danw1979

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by danw1979 7y ago
The light is free. The electricity isn't.
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by danw1979 7y ago
I came back to this comment to admit that I just got a new phone on launch day.
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by danw1979 7y ago
I've been using "pro fossil / anti EV / global warming denial" as a pretty useful heuristic to filter the Great Comments Section of Real Life for a while now. Usually goes hand-in-hand with being a Leaver and gener
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by danw1979 7y ago
yeah they're attaching Bloomberg specifically in a couple of the posts too. I wonder if someone somewhere has a large vested interest in fossil fuels and is annoyed about the BNEF and Bloomberg's mostly positive reporting on renew
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by danw1979 7y ago
I am visiting from the future - an hour down the Trypophobia rabbithole - to caution against ever viewing any Mango Worm related web content.
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by danw1979 7y ago
Roger that. Battery needs replacing but I'll gladly give Apple £80 to do that instead of £1.3k for a new one. Really glad I got the 128GB 6s now... lots of storage makes the difference in longevity.
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by danw1979 7y ago
> I don’t know what the hell is going on here. Hedging their bets against the pound tanking in 7 weeks time ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
Are they manually managed though ? isn't there an algorithm somewhere responsible for balancing these funds ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
> It wasn't just a "psychological overreaction" but real fear and panic as those same investors were trying to squeeze through the same exit door as everyone else. Panic is quite literally a psychological overreaction.
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by danw1979 7y ago
I think the point is that residents of formerly quiet side streets are not happy about living on a Waze-induced thoroughfare... and understandably so, in my opinion.
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by danw1979 7y ago
It didn't sink itself though. There was no loss of the entire grid.
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by danw1979 7y ago
This is going to cone in very useful indeed. It's been around since kernel 4.2 according to the article. Do any of the mainstream container orchestration tools use this data, I wonder...
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by danw1979 7y ago
why not dump it into a time series database - even something as simple as a set of whisper files on a local disk can be a lot more useful than a flat file. go-carbon is my tool of choice for this kind of job.
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by danw1979 7y ago
It totally is and if you'd ever stood on one you'll know how magnificently sturdy they are.
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Why Britain Has the Best Wall Sockets on Earth (2014)(fastcompany.com)
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by danw1979 7y ago
I'd like to offer a friendly early warning of the ... debate you're about to encounter with your description of our vastly superior electrical outlets and plugs as "arcane".
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by danw1979 7y ago
... also I just read this (on the front page now !) - https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/08/smart-plas... - Nonetheless, the risk of harmful substances reaching the air may not be completely
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by danw1979 7y ago
I've never seen frozen vegetables in anything other than plastic bags. I read it that the OP was buying ready meals and other cardboard-packaged stuff only in the frozen aisle.
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by danw1979 7y ago
Yeah. I wasn't being serious.
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by danw1979 7y ago
This sounds like a great idea - go without something for a while and you'll appreciate it and notice it more when you go back to using (hopefully less of) it. It sounds like a significant challenge to do this outside of an urban enviro
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by danw1979 7y ago
Why would you need to sanitise a plastic bag after use ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
Apple should be performing this kind of research themselves on such a high profile target as iOS. If you let a competitor discover stuff like this then you kind of deserved to get "hit".
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by danw1979 7y ago
I feel the same. I dry my hands on my trousers and wear headphones in the toilets to avoid the blast of white (?) noise from other users of the high-speed dryers at work. It wouldn't surprise me if the UK regulations on these devices
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by danw1979 7y ago
Q: if you trust us with the very personal data about your health and medical conditions you'll get free healthcare ! A:. It's already free (at the point of use). Thanks anyway.
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by danw1979 7y ago
I was going to point out how crazy it is to even suggest that we'd install 10 times the total electrical generating capacity of mankind, in the form of imaginary reactor technology, just to scrub our existing CO2 emissions, but I think
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by danw1979 7y ago
its in the article itself - "A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia."
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by danw1979 7y ago
I don't know why you got down voted on this. My experience of EV vs ICE (sometimes in the same vehicle - daily driving in a Prius plug-in) agrees entirely with your comment: the lovely EV experience of linear, quiet acceleration is so
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by danw1979 8y ago
> Interestingly, the reasons AWS put forward for why private clouds fail will be just as true for themselves: enterprises can’t manage elastic demand properly, whether it’s in their own data centre or when they’re paying someone else. Th
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by danw1979 8y ago
Collective rational thought and research to establish a scientific consensus that sugary drinks make you fat and ill knows best.
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by danw1979 8y ago
I've only read the abstract but it seemed to imply that the well ventilated office with artificially high levels of CO2 (labelled Green+ ?) resulted in higher scores than the well ventilated environment with low CO2. Am I reading this

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