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by leoedin 3y ago
I'm at 15 years with my £50 brother laser. I think it's had 3 or 4 toner cartridges in that time. It just sits quietly and prints when requested. Brilliant!
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by leoedin 3y ago
Literally the first line of the article: > The increase was driven mostly by international migration, rather than natural change – unlike the baby boom which fuelled the growth in the early 1960s. In fact, the birth rate in 2021 was belo
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by leoedin 3y ago
My favourite approach is to make biochar. You heat the wood in an oxygen free environment and so can control the amount of hydrocarbons you extract. The carbon left over is fairly inert and so relatively easy to store long term. You can get
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by leoedin 3y ago
> If you have businesses in the community it brings traffic and noise Surely if there's a coffee shop within walking distance, it would reduce traffic as people don't have to drive to get coffee?
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by leoedin 3y ago
I grew up in Edinburgh - which along with Glasgow has the highest percentage of households living in flats in the UK (greater than even London). The apartments in Edinburgh can be incredible - often 150-200 square meters, 3.5-4m ceilings an
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by leoedin 3y ago
I don't think Beeper can promise end to end encryption for 3rd party services either. Fundamentally if you're interfacing with a service like iMessage or Whatsapp - even if they offer end to end encryption - the message has to be
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by leoedin 3y ago
The board aren't going to be able to hire someone who is both an effective and experienced CEO and willing to completely ignore their misconduct. If it turns out the actions of the board weren't reasonable, it's hard to see h
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by leoedin 3y ago
I agree governments often inefficiently spend money, but > Professional builders In a high cost of living area the cost of labour is the main cost of building. If you spend £200 on materials but it takes you a week to build, then you&#x2
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by leoedin 3y ago
While I appreciate that modern aircraft are incredibly safe, I don't think many people really appreciate what it means for a flight and aircraft to be ETOPS 240 or ETOPS 330 certified. That means if something happens in the air, you ha
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by leoedin 3y ago
Technology is inherently about making things better. Whether it's just making a tool easier to use, or fundamentally changing how people behave - it's all about altering what we do now. It's not really possible to be a techno
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This is the problem though. The delivery apps don't want employees (maybe fair enough) and so have to have self-employed contractors who have the right to substitution. Those contractors are not large corporations - there are thousands
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It's kind of amazing isn't it. The guy clearly was very entrepreneurial and capable of talking investors into giving him money. If he'd just followed the rules he probably would have been really successful. Or at least not ha
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> The way that I write static-typed code is by imagining how I would write dynamic code to solve the problem, and then additionally imagining what types and type constraints I need to add. Is that not how everyone writes static typed cod
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by leoedin 3y ago
The problem with that sort of speed in an aircraft is that suddenly weather becomes very important. It's not unusual for wind speed to be close to 65 knots at altitude. If that's a headwind, you're standing still.
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by leoedin 3y ago
The home office aren't giving enough funding (and/or organisational change?) to the police either. Bike stolen? Car stolen? House broken into? Mugged on the street? They don't have time to investigate any of it. This stuff is
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by leoedin 3y ago
In the UK parking enforcement is rarely done by the police. It's done by local government - who are strongly incentivised to make it work because it gives them revenue. The result is that it's not a major issue. The traffic warden
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by leoedin 3y ago
It can be hidden away in a function or a macro. In any sensible code base it would be.
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The problem isn't "there's no sun in the UK". The problem is: What do you do on an overcast December day with no wind? Or worse - what do you do if the whole country has heavy snow and no wind in December? Renewable capa
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by leoedin 3y ago
Wind turbine size has an incredible effect on total power generation. The generated power is subject to the square of the blade length, and the cube of the wind velocity (which generally increases as you get further from the ground). Costs
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by leoedin 3y ago
This is the crux of it. Yes, we've reduced demand from electrical appliances, an made more efficient cars. But we've also closed all of our steel mills, aluminium smelters and other heavy industry. We still use those products, but
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by leoedin 3y ago
It's a reasonable question. Aside from the nice data encapsulation of enums (which make them more like unions), the answer is basically "they're enforced". Most C libraries and system calls return integers not enums. Oft
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by leoedin 3y ago
Stocks are ownership of something real. The company you own a share of does things in the real world. They can make intelligent (or stupid) decisions about the company strategy. They can enter new markets, or launch new products. They can s
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by leoedin 3y ago
It's effectively a pyramid scheme in which the potential marks are everyone in the world . It's not that much of a surprise that crypto continues to have money pumped into it - there's an almost never ending supply of greate
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There's a lot of marketing fluff - anyone know what this actually is? Judging by the specs it runs on, it's an OS for application processors - like the kind in smartphones. They talk a lot about UI features, but not much about the
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by leoedin 3y ago
This really hit it on the head. Racism was presented as the worst transgression anyone could make. Is it a surprise that when the generation raised in that environment reached adulthood - and realised that racism wasn't quite as dead a
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I don't think the first two are necessary a big deal in a western liberal democracy. We already have fairly strict legislation around data protection and selective hiring based on certain characteristics (like ethnicity - which is real
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by leoedin 3y ago
I think the parent is right. Every country has different traffic laws anyway - but driving in a developing country is often fundamentally different. In Vietnam the effective priority of vehicles is "biggest first". A neural net tr
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by leoedin 3y ago
I think this is a bad take - large corporations like Airbus are terrible at R&D. They're simply not optimised for it. It's not very hard to move much, much quicker than a large corporation does - because the people inside the
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It's the same with kids clothes. I think the labour and overheads are dominant - the cost of fabric is probably only a small fraction of the cost of clothes.
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I think the problem is, for many people, the value of their land is kind of irrelevant. If you are using land by living on it, and want to live on it because it's near your friends, family, community, place of work etc, then the value

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