MrsPeaches

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by MrsPeaches 1mo ago
Surely his post popular policy has to be : * capping the price of a 99 flake ice cream at 99p
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Andy Burnham Here – AMA(old.reddit.com)
5 points by MrsPeaches 3mo ago|0 comments
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by MrsPeaches 5mo ago
This is me! I’m semi-normie (MechEng with a bit of Matlab now working as a ceo). I spend most of my day in Claude code but outputs are word docs, presentations, excel sheets, research etc. I recently got it to plan a social media campaign a
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by MrsPeaches 5mo ago
Loved this! A bit deep to put district and circle as options on the same question. Don’t they use the same rolling stock and cover very similar stations? I found Bakerloo was the easiest to identify.
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by MrsPeaches 6mo ago
> For women, answering the questions is voluntary, as they cannot be required to perform military service under the Constitution. Specially article 12a Paragraph 4: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/engl
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Agents, Meet the Figma Canvas(figma.com)
2 points by MrsPeaches 6mo ago|0 comments
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by MrsPeaches 7mo ago
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams
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by MrsPeaches 7mo ago
The next frontier: Draw a pelican on a bicycle ergonomically designed for pelicans.
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
It's not ideal, but you can look at the bottom bar and get a sense of density of innovation over a certain time period.
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
It’s a great project! I’ve got some experience with small batch production and I’ve written an email. Check your spam!
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
The UK is actually doing something(ish) about it now. Innovate UK (the UK’s public innovation funding) recently had a bid out for maritime R&D but with a focus on clean tech: https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/opportuni
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
Solar Aid who wrote this report have an app called SunnyMoney which has repair guides. Don’t know about uptake: https://solar-aid.org/news/repair-app/
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
Note that mobile phone repair is the no. 1 service provided by repair shops in rural areas of many countries in Africa. Like 50%+ of all repairs are mobile phone repairs
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
That’s the premium solution that some, but not most, can afford and only makes sense if the cost of repair is less than the cost a new unit. Travel just makes that tip in favour of getting a new system with a $10 deposit. Most of the people
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by MrsPeaches 10mo ago
Cheap crap = lasts only as long as the warranty period. I did a survey in partnership with a the African Leadership University in a Rwanda, where we surveyed people living in two rural villages and found 90% or units had broken within 3 yea
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
Yeah not much has changed, it’s simple technology that was developed in 2005. Main innovations of the PAYGO model in recent times was the ability to use the payment data you collected to offer other types of loans. One of the previous bigge
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
For sure recycling is improving. That’s different from repair though. The current cycle is 1. sell product 2. wait three years for it to break 3. Go back to 1. The impact of the recycling can lessen the impact of that but it definitely do
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
I didn’t say, nor do I assume, people are inept at repairs. I said that the communities that are being targeted with off-grid solar don’t currently have the skills or infrastructure required to maintain these systems. It’s something I’ve se
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
Those who are talking about market opportunities, yes it’s big! Bottom up calculation: average $10/repair x 250 million potential repairs = $2.5B market. Problem is labour shortages and supply chain, as stated in the report. Both hard
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
The repair service is really expensive for subtle reasons. First of all there is the repair itself, but there isn’t any collection service so you need to travel (often a full day) to get to a repair centre. Then travel back. Not open on the
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
We are teaching people how to fix them so that the income stays within those communities. You can see a bit our latest work here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/energy-makers-academy_strathm...
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
This revolution also has a dark side: People are paying off these devices and then once they have paid them off, they break and people in these areas don’t have the skills or resources to fix them. This has led to over 250 million of the un
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by MrsPeaches 11mo ago
High recommended book which looks at the histroy of ideas, which gives you a good idea of what people thought of themselves through history: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud https://www.goodreads.com&
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Hunting Hugo: The Hurricane Hunters' Wildest Ride(wunderground.com)
2 points by MrsPeaches 11mo ago|0 comments
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Enceladus Orbilander(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by MrsPeaches 1y ago|0 comments
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by MrsPeaches 1y ago
Is it not possible to run software on any hardware you own? Is it illegal to spin up a Linux server on your mobile phone?
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by MrsPeaches 1y ago
What else do you consider basic human rights? My suspicion is: were you to list them, running programmes on hardware you own would be fairly low on that list.
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by MrsPeaches 1y ago
Interesting that many of Sega’s games are now mobile focused. Also don’t forget that Sega was “originally an importer of coin-operated arcade games to Japan and manufacturer of slot machines and jukeboxes” https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by MrsPeaches 1y ago
Also interesting to note the gender divide in scores in Finland: https://www.statista.com/statistics/986939/student-performan...
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by MrsPeaches 1y ago
Why is the copper routing so funky? Were the PCBs drawn by hand?

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