hgomersall

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by hgomersall 2mo ago
It isn't, you just have to look. Most of the organic ice creams are fairly clean - Yeo Valley, Duchy. Similarly the organic vegan ice creams from Booja Booja. Some small producers are good - Alder Tree in Suffolk typically have 3 ingre
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by hgomersall 2mo ago
There's been a real rennaisance of quality produce in the UK, including ice cream. There's some really good stuff to be bought, even in mainstream supermarkets.
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by hgomersall 2mo ago
I've been pondering this recently. There have been loads of trivial automation targets throughout the economy for years but they haven't really been fixed, despite being a small Python script (things like converting one csv file t
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by hgomersall 2mo ago
What? This is JP Morgan on the hook for it if the loan goes bad.
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by hgomersall 2mo ago
Ha, yes! A few times I've had a back and forth with Claude about why software X isn't working as I expected it to, with Claude coming up with more and more ludicrous explanations, and in the end I say, "just go and read the c
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by hgomersall 2mo ago
I think it's not to absurd to view these books as his channel to redemption.
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
Swimming is not dangerous. Not being able to swim or being a weak swimmer is dangerous. Open water is also more dangerous in various different ways.
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
It's not 10%, it's much more than that. I'm obviously comparing the peak values, which tend to be days when we don't consume much, which might mean a background 100W vs a couple of kW peak generation. I can dig deeper in
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
I've been thinking about Polysulphide-Air for this. There are certainly engineering questions, but on the face of it it looks like it might be tractable. I think the trick is to view it like a winter base-supply, and treat it like a po
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
That's not true. You can upgrade to the same capacity on the previous feed-in tariff and keep what you had. It makes sense to upgrade as you can then fill the extra space with additional panels (which will not be on the old tariff, but
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
Our peak daily export energy jumped by about 35%-40% when we had our panels cleaned for the first time in 8 years. They _look_ much cleaner, and the measured export shows it.
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
I've been pondering the question of what happens if you change the design requirements to say, 20 charge/discharge cycles in total, then use it over seasonal timescales. Can you get the price so low that you can scale up enough ba
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
Well it contains a typo, so it made a cock up.
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
You can get the same effect by going for a walk.
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
There's plenty of food, just not the political will to make sure everyone can afford to buy it.
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by hgomersall 3mo ago
Given that many economic predictions are really about pushing an agenda, they are not at all useless, or at least, would be better measured against that criteria. I suspect the reason we still have neoliberal economics is precisely because
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
The trivial fix to this is to allow breaking of DRM.
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
I can't even keep up with the chain of thought needed to manage a single session, let alone review. I typically never exceed 30% of a 5x plan. Fable took me almost to the limits, but not Opus. Claude design hits things harder, but stil
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
Called, fittingly, Chinese Whispers in the UK. As an aside, I've always wondered if it was so called because, Chinese being a tonal language, it's much harder to whisper in.
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
Of course, wearing a helmet is a choice and many get on just fine without it. I've come off my bike enough times where my helmet prevented a nasty bump to the head to wear one, but I suspect I'd have survived just fine without it.
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
I think they will already act like that, MIPS or not. Stick a helmet on your head, now wiggle it. It moves really quite a bit, unless you like to wear it so tight you get a headache.
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
It does feel like a thing that has never been properly validated. It's a good market to push this in because, well, why wouldn't you spend 10% more to be a little bit safer?
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
Yeah, I we considered a Steiner school because I think that extensive play is a super critical part of a good education. The problem is you also need to be able to be part of the mainstream system at some point, and it felt like it didn&#x2
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
Among US kids. FTFY. Apparently in the UK it's up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze93wggw74o
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by hgomersall 4mo ago
It's the same debate that was had and won around open source software. There are far more good actors than bad actors so you allow anyone to use the tools and fix the vulnerabilities.
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by hgomersall 5mo ago
No, using AI tools not in an effective sandbox is inherently unsafe.
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by hgomersall 5mo ago
If you know you have a single frequency close to an actual frequency of interest, you can use the fact you know you're in an aliased band to get a precise frequency estimate.
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by hgomersall 5mo ago
Total UK electricity consumption is around 300 TWh annually. That would put the grid losses at less than 10% based on your link. The charging is never as bad as 25% (internal house losses are negligible for any sensible charging rate) and t
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by hgomersall 5mo ago
Small batteries mean heavy cycling of those batteries. When on pure EV, the oversized battery means most days you sit in the middle third of the battery which is great for battery longevity.
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by hgomersall 6mo ago
Yes, but you tend to carry around a smartphone all the time and the temptation to whip it out whenever there's more than a 5s window can be very strong.

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