ianleighton

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by ianleighton 1y ago
scooters are the worst. So much noise for a tiny vehicle (worse than most cars even) and the old ones smell so so bad. electrify now!
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by ianleighton 1y ago
mostly just a new year’s eve celebration now
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by ianleighton 1y ago
+1 for Cargo bikes, but otherwise if your bike infrastructure sorta sucks, the Citroën Ami and counterparts from Fiat etc are pretty common in European cities… easy to park too.
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by ianleighton 1y ago
NIO does battery swaps in minutes, in China and Europe. I believe you can also perhaps get different ranges but if not, would be great to swap between a 50kwh pack for normal use and say 100+kwh for your road trip. Then again battery chargi
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by ianleighton 1y ago
If you like repairing the vintage Vespa, great project and that sounds fun. That’s worth a lot! But I will curse at the stink of the exhaust from the crappy old motor when you ride by. Try an e-bike (you can get one built more locally surel
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by ianleighton 2y ago
My only counter to this is that after, what, two _decades_, Apple _still_ has not added the ability to adjust number boxes with the up/down arrows on the keyboard (like text size for example). A designer would have included this on day
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by ianleighton 3y ago
A sensible approach I saw in the BMW i4 was to keep the defrost buttons around, among relatively few buttons. (I forget if the climate temp controls were physical too though.)
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by ianleighton 3y ago
This is a must-watch for everyone here commenting! 6 minutes dense with revelations.
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by ianleighton 3y ago
IIRC Vigo, in Galicia (Spain) struck me as a case of a decently dense city that used roundabouts at relatively compact intersections in the city center, along one street at least: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CwZYypxT5SjBr1QE7?g_
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by ianleighton 3y ago
Yes. This bug makes the UX on mac just feel broken and frustrating reminds you every time you do it. Tried to bear it for a year but I use text replacements so heavily that I had to switch off eventually. Firefox: for the love of Jobs, fix
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by ianleighton 3y ago
Took Lisbon to Donostia-San Sebastián before Renfe canceled it in 2020. Basic hostel-like sleeping experience, but really nice and something that should exist. Would love to take these more often if there were more (any) west to central Eur
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by ianleighton 3y ago
And yet car+sleeper trains were pretty common until relatively recently! (edit: in Europe)
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by ianleighton 3y ago
I got an e-Muli, which is a sorta “short john” but where the front basket folds and handlebars pivot 90° so parking it is a bit more slim, more or less the footprint of a normal bike. It’s amazing — a little heavy so probably not luggable u
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by ianleighton 4y ago
I think your reverse cycle ac would be an air-to-air heat pump. Air-to-water is more like your heat pump water heater, with the hot water then going through radiators.
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by ianleighton 4y ago
that sounds really nice… without “blowing up the spot”, could you give a vague location?
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by ianleighton 4y ago
always good to have zoning, either via small separate heat pump or with a retrofit like AirZone (not sure if something similar is available there) which modulates the flow to each duct from the air handler.
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by ianleighton 4y ago
source?
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by ianleighton 4y ago
Would this satisfy your criteria? Or are you looking for someone explicitly pairing pumped hydro with other renewables? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/18/portugal... This was probably m
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by ianleighton 4y ago
I believe I’ve read this was also due to Iberian gauge high speed rail technology not really being existent at the time Spain started building HSR in a hurry for Expo ‘92? in Sevilla, and they’ve continued using standard gauge for it (to th
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by ianleighton 5y ago
If your goal is just lowering R0, sure… but a lot of countries prefer to lower deaths, which is why they start with the older population / those with health conditions.
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by ianleighton 6y ago
but they have the option to download (with the iCloud share link, not shared album).
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by ianleighton 6y ago
This is sort of a thing in Portugal. They display all the papers on a board and you can (and people do) read the front pages, and then you can decide if you want to buy one to read the rest.
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by ianleighton 7y ago
Temporary in that they are moved 2-4 times a year, but permanent in that they are used throughout the year, just in different locations.
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by ianleighton 7y ago
Ironically, traditional yurts very similar to these are used in places that go from -40C to +40C throughout the year (Mongolia, Tuva... though true, when it’s -40C, hopefully you’ve packed up your yurt and moved it down the valley to the wi
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by ianleighton 7y ago
Disclaimer: Outlier fan. The shorts and pants are where Outlier really shines (okay, and button-down shirts), they’re the best value. the ~$100 Ultrafine t-shirt is luxurious as hell but then you’ll want to wear it every day and it’s pretty
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by ianleighton 8y ago
Let’s also not forget that there are regions/countries where it’s either culturally not always the norm to use street names while giving directions (especially when driving), where in the real world a street name is hard/impossibl
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by ianleighton 8y ago
...granted my partner (who comes from near Liège and studied there) also doesn’t like it because it is pretty grey, but so is most of Belgium. I find the mix of old and postwar architecture quite beautiful and there is lots of cool stuff go
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by ianleighton 8y ago
On top of that, Germany is a federal system whereas France has a very centralized government... so I imagine the politics of financing and building HSR lines is very different (and you end up with very different networks, check out the maps
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by ianleighton 9y ago
IMO Portuguese (in Portugal, not Brazil) actually sounds a lot like Russian or Polish at first listen, the accent is very different than other western European romance languages
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by ianleighton 9y ago
Tisane probably comes from French, where it is relatively common (at least understood, and a stickler for tea would correct your usage) and perhaps one would use it in English like other French culinary terms like “à la mode”

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