Kognito

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by Kognito 21d ago
The same has happened in the UK. It has gone from being a major producer of oil and gas to being heavily dependent on imports. Great for politicians on the global speaking circuit to opine how they reduced production and brought down local
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by Kognito 21d ago
Welcome to Europe
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by Kognito 1y ago
We do, but I can’t imagine it’s hugely popular. Only a few of the smaller suppliers offer it AFAIK.
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by Kognito 1y ago
> £100M gets spent to resolve the issue It's even worse than it first appears. There's no evidence that the trains will have any impact on the bats AND there's equally scant evidence that a tunnel will protect the bats fro
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by Kognito 2y ago
More or less none. Energy prices are a domestic mismanagement issue and pre-date the Brexit situation, unfortunately.
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by Kognito 2y ago
Wasn't suggesting it was the cause, just pointing out we seem to have done little to invest in other forms of power. Wind has its place, but it will struggle to provide consistent base load or grid inertia that we'll lose from shu
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by Kognito 2y ago
It's a work in progress for sure, but it's certainly not cheap. Getting enough battery storage will be a mammoth task. From the aricle, Europe's (then) biggest battery could supply just 2 hours of power to 300k homes - compar
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by Kognito 2y ago
I was referring to this article which quotes the IEA for industrial energy costs at around $0.085/kWh, versus $0.34/kWh in the UK. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/26/britain-burd...
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by Kognito 2y ago
I sense you might not be arguing in good faith, but here's at least a mild effort to placate you. > Since when? As of 2023, high, but not highest. Since 2024, at least. [1][2] > Could you provide evidence that factories and indus
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by Kognito 2y ago
Queen Elizabeth II had no involvement in the decision to defend the Falklands, other than perhaps some private counsel with the then Prime Minister, just as King Charles III will have had no involvement in this decision.
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by Kognito 2y ago
Bittersweet. Glad to be moving away from coal, but the lack of serious investment in anything but wind energy has left the UK with the highest electricity prices in the developed world, factories and industry closing their doors, the most v
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by Kognito 2y ago
It’s not running TS directly, it’s just preconfigured to transpile TS to JS without the user having to bring extra tooling. Neat, but you’ll see the docs still recommend tsc for type checking at build.
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by Kognito 2y ago
Any evidence for this? Airliners have steadily gotten more fuel efficient at a rate of about 1.3% per year since the 1960s, driven by fierce competition. If someone could produce a massively more efficient design then there’d be huge intere
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by Kognito 2y ago
Removing the inconsistency across different operating systems, I guess?
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by Kognito 3y ago
Bad analogy. It’s more like your average lower income family eats more fast food than average high income families We could ban fast food because it increases cancer risk and say the poor people don’t understand the risk so we need to save
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by Kognito 3y ago
Yeah, tend to agree here. The idea that the west knows best and less developed countries need a saving from themselves feels wrong to me. The data is out there, it’s trivial for these countries to ban chemicals if they wish to do so, but it
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by Kognito 3y ago
The proportions seem a little off but it is hand drawn.
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by Kognito 3y ago
The article goes on about how this is “bigotry” by the Afghan authorities for suspending queer.af yet doesn’t bother to consider whether any other domains were affected. Saw at least one other report yesterday and I suspect it’s not the onl
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by Kognito 3y ago
Cloudflare sells domains at cost so yeah, they’re cheaper. Downside is they don’t have as extensive TLD support as Namecheap, but they’re slowly improving.
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by Kognito 3y ago
We all know that individual… But still, formatting changed files on commit, even on CI ought to be a fraction of a second.
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by Kognito 3y ago
From one internet stranger to another, I wish you a speedy recovery friend!
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by Kognito 3y ago
I commend anyone for trying to make the tooling ecosystem better, but I’ve never once thought Prettier was too slow. It runs in a fraction of a second on file save. The performance comparison on Biomejs’ site shows a Prettier run taking 14
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by Kognito 3y ago
Hate that. “Sorry, the system says no” Had similar situations with PayPal and Uber recently where their support have absolutely no information or ability to take a decision. Support essentially becomes a glorified text-to-speech system.
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by Kognito 3y ago
Sounds like exactly what happened in the UK. New nuclear was proposed in 2010 by the newly elected centre-right led coalition government, with the aim of it being privately funded. Since then subsidies have been agreed but costs continue to
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by Kognito 3y ago
Performing better than the other two major European economies, France and Germany? Britain doesn’t seem to be an outlier considering a backdrop of an ailing European economy suffering the after effects of the energy crisis - though clearly
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by Kognito 3y ago
I suspect mainly the concern is that steel production is a strategic resource. The intention is to maintain a domestic capability given how critical steel is to the modern economy. It’s dressed up as mainly about the workers and going green
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by Kognito 3y ago
Not to say you’re wrong, but “TSMC seeks $15 billion in US subsidies for Arizona chip plant”[1] and the fact they may get a sizeable share of the EU’s $46 billion subsidy pot [2], suggests that this is just the sort of money that government
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by Kognito 3y ago
I've always found it interesting that XProtect is completely invisible to the average user, whereas MS Defender is very much in your face (at least it was last time I used Windows). I suppose it's to quietly reinforce the narrativ
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by Kognito 3y ago
Interesting change, I do wonder if the Mac apps will follow suit.
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by Kognito 3y ago
Looks like something out of a horror movie. Does remind me of the old low-pressure sodium street lighting that was popular in the UK when I was growing up. They’d glow pink for a while when they first turned on, before turning a deep orange

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