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frozenpussy posted:This is why when I look for an apartment I make sure the unit is not the top floor, and is preferably facing north. Use other tenants' air conditioned living spaces as my heat buffer. It's a deal breaker if I can't find such a unit, and the first thing I ask about. I'm moving into a top floor apartment next week.  Upsides: it faces north, and the vents aren't in the ceiling (they're on the walls around 7 ft off the floor), so I should be able to at least stay comfortable. My wallet is dreading the electric bills though.
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Shifty Pony posted:Air conditioning rules but I really don't understand the people that keep it cranked to insanely low temperatures. Here in Texas unless you have a medical condition you should be able to deal with 85 degrees no problem so why on earth do people keep their A/C set to 72 all day? I hear people complain about $300-$400 per month electric bills sometimes. Do you mean 85 degrees inside the house? Because that is absolutely ludicrous for an inside temperature. Here in FL you'd be so hot and everything would be sticky thanks to humidity. And while 72* is pretty cool for a house, pretty much and restaurant or store you go into will be set for 72*. Turns out humans are most comfortable in the mid 70s! ExplodingSims fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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No I meant outside. The warmer it is outside the cooler it feels inside. Stepping into a 72 degree place after being outside in high 90s is sometimes enough of a shock to give me a headache. 78 seems to be the best setting to please most people. Restaurants are also often cold because they are often on a single zone of AC and they keep it set low so that the kitchen doesn't get too roasting. (I do regularly let my office get to 84-87 and don't mind it one bit with a fan running. But I think my internal comfort thermometer got broken when I lost a ton of weight) Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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I think you'd be surprised about how much ac restaurants use. A little mom and pop place might have one zone of ac, but pretty much any regular place will have a deticated kitchen unit and 3-4 units for the floor. If they're really serious about keeping the kitchen cool they'll even have a contidioned make up air unit.
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Darchangel posted:also, come to Texas in about July, and tell me again about "cool night air." We're lucky if it's not still 95F at 2 AM... This poo poo right here. If I hear one more loving person tell me to just "open the windows at night!" I will cut them.
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topenga posted:This poo poo right here. If I hear one more loving person tell me to just "open the windows at night!" I will cut them. Yeah, up in Kansas we have a few months of the year where this is absolutely not an option. Sure, it may be in the upper 70s, but when the humidity matches, it doesn't help at all. I'm a weenie when it comes to high termperatures, since I start having trouble functioning once you hit 78, but I can live pretty comfortably in a house that's around 63 in the winter, so I figure it evens out a bit.
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We put a ceiling fan in our bedroom, so we don't need to make it nearly as chilly during the summer since we now have some air movement.
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Dang, is it 'bitch about the A/C' o'clock in this thread already? Florida here. It's a swamp. I am now used to 90°/90%. I work outside part-time. Yeah, it sucks in summer, but it's worth the hella nice weather for the other 9 months. AC gets set at 78 to dry the house out in summer, and 70 to heat it in 'winter'. If I walk in and out of super cold Publix or Walmart too many times too quickly, the temperature changes make me faint. It was 92 yesterday with a nice breeze and I was shockingly comfortable. Could have sworn it was only in the mid 80s.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Dang, is it 'bitch about the A/C' o'clock in this thread already? It's loving weird what the human body can acclimate to, and equally weird what individual people are unable to acclimate to. I'd love to see some stats on perceived heat and comfort correlated with various factors like volume of sweat produced controlled for time and temperature. I figure there have to be some genes involved, like the thermal version of that gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, or the one that makes skunk smell good.
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Fat gross people often feel too hot.
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Guy Axlerod posted:I went to a conference in Las Vegas, and on check-in, they handed out a zipped sweat shirt as a gift. I was super confused by the logic there, but I saw plenty of people wearing them throughout the conference. Long clothing in summer is more about sun protection than warmth. I'll wear a hoodie pretty often even in 90+ weather because heat may be unpleasant, but a sunburn is worse.
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Why don't you wear a long-sleeved shirt instead?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's loving weird what the human body can acclimate to, and equally weird what individual people are unable to acclimate to. I'd love to see some stats on perceived heat and comfort correlated with various factors like volume of sweat produced controlled for time and temperature. I figure there have to be some genes involved, like the thermal version of that gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, or the one that makes skunk smell good. Is the soap-cilantro gene even real or is it just an Internet thing cooked up by nerds with babby palates?
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Guy Axlerod posted:I went to a conference in Las Vegas, and on check-in, they handed out a zipped sweat shirt as a gift. I was super confused by the logic there, but I saw plenty of people wearing them throughout the conference. So you were are reinvent last year too?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Is the soap-cilantro gene even real or is it just an Internet thing cooked up by nerds with babby palates? It's real, and can be tested for.
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Motronic posted:So you were are reinvent last year too? 2014, but yeah. I don't know what I did with the AWS branded socks they were also handing out.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's real, and can be tested for. by eating cilantro?
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Baronjutter posted:Fat gross people often feel too hot. Brah I aint skinny I'm poorly insulated Jerry Cotton posted:Is the soap-cilantro gene even real or is it just an Internet thing cooked up by nerds with babby palates? It's real! I pitty the poor mutants. Ha, imagine if that was an indicator of the X-gene in the marvel universe. Instead of a blood test they just invite you to a Mexican restaurant.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's loving weird what the human body can acclimate to, and equally weird what individual people are unable to acclimate to. I'd love to see some stats on perceived heat and comfort correlated with various factors like volume of sweat produced controlled for time and temperature. I figure there have to be some genes involved, like the thermal version of that gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, or the one that makes skunk smell good. Yeah, it's weird. I sweat in anything over 80* or so, but I have zero problems ever going from 0* WIF to 72* Store to 110* Rooftop within the span of about 5 mins. All day 'erry day. But I also can't sleep if its higher than 75* and I have to have a ceiling fan running. The human body is weird.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Is the soap-cilantro gene even real or is it just an Internet thing cooked up by nerds with babby palates? 'C' nucleotides in position 6868417 on Chromosome 11 (in the OR10A2 gene) shows a statistically significant (p=0.0000000064) correlation with soapy cilantro taste. However, the effect size is small and it shows poor heritability, so while there is clearly a genetic link it is not a simple, straightforward yes/no gene. edit: one of the great things about my "walk-in basement" house is that it's always cool (mid-60s), so when I come inside from hot weather I get a nice blast of cold, without being chilly when I'm on the main level.
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Zhentar posted:'C' nucleotides in position 6868417 on Chromosome 11 (in the OR10A2 gene) shows a statistically significant (p=0.0000000064) correlation with soapy cilantro taste. However, the effect size is small and it shows poor heritability, so while there is clearly a genetic link it is not a simple, straightforward yes/no gene. Same with licorice? Cilantro tastes like plastic to me, but I'm OK with it.
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GotLag posted:Why don't you wear a long-sleeved shirt instead? Personally? No hood to protect the head/neck, and harder to modify for temperature adjustment including just taking the whole thing off. I think the problem is do other people in other countries not have summer-weight/winter-weight hoodies?
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there wolf posted:Personally? No hood to protect the head/neck, and harder to modify for temperature adjustment including just taking the whole thing off. Get a bunch of linen shirts
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If if visit the US I'm just going to rock these because apparently the temperatures and climate there are totally unsuitable to human life 
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Baronjutter posted:If if visit the US I'm just going to rock these because apparently the temperatures and climate there are totally unsuitable to human life Can confirm. I'm from Arizona.
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After you spend a few hours at 114, it's downright refreshing to get down to 106.
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there wolf posted:Personally? No hood to protect the head/neck, and harder to modify for temperature adjustment including just taking the whole thing off. I do the thing where I wear a baseball cap with a cotton dish towel or maybe a tshirt tucked under it to cover my neck. gently caress a hoodie anyway.
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PainterofCrap posted:Same with licorice? I don't think licorice taste preference has been studied. But it may be linked to bitter taste perception, and there are two genes linked to bitter perception with very strong effect sizes (can't look it up right now, but iirc there was a a statistically significant correlation with consumption of coffee and dark beer)
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keyboard vomit posted:Get a bunch of linen shirts Yeah, I'm totally going to throw out all my washable cotton-knits in favor of something I have to iron.
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Tunicate posted:After you spend a few hours at 114, it's downright refreshing to get down to 106. Not yet for me, no. I'd rather chill at 45 then ever have to deal with 114 ever again.
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I find -20F tolerable enough to walk through it naked, but +85F is intolerably hot.
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there wolf posted:Yeah, I'm totally going to throw out all my washable cotton-knits in favor of something I have to iron. Embrace the linen winkles, it's a good look.
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its 8.8 degrees outside and ive got my fire going to keep the house at 22.5 degrees. Our friends down the road who DONT have a fireplace are currently rocking 14 degrees inside their house.
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Sometimes the temperature makes me sweaty and sometimes it makes me shiver depending on the range
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Ferremit posted:8.8 Nazi connotations Nazi connotations Ferremit posted:22.5 Maybe just bad luck with random numbers?
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Platystemon posted:Nazi connotations 
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22.5° is half of 45° which is the angle you rotate the swastika to make it a Nazi hakenkreuz.
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kaschei posted:22.5° is half of 45° which is the angle you rotate the swastika to make it a Nazi hakenkreuz. That's the only Nazi thing you could come up with for 45?
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Thinking of you all this fine Thursday morning My apologies, though, it's more like 600 pounds.
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I'm wondering if I should be concerned about this shed my neighbour built. Our lots are pretty close together and it's aligned with my air conditioner. I'm concerned that it might direct an excess amount of water towards it but I really don't know if I have anything to worry about. 
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