rjmunro

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by rjmunro 3y ago
No. I want a speed limiter, something that means I can drive freely and worry about my high speed, not something that keeps the car going even when I take my foot off the gas. I mean, I guess that might be better than Tesla's randomly
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I find I am more likely to crash in a Tesla than in other cars because it's much harder to keep a constant speed, so I have to focus on the speedometer a lot more. There are 2 reasons for this. The regenerative braking is hard to get u
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One way is like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel No water is used up. Virtually no energy is needed either, except to overcome friction. But scaling it up to the size of the locks on the Panama canal w
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I'm liking the yellow theory as the "axe head" looks a log like the top of a paint tube like the one in this poster: https://www.kingandmcgaw.com/prints/david-booth-malcolm-and-...
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In the professional world, Dante seems to be taking over as the Audio over Ethernet solution.
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This seemed entirely separate to the rest of the article. No one is literally running their battery down to absolutely nothing - they are just having longer queues than average at the charger. And if you do run your battery down to exactly
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I think I heard the system in Mexico works well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicable The system in London works, but was not built in a very useful place. While it's a handy way to get from the O2 arena to the
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> rental cars are one of the worst places for the current generation of EVs. They make more sense for the short term car-club type rentals, where they can be charged the whole time when not in use, then borrowed for an hour or 2 booked o
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% electrical efficiency is not a useful measure. What matters is how much do I save (measured in money and/or carbon emissions etc.) compared to taking other measures, such as a more conventional heating solution, better insulation or
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> It can't be that a genuine issue has filtered into the public consciousness via a dramatised TV show Why not? That's exactly what has happened.
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No, Apple did not create it, they supported the standard for an RSS feed of audio files that was created by others. It's true that the name is an homage to the iPod, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast#Et
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I hate the sentence: > Heat pumps are unique in that they are a tool for fighting climate change, where we have the technology today. No. They are not unique at all. We have electric cars, wind turbines, solar panels, hydroelectric, nucl
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What if you get Dementia (or even die) and forget the password? It's possible to have set up a second password with a trusted third party, but then you have to trust that entity the same way you trust the bank - not just against them s
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I think that fraud prevention is mostly the wrong approach. Instead they should let the frauds happen, then track the fraudster and send the police to arrest them. Normal prevention just means the criminal has to keep trying until it work
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> As I tell students, your grandmother is too sensible to be outdoors during a thunderstorm and a disproportional number of deaths are young men. reminds me of https://xkcd.com/795/
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Because on a roundabout you have to activate the turn signal while turning the other way. If the turn signal is on the steering wheel, it's going to be hard to find it and press the right way. On a small roundabout, it's a tighter
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It often makes sense to offer a cheaper ticket e.g. I can go to Brighton via London, which is faster and easier, or I can change at Reading and Gatwick, which is harder and slower, but the trains are less busy, so it makes sense to encourag
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by rjmunro 3y ago
People should boycott companies that have paid ransomware. Does anyone have a good list?
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The State of Ransomware in the U.S.: Report and Statistics 2023(emsisoft.com)
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What happened to x2vnc or Win2VNC which used to let you control any client system that supported VNC from X or Windows respectively?
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Here in the UK you can buy a mattress in IKEA for between £99 and £799. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/spring-mattresses-24828/
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If their train software contains patches by cybercriminals that they were unable to detect but a third party hacking group without documentation were, how can we possibly believe that the train's software is safe? Surely the hackers co
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I don't think this is true. I think the legality of what they did is totally clear under article 5 & 6 of the EU Computer Programs Directive. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:
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by rjmunro 3y ago
The phrase "Freon is a greenhouse gas that has depleted the earth’s ozone layer" annoys me. A lot of people don't get that the Ozone layer and climate change (the greenhouse effect) are different things. Freon is both a very
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by rjmunro 3y ago
> Without fail, for free events, there’s a predictable dropoff of around 30% of all RSVPs. If I have 50 people RSVP for an event, I’ll assume 30 or 35 will show up. Be careful, though. An event I used to go to that was free decided to ch
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That's not what security updates are. They are fixes for errors in the original software. They are product recalls for dangerous product faults. You can't charge the customer because the product you shipped them was faulty.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but why does it need to read the file into memory at all? Can't it just parse directly as the data streams in? It should be possible to gron-ify a JSON file that is far bigger than the memory available
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> Good thing we have open-source hardware out there and open-source CPU's on deck. Read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson. It describes how even recompiling all the sources isn't enough.
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Why is not freezing better?
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I'm not sure it's always true to say "100 GB of weights don't resemble any work". If I train a model on a famous poem or something, and it turns out if you ask the model to quote the poem verbatim, it can, then the

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