It is never free to actually capture it, and it usually reduces the efficiency of the process you capture it from. Compare for: turbos use “wasted” positive pressure exhausted from the engine. Sure, but in the process they make it harder for the engine to expel exhaust gases. They can only improve efficiency when done well and at the cost of greatly increased complexity and maintenance needs.
If you install heat capturing, 1) you need to adjust the design of the system to adapt it; 2) you impede the heat dissipation efficiency of the system, which you then need to address with additional engineering. It can be done, but it’s not free, and the math on the costs and benefits doesn’t necessarily come out positive. If there is one thing I trust the industry about: if it can be done to save a buck, they are doing it.

Whoah dude, I don’t know, you’re rapidly saying many numbers without connecting the sentences, what is your point? So either you can get the required chilling capacity using a relatively low amount of electricity, or using a shit ton of captured waste heat. Building a big plant just so you can run a chiller on the waste heat is probably not the most logical path. And now you’re also capturing the heat from power lines or what?

I guess the technology you mention makes sense where a lot of waste heat is consistently available for cheap, thanks for sharing the YSK, moving on.

And a widow (around half of married people).

Compressor chillers with gases like in typical AC have a cop over 3. Why would anyone design district chilling with 3-5 times lower efficiency than that? All that matters is how much energy you spend. Heating that kiln would take more energy if you steal some of the heat for another job, there’s no free energy.

I would be interested in the reverse: a service that regularly scrapes a list of google photos shared albums and saves the new pictures to immich.

Quite.

Roon on the server and ARC on the phone

They do have infinite resources (a lot of money) relative to the difficulty and expense of getting into a private tracker (not a lot of money). If you are in a jurisdiction where seeding is an offense, it is only a matter of enforcement priorities whether users who leak their ip address get targeted.

As someone fluent in Alien, I can confirm she sounded like gibberish, but the accent was on spot.

Europe is a small area while San Francisco is a large area? dude you are dumb as fuck, sorry.

Some are slums, some are decent. It’s not irrelevant, because you specifically said the US housing is unique because it was built fast. America was not built out in a rush in 10 years while millions were without homes, it was populated gradually over 4-5 centuries. That is a long time compared to the average lifespan of a house. The availability of lumber is a much bigger factor than speed.

After a while, many buildings were retrofitted with thermostats. I know from experience that in Eastern Europe until the late 90s, there were valves but no thermostats, and radiators were effectively serially connected, so if you shut a valve, everything downstream was shut off too. Some units were always hot and people were growing tropical plants and had their windows open the whole heating season. Other units were miserably cold, depending on where they were within the building.

unlike the rest of the world.

Europe had to build out housing extremely fast after WWII, because whole cities were practically demolished by bombings. Cities built huge blocks of apartment towers, typically from prefabricated concrete panels. These were made in a factory, trucked to the building site, and assembled into 4-20 story towers (8-10 the most typical).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-panel-system_building

The apartments are small, and typically have district heating and no AC. These buildings provided housing for lower income or middle class families, depending on the area, from Spain to Russia. In America, the closest equivalent are the projects. The concrete walls don’t make for very comfortable living spaces. Sound travels between apartments, walls between rooms are frequently drywall. It’s a bitch to drill into if you want to hang anything. District heating means too hot inside when it’s on, and you can’t turn it on or off when you want it.

And why is that?

Like every religion. How is LDS somehow worse than your regular “satan told me” or “I am going to heaven” christian nonsense? It’s a completely arbitrary distinction. If those folks consider themselves christians, or followers of Christ, who is entitled to deny their identity as such?

This thought is so deep I will drown in it. When do people stop posting it?

Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.

There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.

I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.

Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide

By “lost”, we mean they paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to the businesses of friends and family, from the billions of dollars of corruption money that was funneled into the company as crypto “investments” from foreign criminals? Sure. Let’s keep going with the “ha-ha, Trump is such a loser, and he will die next week” narrative as he is strengthening his authoritarian grip on political power and his gross enrichment from the most blatant forms of corruption the developed world has seen.