Thinking about heat pumps, since there's been waffle on the radio about them recently. My mental model of a heat pump is that you have unit(s) outside, and aircon unit(s) indoors which you can run either to cool or heat your preferred rooms.
However, what's being talked about on the radio seems to consist of hooking a heat pump up to replace your gas boiler and warm your radiators. Is this more effective or efficient? It seems to me that as the chances of hot weather increase you'll want to cool your house for some of the year, and this doesn't do that.
Today i am releasing a new font for $pay-as-you-like. drj11.itch.io/airvent-font
Airvent is a utility sans with near-monoline strokes with rounded terminals.
Airvent includes pre-built and OpenType fractions, smallcaps (including smallcap numbers and a couple of smallcap symbols), sub- and super-script numbers, ballot boxes, planets, and a typical range of daggers, section symbols, currency symbols, mathematical symbols, and so on.
Please try, buy, and boost!
Airvent Font by David Jones (CubicType)
A utility font from CubicType. Made in Yorkshire by David Jones.itch.io
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taste aside (i'm pretty sure i have at least a few friends that share your opinions), it can be difficult to separate undecorated zero from /O and slashed zero from /Oslash (especially in this particular font, where i inherited the basic shapes; for example, the /zero and /O are unusually close in width).
[edit: oh, and disappointingly i don't think there is an OpenType feature for dotted zero, despite IBM implementing this option on the 3270 terminal thousands of years ago]
(Like the way I can never get behind-the-head straps to work properly, on anything from VR headsets to masks.)
Oh right! Either early phases you've not got enough thigh, or nobody's telling you to use tape.
(I can imagine you in cat ears though. Looking somewhat bemused.)
Branches of Costa on the verge of becoming entirely arsehole-free
Coffee chain Costa Coffee is on the verge of becoming free from the sort of arsehole that takes advice from Laurence Fox.NewsThump
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Font Licensing. I would be interested in exploring a somewhat permissive license that is more restrictive than SIL. In particular, i would be interested in incorporating elements of firstdonoharm.dev . What licenses have people been impressed or intrigued by? (doesn't have to have an ethical stance)
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not really a license but #Kopimism is to typographs what SIL is to the ancient Greeks and Mayans 😜
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missiona…
Some Type Foundries Want to Restrict Usage of Their Fonts on Ethical Grounds. Will It Work?
Since opening shop in 2009, Zurich-based independent foundry Grilli Type has quietly built a reputation for expertly drawn contemporary designs.Eye on Design
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The German word "Arsch" means "butt".
But:
- am Arsch (at the butt) = out of luck, or: As if!
- im Arsch (in the butt) = damaged, broken
- für den Arsch (for the butt) = in vain, useless
- verarschen (to forbutt) = to hoax
- Das geht mir am Arsch vorbei! (That passes my butt) = I don't care
- am Arsch der Welt (at the butt of the world) = at the end of the world, out in the sticks
- Arschgeige (butt violin) = jerk
Enjoy our languarsch!
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TIL the soldering iron that has been sitting in a box of misc stuff in the corner of my room is about as much use for melting solder as a rod of graphite wrapped in wood
so tomorrow i should be getting a pinecil pine64.org/pinecil/
it’ll be the first risc-v micro in this house that i know of
(certainly the first user-programmable one)
Pinecil | PINE64
32-bit RISC-V SOC 0.69 inch OLED monochrome display USB-C PD and QC 3.0 @ 12V-20V 3A Replaceable plastic housing Removable tips Go to Store The Pinecil is a smart mini portable soldering iron with a…PINE64
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Before I forget: this may be irrelevant for you, but have you seen one of the most common mods is to replace the tip screw with a thumbscrew?
There's advice on sizing on the wiki if that's something that appeals
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If I were a TERF, and I wanted to ensure institutional capture of a political party to further my bigotted rubbish, I wouldn't bother going for the tories, who are already there, I might go for Labour or the greens who seem susceptible, but in the name of all that's unholy I wouldn't go for the lib dems...
How many times do we have to vote overwhelmingly in favour of trans rights at conference?
How many times do we have to move next business on their poison as they misgender people from the stage?
It's a waste of everybody's time, including theirs. I wish they'd just sod off.
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This toot brought to you by me having to take time out from my life to respond to yet another substanceless bullshit complaint from someone objecting to me using the word TERF.
I'm so tired.
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Oh no I said TERF again.
TERF TERF TERF TERF TERF.
If they're going to kick me out of the party for that good luck to them, and good luck finding someone else to do all the sodding work I do as well.
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Apparently TERFS a are marginalised people and only Nazis compare marginalised people to insects, so I'm bringing the party into disrepute...
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But maybe this is just laziness; remembering a set of things to CW is probably significantly easier than getting individuals’ pronouns right, which I regard as mandatory brain work.
That's a pretty significant bump in global mean Daily Sea Surface Temperature this year, to say the least.
Yes, this should be on every newspaper. And importantly it should be analyzed more deeply than a daily "reminder" of or, even worse, "evidence" that #climatechange is happening (which only confirms the idea, that this is something worth discussing by now, which it isn't). climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst…
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So, let me get this right...
Musk is obsessed with the letter X. At some point he suddenly decided he wanted to rebrand Twitter as X just changed it to the Unicode X character i.e. uncopyrightable.
Now it turns out even the trademark is owned by arch-rival cage-fighting lizard Zuckerberg.
And they didn't even tell the owners of their HQ building they were changing the logo, so police got called on the signage engineers replacing it.
But this guy is a genius?
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The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) already have intellectual property rights to the same letter.Blake Brittain (Reuters)
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- James Vincent, "Beyond Measure"
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Are you finding Mastodon to be less vibrant/active?
I’m worried that we are not getting as much engagement on our Ukraine war reporting as we used to.
We’re trying to decide which social media platforms to continue posting on, given how much effort it takes to replicate across all of them.
If you want to send a signal to us that we should keep posting here, will you sign up for our newsletter? Counteroffensive.substack.com
I’m only asking Mastodon users today so we can gauge impact.
The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak | Substack
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Ukraine. Click to read The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of readers.The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
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Typo of the day: diuretic debit.
Kind of appropriate I guess, since apparently donating to Stonewall was pissing money away.
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Today’s new word: wankflange.
Definition: Richard Foord MP (Lib Dem), who thinks there is intolerance on both sides of the issue of trans rights, and thinks that parents should know if kids change pronouns at school.
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Erik Demaine proved that any pattern of straight cuts can be implemented by folding a piece of paper then making a single straight cut!
Here is what this looks like for a Koch snowflake:
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I was just reading up on various parasites (trying to figure out what's biting us) and came across this sentence about agromyzid midges: 'The midge adults would have caused the holes back when the leaves were still folded up inside the bud, resulting in a “snowflake” like pattern of holes once the leaves expanded'.
(Parasites on the midges are known to bite humans too.)
I haven't found any pictures that look like snowflakes, though you can clearly see the symmetry.
bygl.osu.edu/node/1967
Holey Oaks and Chestnuts
What’s causing holes to appear in the leaves of oaks and chestnuts in Ohio?bygl.osu.edu
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Beelzebub has the Devil for a sideboard.
Which doesn’t sound very convenient, although I suppose you could hang your keys on the horns.
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I'm so sick of biological TERFs. They just drive me biological wild with their biological bigotry. They should get a biological life.
@NightlyBye I genuinely don't think they know what "biological" means and they just use it as an amplifier like "fucking"
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However, it's unobtrusive, no radiators on walls, warm floors are lovely in winter and the house stays pretty much constant temperature.
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