Re: The electric cult
The powers that be run nice big old Aga ranges in their various kitchens.
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70p/kwh is 23p/mile at 3mile/kwh.
£1.50/litre is 17p/mile at 40mpg. So even less in a Prius.
Thats the price at our local supermarket charge points.
Tesco charges 23p / kWh on 7kW chargers 40p on the 22kW chargers and 50p / kWh on their 50kW chargers.
Lidl Podpoint chargers are similar (bo 7kW tariff).
What supermarket is charging 70p?
I use it to get to France.
My kids use trains to get to and from Uni every few weeks.
Commuting from Birmingham to London or vice versa might become a thing for a few people who will probably have their desk on the train for part of the days. And the media will be making a big deal about them, and the thickos will be triggered. But most HS2 traffic won't be morning and evening commutes 5 days a week.
They will be the kind of same folk who are using the fast Kings Cross to Leeds/York trains right now on hte ECML.
I used to commute because everyone did it, and I thought it was just the way things were.
Then it dawn on me what a complete and total waste of time it was and became determined to minimise it as much as possible.
With covid my commute is completely eliminated and it seems moronic to me that I ever did it.
thought HS2 went from almost London to almost Brum, didn't actually quite get there at each end.
It's going to Birmingham Curzon Street where the original Robert Stephenson London and Birmingham railway terminated in 1838 until New Street opened.
At the London end it's supposed to go to Euston (where the Robert Stephenson L&B also terminated) but the last stretch across London has been put on hold. So it will terminate out in the West London suburbs until an unknown time.
When the L&B was opened in 1838, steam locomotives were not allowed to go deep into London, so the trains got as far as Camden, and were then cable hauled the remaining couple of miles.
There are two big old tunnel bores that are now over three quarters of the way through 10 miles of Chiltern Hills. Imagine abandoning that to sunk cost fallacy.
I ride the Eurostar over the HS1 route from London, through a very long tunnel and then through northern France to Paris. Right into Paris. It's been excellent for almost three decades? You'd have thought that it would have been closed down by now with all the mass deaths that keep happening.
Yes, in fact transaction logs grow large and the process to truncate them and keep them in trim is the backup. The backup writes the data off to another location. But the larger than usual transaction logs use up more of the space in the backup target volume which eventually fails. So the transaction log backups don't have enough space to write to, so they start failing. So now nothing is truncating the transaction logs so they grow and use up their volume (or file size quota). When the transaction logs can't grow anymore the DBMS stops doing stuff.
Or the transaction logs are set to a fixed max size and they hit that before the next periodic log backup.
You need to alert not only on remaining available space, but also on the rate that space is being consumed.
How does one "organize" data which has been "deleted" from a database? (I'm presuming "organized" in this case means, "re-organized".)
Some of the data was deleted.
Some of the data was organised (possibly moving datafiles or logs to different volumes).
Two separate actions allows sense to be made of the sentence.
We don’t have a competent government. Neither the incumbent or the party waiting to step in to have a go.
Never at any time I’m my life have I witnessed a decent term of government in the UK.
So when I hear these discussions where the two ideologies are pointing the finger at each other
I just think “shut the fuck up you bunch of gullible wankers”. Neither side has a leg to stand on.
@Throatwarbler Mangrove: nobody of any capability, competence or class would ever enter politics and therefore the only people who can achieve office of any kind are these narcissists and sociopaths.
It's a choice of vote for a moron or don't vote. As I understand it, this is not an unknown situation either here or on your side of the pond.
It's still better than an article I saw on the BBC news web site last weekend that stated that any water near the Lunar South Pole hadn't been subjected to solar radiation, then told us later that the area would be great for a base as it can get up to 200 days constant illumination.
The article also seems to say that the lander is in a place which contains many craters pernamemtly shadowed from he sun. I'm not sure that's right either
The bottom of some of the craters at the south pole are indeed sheltered from the solar wind by their oblique situation - and are in permanent darkness and very low temperature. Shackleton would be a good example and would hold its water as ice. I don't think the BBC article suggested "any" water. And it is indeed correct about the long period of illumination. So as a simplified description of what might be found, it's accurate enough for general consumption.
So both are correct.
I had no fault but some engineers were working on a green street cabinet outside, knocked on the door demanding access to run a test, no appointment or even pre-warning. I refused, they said they might have to cut off our broadband and phone if we were the source of the problem so I suggested they to fuck off and do it.
They were openreach and I am on VirginMedia cable.
"compared to small extra amount of fuel reserved for a de-orbit burn?"
Assumes that the spacecraft has any powered impulsion engine. They don't all use thrusters/boosters - especially cubesats. Their deorbit process is to put them at an altitude where the orbit decays over a roughly predicable time. By increasing drag profile you can use higher orbits where otherwise the things would keep on flying for the foreseaable. Like ProsperoX3.
A common fallacy. Business people's primary role is to make money, to maximize RoI. They on the whole don't plan for the long term and there are countless stories, including many on this site, that underscore this.
You are talking about Entrepreneurs, but the suggestion was about somebody who can organise and plan. Either way, a politician seem an even worse fit for the role, as they are people who will simply present what they think people want to hear.
After trying and being frustrated with Fedora weirdness and awkward for the sake of it nature, I adopted Debian derivatives when Raspberry Pi appeared in 2012 and found it to be a huge improvement. It just made things more sensible. Though for me, OSes are generally just something that supports the application and I don't actually care about that layer, when something needs fettling I'll take the Debian stuff every time.