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by ljf 3y ago
After about 3 years my washing machine broke - 3 mins on youtube showed me it was likely the carbon brushes - £5 part from ebay. Took 30 mins to fit once they arrived, and I've had to to the do the job twice more, but now approaching 1
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by ljf 3y ago
I cannot speak for that fridge as I don't know the energy usage. But the sad fact is that often buying a brand new machine will pay for itself in only 2 or 3 years over a 'free' older fridge or freezer (at least here in the U
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by ljf 3y ago
I believe you - I'm saying do it! A $500 device that would provide an efficiency jump from 60 to 90% would be a big seller - and would mean that billions of people across the world wouldn't need to upgrade their boilers, saving bi
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by ljf 3y ago
Sounds like a great engineering challenge! I don't know a lot about boilers, but I do know that obstructing the flue in any way risks carbon monoxide poisoning - which may be the reason these things don't (yet?) exist.
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by ljf 3y ago
Modern gas boilers can extract far more heat from burnt gas than older boilers. https://www.britishgas.co.uk/home-services/boilers-and-heati... Older gas boilers (esp if 40yo) are likely to be less than 60 percent effi
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by ljf 3y ago
It is hard to know. My old work colleague took great efforts to keep his son from watching any TV, films or cartoons - they did loads of art, listened to music and went to the theatre a little. He was a pretty chill kid when I met him. One
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by ljf 3y ago
Agree on some points here - in the UK I spend about £300 combined on gas and electricity. But your boiler sounds interesting - if it is 40 years old it will be wildly inefficient compared to boilers from the last few years - on changing our
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by ljf 3y ago
They don't need to differentiate to charge you with possession of child abuse material - they can still do that for drawn images. This just means that efforts to find and protect real children will become harder, as those children will
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by ljf 3y ago
It is worse than that - it first made the jump to cows when condemned sheep, infected with the similar prion disease 'scrapie', were ground up and fed to cows.
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by ljf 3y ago
Says a lot that we treat theft from a workers wages as 'just contractual' - let's not get the police involved. If that same worker stole from the till?
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by ljf 3y ago
Wage theft is the largest theft category by value (withheld wages, illegally docked wages, etc.) - and from studies it is carried out pretty universally across the country. Why might that be? Why is it when people think of theft, their firs
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by ljf 3y ago
I personally count a car driving any distance on a pavement something I don't want to see. If you claim never to have seen that happen, then you must live in a hugely law abiding place. I live in a small town with a pretty old average
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by ljf 3y ago
Sorry - this appears already posted with an engadget link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39116032 But leaving here for mildly different reporting.
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Online retailer eBay to lay off 1k workers, firm says in letter to employees(theguardian.com)
9 points by ljf 3y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
Happens all the time the world over, cars regularly mount the pavement to pass other traffic, or just to take a sneaking shortcut - search on youtube if you have been lucky enough to miss this yourself. First search result: https:/&#x
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by ljf 3y ago
We have been told that so many times at work, but I know most snr people seem to leave them and their smart watches in listen mode as they occasionally go off in video calls.
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by ljf 3y ago
It is not uncommon to see car drivers do all these things, including driving on the pavement/sidewalk.
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by ljf 3y ago
I can only assume that you are not a cyclist? I've just ridden down the road safely and legally and had people shout, swear and swerve their cars at me. Believe me, people ARE angry at cyclists - it might be for the reasons you suggest
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by ljf 3y ago
I'd argue it is different in that just seeing or talking about cyclists will often draw anger online and in person - most people don't feel the same way about cars or drivers. Getting angry when someone cuts you off is different t
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by ljf 3y ago
If you've ever been around cars (in a car, as a cyclist or as a pedestrian) and sat and watched them for any period - you'll see a huge number of traffic offenses committed by those in cars - mainly using phones, but also speeding
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by ljf 3y ago
Pretty sure I saw someone with a glass one on youtube, but it wasn't as exciting to watch as I'd hoped. I'd still like one though. Found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FoqR9oCfI
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by ljf 3y ago
A friend of mine attempted to iron a shirt they were wearing... Other than that they really are pretty damn intelligent.
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by ljf 3y ago
I'm old skool so it is still AskBing for me...
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by ljf 3y ago
My father died just before Christmas - and it was similar, my wife thought I was coping a little too well. That said all I needed was for all the planned 'xmas' things to be completed and I was able to give myself the time I neede
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by ljf 3y ago
Aliexpress /temu/ebay etc sell cheap eyepiece phone holders - not perfect, but makes my ex-schools microscope so much easier for my kids to use as we can a see the screen together.
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The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains(bbc.com)
23 points by ljf 3y ago|14 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
Good to have more proof of the changes that people have been talking about for some time. My wife has/had long covid - she's over her worst but as this says she finds exercise exhausting - which frustrates her immensely as she was
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by ljf 3y ago
I love this analogy, I'll be stealing this. I wonder what learnings we can apply from the age of agriculture?
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by ljf 3y ago
I've not read the paper, so I apologise if this is a totally uneducated guess - but earlier that was a lot of concern about blood clotting <1> and micro clots caused by covid, and also concern about changes to blood vessels <2
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by ljf 3y ago
Don't forget that there was also no deodorant for the humans back then, I think it is easy to forget just how bad cities in general must have smelt back then. Plus coal fires, people smoking, people washing their bodies and their cloth

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