As someone who grew up with AC, I was one time in Brazil and got stuck in a place without AC. Needless to say the first few nights was hell. I just couldn't follow asleep. However after few days, my body just adjust to the local temperature, and really enjoyed it. In fact, going into mall with AC just feels too cold for me then. Of course there is a limit to what our body can endure, but there is something to be said about exposing and adapting our body to the natural elements instead of just adjusting the environment to make what is comfortable to our body.
I live in a place with very little need for heating and air conditioning. If I don't do anything, indoor temperatures vary between 17°C and 27°C around the year. I've noticed that I prefer 24–25°C during the day in the summer and 21–22°C in the winter, and a bit less when I'm sleeping.
When I travel around the US, most places are too cold for my taste. Conference rooms are the worst, as I can't adjust the temperature myself and I often spend hours in them without much physical activity. I guess many Americans don't acclimatize to warmer temperatures, because their summers are uncomfortably hot.
And when I return from long hikes high up in the mountains, even that 17°C feels too hot for sleeping for a few days.
> I guess many Americans don't acclimatize to warmer temperatures, because their summers are uncomfortably hot.
Yeah. It's very weird/funny hearing how 100 F is almost death to them, when it's really not that bad. Most people where I'm from are practicing sports at 100 F.
This is so humidity dependent though, so it's probably more useful to speak in terms of the heat index.
I didn't mind 100F too much when I lived in Salt Lake; it was hot but that's what drinking lots of water was for. In Pittsburgh, 93F and higher make me want to curl into a ball and hug an air conditioner. In the 90s the heat index reaches as high as 110 here. Ick.
It is also the question of efficiency and productivity in the most generic sense. You've got only one life, and there is no point in spending it uncomfortably sweating while say loosing your focus given that AC is really cheap, whether it is energy required or the hardware itself.
That’s kind of the point. It’s not uncomfortable to live life in those temperatures if you’re acclimatized. Maybe something you bring up in small talk (“what about this heat?”) but never something that’ll change how you live.
Plus indoor spaces never get that hot due to shade and passive cooling. A little breeze and 90 F is just fine.
While you can live through 90F, your productivity for work or house chores will really suffer - that is why south countries have siestas as it is better to just lay down and relax and possibly sleep through it than trying to do anything else. And don't forget pets - they don't sweat, so it is very hard on them.
There's certainly a level of acclimation but if it were truly as enjoyable people wouldn't bother with cooling/heating buildings except in the most hostile environments.
Hmm why is it 186.1MB? Where Search is only 2MB? And blocks ads. Seems like much needed browser that is NOT Chromium based. Seems like DDG team can learn something from the way how Search is built.
- Resources are 130MiB, including a phishing filter set json file of 18 MiB, phishing hash prefixes of 6 MiB, lots of images and other resources (js, etc.)
- The main binary is 87MiB
- Another binary of 32MiB for “private information removal”
- VPN proxy extension is 17MiB, the VPN binary is 21MiB + 10MiB in another file
- The network protection app extension is 25MiB + another 25 in another file
The rest is frameworks (mostly Lottie and GRDB, in terms of space).
From a efficiency perspective centralized anything seems better at first glance, however decentralized anything just seems more resilient in the long run like nature and/or our universe.
>and people will compromise speed for data sovereignty
People should always compromise speed for data sovereignty! Who said: that in this digital day and age, information about money is more important than money!
