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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I was lax about going to certain classes. Not always because of laziness (though, I'll admit it was occasionally a factor) but often because the format of one person, who lacked any particular talent for teaching, reading mostly from n
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The UK government are trying really hard to mandate IDs for access to porn sites. Can't wait for that to blow up in their faces.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
There really is no accounting for China. They are building everything at an incredible rate, solar, wind, nuclear and coal power!
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Bet in the past tense? It seems they are moving further away from that position. There are also some domestic market issues for Toyota - Japan having the lowest voltage mains electricity in the world for example.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I think the obfuscation is that they are generally talking about stuffing small quantities of hydrogen into natural gas pipelines. Similar to alcohol in gasoline.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I don't think a tractor is necessary a bad use case for batteries. They just need battery packs which can do the equivalent of a days work. Electric motors are almost better suited to the use case due to the torque. I'm sure some
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
> The bus gets lighter and more efficient as it uses fuel. This argument is weak. To get any kind of reasonable energy density you have to compress hydrogen to 10,000psi. The tanks to contain a gas at that pressure are heavy enough that
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Ever met a diesel mechanic? Every one I've ever come across has a very distinctive diesel cologne. I worry how this plays out in the field when combined with a 10,000psi gas which is explosive is almost any mixture including oxygen.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
And the number of hydrogen powered vehicles sold year on year is currently decreasing. As are the number of places to fill them up in the UK at least.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I remember driving a forklift for hours!
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I mean even if you just look at it from the point of view that having Musk as your "ideas guy" is a pretty good proxy for success. How can the fact that he's spending most of his time as some kind of political missionary rath
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I hear this a lot but I've not heard any coherent explanation for how Musk's actions don't hurt the brand. Obviously as a billionaire being a big fan of the Republican party would hardly be a surprise, he could have supported
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
> I can't imagine what would've happened if we adopted block signaling for ATC ... You don't have to imagine. We already do in many places. The North Atlantic Tracks are essentially exactly that. Aircraft give position rep
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I think you have to be careful about assuming the US would have air superiority. It doesn't take a lot for what, on paper, looks like a superior air force to turn out to be not fit for purpose. The famous example is the F4 Phantom gett
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I enjoy reading the comments explaining how the whole Trump / Vance meeting with Zelensky spat was some epic move in 3D chess. Meanwhile Trump isn't even able to keep phrases like "rare earth minerals" correct in his hea
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
> Offshore, wind farms may ‘spoil’ a view out to sea, though they are also harder to oppose. In my experience off-shore wind, even off a popular tourist beech has very little impact. Often just about visible in the haze in the distance.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
In general failures like this aren't so much because of a single point of failure but because they trigger cascading failures across the network. One piece of infrastructure trips offline, causing an abnormal situation at another, whic
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
American needs an enemy. Drugs, communism, terrorism, China. I guess without something to fear it would be hard to justify spending trillions on their military.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
It is possible that the person you replied to wasn't confused by that. I've certainly come across the type of developer who'd deride the lack of ability to formally test their code then, in the next breath, click through the
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I really enjoyed this but at the same time find it completely perplexing - I can't place where the author is coming from - they are either really good at explaining things from the point of view of someone who knows almost nothing abou
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
If that is 40% efficient as in 40% of the theoretical energy input comes out as electricity then it's quite incredible but I find that hard to believe. It would put it in the same range as diesel engines.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
The gym revenue model. The indie / startup space has been so all in on subscription revenue that I guess it's not a huge surprise that the big companies eventually tried to get in on the act.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Yeah, I used to take our daughter to nursery on her balance bike. I could tell when she started doing little bursts of speed so that she could put her feet up and coast for a while that she had picked up the essentials of balancing. She did
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I don't really have time for a deep dive but from a brief look these are diesel electric trains. The water and steam we are talking about here is likely a simple boiler where the steam is only used to deliver heat to the carriages. Thi
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Which is great if you are the exact person, team, and organisation which wrote the code and / or has access to the source code as well as the time and knowledge to know-how to fix it.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
> Keep in mind though that 3blue1brown is peanuts compared to Mr. Beast. Well, there is a thought which is not helping keep the January blues at bay.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I have what I think is probably a weird mindset that practically everything I own, short of maybe a car or a house, I assume is worth £0 after I've owned it. Probably indicative of not having a very good business brain. However, it alw
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Yeah, you can stay on it for a bit longer after they arrive but you'd have to be very asleep not to notice the lack of movement and noise of the station around you. Funny enough the best night I had on it, it was delayed by a few hours
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I've used the Caledonian Sleeper a couple of times. The first time it worked reasonably well, I got a reasonable amount of sleep. The second time not so much, not really any fault of the train, I just didn't relax enough to get a
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I don't have an electric car (not against it in principle but waiting for the right time). One thing that always bothers me is that, from what I've seen, queuing for charging seems to be based on coordination and trust between EV

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