Interesting Links for 16-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. LinkMachineGo - a collection of interesting links (I get regular things from them)

(tags:links )

2. Why is London's phone signal so bad? (Central Edinburgh is also really bad)

(tags:phones epicfail london )

3. Six inane arguments about Electric Vehicles and how to handle them at the dinner table

(tags:electricity cars transport myths )

4. Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions (They pay no inheritence tax, capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders.)

(tags:uk tax monarchy OhForFucksSake )

5. I just found over 200 of my Twitter friends on BlueSky by installing "Sky Bridge" in my browser and letting it match based on username/display name.

(tags:socialnetworking twitter )

6. Israel's war conduct in Gaza "is consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, UN Special Committee finds

(tags:Israel Gaza WarCrimes )

7. Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam

(tags:games half-life history )

Comments

#7

[mellowtigger]

FPS games are not typically my style, but free is definitely in my price range. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to grab it on Steam later today.

Re: #7

[andrewducker]

Black Mesa, the fan-made remake of the original Half-Life is currently discounted to £4. So if you fancy following the plot all the way through then that might be worthwhile.

[sobriquet9]

3rd link misses the most obvious argument, that the comparison should not be between EVs and ICEs, but between EVs and hybrids. To substantially improve efficiency, you only need enough battery for regenerative braking. You'll accelerate soon after braking, so there's no need for the battery to be big.

If you go EV all the way, you have to carry all the chemistry with you all the time, increasing tire and road wear. A hybrid on average only carries around half a tank of gas, and does not carry any oxygen at all.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, hybrids don't really seem to have caught on - I don't know enough about the situation to know why, but it would seem to solve the range anxiety and charging time issues if you have that to fall back on.

[jducoeur]

Huh -- maybe this is regional? Around here, it often feels like every other car is a Prius.

[simont]

#3: I couldn't resist the silly misreading of the title. If someone is even trying to handle an EV at the dinner table then your dinner is in big trouble :-)

[andrewducker]

What is the world coming to when you can't even do a little light maintenance over dinner!

[simont]

Ah, I was thinking of "handling" in the sense of things like handbrake turns, rather than maintenance. Crockery and food everywhere.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. That would be *messy*!