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by willyt 3y ago
Isn’t San Francisco famous for its fog, and aren’t flight timetables set 6 months in advance? How does the system cope when the weather is bad and you have to halve the number of flights landing? Surely the timetables must have a fair amoun
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by willyt 3y ago
I would be surprised if it was that low. I used a random HR law specialist in a regional UK city and they were charging £350. I’ve heard £1500+
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by willyt 3y ago
https://nextcloudpi.com might do it for you. I've been running it on raspberry pi 4 with a Samsung 1tb usb3 ssd for a year or two with no problems that weren't solved by turning it off and on again...yet.
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by willyt 3y ago
Uk does actually follow EU regulations and standards because all the technology is designed and manufactured in the EU. HS2 is being built to an EU standard loading gauge with EU standard electronic signalling, likewise crossrail. When rout
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by willyt 3y ago
If you're living in a terraced house with a front garden that is too small to put a drive in then you are probably living in a dense neighbourhood that can support frequent public transport. In cities like London, Newcastle, Liverpool
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by willyt 3y ago
It cut off the supply of cheap gas to Europe from Russia, making the demand for gas from elsewhere spike which caused global price rises. As well as gas being used for domestic heating and cooking it's also used for industrial processe
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by willyt 3y ago
There’s a whole chain of department stores and supermarkets in the UK that’s ‘worker owned’ John Lewis which also operates Waitrose supermarkets. It’s a partnership, everyone that works there becomes a partner in the firm after a probation
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by willyt 3y ago
In reply to downvotes: Interesting… Is it the idea of regulation that you disagree with? Do you also think that professionals like Structural engineers, Electricians and Doctors shouldn’t be regulated? Or is it the idea of protected words ‘
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by willyt 3y ago
‘Journalist’ should be a profession like ‘medical doctor’ or ’structural engineer’ or ‘electrician’ or ‘architect’. Anyone can still write anything and publish it wherever they want. But the words ‘News’ and ‘Journalist’ become legally prot
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by willyt 3y ago
From the article linked below comparing the 1960s nationalised rail service to todays privatised service: "When Dr Beeching wrote his 1963 report, half the UK rail network carried only 4% of the passenger traffic, a third of the passen
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by willyt 3y ago
The Times is not a great source. It’s just tabloid style journalism targeted at a higher ‘reading age’. Can’t remember the exact figures but something like 16 compared to ‘The Sun’ which targets 10. A better source would be The Telegraph, i
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by willyt 3y ago
Here’s a TGV speed test on a ballasted track. There’s an axle cam and it doesn’t look like there’s big chunks flying about but it does stir up a lot of dust at 575km/h (~360mph) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EOdATLzRGHc
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by willyt 3y ago
Some of the buildings look quite decrepit but if you look at photos of Britain or France or Germany from the 50’s you will see many similar buildings that need painted and cleaned.[0] People don’t look like they are dressed in rags. If an
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by willyt 3y ago
In a fridge the typical failing part is the plastic shelves in the door. The compressor almost never fails and discarded fridges are a great source of cheap pumps if you need to scavenge them. Source: The episode of 'The Secret Life of
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by willyt 3y ago
A vr headset is just a really big screen. Imagine how much stuff you can leave on your desktop if it’s a perfect sphere and you can sit in your office chair spinning round with it all whirling past you…
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by willyt 3y ago
Potentially. From the wikipedia article on ‘Marine salvage’: All vessels have an international duty to give reasonable assistance to other ships in distress in order to save life, but there is no obligation to try to salve the vessel. Any
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by willyt 3y ago
I've come to think that France might have a good culture in this respect. No major train crashes for years; there's never been a serious accident on the TGV. They have nuclear reactors all over the place and they seem to have mana
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by willyt 3y ago
I’m glad you said that because I thought I knew that ‘mêle-toi de tes oignons’ meant ´mind your own business!’ and I was doubting myself after reading that.
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by willyt 3y ago
But now Italian newsagents don’t get to laugh at us pronouncing the ‘g’ in biglietti. Makes me feel a bit nostalgic/sad for some reason.
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by willyt 3y ago
On a boat the rudder is technically the blade that cuts through the water and the tiller is the thing that gives you enough leverage to apply force to control the direction of the rudder as it passes through the water; sometimes quite a lot
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by willyt 3y ago
HS2 is somehow insanely expensive and slow moving compared to France. We just need to go and look at how they do it. The two countries are very close in terms of GDP income and regulatory burden. We seem to be very inefficient in comparison
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by willyt 3y ago
I think they sometimes call the thing that steers the nose wheel the tiller.
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by willyt 4y ago
Full marks first attempt up to level 5... Just sayin'
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by willyt 4y ago
In the mid 19th C Brunel built a ~100 mile long railway line in 5 years, the route was dug out by hand with picks shovels and wheelbarrows. It's a marvel of engineering with a route alignment that would allow trains to travel at well o
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by willyt 4y ago
Madrid Terminal 4 cost about half what Heathrow Terminal 5 did. Same architect. Both billion € projects. Both complicated sites next working airports. Similar sizes and infrastructure. Madrid T4 was a public project and Heathrow T5 was a pr
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by willyt 4y ago
A much more interesting UK legal concept is ‘invitation to treat’. Did you know that you can be contractually bound by things you say in adverts and that promises made in adverts can override conflicting terms of service? E.g a train compan
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by willyt 4y ago
An anonymous powdered chemical in a plastic bag. Hopefully not imported drop shipped via Amazon from China by the same people that import the phone chargers that catch fire and the fake microSD cards...
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by willyt 4y ago
I don't check anything in real time. I do it maybe two-four times a day. I don't want clients, bosses or friends that expect me to reply within seconds to messages.
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by willyt 4y ago
Email does sort of support groups, they are just reply all + consent to be receiving the group messages. I put emoji in emails, I don't understand what the problem is there? Anyway, maybe I wasn't being precise enough, more precis
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by willyt 4y ago
I forgot email. Even better, integrate messages with my email client and then they would all be in one place. Can't wait. Don't care how they are sent, just want to know if I write something to someone it gets there. Don't wa

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