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Water Cooler / Re: Maritime traffic in Amsterdam during its quinquennial SAIL event
« on: May 26, 2022, 12:01:45 PM »
Bikes are bad enough over there, but that edge of the seat stuff!
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Water Cooler / A step closer to the Star Trek's replicator
« on: March 30, 2022, 09:46:24 AM »
https://www.cana.com/
"Cana One is the world’s first molecular beverage printer"
Having dabbled in the flavouring industry anything really is possible.
I can see the likes of wine producers taking advantage of something like this.
They can create replicas of their (expensive) wines and be used in machines like this to get royalties from a niche where the average John or Jane would never dream of buying the original, authentic product.
"Cana One is the world’s first molecular beverage printer"
Having dabbled in the flavouring industry anything really is possible.
I can see the likes of wine producers taking advantage of something like this.
They can create replicas of their (expensive) wines and be used in machines like this to get royalties from a niche where the average John or Jane would never dream of buying the original, authentic product.
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Hardware & Technology / Re: Anyone else excited/nervous about the upcoming James Webb Telescope launch?
« on: March 24, 2022, 11:17:54 AM »
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/
I learnt something new today, being able to tell by the spikes which which telescope was used.
Every article I read I'm always awestruck at the the insane level the engineers went to get this telescope to where it is now.
I learnt something new today, being able to tell by the spikes which which telescope was used.
Every article I read I'm always awestruck at the the insane level the engineers went to get this telescope to where it is now.
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Water Cooler / Re: EU Preparing for the first winter without Russian gas | Bruegel
« on: March 03, 2022, 01:04:37 PM »
I'm kicking myself now having our chimney removed because it was cheaper to do that than to repair it.
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Water Cooler / Re: two links
« on: February 02, 2022, 11:57:11 AM »Funny... reading your reply reminded me of something I heard from a crypto booster. In theory, Bitcoin could actually be a sort of store of energy. It's not that you would run the CPU cycles backwards. It works more like this.
1. You have a solar farm. Part of the time it is producing energy that you cannot sell.
2. You use that energy to run your server farm and mine BTC.
3. You then sell the BTC and that helps finance your solar farm.
So financially, it's sort of like storing the energy in a battery and selling it later. But you store your excess capacity as BTC.
Of course, it strikes me as much much better for society to push that excess power into batteries or a hydrogen plant or a turbine that pumps water uphill or super-heated brine or some system that is an actual store of energy. But it is in an interesting concept for making sure that there is always a market for the excess power.
Mining bitcoin makes perfect sense as there's now a real incentive to utilise the wasted energy that's already being created.
https://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/26/us-wastes-61-86-of-its-energy/
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Hardware & Technology / Re: Anyone else excited/nervous about the upcoming James Webb Telescope launch?
« on: January 28, 2022, 12:56:17 PM »Amazing bit of engineering. Have you seem where its at?
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Just had a peek.
Thanks for the updates
Have you seen the new 3D version, it's pretty awesome
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Marketplaces / Amazon UK to stop accepting Visa credit cards
« on: November 17, 2021, 12:13:19 PM »
Just had this in my inbox
If it was any other company it probably wouldn't make a difference but that's got to be a big chunk of Visa's transactions
If it was any other company it probably wouldn't make a difference but that's got to be a big chunk of Visa's transactions
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Water Cooler / Re: Boris licks the 3rd rail
« on: September 09, 2021, 11:40:19 AM »
In reality it's more like a 10% increase.
Plus adding it to the Nation Insurance to start (with it moving out as it's own tax in 2023) is sneaky.
I foresee a storm coming, and not a pretty one at that, especially when everything is going up as well.
Plus adding it to the Nation Insurance to start (with it moving out as it's own tax in 2023) is sneaky.
I foresee a storm coming, and not a pretty one at that, especially when everything is going up as well.
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Water Cooler / Re: THIS! If there are walls and a roof, it's not outdoor dining
« on: November 19, 2020, 12:57:14 PM »
A couple of mates started this up during the 1st lockdown - https://www.thescenicsupper.co.uk/
They need more glasshouses (NOT greenhouses) as every single one is always booked up and I can't get one even with my close ties
They need more glasshouses (NOT greenhouses) as every single one is always booked up and I can't get one even with my close ties
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Traffic / Re: Apple Search: Another Nessie Sighting?
« on: October 28, 2020, 11:38:08 AM »I don't have a sub to the FT so I can't read the original article to judge how much mojo it has.
TOP TIP: Search for the title of the article on Twitter and click on a link pointing to it.
It works for other sites too.
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Water Cooler / Re: How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
« on: October 09, 2020, 10:44:28 AM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54442386 - Coronavirus: Health experts join global anti-lockdown movement
"They are calling for protection to be focused on the vulnerable, while healthy people get on with their lives."
Been saying that from that start
"They are calling for protection to be focused on the vulnerable, while healthy people get on with their lives."
Been saying that from that start
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Water Cooler / Re: How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
« on: October 02, 2020, 05:54:27 PM »
> I'm not letting them stick that needle in my arm.
I certainly don't want to be a guinea pig for a vaccine that's been rushed through.
Who here will go first?
I certainly don't want to be a guinea pig for a vaccine that's been rushed through.
Who here will go first?
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Water Cooler / Re: How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
« on: October 02, 2020, 12:16:26 PM »
And when I say for the rest to carry on, I mean with guidance as in wearing face masks, washing your hands more often and generally improving people's hygiene which has been one good thing that's come from this.
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Water Cooler / Re: How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
« on: October 02, 2020, 12:12:35 PM »
I always said from the start we should have identified the most vulnerable, protected them and told the rest to carry on.
As far I know (I could be wrong) but there are no cures for any viruses.
HIV is still about, the flu is still about to name a couple, and it's only because we train our own immune systems to fight them by evolution or nudging it along using dumb down versions of the virus that we surive.
Yes, there will be fall out, but I can't see any other way to proceed from this.
You just have to see how the population are getting lockdown fever to know that it can't carry on.
As far I know (I could be wrong) but there are no cures for any viruses.
HIV is still about, the flu is still about to name a couple, and it's only because we train our own immune systems to fight them by evolution or nudging it along using dumb down versions of the virus that we surive.
Yes, there will be fall out, but I can't see any other way to proceed from this.
You just have to see how the population are getting lockdown fever to know that it can't carry on.