BilboBargains

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The British seem to be particularly bad at big infrastructure projects. The computerisation of the NHS was a debacle, for instance. HS2 has fallen massively short. The people in charge don’t understand technology and are not good at taking advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And then we all clapped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting origin story. I suspect these ideas came about and came to possess a utility as larger societies formed. Nobody needs to be told that murder and stealing are wrong, we know it instinctively. It has been shown that primates understand this concept generally.

  One problem with large societies is that customs becomes entrenched over time. We keep following the same rules and forget where they came from, we mistake the menu for the food. We cannot turn to a naturalistic solution to this problem, where everything is eating everything else because that amounts to fascism. Instead we must settle for a kludge where rich people get a different type of justice than do the poor, sentencing is more punitive before lunch and many other idiosyncrasies. My point is, I don’t want to forget that a menu is just a menu. Some things will always be true and the law is not one of those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s generally true for most HVAC applications. Bang-bang control creates limit cycle behaviour and as long as a small oscillation in temperature is acceptable, it’s a nice simple solution.

  OPs problem seems to be a discontinuity between the two limit cycles, heating and cooling. The way to tackle this is to make time series vectors of all measurements and compare them with the subjective sensation of the room temperature. That should inform the relevant set points for the control actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do people talk about law as if it has any sort of substance? If all the books were burnt we would only be able to faithfully reproduce the science books, everything else is just some stuff we made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Control theory is a bitch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't we all getting rich from compound interest?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard Gary Stevenson talk on this subject recently and his argument was that saving money has the opposite effect of borrowing money. If you try to save money you lose money in real terms due to the combined effects of low interest and high inflation. This has been the case since 2008 and became more acute following COVID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just WON'T⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me sir, do you have a licence and registration for that ice cream?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be the problem if you are in this situation and the friend is actually okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something we can thank the Russians for and hackers everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy really any different from reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’m thinking. Take the best of Reddit and leave the toxic stuff. The source is open, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I put down on my resume?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Describe the work you are doing and the equipment you use. Talk about the fact that you have received training to use this equipment. You don’t need to say anything else. If your next employer wants you to be certified on their particular machines they will train you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How much of that gas did you huff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy really any different from reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for profit would be its singular difference. The devs have attempted to recreate original Reddit and largely succeeded.

  The aspects of it that could do with improvement are addiction potential. We shouldn’t have endless scrolling and perhaps have timers to limit exposure.

  It’s still male dominated but generally non toxic for your average white guy in tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whether you've got big plans for your Sunday or are just going to relax, Putin could change your plans, end your life, kill all of your family, and incinerate everything you own.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether you’ve got big plans for your Sunday or are just going to relax, America could install a NATO army on your doorstep bringing the world another step closer to nuclear Armageddon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spoopy Pangolin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is cultural appropriation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Behind that stony facade I think Putin has quite a good sense of humour.

  It’s even more outrageous since the British would never engage in this sort skulduggery 🙄

  This is news for chumps and delusional fanbois

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does depend what we’re talking about. The geology of Himalaya or computer technology? One of these things didn’t change much in the last forty years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My markup has my cat's contributions.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By the time it came to writing my thesis at age 37 I had already dedicated twenty years learning the vagueries of MS Word and ten debugging compilation errors of MATLAB. There was no way I was going to take on another language at that point.

  This was short sighted because all it meant is that I didn’t have any control over compilation errors because Word does it for you, badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only we could combine Jim, Alice and Rob into a single entity called The Waltronzoid, we could easily defeat all the other billionaires by creating a bazillionaire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be the reasons for self-sabotaging behaviours when it comes to relationships?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fear of rejection can manifest in this way. We can’t be rejected if we sabotage the relationship before the person finds out who we really are. It’s a sign of low self esteem and depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine the paradise slaves were living under, they could never be the victims of pay cuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization VI: Just another knowledge check 4X game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best way to overcome all the toxic elements of adversarial gaming is to play cooperative games. This style previously did not exist but has become popular in recent years. It’s nicer to work together and interesting to see how people (mostly men) adapt to this style of play by continuing to compete in an environment where that causes the team to lose. Much like the English national football team of eleven adversaries Vs the German team.