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my apartment here in sf is colder than any canadian house in the dead of winter. the heater sounds like a wind tunnel and barely warms the place up and as soon as it turns off you can feel the heat sucking out the cracks around the doors. the windows radiate coldness from like four feet away.
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also windows in particular are one of those things that once you've got wooden frames older than your car you're probably stuck with them
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my apartment building was constructed around 2000 and i think it was originally condos so the windows are all great and the walls are thick etc. lots of older grandfathered buildings around it though. i like the little trick where as long as you don't do any work on the place, you can leave it as is, but as soon as you want to do anything to upgrade it then you have to do all the code compliance poo poo along with whatever you wanted to do
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and make sure not to do too much work or else you'll trigger a reassessment and lose that 1970s tax rate
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Sagebrush posted:my apartment here in sf is colder than any canadian house in the dead of winter. the heater sounds like a wind tunnel and barely warms the place up and as soon as it turns off you can feel the heat sucking out the cracks around the doors. the windows radiate coldness from like four feet away. its just really funny how there's a whole trend along the west coast of people going "oh well we dont need to fix the housing for cold or heat, It Never Happens Here" as they freeze to death or get baked by the regular "freak heat waves" that have been happening for 40 years like you hear about this happening in sf, but also greater silicon valley, and like portland and seattle etc
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Jan 23, 2019 02:24
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every single person in california is an absolute wuss about any weather that isn't perfect
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i mean it's not exactly freezing to death, i think my apartment stabilizes at about 61 degrees when everything's off and there's no one home but it's ridiculous that it's so leaky you cannot keep it above 65 unless the heater is actively blowing
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Jan 23, 2019 02:32
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Sagebrush posted:unless the heater is actively blowing Don't talk about your mother that way.
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Sagebrush posted:i mean it's not exactly freezing to death, i think my apartment stabilizes at about 61 degrees when everything's off and there's no one home er im not saying you're freezing to death, but rather that like you got a bunch of old people in the area who do freeze to death due to a regionwide refusal to fix the housing stock, just as during the heat waves you have them dying of heat exhaustion cuz it went to 100 outside and the a/c doesn't exist
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Infinotize posted:every single person in california is an absolute wuss about any weather that isn't perfect that's because it's so unusual 
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Schadenboner posted:Don't talk about your mother that way. heater = gun you have to shoot off a lot to get her warmed up
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here's a fun recruiter email i got today:quote:Do you want to discuss an exciting startup position with the benefits of a top company? Here at Simplr, we offer 24-hour high-quality US-based customer service to enterprise companies, and unlike most startups we have large company financial backing! We need a top Sr. Full-Stack Node.js/Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team! customer service node JS full stack infrastructure engineer, oh boy sign me right the gently caress up for that hell
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gentrification gone global
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Gross. I read this a few years ago that made them seem better than the average tech company, but it could just be a puff piece. Anyone know anything more? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/technology/mailchimp-and-the-un-silicon-valley-way-to-make-it-as-a-start-up.html
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Sagebrush posted:my apartment here in sf is colder than any canadian house in the dead of winter. the heater sounds like a wind tunnel and barely warms the place up and as soon as it turns off you can feel the heat sucking out the cracks around the doors. the windows radiate coldness from like four feet away.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:tbf i expect that "why can't i build this like it's the 70s" is prolly gonna be asked by the people behind any kinda affordable housing project anyway
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evil_bunnY posted:Every time I've gone to the US i've been completely shocked by how little isolation you nerds are using. Scandigoons have been enjoying 3/4 pane windows for like 30+ years. everything in america is such poo poo, its amazing. infrastructure all hosed up, everything falling apart.
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Wheany posted:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/ I guess I’ll have to get that PiHole spun up then. I mean, it sucks and all but I’m legit surprised this didn’t get done years ago.
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Wheany posted:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/ nefarious third parties who may sneak in and interfere with your ability to engage with your favorite brands
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Schadenboner posted:I guess I’ll have to get that PiHole spun up then. have you considered...firefox
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I would expect this to get rethought a bit in response to the outcry, honestly. I'm pretty sure the intention behind removing the old api isn't actually nefarious banning-ad-blockers stuff, it's simply that if the old api still works then absolutely nobody is going to bother to migrate and so you don't actually get any of the performance benefits they're aiming for. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up still allowing stuff to use the old api, but required a new permission with way more scary warning text (to discourage extension developers who don't actually need it from going that route).
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Krankenstyle posted:everything in america is such poo poo, its amazing. infrastructure all hosed up, everything falling apart.
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I had a friend who decided to go "digital nomad" for almost two years. She spent about half the time going around Mexico and South America (she spoke fluent Spanish and was pretty outgoing, so she had a ton of fun there) and the other half bouncing between Japan and Thailand (where she got really into muay thai training). One thing she learned, that they almost certainly won't mention in that series, is that she was breaking the law pretty much the whole time by working in those countries without a work permit, and she had to keep her head low and have cash on hand to bribe cops who decided to hassle her when they realized she wasn't a tourist.
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gonadic io posted:have you considered...firefox 
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LanceHunter posted:I had a friend who decided to go "digital nomad" for almost two years. She spent about half the time going around Mexico and South America (she spoke fluent Spanish and was pretty outgoing, so she had a ton of fun there) and the other half bouncing between Japan and Thailand (where she got really into muay thai training). yeahp
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free movement of capital but restricted movement of labor ftw!!!
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LanceHunter posted:I had a friend who decided to go "digital nomad" for almost two years. She spent about half the time going around Mexico and South America (she spoke fluent Spanish and was pretty outgoing, so she had a ton of fun there) and the other half bouncing between Japan and Thailand (where she got really into muay thai training). can’t make a disruptive omelette without breaking a few laws
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Jabor posted:I would expect this to get rethought a bit in response to the outcry, honestly. you know what also gives performance benefits? blocking ads.
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I whitelisted a site I frequently read and was greeted with an uncloseable video ad that moved down the page and blocked half the article I was trying to read
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incels interlinked posted:I whitelisted a site I frequently read and was greeted with an uncloseable video ad that moved down the page and blocked half the article I was trying to read whitelist nothing, no mercy to advertisers
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a reminder that this is tonightquote:ABC documentary on Theranos features ex-CEO deposition tapes
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