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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I wonder if the 'shared local work spaces' - so not at home but also not commuting - business might get a big uptick? Back when I was freelancing there was one of these places just around the corner from my house. I did consider it because I eventually started to miss the minor social interactions of office life, but I never looked into it properly because I figured, I already have all my stuff setup here and I need specific and not terribly portable equipment to do my work so I couldn't really lug it to the shared office and back every day.
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Most efficient (cost effective) small portable electric heater - any recommendations? Ed: deleted all that because what I really meant was 'low wattage' and I just remembered that skirting heaters and greenhouse heaters with low watts are available. You can see what I deleted in quotes by others if you really want to! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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As far as I'm aware there isn't much variety in how efficiently you can convert electricity to heat, because literally everything does that as a byproduct, if it's not making a noise or glowing or doing anything else useful, it's converting electricity to heat, so they're all probably the same in terms of efficiency. So your main choice is probably how much you want to spend to have it not melt or set your house on fire. I'd probably suggest that extra insulation is the easiest option, as well as limiting the amount of space you're heating, which in my case translates to living in a blanket with a hot water bottle. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:As far as I'm aware there isn't much variety in how efficiently you can convert electricity to heat, because literally everything does that as a byproduct, if it's not making a noise or glowing or doing anything else useful, it's converting electricity to heat, so they're all probably the same in terms of efficiency. So your main choice is probably how much you want to spend to have it not melt or set your house on fire. I guess what I should have added then is the temperature profile - ie does the temperature profile on the thermostat vary by 2-3 degrees or .5 degree or some such. While I'm musing - wondering how much extra heating from heaters people are using to make up for the loss of heating from incandescent light bulbs?
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buy a high end gaming computer like me - that way I can pump out up to 700w of heat when I'm feeding in Apex.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Most efficient (cost effective) small portable electric heater - any recommendations? search 'delonghi oil radiator'
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Guavanaut posted:He's changed his tune then. No, it's perfectly consistent. If you want to die, you're not allowed to. If you don't want to, you have to.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Most efficient (cost effective) small portable electric heater - any recommendations? OwlFancier posted:As far as I'm aware there isn't much variety in how efficiently you can convert electricity to heat, because literally everything does that as a byproduct, if it's not making a noise or glowing or doing anything else useful, it's converting electricity to heat, so they're all probably the same in terms of efficiency. So your main choice is probably how much you want to spend to have it not melt or set your house on fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-jmSjy2ArM
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From the replies: https://twitter.com/PatrickBHenry/status/1300781496287006720 My god, the Labour Party is "full to the brim" with people who prioritise socialism?!? (I wish it was, tbh...) What is the Labour Party meant to prioritise in government?
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OK ok, my very sloppy use of language. I guess what I really meant was 'low wattage' - just for background heating. I really don't want a 2kW heater for background. Just remembered about skirting heaters and greenhouse heaters so shall investigate those. Don't @me for forgetting all my science when it comes to real life. Mea culpa stupida. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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CGI Stardust posted:Actually, "The invisible hand of the free market will push everyone back to offices" Says man being paid by landlords to try and stop everyone realising they can save loads of money not travelling an hour to work every day.
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Gonzo McFee posted:"The invisible hand of the free market will push everyone back to offices" Says man being paid by landlords to try and stop everyone realising they can save loads of money not travelling an hour to work every day. From his desk at home.
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He never specified exactly how the invisible hand worked, specifically it gives him an invisible handie until he writes articles supporting that position.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:OK ok, my very sloppy use of language. I guess what I really meant was 'low wattage' - just for background heating. I really don't want a 2kW heater for background. He does raise a valid point about thermostat controls too, the heater is always going to be hotter than the room, so a thermostat on the heater body, whether it's a fine tuned digital one or a simple bimetallic strip will always shut off too soon. You want a thermostat away from the heater. Something like this. re: incandescent lights, I remember during winter we'd put the big light on in the bedroom an hour before bed and it made a significant difference, especially in the single glazing days. A 40W bulb on all the time is enough to keep water from freezing in a shed too (depends on the type obviously, but just as a general observation). Even older, more terrible sources of light are even better heaters, I had a big Aladdin oil lamp in the front room when I first moved in here and the boiler was terrible. Everything they make better in winter they'd make worse in summer though.
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Guavanaut posted:Those personal heaters he mentions in the video seem good for low wattage heating. Yeah maybe I should just get a couple of 'rough service' light bulbs from the hardware store instead  I can see I have to do more investigating. My head aches I need a nana nap.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:OK ok, my very sloppy use of language. I guess what I really meant was 'low wattage' - just for background heating. I really don't want a 2kW heater for background. Have you considered getting a metal barrel and starting a fire in it?
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Jose posted:Have you considered getting a metal barrel and starting a fire in it? I believe the popular term for that is "the government"
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OwlFancier posted:He never specified exactly how the invisible hand worked, specifically it gives him an invisible handie until he writes articles supporting that position. 
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Miftan posted:I believe the popular term for that is "the government" That requires a dumpster that I don't think she'll be able to fit into her home
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Arcane Trickster
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I remember when kids put a bunch of fire crackers and petrol in the dog poo poo bin and it blew the top off the bin and there was scorched dog poo poo everywhere and then the plastic bin burned until there was nothing but a melted plastic wreck on a concrete post and a pile of charred poo poo underneath it. That's the government.
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Ferrosol posted:
Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope)
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope) Nah it's crack, like a whip. Kw-chhh.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Someone make sure to save Breath Ray's poo poo posting just in case he actually runs. youd... doxx me?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope) 
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Ferrosol posted:
Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope)
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Am I stuck in a 10 minute Groundhog Day about wanking or am I having a stroke? 
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Guavanaut posted:*me, wanking normally* haha wank machine goes brrr
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yeah maybe I should just get a couple of 'rough service' light bulbs from the hardware store instead Why don't you try one of those Japanese heated tables? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu Could rig one with a small heater and a blanket. You wouldn't even need that much wattage because of the insulation. Edit - or get a bitcoin mining rig and make money while keeping warm 
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On the BBC note from earlier in the day, Amol Rajan has a column for the BBC where he idly muses on - among other things - the potential for Pigfucker to become the next Chairman of the BBC. Because the last couple of appointments have been Tory stooges. He also acknowledges that the new stooge appointed to be Director-General is also a Tory, but massively downplays the fact, saying merely that the person who could fire him at a moment's notice had a "minor" role. Thanks, BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan. Incisive commentary. In the words of your article "abolish the TV license".
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stev posted:Nah it's crack, like a whip. Kw-chhh. How about 'crack' like one of those 3D puzzles. Get all the bits of your penis in the right position and a wank comes out
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Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope)
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so ignoring whether or not its a stupid idea is it actually possible for me to get any money from my pension because that £11.5k would be extremely useful rn
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Skeletome posted:Crank one out, surely. You don't "crack" out a wank like your penis is a christmas cracker or a fortune cookie (i hope)
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Borrovan posted:*me, wanking normally* haha wank machine goes brrr
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What's that? It's a new thread? Finally, it's autumn (according to the deep state  ), the madness of Covid-19 has subsided and we can look forward to some normalcy... ...oh no. [Source: Imperial College Department of We're All hosed] So after school closure and a half arsed lockdown we've followed that first part of the green curve pretty much exactly, and despite large protests in London against a second wave, SARS-CoV-2 has not yet issued a response.  (thanks NotJustANumber99) Which means these may be seeing a new round of importance soon: Find Your Local COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group - or set one up Also check: https://freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/ https://secretldn.com/uk-community-aid-groups-by-area/ https://queercare.network/our-work/resources/covid-19/ In Other News  • The Conservatives are attempting to undermine the Electoral Commission for what can surely only be legitimate reasons. • The Office for National Statistics reports that Britain's GDP fell by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, the biggest quarterly decline since records began in 1955, and the worst economic figure of any G7 nation. Sacrificing the care homes for the highest excess deaths to save the economy really worked well. • Ofqual. You know what happened there. It was an algorithm. • Scientists identify the earliest person known to have been infected by the coronavirus within the UK, a 75-year-old woman from Notts, who tested positive on 21 February. • Plans for an RAF station on Anglesey to use Llanbedr airfield in Gwynedd to train Saudi pilots to do war crimes have now been 'formally paused.' • Britain First is invading hotels housing refugees, and unlike the migrant boats the press is actually ignoring it. • Sir Ed Davey Cameron Fan is selected as the next leader of the Liberal Democrats, with 63.5% of votes. • Other news still cancelled due to Coronavirus.  Me, wanking normally, 2020
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have... have i got covid am i having one of those covid dreams
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so ignoring whether or not its a stupid idea is it actually possible for me to get any money from my pension because that £11.5k would be extremely useful rn
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thespaceinvader posted:I can understand this. Even I'm starting to get fed up with the level of precautions I'm taking, and I'm probably among the most paranoid regular posters about this stuff - but I'm also panicking about going back into work for like 2 hours tomorrow (probably pointlessly, as they've already acknowledged that they probably don't need me in in person for the foreseeable future). Jose posted:so ignoring whether or not its a stupid idea is it actually possible for me to get any money from my pension because that £11.5k would be extremely useful rn
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