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by leoedin 2y ago
Presumably this depends a lot on what the item is. I’ve definitely thought about and decided against an impulse purchase because of a locked case. It turns “ooh I need that” into “ah, but I have to find someone and delay things”.
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by leoedin 2y ago
It really isn't. I've got a 13 year old Toyota which is ULEZ compliant. I bought it for £4k in 2020. My previous car - a now scrapped Fiat Panda from 2007, was also ULEZ compliant. I bought that for £900 back in 2015. Obviously ca
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by leoedin 2y ago
Roads with loads of cars are unpleasant. Yes, the car is a great achievement, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive to have quiet streets too. Ultimately though the ULEZ isn’t even going to affect that. The percentage of cars affected i
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The ULEZ has covered the entirety of London, including Limehouse, for more than a year. The outer zones of the city are definitely dirtier, but it has less to do with ULEZ and more to do with practical travel times. Despite great public tra
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by leoedin 2y ago
What’s strange is that the larger SMD packages are far simpler to solder than THT ones are. Give me an 0805 or SOP any day over a THT package. I guess the real driver towards hobbyists using SMD is cheap and fast PCB design. You can’t reall
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What’s completely crazy about that is that there’s people spending serious money trying to build carbon sequestration systems while other people are turning an inert and stable form of carbon back into carbon dioxide in the name of sustaina
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by leoedin 2y ago
I’m surprised about the amount of negativity in the comments here. I’ve been running PopOS on a few different machines for the last 4 years or so. It’s been almost seamless. I can’t think of the last time I even considered booting into wind
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by leoedin 2y ago
Yeah - from a purely technical point of view it seems strange that you'd run a power cable 2000 miles to Singapore to service 4 million people, running alongside the coast of Bali, Java and Sumatra - population 210 million. Presumably
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Can you provide some of this research that's just a google away? What do you even mean by "the worst type of food known to man"? The worst in what way?
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To what extent is that true when the cause of the fatalities is the technical design of completely unrelated systems? If one space agency built a rocket which always immediately exploded after launch, and another space agency built one whic
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by leoedin 2y ago
My parents taught me to stay away from smoking and drugs. It didn't really work. The facade collapsed when I realised that actually a lot of people use all sorts of drugs recreationally with very limited adverse effect. And that they c
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by leoedin 2y ago
New Glenn is a ground up unproven design. Ariane 6 is an incremental improvement from a well proven and highly reliable rocket. Just because they’re both making their first flights doesn’t mean they’re comparable as commercial offerings. Th
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by leoedin 2y ago
European space programs are motivated by jobs, retaining domestic skills and actual usefulness in that order. Funding is allocated to companies based primarily on the country they’re in - funding must be split across all funding countries.
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by leoedin 2y ago
I believe earlier Tesla's used induction motors - which don't tend to have any permanent magnets. The advantage of permanent magnets is pretty small - maybe a couple of percent efficiency. They weigh less, but motor weight is hard
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by leoedin 2y ago
the "City of Edinburgh" may be 500k people, but the metropolitan area is bigger - once you include the outlying towns which people commute from there's more like 800-900k people. https://www.citypopulation.de/
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by leoedin 2y ago
Spain has one of the highest percentage of apartment based households in Europe - 66%. It makes for really dense towns and cities, which allows for the excellent cafe and tapas culture. Low density suburbs are so lifeless in comparison.
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by leoedin 2y ago
I was walking North through the back streets of the City just a few days ago - from London Bridge to London Wall. It's amazing that so much of my route - zigzagging left and right through various junctions and down alleys - is clearly
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by leoedin 2y ago
It's kind of mad that the US houses are an average of 2000 square feet, yet if you watch some of the "New York apartment tour" videos on YouTube they are often far smaller than even what you'd find in London. The kitchen
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by leoedin 2y ago
> UK housing has really high insulation requirements for new builds. Your body heat will keep it warm most of the year. They are starting to require retrofits for old buildings too. UK housing is mostly quite old - an average age of 5
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by leoedin 2y ago
Did you read the article? It seems like ARM is against Qualcomm using a custom ARM core developed by Nuvia for licensing reasons. Clearly the "off the shelf" processor designs ARM is producing aren't getting anywhere near the
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by leoedin 2y ago
Technically they are, yes, because they're open to the public. But the impact of taxis on road traffic in a dense city is comparable to the impact of private cars - perhaps even more so as they're often travelling empty between ri
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by leoedin 2y ago
Is that not just a general issue in public? Park bench? Back of the bus? There could be human semen everywhere! It's why I always insist on wrapping my kids in plastic before letting them leave the house.
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by leoedin 2y ago
I went looking - and there's a wiki dedicated to just this topic. https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Windows_10 It does seem that the original was replaced in May 2019 by a brighter version, although wheth
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by leoedin 2y ago
The low salaries are a double edged sword - the talent is cheap, but the kind of people who might start a company are unable to build up enough savings to take the leap. It's partly due to low salaries, and partly high housing costs. I
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Iterative development is the only way you can do R&D. That truth was clearly known by NASA leadership in the 60s in a way that clearly isn’t today. I think it’s probably a symptom of wider culture. In the 60s every major industry was in
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by leoedin 2y ago
Google search has got noticeably worse recently. Unit conversions (like the linked one) have been broken for weeks. They got rid of the “map” link for a while - so suddenly there was no easy way to search for a business and then view it on
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Close in syntax maybe, but you need quite a different mental model to build complex programs.
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I once went into the loft space of my house, and found that in 1949 the guy pointing the brick chimney stack had written his name on it. How many times in the last 75 years has that name been seen? Probably only a handful. That guy is proba
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That sounds great! The thing I love most about living in a house is the prospect of “engineering space” - places to do carpentry, electronics, home maintenance etc. Living in an apartment (assuming adequate noise isolation) is actually grea
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The law itself says very little about what products do - it works similarly to other laws around machines and devices, where the heavy lifting is relegated to industry accepted standards. This is how CE marking (and the somewhat stalled UKC

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