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by revertmean 4y ago
So Germany, a country that is well behind other European countries on renewables, had an over-dependence on Russian gas and was forced to reopen some coal plants when the price spiked. And you came to the conclusion that this was somehow a
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by revertmean 4y ago
That's fair enough, but it's very weird to start criticizing people when they actually start to acknowledge the problem. Surely that's the time to start applauding them?
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by revertmean 4y ago
The Soviet Union hasn't existed for nearly 32 years. That's practically a third of a century. It's not a good example country for today.
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by revertmean 4y ago
This isn't a regular warranty. As the website states: "Our 1-year limited warranty allows you to take your computer apart, replace parts, install an upgrade, and use any operating system and even your firmware, all without voiding
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by revertmean 4y ago
Nobody. Cares.
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by revertmean 4y ago
Why do you care? You really need to get over the "Linus said something bad about my mother 20 years ago" or whatever your issue is. It's just weird at this point.
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by revertmean 4y ago
Well, I kind of understand your point though it's from a reverse angle. My previous two jobs gave me maxed out macbooks as work machines, but I really hated them. They were kind of half-close to the Linux servers I work with, but I nee
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by revertmean 4y ago
The entirety of the poem is literally about the influx of multiple large ethnic groups into England! Read it! https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/true-born-englishman Another quote: Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English
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by revertmean 4y ago
I, personally, think that the FOSS movement should cede the ground to Apple on the "I'm having a shit and shouting at a device" market. I genuinely think they're better suited to it.
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by revertmean 4y ago
There was a previous comment about the "native population" that is now marked dead that I wanted to respond to. The commentator really needs to read Defoe's "True Born Englishman". I offer a quote that is a little l
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by revertmean 4y ago
Rishi Sunak - the current Prime Minister - held a US green card until October last year (when he gave it up). Boris Johnson was born in New York.
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by revertmean 4y ago
I think you're wrong. I suspect most people on HN have an above average interest in physics and would therefore have a reasonable understanding of the Kelvin temperature scale.
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Next-gen BMW EVs to get new battery tech for 620-mile range(autocar.co.uk)
34 points by revertmean 4y ago|33 comments
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by revertmean 4y ago
Email I got yesterday: DevOps Engineer City of London, London, £600 - £700/day EDIT: Sorry, you did say Software Developer. How about this? https://www.cv-library.co.uk/job/217407072/Senior-Front-End-... £650
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by revertmean 4y ago
I used to be called sysadmin, then I was DevOps, and now I'm SRE. They're all the same thing. Search for Senior SRE on Google, and you'll quickly find jobs that pay more than $220k.
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by revertmean 4y ago
Far less than the people who actually researched the matter, obviously.
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by revertmean 4y ago
Right...that's what people will use their humanoid robot for - building log cabins. Wouldn't have anything whatsoever to do with "adult mode". Nope, no way!
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Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985)(theanalysis.news)
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by revertmean 4y ago
Except it hasn't and nothing has changed. What's more, this is trivially easy to check. The 2022 wikipedia entry for Recession says that two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the common definition, says this is not univer
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by revertmean 4y ago
The prime meridian has actually shifted hundreds of feet from the original line already. It's not really where they show you at the observatory any more.
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by revertmean 4y ago
Long range power cables only cost billions if they're >1000km long. But this is besides the point. Energy companies spent money on long range power cables because they calculate they can make a profit on the transmitted energy. Nucl
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by revertmean 4y ago
> almost all the batteries are produced for and used in electric cars I'm not convinced. I tried a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but there were a few too many variables, but I think the 1.5 billion smartphones sold each year e
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by revertmean 4y ago
But heads do have useful meat. You might have heard of smoked tongue? Or sheep's head soup?
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by revertmean 4y ago
Most of the mass of the universe (around 95%) doesn't seem to be normal matter. It seems to be some stuff that doesn't interact with normal matter much other than through gravity, and this stuff is called Dark Matter. Now with reg
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by revertmean 4y ago
The EU bureaucracy has around 33,000 civil servants, so it's not particularly massive. Compare with the UK government, which has around 475,000 civil servants. In fact, there are English local councils that have bigger bureaucracies.
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by revertmean 4y ago
What war has NASA ever been directly involved in?
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by revertmean 4y ago
> I may not "need" a 60 kW Kohler diesel generator, but I have it. Those run about $20k don't they? If you'd come on here complaining that generator technology wasn't ready yet because you'd been quoted $20k
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by revertmean 4y ago
> I have to do it, but citation is needed Volvo have been selling electric trucks for over 2 years now: https://www.volvotrucks.co.uk/en-gb/trucks/alternative-fuels...
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by revertmean 4y ago
> More more people have died from dam collapses in the last fifty years than nuclear accidents. And vastly more lives have been saved by dams preventing flooding (something nuclear isn't particularly good at) and providing a stabl
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by revertmean 4y ago
That makes sense. Could well be. Has significantly more gas been added than renewables over that past decade or so?

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