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by fyfy18 7y ago
Isn't that pretty much what is happening with fuel taxes in Europe? Even though the price of oil is around half what it was a decade ago, fuel prices are still pretty much the same. https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-ma
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by fyfy18 7y ago
My city has recently installed a load of EV chargers (in the city center there is on average one per sq km) and they all have Type 2, CCS/SAE and CHAdeMO connectors - so any EV can use then.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Is this a modern thing, or have there been fires like this since California was settled on by Europeans in 1700s? If so, how did the inhabitants deal with them then?
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I switched to ThinkPads last year (first a X250, now T470s) and this was my big concern too. I just sat down one day and spent an hour or so tweaking the various options for the trackpad driver until I got it how I was used to from Apple. I
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by fyfy18 7y ago
It's actually more like two hours. In the east of CET you have Niš, Serbia, which has daylight hours of 06:08 - 16:23. In the west you have Pontevedra, Spain with daylight hours of 08:02 - 18:26. Both cities are close to the same latit
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Here here, I feel the same. I'm not really a fan of sports or working out, but doing physical activity for a job or such (in college I worked at a supermarket stacking shelves) I enjoy. My wife and I are thinking of buying and renovati
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by fyfy18 7y ago
There is a delta-v map (not to scale) of our solar system that could be used as the basis of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of...
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by fyfy18 7y ago
The microphone in Airpods is pretty bad too. One of my colleagues uses them paired to his Mac (maybe that's the issue?) and it sounds like the built in microphone on cheap laptops.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
And this is exactly why any consumer device that relies on the cloud is a bad idea. I would never buy a Ring doorbell or Nest camera for the same reason - I'd always look for a version that can be used locally so I can host the softwa
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I think the recent trend of anti-blue screens is something e-ink could get onto even more. A Kindle with a low colour temperature backlight that integrated well into something like Paper would be the perfect device to read HN on.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
That should be true for any charitable donation - I'm surprised it isn't already. I wonder if the directors could face loosing their limited liability for this.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I recently installed an IKEA kitchen hood, and was surprised that the power connector only had two pins (IEC C17/18). The hood has a aluminium frame (albeit painted) with metal pole switches. Can someone explain why this doesn't n
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by fyfy18 7y ago
On a similar note does anyone have any idea how to improve 4K performance with Intel graphics (i7-6600U). For me it's basically unusable as everything (even loading basic webpages like this) slows down, where as on Windows it works per
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Residential PV installs are becoming more and more common so consumers are looking for smart devices to take advantage of them more efficiently. If you are grid-tied without a battery (batteries like the Powerwall take much longer than a PV
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Ironicallly I think this is why the privacy 'war' can never be won by these corporations. I live in a small European country where even if you subscribe to Netflix, Amazon (which isn't officially available here), cable TV, an
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by fyfy18 7y ago
No, because it's a small step from having a smart speaker - which is specifically designed to pick up someone speaking quietly from the other side of the room - to go from "requiring a wake work" to "listening to every c
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I've seen a couple of apps that have the same anti-pattern. They have a connected component that is basically a global container of all other components. They don't do anything sophisticated with shouldComponentUpdate, so whenever
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Rather than being compelled, what happens if the citizen is voluntarily spying for their government? And maybe it's not even their government, maybe their brother in law is an exec for a competitor back home, so they want to help him o
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Are chargers made anywhere else? Even with official chargers (i.e. that came with the new laptop/phone) I don't think I've ever seen a charger that wasn't "Made in China".
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I think it is interesting to compare PG&E to how the electricity grid is owned and run in the UK. Many people here are saying they should be nationalised, well the UK did the opposite 30 years ago and it seems to be working fine. In the
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by fyfy18 7y ago
What's wrong with paper straws? I've found they can't really be reused, but that's the point, as most plastic straws are used once and thrown away.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
You can live on products of the cow, you don't need to eat the cow. There are plenty of religious groups that are strictly vegetarian, and people have been following those diets for hundreds or thousands of years. For example Jainism f
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Don't forget no longer being able to watch your favourite movies, when the studios decide the service you subscribe to is no longer profitable for them.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Bit of a tangent, but has anyone made any lifestyle changes that have had a significant (anecdotal) increase to their immune system? I eat quite healthily and do regular sports, yet my immune system seems quite bad compared to other people
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Sad but true. Enough internet for today I think...
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by fyfy18 7y ago
It isn't as simple as just motivating managers in a single company though, it's the whole life view of a society that would need to change. Earlier this year I was living in Southern Spain for a few months and here are a few of th
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Domino's (yes maybe not everyone's idea of perfect pizza) has a good video explaining how their dough is made. They have a production line that mixes, kneads and balls the dough, then it just needs to be placed into trays by a hum
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Well it's gone full circle now, as Starbucks (and a lot of other chains) use machines to make the espresso part of the drink at the touch of a button. The barrister is still responsible for steaming milk, but I only assume that is beca
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by fyfy18 7y ago
it's also somewhat popular in Italy (depends on region) as a take away snack: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_al_taglio
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Elixir gives you much more friendly error messages at runtime (I believe part of this feature was contributed to the Erlang VM, so improved it for all languages): 10:21:21.525 mid=1 [error] GenServer {Registry.WatcherManagerRegistry, 1}

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