If I ever have a kid I'll be throwing a dart at this to name them. All being well they be Hammin.
rmuk
joined 1 year ago
Yeah, the biggest problem is mentality, I find. People expect to walk into a freezing cold house, thonk the BOOST button and have bouncing radiators in fifteen minutes. Heat Pumps ideally need to be left to their thermostats to maintain the temperature.
Is there an even longer version? Technology Connections is like LOTR - an extra few hours is always welcome.
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
- Everyone who ever got anything done.
Progress is the enemy of perfection.
- Showroom7561
...and the wind stops blowing. And the tides stop turning. And the rivers stop flowing. And uranium stops... uranium-ing.
Unlike coal and oil, which are literally infinite AND ubiquitous, neither of which is true for green energy.
/s
Also, coal and oil can't change to meet demand either. That's why we stockpile them.
Oh, hello, my new favourite least-favourite word.
Without wishing to give too much away, I know a group of people who work at a public transport agency in the UK. They recently had a meeting with Google about "opening up our data" which amounted to Google wanting the agency to sign a contract that would give Google exclusive rights to realtime and scheduling data in perpetuity, then Google would decide if/when/how it would be made public. The agency didn't say "fuck off", but something to that effect.
Now, instead, they're working with a group of students to create a public API with a permissable licence and a framework for other agencies to do the same.
So... maybe do hold your breath? Transit is one of those areas that attracts nerds and nerds love open source.
Your memory is wrong and your username is ostentatious. No-one needs more than four pant.
Hurry Up We're Dreaming by M83. I bought it just for Midnight City but I listened to it front-to-back for the first time while taking mushrooms and floating on an inflatable in Cane Garden Bay on Tortola in the Caribbean. There were tears, but it's still an excellent album sober.
Also, Final Straw by Snow Patrol.
I worked in schools until last year, so this doesn't surprise me. A huge number of schools and hospitals were built in the 1960s and 70s during the baby boom, but the were built on the cheap with an expected lifetime of about thirty years. Most of those schools are still standing. There was a program of rebuilding from 2000 to 2012 but it got cancelled. Why spend £10m on a new school building, when you can spend £2m/year patching up the old one?
Well, now is your chance.
Go hunt. Kill skuls.
This is delicious. Thankyou very much.