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In the five years I have used Arch, I have not had a single issue.

I don’t know if kids notice, but I can smell the air pollution every time I drive into outer London from outside London. It’s how I know I’m entering London.

My 2002 MINI was ULEZ-compliant. I agree with you. The idea that ULEZ means people must give up driving is ridiculous and overblown. It does not affect the vast majority of people …

Ah, so _that’s_ why the ente photos app feels so “off” - it’s using flutter. I’ve tried the app a few times over the last couple of years and had a dislike of the UI because it did…

This is what self-hosted software should be. An app, self-contained, (essentially) a single file with minimal dependencies. Not something so complex that it requires docker. Not so…

I've been thinking about doing this myself, so it's fantastic to see a project. I find a files-centric (and more broadly filesystem-centric) approach easier to grapple with than on…

Super confusing! Through different reasoning I get different answers: 1. More likely to be red because the urn has a greater chance of having more red balls 2. Equally likely by co…

I’ve used Cloud Run and it does allow for background threads.

That’s not right because it implies that only new cars since 2015 can drive inside the ULEZ. The ULEZ standard requires diesel cars to conform to Euro 6, available since 2015 - the…

Do you really think someone is going to read that, start ignoring their doctors, throw all their medicine in the bin, and become some kind of natto evangelist? It’s a common Japane…

The idea of societal benefit is very nebulous. It sounds like your idea of it is very different to mine by the fact that you believe in an absolute answer to it. How do you measure…

You're right in a sense. I would certainly notice the change if it happened very quickly. However, I would quickly adapt and think it was just normal. (Mind you, my room is about 1…

This is useful to understand what this report actually is. It lays out the physical science basis for climate change. The full impacts, and possible mitigations will come in later …

I disagree that it was unavoidable. I said to my family in February that the UK should stop all - absolutely all - flights into the country. The cost of this would have been minisc…

They'll have a choice between two similar products. One is $10 because of a $5 carbon charge, the other is $6 with a $0 carbon charge. What will they choose? They'll choose the $6 …

If my room was 2 degrees hotter right now, I would barely notice. So "2 degrees" by itself actually really does mean very little even to me - and I already know about the catastrop…

The rich will support the burden of climate adaptation because the income from the tax can be used directly to help mitigate climate change. The vast majority of flights are taken …

The emissions from aviation are increasing every year, the majority of flights are for holidays rather than business, and only a very small minority of people globally actually tak…

I was recently thinking about why bitcoin shouldn't just be banned to help mitigate the ongoing climate catastrophe which led to my recent article [0] which equated banning bitcoin…

COVID has not been cheap either - it has cost hundreds of billions [0]. You could fund twenty crossrails for this amount of money. [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/ma…

You cannot tell from your old meter because it does not submit meter readings every minute (or whatever the configuration is) because it does not have an internet connection.

Arch-TK I absolutely agree with everything you are saying, and I don’t intend to get a smart meter myself for as long as possible. However, you are incorrect that meters are incomp…

Incredible. I somehow heard about the NHS opt-out, but not about the GP one. I’m appalled by how much disregard the government has for sensitive personal medical information. I per…

It feels like a flaw of the voting system for articles to end up on the front-page, yet we still need to check comments to see if it is worth reading. Who are all these people upvo…

I don’t think the article is talking about sleeping for one hour less. It has examples saying “go to sleep one hour earlier; wake up one hour earlier” - so the same amount of sleep…