nicktelford

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by nicktelford 6y ago
As other posters have mentioned, offshore is significantly more economical for a number of reasons (stronger, more consistent wind; large tracts of available area for large-scale farms; the capability to build turbines much taller where the
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by nicktelford 6y ago
Yes, but you need fewer of them for the same generating capacity. So instead of having to maintain 10 1.4MW turbines, you only need to maintain 1 14MW turbine.
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by nicktelford 6y ago
While cruising speed matters, the reason manufacturers of "economical" cars, like the Prius in your example, optimise for lower speeds is because that's where the vast majority of your time will be spent. Top Gear's chal
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by nicktelford 6y ago
That would be less accurate than the title, given that those 1% of people will also be responsible for some non-aviation emissions too.
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by nicktelford 6y ago
GraalVM has Partial Escape Analysis, which improves on HotSpot's Escape Analysis by finding even more allocations that are suitable for Scalar Replacement. It's supposed to be especially well suited for highly functional code e.g.
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by nicktelford 6y ago
I believe the main reason for this is that Golang is heavily "value-oriented". Combined with escape analysis it causes most of the short-lived objects to actually be allocated directly on the stack. While the JVM also has escape a
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by nicktelford 6y ago
The more allocations you have, the more frequently your young-gen GC has to run (or the larger your heap size needs to be to keep GC frequency constant). Allocations are cheap, but they aren't free, and you definitely pay a cost in GC.
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by nicktelford 6y ago
If anyone is wondering about this standard unit of measure, the volume of 1 tesco carrier bag is equivalent to 17.9L (litres)[1] 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/3tt95u/how_many_litr...
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by nicktelford 6y ago
I was curious about how administering a cytokine could improve survival, especially since there's evidence of cytokine storm in severe cases. A cursory look on wikipedia[1]: > Since there is evidence that insufficient production of
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by nicktelford 6y ago
That appears to still be an option, see the last line of: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/gctuning/garbage-f...
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by nicktelford 6y ago
> If there was only a library that did date manipulation and arithmetic with longs instead of Instant :( You can always pass around long timestamps and just convert to Instant whenever you need to do any date/time processing. Provid
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by nicktelford 6y ago
> It is true what you say and demonstrated by where the TBM will inevitably start - at the London end. The only significant tunnelling is at the London end, and in the Cotswolds. It doesn't really make much sense to begin in the mid
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by nicktelford 7y ago
> The distribution of recorded events, however, correlates with media coverage of wind farm syndrome itself, and not with the presence or absence of wind farms. Neither term is recognised by any international disease classification syste
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by nicktelford 7y ago
Very true, and I agree that landfilling them isn't a particularly big problem. I just wanted to point out that incinerating them isn't quite as bad as it sounds.
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by nicktelford 7y ago
Aeroplane wings and wind turbine blades are extremely different. They are made from completely different materials, have completely different shapes and are designed for different purposes. I can't possibly see how either could ever be
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by nicktelford 7y ago
Waste incinerators, at least in Europe, are subject to very strict emissions regulations. As a result, they tend to have modern emissions collection systems that extract most of the toxic exhaust gases and other pollutants.
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by nicktelford 7y ago
That's neat. How does it handle more than 4 junctions? The Magic Roundabout was devised as a means to efficiently handle the junction of 5 or more roads.
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by nicktelford 7y ago
Full appeal (which I'm still reading): https://web.archive.org/web/20191002000712/https://www.5gapp...
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by nicktelford 7y ago
My local Morrisons have started offering paper bags that are strong enough to be reusable. Best of both worlds!
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by nicktelford 7y ago
I think because this is a V-shape, instead of a triangular flying wedge.
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by nicktelford 7y ago
Fuel is on the inside edge. Cargo is behind the passenger compartments. You can see the cargo doors on the image.
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by nicktelford 7y ago
On planes, belts are to prevent you getting thrown in to the ceiling during turbulence. That's why you're supposed to keep them on at all times.
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by nicktelford 7y ago
Do you mean stationary with respect to the earth, or with respect to each other? The answer in either case is that they'll be moving, because the low orbits they will be in require it.
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty handy table of metrics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp... Ignoring the silly ones (Space Shuttle, Skidiving and Paragliding), we see that Motorcycles are by far
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by nicktelford 8y ago
There are. Someone I used to know in the waste industry referred to it as "recycling by thermal decomposition". Norway has deployed this pretty liberally, to the point that they actively import waste to fuel their plants.
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Kinda weird mixing a European timezone with an American date format. Parent means 2019-03-02T07:48Z
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by nicktelford 8y ago
My point is simply that they haven't been found guilty of anything yet, just charged. If they're subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing, but their market value is tanked by the accusation, they're effectively being punished f
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by nicktelford 8y ago
A plausible reason is that it would likely impact their market value as shareholder confidence in those banks is affected by the potential for large fines in the near-future. Since the banks haven't actually been found guilty of anythi
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by nicktelford 8y ago
This post, and most of the comments here, seem to miss the main selling point of 5G (at least for consumers): consistency and reliability. With wireless data connections, you're sharing the medium (and therefore the bandwidth) with all
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by nicktelford 8y ago
Correct. But the chances that you're using any of those features is extremely low. Most of the differences are commercial features you're not allowed to use without a commercial support contract with Oracle. The only other differe

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