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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Trains have never delivered to individual retail stores, half finished housing estates or petrol stations. Perhaps reserve your sarcasm for when you aren't saying something stupid.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Seems reasonable given, you know, they are also delivering our food, fuel and basically anything else you need or want. They also pay a considerable amount of road tax and taxes on fuel which would make most people in the US plot a coup.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> Saving a few hundred kilos of mass on a truck that pulls 80 tonne is just not that valuable. From my understanding of the trucking industry, in many sectors, this isn't true at all. For example, in tipper trucks where you are carr
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The counter point to that is that DVDs look terrible on modern 60" TVs. You don't have to be a techie to have one of those. Even my 93 year old grandmother has one.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I hadn't got a water dispenser like that but I'd be really surprised to find that the internal reservoir and piping was made of anything except for plastic.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
This seems like borderline paranoia. Water travels potentially dozens of miles from the place where it is cleaned and treated with chlorine to kill bugs. The vast majority of that in non-copper pipes. The last few feet inside your house see
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Ha, that reminds me of one of my first useful programs. In the early days of the internet my dad picked up a internet contract which allowed you to dial in on a toll free number; it was pretty cheap per month but the only catch was while di
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
There are limits to what a homeowner can do without having their work signed off. For example adding a whole new circuit to their fuse box wouldn't be allowed. However, it is possible to have your work signed off by the building regula
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I think the ability to take it to an independent repair facility almost as important as being able to repair something with your own hands. Sometimes there are specially pieces of equipment required in order to service something. Not to be
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I guess that is another way of looking at it. However, with the pyrolysis step and the cost of collection I still don't see how it helps. A busy coffee shop produce perhaps 10kg of waste a day and the big players already have ways of r
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
By rough order of magnitude I don't see how this is any more than a fun fact with no commercial relevance. 4 billion tonnes of concrete are used annually and only 10 million tonnes of coffee. Even if you could gather up all of the grou
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Interesting is not the choice of adjective I'd use for the bastard child of Facebook, Twitter and ChatGPT.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I think those and the little burrs are different species. Galium aparine Vs Arctium minus.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I asked bard the other day about the prognosis for a 80 year old with a liver infection. It responded super confidently about a study which suggested the five year survival rate was about 50%. I asked it where I could find the study and sur
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> Or to put it another way, the rich were subsidised by the poor. I agree with most of what you've said but I don't agree that this conclusion follows. If anything when I was less well off I was far more inclined to put up with
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's interesting, I haven't looked into the full history of it so I may not have this quite right, but from the museum's I've visited (Kempton steam museum for example) a lot of London's infrastructure seems to have
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I suspect the next big laptop update I have will be whatever lets me run GPT-4 size models natively.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In a previous role we had some access to production web servers but definitely not root access. Except for sudo access to vim which was widely abused as a way of getting a root shell when necessary. Fun times.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
When it comes to languages you can draw up a loose hierarchy of potential performance where languages like C# and Java are vastly equivalent. Attempting to refine it any further descends into a bikeshedding farce.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I didn't say anything about those roads. The parent poster gave that as an example. They didn't place a magic hex upon the thread preventing anyone who hasn't specifically driven on those roads from commenting. I'd be su
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
"You have no idea what you're talking about" as an opening line doesn't exactly encourage polite discourse. Fucknugget.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Averaging 10-20mph faster is very difficult on anything but the least congested roads. We often set the cruise control to 75-80mph but find that the average for a journey is closer to 58-60mph (not including stops). It's a heck of a lo
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's weird, I spent 3 years working on one of what must have been the largest TCL codebases in existence, since then I've reached for the language exactly zero times in personal or professional use. I have very little fondness for
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Much heavier is stretching things. An VW ID3 is about 200kg heavier than the identical sized petrol Golf. A lot of EVs will be lighter than plenty of bigger petrol or diesel SUVs.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Man I remember having to monkey patch that library to do some caching of the exchange rates. Otherwise it would do dozens of requests for the same information exchange rate.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's quite well known for being difficult to machine generally.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's just nuts to think about people on Concorde sipping champagne at Mach 2.04. I wonder if that's something which will be possible again in my lifetime.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
We quite often take the car to my parents home near Glasgow from our home on the outskirts of London. The train from London to Glasgow is about 4.5h if it runs to time (that's a pretty big if on the UKs rail network). The drive is abou
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
While I have a lot of time for those people (Gabe Brown is well worth adding to that list). I fear that for the most part those people are successful by selling the dream of better quality produce to people with the disposable income to aff
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In fairness, some permaculture people talk about this, for example, food forests which can produce an impressive amount of food which a city dweller would not recognise or know how to cook even if they did. If you have a large enough food f

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