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- Comment on The UK steps up with an 81% emissions cut target at COP29 following Trump win 4 days ago:
Finally, some reporting of what the current level is Vs 1990 levels.
UK greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by almost half from 1990 levels, mainly due to the phaseout of coal from electricity generation.
So another ⅓ to go, in ten years. For that to happen we need to see announcements of plans very soon. The easy changes have already been made / are in progress for the grid. Manufacturing and industrial transport are the next big targets by my reckoning. Electrification of goods transportation would be a huge win.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 4 days ago:
Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 5 days ago:
…may your conflicts be short, swift and decisive.
- Comment on Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed? 6 days ago:
Trump said. “They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.”
So it’s not dogs and cats this time. Ok.
Investors are interested in projects that start making money quickly, and wind is pretty good at that over other power infrastructure. Trump is going to be fighting the free markets that he holds so dear.
- Comment on 'UK-first' intercity battery trial train outperforms diesel 1 week ago:
Some of our railway routes are the oldest in the world. Tunnels and bridges weren’t built with the consideration of overhead electrification. So what do you do?
Electrify the parts you can and have trains that can run without external supply for the bits you can’t electrify.
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 week ago:
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like a scapegoat.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 2 weeks ago:
Governments see inflation as a way of making things cheaper in real terms. Public sector wages should be index linked IMHO, but I’m always told that to do so would be “inflationary”. To put that another way - Not giving people real-terms pay cuts is, apparently, a driver of inflation.
Economists have built a system which relies on the buying power of the workers going down.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help that GCHQ is mainly seen as a department that enables all the authoritarian aspects of government in the digital age. Nobody wants to have their work put to use against their own countrymen.
Now, the truth maybe different but GCHQ is so secretive, nobody knows.
- Comment on Britons are dying in a blizzard of cheap cocaine. Why is so little being done to save them? 2 weeks ago:
…and you need less of it.
- Comment on A fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking. 2 weeks ago:
There’s definitely a third option. Half-arsing something is always an option.
- Comment on A fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking. 2 weeks ago:
Republicans argue problems can be solved by reforming individuals; the police are good, there are just a few bad apples.
An odd thing to say, as the saying is that “A few bad apples spoil the whole crop”. I think they’re trying to say that that “The police is an overall force for good because the isolated cases do not dictate the whole”. The saying is the exact opposite.
- Comment on Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders 3 weeks ago:
Countries should not be pushing for reparations when it was them selling their people into the slave trade.
It’s historical revisionism.
- Comment on Important announcement from z library 3 weeks ago:
So important it’s posted somewhere lots of people can’t read it.
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 3 weeks ago:
Omg. It’s the Beavles!
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
Here’s something that might blow your mind. Coverage is not the point of tests.
If you your passing test gets 100% coverage, you can still have a bug. You might have a bunch of conditions you’re not handling and a shit test that doesn’t notice.
Write tests first to completely define what you want the code to do, and then write the code to pass the tests.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
Debugging only teaches logic. Not structure. No amount cut, paste, debug with teach you the factory pattern.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 4 weeks ago:
It always got me that the maths I was doing in electrical engineering outclassed what my friend was doing for his astrophysics degree. He was probably at the better university too (Debatable for the subjects in question, but both really good).
Did I need that level of maths? No, but it was compulsory for the first 3 years so not much option.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 4 weeks ago:
Well you need a good handle on probability to understand transistors these days at least.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
Depends if you’re his assistant or not.
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 4 weeks ago:
“XL Bully cats” implies large, aggressive cats that could eat small children,
They already exist. I think they are called tyjres or something similar.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
It’s their superficial resemblance to pinecones.
- Comment on Eels 4 weeks ago:
🎶 When he bites on your thumb, and takes a chunk of your bum, that’s a moray 🎶
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Julia-Louis Dreyfuss.
- Elaine from Seinfeld
- Veep
- Some character in the MCU
- Comment on Growth of far-right ‘active clubs’ in UK prompts call to tackle misogyny 1 month ago:
There are far-right groups actively recruiting, and they’re worried that they are mysoginistic? Is that really top of the list of major concerns here?
Maybe the incitement of violence should be a more pressing concern, or the general fascism.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Since ads began, there have been ad-blockers. You just didn’t know about them.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
What do you mean “work”? What is it that needs to move?
You just fire up Firefox and start using it. It’ll even scrape your chrome setup to move bookmarks and stuff over.
It’s not an OS. It’s an application.
- Comment on TSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge tech 1 month ago:
This is what a lack of competition looks like.
However… Twice the price of 4nm? The gains are fairly marginal from what I gather. I don’t think many will bother.
- Comment on Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects 1 month ago:
I think carbon landfill is a great term for it.
- Comment on Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects 1 month ago:
£22bn to literally sweep the problem under the carpet, allowing the oil and gas industry to continue.
What’s the opportunity cost of this? What could that money have built instead?
