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by tuatoru 3y ago
The joy of 240V single phase.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Maybe should be THE (Tom's Hubristic Editor). A TUI editor called THE already exists: The Hessling Editor, a work-alike of xedit. 1. https://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The court language of Russia in the 1760s was French. France was The European Superpower until the aftermath of Napoleon's empire.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The writer would profit by reading the wikipedia page on concision, and from trying to practise it. Don't waste readers' time.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
A sample response:- https://www.aei.org/articles/the-long-boom-that-wasnt-and-wh...
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by tuatoru 3y ago
(PDF) Transcript of an interview. Some organization called Consumer Finance Monitor.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Nuclear will be fine if the economics work. So far there appears little chance of that. Also, this is misleading:- > Did you know you can use the heat produced in Nuclear power reactors directly for things like turning Iron Ore to steel.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Great for corporations perhaps, but not so good for humans. Total fertility rate is below 1, among the lowest in the world, so female Singaporeans are giving their vote of no confidence. 1. https://population.un.org/wpp&#x2F
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by tuatoru 3y ago
We didn't need sorted dates before we started using unstructured media to store information. Hand-written accounting journals, day books, have date ordering built into their physical substrate. It didn't matter how dates were giv
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Smartphones are the rectangular slabs with a single moving part that I mentioned. The simplicity and stupidity of them is colossal.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It is merely virtue signaling if you are not prepared to live by it.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If you buy them; that's fine. I'm talking about the people who say they want organic food, but then buy on price and price alone. They go on about the horrible conditions laying hens are kept in, but then refuse to buy the eggs f
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Software Engineers are misnamed. They do not register with a professional body and commit to a code of ethics; nor can they be disbarred from working if the regulating Society of Software Engineers decides they have failed to work to the st
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Here's your sidebar comment that you were possibly also expecting, that climate change is only the cherry on the top. Soil exhaustion, salination and erosion, fossil aquifer depletion, rainforest (biodiversity) destruction, and general
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Came here for this. The "why not" comments are the most valuable.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
20 years is not conservative; it is a very aggressive timetable for significant impact on employment. I think you underestimate just what is involved in most "unskilled", manual jobs, and you also underestimate scale-up difficulti
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> People say they want organic, but then they balk at the price Yes; it's just virtue signaling. I tune out people who say this stuff. If I'm sufficiently motivated I point out:- It's not a value unless you're prepare
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> taken ourselves out already. Neither nuclear war nor a climate apocalypse is existential. Some thousands of humans would survive the worst case of either or both. That said I agree. Human brains arose through evolution: Evolution opera
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by tuatoru 3y ago
So the cause is sedentism, sedentary lifestyles? The cure is reorganising towns to limit the usefulness of (and even the ability to use) cars.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Or who are known by their last name English males calling each other by their family name (or hereditary place name) is a long-standing public school (US: private school) tradition. Upper middle class and above. Long ago, if brothers
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by tuatoru 3y ago
POSIWID: "The purpose of a system is what it does"--Stafford Beer. The purpose of climate change policies is to give subsidies to voters, who are relatively more wealthy than people unlikely to vote. The purpose of ESG is to prov
862.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Blunder in section "groundbreaking comments": "comment" lines do not end in a semicolon, which was earlier stated to be necessary throught elratio (section "clear line and program endings"). Naur and Backus wo
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah, if you want to be a charity donating to Yubico, godspeed. Not my cup of tea.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's more a sequence of the Innovator's Dilemma, and the IBM Salesman's Sex Life: [IBM salesman's wife]: All my husband does is sit on the end of the bed and tell me how great it's going to be.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The risk of explosion cannot be overemphasized. Methane will ignite when in concentrations of 4% - 17% in air, but with hydrogen the range is 4% to 75%. Hydrogen also has a higher flame speed than methane. (Boom!, not Whoosh!) Given hydroge
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah, what are your distribution voltages in the States, 13 kV maybe? That'd only be about 50 amps if so. 10mm diameter cables would be OK. Workable with a battery swap station next to a substation.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
More the dryness than directly the heat, apparently. The soil in which the pipes exist moved/contracted due to dryness. The article doesn't explicitly say this, but low water pressure due to high demand can cause old brittle pipes
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Tagging/labelling with attributes is the only viable solution that I've found. The only solution I've found is being utterly ruthless about deleting things. YAGNI, YAGNI. Alongside this, topic-based folders are fine. Not
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Clever idea. The ancient discipline of geometry is still useful.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
"Environmental, Social, and Governance" Monopolist corporate feelgood bs, basically. A moral licence to exploit, analogous to licence to pollute.[2] [3] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_

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