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by leoedin 3y ago
A tailback is a traffic jam / queue. A "proper tailback" is a really big traffic jam. "Proper" in this context basically means big or major.
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by leoedin 3y ago
I live in London - which saw vast expansion of its suburbs in the 1870-1910 period. It's fascinating learning about the logistics involved - railway was king back then and so they built rail yards everywhere. Building materials were br
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by leoedin 3y ago
As others have said, IKEA has been making furniture out of cardboard for years. Cut into the wrong bit of any of their cheap melamine faced furniture and it's just corrugated cardboard inside. They use little bits of chipboard here and
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by leoedin 3y ago
The lifetime of "appliance" type electronics has always been much longer than that. In my first job, in 2012, I was using electronic test equipment running Windows 95. Anything industrial has a lifetime of 10+ years. Most electron
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by leoedin 3y ago
Anecdotally, it was my more risk taking and carefree friends that had kids first. I can see why - with just a little effort it's very easy not to have kids in the modern world, and the cost-benefit analysis for children is pretty bad.
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by leoedin 3y ago
Also I've heard many stories of people leveraging return to office policies for raises. If an important and productive team-member says "cover my increased costs or I'm leaving" then most managers who have the discretion
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by leoedin 3y ago
> only air-conditioned train that runs through the central section of London. What about the district, metropolitan, Hammersmith and city and circle lines? And Thameslink of course!
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by leoedin 3y ago
The London Air Ambulance use helicopters with NOTAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAR ). It's really noticeable how quiet they are compared to other helicopters. They also often land and takeoff on the street -
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by leoedin 3y ago
Have you ever seen a well structured 1000 line function? I'm sure they exist - maybe some sort of exceedingly complicated data transform or something. But in almost every situation I've seen, a 1000 line function has countless sid
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by leoedin 3y ago
I live in the UK, so our appliance standards are different. However, I just looked at my current dishwasher - it uses 0.85 kWh/cycle and 11.5L per cycle. I think the assumption in the US is 215 cycles a year - so that means 183 kWh&#x2
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by leoedin 3y ago
The things I've found are productivity and reliability multipliers are: Unit testing - and the modularisation that it forces you to do. It's great to unit test C not just because it tests your code well before it runs on hardware,
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by leoedin 3y ago
The embedded world is crying out for people experienced in modern software teams. A big chunk of it is one man bands who know C and maybe some C++. Most embedded projects could benefit from unit testing, automated build systems and modern m
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by leoedin 3y ago
Yeah, the entire premise of the article is based on the idea that this seems obvious - yet it isn't really. What's your definition of criminal? You have to be pretty naive to believe that every rule the government has written is m
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by leoedin 3y ago
The number of houses built in the 1870-1900 period is mad - basically a 3 mile wide ring around London. It's really impressive - especially considering all building materials had to be brought in by railway and then horse and cart.
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by leoedin 3y ago
I'm a similar age to you, live in London and I've never been stabbed, mugged or assaulted in the UK. It's not that bad.
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by leoedin 3y ago
I live in the inner suburbs of North London (about 5 miles from the absolute centre) and don't really recognise any of those problems. There's loads of kids here - literally every 3rd house on my road has a family with young kids
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by leoedin 3y ago
The UK population is 67 million today - and has been growing consistently year on year since the early 00's. It did hover around 55-58 million between 1970 and 2000 though.
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by leoedin 3y ago
That caught my eye - but I think in most cases it's just the time of year the photo was taken. Most trees are deciduous and none of the streets are particularly green in November - March. Obviously actual building sites (like the olymp
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by leoedin 3y ago
Typically lotteries roll over the jackpot if nobody wins. So if there's a streak of no winners, the total jackpot amount can be more than the cost of buying every possible ticket. Of course, if you did this you might get unlucky and fi
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by leoedin 3y ago
Not mentioned for some reason is the energy stored - which is 75*48 = 3.6kWh. That seems to be about half of a similar sized lithium-iron-phosphate (LiFePO4) battery.
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by leoedin 3y ago
Traditional broadcasters have been making medical documentaries, which often show patients, for years. Presumably they've figured out bulletproof release documents. It's clearly not particularly hard to find people who will agree
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by leoedin 3y ago
There's quite a lot of discussion about how it was made (which is pretty interesting, and impressive for a 15 year old!) but not very much discussion about the results. My understanding is that it has a normal range of notes, but with
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by leoedin 3y ago
Jam and dried fruit aren't exactly a recent invention.
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by leoedin 3y ago
Can you elaborate more on this? Obviously they've "acquired" these open source projects - which probably leaves a bad taste in the mouth of many OSS purists - but they're also investing significant money into improving t
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by leoedin 3y ago
Even just designing your lifestyle to include movement makes a huge difference. I commuted by bike for years - 11 miles a day, every day, and basically maintained my weight despite eating or drinking whatever I liked. The pandemic put an en
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by leoedin 3y ago
The only thing I miss from gas is my wok. All other cooking on induction is superior. Definitely worth sacrificing a few old pots for. I would love a good wok solution though.
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by leoedin 3y ago
This goes both ways. Suburban and rural living is the minority globally. Car owners are the minority globally. Single family homes are the minority of housing globally. Are you sure it's not you living in a bubble?
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by leoedin 3y ago
> engineer Mostly sit all day looking at text on a screen. Diagrams if you're lucky. > lawyer Sits all day looking at text on a screen.
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by leoedin 3y ago
The valid point is that skyscrapers are often architectural grandstanding, and make so many other compromises at the ground level, that they rarely deliver much higher density. What's strange is that most people seem to agree that the
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by leoedin 3y ago
You mean calling async functions with internal delays? The delay is defined internally to the async function, rather than externally. The difference between: async fn bla() { doWork(); waitForSecs(x); doMoreWork();

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