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by patrickk 6y ago
There's so many exciting projects[1] going on in Europe in this space. The offshore Danish wind power island and the massive wind farms off the UK coast for example. Given how windy[2] the coastlines around Britain and Ireland are, it&
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by patrickk 6y ago
Hardware hacking is very satisfying. I highly recommend trying a project like this if you wish to take a break from working purely in software.
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Hacking a Budget-Priced Aldi E-Scooter(ampedcycling.com)
2 points by patrickk 6y ago|1 comments
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by patrickk 6y ago
I disagree strongly that new reddit brings improvements. For example cutting off the comment section under an article after just a few comments and forcing 'related' articles into your feed is a terrible user experience. Its desig
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by patrickk 6y ago
I've hired someone for a short term, low-price contracting gig recently (not on the marketplaces mentioned here) who specifically requested to be paid in cryptocurrency if possible and even offered a discount for that. The reason was t
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by patrickk 6y ago
It's not only that thread that is giving Dyson a bad name. They've been selling overhyped, over-marketed products for years. I've heard the same from multiple sources. As multiple commenters have said here, they're like
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by patrickk 6y ago
AMA from a vacuum technician: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7gmsoe/iama_reddits_o... IIRC he recommends Miele vacuums.
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by patrickk 6y ago
Ah, I've set it to private. A better way is to look through a list of public multireddits: https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/ Start with a topic that interests you and work from there.
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by patrickk 6y ago
Glad you like it :) It's a great way to keep an overview on an array of topics. I set them up for a large array of interests of mine, e.g. business (slavelabor, juststart and others), cool PC setups (battestations and unixp0rn), DIY, d
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by patrickk 6y ago
Search a topic through multireddit and you’ll often find users collection of related subreddits on a given topic, e.g. DIY https://old.reddit.com/user/patrick_k/m/diy/
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by patrickk 6y ago
https://project-awesome.org/brunocvcunha/awesome-userscripts
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High Quality Speakers Made from Flat Ceiling Panels(youtube.com)
1 points by patrickk 6y ago|0 comments
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by patrickk 6y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...
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by patrickk 6y ago
Yes, indeed you're right, my apologies!
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by patrickk 6y ago
His piece on conspiracies[1], mistrust of the ruling class and the early days of Rupert Murdock bugging conversations of powerful people is fascinating too. He also did an interview after he snuck into Bohemian Grove with Alex Jones (yes th
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by patrickk 6y ago
Two products which get daily usage in my house are an Asus RT-N16 router and a Vu+ set top box. Both had decent hardware for their time, but only ok-to-subpar firmware. Both were specifically bought because I could easily add custom firmwar
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by patrickk 6y ago
It sounds similar to the teething problems faced by an Irish dairy farmer who started producing Italian-style buffalo mozzarella with an imported herd: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/buf..
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by patrickk 6y ago
It was sarcasm...
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by patrickk 6y ago
I wrote about bike GPS trackers here: https://ampedcycling.com/do-electric-bikes-have-gps-trackers... The Guardian bike tracker is one potential option. I would caution against a generic bluetooth tracker, I am not sure if
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by patrickk 6y ago
My experience echoes yours. I love biking to work, especially with an e-bike, and I normally did it five days a week, I even started blogging about my experiences[1]. With the right gear, cycling is really practical form of transport for me
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by patrickk 6y ago
Something similar happened when Gary Cohn swiped a letter off Trump's desk on the US-South Korea trade deal. > Another portion of the book describes an instance with Mr Trump’s former chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who “stole a
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by patrickk 6y ago
rgbsync.com is another alternative. Not affiliated, just have it as one to look into in future also.
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by patrickk 6y ago
HERE Maps (called 'Here WeGo' on the App Store) is usually better than Google maps for me in a car, at least in Europe. It's owned by the German car industry and used to be Nokia maps.
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by patrickk 6y ago
> In this case, the horses are far from dead, but people are unhappy about all the manure that stems from their use. Very nice analogy. Having major coastal cities underwater or regularly threatened with huge flooding is the 21st century
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by patrickk 6y ago
There's already a planned 500km interconnector between Ireland and France[1], which avoids Brexit related risks. Since wind power is growing in importance in Ireland, it's a great chance to make the EU grid greener, and build out
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by patrickk 6y ago
Extracting lithium from water is indeed a promising area to keep an eye on: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-54188071
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Geothermal energy, the forgotten renewable, has finally arrived(qz.com)
3 points by patrickk 6y ago|0 comments
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by patrickk 6y ago
Make sure to use Firefox browser with the uBlock origin addon on your PC too. Cookie autodelete, Google container, Amazon container are also good addons to use. Consider a VPN, pihole etc for extra levels of privacy.
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by patrickk 6y ago
> Because Saudi are our allies? Why are they our allies? I genuinely don't know. Assuming you're not trolling, it's because of the petrodollar and the deal Nixon cooked up with the Saudis in 1974[1] to prop up the dollar,
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China is highly dependent on the EU and the US for trade. The EU is the biggest trading bloc in the world. The EU has a lot of leverage. The problem is that China trivially buys off a single member state to nix things like this from happeni

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