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- Comment on Russia is studying an intact U.S. ATACMS missile guidance system, says RIA 22 hours ago:
I like the sentiment of that statement, but are there any expert opinions on the impact? Even if they cannot replicate the tech, could they learn how to interfere with the targeting abilities of these rockets?
- Comment on Did the largest Ukraine community & its instance got nuked? 5 days ago:
Seems to be back up, just seen a new post there
- Comment on Looking to federalize a social media site I made. I'd give everyone a version with full content moderation tools, and operational trade secrets for server sizing/scaling. 6 days ago:
You’re promoting your closed source, non activitypub platform on Lemmy. Good luck with that, I’ll give it a free, federated downvote.
- Comment on Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 6 days ago:
I’m not saying it can’t be done. But a larger heat pump and replacing all radiators drives up the cost, there is not always space for a bigger radiator, (and water tank), and while higher flow temperatures are possible, it tend to reduce efficiency. Sometimes it’s just not worth the investment, not helped by the big gap between gas and electricity prices in the UK
- Comment on Automated cooling tower detection through deep learning for Legionnaires’ disease outbreak investigations: a model development and validation study 6 days ago:
Maybe it’s me, but that post title just hurts my brain.
- Comment on Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 6 days ago:
Something to do with physics. It’s not just about the heat output from a gas boiler vs heat pump. It’s the output from the radiator to the room that matters. For the same output, a gas boiler heats the water to a higher temperature than a heat pump. Which means a radiator gives out more heat to the room. As an extreme example, if it is freezing outside and the heat pump produces a lot of water at 15c, it may have a high thermal output but still wont keep your room warm. If it produces water at 30c, the radiator will transfer some heat to the room, but unless the radiator is very big or the room is well insulated, probably not enough.
- Comment on Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 1 week ago:
Link me to a heat pump that produces water for central heating at 70C or more. Typically, flow temperature is closer 40C, which won’t heat the average house unless you dramatically increase the size and/or number of radiators. Which is expensive and not always feasible.
- Comment on Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 1 week ago:
Heat pumps are great when the house is designed for it. Average uk house with shitty insulation and radiators that are unable to heat the room unless the water is really hot - it’s not going to work well.
- Comment on Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io 1 month ago:
Agreed. And the electronics community suggested above has 2 posts in the last six months. So not really a better place to post imho.
- Comment on Hose timer/valve that is on/off for specific time? 1 month ago:
Just get an electric valve and a separate timer www.amazon.co.uk/…/ref=asc_df_B08H25Q5S9/?tag=goo…
- Comment on Joost Klein: Dutch contestant disqualified from Eurovision Song Contest 1 month ago:
This community is named INTERESTING intentional news…
No, it isn’t.
- Comment on The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem 2 months ago:
Downvoted for paywalled source and lack of summary
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Old enough for OP to check before creating a duplicate post.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Old news.
- Comment on Youngsters who break new smoking ban face on-the-spot fines in UK 3 months ago:
So are these council officers now getting police level authority? Will we be legally required to give our name and address to these council officers? What could possibly go wrong if we delegate authority to fine and prosecute to council staff?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
US, not global news
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- Comment on McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure 3 months ago:
Or it’s cousin BGP
- Comment on The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals 3 months ago:
Poor spez.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 3 months ago:
Nope. Read the first line of the article. Apple CarPlay won’t work unless you pay Audi a subscription fee. I’m not surprised, I had an A3 a few years ago and that already had subscriptions built in. But they came with a 3 year license and Audi UK would extend that for a year at a time, free of charge as they had not worked out how to charge for it. They have worked it out now.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 3 months ago:
According to the article, apple car play and android auto also require a subscription. So no, they don’t give you the choice.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 3 months ago:
I am ok with a charge for things that require the manufacturer to run a server. But it needs to be related to the actual cost , and that cost is unavoidable. Regarding that last point: my Garmin satnav lets me use my own mobile data to get live traffic information. Car makers don’t give you that option.
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 3 months ago:
Maybe you should read them. They are not claiming ownership. They are claiming that you licenced them to use your contributions for whatever purpose they want. Different thing.
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 4 months ago:
Not a Brit, just living in the UK, but yes, we have Boomers. The safety nets are not that good and steadily declining
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 5 months ago:
No, it isn’t, not in the UK. My EV does run cheaper than an equivalent petrol car when charging at home, but when charging on motorways, which I have to do on longer runs, it’s actually more expensive to run than petrol.
- Comment on Around 80% of Rosebank field oil will not be kept in UK to boost energy security 5 months ago:
Getting rid of the conservative party is up there too
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
ET 4750 has a user replaceable waste pad. Which models don’t?
- Comment on ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou 6 months ago:
Good news, thanks for sharing. Not sure if any iOS apps support it though.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
My Epson eco tanks don’t need any app for setup or printing. What model is yours?
- Comment on ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou 6 months ago:
We urgently need the ability to move your user account to another instance for that to work. At the moment, it’s not easy to move to another Lemmy instance, I would have to redo subscriptions, blocklists and likely pick a different username.