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by alexfoo 7mo ago
> Man, the 80s were wild. Early 90s for me but there was an unwritten rule that the teachers had the nearest couple of pubs and the students had a few further afield. That prevented most unwanted mixing. But those days are still here in
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Followed by a quote from Pink Floyd's _Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)_. _Stand still laddie!_
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Sometimes it's the journey not the destination. I did something similar to pull data from my Garmin watch. This meant writing all manner of code to pull data out of FIT files (interesting and often infuriating self-describing file form
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Indeed, you can get a sense of the scale on the Dinorwig wikipedia page and the pages it links to. It has a storage capacity of about 9.1GWh. The upper reservoir ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchlyn_Mawr ) holds 9.2
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
There's a good chance that they're never going to verify any of the information you give them, in which case it's another download for Mr M Mouse of 1375 E Buena Vista Dr, 32830, with a SSN that ends in 1234.
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Pumped hydro is one solution. You bank the excess wind/solar using gravitational potential energy and then draw on that whenever you need to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
And demand for data sovereignty.
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
It's mandated by a sticker saying so. I don't think it's ever enforced. A google seems to show that it is because the pumps are not certified to be accurate below 2 litres (or 5 litres for higher flow rate pumps like the HGV
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
You don't. And, for similar reasoning you don't know the more expensive fuel is "better" quality. More importantly you know that pretty much any fuel being sold in a mainstream place in the UK is going to meet the minimu
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
> I never did in 25 years of driving in the UK. "Need petrol buy petrol, try to avoid doing that on the motorway". Same here. Sometimes even on the A413...
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
I put in £3 worth of fuel the other day but that's because it was a rental car that I had to return with the same fuel level as at pickup and I'd only done ~30 miles with lots of stop/start. (I would have used a Zipcar/Z
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
Not really, he was advised to take it daily by his doctor and his doctor knows his drinking habits. UK advice is to avoid drinking more than 14 units (think a shot, a small beer or a small glass of wine = 1 unit) whilst taking paracetamol.
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
By "lower quality" I did mean "low quality". It's the reverse of "this one is more expensive therefore it must be better" without any evidence at all that it is the case.
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
Decisions about fuel purchases are often irrational, much like many food purchases or generic medicines. I know someone who avoids their local petrol station that is 10p/litre cheaper than most others nearby (within a mile or so) as th
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
> A 7p per litre difference does sound like the difference between local station and motorway prices though, and they probably will have factored in that opportunity cost of time... Only 7p? Motorway services have shocking price markups,
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
There seems to be a progression of Wordle strategies. Playing with a set start word (or words, e.g. "SIREN OCTAL DUMPY" or people who go the "AUDIO ADIEU" route). (Many people also go down the rabbit hole of looking for
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
> I think sometime in the late 1990s FlexLM switched from dongles to "hardware identifiers" that were easily spoofed; honestly I don't think this was a terrible idea since to this article's conclusion ... Starting in
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
Alarm, dread, scare, shock, start, worry.
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
> Twitter famously had a "fail whale" but it didn't stop the company from growing. If you have market demand (and I guess advertising) then you can get away with a sub-optimal product for a long time. Agreed, but there&#x2
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
Clever spammers (there are some!) see the presence of company@<domain> and assume the user will have similar emails for other accounts, so it might be worth trying ebays scams to ebay@<domain> or banking scams to chase@<domai
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
The UK uses an odd mixture of both depending on context. The use of "100ml" in airports is because using "3.519 fl oz" would be confusing to far more people. Even within the UK we use metric for small liquid measures lik
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
> Hmm, I once transited in Heathrow in a return flight from europe to the US and had to go through Heathrow security for whatever reason, The US mandates that you have to go through TSA approved security before getting on a flight to the
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by alexfoo 8mo ago
And don't rely on the destination airport having the same rules when you fly back. This used to get people doing EU -> London flights. The EU rules had already been relaxed, but you got bitten by the extra restrictions when you went
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
As others have said, Fibre is a postcode lottery. A&A is expensive for me. 1Gbps down and 115Mb/s up with a 1TB/mo quota for £75/mo. I get similar speeds (with no download limit) from BT for £34.99/mo. Community Fibr
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Feedback: Interesting. Glad there was a drop down to pick a bunch of different sources. I was expecting it to be US central but was happy when I saw I could search for amazon.co.uk An ability to search for NAS drives, even if it's just
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> Getting computer work done inside a vehicle is not easy if comfort is a requirement. Driving posture is not generalisable. I had a similar situation to the GP in that I only ever used my laptop in a car for an hour or two a week. In my
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> I saw plenty in corporate environments but I think people mostly wanted to use a larger and better screen than what was available on a laptop at the time. Certainly with some of the older Thinkpads (going back 10+ years or more) it was
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
There's also the Asus Zenbook Duo that has two screens (one under the removable keyboard): https://www.asus.com/uk/laptops/for-home/zenbook/asus-zenboo...
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Anyone know what the monitor is in the blog author's home setup? https://www.ntietz.com/blog/my-portable-ergonomic-setup/ Specifically this image: https://www.ntietz.com/processed_images/
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> This stat is also complete bullshit. If it were true, your scrubs of any 20+TB pool would get at least corrected errors quite frequently. But this is not the case. I would expect the ZFS code is written with the expected BER in mind. I

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