Back in the olden times, I used to do some cluster analysis, there are different ways in which links can be weighted and prioritised, plus this solution is only 2 dimensions. So it could be recency, could be a change in linkage, or it could specific analytic choices

I would have assumed (maybe wrongly) that increasing geothermal capacity (which is always on and strong through winter) would be a better strategy, though I don't know anything of the relative costs

And better than planning to drop Pukaki by a further 5m, even if that corresponds to hundreds of additional GWh www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

That's an interesting point on grid solar (which I mostly discount), but I saw the other day ~1GW of proposed installation adjacent to the main hydro interconnect in the south island, which would remove that residual gas gen, but might also preserve storage in the upper lakes for winter generation

This was how I felt the other day when I discovered that this high voltage link that uses earth return over 600km (already wtf), also has 5-8% (70-100MW) sneak back into the ground of various AC substations to make it's way back to complete the circuit

ooh, I love this for pharmacists!

I haven't actually experienced it, but I assume it's just like making the speed limit sticky

In some ways reminds me of riding a fat tyre ebike, where once you hit the assist-cut out, you tend to remain close to that speed, unless you really want to work hard

I think the better implementation is where the power tails off as you cruise through the limit and you settle at the limit (which can be overriden with a sharp push of the accelerator). So whereas beeping makes you comply, here the car basically just settles at the limit in a calm way

All new cars since ?June '24 have this capability, but at the moment, their reaction to the geofencing is limited to deceleration, beeping etc., and you can turn it off (though I was recently in a car where you had to turn it off every time you drove!)

realising that you can hire a post-doc who has many great skills, but has zero experience of any kind of recruitment and data collection that isn't eg qualtrics...

Ireland is a bit like this too, with many many cars financed. I'm used to buying cars outright, at the age where they have stopped depreciating exponentially. Such a terrible investment, especially when you could buy a bike!

Investigating same. Cochrane reviews are considered gold standard, and they find that they work, but that quality of the evidence base for it is currently very low www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Long-term Vivaldi user, all seems really fine and not stinky. It is a bit weird about pop up notifications, and freezing a window full of tabs because one is waiting on a response. But it's mostly work with apps that cause this and more I know to get clear of them before changing tab

I don't do anything flash with Vivaldi, but long-term user. I have bitwarden and it manages my passkey nice with Vivaldi

Don't know that it would be great to own now (actually saw one yesterday)... And the Volvo 164 that replaced it was far more dust proof

My grandparents had one of these new and did huge mileage around central Otago (thinking in the hundreds of thousands). Apart from having to replace the exhaust systems a few times they really loved it