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- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 1 week ago:
Beth Mole, a writer at Ars Technica, has a fun example with Rat Lungworm: Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain.
It started with a bizarre burning sensation in her feet. Over the next two days, the searing pain crept up her legs. Any light touch made it worse, and over-the-counter pain medicine offered no relief.
and so on until it’s diagnosed, then some lifecycle/vector explanation:
For instance, if a slug or snail traverses a leaf of lettuce, leaving a slime trail in its wake, the leaf can be contaminated with the larvae.
- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 1 week ago:
Unheated but insulated unfinished basement. And this unit does have duct connections that I haven’t made use of (yet).
- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 1 week ago:
Hah, I do watch the channel, though was planning the upgrade before his specific influence. But I am inspired by his description of only running the WH at certain times of day (haven’t figured out how to do that yet).
- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have to watch how it changes in the winter.
I have a State, and actually the resistance heating is the 1st unit after the heat pump failed; then I got it replaced under (parts-but-not-labor) warrantee. So I’m a big fan of the technology but not the brand. However, the new State does have duct connections, maybe it’d be worth hooking those up. You like the Geospring?
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- Comment on Ore Energy connects world’s first grid-connected iron-air battery in Delft 3 weeks ago:
Sounds extremely similar to US-based Form Energy (founded 2017), down to the 100-hour target and container based installation. Ore Energy says they were founded 2022. Anyway, cool to have more activity in the long duration grid storage space.
- Comment on From holes in the earth to powerhouses: The solar potential of abandoned pit mines is huge. 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. A little more specific than “hey free land” though it doesn’t seem like it being a pit is actually a factor.
Abandoned mines tend to have decent road access and solid connections to the grid, ready-made infrastructure that could be useful for solar installations. What’s more, solar projects on abandoned mine sites could also help revitalize mining community economies.
Solar could also aid restoration by keeping bare soils from drying out or blowing away and making it easier for plants to get established.
- Comment on How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results? 4 weeks ago:
Decided to pay for Kagi, and now Google results look even more ridiculous.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 5 weeks ago:
I just searched for “stereo pair MRI”, I didn’t have others that I’ve seen. Glad you enjoyed them!
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the additional examples!
Is the last one (lion statue & building) a reprojection? I didn’t see depth (or parallax) in the background, just between the lion and the building.
- Comment on A heat wave hit New England's grid. Clean energy saved the day. 1 month ago:
On June 24, behind-the-meter solar made up as much as 22% of the power being used in New England at any given time, according to the Acadia Center. At 3:40 p.m., total demand peaked at 28.5 GW, of which 4.4 GW was met by solar installed by homeowners, businesses, and other institutions.
Nice!
Today, in the mid 80s and partly cloudy, our solar has been covering and sometimes exceeding the cooling load as well as charging the EV slowly. A residential battery would definitely help even things out (covering nighttime load as well), but there’s no time-of-use rates or battery program like Vermont’s where I am so it’s not quite worth it.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
TIL. Seems to be a rigid scope, so:
Rigid cystoscope: These cystoscopes don’t bend. Your provider may pass instruments through the tube to perform biopsies or remove tumors. This cystoscope is usually only used with sedation or general anesthesia.
Doesn’t explain the other hand though.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 2 months ago:
I didn’t have a printer but do know someone with one, I bet I could ask for a little filament. Sounds fun to try.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 2 months ago:
In this case combined with accidental side pressure and cold weather.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 2 months ago:
Thanks! Yeah, I think the string is taking the major tension load, and the glue just keeps it from falling off / unwinding / abrading.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 2 months ago:
Fun solution, I do have some other failed plastic pieces I might want to upgrade to metal.
Though SCS seems to do flat/folded pieces, not volumetric, from skimming their site.
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m just getting:
Please moderate the content of your question before submitting it.
- Comment on Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap: It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour. 3 months ago:
But the article analyses those points and concludes (a) forced labor is bad but not a big part of the finances, and (b) the US does just as much subsidization.
- Comment on Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap: It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour. 3 months ago:
Interesting point about tariffs specifically in renewables:
[Tariffs are] not good interventions if the goal [is] to increase the number of energy jobs in European and American markets. That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 3 months ago:
I’m just wishing my utility offered Time of Use rates so I could meaningfully optimize my EV charging and water heating use timing.
- Comment on Leptopoma perlucidum 3 months ago:
I’m not coming up with a lot, but Bali Wildlife says:
The eyes are located at the base of the antennae on flat papillae.
- Comment on How and where should I keep backups of system configurations? 4 months ago:
If you haven’t played with Pulumi (for configuring cloud services) and Ansible (for local services, shell commands, apt installs etc) you may enjoy them as a way to capture / re-apply configuration.
- Comment on Multiple Lemmy Accounts? 5 months ago:
How do you manage switching between accounts? I ideally just want one feed.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 5 months ago:
Steganography may be interesting in that vein. Hiding data within larger images / sound files etc.
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 6 months ago:
Thanks!
Rat King
Ah, that’s what that blue bull with yellow hair is.
some additional details
> Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs And they always face each other. > Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him And they always face away from the chest, but turn towards it when you open the chest. > Dragon - Defeat it to end the game with a win. Defeat it to get 13 gold, pick up gold to reveal crown, pick up crown to end game. But if you’re trying to collect all the gold you can, it’s OK to defeat the dragon and keep going a little.
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 6 months ago:
Fun, even works on Linux (Ubuntu) after turning on Proton for all games. I like the level-based design.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 6 months ago:
that discussion of topics that was more popular on Lemmy, like Linux, would drown out my other interests
I certainly run into that. I don’t think I have the energy for multiple accounts, but I wish I could ask for roughly equal numbers of posts from my top 4-5 communities, instead of News + WorldNews dominating everything.
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 6 months ago:
Yeah that one’s a mystery to me. Sometimes disappears, sometimes gives you gold. I was wondering if it’s related to the blue bull in some way.
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 6 months ago:
Having learned more about the patterns, I can see that I should have
explored more near the (hint)
6 since that’s a Minotaur ::: spoiler and there will be a (spoiler) chest by it.
So with the board state as it was I couldn’t necessarily have done better, but better strategy could have let me survive on the same initial board.
Still nowhere near the times some people are posting though.
