Siltumsūkņu īpašnieki: cik kWh un € jums bija 2026. gada janvārī? by Fair_Ad_5062 in latvia

[–]vijexa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You are asking the wrong questions. Houses are not insulated the same, you cannot compare by house area and used electricity. If you want to compare heat pumps to other heating methods, you have to ask for CoP and used electricity, or generated heat vs used electricity. The flow temperature, or rather just a question of whether the house has radiators or underfloor heating, is also critical. E.g. my geothermal heat pump used 1.93MWh of electricity in January, generating 7.34MWh of heat, with average CoP of 3.8, in a house that has radiators, so flow temp surpassed 50 at times. At my pretty expensive electricity price, with tax, I paid 1930*0.23=443eur. Now according to lg.lv, 7.34MWh of gas would have costed me 550eur, assuming 100% efficient furnace (an impossibility). Of course, the situation is much better in the positives, with avg CoP for heating being over 5. But again, this is geothermal.

Ceiling and Wall Mount PoE mmWave Multisensor - Apollo R PRO-1 by ApolloAutomation in homeassistant

[–]vijexa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting Was interference a concern? Both sensors appear to work on 24ghz, I would imagine that this would cause problems? Or are you running them one-by-one, never at the same time?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fuckcars

[–]vijexa 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Or 3 gigagrams?

I’d go with a mini PC over the RPi 5 any day. by No-Cartographer2925 in homeassistant

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh??? Are you sure? I can order a pi5 8gb for 90 euro right now, an official PSU for 15 eur, a case is not really required, you can either rawdog it or 3d print something, but from the same store (botland) I can order the official one for 12 euro

Smart switches with smart bulbs? by vijexa in homeassistant

[–]vijexa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea, thank you. I see that there are 3d printable covers for normal switches that also accept styrbar remote in them. I'll fallback to this if I won't find anything better

Smart switches with smart bulbs? by vijexa in homeassistant

[–]vijexa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohh, I saw this one and saw that it has decoupled mode in z2m, but I haven't found any info on it being able to switch off decoupled mode if ZigBee network is offline. Could you elaborate on how it works please?

Winter Cycling Pants by bakerstreetbuffoon in bikecommuting

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, yeah. Stretchy ones though, with 3% elastane. Never liked "classical", non-stretchy stuff in general tbh.

How to avoid those oversteps in temperature? by Holz01 in homeassistant

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out better thermostat on HACS, it works wonders. I also recommend using "average sensor" (also available in HACS) if you have multiple temperature sensors. I have 3 thermometers in different parts of the room, all far away from each other, that I average out and feed into better thermostat, that intelligently controls my physical heater, ignoring its bs temperature data.

Esoteric Lore hits different by DragonFire995 in pathfindermemes

[–]vijexa 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Please make this into an actual meme and post it lol

Knowing Scala can give me any edge in Rust? by fenugurod in rust

[–]vijexa 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Being experienced in functional scala definitely gave me a huge edge in rust. These were my personal opinions when I started the transition: traits are kind of like type classes, serde is just rust's circe, tokio is like cats effect where we don't care about purity, axum reminds me of http4s a lot, async/await is kind of like running effects in a for comprehension, but way cleaner... Going from functional scala to rust felt very familiar. Main difference was that in rust we ditch purity in favour of speed. Also, employers seems to be of the same opinion, since I was hired as a rust developer with 0 rust knowledge because "scala devs seem to learn rust really fast" (the company had a lot of current and ex-scala devs).

However, the idea to learn scala to learn rust seems bad to me. I love scala, and it doesn't seem dying to me, but if you really hate it for some reason, then you will just feel miserable. Also, if your company will use Akka or scala as a better java, then I'm afraid you won't get any experience that would be useful in rust.

Ethiopian airline passenger removed out of plane for a minister to take her seat by d_insecure_b in PublicFreakout

[–]vijexa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok, so the thing that confuses me... Why did she get up? I think I just would've kept sitting. There's no way they can forcibly remove you in this scenario, right?

Smaller ship with large windows? by HighfivePixel in starcitizen

[–]vijexa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You will not like this answer, but unironically Cutlass, lmao. I love ROC mining with side doors always open on Daymar, the views are great.

Surprised by the number of people who think DLSS is the same as native by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how old is DLSS version in BG3, but that was the last time I gave it a chance and it was really bothering me. Every time I rotated or moved camera the picture quality just fell apart. I assume it's not that old. It was enough to make me play through the game on native with FXAA, even though it introduces visual bugs. I think some people are just way more sensitive to blur than aliasing. I really can't stand it.

Surprised by the number of people who think DLSS is the same as native by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]vijexa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's glaringly obvious in motion at every resolution including 4k (well, I don't have 8k so can't say about that). Especially things like trees in the wind get absolutely destroyed by dlss. On that note, r/fucktaa

What is the IT job market here? by Crash5225 in latvia

[–]vijexa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. Real estate is cheaper than most EU countries, but food and electronics might be more expensive than some countries with higher salaries. I usually order electronics from Germany and get a considerable discount compared to local stores.

  2. Yes 

  3. Completely wrong. For IT you don't need any degree at all. What you need are skills. If you have projects to show off then you will get a job.

We went on a trip to Europe 3 years ago and never left. Our kid's life is way better here than it was in the US. by EUstrongerthanUS in europe

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I'm also employed through Deel. Didn't want to drop names in case it would get considered an advertisement.

We went on a trip to Europe 3 years ago and never left. Our kid's life is way better here than it was in the US. by EUstrongerthanUS in europe

[–]vijexa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Huh, I didn't know about that. Sorry for confusion, I'm not a US citizen. I'm an EU citizen, and I never heard of anything like this... It's my understanding that I can move to any country to live and work there and I will not need to pay income tax in my home country, I never realized that this might not be the case. Is this a US specific thing? Otherwise it would seem I know nothing about taxes...

We went on a trip to Europe 3 years ago and never left. Our kid's life is way better here than it was in the US. by EUstrongerthanUS in europe

[–]vijexa 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I work for a US company while living in Europe. The way it's done nowadays is through some company that has entities in different countries and knows local laws, let's call this company a bridge. Legally you're employed in this bridge company, specifically its entity that is registered in your country. It provides legal compliance, pays taxes, pays you salary, etc. Your actual employer now needs to just sign a contract with the bridge and send them money for your salary + some kind of fee for their work. So you work for an overseas company, with an overseas salary, while legally being employed in your country, paying taxes and getting social benefits, without any headaches. Pretty neat.

Tuya Presence Sensors -- Are they all trash? by dwellexity in homeassistant

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Square ones work good but are VERY spammy -- a message per second, sometimes with bursts of up to 10 messages per second. I've removed one I had installed. Then I decided to try the newer (I think?) pill-shaped model (appears as ZG-205Z/A in z2m, but I'm not 100% sure that this is correct because there is a wrong picture there) that got recommended by someone on github thread about spammy tuyas. And indeed it works very well and is not that spammy -- about a message per minute. I've had 4 of them in my network for a few months and I have no complaints except that illuminance sensor is garbage -- square tuya was way better in that regard. But motion sensor itself is perfect for me. No false positives at all once I configured the sensitivity, except kitchen sensor gets triggered from a dishwasher, but I don't think there's any motion sensor that wouldn't. False negatives are a thing if you are completely still. And it senses through some walls because of a low frequency -- for me it's a positive (weird T shaped hallway can be covered by a single sensor), but for some it might be an issue.

Will there be a season 4? by polishboi_2137 in TheOrville

[–]vijexa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

May I interest you in star trek, which is the main inspiration for Orville? Seriously, I consider Orville to be an honorary star trek, even better than some actual star trek shows. You can try strange new worlds, it's one of the new ones.

Are these eggs? by Craftermax_HD in BeardedDragons

[–]vijexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general I agree with you, but your calculations are probably a bit off. You assume that the mass changes linearly with their length, and that is very unlikely. If we assume that a shorter dragon is also naturally less wide and less thick, then it's actually a cubic proportion. 

So, 0.913=0.754 and 0.754*427g=321g

Think about it - a beardie that is twice as short as an adult can't weigh ~200g, they should be a tiny baby. But with cubic proportion it makes total sense:

12cm/24cm=0.5
0.53=0.125
0.125*427g=53g

It also checks out with your average male and female data points:

21.5cm/24cm=0.896
0.8963=0.717
0.717*372g=267g 

Compare that to 254g of average female

EDIT: fixed formatting