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by leoedin 6y ago
The idea that tiny homes are the solution to the housing crisis ignores the fact that the housing crisis is really a land-in-desirable-places crisis, and a result of a natural pyramid scheme which has emerged due to population growth and in
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by leoedin 6y ago
If someone has to break a window to get in, you've got clear evidence of a break in. Insurance will be easier, the police will take you more seriously. It also deters casual thieves who might try the door. Sure, any lock is more deterr
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by leoedin 6y ago
The biochar step has the advantage of giving you back a bit of energy while you're doing it.
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by leoedin 6y ago
There's a brilliant (and free) book called The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing which covers this and other DSP topics. It's very readable and clear - I found it super useful in understanding DSP an
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by leoedin 6y ago
The entire article is about how "dumb money" is distorting things. The distinction between dumb and smart money is irrelevant - VC money is distorting the economy in a way which benefits a handful of large investment firms and des
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by leoedin 6y ago
Yeah, this seems to be an average of 2 different dosing regimes, one of which was 90% effective.
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by leoedin 6y ago
Is this strategy still going to work if everyone is doing the same thing? My local supermarket has a couple of electric car charging points, amongst perhaps 200+ car parking spaces. On a busy saturday most of those spaces are full. Certainl
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by leoedin 6y ago
Well, yes, if you make all sorts of exemptions then businesses will pursue those. That's the state of carbon trading today. I'm advocating for a clear, non-negotiable tax on fossil fuels. If carbon leaves the ground (therefore ent
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by leoedin 6y ago
And you'll create a business model for all sorts of more efficient technologies. And you'll make green energy pay for itself so quickly everyone will be installing it. This is the obvious solution. Tax carbon heavily and the econo
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by leoedin 6y ago
As long as everyone in the city isn't charging at peak time, the capacity issue can be handled. The grid is sized for peak loads - that moment between 5 and 7 when everyone in the city gets home, turns the heating on and starts cooking
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by leoedin 6y ago
Honestly Covid-19 was actually quite reassuring for me. There was a few brief blips of panic buying, and a bit of "flee to the countryside", but broadly things kept functioning. People and organisations stepped up and kept things
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by leoedin 6y ago
I ended up getting a simple video monitor from BT that is an "appliance" - it's not got a wifi connection or an app. It works great! And it'll keep working until we don't need it. No software updates, no discontinue
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by leoedin 6y ago
> This also isn't an iPhone that costs $800 Which coincidentally _also_ needs a dongle to connect to an analog speaker...
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by leoedin 6y ago
Government investment is essentially a form of planned economy. There's lots of examples of that not working so well. I'd argue that the most effective solution is a carbon tax, applied on any carbon which leaves the ground. That
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by leoedin 6y ago
This seems to be a combination of tide, wave, wind and solar power on a floating platform. It's not really clear what the benefits of combining all of them are - you end up compromising in every direction. The wind turbines in the illu
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by leoedin 6y ago
> bare concrete is just fundamentally an ugly material "Ugly" is an emotional response, and isn't universal. Maybe some people find bare concrete ugly some of the time, but that's a far cry from it being "fundame
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by leoedin 6y ago
Removing all references to Raspberry Pi from a blog dedicated to discussing the Raspberry Pi is effectively the same as asking to delete it. What would they be left with?
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by leoedin 6y ago
The other way hearing aids will become widely acceptable is by the normalisation of wearing them by everyone. Which is already happening. The hardware in an Airpod is effectively the same as that in a hearing aid. Wearing an Airpod isn&#x27
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by leoedin 6y ago
You're probably right. We already don't recognise the other environmental negative externalities of imports. It would probably require some level of tariffs. Something we've seen with solar power recently is that its become c
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by leoedin 6y ago
What do you mean by the last part? Swatted, as in having a SWAT team called to his house? What role did the Echo play in that?
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by leoedin 6y ago
The last part of the article hit on an interesting point, and one I think needs to be more widely recognised. As long as fossil fuels are cheap, innovation won't happen quickly in this area. If fossil fuels were taxed to their true cos
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by leoedin 6y ago
Really the best thing to do would be to cut the horizontal piece with an angle grinder to give an air gap close to the furnace. The fence owner may not like that idea though.
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by leoedin 6y ago
This seems like a prudent decision on the part of the ARDC, and potentially a good boost to lots of interesting radio-adjacent projects. Hopefully they can maintain their organisational culture. Large amounts of money can be very damaging t
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by leoedin 6y ago
What straightforward process do we have for making synthetic fuels with electricity? My understanding is that synthetic fuels tend to be some form of hydrocarbon, which means they need a source of carbon. Either you make the synthetic fuel
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by leoedin 6y ago
This is a chicken and egg problem. Of course there's hardly any demand for a slow, expensive and often late service which only runs once a day. It's not useful. A journey I do often in the UK is London to Edinburgh by train. The d
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by leoedin 6y ago
Getting the carbon is a huge problem. Atmospheric CO2 is at something like 400ppm - that's 0.04% of air. Given that most hydrocarbons contain a fairly large amount of carbon, that means you have to process a huge amount of air to get t
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by leoedin 6y ago
What model of laser cutter do you have? $120 is very cheap - is it any good?
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by leoedin 6y ago
You'd be better off using the TechDraw workbench - it's basically replaced the drawing workbench. https://wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_Module
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by leoedin 6y ago
Regarding point 1, there's a bunch of 3rd party assembly plugins (A2+, A3, A4...), but no standardised assembly workbench yet. Hopefully one of the 3rd party ones will be accepted as good enough to make the standard one soon. It's

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