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by leoedin 5y ago
To compare to an air conditioner. This device has about 40W of cooling per m2. Apparently in Australia you should size between 80 and 120 W/m2 of air conditioning (I think this is cooling watts rather than power usage watts) - https:&
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by leoedin 5y ago
Vaping indoors for any length of time leaves a sticky residue over everything - perhaps either nicotine or propylene glycol residue. Even ignoring the air quality issues for people who didn't sign up for it, it's not completely im
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by leoedin 5y ago
Given how effective natural selection is for selecting surviving traits, why are you so sure that a parasite can't have some level of behaviour altering effects? Sure, it's probably not an inner monologue telling the hyena where t
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's an interesting question - I'm not sure there was ever a lightbulb moment. I think I've always thought "I will have kids some day" - even as a teenager. How much of that is just following the societal norms I do
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by leoedin 5y ago
I've got a 14 month year old. The daily grind is relentless. But it's not miserable. I've watched a tiny helpless creature turn into a curious little person who can walk around and play with things, who gives me big smiles an
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's fairly simple to make lactose-free milk by adding the lactase enzyme. Maybe the milk being sold in China is lactose free?
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by leoedin 5y ago
Every static caravan I've been in has been a horrible building. The walls are paper thin, the whole thing shakes when you walk around, it's poorly insulated, the furnishings are cheap. I'm not sure how much of that requirem
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by leoedin 5y ago
I'm British, and sitting at my desk saying "hover" "lot" "song" over and over again. They're definitely very close. I say hover like hoh-ver, which is very similar to the vowel I say in lot (loh-t) an
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by leoedin 5y ago
I think once electric motorbikes are a bit more viable, internal combustion ones should be banned. I'm sure there's plenty of responsible bike owners, but the bad eggs are _really_ bad. They're so incredibly antisocial in urb
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by leoedin 5y ago
I spent a couple of years living next to a main road. Not a highway, but one of the main routes into London from the south east. The noise was terrible. It wasn't even that the road was particularly constantly busy, but because it was
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by leoedin 5y ago
In the embedded world, software can absolutely destroy hardware in all sorts of ways. I've done it many times. Loading untrusted firmware onto a PCB with high current outputs - like motor control - should absolutely void your warranty
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by leoedin 5y ago
But even if you look at road deaths per billion km driven, the US still scores 7.3 - more than twice Norway's 3, or the UK's 3.4, and still a fair bit more than all those other countries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by leoedin 5y ago
That's interesting to learn about the Linux APIs - not something I knew. I'm still not sure about the GPL claims though. Imagine I write a Python script which is entirely my own - the only reference it has to a GPLd piece of softw
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by leoedin 5y ago
The problem with looking at Manhattan's value inflation is that nobody at the time knew what Manhattan would become. What was the going rate for similarly occupied land that didn't become Manhattan further north or south? What&#x2
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by leoedin 5y ago
That seems odd to me. Are they arguing that the API calls themselves are under copyright, and so the GPL applies? That sounds like a similar situation to the Google vs Oracle lawsuit - which ruled that the API usage was fair use. If I write
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by leoedin 5y ago
Vaccinating is literally training the immune system to look for a specific protein and treat it as a threat. When your immune system learns how to fight off a virus, it does it by creating antibodies for a specific protein - treating that p
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by leoedin 5y ago
Not only that, hydrocarbon fuels also disappear after use - meaning you get another massive boost from the weight dropping over time, as the energy required by an aircraft to cruise is partially dependent on it's weight. So the energy
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by leoedin 5y ago
But it is (or was, originally, when it was named) a survey for directing military ordnance.
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by leoedin 5y ago
If it's literally just burning out LEDs, you could probably do some fairly simple modifications to protect those LEDs. It's not exactly ideal, but a simple resistor in line with each LED would almost certainly solve the issue.
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by leoedin 5y ago
But how do they differ along the only metric which matters? Taste? I don't really care about my brewing method, I don't particularly care about the time to brew (as long as its within a few minutes), I couldn't give a hoot ab
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by leoedin 5y ago
You'd hope that the people being hired to be later fired are at least given a chance to prove themselves. There's a world of difference between "We're not sure about this person, so let's hire them and we can always
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by leoedin 5y ago
How do the various pour-over methods compare to espresso machine type coffee? I've got a strong preference for coffee brewed using an espresso machine (ie high pressure extraction pushed through a tiny hole), but I'm not really su
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by leoedin 5y ago
It's a really great concept, and the embedded world is crying out for more solutions like this. However, I'd be very, very hesitant to develop anything significant on this platform. At the very least I'd want to have a. the t
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by leoedin 5y ago
The 47 GW peak which would provide more than enough power for 30 million cars was this year. I gave the all-time peak as an example of how high it has been in the past - as a means of demonstrating that not only is charging cars within the
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by leoedin 5y ago
The comment you're replying to was in response to the parent comment, who said "Its not even clear how we are supposed to produce the necessary amounts of electricity" You can argue about efficiencies (which it's true, s
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by leoedin 5y ago
Here's a video with a Tesla Model 3 keeping the cabin at 21 C for 71 hours in -4 C (24.8 F) weather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzB3RbjuHI That car has a heat pump for cabin heat, which has a coefficient of perfo
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by leoedin 5y ago
We already have capacity for that much electricity generation. We'll have to be careful about managing the peak usage - smart chargers which can be remotely cut off will probably be mandatory. As an example, the UK grid yesterday saw a
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by leoedin 5y ago
That's an indoor speed record for a quadcopter. If you're designing a drone system for maritime operation it would make far more sense to be fixed wing (maybe with some sort of VTOL or STOL capability) - the efficiencies are just
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by leoedin 5y ago
I think if the goal is to be distinguishable, then only Beam (and maybe Bauhaus) meet that. To me at least, the different marbles are forgettable - if the goal of an avatar is to appear next to a name and help me realise it's the same
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by leoedin 5y ago
The 3D view is cool, but it would be great if you could turn it off. After a few goes, all I wanted to do was quickly look at a bunch of different places - I ended up closing the 3D view and going back to the map view anyway.

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