andrewem · HackerTrans

My gas-powered water heater failed in my northern US location. I asked a friend who’s a plumbing engineer (!) who said to get a heat pump. I called the HVAC company which had installed the gas water heater and gas furnace some years before and asked for a heat pump water hearer, and they said oh yeah we sell one of those and people love it. I get the feeling that as you say 5-15 years ago it would have been a different story but now it’s routine.

andrewem

5 年前discuss

The author of this has some videos related to swimming (0). See for example the one called "1-10-1 Final" where he jumps into cold water that is about 40 degrees F (4 degrees C) and stays in for a number of minutes, showing what to do.

[0] https://vimeo.com/mariovittone

andrewem

5 年前discuss

“Opiod work was bad though, let's not avoid that.” Great, so let’s not avoid that - with your insider perspective:

In what ways do you see McKinsey’s actions with Purdue Pharma as being bad? In what ways were they typical of McKinsey’s behavior with other clients? In what ways do you see the actions with Purdue as being exceptional for McK? What factors allowed the company to act as it did? Have those factors been addressed? How do the events with Purdue show what has and hasn’t changed since McKinsey’s deep involvement with Enron?

andrewem

6 年前discuss

A headphone jack can be easily cleared of debris with a wooden toothpick. Before I figured that out I also found it impossible to keep using the jack.

andrewem

9 年前discuss

The response from the Public Editor does not say that the review was faked - it says the opposite, starting with the headline "Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test". Later it says "I am convinced that he took on the test drive in good faith, and told the story as he experienced it."

I have no interest in this dispute, but it's clear that the conclusion you drew about what the Times piece said is incorrect.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/publiceditor/2013/02/18/pro...

andrewem

12 年前discuss

A couple relevant quotes from the justly famous talk "You and Your Research", by Richard Hamming:

"If you chose to assert your ego in any number of ways, ``I am going to do it my way,'' you pay a small steady price throughout the whole of your professional career. And this, over a whole lifetime, adds up to an enormous amount of needless trouble."

"I am not saying you shouldn't make gestures of reform. I am saying that my study of able people is that they don't get themselves committed to that kind of warfare. They play it a little bit and drop it and get on with their work. "

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

andrewem

15 年前discuss

A friend who's a native Hebrew speaker told me that modern Hebrew initially lacked foul words, and so they were borrowed from Arabic.

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