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by sambeau 4y ago
This is not simple. The batteries in cars can be used to help load-balance but they cannot offer grid-scale storage. The following is back-of-napkin figures but there are close enough to make the point. Take a country the size of the UK. It
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by sambeau 4y ago
And in cold climates there is a greater need for heating at night.
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by sambeau 4y ago
I know it's a bit late to reply to this, but I'm interested in why you have Supabase in this stack and how you use it. Do you access it using Prisma? Or is it just there to provide auth?
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by sambeau 4y ago
For more info: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
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by sambeau 4y ago
His video on driving his inflatable car on a lake is just beautiful. I've watched it a few times, now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMEtX0duGUg
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by sambeau 4y ago
An interview is a two-way process. Ask as many questions as you can as you can make a terrible mistake that will badly affect your life. The more questions you ask, even ones about company culture and how things are managed will make you lo
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by sambeau 4y ago
Can I recommend "Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race" by the BBC. It's a fascinating deep dive into this, and the difference in long-term goals between the USA and the USSR. It explores how close the USSR were to gettin
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by sambeau 5y ago
LET THE REWRITING BEGIN!…
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by sambeau 5y ago
These super-cheap headband/earphones https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NPL7V7R/ The sound quality is surprisingly OK, they are more than good enough for Audible & podcasts, and you can comfortably lie on you
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by sambeau 5y ago
Is a stove like that not really dangerous in an air-tight house? Where do the fumes go?
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by sambeau 5y ago
When I worked at BBC online in 1999, I had the job of encoding radio and TV clips for the website using the free version of RealPlayer.
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by sambeau 5y ago
I liked this bit in the man page: BUGS Ho ho ho.
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by sambeau 5y ago
It was Pascal, Haskell* and C back in the 1990s. * and variants of Haskell, e.g. Gofer
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by sambeau 5y ago
This is a lovely little project but it makes no claims to be for markdown—the site makes no mention of it as far as I can see. And, of course these fun unicode calendars don't render in Markdown. Can we change the title back to "U
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by sambeau 5y ago
Same here in the UK. The PPLPRS would need paid. https://pplprs.co.uk/do-i-need-themusiclicence/ > Broadly speaking, this includes any presentation of music outside of a domestic setting. For example, it will inclu
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by sambeau 5y ago
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
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by sambeau 5y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by sambeau 5y ago
This is my experience too. Our company has become a much more relaxed and friendly place since we embraced emoji.
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by sambeau 5y ago
My old man opinion is that you should probably reconsider as I believe our online arguing has gone way down since we started using emoji in the workplace. Emoji are a useful tool to prevent misunderstanding. Tone, especially aggression, is
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by sambeau 5y ago
I don't need to experiment with not using emoji. I am old enough to have a working life before they existed. In those days all online discussions became a huge argument very quickly. Passive-aggressive memos with bosses cc'ed in f
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by sambeau 5y ago
By which I mean: if we interbred with neanderthals so would our myths and folklore. As a hypothetical example: if, say, a neanderthal mother brought up interbred children it would be her myths about monsters that would be likely to be passe
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by sambeau 5y ago
This article also assumes that they were the orcs not us.
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Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater(mining.com)
496 points by sambeau 5y ago|290 comments
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to build new kind of nuclear reactor in Wyoming(theguardian.com)
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by sambeau 6y ago
In the debate about reintroducing wolves to Scotland the landowner wanted to fence the land and add it to one of the few "common sense" exclusions. https://www.nathab.com/blog/bringing-wolves-back-to-scotland.
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by sambeau 6y ago
No doubt they will then use it as an excuse to fence the land off and prevent free roaming across it.
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by sambeau 6y ago
Lovely to see David and his castle on here.
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by sambeau 6y ago
I had to laugh—It took 5 seconds for that page to load for me.
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by sambeau 6y ago
I've got a 2013, haven't upgraded to Big Sur and I have recently started having these issues—black screen, cursor visible. Is it maybe the last Safari update?
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by sambeau 6y ago
They say that every time they talk about vaccines but if you look at articles like this: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/misconceptions.htm and this https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccin

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