DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
Not sure I like the "Voyager on steroids" - I strongly associate Voyager with the Grand Tour of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Seeing those pictures come back when I was a child made me do astrophysics at university. &quot
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by DrBazza 4y ago
And it is "of its time" - it appeared in Windows 3.1 which was 1992. Which was the era of floppy disks as well.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The signal-to-noise ratio gets lower and lower with every "overhaul" of FB. Without even looking (and I can't be bothered either), it feels like 1 friend post to 10 or more group or ad posts.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Indeed. I first wrote an enum-to-string macro back in the late 80s in C, and again in the late 90s for C++. And here we are in 2022... still writing enum-to-string macros and the like.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Just about every non-c++ implementation depends on reflection or compile time introspection. Neither of which are in C++. So people endlessly reinvent the wheel.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> nobody under 30 uses FB any more As someone the wrong side of 50, I can actually tell you that practically none of my friends in my age group use FB any more either. For my non-techie friends, we're all in whatsapp groups. The on
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I'm now down to Facebook on my phone only, and it gets checked once or twice a day, and the first N posts are all "not friends" - group posts, ads, surveys. There's hardly any of my friends left actively using it. All my
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by DrBazza 4y ago
It's not bad at all, unfamiliar perhaps, because all the others have copied github. It's like that so that page sizes are as a small as possible, to cater for all users on all platforms in all locations. Not everyone is American
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The nuclear waste 'problem' annoys me because it's absurd in comparison to everything else. I challenge anyone to go onto google right and give me a firm number of people that have died from nuclear waste, not just nuclear ac
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Because they lose money, nobody has ever made them profitable ....They are always subsidized That's how it appears but that's not an argument against them. Two things: firstly they are regulated because nuclear fuel can b
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by DrBazza 4y ago
UK fuel duty as a percentage: https://www.racfoundation.org/data/taxation-as-percentage-of... - currently about 45% down (amazingly) from more or less 60% since 2013. I kind of understand your argument, but net-incom
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> There is no "road tax" in the UK, is it? Vehicle Excise Duty since 1920 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Excise_Duty Road funding in the UK is just from the general pot of tax money. There are a
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by DrBazza 4y ago
A long article to just say, in the UK, the government will need to figure out how far you've driven an EV and charge you for that distance to replace the tax raised through fuel bought to travel the equivalent distance. Odometer read w
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Presumably you didn't live through the EU vs MS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission That was the unbundling of Internet Explorer from PCs. Which in hindsight looks like small beers compar
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by DrBazza 4y ago
If by infrastructure, you mean trains, then the UK, like every other country uses rails appropriate to the average temperature. "Network Rail said that its rails have a "stress-free" temperature of 27 degrees." https:&#
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Many media websites are now so full of cruft, the actual text of the story is barely a few Kb, and the other multi-Mb assets are videos, video adverts, trackers, javascript cruft, unoptimized css, unomptimized images, "infinite scroll&
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Sure, and we bury spent nuclear fuel and supposedly is a problem according to some groups. If we bury it deep enough, remote enough, and remove access to it, how is it a danger? If the human race loses the ability to read warning signs
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Probably a roughly similar amount to what is created building a nuclear, or any other, power station. I'd love to see some figures that prove or disprove that. I'm inclined to disagree and say that more waste is produced ma
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by DrBazza 4y ago
A bit of an odd response. I neither "like" or "dislike" any "answers" to lifecycle analysis. What I definitely do not "like" is the dismissal of nuclear by saying "nuclear waste" without co
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by DrBazza 4y ago
How much noxious chemical waste, and by volume, is produced in the manufacture of the many thousands of solar panels and wind turbines though for the same power?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Grain of sand at arms length for yesterday’s deep field.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Careful what you wish for. We (in the UK) fund the NHS significantly to the point that it's now a political football - freezing funding to it and wanting it to be better run is political suicide, but wanting to cancel a piece of natio
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Reminds me of *mzap on the bbc micro 40 years ago.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Not at all - I can buy a bitcoin now, and then sell it, having not mined it. I choose not to. But other people do. > Money has value because of the value of the economic transactions in which its conducted. As the OP said, little pieces
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> For BTC (or any coin) to have any value, it needs actual economic transactions to be conducted in it. If there aren't any, its value is smoke-and-mirrors; its not real. Not quite - if someone, anyone, wants something that someone
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Your 40C doesn't equal my 40C when one country has high humidity, and the other has close to zero. That's precisely what the "wet bulb temperature" for humans is all about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Just because Rust, in particular, compiles successfully, that's no guarantee that the code isn't complex and difficult to understand. I can write a complex badly designed app in any language. Similarly I can write simple well de
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by DrBazza 4y ago
World War 1 had a massive effect on him. My grandfather who served in WWI aged 16 or 17. He saw things he couldn't unsee, and wasn't what you would ever call "cheerful". That generation had a very different world view
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The majority of people go to the most-popular (walled garden) social media these days. In that sense, the majority rarely realise what the internet is [1] and that it's more than just Facebook, Amazon etc. > It takes no effort to ge
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Agreed. I don't really understand the UK government. Though it's probably the same elsewhere, career politicians schooled in humanities at university, completely clueless about the ministerial role they've been given.

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