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by Jedd 4y ago
Paywalled, and the https://archive.ph/o0LpH link is 502'ing for me There was a fascinating article about 6 months ago on 'why no roman industrial revolution?' which dove into the convergence of requirements
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by Jedd 4y ago
I've updated my earlier comment to clarify that I was checking the changelog for apt in my Debian system. On review it doesn't make much sense - searching for 'phase' there's an 'Add support for phased updates&
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by Jedd 4y ago
First I've heard of this, and as a long-time Debian user it initially sounded like yet another oddity peculiar to Ubuntu. It sounds like this problem shouldn't / wouldn't affect most 'business' servers iff
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by Jedd 4y ago
> ... it's a 42% pay cut either way, which is huge. It's really not huge. He's worth north of $1b (USD), so his 'pay' is ~4% of his wealth - compare that to yourself / any other human you know. For a 62yo to
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by Jedd 4y ago
You're absolutely right - the virus that causes deformed wing is typically carried by Varroa, so the two effects tend to be seen in parallel. Either way, not something we have a problem with in Australia today, though the most recent
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by Jedd 4y ago
This is one of several uplifting stories - especially for beekeepers - the past few years around bio controls for pests. In Australia we've recently had (yet another) incursion of Varroa (a tiny mite that invades brood, resulting in de
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by Jedd 4y ago
In God is Not Great , Hitchens unequivocally laid into buddhism, though obviously it wasn't the focus of that book, or, as you intimate, much of his work. But within, he attributes imperialism through to kamikaze indoctrination to b
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by Jedd 4y ago
These are good and valid questions. Relating to our solar panel install (refer another comment of mine in this thread) we went through with one of those plug in power meters and identified about spot and average power draw for about 80 diff
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by Jedd 4y ago
Author mentions New England, which I gather is a large-ish area, but let's say about 44 degrees north. I'm 33 degrees south, so obviously 'better' in terms of solar potential. We probably also have fewer cloudy days (th
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by Jedd 4y ago
* In USA / America (At the very end of the article, some hint is given as to where the author is located.) Those numbers - for USA, and for 2022 - seem very high. Author obtained 7.56 kW of panels with a single phase inverter for a lis
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by Jedd 4y ago
In the late 1980's, when I was at college in Sydney, we had a visit from a chap (I think from somewhere in the north of Europe) who'd previously won a tender for, IIRC, a booking / tracking system for a relatively small airli
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by Jedd 4y ago
I wish there was some way you could have said what city/country you were talking about.
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by Jedd 4y ago
Ah, that's what they were comparing - thanks, I missed that entirely. Given My and Maria are his kids names I'd jumped to that interpretation.
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by Jedd 4y ago
> MariaDB's eponymously named open-source software ... I'm sure they meant 'eponymous open-sourced', as named is implicit in the meaning of that word, but I'm less confident whether an eponym can be granted bas
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by Jedd 4y ago
Yup, this is what I've been using since I started with vi[m] (~30 years ago). It's pure muscle memory after the first week or two, is obviously faster than fumbling around for ESC (which may move slightly between keyboards). It wo
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by Jedd 4y ago
There's a bunch of people doing some pretty amazing synth builds with the Raspberry Pi -- the Zynthian crew [0] springs to mind. Basically bring your own USB midi keyboard / controller - these tend to be cheap , but also engender
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by Jedd 4y ago
I don't agree that the precautionary principle needs to be qualified, or at least not constrained to a single axis - we want to exercise precaution about any changes (or any resistance to change) - with effectively a 'do no harm&#
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by Jedd 4y ago
Well, to all hand-wringing around seeking precision on threshold estimates - I'd throw back three points. 1) the precautionary principle, 2) empirical evidence abounds that budget projections are notoriously woeful - the '18% of G
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by Jedd 4y ago
Agreed that it's hard to find definitive numbers, but given it's all projections and extrapolations, that's not hugely unexpected. As a sibling commenter suggested, 'the science' is not saying the world ends once we
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by Jedd 4y ago
I've looked at SPM.2 - and the two charts in that graphic top out at 2.5C - which obviously sets the mental alarm bells ringing. I can't see anything that reflects your earlier claim of: > ... the last IPCC report I read sugges
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by Jedd 4y ago
Spotify (on Android) is the worst offender for this. The playlist shortcut shows six playlists, but 2-5 seconds after rendering these, about the same time it takes you scan over them and see if the playlist you want is offered in this set a
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by Jedd 4y ago
> What makes you think we won't survive 4C? I'm not saying you're wrong but the last IPCC report I read suggested global collapse was more on the order of 6 - 8 degrees. Could you cite that one please? Every IPCC reference
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by Jedd 4y ago
Powaqqatsi holds a special place in my heart - it's the only film that has ever put me to sleep in a theatre. The style of this reminds me of Infinite Adam Curtis, a generated series of video clips overlaid with random punchy / pi
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by Jedd 4y ago
Not the person you asked, however I picked up a multi-function oven earlier this year - a benchtop model from Sunbeam, runs off a standard power point (AU - I think we have slightly more power available at the plug?). Anyway, it's grea
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by Jedd 4y ago
Thanks for rephrasing. This was the crux of my observation.
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by Jedd 4y ago
> And assume we increase battery supply by 40x (even though lithium price is going up dramatically now). It sounds like you're assuming at large scale, Lithium is required for storage (it's not - consider pumped water), and at
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by Jedd 4y ago
I think it's possible both statements are incorrect. The earth's mass may well be 5.97 ronnagrams. The weight of the earth would be measured in newtons, yes?
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by Jedd 4y ago
Yes, apologies - my several prime ministers ago aside was very much a tongue in cheek utterance. I'm painfully aware that Scott was the one to reset that record. As to 'Only the US has two realistic options' - you appear to
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by Jedd 4y ago
> But I am aware of a 51/49 class split between Liberal and Labor over Gough .. This may be a somewhat outdated appraisal of the situation. The number of people voting for neither of those parties (including coalition members) has b
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by Jedd 4y ago
Yes, user eldofever has described the challenges, and restoration procedure, around the drum on those beasts on that thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/yonoa5/i_...

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