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by padjo 1y ago
Well that looks awful
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by padjo 1y ago
Yep same scheme started in Ireland recently, just a transplant of the German system it seems. Some people complain but it has massively reduced waste and litter.
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by padjo 1y ago
We still have wind tunnels and aerodynamics is a pretty simple problem compared to fusion.
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by padjo 1y ago
“Some spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive political matters.” - yep this is fine.
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by padjo 1y ago
It’s kinda comical. Like gee I wonder why they want to drink cool delicious clean water from a tap, not dank stagnant water from puddles. What a mystery for the ages! Of course I understand that in the context of scientific research you can
516.
by padjo 1y ago
It’s been said about helium and fossil fuels pretty regularly for the last 20 years.
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by padjo 1y ago
The man sure owned a lot of coffee makers.
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by padjo 1y ago
The film “The Bucket List” has a lot to answer for…
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by padjo 1y ago
I’ve dealt with bug reports where users turned out to be completely unaware that they could scroll an area of UI, but yet we continued the war on scroll bars. I thought that users literally not being able to use the product trumped aestheti
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by padjo 1y ago
Or, we have a hammer and we’re hitting things with it to see if they’re nails.
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by padjo 1y ago
Sorry I’ve been out of the industry for the last year or so, is this madness really what people are doing now?
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by padjo 1y ago
Not many people run their toaster 24/7/365
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by padjo 1y ago
It’s been quite amusing to hear him describe the system America set up for its own benefit as being ripped off by the rest of the world. What a victim complex.
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by padjo 1y ago
What leads you to believe Ireland will introduce standard gauge?
525.
by padjo 1y ago
You can go an awfully long way with just SELECT … FOR UPDATE … SKIP LOCKED
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by padjo 1y ago
Don’t try to force your values on other people. In the end your time spent with friends is just as meaningless as their time spent developing an obscure OS.
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by padjo 1y ago
That’s why Musk was dancing around on stage with a chainsaw. Chainsaws are famously the symbol of careful and deliberate cutting.
528.
by padjo 1y ago
Have you been paying attention to the current US administration? Whatever your opinion of them I don’t think anyone could reasonably say they’re doing things carefully and thoughtfully.
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by padjo 1y ago
Lots of things are visible from space, it’s just a question of magnification.
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by padjo 1y ago
I’ve searched for a fairly rare word pair in the subject line of an email I want and gotten 20 irrelevant results. The only way to find it was by filtering senders and dates.
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by padjo 1y ago
Yes! I find gmail’s full text search surprisingly bad given it’s run by a search company.
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by padjo 1y ago
Ironically the tree outside my house was recently removed because the fruit annoyed people. Personally I thought the tree was well worth the hour or two a year it took to remove the fruit in autumn.
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by padjo 1y ago
Is this satire? Bill Gates didn’t invent computers, he just started the company that won the PC revolution, very talented and intelligent, but also well placed and lucky.
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by padjo 1y ago
People who want to chop down trees for any reason other than them being in danger of falling down really baffle me.
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by padjo 1y ago
Well they’re not making pigs immune to disease because they like pigs are they…
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by padjo 1y ago
You’re not wrong, it’s not that they can’t, it’s just that they currently don’t do it well. The concept is known as as grid forming if you want to read about it.
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by padjo 1y ago
Yep it’s called synthetic inertia. Solar and wind can both offer it. Wind can actually offer loads of it it’s just not as easy since it’s not synchronous.
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by padjo 1y ago
It is entirely infeasible to used pumped hydro alone to solve our energy storage problems. They’re a great component of the solution but they’re big expensive environmentally disruptive projects and there are limited suitable sites.
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by padjo 1y ago
We can do the bulk of it, i.e. more than 50%, by geographic and modal aggregation fairly easily. Doing all of it from renewables is still an unsolved problem that would require better energy storage.
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by padjo 1y ago
I thought it was cool. Then I saw the 3D button!

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