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scooters are the worst. So much noise for a tiny vehicle (worse than most cars even) and the old ones smell so so bad. electrify now!

mostly just a new year’s eve celebration now

+1 for Cargo bikes, but otherwise if your bike infrastructure sorta sucks, the Citroën Ami and counterparts from Fiat etc are pretty common in European cities… easy to park too.

NIO does battery swaps in minutes, in China and Europe. I believe you can also perhaps get different ranges but if not, would be great to swap between a 50kwh pack for normal use a…

If you like repairing the vintage Vespa, great project and that sounds fun. That’s worth a lot! But I will curse at the stink of the exhaust from the crappy old motor when you ride…

My only counter to this is that after, what, two _decades_, Apple _still_ has not added the ability to adjust number boxes with the up/down arrows on the keyboard (like text size f…

A sensible approach I saw in the BMW i4 was to keep the defrost buttons around, among relatively few buttons. (I forget if the climate temp controls were physical too though.)

This is a must-watch for everyone here commenting! 6 minutes dense with revelations.

IIRC Vigo, in Galicia (Spain) struck me as a case of a decently dense city that used roundabouts at relatively compact intersections in the city center, along one street at least: …

Yes. This bug makes the UX on mac just feel broken and frustrating reminds you every time you do it. Tried to bear it for a year but I use text replacements so heavily that I had t…

Took Lisbon to Donostia-San Sebastián before Renfe canceled it in 2020. Basic hostel-like sleeping experience, but really nice and something that should exist. Would love to take t…

And yet car+sleeper trains were pretty common until relatively recently! (edit: in Europe)

I got an e-Muli, which is a sorta “short john” but where the front basket folds and handlebars pivot 90° so parking it is a bit more slim, more or less the footprint of a normal bi…

I think your reverse cycle ac would be an air-to-air heat pump. Air-to-water is more like your heat pump water heater, with the hot water then going through radiators.

that sounds really nice… without “blowing up the spot”, could you give a vague location?

always good to have zoning, either via small separate heat pump or with a retrofit like AirZone (not sure if something similar is available there) which modulates the flow to each …

source?

Would this satisfy your criteria? Or are you looking for someone explicitly pairing pumped hydro with other renewables? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/18/portugal…

I believe I’ve read this was also due to Iberian gauge high speed rail technology not really being existent at the time Spain started building HSR in a hurry for Expo ‘92? in Sevil…

If your goal is just lowering R0, sure… but a lot of countries prefer to lower deaths, which is why they start with the older population / those with health conditions.

but they have the option to download (with the iCloud share link, not shared album).

This is sort of a thing in Portugal. They display all the papers on a board and you can (and people do) read the front pages, and then you can decide if you want to buy one to read…

Temporary in that they are moved 2-4 times a year, but permanent in that they are used throughout the year, just in different locations.

Ironically, traditional yurts very similar to these are used in places that go from -40C to +40C throughout the year (Mongolia, Tuva... though true, when it’s -40C, hopefully you’v…

Disclaimer: Outlier fan. The shorts and pants are where Outlier really shines (okay, and button-down shirts), they’re the best value. the ~$100 Ultrafine t-shirt is luxurious as he…