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New comment by AdamTReineke in "On Rendering Diffs"

AdamTReineke — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:08:48 +0000

Aw, Pierre shut down? Is there a write-up on that? (The code review startup idea.)

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:50:06 +0000

Plenty of room in old coal mines to stash all the waste we could ever want.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Why are most sofas so bad?"

AdamTReineke — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:47:46 +0000

We bought a pair of Sactional seats used for $1k. And I'm delighted that we did because we hate how uncomfortable it is for us. If you're thinking about dropping 10k+ on a Sactional set, keep your eyes open for used and even consider doing what we did and trialing a smaller section first.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:48:05 +0000

Make sure you know the cost to serve that 2MB MP3, especially if you're go viral.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "CNC lasers for cutting and engraving"

AdamTReineke — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 06:20:45 +0000

I'm pretty sure I recall hearing that if you cut features that are too thin in Delerin, it gets too hot and catches fire easily. I don't think you were allowed to cut it at the maker space I was at. But it's been like 7 years so I could be fuzzy on that.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:48:03 +0000

I don't see the screen dimension listed anywhere. Am I overlooking it or is that detail missing?

New comment by AdamTReineke in "How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:42:54 +0000

Too late to edit, but on the imgur graph - yellow is electric cost, orange is gas cost.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:30:10 +0000

Just saw this, I would recommend going the heat pump route.

In retrospect, it's insane to get an electric tankless hot water heater from a climate perspective. Gas tankless makes infinitely more sense if you need limitless hot water. If you don't need limitless, heat pump would be the most emissions efficient.

I'll try to get my usage data together and update this comment.

Edit: Cost of usage electric and gas over the last five years. The big spike last winter was due to our remodel and heating the whole house while it was neither sealed nor insulated in the middle of winter with just the 10kWh furnace backup heater which ran almost non-stop. Units are USD. The two gaps in data are due to meter replacements, I think. https://imgur.com/AVTFwpP

It's kind of hard to compare the data since we re-insulated, went from gas furance to heat pump, and added a hot tub.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:16:12 +0000

We had one (Stiebel Eltron 36KW) installed earlier this year which required a service upgrade to 320A service. AMA, though responses may be delayed a day or two.

Our all-electric home's max instantaneous draw over the last a couple months peaked around 44 kW.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 04:40:44 +0000

Probably? It's a SkyConnect on Home Assistant OS.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks"

AdamTReineke — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 04:40:18 +0000

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PQTF53D

New comment by AdamTReineke in "IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:28:59 +0000

The Aqara temperature sensors[0] wouldn't stay connected to my SkyConnect USB dongle. No issues with my Zigbee switch and thermostats though, so I think some vendors aren't fully Zigbee compliant but it's probably the exception.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D37FKGY/

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Apple's Trademark Exploit"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:38:20 +0000

Why's that? For example, wouldn't you describe any rotomolded cooler as a knockoff Yeti? To me, that doesn't seem to comment on the legit vs. counterfeit nature of the cooler, it just anchors the viewer's expectation.

Is there some special protection (in the USA) given to describing something as a "knockoff" versus "similar to"?

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Apple's Trademark Exploit"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:50:24 +0000

I had a pair of white Denon Wireless Earbuds that I tried to sell on Facebook Marketplace, still in shrink and with my own photos. They were kicked off as counterfeit items, presumably because I described them as knockoff Air Pods and that triggered some filter. I wonder if Apple is also coaching classified ad sides with the same trademark messaging they're giving CBP?

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Solar energy solves global warming"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:20:11 +0000

Isn't the problem with hydrogen that it's harder to store? I thought it was a big problem. Keeping it from leaking out of storage vessels and pipes because the molecule is so small.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Solar energy solves global warming"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:19:06 +0000

You can seequester the methane back in the ground if you are capturing more than is consumed.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch"

AdamTReineke — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:05:14 +0000

Congrats, very well done! What was the laser doing the cutting and engraving?

I loved the video format, reminded me of the Primitive Technology channel where he just gets out of the way and lets the work itself (plus closed captions) do all the talking.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application"

AdamTReineke — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:53:39 +0000

Love Polycam! My wife just got the newest iPhone this fall before our remodel started and I was stoked to capture our house before the remodel and cannot wait to get the after all scanned in for comparison. https://poly.cam/capture/11B48FCD-E6A5-4ED7-9C9D-BF5DFE60579...

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application"

AdamTReineke — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:50:44 +0000

I never figured out how to relate primitives to each other in OpenSCAD so my models were an endless soup of absolute position math. I used SolveSpace for a while and it was brilliant because what took hours in OpenSCAD took just a fraction of the time. And then I picked up the Maker license for Solidworks ($100/yr) and haven't looked back.

I rendered my whole house in Solidworks to plan for a remodel and it was extremely well suited for the job.

New comment by AdamTReineke in "Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022"

AdamTReineke — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:27:00 +0000

This system only had enough power to run a small light, IIRC.