DrBazza

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by DrBazza 2y ago
There are meltdown-free designs as engineers have learnt from previous problems. That's exactly the point of government regulation, want to build a privately developed and operated commercial nuclear reactor? Requirement #1: it cannot
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The volume of nuclear waste is completely overestimated by the man-on-the-street. https://ukinventory.nda.gov.uk/the-2022-inventory/2022-uk-da... A bit like all the world's gold would actually comfortably fit into
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> cutting every conceivable corner there is to cut Do you think SpaceX cut every conceivable corner to make money? Nuclear (and space), are heavily government regulated. It isn't perfect a safety net but it works.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
WFH is best for focused work. Office is best for collaboration. I'm not sure I've found a tool that works for collaboration like a whiteboard. Digital solutions just never really worked in our company and we tried a few. On the
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by DrBazza 2y ago
During COVID, like everyone else, our company went to WFH. Conversely, when we had a round of redundancies some of the people that were perceived to be important or productive in the office, turned out to be nothing of the sort, and were s
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> Commuting is mentally draining. This is an understated problem. Driving? Well, you have to be in at 8am so that thunderstorm, blizzard, morning twilight, yup, you have to drive through it. And the same the other way. Catching a train
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The Matrix ranks third in my list of 'wow' moments in the cinema. Joint first is the opening of Saving Private Ryan, and brontosaurus (?) in the true-dinosaur scene of Jurassic Park (not the raptor eggs bit). SPR's opening wa
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Ideally Jira would have something similar so that when you create a new issue and accidentally click somewhere or press escape, it doesn't delete the ticket you've just spent 5 minutes creating.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
True. It's in the Highway Code. Then again, so is 'move quickly past the vehicle you are overtaking, once you have started to overtake. Allow plenty of room. Move back to the left as soon as you can but do not cut in'. But
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The signs preceding a UK mini roundabout would not be. And it rarely snows in the UK these days. And I would hope you would be driving extremely cautiously if there were snow on the ground (in the UK) as it's such a rare event.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Try driving in England, rural or otherwise, and you'll see our current trend of adding traffic lights to roundabouts. If you think roundabouts slow you down (they don't really), just wait until non-rush hour at one of these "
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I’m down for that in the US. I’m up for it, in the UK.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Sigh. It's the usual multi-millionaire CEO that can buy a multi-million apartment 15 minutes from the office telling staff that would have a 90 minute commute in hellish traffic or public transport and the physical and mental toll tha
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Pubs used to be 11-3, and 6-11, give or take, whereas High Street restaurants, that can often also serve alcohol and family friendly, are 11-11, so it's not much of a surprise that they're converging, slowly to the same business m
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Thanks for that. I hadn't realised it was a feature in UK VCRs. I can't say I remember anyone ever using it.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I absolutely hate that gambling adverts on TV are legal in the UK. I've seen at least one friend's life ruined because of it. 9pm, and it's wall-to-wall. Ironically, this is around the same time as bans on smoking in pubs, a
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Everyone used to book their summer holidays from Teletext. The Peter Kay sketch about this is quite amusing. I thought, though I might be wrong, back in the UK we broadcast on 650 lines, and the top or bottom 25 lines were reserved for tel
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Indeed. Though, as I said there are others next to rivers. The map here: https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/map-where-are-frances-n... shows 6 reactors on the coast, and 12 inland on rivers which are susceptible to
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Back when the Arch came out with a full desktop environment, the typical PC was MS or DR DOS with TUI based WordPerfect. The full GUI Impression word processor was released in 1989, about the same time as the first version of Word for Win
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by DrBazza 2y ago
He's annotated all the Elite source code as well, and even fixed some flickering many decades after the original was released. (edit) https://github.com/markmoxon/cassette-elite-beebasm?tab=read...
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by DrBazza 2y ago
To be honest, it wasn't easily playable on the Arch as Lander or Zarch. Remarkable game for its time, as was the machine. It always felt like if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines. Instead, based
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Imported power is interesting as when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine for us, it’s the same for other countries bordering the North Sea. So if they’ve gone green we’re all looking for electricity on those days and it’s expen
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The French nuclear power stations are often built near rivers where the water was too hot for cooling or just not enough due to drought. The UK nuclear power stations are all on the coast drawing in much cooler sea water.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
My grandmother would walk 4-5 miles to visit us, well into her 80s, and the route included a rather substantial hill. She lived into her 90s. Similarly, my grandfather was docker, and then a very active gardener walking to his allotment a
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Is that actually the case? Or have memristors just proven to be a 'boring' technology that's just quietly replaced other bits and pieces that we don't hear about? A bit like graphene was supposed to be this wonder mate
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Github won, not because of taste, but also because of providence and comms. The whole article is written from someone looking out, not in - you can't play a football match and watch it. For the rest of the world, Github came along whe
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I wonder whether this is a side effect of degreaser, that is recognised as a cause of Parkinsons. The degreaser somehow affects the gut. That then causes Parkinsons. [*] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/parkinso
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by DrBazza 2y ago
We drive 99.9999% on the left. Not 100%. https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/one-road-london-y...
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Much the same in the UK. In the 1970s the BBC news programmes gave huge amounts of air time to Greenpeace and CND. Greenham Common and CND being given the most coverage. When the only source of information is a daily newspaper, or nightly
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by DrBazza 2y ago
You're talking about railway lines and stations with ad-hoc upgrades that are as much as 200 years old (yes). Most of the network is comfortably over 100 years old and trains were slower, and frankly, people were less mollycoddled. Bu

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