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AlpacaChariot

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  • Or any neuro

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  • This is me too, I don't really understand why it's like that but I'm SO productive at night.

    Maybe it's about having eaten a really good meal or something? Or just all the other distractions disappearing?

    I feel like there must be some a more scientific reason!

  • Been wanting these Chelseas for years and finally found them on sale (down by 60%) afew weeks ago.

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  • They look great!

    So satisfying when you find a good bargain as well.

  • Structural Engineers

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  • Often we achieve very uplifting things with a huge amount of diligent hard work and planning.

    It's rarely uplifting in the arty/poetic/slightly "wishy washy" sense of the OP though.

    If you want a specific example, my last project was a big concrete box bridge (6000t), it was built off to the side of the railway and pushed into position using enormous strand jacks. This allowed the railway to remain open apart from ~10 days over Christmas. It took 3 years to do all the design and construction including the temporary works design (construction methodology); all the planning paid off because it was installed successfully, within tolerance and on programme.

    The bridge will last at least 120 years and will allow more rail freight instead of road transportation, which has environmental and social benefits.

    We designed the bridge so that you could install overhead electrification in future if the rest of the network was upgraded (so you could use electric rather than diesel powered vehicles).

    Basically, you achieve impressive things by doing a lot of hard technical work. It's a bit of a different mindset to writing poems about beams sharing loads.

  • Structural Engineers

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  • No, but a lot of us are more prone to just doing everything ourselves rather than communicating and working together in a big team.

    High yield stress!

  • Structural Engineers

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  • Most structural engineers are a lot less uplifting than this.

    Source: I'm a structural engineer.

  • UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity'

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  • Yeah fair enough, no doubt getting countries to agree that corporations should be accountable for "accidental" damage to the enviroment would be even more difficult than getting them to sign up to this!

  • UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity'

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  • Not sure if they would come under #11?

  • UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity'

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  • It's probably mostly because it says "the gravest crime against humanity" and not "a grave crime against humanity". Except for the US, which always seems to vote against anything that might bind it.

    There are 11 types of crimes against humanity in the Rome charter (must be widespread/systemic and targeted against civilian population):

    1. Murder;
    2. Extermination (including "the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population");
    3. Enslavement;
    4. Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
    5. Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
    6. Torture;
    7. Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
    8. Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
    9. Enforced disappearance of persons;
    10. The crime of apartheid;
    11. Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

  • ‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside

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  • Can you sound insulate a garden?

    Again, I think if you read the article you'll understand their issues a lot better.

  • ‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside

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  • Like everyone else on Lemmy I recommend an ad blocker!

    Anyway, I'm sure that having read the article now you noticed that the couple in question are worried about the noise because they have an autistic daughter and moved there to get away from noise, which she's especially sensitive to.

    I'm not sure how it's relevant that a substation from any other source wouldn't be worse is relevant? If the panels weren't behind their house then the substation wouldn't be there either.

  • ‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside

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  • Small modular reactors? For the UK in particular these are a good option as we use the same tech in nuclear subs.

    Or if you want to do solar specifically, lots of smaller scale solar developments that don't take over an entire area (like 4 fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, so you can avoid it or walk around it and it doesn't create an enormous "no go" zone next to a rural village.

    I don't think anyone in this thread is really acknowledging the scale of this development, it's a 1400 hectare site of which 900ha is panels. If you made that into a square it would he 3km x 3km of panels!

  • ‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside

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  • The noise is from the substation (it says so in the article).

  • ‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside

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  • Did you read the article?

    One of the new plants being built in this area, Tillbridge, is the largest solar development to be granted planning permission so far. The project will cover approximately 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres), equivalent to 2,000 football pitches.

    That's absolutely enormous!

    They are covering the area with panels because there is an existing grid connection from an old power station nearby that they can re-use. Makes sense from an engineering perspective but it's a shocking planning decision, it's not like a few fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, people who live there now will be surrounded by them.

    It really seems like bad policy to me, it turns something that should be a positive symbol that you could feel proud of as a local, into something that will feel really oppressive.

    You've called these people racist, doubtless some are but I expect the majority are just desperate and only support reform because the alternatives aren't representing them well on this issue.

  • CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

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  • For those like me who hadn't heard of it:

    Performance-First Linux, Built on Arch

    CachyOS ships every package optimized for your CPU - compiled with x86-64-v3/v4 and Zen4 instructions, LTO, and PGO - on top of a custom kernel with the tuned EEVDF scheduler. The result: a noticeably faster Arch Linux experience with the same rolling-release flexibility you expect.

  • What we get upset about

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  • I know what the cartoon is trying to say, but those graphs make no sense

  • I like trains

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  • Optimised to perfection

  • Microsoft Authenticator might exclude GrapheneOS in the future due to root detection

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  • Pebble Production: February Update

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  • I hope you will enjoy it, I really do think less is more with watches. Notifications, media control with physical buttons, and the odd timer is what I need to work really well (and like you say, not have to charge it every day).

    I searched around for ages to replace my pebble after they folded, the closest I came was a Fossil watch where the hands could move to indicate different types of notification, but the mechanism broke after about 6 months. I was so excited when Pebble started up again!

  • Windmills Off Today

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  • Was it really windy? Turbines need steady medium wind speeds to operate; when the wind speed increases above a threshold they stop generating, and sometimes angle the blades to reduce the drag (so the mast and foundation aren't overstressed).

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    NASA does hip hop

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Safe seats that may flip

  • Ask UK @feddit.uk
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    Midge defence?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Debian for Linux gaming?

  • F-Droid @lemmy.ml
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    Krita

    f-droid.org /packages/org.krita/
  • Lemmy Be Wholesome @lemmy.world
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    Whole some mike

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone tried Inkbox?

    github.com /Kobo-InkBox/inkbox
  • Linux Questions @lemmy.zip
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    How can I stop my TV from turning off when my Linux box is idle?

  • Linux Questions @lemmy.zip
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    Linux kernel version vs Debian package version