Nuclear should be part of the solution. Unfortunately, most older plants are bomb factories, that happen to make power. No-one built the newer safe designs, till China got hold of the aborted UK designs.
At this point, most of the west doesn’t have the skilled personnel left to spin nuclear up quickly. We also no longer have the time to deal with building nuclear, as part of the near term solution to climate change.
Fully agreed. It’s worth noting that mounting it to the side would likely also work fine. Particularly if the person is already blind. That way it doesn’t disrupt the view of facial expressions.
I’ve played around with moving perspectives. Your brain adapts remarkably quickly to it, in general. It trips up at some bits for a lot longer however.
A few years back, I built a rig to view yourself in the 3rd person (view from above and behind your head). It was good fun. I could adapt to the change in about 5-10 seconds, once I was used to it. Forward collision detection was completely screwed. My brain would default to “normal” without conscious overriding.
As a parent, an extra layer of protection would be a positive. Balancing everything, and not leaving holes is hard enough, and I’ve yet to deal with the teenage phase.
As the same time, as a Netizen, the risk of abuse to datamine me is FAR too great.
The only way I would accept it is via zero knowledge proof type tokens. I can prove I am of age, but nothing more about me can be determined by any party.
The current laws seem aimed at using “protect the children” to remove anonymity from the web, and are a data miner’s wet dream.
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
Short answer, you can’t. E.g. on the international space station, you could have 1 person “standing” on 1 wall, while another is “standing” on the other. They would both see the other as upside down. Both would be right.
Long answer, we agree on common frames of reference. We already do this on earth. It’s just that in space, we don’t have gravity, and everything is moving around a lot already.
E.g. in a ship under thrust, thruswards is up. We could also use the plane of the solar system, or the direction of the local planet as a reference. All of them are arbitrary however.
Amusingly, if you continue down that rabbit hole, you encounter relativity. It says there are no prime frames of reference, EVERYTHING is relative.
I would much rather a FOSS option, that is difficult to tap into. The other option is people using proprietary setups that can be data mined without the user’s knowledge.
Its a classic “perfect is the enemy of good” situation.
They also likely have detailed plans and supplies set up for exactly this sort of action. It will be less “teenager with an AK” and more competent, trained soldiers fighting to protect his homeland from invaders.
I personally suspect environmentally caused ADHD could be a thing.
Ultimately, if the treatment methods and suggestions help, I have no issues with it being treated.
It’s also worth noting that ADHD (and sub diagnosis ADHD) are disproportionately represented in certain groups. My wife didn’t realise she had a problem till well into adulthood. Since she was diagnosed, over half her friendship group are either diagnosed, or in the process.
When it causes active problems with life. It’s also worth noting that it’s a brain chemistry change. Where on the sliding scale you pick is, ultimately, a little arbitrary.
I personally suspect modern life isn’t helping. The pressures on children are quite different now. I suspect many children who wouldn’t develop symptomatic ADHD in earlier years now do.
It’s also worth noting that ADHD, as a condition, is mostly a Gordian knot of maladaptations. Built up over childhood (and beyond). While there are a lot of commonalities, you need to do a detailed investigation to pick out what bits are a problem to the individual.
If you’re going to go through that process, then you might as well not tie up an MRI machine for no reason.
Drugs can treat the base problem, but don’t work well without the follow-up care to repair the behavioural damage.
The UK used submarines during the Falklands war.
The decision was made to sink an Argentinian warship. Critically, they didn’t attack the escort ship. They left it to recover the sailors. Apparently it horrified the British command when it ran, leaving sailors in the water.
A simple radio message “Move and we will sink you. Take no offensive actions and we will give you 5 minutes to launch lifeboats first.” Hell, even a sonar ping would have given them half a chance.
You at least do what you can to give them a fighting chance.
A radio message would have at least let them abandon ship in a (semi) orderly manner. Hell, even a solar ping would have got them into life jackets.
Normally, a sub wouldn’t risk this. They knew in advance, however, that the ship was not currently armed.
My plan is to replace the bathroom extractor with a heat exchanger. It takes outside air, warms it using the exhaust air, then dumps it into the bedrooms.
The living areas are easier. Opening a window for 10 minutes isn’t an issue when you’re awake and moving about.
You can also get vent replacement versions. They flip flop between venting out, and pulling in, storing heat in a heatsink as appropriate.
I don’t want it too cold when sleeping, and heating a room with an open window is wasteful and expensive.
I’m personally planning on installing an air to air heat exchanger. Even a cheap one can get 75% recovery. Add in some air sensors to make it smart and it’s fairly fire and forget.
I feel you. I lived in a converted stable once. The place leaked air like a sieve.
I also discovered the oil fired boiler had 20m+ of unlagged pipes between it and our radiators, running through an unused stable. It took 2 full tanks/winter to just keep it above freezing. It should have been 1/2 a tank to keep it nice and warm.
Modern houses are actually quite a problem for this. A well insulated house also tend to be quite well sealed. I’ve seen my bedroom pass 5000ppm. I suspect a lot of people are working in 1000ppm environments or higher for long periods.
For those interested, IKEA recently released a air quality sensor that does CO2 for a very low price. ALPSTUGA
The point is that the reasonable null hypothesis is flat. It’s the starting point, before you apply the scientific methods.
It’s quite simple to disprove that however, particularly if you have access to an ocean, or large body of water.
The problem with applying that part of game theory here is it makes several assumptions.
The biggest is that the bigger party are playing for maximisation, rather than just to “win”. That is very much not the game with trump.
The second is the assumption that there is only 1 game in play at a time. America could cause devastating economic damage, if it went full tantrum. Europe has noticed how vulnerable they are to that sort of action. They need to patch the holes before playing hardball.
Under these assumptions, taking fairly meaningless hits to buy time makes sense. Pull the wolf’s teeth, before challenging it to bite you.
Remember that dB is a logarithmic scale. Each 10 is 10x bigger than the 1 before. We talk at around 60dB, so 10,000x quieter. We can hear from around -9dB to 90dB (into hearing damage territory) that’s a 10,000,000,000x range. If you allow for hearing damage, a gunshot is around 140dB. So add 5 extra zeros to that.
Human hearing is insane.