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by akadruid1 3y ago
The article notes this is the first large offshore wind farm outside Europe, but 800MW is big even by European standards. There are currently only 4 operational wind farms larger than 800MW - all in the UK - and only a couple more likely to
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by akadruid1 3y ago
https://archive.is/OEAho
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by akadruid1 3y ago
I found some research on ultramarathon runners which has this conclusion: We conclude that, compared with the general population, ultramarathon runners appear healthier and report fewer missed work or school days due to illness or injury.
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by akadruid1 3y ago
We have some of those photos, such as this one showing a British Sopworth Camel engaging German Albatros fighters at extemely close range: https://www.alamy.com/aerial-combat-between-british-and-germ...
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by akadruid1 4y ago
This seems to be covering the same story on 4th April: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-tweet-ex-pm-barak-seems-to-...
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by akadruid1 4y ago
Also a useful loophole to get around the license required to sell alcohol, as demonstrated by Tom Scott in a hovercraft: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLF7yife8YE
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by akadruid1 4y ago
It will make a plausible justification for all kinds of false information. Why did Brexit make Scotland leave the UK? Brexit was a decision made by the UK to leave the European Union and become separate from it. Scotland voted to remain in
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by akadruid1 4y ago
Even if you limit yourself to considering only currently living humans, calculating the cost of preventing deaths is almost universally avoided by government policy makers of any sort. Even worse is considering the cost per healthy life yea
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by akadruid1 4y ago
https://archive.vn/VvzOE
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by akadruid1 4y ago
Microsoft Azure doesn't agree with this author. They have 3 Availability Zones in their Korea Central region. It seems like there are a large number of commercial data centres in operation in South Korea, and not all in Seoul: https:
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by akadruid1 4y ago
In a similar vein, I wrote to Microsoft suggesting their "Authenticator" TOTP app for Android would benefit from a search feature. I can't have been the only one, but it did make me happy when they actually implemented it a
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by akadruid1 4y ago
Smartphones contain lots of useful components for celestial navigation such as a gyroscope to measure angles and multiple ways to establish the current time accurately. There are apps that can attempt this such as "CamSextant" bu
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by akadruid1 4y ago
It looks like this announcement was a couple of years ago and some more concrete info is now available e.g. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/advanced-clean-... It actually seems quite weak; a slow requ
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by akadruid1 5y ago
https://archive.is/dXBD1
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by akadruid1 5y ago
They may not respond to polite requests or threats but I expect they respond to US dollars.
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by akadruid1 5y ago
I like this implementation of the "single vertical line of pixels" rotating: https://www.instructables.com/SpokePOV:-LED-Bike-Wheel-Image...
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by akadruid1 5y ago
I'd never heard of this until earlier this week I listened to an old episode of Damn Interesting which covers it in their usual gripping fashion. Highly recommended: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-debaculous-fiasco&
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by akadruid1 5y ago
Netflix is in London too and expanding https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/netflix-t...
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by akadruid1 5y ago
https://archive.is/21RM9
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by akadruid1 5y ago
there are tons of government agencies who whack moles all day long. We don't give up inspecting food outlets for hygiene because another dodgy van will pop up tomorrow.
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by akadruid1 5y ago
from the article, ISPs are interested and presumably they will turn the flat pricing into plans. Dropping a solar powered cell tower with Starlink backhaul on top of a mountain could easily serve 200 cell phones paying $2/month each
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by akadruid1 5y ago
This describes the process of finding the dots: https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali... There is an advantage if you are testing printers rather than reviewing a single scan as they describ
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by akadruid1 5y ago
Only this evening I was listening to Tim Hartford's Cautionary Tales podcast episode which refers to the book The Return of a King. It's a really good episode - https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary
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by akadruid1 5y ago
Concur, recorded delivery has worked like magic for me too in the UK. The UK is also good for consumer activist sites like MSE and regulators / ombudsmen. I bought an insurance policy once which failed to deliver the policy documents
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by akadruid1 5y ago
There's something about that hobby. I suspect having "all the gear and no idea" is expensive and somehow they feel entitled. We have a steep winding road near us which is full of blind spots. On a sunny weekend you'r
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by akadruid1 5y ago
https://archive.vn/CdUtu
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by akadruid1 5y ago
Given the sizable investment of time and money required to run and independent exit node, it might be worth considering throwing your support behind one of the existing non-profits providing exit nodes https://blog.torproject.org
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by akadruid1 5y ago
Not sure if the article was changed but other coverage has "up to 10%" implying that's the statutory maximum - https://www.ft.com/content/df07e3f2-2d6e-4ced-a819-779e743d8...
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by akadruid1 5y ago
Probably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system) , running since 1960. It ran on System/360 for decades, maybe still does.
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by akadruid1 6y ago
There's a longer article linked from this one which says Fukushima is generating 140 tons of contaminated water per day and has well over a million tons stored. Not sure if it's measuring the same thing but it seems they might ne

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