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    1 year ago

    Shouldn’t it be a float that goes between 0 and 1 instead of an int. In this situation they’d be the same thing, considering 1 would be max lol.

    • MaggiWuerze
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      So you only shower with 1° cold water? Or could the int maybe represent something like 40°C?

  • @[email protected]
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    I travel a lot and I swear I’ve never seen the same shower design twice. There’s so many different freakin’ ways to deliver a stream of water to your head and they nearly all require some level of finessing. I’m assuming it all stems from an 1800s court case about patents but fuck that judge and everyone involved that day

    • @thehatfox
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      231 year ago

      It seems that hotels somehow always install the most obscure and convoluted shower designs. I’ve never had too much trouble with showers in people’s homes, but every time I shower in a hotel room I feel like I’m trying to operate an oddly temperamental steam engine.

  • TheLinuxGuy
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    1 year ago

    How it really works:

    mpf_t temperature;
    
    If confused...

    It’s arbitrary sized floating precision number provided in LibGMP and you can find more information about mpf_t here.

    • NikkiNikkiNikki
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      71 year ago

      Not common in the US I believe, or at least I haven’t heard or seen one of them.

      You just gotta “guess” what’s correct and then feel the water coming out

      • @mercano
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        221 year ago

        In the house I grew up in, you’d also have to hope no one flushed the downstairs toilet. If so, the cold water pressure would suddenly drop, leaving a lot more hot water coming out of the shower head.

      • @[email protected]
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        131 year ago

        Weird, they are super common here in the Netherlands. Not expensive either. You just set it to a temperature and it’ll keep it constant.

          • Haus
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            51 year ago

            If I’m thinking of the same device, the one I used in Sweden and Norway, it’s fantastic. It’s in the shower itself, so you don’t have to contend with 30m of cold pipes between a less effective water heater and the nozzle.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, I havent had a problem setting the shower temperature since I live in a house that has one.

      Its great.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Instructions

    while temperature < comfortable_temperature: temperature += 1

    Interpretation

    while temperature < freezing: on toggle(temperature += boiling)

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    And then someone comes over who isn’t a programmer and they have to take a shower:

    Error: cannot convert “warm” to integer

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Where I live, I have to spend 500 years to either get volcano-like water, or Ice Age water. Moving it one atom completely changes the temperature.

    • @cynar
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      11 year ago

      If yours uses a thermal sensing element (not just mixing blind),I’ve found running it through its full temperature range helps a lot. I suspect limescale and other crap build up on the thermal element. It adds several years on to the life of the mixer. Descaling it would likely also work, but involves removing it from the pipes, to get the cleaner in.