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New comment by coryrc in "Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary"

coryrc — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:40:09 +0000

That is not true:

https://www.aaaai.org/allergist-resources/ask-the-expert/ans...

New comment by coryrc in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

coryrc — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:15:53 +0000

No, you pay full price and can use power at any time of day. People who don't mind the restriction pay substantially less than you.

New comment by coryrc in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

coryrc — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:49:13 +0000

Then you can pay a bit more for the battery capacity and others can take the discount to deal with the minor inconveniences. It works out for everybody.

New comment by coryrc in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

coryrc — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:47:53 +0000

Sadly not in the USA.

New comment by coryrc in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

coryrc — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:46:21 +0000

From a T&M standpoint it's affordable to use external insulation and cladding to safely insulate these old houses. But that runs afoul of planning/landmark laws (some places even mandate single-pane windows!) So some Brits freeze to death rather than hide some history. Their choice to make, I guess.

New comment by coryrc in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

coryrc — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:42:07 +0000

You won't be able to wash your clothes when you feel like, you will have to adapt to when there is spare power, like in developing countries.

In nearly every case, this is actually "we'll take 35% of your bill if you agree to let us sometimes turn off your A/C and clothes dryer between 5pm-8pm". It doesn't require everyone to take the deal, just enough people who want to save money. You can take the discount and use your own battery if you want, or you can pay full price so the power company can. And some will live with the mild inconvenience in exchange for money (which most of us are forced to do in so many different ways).

This is just charging people the costs of their decisions. That's capitalism at its best.

New comment by coryrc in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

coryrc — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:13:50 +0000

What's worse is:

    x = 1;
    a = 2;
    echo(x);
    x = a;

Errors out with "line 1: a is not defined", because the override is implemented as is the tokens were present wherever the first declaration is. (If anybody looks up me, you'll see I've made a bunch of contributions and bitched about this particular thing which really fucks up a bunch of optimizations you'd want to do)

New comment by coryrc in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

coryrc — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:45:41 +0000

Reverse mortgage.

> How is this fair at any level?

How is it fair that working people have to pay 10x for housing than she did when she was young? How is it fair that the money goes to her inheritance while she made her working neighbors pay her share of taxes?

New comment by coryrc in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

coryrc — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:42:12 +0000

The boatman doesn't charge money, so what's the problem with that? They got to live somewhere other people invested to make nice without extra money out of their pocket.

New comment by coryrc in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

coryrc — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:39:30 +0000

Because boomers voted to defer fully funding pensions until later. Now it's later. We're paying for past work and current work.

In Washington State, Puget Sound Energy is a for-profit utility owned by mostly pension plans! Their guaranteed ROI is sucked out of the productive economy. Everywhere you look rent is being extracted either by the 0.01% or the elderly, and the working class must slave to get 1/10 what they gave themselves.

New comment by coryrc in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

coryrc — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:31:05 +0000

Either it's really valuable, and they can borrow money to pay taxes, or it's not and taxes are low. But people shouldn't be allowed to freeload on the work others do to make the property valuable.

New comment by coryrc in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

coryrc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:59:33 +0000

I have another solution. I look normal online when filling out information. I use Facebook, whatever.

But whenever possible, I lie. Different name, birthdate, every question about "favorite pet"? A lie. "They" have tons of data on me, but more and more is wrong. Let it leak.

New comment by coryrc in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

coryrc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:46:00 +0000

Summed over all phones I've ever bought, I don't think I've spent €650.

New comment by coryrc in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

coryrc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:14:38 +0000

> get up to speed faster

That's not something I've ever cared about.

New comment by coryrc in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

coryrc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:15:39 +0000

I don't know about those reasons, but an AC fan uses ~100W on low and my DC fan uses 5W. You tune out the hum, but the AC fans hum and the DC fans don't.

But I don't think torque or longevity are actual issues with AC fans. Just efficiency and noise.

New comment by coryrc in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

coryrc — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:23:49 +0000

And when the power lines fall down in rural areas, how will people heat and power their homes? I guess they could buy some batteries, but then they'd sit idle most of the time. Maybe they could find some other profitable use and share the capital cost?

New comment by coryrc in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

coryrc — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:46:56 +0000

    BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE

New comment by coryrc in "Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out"

coryrc — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:21:49 +0000

Code link didn't work for me.

On mobile, I don't have enough room to scroll the background so I got stuck in a long text box.

New comment by coryrc in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

coryrc — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:41:31 +0000

I'm betting the developers are for single-family homes not apartments. The only NIMBY I'm for is anti-SFH.

New comment by coryrc in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

coryrc — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:33:16 +0000

You're closer to right. I was remembering oil+coal=80%. Coal is 60% today and oil is 20%.

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/china