jonatron

You don't have to have an electric car and battery. I've just got electric heating (Air con) and a hot water cylinder. I can automatically turn the cylinder heater on at night and turn down the thermostat at peak times.

> Then tomato sauce (a preserved product) moving from raw tomato to preserved tomato getting called out when by all accounts, I can't imagine why that would matter. The product is after all, a preserved tomato product. Benefit of the doubt I'd just call it a recipe change.

Compare the nutrition information per 100g. Less carbs, sugars, fat, protein, fibre, but more salt.

New seed varieties made for growth and shelf life, greenhouse grown instead of field grown

For some reason the standing charge is a bit less too.

Over the last year, my overall average rate on the agile (time of use) tariff has been about £0.19/kWh. It's significantly cheaper than on the standard tariff, which would have been somewhere between £0.28/kWh and £0.35/kWh approx.

On 9 August 2019 there was a significant power cut due to lack of inertia. This duration was significantly reduced because of batteries [1]. Since then, gas turbines have been repurposed to provide inertia without generation [2]. Check out the documentary series "Guy Martin's Great British Power Trip" [3] for more national grid facts.

[1] https://www.theblackoutreport.co.uk/2023/08/09/9-august-2019... [2] https://www.nationalgrideso.com/news/deeside-power-station-b... [3] https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martins-great-britis...

Octopus do have an API: https://developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/

There's also a handy twitter account for predicting slightly further ahead: https://twitter.com/agilepredict

I got paid to use electricity this morning: https://agileprices.co.uk/

I wanted to try a vanilla JS version of the VanJS counter: https://jsfiddle.net/pdfzx3a9/

Have people forgotten about event delegation? Surely the number of event listeners can get excessive in some cases.

It looks like the trams now accept contactless, which makes things easier.

My single data point is October 2023. I don't know if they're slower than they used to be.

They usually have a calculator to show you prices. Translation apps that aren't Google work to some extent. Some speak enough English to haggle, so numbers mostly, and it's not hard to learn Chinese numbers.

There's not a lot of info about the Shenzhen SEZ Visa on arrival, but I can say that if you use the Luohu/Lo Wu port, aim to get there as they open because they don't get through many before they stop for lunch.

You have to call it Pop exclamation mark underscore OS here.

A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food too. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-truth-about-food-pri... (down right now)

It included a section about modified starches being used to save ingredient cost, as well as the more obvious reduction in meat content. https://twitter.com/hwallop/status/1734687477347254678

If the data centre is owned by digital reality, equinix, telehouse, etc, is it really theirs? https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/locations/

I'd like to know the answer to that too. I shouldn't have implied that CPU inference on Hetzner is cheaper than GPU on AWS, when I don't have any idea on the cost of either.

Hetzner do cheap servers, but don't have many GPUs. If you're looking at saving money by running on CPU, you shouldn't be looking at one of the most expensive server providers.

Two shopping centres.

A few weeks ago, standing at an incredibly busy pedestrian crossing in Shenzhen, China, I noticed how strangely quiet it was for somewhere so busy. Then I noticed, every car, bus, and scooter was electric. I went to Taipei after, and the constant roar from mostly scooters was unexpectedly loud. I hope we speed up the shift to electric vehicles.

The important thing here is the one comment by the author, linking to the bill and explanatory notes: "(NB I make no effort to read any of these at the end of a working day.)"

As an example, google are knowingly profiting from rip-offs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56886957 Why are there still three ads before the official government site if I search for "apply esta"?

> Unfortunately, Portugal has some of the highest prices for electricity in Europe thanks to taxes. According to Eurostat, we pay €0.2246 per kWh here which is 22% higher than in the UK.

It's more like £0.30=€0.35, which is going down to £0.27=€0.31, which is a lot higher than €0.22. Probably using data from before Feb 2022.

I spent ages looking for that meme recently, thanks!

You have to pretend that you can't do

    from libcpp.vector cimport vector

for this blog post to make sense.

Here's monthly CSV's from the UK Office for National Statistics: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/data... Doesn't have barcodes though.

Your own previous comment doesn't match this take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218385

You can see both the old and new Eastenders set on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6583379,-0.2755948,240m/data... The old one has now been demolished though

The fuse in the plug is necessary to protect the wiring on ring circuits.