Claidheamh

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[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Effect can also be a verb. You can effect change, and thus affect people's lives.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not just use this one? It's not like it's teeming with content.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Most ACs nowadays can do both. And are actually more efficient at heating.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was referring to electrocaloric, and Stirling engine heat pumps.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Pointless discussion, but they're all heat pumps. Refrigeration cycle is the name of the physical process. Most heat pumps make use of that thermodynamic principle, but there are some niche ones that don't. But people don't care about that, and so find it more useful to call them by what their purpose is, and that varies locally.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I never see refrigerators being called AC either, and they're air-to-air heat pumps too. People just call things what they want regardless of the technical details.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah but that means not everyone is switching to EVs, which is the point of the person you're replying to.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Azores is UTC-1 anyway.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The church of Satan and the Satanic temple are two very different organisations.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

What exactly is the utility of the above quote of yours then?

To show that the correlation is spurious at best.

Has it become even more successful after he’s mellowed out?

Yes, it has. Usage of Linux has been growing over the years.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

My point is exactly that. It's not obvious, and as such you can't attribute the success of Linux to his behaviour. Like the OP said, there's no logic in looking at something successful and picking a singular thing to be responsible.

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