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by halper 4y ago
One of the real-world problems right now is that there are lots of places where it's not easy, practical, convenient, fun or even possible to charge. We have had an EV for four years and there are some trips where you end up standing a
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by halper 4y ago
Blood-alcohol levels are typically measured as permilles in some countries, like Sweden. 0.2 ‰ is the legal limit there. Also used in some countries in Europe to denote the grade of slopes (as in warning for steep hills). Never seen permyri
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by halper 4y ago
I've been guilty of using not only permille but also permyriad (‱) in certain work where it made sense …
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by halper 4y ago
SI prefixes could originally be combined like that: it was perfectly fine to say one hectokilometre. Such usage is now deprecated, though. You'd have to say 0.1 megametre instead.
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by halper 4y ago
Having experience from emergency departments in two different countries with "Medicare for all", it seems pretty much the same everywhere. There are two cohorts that make up the frequent flyers: the old and the drunk/addicts.
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by halper 4y ago
Surely even banks/countries that do not have a stronger auth method require at least a password for login?
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by halper 4y ago
Very easily obtained, though: just call +46856485160 and ask for it. They also reply to questions like "okay, so did this person have any siblings and what were their parents' names?" and "who else lives at that address?
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by halper 4y ago
We don't even need to speculate about it. In for example Sweden, everyone's tax return is public information. You just call the tax office and ask how much income someone declared last available year.
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by halper 4y ago
From my experience they learn from the older kids as soon as they start school. At least in my culture. My daughter came home saying "shit what the fuck" (in English, despite English not being the native tongue of the locality) on
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by halper 4y ago
I don't mind using "×" myself in these cases. "6 × 950", and had I been writing properly I should have been using non-breaking spaces.
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by halper 4y ago
You mean "boils"? I guess boiling is a form of cooking …
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by halper 4y ago
They are separate grids: not synchronous, not stabilising each other. Most of the interconnections are HVDC links. Wikipedia has an article on synchronous grids of Northern Europe. The decommissioning of several large generating stations in
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by halper 4y ago
"Residual current device". It detects current leaking to ground; essentially it prevents you from killing someone by throwing a toaster into the bathtub.
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by halper 4y ago
I find it a bit hard to understand the drama. A private company failed to deliver some speculative future technology according to expectations (and/or agreements?). Doesn't that happen all the time? If it is so important to have t
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by halper 4y ago
I think it's because most tech jobs are not in tech. If you work for a bank, you work for bank. If you work for a fashion retailer, you work for a fashion retailer. I've worked for a big pension fund and it was exactly like one im
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by halper 4y ago
That data centres in Sweden pay almost no electricity tax (5 SEK/MWh if I remember correctly) while consumers pay 36 is not popular with everyone. The map doesn't show that Sweden is divided into four areas. SE1 and SE2, the north
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by halper 4y ago
Limits on transmission capacity. If the cables had been bigger, costs would have been more or less the same.
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by halper 4y ago
As a Swede, I've never been as cold as in Australia in winter! My Australian friends can't believe -20 degrees is survivable, but the thing is that our houses have a different temperature on the inside ;) In Hobart I once lived in
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by halper 4y ago
That seems strange to me. It doesn't seem very unusual to me to use the "pro" laptop for actual work, and running a process that takes 20 minutes does not seem like a made-up use case at all. I don't know enough about fa
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by halper 4y ago
Do not worry; I pay for you! Seriously, I presume that enough people pay that making it harder to circumvent the paywall is not a problem. Yet.