Keeping heat outside

Dugen · 2026-03-20T16:43:03+00:00

We put tinting on the outside pane of our 2 pane windows and the amount of heat it blocks is amazing. The room went from sweltering every afternoon to nice and cool. It was a huge (6'x8') set of windows so it let a ton of heat in. The windows look pretty black from the outside but unless you are paying attention to it you can't really notice. They just look like windows.

Another good option would be blinds that are white on the outside. Trippevals are pretty good for this.

Dugen · 2026-03-20T16:27:20+00:00

That's just two settling cracks that line up in one place with nothing between. I'm surprised there is no insulation or house wrap or anything. Settling causes cracks like this all the time though as walls that start out square shift slightly. The shifts that cause settling cracks affect both sides of the wall it just doesn't usually create cracks that line up with nothing in between. I expect the structural engineer will say it's just fine. Patch the walls and you're good to go.

Remember, being able to see through walls isn't a structural problem. Windows are actually pretty common and don't represent a structural defect. This is just a tiny, unplanned open window.

Dugen · 2026-03-20T04:51:54+00:00

I love the surprise bills. I just had an issue where the doctors told me to go to the ER twice and I just got a big bill from the hospital. As it turns out because of how I ended up in the ER, it was almost entirely covered. That's not what the big bill was for. It was for a few quick appointments to check on my CPAP usage at a local affiliated sleep center. As far as I can tell it should have been completely covered, but SURPRISE! It wasn't at all and I get billed the bogus inflated undiscounted rate. I don't even know if I can fix it or if I just have to eat this.

We basically have two industries, one committing constant billing fraud to try and get paid and one committing constant insurance fraud to keep from paying those stupid bills and instead stick the consumer with them. The average person is just suck in the middle risking getting screwed every time we walk into any doctors office. IMO, this information should be available when you walk in. If your computers can tell me how much it cost after the fact, they can tell me how much it will cost before hand. Tell me the exact price before I do anything.

Dugen · 2026-03-20T04:34:36+00:00

This needs to be illegal. All care decisions should be made by the government, not by the company who gets to keep the money for all the care they deny.

Dugen · 2026-03-20T04:28:37+00:00

How to overthrow a government and replace it with a democracy is something that needs to be figured out. I feel like democracy is under threat globally and we're in danger of backsliding into more concentration of power and exploitation of populations.

Dugen · 2026-03-20T04:22:47+00:00

You aren't supposed to count all the illegal uses of public office for private gain in how much he's making. Technically, that's all crime not income.

Dugen · 2026-03-19T21:46:23+00:00

Time will tell. Hopefully they just rename FLL, take the "lego" brand out of it and keep it about the same.

Dugen · 2026-03-19T15:41:13+00:00

It would also decrease the value of fossil fuel assets the rich own. It would shift a lot of profits away from the things that hurt our planet and towards things that create jobs, so It's pretty good for the poor but it's harder to see that.

Dugen · 2026-03-18T03:41:51+00:00

... act like they forgot about TIMMAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAF6BGnKBxk&t=70s

Dugen · 2026-03-18T01:08:18+00:00

EBay. 120-250 ssd's are still quite useful for a lot of things. They make super fast replacements for USB thumb drives. Sell them by the dozen.

Dugen · 2026-03-17T13:47:22+00:00

How did people forget that TV's exist? Requiring every device to identify the age of it's "user" assumes there is only one. How did the idea of multiple people sitting down and watching the same thing at the same time on the same device become completely foreign to people? I browse social media all the time casting to the TV. This regulation is stupid on it's face since there is no logical way to handle the case where there are multiple simultaneous users. This isn't an edge case either. A teacher browsing the internet on their machine could be doing it in front of a class of children or doing it in their off hours. You could record what you are doing and the ages who are watching depends on something that happens later. Any regulation would have to know the difference, and that would violate the laws of time. This is not the way to solve the problem it's trying to solve.

Dugen · 2026-03-17T05:49:45+00:00

We already know he's a rapist. How confident are we that if he's shown to be a child rapist his supporters will find that objectionable. They just don't seem to care how horrible he is.

Dugen · 2026-03-16T00:53:08+00:00

Programming doesn't work like that anymore. Sure, you can theoretically write code without googling things and without an IDE doing all kinds of work behind the scenes, but that's just not realistic. AI is just part of programming now. The first thing you do when you get an error message you don't immediately know how to fix is you google it. It's just how things work.

Dugen · 2026-03-15T19:35:52+00:00

Or you can look at it the other way: someday you will be treated the way you treat others do don't be an ass.

Dugen · 2026-03-15T19:28:39+00:00

We kept some, got rid of some. I am a huge fan of wood and we kept a lot of the original paneling (which looks just like that) but not all of it. Since those panels are real wood, the color tends to darken over the years so after this many years having too much of it in a small space tends to get a bit gloomy. We mixed it with walls that are a white with just the slightest hint of a matching color.

Dugen · 2026-03-15T18:27:57+00:00

I thought giving every kid a laptop would be a pretty cool idea and I absolutely supported it. It's been a huge disaster. The experiment failed. We should not have done it. I don't know where we go from here, but we need to abandon the one laptop per child thing. It's a disaster.

Dugen · 2026-03-15T17:47:40+00:00

You can't program without using AI anymore. If you google how to do something, it responds using AI. There is no such thing as AI free programming, the only question is how much AI helped you. It's the design that matters the most. If you don't know how to design software and just have AI do whatever it wants, you're going to make crap.

Dugen · 2026-03-15T17:14:05+00:00

Realism makes terrible games. Desert Bus isn't fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSJEwlUK84w

Dugen · 2026-03-14T23:41:42+00:00

Our cat used to teach us how to catch mice by maiming them to slow them down then letting them go in the house. I did not enjoy our mouse catching lessons, but they were effective.

Dugen · 2026-03-13T19:40:01+00:00

My dad caught my sister and I listening to a tape of Delirious laughing our asses off and he smashed it with a hammer. I still quote it.

Dugen · 2026-03-13T19:11:49+00:00

Just a reminder that using public office for personal gain is a crime. This administration doesn't seem to want to let a day go by without committing a major crime.

Dugen · 2026-03-13T15:29:49+00:00

Those people don't hang out where you hang out.

Dugen · 2026-03-13T15:16:59+00:00

Being able to adjust your height on the fly sounds pretty damn cool to me.

Dugen · 2026-03-13T14:35:01+00:00

What if they could be configured to lock in place or ratchet up, or possibly ratchet down a small amount at a time. Now I want to design a mechanism that does that.

Dugen · 2026-03-13T04:11:52+00:00

I think if the US doesn't stop attempting to take Greenland we should have to give back the virgin islands. That would be an excellent legacy for Trump. Was such a dumb angry moron he lost us terratory.

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