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by lb1lf 5y ago
-It would help; the question is more whether it would be worth it in the grand scheme of things; seeing as the weight differential between air and hydrogen is approximately 1.15kg/cubic meter at sea level, ignoring any weight in the ai
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-The airship would likely be the bottleneck; a 40ft shipping container may weigh anything up to approx. 30 metric tons. You wouldn't be able to put many of those under an airship, hence you'd need a lot of rather space-hogging air
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Also, much slower and lower cargo capacity. That being said, I can see them being used where roads are sparse, inland (so shipping is not an option) and far away from the nearest railroad. We definitely need more green-tinged options; I ro
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I used to work at a large multinational engineering company which was obsessed by mice - meaningless indicators of company efficiency - for a while, it was decided that we should have large, billboard-like displays at every site showing ou
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Not the OP, but the situation in Norway is that new EVs are incredibly competitively priced compared to ICE vehicles, as we tax the latter to high heaven while the former are exempt from just about any tax. This is how it ought to be to sp
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by lb1lf 5y ago
While that's undeniably true, if venturing off-road, I'd expect the driver to plan better than simply heading back when the light comes on. (I'm probably - make that 'almost certainly' erring on the side of caution
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I recall having read of at least two incidents where Norwegian firefighters simply dumped a truckload of sand over the burning vehicle. This happened in places where simply leaving it to burn out wasn't an option. Crude, but effective
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> This is mainly a U.S. practice, as many European countries like their gauges to be as accurate as possible. -Add the Japanese to that list. My Land Cruiser's low fuel lamp comes on when there's 22L/5.75 US gallons left.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Guess what: many muggings are committed by drug addicts in need of funds to finance their habit; regulate the drug business and much of that crime segment will go away.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I am surprised not more vendors of laptops have done like Lenovo does (at least on the X1 series) - there's a plastic slider which goes over the lens, showing a bright orange dot when it has disabled the camera. Seems so cheap, simple
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Do you have any idea how large the vials are? My curiosity got the better of me, so I rang up my mother who's had type 1 since childhood. She said 5x3ml vials of Lispro (or just about any brand) was approx. $40 in the pharmacy. Once s
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Well, it had, after all, been bought from the predecessors of the USSR less than a century earlier...
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-People into vulgar displays of wealth? It may sound snarky, but there's definitely a market for that kind of thing - and this device, probably not by accident, is priced just so that you can afford it even if you're only aspiring
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Then you misplaced the keel and suddenly had an enforced lesson in vessel stability in the comfort of your bathtub... Good times.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Similar story where I come from - Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are sufficiently similar that we can mostly understand each other without much effort, especially (my opinion) in writing - Danish pronunciation is far more challenging to gra
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by lb1lf 5y ago
I don't trust those new-fangled operating systems. Until recently, we had a CNC lathe at work powered by a VAXstation 3100 running (if memory serves) VAX/VMS 5.3... (Released in the late eighties)
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Bulgarian is a distinct language using the Cyrillic alphabet (as is for instance Macedonian, Serbian and Ukrainian)
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Except, of course, when your name is packed with weird (to the receiver) letter combinations. Being Norwegian and working with foreign clients 99% of the time, I at some point started collecting misspellings of my name; I gave up after hav
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Fair point (matter of fact, I considered including a paragraph about that) - but the situation now is that for reasons outside their control, the migrant labour is not available, and the system as is cannot handle either paying the going r
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Reporter: "What do you think the long-term consequences of the French Revolution will be?" Zhou Enlai: "I believe it is too early to tell." (This quote, while authentic, is too good to be true - the quote harks from 1972
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-But management takes their cues from stockholders, and it would be a very hard sell indeed to convince stockholders that a decision resulting in lower profit in the short term but improve it long term should be made. Hence companies which
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-In all fairness, though, the latter approach isn't unique to the US; Norwegian papers have run a lot of stories lately about business X or Y being up in arms about the labour shortage, amplified by COVID because of travel restrictions
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by lb1lf 5y ago
In Norway, most health services are funded by the authorities. The notable exception being dentistry. The dentists (mostly) fight tooth and nail not to be publicly funded; the reason, of course being that the state holds way more leverage t
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by lb1lf 5y ago
...or you encounter a bit of chainsaw diplomacy: (link in Norwegian, but the photos are quite telling.) https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/GkGJm/nabotvist-paa-ne...
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by lb1lf 5y ago
"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -Do
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-More likely, rules will toughen up. The prime purpose of NATO is deterrence; no-one wants to be forced into a shooting war - hence I expect NATO to be very wary of accepting a member which may invoke article 5 pretty much the moment the ac
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Annoy the heck out of me. That aside, I fail to see any reason why any user would want their cook top to be accessible via an app. On the contrary, if the cook top is switched on, I very much prefer to be in the immediate vicinity.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Yes; I tried it to make sure after we moved in. They have backup batteries and form their own mesh network which works independently of the main WiFi. If the central unit disappears, the detectors still all go off if one is triggered. (Cen
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I actively tried to avoid IoT devices when I recently built a house, but wound up with quite the handful still. a) Fire detectors. 13 units including the central. (Basically one in every room where something may conceivably catch fire.) b)
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Paternoster lifts (or a close relative[0]) are sometimes used in warehouses; at a former employer we had two units with X shelves - probably around 20 - each, storing a metric shitload of parts. (Each shelf being approx. 1x4m/3.3x13ft)

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