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1231.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Using existing cooling towers to capture atmospheric CO2 seems like a much better idea than using energy to otherwise pump tonnes of air through a process. However, I can't help wonder whether it is better than capturing the exhaust em
1232.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
And the rub is if you fail to apply it liberally enough you end up with no completed software or difficult to maintain software because someone went around applying every micro-optimisation in the book regardless of how nessasary or appropr
1233.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I think that's a very charitable interpretation of events. Realistically the EU negotiated on behalf of the 27 member countries to try to get the best deal on price, and perhaps more importantly, to avoid the inevitable tensions which
1234.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
This is most likely going to get flagged into oblivion, for those who come later it's a list of supposed cases where there are mass deaths after the COVID-19 vaccination. Of course 15 million people have received the vaccine in the UK,
1235.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
One tip I would pass on when trying to scrape data from a website, start by using wget in mirror mode to download the useful pages. It's much faster to iterate on scraping the data once you have it locally. Also, less likely to acciden
1236.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
It seems pretty likely that this also has a significant amount of generator capacity on board. Even small sailboats often have to run their engine or generator during passages to top up their battery.
1237.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
While you guys throw tariffs on food here and cut subsidies are any of you aware that for some 10% of American's having food on the table is not a given? Now I'm not saying that subsidising farmers to produce huge crops of the sam
1238.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Same. One time we were out at a restaurant and having all had full meals a couple of us were getting some extras like milkshakes when the Waitress came over to tell us in no uncertain terms that she needed the table back.
1239.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
The tipping culture in Spain seems to account for this acceptably well. 1-2€ left on the table for a staff member who poured you a couple of drinks seems to be generally well received. Of course, they know a table of American tourists is li
1240.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
You know, that might be about the first legitimately good use of deep fakes. Personally I've tried to watch programs dubbed into English before and found it very distracting, to the point I'd almost rather watch it in the original
1241.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Oh yeah, I remember discovering some great content from pages like that back in the day. I also vaguely remember the idea of content rings being a thing.
1242.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I mean, this has to be true right? Otherwise the stock market doesn't function as shared ownership, it would be more like Kickstarter at scale with no recourse for failure to deliver. Plenty of takeovers have been conducted on the open
1243.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Unless there was something fishy about the share classes. Non-voting shares perhaps?
1244.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
As with so many things in life the best way probably doesn't live at either extreme. Often times I'll read about a subject and not fully understand it (and probably not even take the extra time to fully understand it) but when the
1245.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I always find the running scene in The Graduate a great illustration of this effect. He is running flat out what feels like an age and yet barely seems to get any closer to the camera. The last 30 seconds of this clip https://you
1246.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
While HGV driving is certainly a skill, the difficulty level has come down quite a bit in the last 50 years. My dad used to drive an ERF LV with no power steering and a 9 speed unsynchronized gear box. Now most trucks drive like a very larg
1247.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Regardless, high paying truck driving jobs are long gone. There is more chance of driverless trucks in the next 10 years than a return to well paying jobs. Same as high paying manufacturing jobs in Detroit.
1248.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I said this back when the emissions for the UK were announced, the reduction in emissions due to lockdown show the upper limit of what could be achieved through individual choice. And the bottom line is its trivially wiped out by a few year
1249.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
It's completely subjective but it just sounds wrong. Like being in a car with a slipping clutch. Apparently enough people feel the same the it's easier to fake real gears than change the market.
1250.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Yeah, my father-in-law drives an automated manual car which doesn't do this automatically. It's actually a strange car to drive because of that, it also changes at a snails pace so you have to drive pretty leasurely. Our car which
1251.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I'm sorry that this is being downvoted. I have a couple of t-shirts from tech companies myself. One from Stripe which is really nice but probably past its best and a cheap one from Cloudinary. I'm not sure if you are completely se
1252.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
> For a lot of people making music should really stay a hobby. They are not very original in their music and lyrics. Or simply not very good. Or very good for a small niche. I'm not a music buff by a long shot but on one of our firs
1253.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I hope you are wrong that his ethnicity has anything to do with his treatment. Not least because Singh is a traditionally Sikh name making the implication doubly stupid.
1254.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
> apparently being too afraid to take a flight back home because of a global pandemic I'm not a doctor or a lawyer but the fact that this has ended up in court rather help and support from medical professionals makes me think the wh
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Honestly, the most annoying thing about this is when they show you an advert for a series that you have already watched. I mean it's not like they don't have the data already...
1256.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
> "If the USA is nasty and racist then we must be nasty and racist too!" I suppose we also get a free pass on sexual assaults and discrimination since #metoo is obviously just an American social problem? While I agree that our
1257.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
To me the biggest issue that was raised by the Trump bans is that we shouldn't be relying on these channels for communication with our governments and elected representatives. Boris Johnson had a brief flirtation with Facebook Q&A
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I wonder how taxing aircraft parts works. If United reacted to this by flying all of their Airbus aircraft to the EU for any major overhaul would they be taxed on the way back?
1259.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
The author makes the claim that these constraints lead to more creativity and perhaps focus. I mean we both probably wouldn't be here if we knew we only had one hour of battery power for the day.
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Another factor in sail boats is the shading caused by masts, stowed sails, hand rails and lines. It's one of the few places where micro-scale wind turbines almost work.

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