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I can relate. Spent a fun filled winter in Fairbanks many years ago. Spent most of the day working outside. Many days the high was in the negative 30's. Couldn't handle that today.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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We have one particular outgoing pipe (the catch) in our house that freezes when it is consistently 10F or less -- over 12 hours or so.
I always wonder how you in those especially frozen climates keep everything thawed?
Are your houses built with more specific insulation around pipes & keeping pipes away from outside walls?
Just curious & good luck with your cold snap.
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There's certainly more insulation, with pipes coming in under the frost line. Never a need to drip faucets here, unlike a few times when I lived in Dallas.
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Isn't that standard everywhere? I never saw an outdoor faucet around here either anti-freeze (when you crank it closed, you drive a long rod to close it at the inside of the wall, where the temperature is presumed to be above freezing - that is the reason for that long pipe in the photos of that link), or you have a second valve in your basement: Before winter, you close the indoor valve and open the outdoor one to allow the water between the two valves to run out. But that is mostly in 50+ year old houses.
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trønderen wrote: Isn't that standard everywhere?
Not sure. I was telling a friend in France and he seemed unaware of this. But then, in most of France winter is just wet and miserable 
Mircea
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+67F and sunny here 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Where's that? Miami? Inside your house? 
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Outside.
Some distance North of Miami
(God's waiting room).
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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37F here in White Springs, a little ways north of you!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Is that where they have a Folk Festival Mike ?
"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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Yep, the park, where they hold it is about 4 blocks from my house.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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The temperature this morning was a balmy 22 C / 72 F.
Come to sunny Israel!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My mother went to Israel in the 80's with a few friends. She really enjoyed it. She was trying to learn Hebrew at the time, I think. She had befriended an elderly lady at the time who was an Holocaust survivor, and through there discussions and hanging out, my mother felt compelled to visit Israel.
I actually would like to visit Israel and surrounding countries sometime. Not sure if it will happen anytime soon, but I would like to.
As a side note: My in-laws visited Israel about 10 years ago or so with their church group, and were escorted off a bus at a checkpoint by soldiers with machine guns because it was "not safe" for tourists to be traveling that route at that time. Yikes!!
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We did a similar trip in 2019, but we were allowed into the West Bank (the 'safer' sections). The army only checked us on the way back into Israel proper.
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Slacker007 wrote: were escorted off a bus at a checkpoint by soldiers with machine guns because it was "not safe" for tourists to be traveling that route at that time.
It could have been an army drill (Israel is quite small - about the size of New Jersey), so they closed off the downrange area. If they had a local tour guide, in addition to the pastor who lead the group, he/she was remiss in not checking for this sort of thing before choosing the day's route.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I grew up inland in Norway, where the winter air was super dry, like outdoors RH down to 20% (everyone had humidifiers in their homes to prevent wood from drying out so much that it would crack up), and no wind at all - we used to joke that if the aspen leaves are moving, the local newspaper will make a story about the storm. (For those of you unfamiliar with aspen: The tremble all the time, even when the wind is so weak that you hardly will notice it at all.) We had no idea what 'wind chill factor' was about when it was included in the weather forecasts.
We didn't consider it 'real winter' until the temperature fell below -20°C. In school, we where kicked outdoors in the breaks between lessons, to get some fresh air. The limit for being allowed to stay indoors was at -20°C outdoor temperature.
Nowadays, I live by a fjord. The air is a lot more humid; 0°C is a lot colder than -20°C where I grew up. If we also have a 10 m/s wind, the frost is unbearable, even with only a couple degrees below zero.
Yet, I still think of 'wind chill' primarily as an argument in a "Mine is bigger than yours!" quarrel. It certainly is essential to the effect on the bare skin you expose outdoors. It is completely irrelevant to any mechanical device (such as starting your car, or the low-temperature battery capacity loss of your electric car). If it marginally affects the required heating of your house, then the insulation is far too poor. (At least by Norwegian standards - our houses are extremely well insulated.) When someone refers to the wind chill adjusted temperature only, my immediate thought is 'Oh well, so you want to sound impressive. Fair enough, but maybe I am not that impressed, especially if you are not talking about being out walking in the wind."
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22 C in Bangalore, Southern India. And it's likely to grow hotter.
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I sympathize. I had to go to an *OUTDOOR" wedding yesterday, with temp around 72F , descending to mid 50s by dusk. After living 30 years in Alaska, I just about froze my tookus off  
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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It was 28 F here in New Orleans this morning. I stayed in bed! Not used to that cold weather, otherwise I would move up to Maine. Seriously!
ed
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Brrrrr.... It's balmy 70°F here.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A team that can make a bubble that lasts a year could be incredibly valuable in extending the life-span of MS bubbles, like the latest previews of Maui, that never work, and now barely last a few months: [^].
A leaked document suggests the French demands for not having Windows 11 installed, and, for a permanent guarantee that only the appellation "Les Bubble" will be used are being discussed ... the demand no Happy Meals will be sold on the Lille campus is meeting strong resistance at MS.
Another purported internal memo records a senior MS executive's opinion: "Compared to Activsion, we should be able to get this one for chump change."
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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There are plenty of rioters in the good ol' USA; why would they need to buy a job lot of French student rioters?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I`m trying to get an impression/idea about how complex software found in cars can get.
To start with there was a scandal a couple years ago that had at its heart the issue of a car producer making the software in charge with reading `exhaust quality` display false results. That got me wandering what`s the point of having such a piece of software on board of each car. To my mind all engines found inside same model cars produce exhaust in the same amount and of the same (chemical) formula if subjected to identical conditions.
I`m curious about this exhaust reading software. My guess is that it`s sensors recording the gas formula but are the sensors always on, like does the driver get a real time display of the recoded result as he is driving the car?
Also my sister has a car that has a digital display (LCD screen) of the speedometer and all the other information that is usually displayed through analog methods/indicators. The car has also a display that shows what is recorded by the car front and rear cameras. Then there is the radio and music information that is displayed digitally as well. My question is there a centralized operation system behind that manages all of it?
Then there is of course the question of Tesla cars which have an even higher number of sensors and higher complexity in the way the sensors operate.
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There are many processors in modern cars from little uControllers to "proper" CPUs. The infotainment system is just one of them - and that one can be quite spectacularly powerful. For example, the Hyperscreen in the Mercedes EQS uses 8 CPU cores and 24GB RAM (which is more than my desktop PC has!)
This may help you understand just how much processing is going on: Adventures in Automotive Networks
and Control Units[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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