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by leoedin 4y ago
> Will the engineers of the future be using software while having no idea how it works Aren't we already at that point? How many people can fully explain how a modern computer works, from the transistors up?
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by leoedin 4y ago
Even if you're not a hobbyist, development costs will dwarf BOM costs until volumes are in the 10s of thousands - saving even a dollar per item isn't worth it if you add a few months of development time due to obscure tooling or s
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by leoedin 4y ago
> Shouldn't we demand more from art? Like actual meaning and maybe, just maybe, a positive impact on the world? I'm too young to have heard about the KLF when they did it. But learning about it later - the emotional response it
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by leoedin 4y ago
Did they piss it away though? That single statement was so powerful it's still causing emotional arguments about it 20 years later. Can you say that about other things people spent £1m on in 1994?
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by leoedin 4y ago
It's not a software problem - it's a hardware problem. A tablet is designed to be a portable, handheld device - I want a wall mounted (or maybe tabletop), permanently powered device. I have no need for a battery. There does appear
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by leoedin 4y ago
I've been wanting a "house tablet" for a while - something to interact with my (app only) heating controls and play music on spotify. Has anyone found an acceptable setup? I had an old Android tablet permanently wall mounted
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by leoedin 4y ago
> But the constant reality is that I will never ever be able to do all the things in my brain. It’s a severely frustrating and depressing fact I feel faced with every day. A world of highs and disappointment. This really rings true with
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by leoedin 4y ago
If you use a heat pump (aka an air conditioner in heating mode) that 2kW becomes maybe 500W of electrical power. Running that heater for 24 hours a day would take 12kWh - or about 1/6 of the battery in an electric van. That seems feasi
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by leoedin 4y ago
I guess I just naively assumed there'd still be some level of notice required. It seems that you can literally walk out of a job in an at-will state with no recourse. It's surprising to me because in the UK every employment relati
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by leoedin 4y ago
Do employees not have some sort of contract? Surely you'd want to have some level of notice - it's no good for employers for people to quit with no notice either.
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by leoedin 4y ago
That has been done (on small scale) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-propelled_aircraft I'm not sure what the achievable efficiencies are, but I think one downside is that they can generate ozone.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Loads of countries have effective power grids which go down incredibly rarely. I can't even remember the last power cut I had - maybe a few years ago? It's certainly rare enough that I don't need my main source of cooking and
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by leoedin 4y ago
There's already loads of trains using moving block signalling - the Thales SelTrac system has had it for at least 20 years. It tends to be used on single-purpose metro lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SelTrac
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by leoedin 4y ago
The other issue is that a heat pump has to keep the output temperature relatively low to stay efficient - so just dropping a heat pump in to replace a wet heating system with a gas boiler will have two problems - the total power is less, an
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by leoedin 4y ago
Which stuff is that? Obviously there's been massive energy reductions across all sorts of industries - LED lights, hybrid cars, improved building standards - but they've clearly not solved the greenhouse gas problem. Solving that
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by leoedin 4y ago
Given the motivations of most humans, "deploy and get rich" seems like a good way to deal with CO2. The reason we're in this mess is because being CO2 neutral doesn't pay. If someone can find a way to profitably produce
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by leoedin 4y ago
It's building regulations - basically what's called "code" in the US. The building inspector (should) make sure it's followed. No lawyers needed.
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by leoedin 4y ago
This isn't really adding much cost. They were always going to run some sort of communications cable to new houses - the government is just making sure it's a future proofed one. Providing gigabit internet when there's a fiber
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by leoedin 4y ago
What do they put on a form when asked their nationality? Last time I checked my passport says "British".
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by leoedin 4y ago
Your link is broken. Are you able to provide another one?
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by leoedin 4y ago
I'm Scottish and British. Without getting too far into the politics of it, Scotland is literally on the island of Great Britain. From a purely geographical standpoint, Scottish people are British. What other term would you use to descr
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by leoedin 4y ago
This is something I've observed - the only people I've known with 3 or more kids are either beneficiaries of significant inherited wealth, or living in government housing with very low family income. I can see why. The cost of hav
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by leoedin 4y ago
Clearly not that hard wired - the birth rate in most Western countries is significantly below replacement. People are obviously deciding not to have kids.
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by leoedin 4y ago
The Economist rarely puts names to articles. They're all written from the same "economist" point of view.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Society pick up the bill when they bet the pension on a legal and regulated gambling site too. Or when they bet it all on leveraged tech stocks. Why stop you doing one thing and not the others? I'm not particularly pro-crypto, but it&#
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by leoedin 4y ago
Most of the highly technical software engineers I've spoken to have felt similarly. Blockchain is a neat solution to some very niche problems. However, there seems to be a middle ground of perhaps less technical people (the tech bros)
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by leoedin 4y ago
I think most people I know have had it at least twice now - if symptoms were escalating with each infection it would be pretty big news.
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by leoedin 4y ago
I was totally shocked by the shape of truck grills last time I visited Canada. The standard F150-esque chassis used for all sorts of commercial vehicles is fronted by a huge slab of steel. And those things are everywhere - it's not jus
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by leoedin 4y ago
Once you take into account duty, VAT, packaging, transport and supermarket markup a £5 bottle of wine leaves maybe 25p for the wine producer. That's why the quality/price relationship is so non-linear at the bottom end. 20% more o
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by leoedin 4y ago
Gas burners may be higher total power, but the heat transfer is surely pretty poor. Induction delivers something like 90% of the power into the pan. Boiling water (which is just an exercise in energy transfer) is much quicker on induction t

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