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by benj111 3y ago
Have a look round at how many social distancing signs there still are. Signs don't get updated, so is that 8am opening the actual opening time or have they not updated the sign? And if you make an appointment for 8am at the other side
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by benj111 3y ago
I used to help out on a farm in my youth. Collection of bales was manual. Picking them up with a hay fork and lifting them up to an increasingly high person on a trailer. This was ok with the ancient baler, but when that broke and he borrow
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by benj111 3y ago
>Sure, if Ford still wanted to sell them they could find a way to make cheaper batteries You've already accepted that ford doesn't have a monopoly, so assuming we're agreed on the same basic tenets of free market capitalis
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by benj111 3y ago
A video with 1000 upvotes and 1 downvotes tells me something A video with 1000 upvotes and 2000 downvotes tells me something. A video with 1000 upvotes doesn't tell me anything. I can still downvote, I just don't get told the down
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by benj111 3y ago
Removing downvotes? Randomly rewarding the latest 'feature' so you get a load of shorts of videos you've already seen, random votes for things, etc.
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by benj111 3y ago
I don't claim to understand the SUV buying public, but as a man I'd be more ashamed of driving an SUV than a mini van.
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by benj111 3y ago
>with the largest battery storing as much energy as 4 gallons of gas And? You're comparing apples and oranges. I don't care how much energy my vehicle can hold, I care about how far I can go with that energy. You're makin
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by benj111 3y ago
You aren't answering the parents question. You're talking about value to the consumer, the parent is talking about expense to manufacture. I'm still not sure what the gp is referring to. They could be making a moral argument
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by benj111 3y ago
Or nearly any programming language that is actually in wide spread use. Any protocol, standard, markup language........ Iprovens law. A) Anything in widespread use will be used for things it isn't intended for, and thus won't be s
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by benj111 3y ago
I'm trying to parse your comment. Are you being pedantic by suggesting cassettes aren't tapes? When colloquially in the UK at least cassettes were called tapes. Plus both tapes and cassettes are streaming formats. And other tape f
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by benj111 3y ago
Buttons/ ribbons should be in addition to the menu though. And a keyboard shortcut is still faster. The menu shortcut system is really good for those large enterprise systems, where multiple users use it in very different ways. If you
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by benj111 3y ago
I'm most surprised that Stanley actually makes professional tools. Why do all these tool companies make actual good tools, and then license their names off to sell sub par rubbish trading off a name that used to be known for quality.
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by benj111 3y ago
Just have it run in addition to the engine. You still reduce fuel use, don't need to change any other parts to work without the engine. You just basically need to know when the accelerator and break (and perhaps clutch?) Were pressed,
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by benj111 3y ago
It's handy to know if some date is a weekend or not. Or some specific day of the week where you're generally busy. Or to check where Christmas falls or something like that. Ultimately it's a little thing to keep in your walle
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by benj111 3y ago
>the number got smaller and smaller until it showed 1 Integer or floating point?
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by benj111 3y ago
Why wouldn't businesses have landline phones? Mobiles are for a single individual. Landlines are to a single location. If I ring X corp, I don't really care if I speak to Bob or Barbara, I often don't know if I want to speak
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by benj111 3y ago
One of the motivators for the welfare state in Britain was the (poor) health of potential soldiers during ww1. There's probably a data set for that around somewhere
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by benj111 3y ago
That isn't the critical part of the sentence, which is why you didn't spend any time mentioning it. Yes they were less obese, the issue was the more likely to be the opposite, malnutrition. I dispute they spent less time battling
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by benj111 3y ago
I wonder how many political meetings were had, to decide who got out of the way of who. Or maybe it was the toss of a coin? But then a franc or a pound?
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by benj111 3y ago
>as they were healthier in general Source? Survivorship bias? How many people do you know who've had polio? Small pox? Rubella? Mumps? Died from a bacterial infection? Blinded from cataracts?
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by benj111 3y ago
We've got richer while food has got relatively cheaper, transport has got relatively cheaper, all the things you need to live have got relatively cheaper, so it isn't really surprising that all the extra money is going towards peo
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by benj111 3y ago
That's the point. It makes the green alternatives relatively cheaper. Or if not. The tax helps pay for the negative externalities.
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by benj111 3y ago
And apparently got a name change. Focus groups showed that drivers are more responsive to traffic lights named Earl, than Fred. Probably.
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by benj111 3y ago
A smiley emoji has a distinct meaning to sad emoji. So each should have its own code point. If you want your emoji to look should be left to the font. Do fleurons have distinct meanings?
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by benj111 3y ago
Ok, an end of article marker is fine. But it doesn't mean we need multiple code points meaning the same thing. An a is an a regardless of whether it serif or sans, whether it has the thing on the top like a floppy d (edit: the unfortun
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by benj111 3y ago
They mention using it as a punctuation mark, but surely it must be distinct from other punctuation marks to deserve its own unicode point, further they must differ from each other to deserve their own unicode points. Surely this deserves to
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by benj111 3y ago
It's about ease though. On a desktop pc you can repair anything pretty easily. Some things we wouldn't even call a repair. A new monitor is call just that. A new screen for a phone is much more involved. And then there's gran
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by benj111 3y ago
Is the jet used to superheat water, or directly drive a turbine generator? If the latter, it would be a waste of time, if the former then you just want heat, and the fan is there to provide enough oxygen to burn the fuel so why would it imp
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by benj111 3y ago
What I was getting at is I think I might be missing a gotcha. There's a fair amount of niche applications where peltiers are currently used even though they aren't very good. But no one's mentioning them as an alternative to
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by benj111 3y ago
So what are the trade offs between these and peltier devices? They're much more efficient, I assume much more expensive?

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