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by leoedin 4y ago
That doesn't reward economical driving though. EVs have a very low efficiency penalty for high performance - an EV can be both highly efficient at 55mph and have 400 HP and 3s 0-60 times.
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by leoedin 4y ago
The "per unit of energy" pricing of liquid fuels is quite appealing as it encourages efficiency. Even when people are using electric cars, efficiency is beneficial. I wonder if some sort of banded electricity pricing would work -
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by leoedin 4y ago
When it's between having almonds or the taps drying up, people will absolutely redefine water rights. Ultimately democracy is a numbers game, and there's far, far more people living in cities than there are farmers. The speed of
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by leoedin 4y ago
But the French love bread. It's served with every meal. They even nationally legislate it's price.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Living in the UK, US policy on Ukraine barely registers. It's surprised me how strong most people's feelings are that we need to do everything we can to cut out Russia. This isn't an economic question any more, it's emot
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by leoedin 4y ago
Assuming your pipes are between the tap and the water heater, and the pipes run indoors, the water temperature will be close to room temperature - nowhere near freezing.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Yes, this article feels slightly disingenuous. "We campaigned to bring the Olympics to an industrial area full of dirty industrial businesses so it would regenerate, and it did, and now we're angry that our dirty industrial busine
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by leoedin 4y ago
Having worked closely with Italians from all over Italy, living in London - every one of them I spoke to felt passionately about food being a specific way. Nothing would get my Italian colleagues more riled up over lunch than a British inte
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by leoedin 4y ago
It's inevitable, but it's also not really something society has dealt with or addressed. Money in a retirement fund is just an IOU. The actual labour of your retirement - the bartender serving you drinks, the doctor performing sur
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by leoedin 4y ago
Google settling out of court just means that they didn't deem the cost, time and exposure of a court case worthwhile. I don't think you can assume every case which is settled out of court is an admission of guilt - because often i
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by leoedin 4y ago
FreeCAD is a sprawling, incredibly feature filled piece of software that's slowly but surely becoming bug free enough to be usable. It's really impressive how many different aspects of it are under active development - and for sim
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by leoedin 4y ago
Energy pricing doesn't have to be constant - there's tariffs available which have cheap overnight electricity (eg Octopus Energy) - if you sign up now it's something like 7.5p/kWh, but some older contracts have it at 5p&
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by leoedin 4y ago
My comment wasn't saying that modern development practices only exist in newer languages - I agree that all those things are possible with C. But the language does bring benefits. In my experience modern strongly typed languages with l
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by leoedin 4y ago
In my experience it's the opposite problem. Advocating for modern development practices or languages (even unit testing, let alone Rust) for embedded projects is hard work. Most new embedded projects, even today, are written in C or C+
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by leoedin 4y ago
The average power consumed by an electric car doing average miles is a few hundred watts. It's well within the capacity of the grid to supply. The issue you're highlighting is that fast charging makes the power usage very bursty w
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by leoedin 4y ago
That's all very well, as long as there's no common modes of failure. Redundancy can be a means to achieve reliability, but not always. Imagine the cause of failure is a bug which kicks in at a specific time of day, or an integer o
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by leoedin 4y ago
I'm curious - what's your "better" way of opening a jar?
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by leoedin 4y ago
The point isn't that you can't start a family without owning a home (obviously that's untrue) but that many people won't want to start a family while living in the relative instability of rented accommodation. That'
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by leoedin 4y ago
Google had a viable GitHub competitor at one point. But they let it languish and then shut it down. It's a familiar story.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Until the pandemic I commuted through London by bike for about 7 years - ranging from 5 to 12 miles a day. I fell off maybe a couple of times, never hitting my head. If the OP is sustaining multiple concussions from bike riding, they'r
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by leoedin 4y ago
I would totally want to live in a single family home with a garden in a city - all the benefits of city living, with space. But single family homes set in the suburbs, amongst endless other single family homes? It's nowhere near as g
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by leoedin 4y ago
How many analogue clocks do you have which you trust to be that accurate? One huge advantage of a digital clock (on a phone, anyway) is that it's NTP synced with an atomic clock - so it's highly accurate and will remain that way.
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by leoedin 4y ago
I think much like reading is abstracted to a point where the "shape" of the words conveys the meaning (and you can muddle up the inner letters without much loss of information), when you use digital clocks enough the subconscious
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by leoedin 4y ago
Not understanding an accent is purely due to lack of exposure - so if that's the reason producers choose to dub everything then it's a self perpetuating cycle of ignorance.
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by leoedin 4y ago
This is super-common in Europe. You see a lot of trucks around London with rear wheel steering. eg http://www.transportengineer.org.uk/transport-engineer-featu... http://spectrumfreight.co.uk/view_news.php?c
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by leoedin 5y ago
The proposals for the inner ring are really astounding - it would have gone right through all sorts of lovely historical neighbourhoods, across nice local parks - right through many of the nicest inner suburbs in London. Every time I see th
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by leoedin 5y ago
The IKEA wi-fi speakers are running Sonos software internally. It's "yet another" wi-fi streaming platform - along with the offerings from Google, Apple, Spotify etc.
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by leoedin 5y ago
Combustion based energy generation is a pretty well understood process at this point - so we have very good numbers for efficiency. The absolute best efficiency we can get out of hydrocarbons - using combined cycle gas turbines - is about 6
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by leoedin 5y ago
The more I learn about energy efficient houses, the more I realise it's basically all about moisture management. The more energy efficient a house is, the more you have to worry about moisture. The biggest problems come when people do
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This definitely was the case, although my understanding is that the standards for new buildings have increased significantly over the last decade or so. Houses don't have to be passivehaus standard, but there is a strong emphasis on ai

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