American chestnuts will die here, but I have a magnificent large Chinese chestnut tree in my yard. It’s not the same, but at least we get to harvest some 10-15 gallons of chestnuts every fall.
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Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How effective are life jackets in rapidly flowing deep flood waters?10·4 days agoAnd you hitting submerged objects that aren’t flowing. I remember cutting my hand on a rock while going through rapids with a life jacket on. You need to practice keeping your feet downstream when in whitewater conditions.
Fermion@feddit.nlto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some companies like a utility put out ads?5·4 days agoIs your electric company requesting a rate increase from a public utilities commission?
What Falkland Islands are we talking about?
Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Hypothetical. Would this be permitted in a US state: long hours, little work, and sub-minimum wage. (please click for details).3·6 days agoSalary also can’t be exempt from overtime if the salary works out to less than minimum wage for the hours worked. So only 2080 of the 6000 hours could be minimum wage and the other 3920 would be paid at time and a half.
Fermion@feddit.nlto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors47·10 days agoIsn’t this a textbook candidate for a class action suit?
Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why does stuff move in a parabola on earth but in an ellipse in space?7·13 days agoAre you familiar with the difference between polar (r, theta) coordinates and cartesian (x,y) coordinates? Parabolas are the solution to gravity that is uniform no matter where you sample. It assumes that gravity points in the same direction with the same magnitude no matter where you are. In this model, gravitational acceleration is always 9.81 m/s^2 in the -y direction. That is a reasonable simplification for things that are at the human scale constrained to near the earth’s surface. Deviations from air resistance will matter far more than errors stemming from that assumption anyway.
Conic sections are the solutions to gravity that is between two objects where the force is along the line between the center of mass of both objects and the strength is inversely proportional to the square of separation. Now you need polar cpordinates and the direction of gravity changes as things move around. This works pretty well for orbits around the earth and orbits around the sun, because the earth is so much more massive than sattelites that orbit it, and the sun is so much more massive than things that orbit it. If you need really precise orbit trajectories, ellipses aren’t truly accurate either. You need to account for all the orbiting bodies in the system. The 3-body problem famously doesn’t have purely analytical solutions, and you need to resort to numerical methods to calculate trajectories.
So both solutions come from simplified mathematical models. Despite being simplifications, their predictive power is actually very goood. However, like you are intuiting, it’s important to know when those simplifying assumptions lead to errors that start to become important. It’s hard to come up with a particular threshold for when you need to switch from one model to another, because it really depends on how much accuracy your application needs.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere?2·14 days agoI did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.
I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere?23·15 days agoI have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
Fermion@feddit.nlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.61·21 days agoSure, but it’s normalized to kgs of product. With two lattes a day, 2kg of coffee lasts me more than 2 months. 2kgs per person of beef would last many households less than a week.
If you were to normalize to average daily consumption, coffee and chocolate would be significantly lower ranked. It’s ok to keep some indulgences while focusing on higher impact reductions.
Fermion@feddit.nlto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live?1·21 days agoIt is available on android as well.
The ridges of the weave in my pants sometimes produces a vibration that is similar frequency and intensity as my phone vibrate. It totally triggers the check the phone reflex even if it happens while my phone is in my hand.
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I love the all in one concept, but this machine has made me reluctant to get one again.
There’s a GE all in one with heat pump drying that I think would be the functionality I want, but the machine is huge.
Anecdotally, I loathe my LG and am trying to figure out what to replace it with.
I have replaced the drain pump on it 5 times, because they did a terrible job designing the strainer basket, and the impeller is very fragile. It only takes a few strands of long hair to reach 3/4" past the strainer basket to tangle and break the impeller.
It’s also an all in one, but the dryer functionality was clearly designed as a bolt on afterthought. There’s no lint filter so inevitably lint builds up and choked off airflow. Then the air temp gets hot enough to melt the front boot.
When we first got the unit, our 40psi water pressure ruptured two internal hoses because lg couldn’t be bothered to use fiber reinforced hoses. Dealing with potential water damage so lg could save a few cents is not worth it.
I will actively avoid LG going forward.
For my Samsung phone
Phone app -> settings -> Call assist -> Text call
Fermion@feddit.nlto Funny@sh.itjust.works•Coming up with desserts that can be described as "colossal" is a proud American tradition.15·1 month agoNow I want more examples of a group sized thing adapted to be personal sized then reinterpreted to be group sized again.
I’m coming up blank, but I guess a similar concept would be post-it note easel pads.
I don’t have information specific to midea, so there is some speculation, but I do have a ge unit which does outright say that the water condensate is slung across the condenser coil to boost efficiency. And yes, my ge unit got really nasty and I ended up drilling a hole in the base of the condensate pan to drain all the water.
https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16758
Heat pump efficiency is limited by the temperature delta across the compressor. The larger the temperature delta, the less efficient a heat pump is. Evaporating water off the condenser coil drops the refrigerant temperature compared to air only and gives a small boost to efficiency. I don’t think it’s a big difference, but it’s enough to be worthwhile doing if you can “get it for free.” Unfortunately, a constantly cool and wet pool is a great breeding ground for mold and pathogens that you don’t want airborne.
As for cleaning ease, I based that off of comments (on reddit I think), recommending people push midea to pay for a technician to perform the fix because taking it apart for a thorough cleaning is a hassle. So I have no firsthand experience there and I’ll defer to your judgement.
I don’t have one of that type, so I haven’t contacted them. I was thinking about getting a unit like that, but then found out why they weren’t in stock anywhere.
I think the lack of drain was intentional so that the water wiuld splash up on the condenser coil. An AC unit generates a lot more water than a refrigerator though, so I think any design with a condensate basin below the condenser coil will have mold problems. The other issue is they didn’t make the unit very serviceable, so opening it up to clean out mold sounds like a huge hassle. Draining the water away will mean the units won’t be as efficient as originally designed, but mold can be a major health hazard.
Yeah that’s my attitude as well. I grow the things that are significantly better straight out of the garden. The best tomatoes are too fragile to go through the sorting machinery, so growing your own enables much higher quality produce. Berries are way better picked ripe. Green beans are also super easy to grow and are better fresh.
Then there’s varieties that just aren’t popular enough for many stores to stock and specialty stores are far and expensive: patty pan squash, molokhia, ground cherries, shallots, celery leaves (I don’t like the stalk), a variety of herbs, peppers that aren’t bell or jalapeno, etc.