It’s a shame because salt water pools are honestly so much better and I think overall it was cheaper for us as well.

Instead of adding chlorine every week the salt system just keeps the chlorine level at the right minimal level all the time. So no chlorine smell in the pool and the pool was much cleaner.

I was in a situation similar to this one in real life: having to adjust the salt level in a pool.

In metric:

The pool is 8*4 m long and 2m deep on average, the current salt level is 2g/l and the salt comes in 20kg bags.

How many bags of salts do I need to pour in the pool to adjust the salt level to at least 3g/l ?

Answer:

! The pool contains 8m4m2m= 64m³ or 64000l of water, I need an extra 1g/l of salt per litres so 64000l*1g/l = 64000g or 64 kg. So with 4 bags I’ll have enough salt.

In imperial:

The pool is 20*10ft long and 5ft deep on average, the current salt level is 2000ppm and the salt comes in 40lbs bags.

How many bags of salts do I need to pour in the pool to adjust the salt level to at least 3000ppm?

Answer:

! I’m just gonna drive to the store with my truck to pick up 2 bags at the time and see if it’s enough, no way I’m doing the calculation.

Heart of palm as well

By itself, it’s does not solve anything.

However it gives some extra data that can be used by the printer firmware.

The NFC tag contains data about the right printing temperatures, the color, the amount of filament left in there spool …

So a lot of QOL features can be developed with that. For example

• having a message of the amount of filament left in not enough to finish the print I’m about to start,
• auto adjust temperatures depending on the loaded filament,
• importing a library of available filament in the slicer just by taping the spool on the NFC reader.
• using this library of filament for multicolor/multi material printing. So instead of printing selecting each head individually in the slicer and then having to remember to load the right filament, right color in each head you can just select the filament you actually want and the printer will manage.

France did that.

Since 2023, for every parking lot bigger than 1500m², new or already existing, solar panel coverage has to be installed before 2026 or 2028.

The solar panels need to cover at least half the parking lot area.

Another requirement is rainwater management system that cover at least half of the parking area. It can be rainwater collection, trees … Anything that allows rainwater to infiltrate the soil.

PS: for americans, 1500m² is equivalent to 372 king size beds, or 1/2500 central park

About reparability, kobo has a partnership with ifixit for parts and repair guide.

I don’t want to imagine the level of procrastination I would have if I were immortal.

We don’t need tacos, we have tacos at home.

The tacos at home:

I have a rule for my kids is that I never say no to fruits and I try to always have fruits in the fruit basket (as long as they eat the whole thing and leave a half eaten fruit somewhere in the house).

My two year old is really enjoying that and can eat two whole apples and some grapes in a row. Sure he will not eat anything at dinner after that but I can’t be mad at him for eating fruits.

It took me a week to assemble my mk4 last year, between work, cores and kids but I loved the process.

I loved the process as well. The instruction is very well made and it’s an extremely satisfying process.

The printer is now getting close to 2500 hours of printing and still printing well.

Nettle and potato soup is delicious.

I doubt think it’s a DNA problem, the amount of roots depends on the amount of leaves.

So keeping the grass short keeps the roots sorry as well

Wasn’t there a story where scientists sprayed a whole tree with insecticide in the rainforest and they discovered tenths of new bug species?

No, I tried for a while but I gave up.

I switched to Onshape and I’m very happy with the switch.

I agree, all software developed or used by governments should be open-source.

There might be few cases where there is a legitimate reason for it not to be open source (no open source software available, need a proprietary software for running old legacy equipment …). In this case the decision should be voted on and the arguments exposed publicly.

I don’t know for other people but in my area the delivery person almost always calls me before dropping the package to check if I’m home and ready to receive the package.

Interestingly, an area I found where the spelling of words can evolve extremely rapidly is geography.

I’m mapping on openstreetmap and finding the right spelling for small dwellings and locations can be an impossible task.

Unless there is a clear physical signage for it somewhere the name of a single place can change drastically in a few decades. From one generation to another the name changes and finding “the right” spelling is sometimes an impossible task.

I have a lot of cases where the cadastral map, the postal database and the mapping institute each have a different spelling/name for the same location.

I have young kids in the house, if I installed a handheld bidet I’m certain that they will use it to spray each other when I’m not looking, regularly.

So I’m planning to install a bidet but in not ready yet

Similarly in France the “Gendarmerie nationale”, a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using “GendBuntu” on all their desktop since 2008.

It’s a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.