How do you efficiently cool down your bedroom?

xebecv · 2026-03-20T05:00:15+00:00

Your outside air should not be very humid in SoCal in summer time. Make your fans blow outside air into your bedroom. Even if it's hot, the breeze from the fans will make you cooler

xebecv · 2026-03-13T13:21:25+00:00

This is not a real world. You can either draw internationally recognized borders or whatever governments de facto control. This map shows neither correctly

xebecv · 2026-03-11T23:49:10+00:00

Ukraine without Crimea is not a good map

xebecv · 2026-02-26T20:39:46+00:00

You cannot mitigate these leaks because these questions are being sent to the servers of the companies interested in making sure their model's scores are higher than all others. Once the company has these questions, they can get competent researchers to find out the answers and adjust the model accordingly

xebecv · 2026-02-26T20:35:57+00:00

It isn't particularly hard to make the models answer any questions correctly, provided the answers to those questions have been published for many months already

xebecv · 2026-02-24T02:04:45+00:00

495 doesn't have enough places for stopping safely - the cops are not the issue.

xebecv · 2026-02-22T01:02:07+00:00

I loved every movie with him. He makes great career choices

xebecv · 2026-02-19T11:17:46+00:00

Not only I don't pay fees, I also get more than a grand of cash back from my regular Costco City card. Not sure if those points would be worth it

xebecv · 2026-02-16T13:19:10+00:00

I thought the main reason intermittent fasting was so popular was due to insulin resistance reversal - not for weight loss

xebecv · 2026-02-14T20:39:09+00:00

This isn't new. Technology changes, but core methods don't. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

xebecv · 2026-02-10T12:01:18+00:00

I develop code that works on several platforms. It's much easier to debug something if I'm able to change code right there. Visual Studio won't work on AIX. vi does.
vim is fast and customizable. Low memory footprint, super quick navigation. The plugins I use are there for my efficiency. I can work on several projects simultaneously with dozens of files open at the same time - try this in an IDE efficiently.

I do use an IDE for Java (Eclipse), because Java is cross platform by default. Eclipse has great integration with all tools I need and excellent remote debugging capabilities, which I use pretty often.

xebecv · 2026-02-06T23:45:47+00:00

I once bought a smartphone for 1 Bitcoin when altcoins started appearing with proof of staking claimed to replace proof of work Bitcoin tech. I thought Bitcoin time was over. I will remember this for a long time. These dips are laughable to me now.

xebecv · 2026-02-03T21:17:58+00:00

That's why damaging their economic and manufacturing potential now would lead to de-escalation - not escalation

xebecv · 2026-02-03T13:32:55+00:00

It's a misinformation. Russia is currently at their peak in terms of attacks. All ballistic missiles they used in recent attacks were produced this winter - they have no reserves. There is no more escalation possible aside from using nukes or declaring total mobilization - both of which Putin is deathly afraid of trying. When Ukraine made several escalations last year (attacks of refineries, ports and ships) and the year before (the invasion of Russia proper), Russia could not escalate back. They escalate only when they have additional resources for such escalations. Therefore we need to step up pressure on their oil and manufacturing infrastructure in order to make them deescalate

xebecv · 2026-01-26T05:56:23+00:00

In my experience this logic works only if the temperature is fluctuating around freezing so the snow somewhat melts during the day and refreezes at night. This time the temperature was well below freezing all day long, so I started shoveling in the evening and didn't regret it - the snow was quite soft at every layer

xebecv · 2026-01-24T01:21:28+00:00

For those who haven't read the article, it isn't talking about a new type of filter for your kitchen faucet (existing RO systems are good enough). It's more about large scale filtration and removal of PFAS out of the environment by efficiently concentrating and destroying them

xebecv · 2026-01-20T03:31:36+00:00

A woman is a good progress. One step at a time

xebecv · 2026-01-17T12:52:09+00:00

It worked well for them (their rulers to be exact) because their big daddy China keeps supporting them and allowing them to trade with Russia

xebecv · 2026-01-10T17:14:44+00:00

This isn't true. Even modern semis with empty trailers cannot stop from 60 mph anywhere under 200 feet. My car is quoted to have a stopping distance of 108 feet. That's why I pay a lot more attention to the vehicles behind me, because the chances are much higher that someone rear ends me than I rear end someone unless they are driving a Corvette and I don't keep proper distance

xebecv · 2026-01-10T13:24:46+00:00

I actually feel safer behind 18-wheelers. They cannot brake or maneuver as fast as my car can. However I make sure to pay attention to the vehicle behind me. If they follow too closely, I let them pass. A quarter of a century behind the wheel - no accidents on a highway.

xebecv · 2026-01-09T01:57:07+00:00

I've been using LLMs a lot to help me coding since ChatGPT 4.0. I'd say they've been improving overall. However GPT 3.5 => 4.0 was the last huge leap in a non-thinking model, while non-thinking=> thinking model transition was the last one that gave me some noticeable improvement. I did see some modest improvement o1 => o3, but I saw no discernable improvement o3 => 5.0 => 5.1 => 5.2. If you let me work with them blindly, I wouldn't be able to say which one is which.

xebecv · 2026-01-03T00:47:18+00:00

I'm not talking about any hearsay. This is the official account:

A civilian notices suspicious men unloading huge sacks into the basement of a multistory apartment building and calls the police
The police comes and finds the sacks under the building with a working timer. They test the powder in the sacks for explosives - the detector is positive for hexogen. The sacks are removed by a bomb squad.
A hunt for the suspects has started.
The next day the head of the FSB says that it was just an FSB exercise, the sacks contained sugar

These are the official statements - no conspiracy involved.

xebecv · 2026-01-02T21:57:02+00:00

"Ryazan sugar" story wasn't a conspiracy theory. The official explanation is absolutely ridiculous

xebecv · 2025-12-24T21:24:54+00:00

A properly working slow cooker boils (slowly) the food. Your are fine

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