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New comment by bb123 in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

bb123 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:37 +0000

Nice! It would be fun to include some of the other sounds on the tube like the door closing chimes or the sounds the doors make when opening and closing.

New comment by bb123 in ""Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name"

bb123 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:41:02 +0000

What's with the lack of capitalisation at the start of sentences? It makes it hard to parse where one sentence ends and the next begins.

New comment by bb123 in "Grokipedia and the coup against reality"

bb123 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:23:13 +0000

That has not been my experience with them at all. I've done nearly quarter of a million miles in various Teslas and never had a serious issue. My service experience with them has also been lightyears ahead of the traditional manufacturers.

New comment by bb123 in "Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss"

bb123 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:58:45 +0000

Nothing immediately - Teslas have a both a High Voltage system for the traction battery and a Low Voltage system powered by a separate 12-15V battery. The HV system keeps the LV system charged and most critical safety related functions run on the 12V system. The booster, ABS/ESP, airbags, and steering assist are all designed to remain functional long enough for a controlled stop after an HV disconnection.

You obviously wouldn't be able to speed up again, which depending on the situation, would be where the danger lies.

New comment by bb123 in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

bb123 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:36:27 +0000

Ok? So you've never lived anywhere that isn't relatively central and walkable. Many people do (even in Europe!). I am one of them. And on a night when I am working late being able to order a hot pizza to my front door is a godsend.

New comment by bb123 in "Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge"

bb123 — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:08:32 +0000

Reminds me of the fact that for 500 years everyone graduating with a BA from Oxford had to swear that they would never agree to the reconciliation of Henry Symeonis, despite no one having any idea who he was for most of that time.

New comment by bb123 in "Changes in schizophrenia diagnoses associated with cannabis use disorder"

bb123 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:23:11 +0000

I'm not really surprised by this finding. My anecdotal experience has been that pretty much everyone knows a friend or a friend of a friend who smoked too much pot and had their life go off the rails. It is pretty clear to me that it is not a harmless herb despite that being the commonly held belief on places like Reddit.

New comment by bb123 in "Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)"

bb123 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:32:38 +0000

I don't think that was the rationale. For captured senior/important figures were given all kinds of affordances and gestures made which contrast shockingly with the conditions we know people endured in concentration camps.

For example Senior officers at Colditz often received parcels from home with stuff like cigars, chocolates, and spirits, sometimes through diplomatic agreements with the Red Cross. This was at a time when Germany in general was starving. They also organised theatre productions, orchestras, and even sports events.

I think this is just a relic of a different era and a different code of war - similar to how long before this Naval captains from opposing sides often shared meals after a ship's surrender. It is hard to imagine now.

New comment by bb123 in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

bb123 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:59:02 +0000

Reciprocity is not a good idea. Why would we want to copy every bad foreign law?

New comment by bb123 in "Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti"

bb123 — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:40:00 +0000

I think this is a branding thing. They refer to themselves pretty much everywhere as "UCL".

New comment by bb123 in "BYD to launch its smallest EV in Australia, hinting at low-cost Seagull arrival"

bb123 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:27:08 +0000

The Peugeot e-208 starts at £22k and you can pick up one thats less than 2 years old for about £10k. The idea that there aren't any affordable EVs hasn't been true for years.

New comment by bb123 in "Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App"

bb123 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:04:31 +0000

I suppose this will become another instance of "Outlook" where finding documentation or support for your version of the product (the web service or the email application) is made needlessly more complex.

New comment by bb123 in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

bb123 — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 06:31:25 +0000

It was extremely costly :( But given how dangerous my peanut allergy was I considered it money well spent - it will probably save my life.

New comment by bb123 in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

bb123 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:19:01 +0000

About a year overall but I started to have meaningful protection after about 6 months. There is no one in the UK currently offering it for adults so I had to travel to a specialist clinic Atlanta a few times.

New comment by bb123 in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

bb123 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:19:53 +0000

It is not well known but this also works for adults too. I’m 28 and recently completed oral immunotherapy therapy for my extremely severe peanut allergy. I used to go anaphylactic from single milligram exposure and now I’m eating multiple peanuts a day. As an adult you have to go slower and be more careful but absolutely can be done and is life changing.

New comment by bb123 in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

bb123 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:19:25 +0000

New comment by bb123 in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

bb123 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:32:02 +0000

There appears to be a workaround but my question is how are they going to get all of these endpoints out of a BSOD loop?

New comment by bb123 in "Panic at the Job Market"

bb123 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:11:31 +0000

That is a huge amount of text to explain a graph of tech job openings overlaid on a graph of interest rates. Needs an editor.

New comment by bb123 in "Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail"

bb123 — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:19:48 +0000

As far as I could tell from a few minutes of googling the emergency stations were at West Burton, but both have been decommissioned as of 31st March this year.

New comment by bb123 in "Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail"

bb123 — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:06:56 +0000

I think the lede that this article buries is that this is the last coal fired power station in the UK. The UK has been burning coal since 1882 so that feels like quite a significant milestone.