philjohn

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by philjohn 3y ago
Duped would be a ... charitable ... label.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Can't fund it with rich customers who want to see the Titanic with unmanned subs.
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by philjohn 3y ago
I suspect their end goal was to sell deep sea subs to the oil and gas industry, and this was a testbed.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Fascinating Horror and Plainly Difficult are OK - Plainy Difficult tends to go more into the mechanics of disasters, but both are operating under the constraints of a 10-15 minute YouTube video.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Not sure it's classed as "times that bad" (although the 70's weren't great), but more a political decision that people of less means could have affordable housing. Then Thatcher allowed people to buy their council h
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by philjohn 3y ago
Yep - last order was 8 days for me to the UK.
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by philjohn 3y ago
I mean, drawers and bookshelves should always be attached to the wall.
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by philjohn 3y ago
See also Trevor Horn. He famously took six months to produce Pet Shop Boy's "Left to my own devices".
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by philjohn 3y ago
It also ignores that we are slowly, but surely, moving towards more renewables for electricity generation. The UK hardly burns any coal these days, I believe we have 2 coal fired plants that are there mostly for emergencies. Yes, we still p
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by philjohn 3y ago
2016, so point taken, it might be worse now.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Or Rugby, which I do. Yes, the season ticket works out to £800 a month, but I'd be paying multiples of that each month for my house in London. Commute is 1h15m door to door, and the majority of that is on the high speed train from Rugb
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by philjohn 3y ago
Meanwhile feigning fear and going "where is it?!?!? where's the bear?!?!?" after the GPS says "Bear right" will never get old (no matter what my children's eye rolls might be trying to say).
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by philjohn 3y ago
For important reasons. Also why "revenge porn" is now referred to as non-consensual intimate imagery.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Inductive load + relay = arcing and a bad time when disconnected.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Peel back the layers of any site that has millions of active users and you'll find all sorts of things you never imagined would be a problem, but become so at scale because, well, people (and, well, scale).
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by philjohn 3y ago
There are definitely a range of quality when it comes to bulb manufacturers, heat dissipation is also important. I got 10 LAP GU10 bulbs 6 years ago for use in en-suite bathrooms - 6 years later all 10 are still trucking along. On the other
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by philjohn 3y ago
The issue is, Reddit is ad supported. The popular apps bypass showing ads. The problem goes away if the apps charge for a subscription, which covers their API access.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Honestly, it really doesn't seem different at all. AR is also where other notable headset makers are betting, Quest has had hand controls for quite a while (which made the "clunky controllers" dig fall flat). It definitely se
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by philjohn 3y ago
That's what Matter is supposed to do, and why all of the various smart home vendors seem to be jumping aboard. To your point of "stuck with HA as a controller" that's not entirely true, if you're an Apple household,
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by philjohn 3y ago
Is this any wonder? Lower paid work often has ridiculous rules about being off sick, if it even offers paid sick time. This is the inevitable conclusion of the race to the bottom in the US over the last 43 years.
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by philjohn 3y ago
You'll want a somewhat decent GPU (doesn't need to be a 4090 by any stretch, iRacing is pretty good at running on most things). When it comes to wheel and pedals you can go cheap and all in one, like the Logitech ones, or push the
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by philjohn 3y ago
Yep - beat saber is a surprisingly good cardio workout, especially some of the tracks where you're having to squat lots.
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by philjohn 3y ago
More games have sit down modes now. Walking Dead Saints and Sinners, as well as I Expect you to Die (fun puzzler) are two examples off the top of my head.
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by philjohn 3y ago
Which is why I tend to use my Quest 2, and now Quest Pro using Oculus Link for Sim Racing - it's a game changer, and very sticky. For untethered, I tend to stick to fitness apps, which is a surprisingly fun way of staying in shape, and
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by philjohn 3y ago
The Finnish Hydraulic Press guy had a Reel recently showing how it just would not crush.
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by philjohn 3y ago
It was ads that made the money to develop the artificial minds in the first place.
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by philjohn 3y ago
UK isn't much better. 10 years ago when my grandmother went into an, admittedly VERY nice, private home and the fees were £1000 a week.
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by philjohn 3y ago
This was seen as a problem in Formula 1 when they moved to hybrid engines - and so when a Formula 1 car is engaging regen during braking for a corner the red light they have on the back of the car flashes to let any car following know that
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by philjohn 3y ago
Arctic silver, that's not a name I've heard for many years. It's all about the Kryonaut for me now.
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by philjohn 3y ago
The one thing missing is automatically calculating your tapered pension allowance after rolling over unused, based on your previous tax years - that's why I get an accountant to file mine.

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