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psheetson Physicists Still Don’t Know What Puts the Curl in Curling

The delta of the ice on stone speed between the sides is not dependent on the rotational speed but liner speed in relation to the rotational speed.

psheetson VLANs and VPNs: PfSense Segmented Routing

Hey thanks for sharing. Feedback would be awesome!

psheetson Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library

You have to use it for user authentication which Emby does locally.

psheetson Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library

I just switched from PLEX to Emby. Plex started to push Plex.TV down their users throats. Emby does not require any external authentication.

https://emby.media/index.html

psheetson Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

Does this support crossfire?

psheetson This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings

"Chillers" are actually direct expansion cooling devices for liquid. They have a condenser and evaporator just like an air cooled air conditioning system. The evaporator will be on the chilled water supply side and the condenser can be cooled by water or air.

The big empty box with water is an evaporative cooling tower used to cool the condenser side water.

psheetson This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings

If you use an evaporator tower you do need to replenish that water. The tower is usually used to cool a closed loop of water (or glycol/water mix depending on the climate) that cools the refrigerant in a chiller.

The system in the article uses a pipe loop underground in place of an evaporator. This uses less water/energy but require a higher first cost and very specific location requirements which is why the cooling towers are still more popular.

psheetson This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings

Larger systems can use cooling towers which leverage evaporative cooling. Also, arid climates can use swamp coolers to cool a space. They work on the same principal. When water evaporates, it pulls energy from the surrounding medium, causing the temperature to drop.

psheetson This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings

Click bait title

psheetson This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings

Not really anything new...

psheetson Hacker news unofficial desktop app

What is the benefit of this over using a browser?

psheetson jQuery Lock Plugin – prevent some users from changing content in your page

I feel like this is a band aid for core design flaws.