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After about a week, my ServiceNow ticket finally got assigned to someone useful. I lugged the 24kg behemoth to the other building yesterday afternoon and got an email after lunch saying it was ready, so I went and lugged it all the way back again. It has handles, but they're not comfortable.
Windows Experience Index of 7.8, but I'm not sure how high that scale goes.
Now that I've logged in on it, I have to wait a few days for it to appear as one of my machines in the software requesting system. Can't get much done with only Office 2016 and a chat client.
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Not clear if it's using eBay's Global Shipping, in which case it might include some allowance for customs and vat.
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His coffee-derived drink reviews have been very entertaining, as was the IKEA episode. Enjoying geeking out on a topic for which my only qualification is liking espresso. Not inspired to buy or try anything yet, except maybe his french press method next time...
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If "left school at 16" wants to bring his fact-light opinion into a debate with people who know what they're talking about, that's entirely on him. He knew who he was calling. His background makes no difference.
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Some idiot has edited this badly... That was meant to be D not R because the caption was "I hope this goes chiral".
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Tunneling is expensive, especially in areas subject to regular earthquakes.
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Started following James Hoffmann on YouTube.
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IIRC poorer people actually drive more in London than rich ones, but I don't have a source for that.
Richer people can afford to live closer to the places they work and frequent.
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Like GIF is apparently pronounced "jiff"? Pfft...
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Trains are tricky to retrofit into places that weren't laid out with future provision in mind.
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My normal desk's been made unavailable while that floor of that building is refurbished. Found a team with a spare desk I've been using for the last month. Now they've got some new starters and we've swapped rooms. There's been a Lenovo-branded box big enough for a tower sat in the corridor for a week.
Colleague noticed yesterday the box was still sealed, and the shipping label was dated June 2017. My current work PC is a ~2014 Lenovo ThinkStation E31 with a Xeon E3 and 12GB of 1600MHz DDR4. Unpacked a box-fresh ThinkStation P710 with TWO Xeon E5, and 64GB of 2400MHz DDR4. SIXTY-FOUR!!! And an SSD. No idea why the team whose name is sharpied onto the box didn't use it, but this machine isn't listed in ServiceNow, not even in the asset list, even though it does have an asset sticker...
This week's fun project is working out how to get it registered and have the company's normal developer Windows build onto it without anyone deciding I shouldn't have it.
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Welcome to December.
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Put one on each stay?
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Bought some Clarks M2 last week, they just a licensed a low-end Shimano design. Uses the same pad as the other Shimano calipers in this household so they seemed like a good option. Came with 160mm 6-bolt rotors and IS-PM mounts.
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This is in the Wanted section.
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If you're using drops with a decent length stem, your saddle forwards and your bars much lower than your saddle... all these things contribute to your weight being more over the front wheel than the back.
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How's your weight distribution?
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Too near the edge of the tyre.
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Problem is that pencils create conductive dust and dust is hard to deal with in microgravity.
And for cleats, sharpies don't work so well on black soles.
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In terms of fighting a fire in a HV lithium ion battery, the answer is water, and lots of it.
You don't have to worry about shorting a 400v battery, because the water will be shorting each 3.7v cell directly, so long as you flood it properly. The water needs to keep flowing for a long time to make sure that every cell drops to ambient temperature, otherwise the hot cell will heat its neighbours again.
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to dispose of the batteries at the end of their useful life is?
Which useful life?
As a car battery, having only 75% of the original capacity would suck if that regularly put you at risk of being involuntarily parked.
That same battery is still useful for applications which don't need the energy density to be as high, like taking energy from a domestic solar panel installation while you're at work and not using much electricity at home, storing it, and then drawing your needs from a battery when you get home and everyone on your street is cooking, boiling kettles and powering massive TVs. Or charging EVs.
When the battery's been through its less demanding "pension age" duties, it can be recycled.
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my annual tax bill would increase by an amount identical to my first London salary.
- Dear lord you're old
- Are you in the 8xth or 9xth percentile??
- Thank you for your future contribution.
- Dear lord you're old
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gear cables snap inside the shifters at an alarming rate
For a frame like this, Di2 obvs.
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