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by leoedin 5y ago
Almost every screen we use is wide-screen, yet almost every activity we use computers for involves scrolling through portrait documents. Putting the taskbar on the side reclaims some precious vertical space at the cost of fairly un-needed h
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by leoedin 5y ago
Newark to Mumbai, for those that don't memorise airport codes.
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by leoedin 5y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the effect of equity - property prices in London have effectively doubled over the past decade, so there's a lot of people who bought a decade ago sitting on hundreds of £ks of unearned equity. The borrowi
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by leoedin 5y ago
There's literally no mention of indoor temperature in that report. All it says is that more people die in winter than summer - that could be due to all sorts of reasons. We know that viruses spread more in winter because people are ind
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by leoedin 5y ago
To be even more pedantic, the grandparent could absolutely be describing PWM - PWM is pulse width modulation - it means that there's a fundamental frequency, and within each cycle the stove is "on" for a period and "off&
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by leoedin 5y ago
I fitted an AEG induction hob in our kitchen about 3 years ago. It is absolutely amazing. It's so controllable - you can go from "barely hot enough to melt chocolate" to "so hot your pans start discolouring and everythin
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by leoedin 5y ago
I'm not particularly old and I can remember a time when we called cabs to get home after a night out. Sure, it was less convenient then Uber is, but it wasn't drastically so.
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by leoedin 5y ago
The A380 is $400m per plane coming off a production line. The total programme cost for the A380 is something like $30bn. There was only one An-225 built, and it was built 34 years ago. Presumably the tooling and much of the manufacturing kn
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by leoedin 5y ago
Unfortunately satellite phones are such niche devices that there's not really any way to do it except by buying a commercial device. Even a "DIY" device would in reality be a series of commercial off the shelf modules - unles
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by leoedin 5y ago
In the embedded space I'm still seeing plenty of 2038-problematic code being produced today. 32 bit microcontroller + unix timestamps = future problems. I think this will bite us hard - way harder than Y2K (which happened when softwa
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by leoedin 5y ago
This could also have good use for ground source heat pumps - they're the most efficient, robust and consistent source of domestic heating we have, but require fairly deep (60m ish) boreholes. If digging could be quicker, easier or fast
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by leoedin 5y ago
In my experience it can have a broad spectrum of meaning, the most extreme of which is definitely close to fuck you. "Sorry" said to someone intentionally blocking the path is not an apology, it's a "what the hell are yo
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by leoedin 5y ago
As well as a general culture which is very willing to build new buildings, the population of Japan has been pretty stable, even falling a bit, since the early 90s. I wonder if that hasn't had a really impact on the fact they've mo
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by leoedin 5y ago
Funnily enough Scotland has figured out apartments - both Edinburgh and Glasgow have some really incredible spacious apartments. I wonder if it's a result of the divergent legal systems. Living in London, I'd happily live in a gen
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by leoedin 5y ago
About 15 years ago when my grandfather was in the later years of his life we bought him a DVD player. He was an educated man, but he was never interested in computers or technology. Despite it being the mid-2000s he'd managed to comple
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by leoedin 5y ago
As someone who grew up far outside of London and then moved here, there's a very distinctive provincialism in Londoner's attitudes as well. People who grew up here struggle to imagine a life outside the city - let alone imagine th
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by leoedin 5y ago
Whether something is cost effective is directly proportional to energy prices - hence rising prices suddenly reduce payback periods for energy saving. Sealing houses up without accounting for moisture can cause issues, but it's not ins
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by leoedin 5y ago
The parent was talking about the UK, while your link is for the US?
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by leoedin 5y ago
If it's $500 a month, they might start to think about it. Or buy a more efficient car - which is what we'd hope would happen with high energy prices.
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by leoedin 5y ago
Certainly high energy costs, in the absence of any action to reduce energy usage, reduce standards of living. Ultimately almost every aspect of our "comfortable" life comes from expending energy - heating, concrete, entertainment,
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by leoedin 5y ago
Yeah - the EPC is a joke. It's just a tick box exercise. It doesn't take much effort to get a good enough rating to let. High energy costs could be an incredibly powerful tool to drive changes in the UK housing stock. It's
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by leoedin 5y ago
The best approach I've heard to solving climate change involves a carbon tax. High gas prices are a proxy for that. It's already driving discussions people just weren't having before - how can I make my home more energy effic
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by leoedin 5y ago
Consumers might start to care if it means every app is 20% cheaper.
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by leoedin 5y ago
You can jam it (if you know the right frequencies) and you can also passively blow it out with a big corner reflector, which tends to result in a very bright spot and loss of surrounding detail.
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by leoedin 5y ago
Long term this is probably the solution. Sort term though - the ratio of cars to street side charging is about 50 to 1 right now. Even if we put a charging socket in every existing lamppost we'd still only be at about 10:1. We basicall
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by leoedin 5y ago
The article says the battery is split, with an LFP traction battery and another undefined battery to make up the "range extender" - presumably the bulk of the capacity. So I suspect they've got some sort of novel high capacit
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by leoedin 5y ago
It seems like they're reinventing walkable local town centres! I wonder if it will be successful this time?
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by leoedin 5y ago
Maybe this is my naive European view, but taking a yearly vacation doesn't seem like a "rich person" thing here. You don't need to be earning vast amounts to afford a weeks package holiday in Spain.
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by leoedin 5y ago
AEG make stoves and hoods that have some sort of wireless communication so they come on automatically. Expensive though.
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by leoedin 5y ago
My AEG induction stove has short enough pulse cycles it's not noticeable - a low setting just means low heat. In fact, it's the best stove I've ever used by far - it can go from gently melting chocolate to way too much heat i

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