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by fyfy18 7y ago
Pedantic: Standard outlets are 16A in mainland Europe, so 3.7kW. Modern single ovens can also be connected to a standard single phase outlet rather than a dedicated circuit. In my kitchen the induction cooktop is on a 16A three phase circui
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by fyfy18 7y ago
At least in the EU the "no one cares" is changing. Member states need to have legislation in place that means from 2020 all new builds are "nearly carbon zero" (unfortunately left to interpretation by country). In my cou
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Why is it so expensive to install solar in the US? In the UK you can get a 3kw grid tied system installed for under £5000 ($6100), and around double for a 9kw system - a lot of the cost is renting scaffolding and having people on site to do
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Most of these look like user stupidity rather than anything wrong with the car. Especially the video of the guy who trys to summon his car across a road. I imagine summon is pretty dumb, but all Tesla's talk of autopilot and self-drivi
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by fyfy18 7y ago
It's also worth mentioning that once you are in space things are relatively easy. You only need around 20% more deltaV to get from Earth to Mars, as from Earth to the Moon (assuming a one way trip).
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by fyfy18 7y ago
In Europe over the last few years they changed restaurants so all burgers are made on demand. The only advantage I see is outside of peak times your meal is fresher, and they potentially have less wastage. But as you say it has definately i
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I'm interested to know if the test pilot in their simulator knew this was going to happen or not. I'm thinking if they knew the risk (which this disclosure provides) they may have been more aware and have seen there was a problem.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Are their systems accurate enough to identify an aircraft being 15m off the centerline of the runway? Take the incident at SFO a few years ago where an aircraft nearly landed on the taxiway - it was only detected by a pilot on the ground (o
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Modern machines vary the water consumption based on the load, so in reality it's even less. On a 40c wash they will consume around 0.5kWh of electricity.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
It's pretty common in Northern European countries too - even in winter. On a sunny winters day when it's -20C it's perfectly comfortable with the right clothing and footwear (which isn't expensive).
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Maybe not children, but in my city it's not uncommon to find cats and other small animals sleeping under cars during winter.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I bought a used Dell workstation with a 8c16t Xeon E5-2670 and 32GB ECC DDR3 RAM a few years ago. It's a bit outdated now, but it's still faster than the most laptops (for multi core workloads). At the time I had a MacBook Air, so
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Take a look at some of the European armoured doors, especially those in Italy. The door and frame come as a single piece, where the frame is made from hardened steel. I assume the door is too, but they are covered in some sort of veneer. Th
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I remember a few years ago I went to Malaysia. It was cheaper to send a postcard from there to the UK, than within the UK itself.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
IKEA sell another type of tea infuser which works much better than tea balls IMO, which I find hard to clean and often leaks leaves out. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ljudloes-tea-infuser-stainless-...
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by fyfy18 7y ago
For some reason recently I've been seeing a lot of datings ads on YouTube. Not that I've been searching for anything like that. First it was Christian dating services (I'm not Christian), but clearly that didn't spark my
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Just bear in mind the build quality of Ideapad and other budget Lenovo brands aren't great. The ThinkPad (X, T or P series) really is in a class of its own in terms of build quality, upgradability and repairability.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I think that's just a coincidence, my Northern European country sounds a lot like the parents description, but our roads definately aren't easy to drive on and drivers are very agresive which doesn't help. Speed limits are se
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Why not just feed cows on grass, which is what they traditionally eat? In the UK cows usually graze outdoors in fields during the summer, and in the winter they usually stay in barns where they are fed on hay and silage (usually from fermen
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Tangently related, this reminds me of the women who had her picture photoshopped by people from different countries to make her look beautiful in their eyes: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/global-beauty-standards
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by fyfy18 7y ago
It's interesting it only has 4GB of RAM, considering Android phones usually have more. The Samsung S10+ comes with 12GB for example. Apple must be laughing over not having to pay three times as much for RAM. 12GB seems overkill though.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> I've also been trained to distrust any time that doesn't specify a time zone My pet peeve is status pages that only show times in some US timezone. I'm supposed to know what the conversion from that timezone to my timezo
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Heavens Above will give you a list of all satellites passing overhead. If you go to "Daily predictions of brighter satellites" it will give a big list of satellites that should be visible from your location. The lower the magnitud
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Either way I can't imagine this can be very comfortable in the winter with basically zero insulation, unless you plan to run the wood stove all day and night. For summer it's great, but it sounds like the author wants to live ther
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by fyfy18 7y ago
This ruling sounds like it should apply to mobile apps too. I wonder what Apple and Google think about that.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
For anyone curious, most of the UKs nuclear power is due to be comissioned in the next decade. However most reactors have received short term extensions. There's currently one reactor under construction, and a bunch more planned, so I
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I've been exploring serverless for a project at work, and this is my conclusion too. It's great that we don't need to manage any servers and can easily deploy tasks with one command - but we already have infrastructure to do
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Further to this the 12V battery effectively acts as a big capacitor while the car is running, to smooth out the power that is available. I found this out the hard way a couple of years ago. My 12V was dead, yet I managed to jump start the c
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Have there been any developments on glass technology than can repel water? I use a anti-rain coating (a la Rain-X) which works pretty well, but you need to be above 80km/h for it to work effectively.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Out of interest, what were you doing before and why did you switch?

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