They sure did!

https://www.techspot.com/news/102765-who-prabhakar-raghavan-why-accused-killing-google-search.html

This just in: scientists disprove validity of thought experiment; philosophers remain concerned that they’ve missed the point.

And shake it all up.

Travelers were definitely securely on the ground. Upset, but secure.

Absolutely insulate too! It’s really cheap and easy (if you have exposed pipes in places). Heck, I insulate my cold water in my attic because it’s otherwise a naked run in my attic and that sucks in the summer.

My CA weather privilege is showing (that said, energy and water are crazy expensive here too). You’re making me recall all the hell I went through trying to modernize the 1922 house in MN 15 years ago.

I do wonder how much difference it really makes in energy since we’d be evacuating at least as much water from the tank that it would have to heat fresh anyway. We use the smart plug to set things up for time of use: 7am for showers, 11:30 for lunch, 6pm for dinner, etc. That way we can avoid a constant energy suck. I set things up for a 1-click run for the in between times too.

If your water heater is old (10+ years) and/or in bad shape, it can be full of deposits and in some cases corrosion. Apparently we’re all supposed to be bleeding a few gallons from our water heaters monthly to maintain them. I don’t know anyone who does.

Our water from the city is total crap (and also the most expensive I’ve had in my life), so we added a softener and then split all the drinking/cooking water sources off to a RO system. But I’m also the guy with infinite sparkling water on tap from the kegerator in my kitchen (again only a few hundred in equipment and then about $80/yr in CO2, most of which I had from my home brewing hobby anyway).

If you have access to your water heater and some basic tools, a recirculation pump and a smart plug can be life changing.

For about $250 (pump plus smart plug) and an hour or so of your time, you can create a one-way loop that will refresh the water in the pipes and return the cold water to the water heater.

The loop is best located at the place in the house where it takes the longest to get hot water.

You’ll have to “suffer” warm water in your cold tap, but using the smart timer to run only the time it takes to warm the water can limit that.

Example pump kit

From what I can see, their whole Nobel is just claiming to have discovered things everyone in many other disciplines has known for decades (at the last). Maybe economists are just a bit slow.

Neoliberal hacks gonna hack I guess.

You seem deflated.

Anti-consumer corporations right now:

So they’re going to pay the UN to put it back up, right? … Right?!

Was (not was) - Walk the dinosaur featured on the live action Flintstones movie.

And now all the UN countries call for a quid pro quo, right? …

I wonder if it’s more because we frame the question by altering the structure to indicate the appropriate response.

We could just as well ask “you are from where?” Or “your name is what?” That matches the expected sentence structure of a response, and the natural pitch rises.

Maybe we shouldn’t be letting investment bankers make/influence foreign policy. Their motives are clear and perhaps a bit out of touch.

Here’s a mastodon clone: https://bird.makeup/users/kamalahq

I got my pet meds handed to me in a paper bag and somehow managed to give myself a paper cut getting the cat into the car while holding this bag. It was the first paper cut I’ve had in years, and my reaction was “I wonder if this is still recyclable.” Still better than plastic bags, I suppose.

True! My first thought is usually drugs without further context.

So what I see there is that badly designed fonts require ligatures to correct interactions.

Like, I get that there are some neat ones, e.g. I have them turned on when writing code for symbols, but they seem wholly unnecessary and distracting in alphabetical characters.

But I’m also the kind of weirdo that thinks the world needs more monospace fonts.

/shrug