tankplanker @ tankplanker @lemmy.world

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You almost had me charging? You never had me charging - you never had your car charging, it had tripped the socket

Pedantic but: 7kw isn't three phase in the UK, just 30A. Three phase electric can give you up to 22kw in the UK for charging, obviously not every EV can charge that fast, most only go up to 11kw AC. I would kill for that extra charging speed but I can't justify the extra cost and effort to get it fitted by the electric company

We have a granny charger that came with one of our EVs that we use as a backup and with our caravan to charge on sites that allow it. As I am UK it tops out at 2.4kw (10A @ 240v) and its annoyingly slow even charging for more than 12 hours at a time.

Our main home charger is 7kw, and as we get cheap electric every night for 7p a KwH for 5 hours, we can charge about 40kwh in that time period. Means even our largest battery is fully charged in two nights from completely empty. If we tried that with the granny charger it would cost significantly more, as it would be up to 40p a KwH outside of the main hours and take 40 hours to charge the same amount.

Now if you doing only a few miles a day, less than 40 miles (4 miles per KwH, charge for the 5 cheap hours using the cars charging timer, charge 10 KwH), it might work out ok for you, but then charging every day cannot be good for the battery? I know it would get annoying quite quickly. It would also get pretty painful if you have more than one EV, we have three between us and the kids, so its not remotely practical.

I recently streamlined by espresso prep by switching to a blind shaker and bean cup with built in scales, saved about a minute of time vs. having to WDT and RDT plus the time moving my shot scale to/from the espresso machine. The other big change was switching to a 58mm to 49mm step down basket as deep basket depth really does seem to make it easier to dial in shots as they have a bigger sweet spot. Couple that with adding in flow control so I have greater control over pre infusion timings and shot ramp down means I have to spend far less time dialing in that I did for a great shot.

Its probably not worth the expense to do this for most people but for me its helped me stay motivated to keep making espresso shots first thing in the morning.

Longest part of using my e61 is the pre heat, that's about 15 minutes. This I turn on remotely using a smart switch so its not dead time. I am either out with the dog or in the shower while its pre heating.

Weighing and grinding the beans is about a minute, I tend to run some hot water from the group head into the cup to pre heat during this time. Decanting into the portafilter and tamping is less than a minute. The shot pulls in about 40 seconds including pre infusion. Banging out the puck is another 20 seconds or so. I would guess about 3 minutes end to end.

I do clean my espresso machine every day, which means about 5 back flushes and a portafilter less flush at the end. Wiping everything down, emptying the drip tray, refilling the water, thats a good 7 to 10 minutes. Its excessive but I absolutely cannot stand dirty espresso machines.

While I am away from home I use a picopresso with a 1zpresso J Ultra hand grinder, thats considerably more time to make a shot as hand grinding takes over a minute alone. I pre heat by running a full basket of water through the pico for every shot, and clean up has to be after every shot as well. Its probably closer to 6 minutes per shot with the pico. With the upgraded basket and pressure gauge its capable of very good shots considering its size and cost, at least with the J Ultra.

A smart plug transformed my espresso usage, turn on it on when I get up from my bed, by the time I am downstairs its ready to go. If you have a regular time you get up you could even stick it on a timer. Even being able to turn it on from another room, even when I am on a call saves a few minutes of having to get up and turn it on.

I am sure the fact that Pornhubs owners have their own AgeID solution that they have tried to sell to governments like the UK and didn't win exclusive rights has nothing to do with their decision to pull out of France.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/porn-age-verification-laws-ageid-youporn-pornhub-mindgeek-uk-government-a8251791.html

It has to be entirely intentional to keep it opaque and ambiguous, it will not change until they are forced to change it.

t has to be intentional because the FIA know that any such ambiguity or lack of clarity in the rules governing the design of the car are ruthlessly exploited by the teams as soon as they are spotted, and the FIA often react quickly to it with TDs and the like, why should drivers be any different?

With football refs if the ref does something so obviously wrong and it results in a result being changed, that ref is at real risk of punishment of one sort or another. Its rare that we ever see that with F1 stewards, Herbert was the last guy to get punished and that was for talking outside of school rather than a mistake with a particular ruling, as contentious as some of those were.

It just feels like they are equating controversy with rating, so have no incentive to sort it out.

My mother did the slitty eyed gesture and said that there were too many chi*ks here, in the car part for a large asian grocery store in the local chinatown that she had chosen to go to, to buy asian food. Yes other people heard and saw what she did, including asians. This was more than twenty years ago so not linked to the current rise of more overt racism.

Yeah I am the same, I would rather pay more for a better device, and preferably not one from Amazon if I can help it. Its only a matter of time before they start cracking down even more on side loading as they are in the process of removing backing up your own books already. They were only ever cheap in the first place because Amazon wanted to dominate the market and close up shop around their own bookstore so they heavily subsidised the price and turned a blind eye to piracy.

I upgraded my ancient paperwhite for a PocketBook InkPad Color 3 because I wanted colour and a larger screen to read comics but also something that was more responsive. Sure its never going to beat a good tablet for colour depth or responsiveness, its still eink after all, but its so much nicer to use than my old paperwhite.

For something that I use for at least an hour a day, every day (I had a near 600 week streak on my kindle), I do not see the money spent as a bad investment when they lasting a near decade. I could have just replaced my battery in my paperwhite and carried on using it, but the upsides of a nicer ereader that is away from Amazon was a big pull for me.

I would maintain that the uncertainty is intentionally kept in the rules to allow for a flexible interpretation to suit the situation. By itself its not a bad way to do things as it allows for nuance but it also allows for actual and perceived manipulation.

I have long maintained, including in this very thread that I want the uncertainty removed and the rules made stricter. When you have certain drivers deliberately working in the grey area of the rules, while doing nothing "illegal", or you have clearly inconsistent stewarding, is against the intent of allowing that grey area.

The overtaking rules were recently changed because of the way one driver exploited that set of rules, its how it has to be in that situation.

This gets a lot easier if you have somewhere reliable and preferably free to stay when you need to start working again. Even if you have paid off your own place or been given a place for free you have bills to pay on it. I guess you can rent it out while you are away, but that seems less than ideal to me as how do you keep it maintained if you aren't in the country? It just ends up being another cost.

I would have loved to have done this but the housing situation has always put me off.

Time penalties aren't always consistently applied for unsafe releases, and that highlights the FIAs inconsistency over the offenses punishment being linked to the damage caused.

I think there is a argument to be made that anything that is worthy of a time penalty must rather than could, come with penalty points, otherwise the penalties have no real ongoing peril for the driver or team. There should be less grey area over what points you can expect for what penalty, may be it exists already but if it does then it really isn't clear.

Football you have clear boundaries for each offense with clear punishments to apply, they aren't always applied consistently, but they do exist. Offside is a strange one, as it only really impacts the team and the punishment is losing possession and a free kick for the opposition, so it is punished. It isn't always spotted but VAR has reduced that, not enough but significantly.

An unsafe release by its very definition negatively impacts at least one other driver, its a far more significant transgression than being offside. I would equate being offside to being outside the defined track limits on a qualy lap and having your qualy lap time deleted as thats an offensive and punishment that only impacts that driver. Being outside track limits to stay ahead during the race I see as something very different, that very much should result in a black flag for persistent offenses.

I agree that Max should have had a much bigger punishment yesterday, a drive through would have been the absolute min that I would have expected and a stop and go would really be what I was expecting. The FIA always maintain that the damage to the victims race does not play a part, but they are full of shit when they say that. If Max had taken George out of the race rather than banged wheels I would then expect the DSQ, but not for what actually happened.

I suspect he wasn't given it as they would have had more pressure to give him more penalty points so he would have been banned for the next race as well, losing two races worth of point and ending the title race to other teams far too early for the FIA.

On the penalty points it depends for me, someone consistently making mistakes no matter how minor should be getting a ban as they are not learning their lesson. You would have to get six two point offenses within 12 months to qualify for it, that's a hell of a lot. Second in the list is Lawson with five points, that's a massive gap to Max. Max is where he is because of his behavior last year.

Fines are pretty meaningless for F1 teams, bans actually work as a deterrent for bad behavior. If you started giving penalty points for things like speeding in the pit lane or unsafe releases then it would stop pretty quickly. I know unsafe releases are the teams faults but its not like fines have actually reduced their occurrence.

I also believe that multiple bans within x years should result in a super license being pulled and that person having to re-qualify for it.

The real punishment is that he is now on 11 penalty points for the next two races, even a reasonably minor infraction could result in a race ban.

If he did get a race ban what would be interesting is how RB would fill that seat, would Liam get recalled for a race as he has recent experience of car? Isack can a crack at it? Who would replace either of them in the Racing Bull?

Keyboard really depends on how much you want to spend. A good custom isn't cheap but can be a lot lot nicer than any pre built and a closer match to what you actually like to type on and want it to look like. If you aren't already familiar with switches, stabs, etc. then its a deep hole to fall into.

The expensive gaming mice only seem worth it to me if you are pretty competitive at whatever games you play. Otherwise its like a fat old man buying race running shoes and expecting it to improve their performance rather than, you know, actual training. I like the look of the zero mouse if I was going down this route, but I do not game competitively and I am happy with my ploopy adept trackball.

My guess is they underestimated the cooling requirements as the race was very warm. They trying to walk a razors edge with their performance as they have a good chance of second place this season between the three teams.

Or he could have rebroken his hand having a tantrum, its likely weaker than normal because of his previous injury.

Red Dwarf, but with both Naylor and Grant continuing on from before the split. It felt to me that the quality dropped once they fell out and Grant left.

GoT, shame it got cancelled after GRR ran out of material, what would a sixth and seventh series looked like? Not some badly written, overly nasty, fan fiction, but actual quality as we had in the earlier seasons and books?

True Detective season one, by that I mean actually carrying on that plot line with the abuse cult rather than the "reboots" with new casts and settings in the future seasons. Those are great, I still want those, but I also want more of what we had in season one.

Hannibal, its time to revisit this overly stylized wardrobe of a cooking show

I can snap the heads of cheaply made screws or ones made from softer material like "brass" with a screwdriver let alone an impact driver.

If I am doing something with a lot of screws, say decking, then I will spend more on my screws simply because I want better quality if I am going to be fitting a few hundred in a day. I also want to know that if I come back to it in a few years that the screw will unscrew quickly when I come to it. Sure it can be a significant cost increase but the time and frustration saved makes it back.

Quality screwdrivers like Vessel Megadora or Wera or Swisstools or similar tend to cam out less than the pack of ten you got from the dollar store. Same with the hex bits for your impact or drill driver.

Last test I heard had Roberson above Torx for reducing cam out, but if you camming Torx that easily I would just switch to an actual hex headed screw if it needs that much torque to tighten.

Watching UK 70s TV now is wild. Prime time sitcoms using camp gay sterotypes as a punchline in themselves, black characters being called Chalkie or similar. These had regular repeats throughout the 80s on the main TV channels. Hell, known ephebophilie and bigot, Jim Davidson, had a prime time game show till 2002 and would regularly do his Chalkie character on it.

Late 90s/early 2000s UK TV was still pretty homophobic and racist, see Little Britain for yellow and brown face combined with racial stereotypes, big name comedians of the time like Frank Skinner making homophobic jokes.

Early 2000s in the UK was aggressively misogynistic, mostly in the printed press, absolutely rabid.

Obviously these issues haven't been solved, but at least its unacceptable for mainstream TV in the UK to pedal this shit.

Getting to a good university is only part of the battle and the real prize is the job afterwards. Having a big network is what helps with the latter.

Take law, even at Oxbridge only about 10% of students on that course at either university get into a training contract to become a solicitor. Its closer to 1% at normal universities.

Getting onto that training contract is knowing how to present yourself to the right contacts and go to the right events.

Many subjects are like this, especially for the top jobs.