Zenst

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by Zenst 5y ago
I was pondering given the rise in natural gas prices globally, how much effort would be involved for some uses to use hydrogen instead. Certainly be good use of the off-peak spare capacity type issues with electricity production. Cost wise
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by Zenst 5y ago
I think many would buy shares in NASA - even if it was some token no return souvenir/donation/sponsor a mission kinda share issue.
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by Zenst 5y ago
> Personally, I pretty much never answer calls from unknown numbers, unless I am specifically expecting a call (eg: from a service company coming to the house, or calling back about an inquiry I made). That is my personal choice, alas ma
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by Zenst 5y ago
I couldn't agree more and will add that such slanting and rewriting of history per say, only does harm in the end as enable hate upon the left to miss-focus and equally enables the right to use facts with such articles to then enable a
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by Zenst 5y ago
Very true and easy to blur the lines of thought between SOC and CPU these days upon ARM. Thank you for the poignant reminder.
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by Zenst 5y ago
> Many people are seeing all these different vendor specific CPUs as a win. I'm a bit more skeptical, but perhaps that it unwarranted. Mixed upon that. Upside - getting software made more portable across architectures and with that,
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by Zenst 5y ago
Oh it's more complicated than that for cheap tickets and most tips covered here: https://www.which.co.uk/money/money-saving-tips/getting-a-gr... Sadly when there was a plane option instead - that always tende
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by Zenst 5y ago
With random delays, strikes and a selection of standing room in which you can share body warmth - all thrown in upon some commutes (no luck involved).
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by Zenst 5y ago
Interesting and did some reading up upon how they would produce a magnetic pulse and found the approach has been around for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre... I wonder if such pro
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by Zenst 5y ago
Can always add another network interface via USB and the RPi4 has USB3 if you need the thruput.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Science works upon facts, politics works upon emotional ethos of those facts.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Last year it was a media hyped run upon toilet rolls. People panic and react accordingly and do wonder how much of this was created by the media. However if in the next year or so I read about a house burning down that was filled with toil
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by Zenst 5y ago
The whole shift in manufacturing has seen a shift from holding supplies to in-flight just in time managment. Which for tiing up capital can prove advantages. Though you are more exposed to any up's and downs in that supply chain or p
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by Zenst 5y ago
You are spot on. It's a bit like most changes, they take time and sure my impact akin to a grain of sand in a desert, but then I feel comfortable with my choices and eventually over time, such choices will become less open as there wil
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by Zenst 5y ago
Does this material also produce a magnetic field when stressed?
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by Zenst 5y ago
20% of my income goes on fuel and I'm a low-fuel user, I live on a budget of walking and getting the bus is a treat. For me gas prices in the UK, what really messed me up was the standing charges (daily charge for infrastructure) circ
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by Zenst 5y ago
I see how the C64's, Amiga's and Atari's did so well back then. But I too enjoyed the adverts back then - pure geek porn in those days and back then you would read everything - adverts included. Today, complete polar opposi
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by Zenst 5y ago
Yes and some top-end technical stuff, that in many ways you can only get in a bit here and a bit there kinda way upon the web today. One memory of magazines back then, I enjoyed reading the adverts and it is ironic as I probably spent more
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by Zenst 5y ago
Slight tangent, but I'm wondering and kinda dreading the day that some company pops some large advert upon the Moon so it can be seen on Earth.
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by Zenst 5y ago
For the quality needed in food grade CO2 it is a cost issue. But lovely article that covers that exact aspect here: https://theconversation.com/co-shortage-why-cant-we-just-pul... [EDIT ADD] Also a nice coverage of the dif
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by Zenst 5y ago
Whilst these may seem old, for some perspective - statues have been dated back to 35-40k years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man So one wonders what is still to be found, what was lost to sea level changes o
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by Zenst 5y ago
Was few ways and sure changing the ROM, but with RAMpack you had the space to redo the interupt controlling the display and probebly best demoed with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjA-qlDv5Xw Though for this they just po
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by Zenst 5y ago
>without the ability to set individual pixels in any way You could and I did. ALas it involved rewritting the screen driver and drawing a diagnol across the screen would take over a minute and all the CPU, now if you turned the display
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by Zenst 5y ago
Does it not start to become cheaper to rent some storage and buy the items when they are low, like timber now and then the other core bits, biding your time. Though storage costs a factor and equally equity to buy the materials over time
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by Zenst 5y ago
Yes that did strike me as a bit of a curve-ball given the direction the article was slanting. Maybe the reader is left to conclude that if older people watched more porn - the economy, politics...would be better! Obviously not as that wo
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by Zenst 5y ago
The whole premise of a younger generation being a upset at a prior older generation for political, fiscal etc etc reasons - has and always will be it seems, a theme that will just keep on running for century's more. Thing is, in 30 yea
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by Zenst 5y ago
> I was at RIM during this time and it was an absolute shitshow. It took so much in-fighting to get RIM to even address the iphone, so many people thought it was a passing fad and would never get polished enough to be a real competitor,
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by Zenst 5y ago
Another option is for Apple to offer their digital store as a service to larger players for a lower % fee. Akin to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) and equally on some levels comparable in a way that building that type of network in
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by Zenst 5y ago
I'm aware the dosage in the covid vaccines is high compared to others and was leaning on the upper edge of dosage. Which for adults maybe fine mostly, though could well be a factor for teenagers and a smaller dosage may well be far be
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by Zenst 5y ago
Yes the whole public support aspect can swing this either way, if Twitter comes out in support of the politician then that user will be guilty before he even hits the court. If on the other hand they come out in support of the user, then i

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