Thanks for linking the HN thread 👍

The middle one (at least) is from Sleepaway Camp. Terrifying ending.

Holy shit this is some #theydidthemath stuff.

6 months at paying full price for the foam is a ridiculously quick turnaround given the lifespan of a fridge (easily 5 years). Plus, you can probably reuse the prior fridge’s foam on the next fridge, so that makes it even better.

Why don’t people do this more often? If the gap in my current “fridge space” wasn’t so small already, I’d be tempted to go find some foam.

Excellent point about getting styrofoam for free (I hadn’t even thought of that). With that in mind, the only cost would be for time spent gathering the foam and then covering the fridge (I could probably do this in less than an hour, tbh).

Thanks for this comment!

Very cool post (pun intended).

This got me thinking about the goal of this kind of insulation…

If it’s cost savings, what would be the timespan until the cost of the styrofoam is paid for by the energy savings? ( I have no idea what that type of styrofoam costs).

If the goal is environmental, how much energy savings would be needed to offset the footprint of the manufacture of the styrofoam and transport of the styrofoam to your location?

In either case, I’d have to assume the less efficient (and older) the fridge, the faster you’d make the extra insulation pay itself off.

I like to upvote posts with lots of debate around them even if so don’t agree with the OP because I want the OP to be encouraged. People should be rewarded for bringing thought-provoking content here, even if it’s imaginary points.

This is probably the most straightforward explanation. In many-to-many, I usually have a helper table standing in between which holds the foreign keys

YOU’RE DOING QUADRATICS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL?’

Sucks bro. You’re in good company tho

Damn. It’s amazing to read some of the HIPAA and FERPA fines out there for exposing data accidentally. Then you’ve got this kind of breach, which is probably endemic and at a much larger scale.

Great read

Got a backbone controller and ain’t been back to a console for anything other than watching streaming since.

I think this is neat.

A good read and the principles hold for a lot of hobbies. Lots of small projects are more fun, more engaging, and better skill-building experiences than learning how to make a masterpiece from the get-go (woodworking example: a perfect cherry chest of drawers with all wood joinery and a french polish finish.)

…stop cluckin around back here! We’ve got customers to serve.

I’ve found some applications for it, honestly.

I made a work bench with oak 4x4s for legs and dado’d in pine 2x4s for the cross braces. Nice and sturdy with a good enough fit and no movement I noticed over the past 3 years.

Top comment, this. This is gonna be my default when folks ask about dimensional lumber sizes in the future

Good thing you checked, that’s ridiculous. If I’d cut a dado for some mixed stock and found out some of them were 1 & 1/3 instead of 1 & 1/2, I’d be pissed.

Knew a pastor who this happened to. He was adamant that he was part Native American. After a DNA test it turned out he was zero percent Native American.

He was big enough to embrace it, tho

Sport-mode. This man is dangerous, indeed

I think you’re right :(