DamonHD

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by DamonHD 2mo ago
My home is in London UK and is relatively small and efficient, but 8kWh may be higher than our peak demand ever over more than 20 years in this house...
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
Do you mean "must be able to sit in Parliament"? The Lords and Commons are the two distinct chambers. There have been non-MP (ie non-Commons) PMs.
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
Obvs "MaaS" capitalisation for the full stock valuation. Obvs(2) a variant of this service has traditionally been provided for free by drunken teens. They might prove to be better and more thoughtful custodians of investment fund
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Lessons from the UK's first trial scheme for electrical repairs(relondon.gov.uk)
1 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
Note that this is a UK-focused piece.
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Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate(carbonbrief.org)
12 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|6 comments
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All Australian councils vote for polluter-pays climate compensation fund(reneweconomy.com.au)
1 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|0 comments
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Drilling into magma is one thing geothermal engineers are trained never to do(autonocion.com)
2 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|0 comments
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Sound Effects for Free Use from the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yle Archives(freesound.org)
2 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
You are constructing a universe that simply does not exist or apply to me at least. I and my code are just not that important or special in the grand scheme of things.
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
You seem to be asserting some simple zero-sum exclusionary game here that does not exist. I am entirely content if Amazon or Google extracts some value - that in no way inhibits anyone else doing so in reality. But to me the far more impo
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
Availability to use, without adding other complications, is a key aim. I'm trying to maximise to other people whatever value there is in the work that I've done.
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
I just gave an example: not all potential users of code can either use GPL-ish code or are profit-driven megacorps such as Google; false dichotomies are false. There are many small or intermediate organisations (and individuals) who would
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
It's my (open source) code and I want to make it widely available, ie as open as reasonably possible, including cases such as my past small start-ups with no budget and not able to release everything open source. Why do I have to just
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
I very much want my (open sourced) code to be used by anyone who wants to use it, in any context, including commercial, and with Apache I also want the patent protection effects. Using such an inflammatory term to refer to someone's no
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
This is simply rude and wrong in its claims that (all) people (such as me) using BSD and Apache licences are doing so out of ignorance, rather than because we know and want the effects that they have. This childish inflammatory bile rather
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CATL online store for direct sales of energy storage to small/medium customers(carnewschina.com)
2 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
Friends and family and their contacts.
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
For me the text renders in multiple low contrast fonts which are starting to give me a headache after the first para...
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by DamonHD 3mo ago
Key parameters: no storage/battery, maximum microinverter output 800W/3.5A, maximum panel kWp 2000W, maximum PV Voc 120V, use of ordinary BS 1363 plug.
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UK/GB: Plug-in solar: Regulatory amendment and interim product specification(gov.uk)
7 points by DamonHD 3mo ago|1 comments
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UK Petitions: Create a government-owned, free software for Making Tax Digital(petition.parliament.uk)
1 points by DamonHD 4mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
Hmm, ~30 years ago the compilers that I was using were generating generally fine assembly/machine code. Some of the other tooling was more troublesome: cross platform high performance numerically stable code and C++ static template de
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
My war story from dot-com times is being asked by a (v well known and then horribly imploded) Bay Area start-up what about its hiring form would need to change for the UK (if I was to run the UK office)... So under the "bad things you
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
And it came back for me, at least for a refresh or two...
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
First time that GitHub has ever been down for me (London, UK): 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
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Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
3 points by DamonHD 4mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
I do not own a car. I (/we) own outright a small home. I am happy that I do not need to own a car (in a London UK suburb). I am happy that I do not need to heat or maintain a large building. Our outgoings are low. One child is already
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
I have asbestos in this modest[0] house: it's not any sort of a problem. (Lead only in my soldering kit in significant quantities so far as I know...) I always have been fairly frugal and am in semi-retirement now from the residues of
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
Wait for the money to evaporate ... more slowly than your remaining lifespan (and dying happy in your own bed for example) is one definition of winning.

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