IrishTechie

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by IrishTechie 13d ago
Do current aircraft have a backup in-case their fuel tanks run dry?
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by IrishTechie 23d ago
The savings in CO2 emissions for the likes of rapeseed, sunflower etc per MJ of energy is only around 50% compared to diesel. You have to release a lot of CO2 to grow these crops intensively. And that’s before you even consider where the la
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by IrishTechie 25d ago
> The DSA wants to abolish the existing US democratic process. That reads as though you’re saying they want to abolish the democratic process, but as somebody living in a country with many of the democratic processes they’re proposing, l
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by IrishTechie 29d ago
The localisation of it struck me when I read an Irish EPA report on traffic-related air pollution a few years ago that recommended carrying your child if you were walking regularly near heavy traffic. The air at 0.8m (their breathing heigh
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by IrishTechie 2mo ago
I moved into a house with an obscene number of GU10 LED downlighters. The bulbs were all mid market (I think) brands like Energizer etc. I’d guess they’re coming up to 7-8 years old and I have now had to replace most of them, probably 30-4
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by IrishTechie 2mo ago
I know there are some criticisms of Capital in the 21st Century and Picketty himself, but the book changed how I see the world profoundly, I cannot recommend it highly enough to anybody interested in these topics. The audiobook is a good wa
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by IrishTechie 2mo ago
You can still use old.reddit, you just need to be logged in. That said, if old.reddit ever went away altogether I would stop using it too.
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by IrishTechie 3mo ago
I drink milk because a) I prefer flat whites to espressos and b) to make my cornflakes wet. In both cases I prefer oat milk and in neither cases do I care about nutrition. I’m guessing that’s the reason.
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by IrishTechie 3mo ago
We have more issues with FileVault than we do with BitLocker, the latter being a fleet 5 times larger than the former. I find both “fine” for enterprise.
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by IrishTechie 3mo ago
Also found it fascinating, although on the discussion about brakes I thought about how regen braking turns off in my EV when the battery is full, because there is no where to put the power. So you either keep some of the battery always avai
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by IrishTechie 4mo ago
I recall thinking the same thing when Apple and Microsoft hit $1tn. Here we are less than a decade later and they’re up 3-400%.
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by IrishTechie 4mo ago
I guess they meant 'by nature', but maybe not, which will be fun to hear!
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by IrishTechie 5mo ago
I was looking for this game on GOG only an hour ago having regaled a teenager with how great it was! It’s not on GOG unfortunately.
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by IrishTechie 5mo ago
I’ve often thought about a model like this and would love to see a few news outlets run it as a pilot and see how it stacks up.
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by IrishTechie 6mo ago
I had a similar realisation in IT support - I regularly discover the answers I get from junior-to mid-level engineers need to be verified, are based on false assumption or are wildly wrong, so why am I being so critical of LLM responses. Ho
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by IrishTechie 6mo ago
The baffling thing is that iOS+MDM has been fantastic over the years. macOS is a completely different beast though.
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by IrishTechie 6mo ago
It can be done that way, but it is definitely not the norm. Businesses will generally “purchase” (many for €0) apps in ABM that are to be used for business purposes and push those to devices, the user can then use an Apple ID to download an
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by IrishTechie 6mo ago
€1500 or so for Tesla to replace the screen, cheaper in many other cars.
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by IrishTechie 6mo ago
Energy ≠ electricity
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by IrishTechie 7mo ago
I guess if your goal is just to stream aircraft telemetry and black box like recordings then latency may not be high on the agenda.
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
That seems like a rather cynical take. I think you’re conflating philosophy as guidance for how to live (stoicism etc) and philosophy as more of a science to explore unanswered questions, which are naturally going to have very different pra
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
I was giving the Leaf as an example of a worse warranty offering from 15 years ago sorry. Toyota now have the longer warranty compared to all the others, and even as a fairly poor EV they’re hugely popular with taxi drivers etc. I’m a bit E
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
I get what you’re saying but I think it misses that battery longevity can be a competitive advantage for the companies with better technology. The Nissan Leaf 15 years ago came with a 5-year/100,000km battery warranty, now Toyota are a
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
I disagree. They could for example make it mandatory to grant more stock options to employees so the wealth they are generating is more broadly spread beyond the founder/CEO. I’m sure there are plenty of other approaches that would sti
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
Sam Bankman-Fried. And I think he’s a bit of a special case, others do not need to be worried they’ll succumb to multi billion dollar fraud schemes if they try to earn-to-give.
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
Don’t think they’re dumb, their goals are just shorter-term, they need to juice the numbers before the next election cycle.
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
I rented a hybrid recently while my car was in for a service. Picked it up, drove home (25 mins on motorway) then returned it the next day. It spent all of that time burning petrol while popping up notices about all the reasons it couldn’t
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
Other than price, in what ways are they streets ahead? I’m a bit of an EV nerd and that would not be my assessment at all. Unfortunately for Western manufacturers price/volume is probably the most important thing right now, so they are
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
I’ve just Googled SpiderFoot and gone to the top result (spiderfoot.org). I see four banners on-screen promoting VPNs and crypto and a pop-up that reappears every few seconds telling me that a VPN is mandatory to use the site. I’m guessing
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by IrishTechie 8mo ago
I have a Windows 11, macOS and Ubuntu Desktop VM that I alternate across throughout the week, I find I need to reset all three periodically to sort out random weirdness. It has more to do with which machine I've used most in the last

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