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Posts by Simon Farnsworth

Two effects: first, the power applied to overcome drag + friction is dissipated as load in the road surface. Second is wheels bounce a little, varying the force and resulting in higher peak forces.

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There have been several over the last couple of decades - they get drowned out by "war on motorists" material any time they look like they might get traction.

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There's a deep problem here: we could enforce a lot more, at the expense of upsetting one group. Or we could change the law to reflect what we prosecute, upsetting a different group.

We do neither, in order to avoid the hard conversations about compromises between safety and mobility.

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One of them hides. Other three pretend there never was a fourth crew member.

This works best if the one in hiding has a twin back on Earth who can pop up in the control room and shout “surprise!”

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That leads to expensive bills - the thermostat calls for heat, and won't stop until it warms up. So you've got the heating running continuously trying to get the thermostat up, and failing.

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It used the ROM header to detect if the game was on a list of known games, and if it was on the list, it used the recommended palette for that game.

See tcrf.net/Game_Boy_Col... for gory details.

1 week ago 2 0 0 0

Level 1 chargers default to 12A (plug in space heater).

Note that better L1 and L2 EVSE let you set the limit between 6A and whatever their upper limit is, if you're constrained. "Load share" chargers can change the per-car limit dynamically, too.

1 week ago 1 0 0 0

One of mass media's failures is embedding "Nazis were evil and that's why the death camps" in our culture, allowing us to avoid thinking about how much the camps were an extension of commonly shared bigotry of the time, and not uniquely Nazi thinking.

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The Tesla Model S comes out 2 years before the Toyota Mirai, and the Mirai gets heavily state subsidised (including fuelling stations). The Mirai has 10% more range, and the faster recharge time.

The market clearly chose the BEV over the FCEV. We had the choice, and we chose.

2/2

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In 1988, the appeal was that a BEV might, if we pushed production battery tech to its limits, have a 150 mile range and 8 hours charging, where a FCEV could be looking at 400 miles and 5 minute charges.

Then Li-ion batteries got good.

1/2

3 weeks ago 3 0 1 0
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Add in the easy availability of credit. Had someone lecture me about how driving a car as old as mine is unreasonable, when I'm nearly mortgage free and have no other debt, and he's renting and has a car loan.

4 weeks ago 2 1 0 0

On a tangent, it's also a good one for the relationship between "inefficiently wasting money" and "being prepared for the unlikely" - if Weather hadn't come, paying to be prepared for it would have been "waste".

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In part because a lot of Oxford news is consumed by Oxfordshire residents, who do need to drive because of a lack of decent public transport etc.

Oxford isn't big enough to "feel" different the way London Zones 1/2 are.

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A UK rejoin without reinstating former opt-outs (so UK joins Schengen, the Euro etc) has value - "look, the UK left and had to rejoin on our terms, not theirs".

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Regional journalists often do better because they don't care if nobody in Westminster will go near them every again. The Political Editor does care about becoming an outcast in Westminster.

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Oxford Bus Company to launch new Airline link to Birmingham - CBW Go-Ahead Group-owned Oxford Bus Company is launching a new express coach service to Birmingham International Airport. The new service, which will utilise the company’s The Airline branding, will launc...

They used to have one - cbwmagazine.com/oxford-bus-c... - but it didn't make money.

There's still a National Express route from Gloucester Green to Birmingham Airport, though.

1 month ago 3 0 1 0

Or, if it's required, replace the antenna connection with a dummy load. Can't communicate any more because the dummy load turns RF into heat.

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How would you know it was there, though? There's about 80 nodes that talk UDS on CAN bus in my car - I would not be able to tell you if a service added one more.

And you can rip the cellular + WiFi module out of a more modern car, too - they tend to be separate to avoid issues with local regs.

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

That is rapidly becoming "very old" cars, though. My 15 year old diesel car has all the bits needed for a "kill switch" bar the cellular module; fit a cellular device communicating on CAN at a service, and you can remotely kill it.

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Then that, in and of itself, is a sign that the anthology has serious problems.

There's enough women creators that if you can't find any, you're either not looking or you're turning them away.

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It's happened at three different elections so far. Talking to the Returning Officers about it, this is fairly normal behaviour for tellers - if you don't "look right" to them, they'll try and stop you voting.

Happened in Surrey, Hampshire, and where I live now.

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Round my way, I've had tellers try to stop me entering the polling station because I refused to tell them who I planned to vote for.

Not allowed, but they still tried their best.

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There is an edge case; it works well enough to get picture, but you get very obvious "sparklies" all over the picture.

If you've seen this, you know exactly what I mean. It's not subtle, or hard to see, and it's designed into HDMI for other reasons around EMC rules.

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The most generous explanation I can come up with is that they spend so much time in toxic online spaces (some multiplayer games fit this) that it didn't even register as a slur - it's just something people say.

But that, in itself, is a problem.

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If it's not "no signal", it's very blatant "sparklies". You'd know it instantly if you'd ever seen it - the effect of a sub-par HDMI cable is not subtle.

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The other thing I see is comparing a $6,000/month US health plan to the NHS. When everyone in the UK who'd pay that much can get a high-end BUPA plan that (in combination with the NHS) is better.

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A lifetime of full time work is about 100,000 hours. A million dollars is $10/hour to savings; a billion is $10,000/hour.

That often brings it home - a $10/hour pay rise is the sort of thing people can imagine. A $10,000/hour pay rise is not.

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Working full time from 18 to 68 is about 100,000 hours. Saving a million in a life of full time work is $10/hour over living costs. A billion is $10,000 per hour.

And that trillionaire-wannabee is effectively claiming he's worth over $10,000,000/hour.

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I'd extend your last statement a little - they're happy for all non-whites to be collateral damage in their anti-trans bigotry.

There's simply no way to deny trans people basic humanity without also affecting other groups, too.

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United Kingdom opt-outs from EU legislation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... lists the likely sticking points - we had four opt-outs, and if you believe that the EU would refuse to let us have them again *and* that the opt-out was critical to the UK, then you might not want to rejoin.

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