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  • Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

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  • Actually nope. Parliament makes the rules. And ofcom hires 3rd parties to resurch support or rejection those rules. Then advises parliament.

    The only thing ofcom dose is decide if licences have broken rules. And often that is then taken to a court after.

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • Add use of gpio to reasons to use pie.

    While gpio adaptors are available for pc. The software architecture is not as well rounded and documented.

    So for any complex hardware project development. Gpio based SBCs are often essential.

    So space, low power and gpio development.

    Otherwise yep old laptop or even desktop can be cheaper and more able.

    But overall. The wide software support and documentation for hardware connectivity is a bloody good reason to keep pie supported.

    I'm setting 2 up to control the hot water and solar dump system on my shared little boat. As I want to link 12v Lifepo4 batt charging with the solar dump and visually impaired control for AC and diesel heating of the water.

    Pies really are the best option to play with. While low power and easy to design a unique low vision interface.

    Also UK boat safty. Is issuing warning about permanently connected li ion batts on boats. So it is likely setting up a laptop to manage this while not on the boat. Will be banned in the near future.

    Only an issue for UK boating but worth considering the risks of leaving laptops to run when not observed.

  • Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says

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  • Actually that is a large part of the govs claimed cost cutting plan.

    Ministers and civil servant. Not MPs though.

  • Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

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  • Ofcom is the UK gov department in charge of radiowave licencing. Equivalent of US FCC

    As a ham I have a licence with them. But so dose all your WiFi equipment and phones have to meet there rules. Licencing can apply to a person, org or a device design depending on the frequencies used.

    Every nation that is a member of the ITU. International telecommunications union.(Almost all nations) Has to have an agency enforcing agreed to rules.

    So credibility on that subject yes. Very much.

    But on mental effect on groups of people. They have 0 expertise. And given the numbers used (38men able to self exclude based on subject of study). None on statistical analysis.

    Id only trust them on radio wave propergation, electromagnetic effect and licencing laws.

    Here my own experience talking to folks working there. Get past the telephone handlers and they are real experts.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • I’d love to see more innovation in mechanical storage.

    Yep most of it is dams and moving water ATM. And while that is efficient. It takes way more space then the UK can spare.

    There has been a lot of work using heat storage of late. As we develop more materials etc. I can see this becoming more common. Will always have more loss then gravity. But is much more practice to multi use the land. And build on smaller scale. It is popular in factory situations where heat is often the energy needed. Generate during the day from solar or wind store in huge heat absorbing blocks and release on the night shift.

    But use of land is the main problem with all natural renewables. Except maybe tidal. But even that has negative effects on land use. Wind turbines need space beyond the structure. While much can still be farmed. Farming land is also where they are best situated. Due to lack of nearby structures. Solar is a huge land hog. And moving it into our cities. Should happen but to be effective takes a complete redesign,

    But the fact that a single car park structure exists that doesn't have the roof covered. Show how little effort has been pushed. Open land car parks should do more. But effect on others light will be an issue. But if you own a building that just parks cars on the roof. It is insane that nothing has motivated you to build out solar over the last 40 years of climate change acceptance.

  • British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say

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  • Yeah he has been reported to comment. "He watched people die in front of him"

    So likely he is already starting to feel some PTSD. It is likely to get much worse as he gets over the shock. India is also far from a positive nation to have a mental health issue.

    Few places are great. But Indias culture is very much know to deny the existence. And opinion the idea it would be his weakness rather then a normal issue.

    So seeking treatment may never happen.

  • British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say

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  • An article I noted but can't remember where.

    Said seat 11a is next the the exit at the front of the wing. And pointed out this is the most structural reinforced section of the aircraft. Due to the forces on the wing.

    So he was fucking lucky.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • If you hit the science tab. You will see the register uses the image to top Thier headline.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • No you did not. Cold fusion has never been predicted by anyone sane. There was a hoax at a uni in Oxford in the early 90s. That was very quickly discovered to be a chilish student hoax. It was fun to them. Because all science theory says it's impossible.

    Come on dude fusion is the very reason stars are hot.

    Not to mention cold fusion would be fairly useless for power generation. As the heat is exactly how electricity is created. You need steem.

    Hot fusion has been achieved. For the first time as self sustaining in 2022. But at a scale that is not profitable. IE takes huge energy to get the initial heat while only generating 1% of that energy after the heating is supported by the fusion itself. Due to the size of the resulting star(contained fusion result).

    This project has designed a full scale plant to hold a much larger star using the same STEP design. This mathematically is predicted to be able to feed it's own growth after creation. Untill it is then contained( by complex magnetic fields),in a 100mw steem generating plant. Once it is created the huge lasers needed to initiate the heat are turned off. And the size of the plant allows the process to grow.

    Will it work. Likely but it is also. Just like early fission power plants likely to take time to perfect.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • STEP is a fusion method not the organisation.

    And the money was spent on designing a full scale reactor that uses that method. The register seems to think paying loads of researchers and professers to design the first ever of a new design is free. When in reality it takes huge amounts of computing power and in this case new AI systems to develop the algorithms to magnetically control.

    A man made fucking star at 150million c.

    Yes such design is expensive. Even when it has been done on a much much smaller scale. How much inflation adjusted do you think the first fission full scale power station cost to design.

    The register is being dumb. Not to mention the 2.5b has been approved because the designers achieved exactly what the promised for 220m under budget.

  • Actor Laurence Fox is set to appear at Croydon Crown Court at 2.30 p.m. after pleading not guilty to encouraging people to damage Ulez cameras.

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  • If we arrest folks for that. There would be no politicians.........

    Actually never mind.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • No idea was not me but auto added.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • Spent £280 for 800w for my small boat a year ago. Thinking it was cheap so grab quick. Now half that for the same panels.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • Cold fusion is a different and entirely mythical idea.

    And step was the first successful positive output from a fusion (hot they run a 1pp to 150million c).

    The money went on the design stage of a full size reactor. As expected and exactly as the original plan in 2022 indicated. And as the article admits. They just seem to think designing the first ever of a tech should be cheep. Rather then requiring loads of uniquely skilled and well paid researchers.

    The register is missing important understanding. Early 1950 small scale fission reactors also had negative true input to output. They only produced a true positive result at full scale. But the maths proved that scale.

    The maths of the NIF STEP reactore are the same.

    There is a reason SMR fission reactors are only now starting to be built. Profitable ones were impossible until the 90.

  • UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't

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  • Solar is still worth it. More so at current prices.

    Fusion or fission is the cleanest safest way to match demand when wind or sun do not. At least in a nation we're we lack the space to build gravity fed storage.

  • Candies from US company could damage DNA and increase cancer risk, UK agency warns

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  • Yep but they are enforcing the standards they have. So it's more not wanting to then failing.

    We are failing to enforce. The US has now requirement to meet UK standards. We have the requirement to ban companies that don't.

  • Candies from US company could damage DNA and increase cancer risk, UK agency warns

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  • Worth noting that UK costoms allowed the import of sweets made with illegal in the UK ingredients for years.

    As bad as US food standards are. This is a huge failure of UK standards enforcement. Not a US one.

  • Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment

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  • Sorry no. France has proven the case for nuclear as a business many times over.

    And for all the benefits of renewable. It has one huge disadvantage. We cannot control availability. So either storage (takes more space then the UK has. Or harmful materials for battery's. Or some form of power plant that can be turned on or of with demand.

    Nuclear is by far the cleanest that meets that goal. Until STEP is proven at large scale. (We are now building a full size fusion plant so post 2040 that looks likely).

    It really is the best option.

  • Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End

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  • No need to be more right then they promised.

    But democracy requires them not to go more left either.

    This whole win the election by lying to the public sounds very Tory.