danw1979

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by danw1979 4y ago
The only car I’ve ever owned with a heated windscreen was a Ford Focus. It worked a treat and was still really useful even after some of the conductors corroded and stopped working.
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by danw1979 4y ago
120 years.
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by danw1979 4y ago
... assuming the cell voltage is the same ? A quick google suggests Na-S cells at high temperatures are ~2.1V nominal (as opposed to 3.2V for LFP), but I lack the physics chops to parse the paper in the article to validate this. Anyway thi
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by danw1979 4y ago
This is exactly why we need to keep plugging away at fusion - one day we’ll need it in space. It doesn’t have to be cheap, it just has to work.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Parts of HS2 (the northern bits) won’t ever be built. From where I’m sitting in York, it already looks like a failure.
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by danw1979 4y ago
A one-off hoop that maybe helps to keep spammers off their systems ? Fine by me.
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by danw1979 4y ago
I spent three hours refilling each of the CMYK cartridges in my HP color laser the other night. First you use a copper ring to melt a little hole in exactly the right spot, then scalpel open the bag inside, carefully pour and shake the tone
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by danw1979 4y ago
Aren’t gov.uk domains transferred internally within UK government depts at zero cost ? I guess there’s got to be some incentive for teams to not register hundreds of subdomains, but if they are turning to 3rd party TLDs to host government a
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by danw1979 4y ago
I think that would be breach of a civil contract, not the crime of fraud, at least here in the UK.
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by danw1979 4y ago
If they are not aware, then the employee is being badly managed, or maybe not managed at all.
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by danw1979 4y ago
No.
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by danw1979 4y ago
You make a good point, that there are a couple of decent, innovative retail energy providers. My own opinion of the sector has been tarnished by repeated bankruptcies and constant haranguing to get a sodding smart meter installed.
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by danw1979 4y ago
This assumes a level of competence and conviction to lower energy consumption and bills that is definitely absent from any of the UK’s retail energy suppliers today.
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by danw1979 4y ago
> All of the costs in the blog post are off by a couple orders of magnitude. Even if they weren’t way off, the proposed capital costs to replace Arizona’s extraction with from the Colorado river with SWRO is $24bn, which seems like a lot
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by danw1979 4y ago
wouldn’t a spare belt be quite light to pack anyway ?
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by danw1979 4y ago
Continually watching 4k video all day is definitely not normal internet usage and I agree with Starlink that it should be policed.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Nor does videoconferencing require you to be transmitting/receiving video throughout the entire session. I cut my bandwidth usage when working from home by using the toggle on receiving video when I wasn’t interacting that almost all
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by danw1979 4y ago
Overemployment is a thing now, apparently.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Yes ! I have found a couple of constant ~100W loads (faulty fridge, broken hot water sensor causing constant pumping) that were costing hundreds of pounds a year.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Basically none of us hackers out there saving 10-20% on this and that is going to make a difference whatsoever. It might make us feel good I guess. What would help is higher regulatory energy standards and better enforcement. I’d settle fo
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by danw1979 4y ago
Could a regular dose of caustic soda not flush that out pretty easily ?
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by danw1979 4y ago
Almost all permanent employment contracts for professional positions in the UK have a “mutuality of obligation” clause which forbids the employee from working for another company at the same time. Contractors usually don’t have this, which
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by danw1979 4y ago
I don’t disagree, but their contracts, in my experience, specify a specific amount of time that will be delivered to each engagement that is up front about it not being “full time”. e.g I worked with a non-exec board member who gave us 5 da
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by danw1979 4y ago
The problem is, they interview well and start off performing to expectations, but then _something_ happens and the agreed hours (which is basically how all “individual” IT contracts are negotiated and paid in the UK) are just not being work
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by danw1979 4y ago
I don’t know what to think about the “overemployment” trend that the pandemic and remote working has ushered in. Most contractors seem to have no mutuality of obligation to their clients and I have friends running two and three gigs who cl
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by danw1979 4y ago
This would be great advice, but until AWS have a more solid story about resource sharing (to avoid duplicated costs for your usual boilerplate account infra) then you’ll quite quickly end up amalgamating accounts to reduce costs again, in m
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by danw1979 4y ago
_looks_ a lot like a Netgear FS116P (c. 2007) albeit with modern specs. I had a lot of experience installing ~200 of those at customer sites and the combination of fanless, compact, PoE and external DC input (which needed regulating or con
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by danw1979 4y ago
>> You're supposed to put your phone on airplane mode in a train or subway too, > That's a pretty insane claim in most of the world. So is this: > but very few folks will travel long distances at high speeds on a train
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by danw1979 4y ago
I was on holiday in Bude, Cornwall, UK this summer. I’d have taken the family on a day out touring cable landing sites if I’d have known there were 5 nearby ! What do they actually look like though ? I’m guessing it’s not a shed at the to
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by danw1979 4y ago
Fingers crossed they support any S3-compatible local object storage system (e.g. Ceph) then all you need to do is completely change your storage system and probably duplicate it’s capacity during migration. If this is the future of ES I don

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