BastingChemina
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- Comment on heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I don’t know much about infrared lamps so I can’t really help on that.
However I can give you some ideas on how to improve your thermal comfort for a very low budget. I don’t have any information about your situation, your home, the temperature you are reaching so it will be very vague but hopefully it can help.
Thermal Effusivity of the walls/floor
The thermal effusivity is a metric of how “cold” a material will feel. For example stone, ceramic or glass have a very high effusivity. It means that if you touch a ceramic tile at 10°C it will feel very cold, on the other hand wood, fabric, lime or earth plaster have a low effusivity, so if you touch a piece of wood at 10°C it will not feel as cold as the ceramic.
It will also impact how much the material radiates or absorbs heat, so a room covered in wood or tapestries will feel warmer than a room covered in tiles.
You can use that to your advantage by
- covering the floor with carpets
- covering the windows with thick curtains
- covering the walls with wood, wallpaper, lime/straw plaster or go very old school with tapestries.
Insulation
I’m stating the obvious but insulating your body is the most effective form of insulation. On material nothing beats wool, it will keep you warm in any condition.
Indoor you A thick wool sweater, wool gloves, wool socks, wool scarf and most importantly a wool hat ! Even if the head rarely feel cold most of the body heat is lost through the head.
All of these can be found cheaply in thrift stores, if you have a bit of money I highly recommend investing in merino wool underlayers too ! It can make a huge difference, it’s an investment but it will save money on the heating.
Then the house insulation is important, it is way more expensive but first making the house “air stream proof” will help.
- Comment on Ever since I've started running like a penguin with it's butt on fire I've saved so many precious calories 4 weeks ago:
From what I’ve read we are energy efficient but this is not the main reason why we are good persistent hunters.
We have two main advantages, one we can stand above the tall grass to spot our prey from afar but mainly we sweat !
We are extremely good at regulating our internal temperature in hot climates compared to other animals, this way we can just follow them until they overheat at which point they physically have to stop.
This is also why persistent hunting is practiced by tribes in the hot savanna of Africa, I have not heard about any example of persistent hunting in cold climates.
- Comment on Starlink with self hosted? 2 months ago:
If it’s just you using your self hosted server then tailscale would be my go to solution with no hesitation.
- Comment on France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas 2 months ago:
This include all existing parking lots above 1500m2 that will have to be retrofitted.
It’s a great news.
- Comment on EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit 2 months ago:
The nutriscore is juices is a C at best, so in this case it shows that juices are not as healthy as people thought.
- Comment on EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit 2 months ago:
You don’t need the nutriscore to compare humus to frozen pizza and I don’t think anyone is using it for that.
On the other hand it’s quite helpful to pick which pizza to buy. If one pizza is a F and another one is a B I’ll tend to go for the B. Especially if I’m shopping with kids I don’t have the time to check the label of each pizza box.
Another beneficial aspect of the nutriscore is that brands are now trying to have a good nutriscore, so now we are seeing a lot more processed food with whole wheat and lower level of sugar.
So as a whole I really think the nutriscore improved the nutritional value of what French people are eating.
- Comment on This 3GW Gobi Desert solar farm can power 2 million households 2 months ago:
China is also building more nuclear reactors than the rest of the world.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 2 months ago:
I agree, the whole game is an art piece.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 months ago:
First steep, gather all the ocean’s trash.
Good luck with that !
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
Including 14 inn the US.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 3 months ago:
Similarly seasoning peppers are a staple of Caribbean cuisine. They look and taste almost identical to habaneros peppers minus the heat.
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 3 months ago:
Factorio !
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 3 months ago:
Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 3 months ago:
Don’t forget Serge Gainsbourg
- Comment on solar PV → heat pump → water heater; direct, no A/C or intermediate components. Practical? Feasible? 4 months ago:
Yes, thermal solar panels would be way more appropriate.
While trying to gain a few % through the transformation process OP is not addressing the elephant in the room: PV panels turn around 20% of the sun energy into electricity, thermal panels turn around 80% of the same energy into heat, They are way more efficient.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 4 months ago:
Are you using an American, Canadian, British or metric cup ?
Because they are all different measurements.
- Comment on Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime 4 months ago:
Astronomer hate this simple trick to ruin all observations.
- Comment on FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames. 4 months ago:
More specifically SpaceX got a contract to bulls the moon lander for NASA.
So SpaceX is going to land in the moon.
- Comment on The most recognizable leaf silhouette is the marijuana leaf. 5 months ago:
Palm leaves ?
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 5 months ago:
Yep, I think we pictures are becoming a valuable as text and it is fine, we just need to get used to it.
Before photography became mainstream the only source of information was written, it is extremely simple to make a fake story so people had to rely on trusted sources. Then for a short period of history photography became a (kinda) reliable sources of information by itself and this trust system lost its importance.
In most cases seeing a photo means that we were seeing a true reflection of what happened, especially if we were song multiple photos of the same event.
Now we are arriving at the end of this period, we cannot trust a photo by itself anymore, tampering a photo is becoming as easy as writing a fake story. This is a great opportunity for journalists I believe.
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 5 months ago:
I really don’t have much knowledge on it but it sound like it’s would be an actual good application of blockchain.
Couldn’t a blockchain be used to certify that pictures are original and have not been tampered with ?
On the other hand if it was possible I’m certain someone either have already started it, it is the prefect investor magnet “Using blockchain to counter AI”
- Comment on CAMPEÃO DO MUNDO 5 months ago:
Same, none of the Brazilian I’ve meet said they ever been murdered.
- Comment on Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other 5 months ago:
If the tech bros really wants self driving transportation we can give them that:
Self driving subway, goes 75km/h in the city center, fully electric, convenient, consistent, safe.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 5 months ago:
Using off the shelve components is not an issue, even NASA does it but they have very precise procedures on how to select them.
- Comment on Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says. 5 months ago:
On this particular topic (credit card debt) it is way better in other places.
The median credit card debt is by far the highest in the US compared to other countries. https://www.cardrates.com/advice/average-credit-card-debt-by-country/
- Comment on For here am I sitting in my tin can 5 months ago:
From what I see the thrusters are faulty.
Boeing said the cause is a Teflon seal bulging, they cannot identify why and when it is bulging but they say it will not happen on the way down.
Also, all the previous flights of Starliner had thruster malfunctions or shutdowns and they “fixed it” without knowing the root cause of the issue.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 5 months ago:
Applied to a real situation I’ve been through :
- my pool 4.5m wide, 9m long and 1.5m deep, the current level of salt is 2.5g/l and a bag of salt weight 20kg. How many bags of salt do I need to bring the level to 3g/l ?
- OR: my pool 14’9" wide, 29’6" long and 5’ deep, the current level of salt is 2500ppm and a bag of salt weights 40lbs. How many bags of salt do I need to bring the level to 3000ppm ?
The answer to one is 1.5 bag, the answer to the other one is “fuck that, I’m getting 8 bags at the store and it should be good enough”
- Comment on Aluminum 5 months ago:
I love my steel bike, it’s great on the road, on gravel or for a quick grocery shop.
I’m not gonna win any competition with it but it is honestly such a fun bike.
And with care it should last forever.
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 5 months ago:
Jeremy Soule made some soundtracks.
Guild wars 1 and 2, Skyrim …
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 6 months ago:
Probably diplomatic passport holder.
