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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I find it fascinating. It's somewhere between a brilliant insight into the human species relationship with the other inhabitants of our planet and utter snake oil sold to new-agey people to be applied in utterly unsuitable conditions.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
That's some fresh thinking there: tech companies are supposed to make a profit?!
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Anyone tried installing Chrome on Windows recently? I got at least 3 "warnings" about how I didn't need chrome when I could just use Edge. Honestly, I imagine a lot of people who are less competent with computers just assume
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I don't have any skin in this game having not really played a games console for 6-7 years but when Microsoft started throwing their toys out of their pram and invoking Brexit I was pretty sure the CMA were probably right, if for the wr
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Our car has a decent sized touch screen and I think it's great. I can browse Spotify rather whatever CD I left in the car 3 years ago, I can use Google maps rather than the rubbish build in navigation, I can set the clock to BST withou
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
While we're at it. Ben Eater is the equivalent for Computer / Electronics fundamentals. Check him out of you haven't before.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I don't think locks are the reason it wouldn't count. Otherwise the Thames would end at Teddington.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I found some reference to Gatwick using 2.6 billion litres of fuel a year. If I follow the logic above I get circa 8 billion litres. I think most of this is because a Boeing 737 has a 3000nm range fully fueled which they wouldn't be us
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I feel like the back of the envelope calculation must have slipped a decimal point somewhere. 9GW is approximately 1/4 of the total electrical consumption in the whole of the UK. From memory aviation as a whole is only 2% of global emi
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Presumably they would use something like an electrically propelled ducted fan (basically the first stage of a high bypass engine). The noise I imagine would be reasonably similar.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I wonder what it does to the other axises: cost, volumetric density, resilience and charging speed etc.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Do you have a reference for this? To my knowledge there was an optional AoA disagree indication (which was on a multi-function display so it's hard to argue it was any kind of cost saving). It's unlikely this would have been a fac
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I've tried to explain this before but it's been pretty negatively received. The assumption that safety critical systems on jet aircraft have triple redundancy is a misconception. At least in so far as any kind of automated, transp
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Your "now" implies that I didn't know before. That isn't the case. A plug-in hybrid would hardy fit the definition if it had a 1kwh battery more typical of a conventional hybrid but with the technical ability to plug it
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Then you have something like the Nissan E-power range which also uses a generator attached to the engine. However, they have a very small hybrid type battery without the ability to plug in.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Our first child didn't care. Our second child though will spill most of a cold bottle down his chin (we use premix or formula made ahead of time).
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I definitely get where you are coming from. I've been known to listen to music in languages I don't know as a bit of a work around for that.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I'm sure there are a lot of companies where hiring people is (perhaps inexplicably) much harder than taking in consultants. I think some of these people are taking advantage of situations where employers are wrongly preferring employee
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Heh, we were stuck in a carpark for 3 hours because the 2025 battery cell in our key remote went dead on a cold walk around a local lake. It's supposed to have a backup but, like most backups, I hadn't tested that it works and for
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Have you considered reading my comments? I didn't say it didn't exist before. I said it was the standard. Looking at a bunch of current PHEV models: - Ford Kuga PHEV: 28-41 miles - Mazda CX-60: 39 miles - Volkswagen Tiguan
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The standard is what every other plug-in hybrid on the market offers. I'm pretty sure you are just arguing for the sake of arguing at this point. You haven't added anything useful.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In fairness a Prius has no clutch, no torque convertor, no starter motor, no sliding dog clutches, no syncos, no turbo etc. It's unfortunate that people understood the Prius system as a normal car plus the electrical motive system but
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Living on the outskirts of London it amazes me when I look for an old Prius on autotrader. You often see vehicles which aren't far away from half a million miles. They aren't even being sold for scrap value due to their demand in
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
My point was that the standard of plug-in hybrids is 40 miles or less without using the engine. Which is great if you happen to have a regular 15-20 mile commute but for most people makes it more like a non-plugin / self-charging [sic]
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I don't even know if this counts as a plug-in when it has an electric only range which betters electric cars of a few years ago. Maybe a whole new category electric cars with optional ability to use petrol.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Hallucinating is the wrong word here. If the prompt explicitly asks it to "simulate" something then it's just following directions. Hallucinating it would be if it came up with the concept all by itself. Like I asked where I
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
People who can't ride a bike or don't want to. The ability to integrate well with public transport like trains and underground. Also, without investing hours of research into the subject, I'm fairly sure we can agree that the
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In fairness, I wasn't commenting specifically on the situation in Paris. More a general comment on e-scooters and similar devices.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I think electric personal mobility vehicles are such a missed opportunity in terms of climate / traffic reduction. Certainly in the UK the fact that they started by being basically illegal for years and means they are, for the most par
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Slightly tangental, I bought a new laptop last week and I was amazed at how bad windows has gotten. Half of the steps in the setup process appeared to be trying to get me to consent to some kind of tracking or another. Installing Chrome mea

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