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by leoedin 5y ago
Literally everyone I knew growing up in Edinburgh dried their clothes indoors. I didn't know anyone with a tumble dryer. Everyone had ceiling mounted clothes drying rails. Nobody had dehumidifiers. I imagine it would be a bigger proble
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The feature is about adjusting the volume of a group of speakers together. That doesn't sound like the kind of thing that you'd need to copy Sonos' source code to implement. Maybe that inside look lead Google to decide to ent
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by leoedin 5y ago
In the UK everyone uses WhatsApp. Certainly everyone I meet my age or older. Maybe the kids are doing something differently, but I doubt it. iPhone usage just hasn't quite got high enough for iMessage to be seamless. Maybe it's si
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by leoedin 5y ago
Generally in the UK cars get scrapped because they failed their MOT. Everything tested during an MOT (except emissions, which I've never seen fail) is also present on electric cars. It's basically checking brakes, suspension, ligh
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by leoedin 5y ago
Plastics break down in sunlight, becoming brittle and easily broken. They're also basically impossible to repair if they do break. They can also been eaten by rodents. However plastic is a great material for dark, rodent free places.
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's pretty tricky to self-administer one of these lateral flow covid tests without reading the instructions. There's a whole sequence of steps - swabbing, mixing the swab in the buffer solution, dropping a set number of drops int
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's not hard to write "Faint lines count" in the test instructions. Any line at all is a positive test. You have to take into account the effect the extra cost has as well - if it's between doing one automated bluetooth
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by leoedin 5y ago
I found putting a name to anxiety helped a great deal. I spent most of my childhood not really sure why some situations filled me with crippling fear - and felt like a failure because of it. As an adult I've realised it's a form o
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by leoedin 5y ago
London is primarily Omicron at this point - it was 50% of infections 4 days ago and spreading much quicker.
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I'm not sure if the increase in hospitalisations will necessarily be permanent. We know that a lot of the common cold viruses are basically harmless in children, but can cause quite serious illness in previously unexposed adults. Becau
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by leoedin 5y ago
We were almost there in the UK, and then Omicron struck! Ultimately I think it's pretty clear the pandemic will be "over" when people accept that covid is now one of the big pile of common respiratory viruses. That means you
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by leoedin 5y ago
Bad handling of out of stock components aside, I'm routinely amazed at how effective DigiKey and Mouser are. I can order a cart of 40 different items, each costing $0.05, getting 1 or 2 of each, and somehow they manage to routinely del
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by leoedin 5y ago
Radio waves down a wire are by definition AC. Otherwise they don't work. The voltage must change, thus the current must change, thus it is AC. Just because it's not 50/60Hz AC like a powerline doesn't change that. There
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by leoedin 5y ago
I don't see that happening. The benefit of the Raspberry Pi is, and has always been, the software and community support. There's loads of pi clones and cheap SBCs out there - Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Olimex etc. But none of them have
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by leoedin 5y ago
I've been commuting daily by bike in London for almost a decade. I use my bike to get around on the weekends too. Never had an issue. Maybe this is because I've never had a job where I've had to leave it locked up on the stre
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by leoedin 5y ago
As far as I can see the only practical widespread carbon capture process we have is plant growth (and pyrolisis). That might be possible for some fraction of global emissions (maybe 5-10%), but once you get above that you have to be cutting
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by leoedin 5y ago
David MacKay's book is great, but it was written in 2009. Just re-reading the part about solar panels from the perspective of 2021 is quite eye-opening. He makes assumptions like 10% efficient panels (panels today are probably 18-22% e
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's actually a really interesting fuel (well, energy storage medium) with quite high compatibility with our current way of life. The best part is that you can synthesise it without carbon - which means the feedstocks are only really w
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by leoedin 5y ago
How old are you? People using credit cards in my circle (early 30s, London) are firmly the minority. If we split a bill in a restaurant it's all debit cards. Maybe there's one person with an amex or something.
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by leoedin 5y ago
Ammonia could be an interesting fuel for vehicles (easy to synthesise from electricity, quite energy dense). It's a bit toxic though (probably manageable) and the round trip efficiency of synthesized ammonia used in a fuel cell or inte
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by leoedin 5y ago
IKEA has been rendering almost all it's catalogue images for years. The moment this is feasible it'll happen. However, it seems hard to get right. Rendering fabric right is hard! There's definitely an uncanny valley of clothe
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's not difficult to imagine electric training aircraft. In fact, they already exist - Pipistrel have delivered 111 of them ( https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2021/january/27... ). They h
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by leoedin 5y ago
If inflation is followed with interest rates rising, and house prices are a product of mortgage affordability (and so interest rates), will inflation (and so interest rates rising) reduce house prices? Has anyone modelled this? If inflation
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Is this a real option? Everything I've read about using the Pinephone suggests it's still very much a beta experience - missing drivers, buggy features etc. It also doesn't support any of the 3rd party apps I use - banking ap
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by leoedin 5y ago
I'm a longtime Android user, but I'm increasingly feeling a certain level of existential doubt about my choice. It's basically a choice between using a more open system (which I like) developed by the world's biggest dat
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It's not nonsense. From the point of view of the standards body (which the comment was talking about) the work is free. The standards body doesn't pay anyone for the production of the standard. Yes, the writer is typically employe
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by leoedin 5y ago
I find it hilarious how public figures criticising the tower talk around the fact it looks like a giant penis. I also can't believe it was seriously proposed. I mean, look at it!
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I put a relatively low power (250W) mid-drive conversion kit on my commuter bike last year, along with a decent front rack and a child seat for my 18 month year old. It's incredibly useful for doing short journeys. The motor doesn&#x27
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by leoedin 5y ago
A lot of work has gone into wave power, but broadly it's not got anywhere - there's a lot of complexity in building machines which are robust enough to deal with all sea states and the hostile marine environment, and the amount of
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by leoedin 5y ago
Because cars sit out in the sun in hot countries all day (unavoidably), the automotive supply chain have developed quite rigorous standards for pretty much everything in a car. Typically every electronic component must be rated from -40 to

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