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Nielsen is global Company that is used for pricing ads on TV stations around the world. Their way of doing it from what I know personally is that they sign up people to put this ACR boxes voluntarily and then based on extrapolation of data - they can tell you pretty close what was the viewership across demographics. Similar to how election polls are done - you just need a good sample.

It's been done for at least good 15 years.

It's not that simple. If you have a gas boiler, you're most likely exchanging heat using radiators which are _designed_ for certain amount of heat exchange. With high water temperature, you can get away with smaller radiator and deliver the same amount of heat.

The story gets worse when you put heat pump to the same system - now you have to run it to its limits to have just enough heat in the water to make the radiators release enough heat to barely heat up the room.

Of course, it's only that simple to replace one heat source with another, why wouldn't anyone do it already?

When it's around 20C, it's impossible for me to make my rooms colder than say 23C, because there is no way I can make so much of air exchange.

Even if I somehow manage to pull the air in, the moment I close it - the walls that have all that heat will start giving it back again, bringing the temperature back to where it was.

It's so funny, that when the winter starts, it's long into the winter before I have to turn on heating in my apartment.

Sometimes it's not about the fence, it's about exerting power. Put people in charge of the decision that shouldn't be there, and you're in world of pain.

For most of the buildings from communism era - all the utilities run through the apartments anyway and there is absolutely no place or way to retrofit these utilities without extensively either re-doing it from scratch, or trying to somehow retrofit it on the outside.

All of these options are a non-starter considering basic AC starts from $500. Why should anyone invest more than that?

I am all for solving these problems and making sure they don't cause problems for others. My problem is with the ability for arbitrary people to say "no" to your case, without even considering the options or facts.

Sure thing, you could go to court if they have any problem, but who is going to fight for AC worth $500 for a few years just to get it installed?

Where do you think it is getting discharged?

Seems like Poland and Finland might have something in common then. It's exactly the same here and exactly senseless.

Don't get me started on how it works in my country.

People who don't have a balcony are screwed and are entirely dependent on homeowners association which arbitrarily can agree or not, or they can stay indecisive about it and not let you do anything.

Well, if you have a balcony? you just put it there and make the necessary holes for it, problem solved.

The effect is exactly the same - you just have AC installed. In one case you have to go through totally unnecessary hoops, and in other case, you just do whatever you want.

What's even the point of it?

I could be convinced, however for me personally sleep defines how I feel throught the day, and if my sleep is bad or not restorative, it's almost impossible to take care of myself and adhere to "being healthy and mindful" because it requires just too much energy I won't have.

Yeah, sure.

I would love to find a natural or lifestyle remedy to common RLS or PLMD symptoms that I get from time to time. The problem is that for some people it's impossible to identify what are the triggers and sometimes it's just genetics you have no control over.

But sure, do tell people to avoid doctors and make them suffer even though there are drug remedies that don't cause dependence and augumentation.

Alternatively, you must be okay to have lifelong struggle and always feel inferior to everyone around you basically doing stuff effortlessly while you suffer.

I don't know what part of the world are you from, but here in Poland, ordinary 400W Bi-Facial panel costs around $80/pc, when buying from wholesaler which are plenty and accessible even to non-companies (as a proof, I did buy 4pcs myself). And if you buy in bulk, it can even be $50/pc.

But boy how much the mounting system costs - it's at least 3 times the cost of the panes if you buy them in 2xN or 4xN bulk and I'm excluding labor here.

Common uneducated answer is: everyone needs something to die from. Same with cigarette smoking.

My perspective is very simple.

I can either struggle for the next 30 years with whatever I wished I was doing, and be always angry at myself, others, significant other and family, or I can take meds, bear the consequences (side effects really), but be happy for the moments where they do help and I can actually do what I wished for.

Took me almost 10 years to come to that conclusion, so take your time, but once I started my therapy and medication I was so angry at myself for not doing it earlier that it took me almost 2 weeks to shake out of it.

Feel free to check my other comment in my profile that describes my troubles.

I always thought any kind of SSRI or alike will make it much worse, as many people on reddit indicate they caused it for them.

I seem to be in opposite camp where SNRI actually lift like majority of visual snow syndrome, but that was not the only syndrome I had. I believe I had something more like HPPD.

Believe me, I was scared as hell as I thought these meds will make it worse, and I am really glad now that I did try them and they did work for me. I still have a really small amount of snowing, but I can ignore it entirely and carry on with my life.

The default city, but the process was that I paid out of pocket for psychological diagnosis and then used that to talk with psychiatrist. It seems to be the "easiest" route to be taken seriously, rather than drug-seeker.

And other comments - you NEED to look for people who specialize in ADHD specifically, both on psychologist and psychiatrist side. I got SNRI only because the doc said "it's used as last resort for ADHD, perhaps it will help you" - no, it does shit nothing for ADHD in my case. But it did help with many other things so I'm still grateful for that.

Also, keep in mind that non-stimulants also do work, but they don't work _immediately_ and that requires actual regime to make know whether they work on you.

Do you really believe there is only one kind of OCD, specifically one you described?

I'm sorry to tell you, but both ADHD and OCD exist on a spectrum. Furthermore, ADHD like symptoms can be caused through other illness than actual dopamine deficiency.

Not true,

Source: diagnosed in Poland, see my other comment. Feel free to contact if need help.

I have to add my 5 cents to that because I've experienced something I've not seen anyone else experience and I think it might be worth to share it with others that might struggle with the same.

I had various neurological issues for the past 10 years, some of them common like visual migraine auras, GAD, panic attacks, and some of the less known and frankly hard to describe - visual snow, poor night vision, problems with adapting to light/dark places, constant fatigue, over stimulation (pins and needles over the whole body when overheating, as an example). On top of that, ADHD and I was really afraid of any and all kinds of medication, especially mind altering ones.

At one moment, I was in a really bad shape and place mentally and I decided to get professional help and start medicating, as I felt nothing else can help me anymore. And believe me, I did try all kinds of therapies, exercising (how do you do it with constant fatigue?), mindfulness and meditation (closing eyes when stressed was horrible experience for me!), nothing helped.

Look, you can tell me it's placebo or whatever, but I started on SNRIs and later on stimulants for ADHD. It took me _2 weeks_, to cure 80% of my neurological issues. It was almost like someone flipped a light switch in my nervous system. I still can't fully believe it or even try to understand, but my theory is that I've been genetically destined to have these problems, and "just trying hard enough" was not enough and would've never been enough.

SNRIs cured my neurological issues, and stimulants like Ritalin gave me willpower to start making positive changes and for the first time - start making habits. I believe, at least in my case, it would've been impossible without medication, or it would take me half my life to get to a place where I would've felt comfortable with myself and my problems. I believe my life is too short to fight with all of these issues alone, and I'm really glad I did start that.

tl;dr: medication gave me my life back, not just from ADHD but from variety of other issues, that ADHD just exacerbated. Please do try medication, it's not a one way door and we humans don't have infinite willpower to deal with all the issues on their own.

Something that helped with my anxiety is changing the way I think about my physical and mental issues where even if I have some underlying conditions causing anxiety, it should not define how I feel about it because I am in the control of how I feel. Even if you have tinnitus, and it causes you great discomfort, you must convince yourself that tinnitus does not define how you feel about it, that it does not cause continous issues, and that worrying and digging on the causes of it can actually make it worse because our brains are stupid sometimes.

It does help, but you must push through it. Your body will give you signals that its not ok, but you must try to ignore it, and then you may actually feel better, even if your underlying causes did not change.

ActiceBatch by Redwood, correct. Its widely used by some hedge funds.

As I worked adjacent to people who ran thousands of jobs in ActiveBatch - that software indeed was very simple to use and its GUI might have been awesome - but it's been double edged sword where if you have hundreds of people working on it - it becomes maintenance nightmare and promoting changes between environments was non-existent, causing multiple incidents.

Mind you, it might have been just culture at that place, but I don't think this is as good of an example as you make it be. Sure, it was easy to get started and made the life easier at the beginning, but running it at scale was not in any way easy.

Fully agreed on factory farming. Not only is it cruel and unethical, but the quality is also much worse making vegetables actually a pretty good alternative.

On that note, let me tell you how home grown vegetables are also a lot better than... ;)

I think there is a shade of grey between enjoying it and never doing because animals are another living being that don't deserve it.

If you are doing it as part of putting a good tasting food on the table, I would say no, no one bats an eye, but I suppose they don't enjoy the process too - it's messy process and requiers some safety considerations too like making sure your meat doesn't have any parasites.

Because killing farm animals is considered a norm in almost all places who had done that since generations.

If you would be surrounded by chickens, livestock and other farm animals and watching them getting butchered was your daily bread as a child, why would you reconsider when you would grow up? It literally put food on your table, and besides home grown farm animals taste A LOT better (speaking from experience, but never grown them myself, any meat product I buy from the Walmart alikes tastes much worse).

Its only when you never witnessed death of any kind that you become so sensitive to it. Once it becomes normal (of course, I talk about farm animals here only) it's really hard to see advocates for vegetarianism as some sort of zealots.

And personally? What's the difference if they die of natural causes vs. just butchering them when the time is right? If you raised them ethically and they were generally happy, then for these animals its just... How it would end anyway? If you compare that to industrial farming, and if it was the only way to get meat sure I would consider being vege instead, its horrible how they are kept and treated. But for my own raised animals? Its a cycle of life.

Sorry to break your bubble, but this is how people normally live on countrysides / small villages, at least in my country. Killing livestock animals is everyday thing and no one bats an eye.

Hell, even killing new born kittens / puppies is considered by some normal thing, if they breed uncontrolled (even if they could just... castrate / neuter them [not sure which is the right word for it, I'm not native]).

After all how is it different from a full grown chicken, other than the fact you don't normally eat cats/dogs?

I don't have a website yet, but I recently hooked myself up to work on yet another CI/CD solution. Hear me out before you say "booring!".

What if you could migrate to a CI/CD that is better to fit your organization _without_ changing any existing definitions?

What if your new fancy CI/CD could support your existing github-actions/bitbucket pipelines/circleci.yml definitions right out of the box?

And what if you could progressively migrate to some new/other format that fits your needs better without having to create multi-year organization wide migration to the "new and better CI"™, only to do it _yet again_ once vendor goes out of business?

So that's my idea. I admit, the endeavor is really big, since supporting multiple formats which often don't have direct equivalents between each other seems like a really hard thing to do. But I strongly believe this is real problem, because according to my n=1 experience, every organization sooner or later faces this challenge, and the fact that all vendors force you to migrate to their custom format for defining, what is essentially a DAG of tasks is outrageous to me.

yes, they do seem to improve LAN support in subsequent updates, see[0] for example 1.7.0 release notes where they added camera stream to LAN Only mode as well

[0] https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/releases/tag/v01.07....

RFID reader is not a thing when you don't use AMS (for multi color printing). RFID is used to identify the filament, otherwise you just have to set it manually on what did you load to which holder.