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> I've been wondering for a long time why we don't have whole-house heat recovery systems.

Every house in the Nordics built after 1985 or so has this.

Seeing how sewage treatment plants need to heat up the sewage for the treatment processes to work it’s a zero-sum move at best.

Every time I suggest “just rent a ICE for the edge case trips” people look at me like I’ve just kicked their dog

> clear separation between your API(s) and your Client(s)

The problem is that the SPA way of thinking has infiltrated every nook and cranny in this industry. The ratio of APIs vs clients consuming those APIs come scarily close to 1, at least with the customers I work with.

Now you have to maintain two projects, two CI/CD pipelines, two hosting solutions, potentially two sets of languages and tooling…

> 40 metres to 12 metres

So they sacrificed the freedom of design to save €100?

You forgot the dancing robot.

The secrecy around privately held companies seems so… childish and petty.

Just a heads up: If you're not using a Merchant of Records like LemonSqueezy or Paddle you're 99,9% certain of committing tax fraud. Even within the US different states require you to collect sales tax, international sales make this even more tricky.

The biggest selling point with Canva is it's myriad of templates. I doubt you're going to find that in a open-source alternative.

After numerous failed attempts at reading Clean Code, I'd say (1) and (2) are very much at odds.

I never fully understood why CEO:s resign when there's a scandal. Like, stay on and clean up the mess you made instead of bailing with a golden parachute?

> Well for Blazor Webassembly at least, you need to download the entire .NET runtime

It's a one-time download that's smaller than the initial load of the Facebook feed

> It will load slowly, work slowly

Why do you think this will be the case?

> I don't have to maintain the cognitive overhead of translating domain models into JSON models and vice versa.

I’m more happy about not having to maintain working knowledge of two sets of IDEs, build tools, CI/CD pipelines, hosting models and testing framework and conventions.

Our neighbour has a modern, top-of-the-line, highly efficient wood boiler. Still makes the area smell like a parking garage for a couple of hours each day during winter.

> The only decent GUI framework for Windows is Electron

What a peculiar way of spelling “WinForms”

Once you add kids to the equation the whole bathroom + a good portion of the connecting hall is now a wet zone.

> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here.

Hah, funnily enough every time I’m in the US I reflect about what a weird design those low faux-bathtubs are. To each his own I guess

Not necessarily. There’s also something called air-to-water heatpumps which work like a mix of geothermal and air-to-air.

My house (~1900sqf/200m2) is currently warmed up by a 10kW Nibe 2025 that’s connected to a 300L buffer tank. It does it by its own down to -5C, after which a 3kW resistance heater in the tank adds the missing effect. During the winter it uses ~1000-1500kWh for both heat and warm water.

You’re right. That was a poor choice of words on my part. My point was that it was obvious SAAB cars (neé SAAB Weapon Systems) wasn’t a viable business and the last few years were extremely drawn out and full of drama.

I'm sure someone has a good writeup¹, but as to my understanding they had a really weird lineup where the 9-5 competed with 9-3 and both were basically low-end luxury sedans marketed as family cars.

¹) Yep, see dagw's sibling comment.

Frankly? Yes. The drawn out death rattle was annoying to follow.

But if you list the causes of SAABs demise you get pretty far down the list before coming to "2 months vacation and 36 hour workdays" (it's 25 days and 39 hour work weeks btw).

> Saab died

Under GM management.

30 hour work week with full pay.

Since becoming a freelancing contractor I’ve experimented a fair bit with my work week and for me the sweet spot is 5 6-hour days, split up as 2x90min, 2 hour lunch and another 2x90min.

I prefer a five day workweek with shorter days because I rarely have 8 good hours in me. That, and as long as the rest of the world is working 5 days a week it’s easier to conform.

You still have to write the code for the macro. With ChatGPT you can just say “write a mapper between these two object in C# 11, make the target members uppercase and skip X, Y and Z”

XML is fine. Schema validation is really handy more often than you’d think.

Between countries, yes. Domestically, you invoice businesses with VAT, hold on to the VAT money and quarterly deposit it to the tax authorities (minus the VAT for deductible expenses).

> the Scandinavian way

They… do no such thing?

> they can send me a letter.

Why am I reminded of this meme?

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-are-you-gonna-do-sta...