I read a post from Robb Knight recently about his computing origin story. It was an interesting post, so I thought I'd add my own computing history to the mix.
British transphobia has now reached the stage of coercing young people into detransitioning using the threat of referrals to social services if they access treatment through private providers. The Good Law Project is crowdfunding for a possible legal challenge: https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/nhs-cyp-guidance/
@rooster Coincidentally I too have just bought a hat and have then spent way too much time over the weekend wondering if I could be a hat person (apologies for the slightly spotty hotel mirrors):
The mnemonic I use to remember Markdown link syntax is that the square brackets look a bit like a button and then the round brackets mention the URL as a note afterwards:
Last night I discovered my christening candle in a box of childhood items my parents gave me. This morning the bathroom lightbulb died while I was having a shower. So now, for the second time in my life, I’m getting washed by the light of a christening candle.
@rauschma Technically it does, it’s just that the growth period is much longer — years rather than months. My hair stabilised after about four years of growing it out, giving it a maximum length of 60cm.
Yes, the Enhanced Games are a terrible idea that would encourage athletes to recklessly endanger their health, but here’s the thing: current elite competitive sport is also a terrible idea that encourages athletes to recklessly endanger their health. For all the talk of a ‘level playing field’, elite sport has always involved the genetically blessed pushing their bodies to the verge of breaking. In many cases they push too far, resulting in career-ending injuries and sometimes even death.
Increasingly I feel that humanity’s insatiable appetite for competition — to value our achievements only by how they compare to others’ — is at the root of most of the world’s problems, from overconsumption to the hoarding of wealth to the desire for conquest.
Alright so hot water is included in my rent, but electricity is not. Rn my PG&E bills have been around $.40/kWh, but a gallon of water at water-heater temperature releases about 100 watt-hours as it cools to room temperature. So if I can use the heat from like 20-30 gallons per day i should be able to keep my apartment at a livable temperature.
So yeah anyway any advice for harvesting heat from my landlord?