DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
Well, the Draupner Wave brushed the under side of an oil rig, if that helps. That was a rogue wave and they get a lot higher . There are also the opposite - rogue holes - the trough part of a wave. Imagine being in a boat and dropping 10
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Since I've been "reassured" that we're not being listened to by smart speakers, I can only assume that familial links i.e. the 'facebook graph', are also exploited by ad companies now as well. Anec-data: visit
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by DrBazza 5y ago
"If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter" (Pascal, apparently).
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Uk banks offer a wide range of mortgages. Interest rates used to be set by the government rather than the Bank of England and were a political tool until the late 90s. That added to uncertainty and pushed people to fixed mortgages. Then th
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Having lived through the 70s and 80s, the last 30 years have been relatively stable by comparison. But different. Zero interest rates, ERM, and QE, versus inflation, stagflation, currency devaluation, decimalisation and the winter of disco
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Now sure if you didn't get the education to get a decent job. Hell even on 25k each, Nationwide can lend upto £275k for a first time buyer - just need that deposit. This horrifies me. Even the slightest increase in interest rates
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Microsoft pushed a promotional message which is why "I'm out" after 20 years or so on Windows. I don't want an OS that sends me messages like that, supports adverts, or (initially at least) demands to be always conn
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Anecdatum: on virgin and it’s been rock solid for the last 2 years. Must be a location thing.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> “To tell you the truth, nobody actually wants to use EUV,” says David Kanter, a chip analyst with Real World Technologies. “It's a mere 20 years late and 10X over budget. But if you want to build very dense structures, it’s the on
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I think the problem with (UK) retail parks is that they're all large and chain owned units. My point is that not far from me there is a farm that chose to convert itself into a retail park of sorts. The tenants are limited by size, a
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Commodity retail is an interesting point I hadn't thought of. With freely accessible 'everything', these days, there's no 'unique selling point' to a lot of high st. businesses, so you're correct about &#
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Councils are trying to encourage you to travel more sustainably Not consciously. My council 100% use car parks as a source of revenue. That the price discourages people is a side effect of supply and demand. Particularly in London wh
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's just the same out here in the shires. My local council charges something in the region of £4 for 2 hours. I say "something" because as you might guess, and from my parent comment, I have no reason to go into the town,
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by DrBazza 5y ago
If I knew the alternative, I wouldn't be a keyboard expert on the subject :D In my part of SE England, there's 2 towns in the entire country that have park and ride. And it's hardly used. We genuinely need 'build new vi
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The demise of department stores in the UK has been partly driven by the rise of supermarkets and out of town retail parks. UK towns are historically car unfriendly, frequently jammed with traffic, and car parks are costly. Local councils h
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by DrBazza 5y ago
There's a name for this - when a large bloc of countries require something legally, and the rest of the world end up following. You can probably "thank" the EU for not having to carry around individual LG, Samsung, Anker, Son
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can't remember where I read it (likely Joel Spolsky, or Paul Graham), but there was an article about businesses that thrive in the shadow of FAANG + MS and others because even though they're in the same business they don't
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Speed of sound is 343m/s at sea level. The blade is 113 metres, so that's a circumference of 710m. A quick google says large turbines can rotate up to 20 rpm, so once every 3 seconds, that's 710/3 = 236m/s, so Mach
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by DrBazza 5y ago
If you keep scaling this up, you might naively think the tips of blades could reach Mach 1. They won't, due to a variety of reasons. But that does remind of Thunderscreech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_
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by DrBazza 5y ago
That ^^ made me think of this, for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Microwave transmission could send it somewhere else... wirelessly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Microw...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I had zero side effects from the AZ vaccine. There is apparently a correlation with age and side effects.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
You could drop matter in there and get 40% of the mass back as energy. Not that it's useful energy for us at the moment, but a more advanced civilization could probably learn how to ensure most comes out as polar jets and harvest that
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by DrBazza 5y ago
In London, at least, there's probably two categories of programmers, those with families and modest-to-large houses in the suburbs or further out in the home counties, with long commutes, and those that are without families, living in
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's just a shame they didn't offer at cost like AstraZeneca have [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/28/astrazeneca...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It depends what metric you're using for education improvement. For science based subjects, the fundamentals don't change. My narrow world view is maths and physics, and my data point of one, is that my peer group in the 1980s we
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Went to university in the UK, met a bunch of Russian post-docs whilst I was a researcher, and they were some of the best mathematicians I'd met. Not unrelated, but today in the UK is A-Level results (for 18 yr olds), and the UK press a
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> The nuclear solution has been there this whole time. Yes, but it's more subtle than that. Despite the naysayers, and those that don't accept science and fact, nuclear, is clean, is safe, and is available right now. Deaths d
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Apparently everyone is going to switch since Windows XP. Haha. Yes, next year of the Linux desktop. Like 'free beer tomorrow' outside your favourite bar. In my other comment, I believe that developers are gradually moving t
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I wouldn't say Windows is getting in my way any more than KDE, or MacOS (I own an Apple laptop, a Windows laptop, and a Win/Linux PC). It's just not what I want or need in an OS any more. I develop on and for Linux. I don&#x

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