stephen_g

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by stephen_g 6d ago
These tend to work fine down to -25° C or so ambient temperature (you lose some efficiency below -5° C or so), so should always be outside. Obviously you need an alternate source of water heating if you live somewhere where it routinely get
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by stephen_g 6d ago
I have a heat pump that uses R290 (propane) (as well as an CO2 one for hot water) and would take that any day of the week over ammonia! The charge of propane is pretty tiny and the safety standards extremely strict, so not really concerning
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by stephen_g 7d ago
Profit cap would be unworkable, Hollywood is already famous for creative accounting… No work would ever reach it on paper (while actually making many times more).
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by stephen_g 7d ago
And still would all the same with a 20 year term instead of what we have now… It’s so rare for any work to still be making money that long that it would hardly change the calculation.
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by stephen_g 9d ago
I hear this a lot as a rumour but has it actually ever been demonstrated in the wild?
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by stephen_g 12d ago
It’s not something anyone else in the world seems to struggle with, where there are *.gov.uk, *.edu.au etc. If anything the .gov, .mil and .edu being just American is confusing, as well plainly inappropriate (it feels like an American cultu
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by stephen_g 14d ago
The plane has since had a cabin upgrade and is still expected to operate at least until 2028. It’s operating SIN-LHR right now as I write this, currently flying over Azerbaijan.
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by stephen_g 15d ago
The current spend on Firefox development is only about $290 million per year, not the $1.5bn you're talking about... But at the end of the day, it's not the amount of money that matters, it's the goals of the people running i
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by stephen_g 15d ago
I use Firefox and I like it (especially being able to use uBlock Origin), but I really dislike what Mozilla has become over the last ten years or so. I think that's the key distinction, I can mostly manage Mozilla's crap by turnin
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by stephen_g 16d ago
I don’t know about that - yes it’s simpler to recycle but the cycle life is at least four times longer (I had accidentally understated in my post, did some more reading and lead acid is worse than I remembered), but apparently advanced Li
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by stephen_g 17d ago
Pretty recently, maybe in the last year or so?. It's pretty crazy to see it - CATL have started selling LiFePO4 cells as low as US$63/kWh while lead acid tends to cost more than US$100 per kWh! Obviously a finished battery + retai
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by stephen_g 20d ago
Oh that's interesting. I feel like my visual recall/imagination is probably slightly below average but that I have incredibly unusually vivid auditory imagination and recall. I’ll have to read into hyperphantasia, I wonder if havi
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by stephen_g 20d ago
I mean, yeah, I can sort of replay things that happen in my head (obviously it’s nowhere as vivid as real life but still imagining through things I saw), and then sometimes I do realise you saw something significant that I hadn’t realised w
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by stephen_g 21d ago
That was my reading of it too - Curry's response seems to seek to refute something that the original quote didn't actually say! I can definitely see how someone could interpret it that way, assuming it's implying that he didn
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by stephen_g 22d ago
I find Mastodon fairly chill and a fairly wide range of opinions, I think part of it is that Bluesky attracts most of the more extreme political people who might otherwise go to Mastodon. On Mastodon people are more likely to just block peo
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by stephen_g 22d ago
Yeah, I used to watch things like this, I stopped using Twitter the second it became called 'X' and actually find I don't miss it including the major event live-tweeting. Since then I've had a look on XCancel when there
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by stephen_g 23d ago
That's half correct (and yes I did leave that bit out as a simplification to the argument), banks do create money, but not in the mechanism called "fractional reserve banking" which is only found in textbooks because it would
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by stephen_g 23d ago
FCC allows suppliers to self-declare conformance with EMI/EMC rules. You’re obviously taking a risk selling stuff if you haven’t had it properly tested so don’t really know if it passes but it’s unlikely to really be an issue for a sma
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by stephen_g 23d ago
That’s not true, because it would have to mean that money is created by the private sector (or just magically springs into existence somewhere) and that taxing it is the only way for the Government to get it. Money is a created thing, a cre
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by stephen_g 28d ago
I think the problem is that it takes 30 years for the effects to start showing. This data [1] shows incidence of melanoma by the age of 30 dropping by half in Australia, presumably as a result of a sun safety campaign that started in the
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
No, the OP is repeating a common misconception. Corporate law sets out a number of fiduciary duties, including to act in the best interest of the shareholders but “maximising shareholder value” is not one of them. The idea that companies sh
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
I tried Threads a tiny bit but its algorithm seemed obsessed with trying to rage-bait me. Like I get that it is one way to drive engagement but everything was just bad takes about my interests with lots of replies correcting them… It was ne
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
Probably worth getting blood B6 levels checked every now and then, taking reasonably big does like that can cause it to build up and eventually give you nerve damage leading to peripheral neuropathy.
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
Make sure to never use a slow release formulation, those are terrible and basically a guarantee of morning grogginess. I use liquid to get it absorbed as fast as possible, a low dose (1mg) and my sleep doctor also recommended to take it as
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
I assume this is with tablets? In which case I think maybe try liquid solution instead? Sounds like either the tablets aren’t being absorbed at all or they are wildly off in the concentration (which is common because it’s so unregulated) Ju
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
Like a switching regulator? That would be fine, a linear regulator though definitely not from those kind of voltages! Such a huge voltage drop would make a lot of waste heat. What kind of issues are you talking about?
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, coal plants take at least 10 hours (but can take up to 48 hours) to start, warm up and synchronise from cold. That’s why hydro, gas, and increasingly large batteries are generally used for peaking.
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
I hate it, they've just gone and smooshed a bunch more AI crap into Jira too in the last few days. Useless buttons to "suggest subtasks" and "improve issue" and offer to write the description. Absolutely useless non
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
Honestly I hope people's distaste for AI generated content grows stronger. The existing mass media is bad and inauthentic enough, AI content is even worse... I find myself mostly watching small creators on YouTube these days and only p
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by stephen_g 1mo ago
That seems an incredibly generous description (or breathtakingly naive, but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt because hopefully most people aren't that credulous). The point of Hollywood accounting is to intentionally create eno

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