grumpy-de-sre

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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I'm not sure if democracy has the tools to adequately deal with this tbh, at-least in the short-to-medium term. I really hope we can find a way to make voters actually believe an abundant future is possible, and that it'll benefit
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Particularly the Australian border security industrial complex. Ostensibly a great idea to protect Australian agri-business (don't kind yourself it's not about the environment). But in practice hasn't been particularly effect
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I think the biggest challenge in Berlin/Germany is that very little of the capital that has been poured into the startup sector has made it's way back to the the engineers. Part of this is due to severe restrictions on employee sh
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
It's private/public partnership with an established "makerspace" called Motion.Lab. Historically their cheapest memberships have been 250 EUR per month. Unless something changes this initiative is an incubator/busin
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
All over mainland china as well, works great for small vehicles like mopeds etc (because the battery is light enough to be swapped by an individual person without tools). Probably helps reduce fire risk as well (because people aren't c
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Do wonder if it could be unintentionally being alloyed into recycled aluminium etc. Though I'm not sure if that's more likely than upstream routes. Good old scientific mystery.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Improper disposal of used batteries (eg. burning them) is another potential exposure route.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
It's true that I can't find any reporting on Baidu Xinwen. I can definitely understand why, as there's a real risk of causing potentially unjustified panic (scientific reporting and literacy isn't great globally). More r
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Half the authors on that paper are employed by the Chinese academy of sciences. Doesn't look like brushing it under the rug to me. More than likely it'll turn out to be something that can be easily and relatively inexpensively mit
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Man, that's fascinating, full study here [1]. I wonder how the Lithium is entering the food chain? Given they've tested drinking water, food, and air. Dust from processing? occupational exposure? unscrupulous recycling operations?
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I'd argue Aus should really seek a policy of neutrality, and strong Asian trade. Remaining neutral requires strong diversification and the EU is a great independent technology supplier to keep on board.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Sorry to be a killjoy, I see these sentiments everywhere across the EU sovereign cloud space. The dream of distributed "cloud providers" made up of individual companies products, all cooperating and communicating together in some
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Suffice to say as an EU based engineer in the infrastructure space, I'm rather optimistic for my future employment opportunities.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Did you know alibaba cloud has a GDPR compliant datacenter in frankfurt [1]. 1. https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/press-room/alibaba-cloud-lau...
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Without protection, a EU hyperscaler will never emerge. It's not that any hypothetical future EU hyperscaler would be an inherently less competitive. It's just plain old first mover advantage. Cloud computing is a VERY sticky good
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Classic stuff that impacts all of us (feel free to add/remove to the list), AI (bringing intelligence to the real world), green tech (solar/evs/power electronics etc), defense, aerospace (sat constellations etc), industrial a
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Agreed, it's bizarre what's happening there. Perhaps a bellweather that something deeper than interest rates (which have been dropping) is going on.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I'd say the good times have just moved around a bit, there's always demand for smart/experienced STEM folk. What's happened is that the adtech and blitzscaling business models have taken a beating (a specialty of the bay
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Sure beats sitting around discussing, complaining, and half assedly developing a replacement standard and getting nowhere. Perfect being the enemy of good and all that. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I believe a lot of this is where China's current deflationary pressure is coming from. China has driven the cost to produce energy and goods right down to the floor through tremendous scale and efficiency. There doesn't seem to be
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Great example of forgotten cultural wisdom, absolutely would have reduced dust mite pressure.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Desloratadine is considered to have a low anticholinergic burden, and of course not crossing the BBB readily should reduce risks further. But it is one of the more anticholinergic second gen antihistamines, make of that what you will, still
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
There's an interesting "subcategory" of sleep apnea under the moniker of UARS. I'm pretty confident that a big chunk of folks in that community actually have allergenic rhinitis (or structural issues). I actually had a h
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Only Anticholinergic drugs appear to be associated dementia (but as noted the evidence is very weak). Older first generation antihistamines such as Diphenhydramine (Benadryl), Doxylamine (Nyquil) have substantial Anticholinergic activity. A
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Pretty much my conclusion as-well. I guess they just don't want folks giving themselves burns during sleep. AliExpress as always is tempting [1], but you'd have to be incredibly careful about regulating temperature [2] and adding
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
I find the steroids even more effective but they seem to exacerbate my anxiety after a few days though. Still haven't figured that out. With regular use antihistamines quite quickly lose their drowsiness effects. But it's definite
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
There's sweet FA sun for six months out of the year here in central europe so not a viable option.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Yeh I've thought about whether it'd be possible/safe to use something like an "overclocked" electric blanket to sterilize the mattress daily. They also need humidity (~50% RH), hence why I got the dehumidifer, which
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Get a mattress encasement, it's like a HEPA filter bag for the mattress (cuts off the mites food supply and preventing allergens becoming airborne). Skips the whole trying to clean porous foam problem.
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by grumpy-de-sre 2y ago
Indoor air quality these days is particularly awful. Was reading that house dust is actually a major source of microplastics aswell.

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