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by 7952 6y ago
Huh. I always just assumed they were copying the Andy Weir book of the same name. Guess I am going to have to add Greek mythology to the todo.
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by 7952 6y ago
I guess what makes humans different is that culture can let us go beyond our phenotype. And whilst it may look simplistically deterministic it really isnt. For example in the UK a lot of development clusters around old WWII airfields. Th
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by 7952 6y ago
What troubles me is such broad use of a warrant. Is this really search and seizure?
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by 7952 6y ago
So imagine a nuclear plant that saves costs by reducing safety margins. You have less redundancy in equipment and staff, less containment, or whatever. How do you accurately predict the risk? And what error would that risk have? Every s
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by 7952 6y ago
As you are asking open ended questions. What do you think is an appropriate level of deaths per MWh? Can you put a number on it? And how do you engineer a reactor to accurately and repeatedly achieve a certain risk level?
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by 7952 6y ago
I think it would be easier to order things in terms of when they are executed. And perhaps it would be easier to teach SQL if the different parts where more obviously separate. As the different parts are actually distinct and don't r
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by 7952 6y ago
Not sure how you are defining pre-mechanical age. But trade has existed for a long time. Trade on the silk road was active by 200BC. Europe is covered in Roman roads and droving routes. And it was common to use boats to transport goods
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by 7952 6y ago
I love planes but am not a pilot or trying to be a pilot. I think MSFS is enough of a simulator to satisfy me. It has enough technical sophistication to be interesting and teach me things. But I dont need to learn to fly with it. And the
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by 7952 6y ago
You could use a clustered index
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by 7952 6y ago
But I will get a new phone after 24 months. It is going to wear out because I am constantly using it.
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by 7952 6y ago
My hunch is that the 3.5mm jack caused too many warrenty returns as people over stressed the socket.
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by 7952 6y ago
Co2 pricing is not the only way though. You could give co2 capturing gas peakers a strike price in the same way as renewables. Or have a capacity market that is only open to carbon capturing energy sources.
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by 7952 6y ago
I had to rewrite some JavaScript code in Postgres recently that measured the overlap between different elevation ranges. In JS I had to write it myself and deal with the edge cases and bugs. In Postgres I just use the range type and some
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by 7952 6y ago
A few years ago I visited an office in Birmingham which is less than 100 miles. Someone was trying to tell me a password and I had to get them to write it down after several failed attempts. The basic sound of some of the letters was just
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by 7952 6y ago
And a lot of the boundary features predate accurate mapping. It could be a 500 year old ditch with a hedge planted on one side that is cut back every year. To draw a line hou would have to make an arbitrary decision that ignores the pract
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by 7952 6y ago
I wonder if aerial photos would show cars parked and help prove it.
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by 7952 6y ago
Most roads are actually not owned by the local authority. Adoption means tthey take over responsibility but the freehold remains with the original owner. Title plans are drawn to the assumed highway rather than the original ownership. Th
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by 7952 6y ago
And some that are doable will not be safe enough.
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by 7952 6y ago
I think the co-working space could grow in some really interesting ways. However, in traditional companies the budget for office space tends to be out of the control of normal employees. People will have to choose between the official off
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by 7952 6y ago
Surely we all have the potential to improve or have problems regardless of where we start in life. I don't think being a prince is a good qualification but I don't think it precludes anything either.
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by 7952 6y ago
The whole argument is based on a false dichotomy between having the vaccine or not having the vaccine. When really it is a choice between have vaccine (possible side effects) or get covid (definite well documented effects). They should ex
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by 7952 6y ago
I started using INaturalist during our first lockdown. Amazing how it opens your eyes to things that you missed before. Like how some flower heads have tiny little luminous beetles during summer. Or that the random weeds I see on the sid
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by 7952 6y ago
Even if you do everything right you can still end up hurting someone. And that should feel bad, regardless of what you intended. I think taking responsibility for that potential harm is just part of being a grown up. You have to accept
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by 7952 6y ago
Why not SQLite? You get an efficient file format, and can easily add metadata to each file. That is how the Geopackage format works for storing tile caches for mapping data. There are often millions of small files that don't work we
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by 7952 6y ago
The capitol riot was a single event tied to a specific circumstance. Whilst the Portland situation has been ongoing in different forms since last summer. The continuation of that does not prove a lack of police action. Merely that police
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by 7952 6y ago
Whilst most devices may use DC internally that may not be true of consumption. You still have electric showers, cookers, hobs, washing machines, dryers, heaters, air-conditioning, vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliances like blenders.
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by 7952 6y ago
Some of the designs seem to have high civil engineering costs. Digging big holes is not exactly a cheap thing to do.
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by 7952 6y ago
Delivering 4GW in a single project would certainly set it apart. Perhaps the sweet spot for nuclear is not the traditional 1GW level. Although that would create a very large single point of failure that would need peakers/batteries&
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by 7952 6y ago
These discussion are always unfair against every power source. Each has different properties that make naïve comparison difficult. In the real world power stations have to exist within an economic, political, and technical ecosystem. If
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by 7952 6y ago
Nuclear power plants are most profitable when run at full capacity. They have massive sunk costs, but the marginal cost is low. At a grid level you certainly can change output based on demand. But the markets may need to be adjusted to ke

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