zelos

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by zelos 7d ago
£180/year (£60 for black and white only!). It is becoming increasingly hard to defend given the low quality of a lot of their output. If they could find a way to fund Radio 4 without it I'd be in favour of scrapping the fee.
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by zelos 14d ago
This paragraph from near the end of that article gives the incident a different feeling: Some years after the incident, my hidden fears of high speed flight came to the surface and I had to spend two periods in hospital. I had not come to
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by zelos 15d ago
> The objects are pretty faint and at best, you will see a milky smush With an 8 inch dob, things like globular clusters are going to look granular and pretty amazing in reasonably dark skies. Similar for bright nebula. But, yes, it&#x27
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by zelos 15d ago
There is something fundamentally different about actually looking at Jupiter... The image might be faint, imperfect ... But it is live. The astrophotography/live viewing split in astronomy is interesting. For me, the whole reason I d
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by zelos 1mo ago
Yes, in the wide shot of the band the left side looks significantly better to me, are the labels the wrong way round?
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by zelos 2mo ago
Does Germany have anything similar to the cheap off-peak electricity tariffs we get in the UK? Generally 6-10c/kWh.
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by zelos 2mo ago
US gallon is 3.8 litres. Even so, that's pretty inefficient.
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by zelos 3mo ago
Locations as well. Carplay picks up locations from calendar appointments, messages etc, so very often you just plug it in and click "Go".
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by zelos 4mo ago
I totally agree about school-level homework: it was many years before my pre-frontal cortex developed enough that I could have forced myself to do the work. That said, though, one thing I don't understand about the heavy users of AI in
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by zelos 4mo ago
Seeing and hearing the last remaining Avro Vulcan pull up over the chalk cliffs at Eastbourne a few years back is something I won't forget for a long time.
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by zelos 4mo ago
It’s the same in the UK, house prices in the catchment area of a good school are significantly higher.
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by zelos 4mo ago
"a college degree made you stand out. But now that so many have them, it’s table stakes. Now, we spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars to end up in the same place." That kind of depends what you're measuring, do
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by zelos 5mo ago
That 100kW claim seems pretty unlikely, or maybe it's UK only? Driving long distance in Europe I see the max ~230kW charging of the car everywhere apart from the rare times the charger's broken. Actually, although UK provision is
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by zelos 5mo ago
I've avoided Chinese EVs for political reasons, but it's getting harder. After the lease on my Kia EV6 ends in 6 months I can either upgrade to the new model with a whole 10% more range, or switch to one of the European brands whi
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by zelos 5mo ago
Generate fuzz tests using random values with a fixed seed, sure, but using random values in tests that run on CI seems like a recipe for hard-to-reproduce flaky builds unless you have really good logging.
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by zelos 6mo ago
I was forced to work out a 3 month notice period at my previous company in the UK. I don’t see the point of keeping an already-checked out employee around so long when you have basically no way of getting anything but the bare minimum out o
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by zelos 6mo ago
Not to open a can of worms, but there are probably people who still consider Northern Ireland a colony.
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by zelos 6mo ago
Argentina only had 6 Exocets. I think the parent is referring to the failure of the fuses in the bombs the Argentinian pilots dropped on British ships.
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by zelos 6mo ago
> Whenever a CI run fails, we can re-run it. If it passes the second time, we are sure it was flaky. Or you have a concurrency issue in your production code?
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by zelos 6mo ago
Film franchises tap into nostalgia, too. “Toy Story 5” will be watched by more than a few adults I always thought the reason Toy Story works for adults and children is that the toys are the 'parents': caring for their child, b
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by zelos 7mo ago
It's been many years since I read 1984, but this seems wrong: "To Orwell, it must have seemed that neither time nor fortune could budge Stalin, but that he would live on forever with ever increasing strength. - And that was how O
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by zelos 8mo ago
It was head and shoulders above many of the alternatives for mobile app development back then like Carbide or Codewarrior, though.
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by zelos 8mo ago
LLM output is quickly rendering google search unusable, so it's kind of creating its own speedup multiplier.
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by zelos 8mo ago
Regaining the weight quickly after stopping taking the drugs seems reasonably well substantiated? https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj-2025-085304
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by zelos 8mo ago
It's not just a US thing. Obesity rates in the UK and Germany are similar and I know plenty of people on GLP-1 drugs in the UK.
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by zelos 9mo ago
Exactly. I disabled internet access on my LG C1 after an update reenabled the setting that pops up adverts over the top of what you're watching.
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by zelos 10mo ago
There's always Gradle Toolchains as well, which allows you to put the JDK configuration in the branch next to the source code.
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by zelos 10mo ago
The iPhone app has weird bugs too. Currently (for me, at least) the brand text that appears in the overlay box on adverts is black text on a black background and virtually illegible. If they're not even worried about bugs in the revenu
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by zelos 10mo ago
Pricing always seems to be ignored. Sure, my local council installed chargers in the village car park for people without off street parking, but that’s 50p/kWh compared to 8p for me charging at home.
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by zelos 11mo ago
Maybe, but plenty of people are prepared to poke their fingers in their eyes every morning in order to avoid wearing glasses, so it can't be all that popular a form factor.

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