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- Comment on 14 hours ago:
Yes. For a typical American dishwasher installation, anyway, where the dishwasher is connected to the hot water line which is in turn connected to your storage tank water heater.
First, your water heater is already full of hot water that you’ve already paid the energy cost to heat up. It’s therefore nonsensical to deliberately pump cold water from the line into your dishwasher only for the dishwasher to have to heat it up (using energy/money) and then have your water heater also heat up the displaced water inside it that was just pumped out.
On dumb dishwashers that don’t do anything to sense the internal water temperature, this will also moderately improve your wash performance. (GE calls this feature “Automatic HotStart,” for instance. Other brands call it something different. These machines will pause and run their little internal water heater coil at full blast until their current charge of water is at a temperature their programming considers acceptable to start the cycle.)
Modern dishwashers use a surprisingly small amount of water per cycle. Usually somewhere around 3.5 gallons for the entire thing from start to finish. This is contrary to what your parents think, who will insist to you they can totally hand wash an entire sink of dishes with “less water” than that wasteful dishwasher, which they absolutely cannot. Your dishwasher is not consuming water the entire time it is running. It will fill and recirculate that fill’s worth of water inside itself, usually going through 3 or 4 phases of filling and draining throughout the cycle to arrive that that final water usage figure of around three and a half gallons. Therefore it does not readily have access to hot water unless you’ve primed it by running your sink, as what used to be hot water in your pipes rapidly cools off when said water is not flowing. Your dishwasher probably will not draw in enough water in one fill cycle to purge all of the standing cold water that’s in the pipe unless the distance from your water heater to the dishwasher is unrealistically short.
(The latter actually is the case for the dishwasher at my office, which is fed by an undersink “low boy” water heater that’s directly next to it and only separated from the dishwasher by a grand total of about 18 inches of pipe.)
- Comment on Genius idea. Somehody should share this with the antivaxxers 1 day ago:
That’s not the issue. If it were confined to just the adult ones, anyway, it’d be little harm and no foul. The problem is these twerps also don’t vaccinate their kids, who have no say in the decision making process, and die of easily preventable diseases. The antivax crowd themselves also become disease carrying vectors putting those who can’t be vaccinated at risk, i.e. immunocompromised people.
If said morons confined themselves in their on cabins in the woods it likewise would not be a problem, but inevitably you find them coughing all over everybody else at Walmart instead.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
Your blower motor probably does work, but the resistor assembly hooked up to the knob that controls its speed is most likely blown. This was the case with my truck when I got it and is rather common. Thirty four bucks will solve that problem for you, and it just plugs right in.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
He can attempt to raise the ire of geese if he likes. He’ll reap what he sows.
Hashtaggoosefact:
Canada Geese have teeth.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That really strikes me as a B ark sort of idea.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
The US it is federally legal to manufacture your own firearm. There are some state level restrictions depending on which one of those you’re in. In the rest of the world it’s probably considerably more regulated, but then again in the rest of the world it’ll be tougher to get your hands on the all the other parts you’d need as well.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
3D printed guns do not “get past metal detectors.” This is not nuance. It’s not a matter of techicalities. You just told a bold faced lie, and you did it speficially to try ro fear monger.
Printed guns still require metal springs, metal pins, metal bolts, metal barrels, and metal ammunition.
- Comment on Maybe it's time for Penguin 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hyperpigmentation 4 weeks ago:
Because you’d be in jail.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 4 weeks ago:
It’ll pretty much only do anything against a camera using a flash in the dark and even then that’s probably only marginal. In normal daytime illumination everyone and every thing will still be able to see your plate just fine.
I think I’d rather get a color e-ink display from China and mount it in a fake license plate frame, with a microcontroller behind it displaying a random assortment of plate styles and numbers as you drive along. If you see the 5-0, flip a the switch to lock it to your real plate number until they go away.
- Comment on I'm interested. Any ideas? 4 weeks ago:
Knife monopoly is when you go around the board and try to collect all the knives.
So far, I appear to be winning.
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 4 weeks ago:
“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 5 weeks ago:
Some tools do have specific pressure requirements. You can try running an HVLP paint sprayer at the full 120 but you’re really not going to have a good time doing it. Low pressure is right there in the name, come to think of it.
If you’re using a nail gun with smaller nails you’ll probably need to wind down your pressure, too. If you’re using little brad nails and give them the full Monty you might find that they don’t remain in the workpiece but have rather affixed it to your bench instead.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Allow me then to introduce you to Rock of Ages, an Atlus game (and its sequel) where this is the whole idea.
Sisyphus has had it exactly up to here with this shit, and realizes that he has at his disposal a large round rock and an even larger hill. Which by definition most of his enemies are located at the bottom of. Hilarity naturally ensues.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 5 weeks ago:
it decreases the load on the motor as it starts up.
Uh. How, though? The regulator is on the output end and has nothing whatsoever to do with how the motor and pistons put air into the tank. The compressor is going to pressurize its tank up to its pressure shutoff setpoint as fast as and indeed at the only speed it’s capable of running. If the pressure setpoint is even adjustable (it probably isn’t), diddling with that is only going to accomplish making your motor start and stop a bunch of times as you stairstep it up to whatever your maximum pressure is.
Big time commercial or industrial compressors rated for constant duty cycles may and sometimes do have variable speed motors, but I’ve never seen a consumer model with one.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 5 weeks ago:
I set the regulator on my compressor when I got it, and I haven’t had any occasion to touch it since. It’s set to 120 PSI, and it’s been somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty years.
Unless your compressor is either especially precise or especially crap I think you can safely ignore that whole song and dance. In the exceedingly rare instances I do need a lower pressure output I have a dinky little inline regulator I just attach to the bottom of whatever tool I’m using, which is inevitably a spray gun. The impact gun, air chisel, needle scaler, die grinders, drills, air chucks, strafer, and golf ball cannon get the whole enchilada all the time.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 5 weeks ago:
Luckily, it most certainly is not. Tesseract is a (probably now very defunct) third party client.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help either that the default web UI doesn’t actually clear off your notification bell even if you’re marked all replies as read until you force refresh the page. That’s kind of annoying.
Other interfaces like Alexandrite and I presume Photon do it a little better.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 5 weeks ago:
Or get sick of the avalanche of replies in their inbox, since you can’t turn off notifications for responses to a post or comment unlike on reddit. The only way to make it stop is to delete whatever it was.
Also I’m pretty sure by default if a user deletes their Lemmy account most clients also automatically delete all of their posts and comments. If a user gets fed up with us or decides the Fediverse is not for them, when they take their ball and go home that’s really what happens.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 5 weeks ago:
Ooh, I get to trot out my console humblebragging picture again.
- Comment on This shit's stupid as hell 1 month ago:
While we’re at it, then, let me point out that cynical Chinese knockoffs of the Leatherman Tread bracelet are totally things that exist and nowadays are readily available for suspiciously small amounts of money.
I’ve got one. I had to remove one link from it to keep it from falling off of me all the time, but it is indeed boss. I would not advise getting into a motorcycle wreck while wearing it, though.
- Comment on Pool of data 1 month ago:
It works. I was having trouble getting my emails, so I consulted my magic eight ball. It said:
Outlook not so good.
- Comment on What, all of you? 1 month ago:
Defects is right. The seriffs on the text at the top in particular are problematic. I really should get a 0.2mm nozzle dialed in one of these days, but I have other projects to contend with at the moment.
I also can’t figure out just what the fuck Arachne is doing with the top layer perimeters in the 11 and 12 o’clock positions. Something about the text causes it to insist on shaping it that way, wheres the rest of the radial area is a nice geometrically consistent starburst pattern that catches the light nicely with that silk PLA. Oh well, it was only meant to be a physical shitpost anyway.
- Comment on What, all of you? 1 month ago:
It’s very much real. The other commenter is correct; here is my post in the 3D Printing community about it. That contains the link to Printables where you can download the model, and also the link to my shop page (nudge, nudge) where you can buy one if you ain’t got a printer.
(Before everyone gets mad at me, I have these priced at basically cost to keep myself in filament and electricity. I “ship” these by bunging them in an ordinary envelope, and postage alone is 82 cents out of $1.50.)
- Comment on What, all of you? 1 month ago:
No, I’m banned on Tesseract.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He seems to fall back on the “death threats” claim regularly, as if it’s some kind of default. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any evidence presented to the effect that these purported “death threats” were ever real, or common, or an actual issue beyond the usual background level of Internet ribald. It seems like it should be a pretty trivial thing to prove.
Come on, man. Post some screen shots. Name some names. Instead it’s all just allusions and stereotyping and fictionalizing and trying to paint entire instances or groups of people with a wide brush.
Isn’t it a big thing that private messages and the ilk are not actually secure here and are theoretically visible e.g. to instance admins and operators? If said threats were sent between two .world accounts (and at least two of his alt accounts that I know of were local lemmy.world accounts) it ought to be trivial to verify these, yes?
Actually, it’s been quite incredible to see just how level headed everyone’s response to this entire debacle has been, at least insofar as I’ve encountered. Overall people seem to either be bewildered or amused by their presence on his list, surprised by it’s discovery or baffled as to its purported necessity, or highly skeptical of its alleged purpose. But all of the tirades, rants, insults, and crash-outs I’ve seen have been only coming from AdmiralPatrick himself — not anybody else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are plenty of users who don’t even know what the Eternal September was, and I guarantee you there will be a multitude of them whose first exposure to the term will be your comment, right here.
Some of us were there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Dignity and grace” apparently also meant going around defending his actions in the third person and insulting other people en masse using one of his alternate accounts.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
He gots dere first becuz da red wuns iz fasta.
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 1 month ago:
Apparently it also includes opinions such as, “penguins are cool,” and “check out this silly knife.”
