Midnight_Sun

All true although it’s a great hobby for being stuck in the house and likely safer than buying beer currently.

Which headlights did you buy? Asking as a fellow Impreza owner. They really are inadequate.

Learning rust is great (I am too) but I'm skeptical that it is in any way a recession-proof skill. If anything, recessions cause corporations to become more conservative, including technically, favoring the older "boring" languages with a long track record.

Thanks! From the blog post linked there posted on January 23: "Our primary data source is DXY, an online platform run by members of the Chinese medical community, which aggregates local media and government reports to provide COVID-19 cumulative case totals in near real-time at the province level in China and country level otherwise."

I'd surmise that it was the primary source since, at the time, the spread of the virus was still contained within China for the most part.

Yes, the non-mobile version has a great layout and much more density of information on a single page (unsurprisingly).

Does anyone know what the sources are for the data shown here?

The article mentions that plastic bags work better than emergency "space" blankets since they block moisture and thus evaporative cooling. A large industrial trash bag is part of my emergency supplies on cold backpacking trips. It's cheap, weighs almost nothing, and provides protection from both radiative and convective cooling.

When I had a bicycle accident, they fully covered my new bike and related damaged equipment under my renters insurance policy. Service has been uniformly excellent for car claims as well.

Why do you wish that?