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by ljf 3y ago
It is bad here (uk) but in America it is wild - not only do they use far brighter bulbs in the usa, but the rules on how they can be angled aren't as strict and in some states are not enforced at all. It can be unpleasant here, but I d
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by ljf 3y ago
Fresh out of a 7 year stint in a 'proper job' - a friend and I set up a media company. We pivoted continually and eventually found some mild success with interactive video, but in the end my heart wasn't in it. I found it rea
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DIY WiFi controlled ESP32 drone(circuitdigest.com)
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United States National Radio Quiet Zone(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ljf 3y ago
Totally this - am many times as I said 'you will get better from this' - we both knew that was just a hope. She's so much better now, and getting rid of POTS symptoms was a massive turning point for her, esp as we kept being
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by ljf 3y ago
While my wife would love nothing more than long walks, her long covid still stops her from exercising - before covid she was down the gym 5 days a week and loves being outdoors. There can be mitochondrial damage in some LC patients which wi
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by ljf 3y ago
So sorry to hear the way this affected you. My wife had/has long covid - as I listened to people she met online with LC and a couple of people we knew already, what fascinated me was the 'menu' of symptoms that people got and
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by ljf 3y ago
Similar, but different - I am sometimes totally overcome with sonder, especially when passing a large residential building or flying over a city. /Noun. sonder (uncountable) (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone,
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by ljf 3y ago
I can't say I had lots of experience with taxi in Australia, but after getting cabs on the on the east coast, then moving to Sydney in the late 90s - the difference was amazing. Cabs everywhere, arrived quickly, could pay by card (EFTP
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Climate change: The 'insane' plan to save the Arctic's sea-ice(bbc.co.uk)
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by ljf 3y ago
Racing pigeons and homing pigeons are amazing, and can be so much fun to look after. My wife's grandfather kept racing pigeons back in the 50s and 60s. He would go to football matches across England, with 3 pigeons inside his coat pock
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by ljf 3y ago
A higher orbit may be possible, but maintaining any orbit comes at a fuel cost. A moon orbit would be hugely costly, and again would require ongoing fueling to maintain a 'permanent' orbit.
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UK's green power industry receives surprise £10B pledge(theguardian.com)
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Marine heatwave may have caused 7k humpback whales to starve to death(theguardian.com)
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by ljf 3y ago
The passenger numbers seem low to me - but I can only assume they come from research - so the passenger figures will skew that. A full bus (60 people?) would be far more efficient.
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by ljf 3y ago
Care to break down that $1m per bus for staffing? I am in the UK so am not across driver, service engineer, cleaner etc. salaries in America. $80k per year for for the bus $50k per driver ( https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salarie
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by ljf 3y ago
Mike Elgan of therawfeed (a long defunct tech website), used to talk about his minimal travel set up - of a USB with a basic linux distro on it and a very simple word processing set up. He'd either boot to it to 'hobble' his
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Cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China's hackers for hire(theguardian.com)
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Oil giant fined just $780k after 'one of biggest ever' methane leaks(independent.co.uk)
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by ljf 3y ago
After working at the BBC, I can tell you that W1A is very true to life - though being film there also helped. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W1A_(TV_series)
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Has the ecosystem of the UK's largest lake collapsed?(theguardian.com)
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February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records(theguardian.com)
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Experts assess Russian nuclear space threat(theguardian.com)
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by ljf 3y ago
Fermentation does a few things - it removes some of the excess sugars so other microbes don't have much to feed one, it changes the ph of the liquid so that again it is inhospitable to other microbes, and the mild alcohols can also inh
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by ljf 3y ago
Love this idea for a story. As an alternative - it could be the oil producing countries, not aliens - seeking shade earth to disrupt solar and wind energy, and return to oil dominance.
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by ljf 3y ago
Check out the embedded video in the story (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkXinDn67Kw ) The turbine (propeller) at the back of the kite rotates and generates electricity. Since this can 'fly' at an angle to
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by ljf 3y ago
The theory is that high interest rates will bring inflation down - once they are down the market is already predicting that rates will drop to 2% - so the era of cheap money will continue... It seems to be working, but no better here than i
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by ljf 3y ago
Only if we return to higher rates of interest fr a long period. Here in the UK the desire seems to be to return inflation and interest rates to approx 2%. Rates of 2% and inflation of 2% means there is little incentive to save.
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Snap to lay off 'approximately' 10% of its staff(bbc.co.uk)
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by ljf 3y ago
Yes another chest freezer - and yes that usage is pretty good for a freezer of that age - when I've tested other brewers set-ups they can be even worse (but that is often when they've clad them in wood - looks cool but stops the f

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