You can buy apples with multiple varieties grafted on. I suspect that it’s limited to within the family. You can also graft tomatoes and potatoes.

It works until someone doesn’t take your bullshit and it all catches up with you and then completely unravels.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reminds me of this - https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

To be clear, I am deeply unconvinced that Nadella actually runs his life in this way, but if he does, Microsoft’s board should fire him immediately.

Nadella drove a massive push to cloud which temporarily averted the inevitable slowing of Microsoft’s growth (“look, cloud line go up” while windows and office pulled the overall steadily down) but has had several significant misses since. Remember HoloLens?

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 days ago

It’s like blockchain people haven’t heard of a database before. Blockchains are remarkably inefficient way to do what we’ve been improving since Hollerith machines.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Distributors will receive incentives for selling heat pumps. They will keep a small percentage of the money for themselves and pass most of the savings on to the contractors buying the equipment. The contractors, in turn, will pass the lower price on to the customers.

Hah. As if.

If they were really serious about it, they’d make it so that air conditioners must be reversible under code. The BOM isn’t that significant and Midea is making them dirt cheap now.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Going pretty hard against the in-laws today, aren’t we Jimmy?

Speaking of cultural salad bowls, you’re a Roman Catholic omnivore, and your wife is a Hindu vegetarian.

There has got to be a joke in here about midwestern jello salad but I can’t figure it out.

ETA: I looked up his Wikipedia to confirm my suspicions about the vegetarian wife and wow, people aren’t using an altered meme photo, that’s his actual official portrait?!!

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago

Executive life: Fire all the people with tribal knowledge (aka who know how this all works), and wonder why this happens while you collect your bonuses.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago

It’s not laws that prevent disclosure. It’s laws that require it

states that do not currently mandate salary disclosure in job postings

other states with active pay transparency laws will not be considered at this time

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 2 days ago

IOUs backed in turn by IOUs

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

I just learned about this yesterday. Haven’t found out if my previous backup solution also has become encrypted. The cloud backup, I understand. But… I don’t have much going on there that’s sensitive. Family locations? I guess…

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 days ago

Happens all the time. Especially the more fundamentalist you get.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 days ago

This just looks like the “rich person” mailing list to me. Hundreds or thousands of recipients. Maybe I’m wrong.

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Affordable options (discuss.tchncs.de)

I’m interested in barefoot shoes but the prices are just ludicrous. I mean, a ballerina slipper for $240. There’s certainly a lot to be said about economies of scale, but theres not a lot of material here and longevity is a pretty frequent talking point. I typically spend less than €150 on shoes.

Somewhere on this fediverse, someone posted a list of some of their successful and less successful shoe purchases from both online shops as well as Amazon sellers. There were shoes in the €50-100 range that seemed like reasonable options.

If you’re reading this and have experiences good or bad, please share them here!

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Wind (discuss.tchncs.de)

I know this is solarDIY, but it seems like a good place for this anyways. Tl;dr is there a good way to integrate wind and solar without spending a bundle?

Sun only shines during the day, and as distances from the equator increase, day lengths get shorter, and cloudier, and angles get steeper. However, my location has steady prevailing winds. So much so, there’s a wind farm practically in the back garden.

Which has me thinking that instead of a ton of panels and a big battery bank (to make use of sunnier days), a little 1kw or so turbine would go a really long way - especially for steady and/or long-running loads like router/server/modem, refrigerator, heat pump…

I understand that wind turbines make some dreadful power and it tends to be AC. They’re also a bit of a pain to situate but that’s sorta secondary. Let’s say I spin up 10kw of solar, a pile of LiFe batteries, and an eg4 AIO with grid-tie. Is there a reasonable, and safe way to integrate wind? I know one guy who just hooked it straight to his batteries but they were lead acid, and they cooked in a storm. Gave him an excuse to get a big life system instead.

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