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David O'Neil wrote: AronChupa, Little Sis Nora – Hole in the Roof
Great video 
For a moment I thought they sampled Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)[^].
I don't think it's a sample, but it sounds exactly the same.
David O'Neil wrote: And one that's been mentioned before: AronChupa, Little Sis Nora - I'm an Albatraoz.
If I started the SOTW about a year earlier this one would've been on it for sure 
Very nice tracks, must listen to more AronChupa!
Somehow I never did after Albatraoz.
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Nobody here is dumb; you're all a bunch of damned geniuses. So I want to pose a question to you all that is entirely outside of your field of expertise. I'm told that this sort of exercise helps to maintain one's mental acuity, so I'm probably helping you to keep your jobs. In a nutshell (or ballsock, if Michael Martin is tuning in), I've got a bit of a mystery going on at my house. I'm swapping out an old water heater, and I have the entire thing disconnected and out of the house. Yet, when I open a hot water tap any place in the house, I get a surge of water flow, then a slow trickle of water. So far as I know, the hot water side of the circuit gets its pressure from the hot side outlet of the water heater. That line is disconnected and capped. Additionally, the hot line is also capped. Where does this unexpected pressure/flow originate? The mind boggles...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Treat it like a code bug: gather information.
What temperature is the water? How does that compare to the cold supply?
How long does it take to "build up pressure" again?
Does the pressure in the line seem the same upstairs and downstairs?
Not saying I know what the problem is (the US approach to water / house heating is different to UK) but debugging is debugging ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: (the US approach to water / house heating is different to UK)
I suspect anywhere is different to the UK when it comes to plumbing. 
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Even the UK is different. 
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I've heard this:
Why don't the British refrigerate their beer?
British wiring.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I would suspect that one of your faucets is leaking between the hot and cold side.
Assuming you have modernish single grip faucets that is.
If you have old fashioned faucets with separate knobs for hot and cold, this is obviously not the case.
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Nailed it! The other single-handle valve in the house is the second shower/bath. Adjusting the temperature setting on it changed the flow rate of the dripping from the faucet, even though that valve appears to be working perfectly. Unfortunately, this place is 40 years old, and replacing that unit will be nearly impossible.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Perhaps the surge of flow is coming from the column of water standing in the vertical pipe corresponding to each tap / faucet. Once that column of water has come out, it becomes a trickle.
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somewhere a cold water pipe or mixer is leaking into the hot...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quite so! If there is no pressure in the hot pipe, when you open a mixer tap in a 'mix' position, then cold water will also flow into the hot pipe until the pressure equalizes. The logical test is to be punctilious about making sure all mixer taps are opened only in the 'cold' position, and see if the problem goes away.
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My guess would be a shower/tub valve. They are a single cartridge with a design that would allow crossover to occur if one of the gaskets on the cartridge is bad. Could also be a defective temperature balancer on a newer shower.
Turn each shower valve to full hot and give it a few minutes. You might check a sink after a while leaving the shower open on hot. Just like programming, see if you get a different result.
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Quote: Not A Programming Question
Plumbing questions are a lot like programming questions.  There's usually a leak, stuff that doesn't fit well together, bad documentation, and usability issues.
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The investment you make in your skills also follows a similar pattern to financial investments, i.e. high risk equals high reward.
In 1995, if you had told me to invest my skills in this little known language called Java by a small company called Sun Microsystems, I'd have rebutted you saying you've probably had a few drinks too many! Who would have thought Java will be used to write just about anything (including mobile apps) some day?
On the other hand, had the "risk taker" in me had jumped on the Blackberry development in 2010 or Windows Phone development in 2015, his career would have failed quite miserably!
Similarly, had the "risk averse" buddy chosen something like COBOL or C in 1995, he'd probably still have a low paying job to stick with for several years to come.
From that perspective, what do you make of the current technologies like Java and Python and PHP? And what about all the JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) and the Node/NPM ecosystem? Where do you see all of this going?
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That's interesting but I'm a bit skeptical about low code or no code. They've been talking about it since a long time but coding jobs have only gone higher and higher. In fact, it could be argued that engineers have been trying the "low code" approach ever since the day they started coding, be it procedural programming in C/C++, OOP in Java/C#, coding patterns and frameworks later on, etc. But ironically, the coding complexity and tasks have only increased ever since!
Adding additional layers on top of raw code (like libraries, frameworks, CMS, etc.) may give you the false sense of "no code" but the underlying layers still have to dealt with someone (if not you). That's just the nature of how code and technology works?
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Prahlad Yeri wrote: similar pattern to financial investments, i.e. high risk equals high reward.
It's nothing alike.
When you learn a language and it goes away, your skills, knowledge and experience are still there and are always, at least partially, transferable to any new project, language or framework.
If you "miss the boat" on a language, you can always still learn it later.
Learning something new is never a risk, but the (financial and job security) rewards may vary.
A bad financial investment can make you go bankrupt, or at least lose a lot of money.
That money will be gone.
Missing the boat on an investment means you'll never be able to make it later, that opportunity is also gone.
Prahlad Yeri wrote: From that perspective, what do you make of the current technologies like Java and Python and PHP? And what about all the JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) and the Node/NPM ecosystem? Where do you see all of this going?
To answer those questions, Java, Python, PHP and JavaScript aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
All of them seem like viable career choices, although I prefer C# and .NET myself.
JavaScript is probably a bit more popular and all-round than the other languages, so that's always a good bet.
React seems to be the front-end framework flavor of the day, but no guarantees for the future there.
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Prahlad Yeri wrote: Similarly, had the "risk averse" buddy chosen something like COBOL or C in 1995, he'd probably still have a low paying job to stick with for several years to come.
That is questionable. Do you really think a Java developer is paid more than a C one?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Similarly, had the "risk averse" buddy chosen something like COBOL or C in 1995, he'd probably still have a low paying job to stick with for several years to come
COBOL programmers are worth their weight in gold
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I would suggest language agnostic problem solving. Languages can be learnt.
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Prahlad Yeri wrote: From that perspective
Your perspective/premise is wrong, IMO. I would actually answer the question from the starting point of what interests you. Why? Because why would you learn something that you have no interest in? That just leads to lifelong mysery.
So what interests you? AI? SBC's? Web development? Database stuff? API development? Technical writing? Security? Testing? UI/UX? Biodynamic farming? Living off the grid?
If you start with a couple top of the list things that motivate you, then what you invest in regarding skills becomes clearer. The reward is life satisfaction, and if the income you make at it meets or exceeds your needs, then consider yourself lucky.
Prahlad Yeri wrote: Where do you see all of this going?
To this question, my answer is, more frameworks, more languages, more Web3 and Blockchain and AI and Quantum Computing hype, and generally more options chaos.
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