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  • The mains are shared with your neighbours, so a hot water main would also be shared with neighbours. So just like running the hot water in the bathroom sink before a shower means hot water gets to the shower quicker, with hot water mains, your neighbour having a hot shower before you means you’ll see hot water sooner.

    Though my country does not have hot water mains. I wouldn’t be surprised if the heat losses are enough that even sharing a water heater between unattached neighbours is less efficient than both using their own heaters, let alone a whole city doing that. Though maybe tropical areas could do it.





  • I was editing a very large confluence page a little while ago in FF and was getting frustrated with how slow it was getting. I figured it must be better on edge, surely there’s been a bunch of optimizations there for the whole thing to have been deemed viable.

    Nope, FF was faster. By a decent margin, even. The editor was still usable in FF while edge struggled just to render it at all.





  • I’m not sure if the anime will ever get there, but if you read the manga past the end of Super (which ends on the Tournament of Destruction saga last I checked, like the one with Jiren, and then the Brolly movie), there’s more Frieza development. Btw I suggest reading even the parts at the start; it’s more of a companion piece than the retelling of the exact same story on a different medium. There is overlap between them, of course, but also a bunch of not overlap. Like Zamasu is more fleshed out and his whole path makes more sense in the manga.

    Anime has more fighting, manga has more story telling.




  • I can’t recall if it was COBOL or FORTRAN, but I tried learning one of them after being pretty confident in picking up any other programming language I’ve tried to learn, including assembly (wouldn’t want to use that for large projects but I’ve written context switches and such), but I ended up giving up because it felt like the learning materials themselves were in some other language.

    Which sucked because I’m the kind of guy that thinks a task like refactoring millions of lines of legacy code into a more modern language would be fun (or satisfying at least). Phase 1 would be a 1:1 conversion (probably involving implementing various old language features in the new language or assembly to do it piece by piece), followed by phase 2 which would be a full redesign and rewrite, using the knowledge from phase 1 to ensue full feature parity. Because “we rewrote software but the new version doesn’t do x, y, z that the old one did” sucks. Glances at Blizzard.