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by willyt 5y ago
But < 5 mile local errands are much more polluting per mile than longer trips though as the engine doesn’t heat up to an efficient temperature so it uses something like 4 times as much fuel per mile.
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by willyt 5y ago
They could test the market for these in Norway, the Scottish Islands or the Greek Islands. Places where 15 min flights with low passenger numbers over a distance of 50-100km would have a high value compared to a 1-2hr ferry crossing. Wouldn
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by willyt 5y ago
> The average age of a car in the US is 12 years old… Average age of a car in Britain is 8 years and it’s only recently got this high. I got given a 10 year old car a few years back and I paid to have it taken away by the time it was 12
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by willyt 5y ago
As built and as normally used measurements being the key here. Very small new build houses in the damper western parts of the uk often have problems with mould growth because of actual in everyday use ACH below building regulations desi
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by willyt 5y ago
Depends on construction standards. I can’t find my source, but my understanding is that passive house is 3-4x better ACH than a typical recently built house in the UK when you take as built measurements of typical usuage patterns. Heat reco
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by willyt 5y ago
You can get self contained through wall units and do it room by room, less efficient but cheaper to retrofit. Hotels prefab the bathrooms typically, but not the rest of the room.
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by willyt 5y ago
Most of those places are already very well ventilated. You’re not catching covid in the train station, you’re catching it while sharing 1m² with 4 other people on the train. Or because you’re in a crowded restaurant and you’re between the a
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by willyt 5y ago
> Pumping in adequate amounts of fresh outside air, however engineered, will challenge running costs as well as carbon status. This is wrong. Mechanical Heat Recovery Ventilation (MVHR) is a well established technology which can recycle
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by willyt 5y ago
“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in pie” is a line from English nursery rhyme. Also two score and ten meaning 50 is not that old. At some point fairly recently English must have changed to the current system. Until the 1960’s there were 12
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by willyt 5y ago
It’s a thing. For some reason, country folk like to stash thier porn mags in hedges.
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by willyt 5y ago
They get power savings from reduced capacitance by reducing the distance from the memory to the CPU from a few cm to a few mm.
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by willyt 5y ago
Last time I was in New York was a good few years ago, but I was very surprised how much more expensive supermarket food was than in the UK, like 3x more. In a huge country with lots of farmland like the US with less stringent food regulatio
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by willyt 5y ago
Could be a hangover from British Imperialism, somehow the Pendolino’s in Britain manage to smell slightly of urine as well. It must be something to do with poor aerodynamics around the vent openings for the AC and the soil vent for the toil
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by willyt 5y ago
Will it let me use icloud like dropbox? Would be good if those groups they show that can be added also provision an icloud synced shared folder in a predictable location. I love drawing on ipad, but there’s always a bit of friction getting
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by willyt 5y ago
They wouldn’t probably. Just maybe it rankles apple that they have to have PCs to run Solidworks, or whatever, to design their iPhones and Macs, so their design studios don’t look as cool as they could do! For construction, until you can be
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by willyt 5y ago
When the land registry was digitised they got the land boundaries from the Ordnance Survey maps. The Ordnance Survey got them from tracing aerial photos. When property changes hands for the first time since the digital system was introduced
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by willyt 5y ago
Just a little aside. Your comment confused me a bit because ‘shelled’ in this context means the shells have already been removed from the nuts not that they are things in thier shells. As in ‘I’m shelling these nuts, but I’ve shelled those
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by willyt 5y ago
Can I have a 27” ipad running macos and a new 3D CAD software with an open source kernel and apple UI design, scriptable in swift. A bit like a Parasolid sketchup designed for interaction with pencil and touch. Logic Audio for 3D modelling.
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by willyt 5y ago
But the TGV network makes a profit as does the intercity network in the UK. So those subsidies are for commuter rail which make dense cities viable economic centres. If you don't subsidise those services then many more people are eithe
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by willyt 5y ago
type name:nameoffileIwant or just start typing and press down arrow then enter to select and search the Name matches:blah blah option that appears usually straight away.
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by willyt 5y ago
In finder, View > Show Status Bar You can click on any of the folders to go there. In spotlight, cmd click on the file to show it in the finder.
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by willyt 5y ago
Paris-Bordeaux is about 400 miles takes 2hrs, is regularly available off-peak for ~€30 booked a few hours in advance and the 2nd class seat is a spacious as a first class seat on a UK train. UK trains are slow and absurdly expensive for wha
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by willyt 5y ago
‘A kestrel for a knave’ is another great novel on this theme. It was made into a film ‘Kes’ I’ve not seen it though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave
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by willyt 5y ago
The UK’s planning system is very slow, unpredictable and inefficient. It also is not great at preventing suburban sprawl either. Probably Spain, the Netherlands or Japan would be more interesting to look at.
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by willyt 5y ago
>…thoughtfully crafted poetic fragment. Lots of good Victorian writing is like that Charles Dickens - Any of his works Rudyard Kipling - Remembered now for children’s books but also wrote some amazing novels and poetry for adults. He has
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by willyt 5y ago
Safety regulations say that one person should not lift more than 25kgs unaided. Obviously people can lift more than this, I remember hefting 50kg bags of sand around in the 90’s but it’s not great for your back.
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by willyt 5y ago
That kind of exemplifies a very British problem that we have with very vague and increasingly slow bureaucracy. There’s often no clear cut answer to a question. I think it’s one of the reasons why we get the least amount of productive work
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by willyt 5y ago
Yep. It’s a mistake. People who want an architect designed house for the price of a kit house are going to be disappointed. Especially ones that have massive lists of new wonder products they have been sold on by adverts from manufacturers,
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by willyt 5y ago
Where I grew up in the UK in the 1990’s. The insurance cost was £1250 per year to insure me when I was 17, Which was about $2500 USD at the time. So I didn’t have a car. My insurance is ~£200 per year now…
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by willyt 5y ago
Might be interested but I would prefer it to use the system calendar and to-dos so that I can use it alongside these rather than instead of.

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