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That's just stupid on the part of the city. Round here, I can take haz waste to the local refuse centre (there's three of them for a city of about 350,000 people. Easy to access and no or minimal disposal fees for this stuff. I can drop off batteries, paint, solvents, battery acid, pesticides...

It's pining for the fjords.

Wanted to rant, but instead will just point out that my phone is running Android, my laptop Kubuntu, my server Proxmox, my VMs Ubuntu, my tablet iOS. That's from a place where my desktop, laptop and phone were all Windows.

Well actually plaster is a bit like concrete, in that it names a class of materials. There's plaster of Paris, which is the gypsum-based product made into plasterboard and is the main component of most modern interior finishing systems. There's quicklime, which was commonly used as part of...

Since you're ranting, I'll be that person... Earthquakes up to about MM7 will not typically topple an older wood framed house, even with heavy concrete tile roofs. That's without sheet bracing of any kind - just lathe and plaster interiors and weatherboard exteriors. "Shaking-induced structural...

I could never get the hang of RTwP in Baldur's Gate 2. My opinion at the time was "worst of both worlds." Real time gives near instant feedback on your actions and systems are generally simplified to facilitate this. See Diablo 2 as a good example. Turn-based gives as much time as required for...

That's one way to look at a credit card. I see it as a transaction facilitator (online purchases) and a free way to offset my floating mortgage amount by the average monthly balance. The caveat is that if you can't guarantee to pay the balance off at the end of the month, then you are spending...

Fastest way to get a router's WiFi password into your phone is to use the camera and auto text recognition, then paste that.

It's almost mandatory in some circumstances to include them. I tend not to use them, but need to pause to line things up in my head sometimes. If I pause, even momentarily, in the company of my wife's family, I will almost always be cut off mid-sentence. Not because they are being rude, but...

Edit: silly me, double-post.

If you look closely at the first photo, there's a prescient USS# stamped on the side...

The Core 2 Duo processors were pretty darn good value when overclocked by around 50%. I had an E6300 up from 1.8 GHz to about 3.2 GHz and an E6600 up from 2.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz.

I work in a lab. We manage to make some very b-tractive odours at times, whether it's the regular ethanol wipe-down, occasional solvent, residue charring on a hotplate or chemistry waste. I can confirm that the term foul sewer water is aptly applied. I have come across chem smells who's...

Yes, and the gun caused the death of the victim. However, there were safety systems built in to the pathway specifically to deal with this kind of problem, and they failed, so it's reasonable to look at them very closely as well, since a battery is not the only possible source of a fire. This...

Under the circumstances where that hydrogen was delivered from Earth for the process alone. The study's supposition is that hydrogen is recycled as part of the process. They are not evaluating mining water nor any other hydrogen-containing material as part of the process. It's purely about the...

Or maybe, just maybe, all of the sentencing guidelines need to be looked at and normalised, somehow. While we're there, maybe police resources could be allocated differently to better target crime on an effect-on-society basis.

Have standard wall outlet charger for BEV and PHEV. It's ideal for my family. Commute is only a 40 to 60 km round trip depending on day, with the BEV. After-school sports and other short hops on the PHEV.

Anecdata: my plug-in hybrid Outlander just did 1600 km on 30 L, mixed city (1300, flat) and open road (300, hills) driving. Would have been slightly less, but it demanded I use petrol towards the end of that. 53 km/L. The diesel Captiva it replaced would get 450 km on 50 L of the same mixed...

This video turned up in my feed yesterday thanks to the YouTube recommendation engine.

I think this boils down to being interesting to people who like physics and maths (me), but not particularly useful to anyone who plays chess (also me). The math part is cool - I like seeing complexity as a graph. For almost any chess player above about 1000 Elo, the increasing complexity and...