DamonHD

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by DamonHD 7mo ago
When viewed from in the UK? https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/ad...
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
Finally getting the FHS out the door seems to be the key point to me. There must be a good reason for hiding that amongst all the other stuff...
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
Also, the Future Homes Standard, long long delayed, discounted electricity instead of constrained off, etc, etc...
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UK Government to make "plug-in solar" available within months(gov.uk)
5 points by DamonHD 7mo ago|3 comments
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Britain's geospatial data is a mess(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
3 points by DamonHD 7mo ago|1 comments
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
Yep, my dad wouldn't let me get my first handheld (LED display!) calculator ~50Y ago until I could prove to him that I didn't need it for simple things such as multiplications up to 12... (Yes, 12, since we still had/have fe
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
Also: [1] https://lite.cnn.com/ [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news (at least when viewed from the UK)
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
I have worked with a lot of langauges over decades including YAML, and I regard it as one of the worst that I have tangled with for a number of reasons...
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
If your type checking was in the Martin-Löf school, and you started with a putative proof that what you wanted to execute was possible, then maybe! B^>
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
I used all three of those to some extent, in investment banking back when it was bigger than tech, and while I still have some time for J2EE (WAR in particular), the other two, especially SOAP, should be taught as cautionary tales to the yo
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
I have had some fun exhuming my old LaTeX skills and assembling a BibTeX bibliography from which I automatically extract the right entries presented in whichever style is needed for a given paper and for my own (HTML) site. I even publish
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Predbat Documentation(springfall2008.github.io)
1 points by DamonHD 7mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
We should also have full published salary and benefits (etc) details right now, whatever their contract says about disclosing those, and 24x7 streamed video of their entire life with no censoring, including toilet breaks and sex and bars an
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
In England it is no longer legal to sell "traditional house" coal for domestic heating: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/selling-coal-for-domestic-use-in...
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
Privacy and security and whatever this could trample all over are not the same thing. You may be legally entirely above board (though Cardinal Richelieu wouldn't let that get in the way) but you still might not want your S&M kink t
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
You seem to be mixing intentions with actors here: when the description is accurate, eg for a bot, then there may be no disdain in simply pointing that out.
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
People heating their homes can be very sigificant. In the UK ~15% of all its territorial GHGs come from heating with gas: actual CO2 from the home boiler flues. CO2 from small amounts of rural home heating is probably not the big thing to
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The Old Ways(asolitarycabin.org)
2 points by DamonHD 7mo ago|1 comments
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X2... Quantitative fire likelihood assessment of battery home storage systems in comparison to general house fires in Germany and other battery relate
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
That looks like a dynamic gzip error, eg when various parts of the page are separately generated and assembled live in (say) Tomcat, and some of the elements can be prematurely gzipped before being added to the main page body and compressed
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by DamonHD 7mo ago
That roughly lines up with what we paid* to get CE and safety stuff done for a small battery-powered product with a radio on the EU market (primarily in the UK). *Testing and tweaking and then sign-off in grown-up labs.
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Every Electric will pay you to use a battery(greenjuice.wtf)
2 points by DamonHD 7mo ago|0 comments
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A language designed for machines to write(negroniventurestudios.com)
3 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
Tiny thing: your header title and what you show on the page are different ("Enterprise" vs "Visual").
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The AI-Augmented Scientist(theclimatebrink.com)
1 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|0 comments
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Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions – new study(theconversation.com)
11 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|3 comments
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
You do realise that the last 2 times the GB grid had major glitches (since 2000) part of the issue was thermal (nuke, gas, coal) plants going down in big chunks beyond the overall system capacity to cope. 1) The system works as a system 2)
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Radio Operators React to Econco Closure (rebuilds vacuum tubes for transmitters)(radioworld.com)
2 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade Approx 10GW down the east coast alone in various stages right now, jumping the current bottleneck (B6) between Scotland and England... Also see: * https://wi
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade Approx 10GW down in the east coast alone in various stages right now...

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