DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
It would be ironic if amongst the messages deleted was "Is $4m less than what we'd be fined for that other thing we did?"
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by DrBazza 3y ago
That article has one chart in it that isn't emphasized enough - home ownership in the UK is a new thing, and historically not typical. Perhaps it's going to become the 'new normal'. Britain isn't flat, especially
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Just dropped a google pin on the site and the area is greener than I expected. Would a lake the size of that pit fill naturally and actually persist? And would it ever be of any use for drinking water?
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Linguistic history is interesting. I read Spoken Here [1] which talked about subject-verb-order [2], and how there was only a one or two languages in the entire world that were OSV. 1. http://markabley.com/books-2/spok
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> "Confining turbulence" is a thing that makes plasma physicists sit up in their chair. Self-confined, doubly so.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In the UK, at least, anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. Dieticians, on the other hand, are officially qualified and registered.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The English language is great for inconsistencies like that, and the acceptance of, for better or worse, neologisms.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
"Learnings" - should be lessons. We don't go on 'drivings' or 'travellings' we go on journeys. Which lead me down this rabbit hole - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/546959
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by DrBazza 3y ago
That's the best article I've seen. Thanks. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266679242... But... note in fig. 2 how the renewables just start at 'manufacture', not '
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The entire station. They're vast and substantial.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Nuclear power stations are a one off build. I can’t think of two or more identical builds.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> Renewables lead on all these metrics. Do they? That's my question, "citation needed". I've yet to find empirical evidence of a like for like comparison of the full and complete lifecycle and supply chain of b
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> And also including dismantling and spent fuel/ contaminated material storage and disposal for unknown time to come. Also not only environmental, but social cost of creating a spent fuel site that does have to be cared for hundreds
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I wish nuclear opponents would perform a like for like analysis of non-nuclear vs nuclear. - How much does it raise co2 parts per million when operational? - How much does it raise co2 parts per million when being built? - Full environmenta
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Occam's razor. Even at non-relativistic speeds self replicating robots could have visited every star system in the galaxy within a few tens of millions of years. We haven't seen any evidence. Everyone has the most advanced camera
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Technology to fly light years. But not the technology to land on earth without crashing.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Never in human history have we had so many high quality cameras in the hands of so many people. And still no pictures of ufos. Or Bigfoot. Or Nessie.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Good to see Arthur and RISCOS there, running on ARM. Back in the day, it was silly how much more performant it was than everything else available (especially PCs [1]). It's just a shame there was no market penetration in the US where
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It can be. By default it is local. But it has protobufs interfaces (IIRC), so a distributed build farm would generate the grpc endpoints for their implementation and then you tell bazel on the command line (or via .bazelrc) the address o
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It will still be a human making the mistake of putting "AI" (machine learning, really) in a totally inappropriate place that will cause 'extinction'.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Are there trees and soft planting at street level? NYC is very plant bare by comparison to London for example. And they absorb a lot of the noise. Hard surfaces just reflect and amplify the noise.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
If you're in the UK, most of the noise comes from "the kids" buying cheap compact cars (Fiat 500s seem popular) and modifying the exhaust to sound like a very, very poor man's Ferrari, or on Sundays, motorbikes.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I'm in a similar situation now, but the new company has been more than happy to have company days where we fly in from around the world and get to know each other and it works pretty well. Also, having zoom/teams/slack video
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It really just boils down people wanting a quiet place to work, or not, and employers wilfully ignoring that. It's documented ad-nauseum that developers (or any other job that requires concentration and reasoning) are far more producti
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Theming your Linux desktop to look totally different. See r/unixporn
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It's been known for quite some time that trichloroethylene is linked to Parkinsons. In fact the doctor that assessed my father a few years ago asked him "what was your job?", "engineer," "you used degreaser di
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by DrBazza 3y ago
When I was a kid growing up in the London suburbs in the 70s and 80s I could remember flocks of all types of birds especially starlings and blackbirds being common place, and then, reading this article, it reminded me that I stopped seeing
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> People in GB can spot an accent and a fake localized accent quite easily, and act accordingly. As a Brit the only convincing fake British accent I can remember in many years is James Marsters who played Spike in Buffy. I never once su
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by DrBazza 3y ago
As the other commenter says - North Korea isn't connected to the internet in any meaningful way so it's impossible to cyber sabotage their gas centrifuges remotely. Without the correct type of uranium, you can't build an a-b
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Never underestimate the inertia of developers whose livelihood depends on code only they know and have written.

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