VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   I think child molestation and other sexual offences are normally dealt with via alternative means. In the UK there is a sex offenders register as well as background checks for people working with children etc.
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   Honestly I'm not sure. If you don't allow someone the opportunity to reform aren't you strong arming then into continuing their criminal behaviour?
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   I was thinking about the right to be forgotten just the other day. It reminds me of the line "democracy is the worst form of government, except from all of the others which we've tried". Imagine a young person who gets wrappe
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   When our baby was younger we tended to park as far away from anyone else as possible to give us room to put her back in the car. It's amazing how often we come back to find someone parked right next to us.
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   For me there are plenty of occasions where people should really learn to put their phone away. People taking terrible photos / videos of fireworks; recording the worst imaginable quality version of their favourite song at a concert; wa
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   As I write this I'm on the 521 bus in central London. This bus is battery electric powered. I didn't even realise it was possible until I got on one. The difference in noise alone is unbelievable. The elimitation of tailpipe emiss
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   > Advanced economies have grown their GDPs, but have also reduced their emissions since about 1990. Isn't there an element of offloading their emissions to the 'less advanced' economies who make all of the new energy effic
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   The thing is though, what they seemed to object to was trying to login (not using the same session cookie) across different IP addresses. At least that was the case when I opened the site on my laptop. Maybe my phone did login on the dodgy
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   by VBprogrammer 7y ago

   > before reverting to a perfectly capable parallel system of manual trim I don't have time to read the article in detail at the moment but suffice to say that this is subject to considerable debate.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I'm inclined to agree. I was checking my bank account on my phone yesterday and the office Wifi was having an off day. So I disconnected the wifi and proceeded to try to login over 4g. I got locked out of my account for 10 minutes beca
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Really? Do people describe chargers or power supplies as power banks? Surely the 'bank' part of it implies some kind of storage.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    To be fair, Samsung had to scrap a whole phone model because of battery problems. The Boeing 787 suffered with problems of batteries catching fire (and according to some reports still does). It's a tricky problem to avoid.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Getting those people to use a shared pool of electric cars would be a bigger win. That low utilisation means the initial environmental cost of producing the car is not amortised over nearly as many trips.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I was talking in broad strokes about how to encourage someone to have an intuition of the power requirements for such an endeavour. I was using easy round numbers not asserting exact numbers.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    And 1hp is actually 745.7w. It makes very little difference with regards to the big picture of whether something is feasible. Whether you tell someone the ferry is going to need 20,000 solar panels or 5000 it's still way more than reas
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    One way of helping people internalise this is to point out that 1ph is, to a first order approximation, 1kw. The same as many electric heaters. A typical solar panel is 100w in peak conditions. It's then easy to visualise what powering
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Yeah. And that's bad. But it's not required to raise beef. See for example British and Irish beef.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    To say it requires many acres to be chopped down is a stretch.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    If you are going somewhere where you have to get changed in public, say the gym, do you make sure you are wearing your good underwear?
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    We have a more complicated relationship with our customers than that implied. Suffice to say they wouldn't actually be footing the bill.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    The motivation for that is probably avoiding what my first thought was; who is going to be the first to offer commercial extension of Python 2 support. That would be worth a lot of money to a lot of companies.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    As someone who works on a 99% Python 2 codebase I think this is a very necessary step. Hopefully one of our larger customers will realise we are still running their critical infrastructure on Python 2 and make enough of a fuss that we can j
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    Electric trams used resistive controllers in the day. There is quite an interesting description here: http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/electrictrams.htm
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I'm not sure that's correct. My understanding is that for a given voltage the transmission losses are basically the same (actually possibly slightly better for DC since they don't suffer from the skin effect). The problem com
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I don't know why this is being downvoted. If we went zero carbon tomorrow we'd have no replacement for the Haber process which produces the massive amounts of fertilizer needed to feed the human population.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    There was a really interesting link on a related subject a while back where they were using solar concentration to generate heat, power and desalination for use by the attached greenhouse. To me that's a much more impressive use of tec
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    This. I worked at a midstage startup for 3 years. Even the major newspapers would print (or at least publish online) your press-releases practically verbatim. They seemed particularly susceptible to anything which contained some dubious sta
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    The pollution from the production of the battery, the steel and the aluminium can occur well away from major population centres. They are centralised and immobile so there is a much better chance that in the future they can utilise more eff
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    I sometimes wish people who make this argument would go sit in a sealed room with a running electrical car and then a running petrol or diesel car and tell me which one was the better experience.
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    by VBprogrammer 7y ago

    There is a lot of terminology for sure. We've gone from "is docker ready for production usage?" to "Hey Bob, look at this, a service which isn't running in a container yet" in about 5 years. In order to work ef