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by leoedin 6y ago
If Chrome made denied cookies by default and required an explicit opt-in caused by a user action (basically deter un-prompted cookie prompts like we managed to deter popups) then that would change very quickly. I wonder why they don't?
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by leoedin 6y ago
The whole "website asks" thing seems like a stupid political answer to a technical problem. If the browser denied cookies by default (like it does with location, or webcam access etc) then the problem would be solved. I suspect th
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by leoedin 6y ago
Cars need a lot of peak power. They don't use anywhere near that peak power during normal operation. A typical electric car averages 4 miles per kWh. At a speed of 40 miles an hour that's an average power of 10kW - 10% of that 100
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by leoedin 6y ago
It's easy to dismiss this as green washing, but there is some value to it for city cars. The amount of electricity generated is never going to be enough to fully power the car, but that's not really the point. If having solar pane
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by leoedin 6y ago
Even a system which has a short initial term but allows copyright to be extended indefinitely - for a fee, if you care - would work better than what we have now. Then Disney could keep their Micky Mouse copyright but we wouldn't have t
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by leoedin 6y ago
I'm in the same boat, and it is definitely worse than starting a job in normal times. I think it's an invisible problem because the decision makers and influential people in the organisation were mostly around before lockdown, so
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If you pay for fast delivery, a Chinese board can be in your hands within a week of ordering. Sure, it's not instant, but you can do something else in the mean time.
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by leoedin 6y ago
this seems obvious, doesn't it? Why would the utility spend all that money maintaining a complex and risky DC grid when they could just mandate AC - DC rectifiers. An elevator might be 25 HP( https://www.ecmweb.com/conte
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A solar powered hydrogen and synthesised ammonia fuelled farm in Iowa(solarhydrogensystem.com)
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This may be the first legitimate, legal, semi-non-speculative use for blockchain I've seen! That's pretty interesting on its own.
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When you sell the captured CO2 on, how is it being used? Do the concrete producers use it in their concrete somehow? How long does it stay there? Carbon capture only works if we have viable long term solutions for the captured carbon dioxid
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by leoedin 6y ago
From a logical point of view, we could have spent that money on those venues without the Olympics. There was nothing stopping us spending £6.5bn on transport, or building flats in Stratford, or building a velodrome, without the Olympics. In
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by leoedin 6y ago
The price of standards makes me angry. They're essentially a form of legislation in many countries - to sell anything in the EU you have to comply with the relevant safety standards. Yet they're kept under lock and key - to read t
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by leoedin 6y ago
Instances of types also have different memory addresses - that doesn't mean they're different types. I think it's a hard problem because every microcontroller is different. A pretty common pattern in C land is to define a per
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by leoedin 6y ago
It seems like a lot of the problems stem from the definition of each microcontroller port being a different type. So you can't simply pass P0 or P1, you have to choose at compile time which one it is. I wonder if there's a bette
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by leoedin 6y ago
The pressure of water at the bottom of a pipe is directly related to the height of the pipe (the term used is "head"). A higher tank means higher pressure.
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Without talking in terms of energy (Watt.hours) it's impossible to compare with existing batteries. mAh is only useful when comparing the same battery cell chemistry, as the voltage is the same. This battery could be lower or higher vo
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by leoedin 6y ago
Pretty much all the repairs I've had to do on my cars would still need to happen on EVs. In fact, with the exception of a clutch, every time any car I've owned has broken down its been a part which is common on EVs. EVs still have
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by leoedin 6y ago
I wrote a simple interactive calculator type app in Flutter recently and found the experience mostly good. However, the documentation is _terrible_. It looks OK initially - but then you need to use it to find a specific piece of information
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by leoedin 6y ago
I live in the UK, not the US. It's a global phenomenon! It's probably due to some combination of limited brand power (most people have no idea who makes taps or cupboards), rarely made decisions (how often do you renovate a house?
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When we were renovating our flat I was really astounded by the lack of quality. Everything sold in the mainstream kitchen and bathroom retailers is flimsy garbage. There's also really nice stuff available. You have to look for it thoug
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by leoedin 6y ago
I've seen this effect a few times with housing. When viewing either apartments or shared rooms, not being discerning enough at the advert stage has resulted in viewing some absolutely terrible places - damp, poorly heated, unmaintained
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Yes, but many investors will have bought their share in the company, and that is worthless. Whether they had enough money paid out through dividends in the run-up to that point or not is situation dependent - the company could not pay divid
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by leoedin 6y ago
The off grid part is almost orthogonal to the house part. There's plenty of companies making prefab or modular homes. An off grid home is just a conventional home with a different electricity supply. If you build a small, well insulate
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by leoedin 6y ago
I don't get why you're railing against this comment - that's the same data structure used in the article we're discussing. The only difference between the proposal in the grandparent comment and the article is the indent
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by leoedin 6y ago
I think that statistic is a mistake, or skewed by high spec versions. The starting price of a VW golf in the UK is about £22k - no where near that £38k. Cars are more expensive, but not _that_ much more expensive. https://www.car
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There is absolutely no possibility that the decision to black out a particular neighborhood was made based on the energy plans that individual houses were on. The fact some people on variable price plans had electricity is completely unrela
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by leoedin 6y ago
Even for runs off a few hundred PCBs all the PCB assemblers I've worked with prefer to do it themselves. They know their machines much better than I do.
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If they increase the unit cost rather than the base rate, then there's still an incentive to conserve. It just means that the people who didn't conserve water initially are now paying more. To get back to the same price they need
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by leoedin 6y ago
They actually do. Charities often hire external fund raising agencies to try to solicit more donations (essentially call centres phoning up people who've donated before). Return on investment might be 2x spend. I've had friends wo

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