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by dm319 6y ago
I think I'm with you on this. Range is largely a solved problem now. Once a car can go 120 miles, that's 2 hours of driving, at which point you need a break anyway. My car is already nearly a 1000kg too heavy because of the bat
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by dm319 6y ago
The light bulb rules in the UK were frequently snorted at, but everyone has moved over now, and whether it is associated with it or not, we're using less electricity these days too.
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by dm319 6y ago
The UK plan for no ICE vehicles to be sold by 2030 is fairly ambitious. I'm seeing more and more electric vehicles on the roads, but I think some regular customers will be disappointed by how poor the infrastructure is. Not only that
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by dm319 6y ago
I guess in most countries, you can renovate an old antique car from the 1920s and that's ok for people to drive around in. It's only a small step from that to saying that someone can upgrade an old car with a new engine and sell
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by dm319 6y ago
I think loops are not ideal for data analysis. They are prone to human error, especially ones that modify the data, and in a way that can be hard to sort (i.e.iterating over the dimensions of the wrong object). A stepwise creation of new
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by dm319 6y ago
I don't understand how people can loath R. If you take a functional approach, especially using pipes, dplyr and a split, apply, combine style, it is quite beautiful. Much nicer than trying to, say, divide a time period by an integer
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by dm319 6y ago
Those are beautiful slides.
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by dm319 6y ago
Signal doesn't copy across old messages across devices. But I'm told it syncs going forward.
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by dm319 6y ago
Just to expand on your definition of a troll, as someone who grew up in the 90s and met a lot of them on usenet. The common theme I found with them was being able to carefully phrase a comment or question to maximally elicit a response. Th
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by dm319 6y ago
He has a really good point about civilisation. The collapse of civilisation is the norm - and the Egyptians and Ancient Greece/Rome were highly advanced - it is arrogance to assume that this cannot happen to ours. He talks about simpl
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by dm319 6y ago
I'm not sure absolutist free speech is an ideal. Would it be ok to post private pictures taken without consent of an individual? I don't ever see that being ideal. Also 'speech' can cover a lot of things. If I make a
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by dm319 6y ago
My motorbike is required to have the essential warning and information lights in a separate independent panel to the LCD screen. Whereas my Audi e-tron, and presumably the Telsa, doesn't seem to have this requirement, with the regular
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by dm319 6y ago
I can't read the article, but I think evidence like this is important when it comes to the whole idea of government subsidises impacting on free markets. The free market has become a bit of a religion for some (you can see in the comm
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by dm319 6y ago
Oh darn. I don't have a problem on my UbuntuMATE, but realised I'm still on 18.04. At least caja seems sane?
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by dm319 6y ago
I've been using MATE with the arc theme for years now. It feels very modern, and the interface is remarkably refined.
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by dm319 6y ago
Yup - one of the many reasons I needed to stay on MATE.
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by dm319 6y ago
Thankfully the cars are at least converging on the Type 2 connector. It's a shame though that with the ubiquity of contactless payments, I can't use many stations without registering and applying for a fob or card to arrive in th
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by dm319 6y ago
You're right that it's purely a bragging point. A status symbol, or if it's really just for personal enjoyment, then a gimmick that will amuse you the first 10 times you launch from the lights. Sure, having a reasonably quic
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by dm319 6y ago
The various billings groups, cards, keys, accounts, phone apps is frustrating, but I don't see any drive to unify this. Electric vehicles are becoming mainstream, and I think regular customers will find the various providers confusing
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by dm319 6y ago
I think now might be a good time to stop obsessing over acceleration of EV cars. What Tesla did with their high-performance EV cars was to prove that electric did not equate to a milk float, and they shut up the performance-car obsessed pi
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by dm319 6y ago
And nvim-R for vim/nvim and R. [1] https://github.com/jalvesaq/Nvim-R
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by dm319 6y ago
This is what makes R (and Julia I think) so special (where everything evaluates to an S-expression). Having REPL for exploratory data analysis is especially useful.
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by dm319 6y ago
I understand that this is how it feels. But the natural history of pandemics is that they end.
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by dm319 6y ago
It's thought to be much higher than this, I think we're expecting another paper soon that shows it more comparable to pfizer/moderna. But you have to be cautious with comparisons between the trials - the control arm was diff
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by dm319 6y ago
Had a quick look at the figures for the UK today - it looks really bad, we've just overtaken the US on daily caserate at around 750 new daily cases / million. Germany were previously increasing fairly alarmingly in November, but
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by dm319 6y ago
The pursuit of continuous growth has an effect on our physical world.
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes the UK is about to hit a healthcare meltdown at this point.
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by dm319 6y ago
The key take-home about this vaccine is it is a more traditional approach using an adenovirus vector, which doesn't have the cold chain logistical constraints of the pfizer vaccine. This means it will be possible to vaccinate in the c
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by dm319 6y ago
God I keep hearing this. Most heart disease can be prevented or delayed by decades by smoking cessation. Some cancers similarly. We spend huge amount of man power and money on cancer research so I don't know how that is ignoring it.
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes I agree, but maybe the quote means it in the sense that these were potential outcomes, which became impossible at some point. I agree it is arrogant to assume all these futures are within their grasp.

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