DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
That stretch of canal is narrow and poorly marked. It's no surprise that people wander all over the place. Also... Hackney, and the east end isn't exactly the nicest part of London either. > The point is, that heterogeneous u
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The Daily Mail, in the UK, in particular has some weird anti-cyclist obsession. The recent changes to the Highway Code are just explicit statements about what cyclists and pedestrians can do (edit - actually what cars should do with respect
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I find the UK government ministers (and others governments I suppose) completely thick and are generally ex-arts-students who (mostly) graduated in "non-degrees" and have precisely zero understanding of science and technology. The
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> black ice This. Pre-covid I cycled to work each day, and at 5am (!) black ice was frequently a nightmare on cycle paths that had smoother tarmac than the road.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Why do we need to fly 3 months to some inhospitable planet that is in worse condition than Earth would be (even after nuclear wars and global warming) to make progress? In the late 1500s, why set sail across an ocean for weeks that no
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> A 747 can lift and land ~80% of Starship's design cargo but uses something like 7 times less fuel. That's why something like the Sabre engine will always be of interest for a proper space plane. https://en.wikipedi
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> it seemed more like a niche product Yes. The Peloton 'model' reminds me of the gym model, at least in the UK. You always get a bunch of people sign up in 'fat' January for 12 months. They go to the the gym for a f
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by DrBazza 5y ago
If only I didn’t do my phd in a department with plasma guys 30 years ago back in the 90s eh?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's 30 years time. It's always 30 years time. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-nuclear-fusi...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Your googling would also show that the article dates from more than a year ago. > A lot changed. What changed? The UK participate in ITER still, via F4E. ITER is not just the EU, it's funded by China, the European Union, Indi
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by DrBazza 5y ago
And 2 seconds of googling: "The UK will remain part of Iter" https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3551
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'd tend to agree. Every time I do any functional programming (which is rare), it leaves me with a 'better way to do this' feeling and a different view on things when I go back to writing a regular OOP language. On the other
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I guess it's up to the person. I use my iPad for gaming, reading technical books and docs, and watching movies and TV on the train. The phone is pretty shitty for those in my opinion, and I don't want a tablet-like phone in my po
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Microsoft has multi-billion dollar branches - Office, OS, Azure, XBox, Activision, I'm sure I've missed one. It also completely fluffed Nokia. And dodged the bullet that is Yahoo. It's pretty resilient. FB? Like others ha
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by DrBazza 5y ago
There's no small irony that after Chernobyl, all evidence is that animal life has actually thrived in spite of the radiation, and if anything, the most sensitive species to radiation is us. Another commenter has already pointed out th
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing that batteries are cost efficient, just pointing out that batteries aren't (natural) resource efficient.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
But how many millions of tons of soil do we have to shift to get the lithium for all these millions and millions of batteries, versus a few kilos of uranium? And it's the same with the turbines and all the rare earths that need to be m
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by DrBazza 5y ago
In the UK, every single time there's been a proposal for a reactor, there are local protests, and CND/Greenpeace turn up en masse. There's been no opportunity to deliver 'cheap' energy in terms of up-front cost, be
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by DrBazza 5y ago
And unfortunately, of that £23bn, something massive percentage will be government "bureaucracy" for want of a better word. If nuclear power were properly commercialised it would be cheaper. The only analogy I can think of is cos
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Why is it false? I'm talking about absolute numbers here, not TWh, and I'm comparing to fossil fuels, but even if we talk about just wind: > In England, there were 163 wind turbine accidents that killed 14 people in 2011. Wind
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by DrBazza 5y ago
From my aged perspective, this is reaping the "green benefit" from the 70s and 80s, when there were world wide activists campaigning against nuclear power for "reasons" (largely the Cold War). If you think green activis
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> "efficient" MBA eloi outsourced everything to morlocks a long time ago. This is the biggest weakness of the West - and it all stems back to "share holder value". Companies, US ones, in particular, seem to have some
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Oh, it’s waaaay more fragile than that…
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by DrBazza 5y ago
In the footnote: > borgcfg ... Truly one of the worst languages I have ever seen. I'll see your borgcfg and raise you a reverse-Polish notation stack based one, written in a couple of hours and supporting a repo trading system for a
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> First, when you see public officials doing a blog post on "Microsoft.com" website instead of on a public website, you know that something fishy is going on... Maybe, I'm naive, or not cynical enough, but I just read thi
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Unfortunately, I'm not a gamer, and run a weird version of linux which I don't think you support anyway, but I have played Slipways (a friend purchased it) on the PC, and it's a great game!
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> The CHERI memory-protection features allow historically memory-unsafe programming languages such as C and C++ to be adapted to provide strong, compatible, and efficient protection against many currently widely exploited vulnerabilities
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Gosh. I'm in the wrong business. I should create my own "store your password" company. How hard can it be?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Are "password storing" tech companies worth a billion or so? And what's the "unique selling point" that stops me switching from one to another?

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