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by tomatocracy 3y ago
I use Teams for work. I also use zoom fairly frequently for calls with firms who use that instead. Honestly for video calls it's very much of a muchness, though I do wish Teams was a little bit less resource heavy (having said that &qu
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
This actually isn't that uncommon for airports. The first example which comes to mind is London City Airport which pays for local homes to have noise insulation fitted[0]. I believe doing this has been a condition of them being granted
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
The Heathrow Express used to have this at Paddington station, though I think it closed a while ago. A similar idea which is available in London though is Airportr - this is a company which will send someone to collect your bags from your ho
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
The "landmark" part of the 2012 court case was actually about how far claims could effectively be backdated, not the "equal value" part of the claims (which as I understand it was relatively straightforward because the c
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
If you really need to get there quicker, there are a few companies offering motorcycle taxi services (where they ride and you ride pillion), which can make a big difference at times of busy traffic (though it does limit the amount of luggag
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
If you like the series then this article[0] which was published in the LRB early in its run is well worth a read - it gives you a good idea of how the series came about and why it feels very closely observed. Reportedly many politicians at
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Landlords are running a business and get taxed on the rental income of their property. Deducting costs, including interest, same as any other business, is pretty standard and most wouldn't say it's "unfair". Giving an in
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
The most valuable service banks provide is not just "matchmaking" lenders with borrowers (an exchange of some sort can do that much more cheaply) or even spreading credit risk across a pool of borrowers (again there are other ways
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
This type of structure creates risks around ability to pay which a well advised seller would try to avoid. You could design something which would mitigate that but it would likely end up costing more for the buyer to set up and run anyway.
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Predictive search/auto completion is incredibly useful. In the browser context, auto completion search from history in the search/URL bar hugely reduces the need to even make bookmarks for top level sites. It's just much easi
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
The article briefly mentions atuin at the end. I've tried atuin but found it a little bit too heavyweight for me - instead I use zsh-histdb[0] (together with the fzf extension for it[1]) which allows you to easily answer this type of q
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
That depends on the distances involved - eg if you want to generate cheap solar electricity in the Middle East or South America and export it to Europe or North America (which is something people in the industry have discussed as being pote
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
The Eur77-94 figure is a simulated average whole grid cost of electricity for a hypothetical grid built around renewables and storage only when including some of this type of storage, not the cost of this type of storage. They estimate LCOS
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Where synthetic liquids (and indeed methane) can be interesting is if you want to ship the energy somewhere. So you can make the methanol somewhere with abundant cheap electricity and CO2, then ship or pipe it to places which lack that. It&
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Yes. The other issue in terms of housing stock is that a lot of the more recent housing stock has nowhere to put a cylinder for hot water, which means it's not practical to use HPs for hot water for showers etc. This either means repla
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Not sure about Germany but in London Zipcar are almost comically expensive. Basic Vauxhall Corsa for £85/day, plus an upfront joining fee. Pricing up a random week in Feb, I could rent a similar car from a traditional hire company for
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
I cycle quite a lot in London which has put a lot of these in and honestly I think most of the separated lanes etc are a waste of money - they only really make a difference on the busiest roads with the narrowest lanes or at the most danger
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
> It doesn't make any sense to own a car and live in a dense urban development. Public transport can be good but it's never that good. I live in zone 1 (ie very centrally) in London and there are still many journeys where it
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Yes. My understanding is that this depends on the eventual form of the UK carbon border tax though.
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Not sure. I experienced this personally using a picoPSU with spinning drives on one machine - no issues with spinup but silent data corruption on writes (which then got picked up by ZFS). Switching to a traditional PSU cured the problem.
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
You can do it with ZFS at least. I have a ZFS setup which idles drives. If I don't access the datasets on the drives, they don't spin up. You do have to be careful with things like auto snapshotting tools though - that will typica
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Even if you have no issues with spinup, insufficient power can result in silent data corruption, which can be quite frustrating to diagnose (even if ZFS will help you see it). The difference between a picoPSU and a decent "real" P
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Yes, interest rate rises have made a meaningful difference too via their impact on cost of capital/discount rates/IRRs demanded. There's a summary at the House of Commons library website here. I hadn't seen it before tod
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
There are a couple of things which are misleading about the quoted CfD strike prices. Firstly they are in 2012 prices. Secondly, they are inflated by CPI every year which means the market prices then lower than a true fixed price would be p
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Regulation and tax are big ones. The ElecLink UK/France interconnector was significantly delayed due to disagreements in how it should be regulated and taxed. Similarly, things like the EU Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism have the po
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
These days, it's nearer the other way around in the UK - gas is closer to baseload (sort of) and coal has a profile closer to a peaker (especially when turning up/down rather than on/off).
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
They're also making very good money in the balancing market, and generation margins are getting tighter. It wouldn't surprise me if the closure gets delayed.
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
VBA can't really be removed due to the need to support legacy files (especially Excel). For more sophisticated stuff they expect you to use Office Developer Tools or similar now.
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
A "traditional" UI for HN would surely look a lot like Usenet newsgroup readers. I think Thunderbird might even still support NNTP. Usenet had a much better model for discussion groups/forums like HN in my view, though crucia
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Isn't the Porsche Taycan in the Model S price range?

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