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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Among my various hats is data custodian for a highly respected research group in Norway. In addition to all of the problems noted above, there's one no-one noted - in much of Europe, it is common to denote decimals with...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    [ confirming hell has indeed frozen over ] That happened around the 4th of November, although things might briefly start unfreezing towards the end of the week No, the joke doesn't get old....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    I regard a lot of the support for the EU among younger people as another form of protest You could express the same opinions without being so incredibly patronising, you know? While I would be the first to admit...
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    I wonder how much it would screw things up if THEY just rounded it off to 1/300000000? For most purposes, we do, i.e. the default value for c that most people reach for is "3e8 [m/s]". That gives a...
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    Also what is the difference between "citizens" and "subjects"? Things have been complicated pretty much since the start of what would (later) be recognised as the British Empire. Which is to say, around about the 12th century when the...
  • Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
    Sexual attraction to non-humans is not conserved by evolution unless the non-human is so close to human that they're a compatible branch of our family tree: say, Denisovans or Neanderthals (who interbred with our ancestors). And yet non-reproductive sexual...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    It probably comes as no surprise that British food isn’t…good. - LIAR I bake all my own bread ... As a general observation, not everything aimed at Britain is necessarily aimed, personally, at you. You do seem, much more...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    They try to muddle along, never mind understanding what a car mechanic or a cancer specialist doctor or a laptop technical is trying to explain to them. Just one more instance of how most humans really are not good...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    (Never experienced one myself, and don't see the point... by the time I've got the ignition turned on my body heat has warmed the seat quite adequately.)" Then consider the possibility that there exist climates more extreme than yours....
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    Keeping the window you shine your laser through transparent seem to be one of the biggest hurdles. Ain't that god's truth? I've worked with two laser-cooling-in-hard-vacuum experiments, and earwigged on the discussions of half a dozen more. Material deposition...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    if only to prove you're you and not a chatbot... I've been to pub meets with my World of Warcraft guild across Europe for about 16 years now, and there are still rumours that the head honcho has never...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    That would be the Online Saftey Bill. It's, mmm, how best to put it, entirely idiotic in the name of "but think of the children". The original intent was to better safeguard children online from material that is either a)...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    The neuroscientists in the local vicinity are strongly encouraged to name the rats and mice on which they experiment, with the explicit goal that they will care about the wellbeing of those rats and mice. (Right up until, you know,...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    The Prius has been in production for 25 years. What has been happening to all of those batteries? There have been over 5 million of the cars cumulatively sold world wide as of a year ago. Priuses used NiMH...
  • Commented on WTF
    I just got my winter bill, for an all electric 3 bedroom house with a pool (and the pool draws about 5 kWh per day) my partner working from home (3 monitors and two computers), 4 air filters running...
  • Commented on WTF
    I keep my house at 15-16 in the winter (unless I'm ill, in which case I'll warm it up to 18-20) Shudder I grew up in a house like that. Truly, utterly, miserable experience during winter. I have no...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    Meanwhile, in Norway. I work on the site of St Olav's Hospital in Trondheim - about 150m along the street from the Akuttmottak (English: Accidents and Emergencies, American: Emergency room), which has a helicopter pad on the roof. The local...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Not nobody, although it should probably be talked about more. One point of reference I can offer off the top of my head is a Swedish company, Northvolt. https://northvolt.com/recycling/ Judging by the salary they're paying a relative, it's very much...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Ignoring both charging at home/work This, I think is an assumption that renders pretty much the entire remainder of your point moot. You cannot ignore this kind of "background" charging, because it radically affects how often an EV needs...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    And I'll fire up a new blog discussion when my morale recovers enough to see the funny side of this shit sandwich Truss and Kwarteng have handed us So, about 2026, then? Just to add to your depression, I've...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    Paragraphs. Dear god, split into paragraphs. That's completely unreadable as is. The rest of my advice may not be so helpful, because it starts with "and skip the Twitter thing", so I won't waste your time with anything further....
  • Commented on The ends of education
    I've been told "You aren't a proper cyclist!" I can't speak to what advocacy groups may have been involved, but having cycled in the UK, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the UK suffers from the problem captured excellently by Humon...
  • Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
    Request: your keyboard has keys for both capital letters, and full stops. Your posts would be a lot more readable if you made use of those keys, please. > i would have said nato training ukrainian troops was the west...
  • Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
    "Constitution" merely means the set of guiding principles around how a polity operates. Off the top of my head, some of the most critical documents that make up the UK consitution include: Bill of Rights 1689 Parliament Acts 1911 and...
  • Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
    You're probably aware already, but UPSes, especially cheap ones, tend to have short lives and silent, unmarked deaths. If you're actually relying on them, mark a regular test schedule on the calendar and stick to it, religiously. (In the lab,...
  • Commented on Oh, 2022!
    For more or less similar reasons it also tends to fail as a ferry for people travelling just as themselves without vehicles, so they use planes instead (see for instance Charlie's reasoning on this exact point further up the page;...
  • Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
    I think the RR SMR proposal is just a gambit to keep their nuclear reactor capability in being between runs of nuclear-powered submarines -- AIUI there's nothing in sight due for commissioning after the Dreadnought class, and manufacturing capabilities as...
  • Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
    St Olav's hospital in Trondheim has a similar, albeit slightly less severe issue. The standard air ambulance in these parts is, off the top of my head, a Eurocopter EC135 - common for emergency services in most of Europe, I...
  • Commented on Omicron
    I like Python a lot - although that may be because it was my first programming language, and thus everything else is, mentally, referenced to how it differs from Python. The only quibble I can offer about Python is that...
  • Commented on Omicron
    Sign me up as in favour of MarkDown. It's my standard format for writing notes and simple documentation for myself, although I tend to get complaints about recieving notes in .txt or .md format instead of .docx. The one problem...
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