h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Slowly but surely, years of Tory cuts are hitting more and more local authorities. This time, mine 😞

https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/23819331.havering-six-months-away-bankruptcy-notice/

So how does CO₂ really work to heat our atmosphere? Surprisingly this is far more complicated than you'd think. Behold, a Spherical Cow model of global warming with graphs, code & data: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/co2-global-warming-sensitivity/

🆕 blog! “A love letter to electric power tools”

When I was seven or eight, I asked Santa to bring me a set of screwdrivers for Christmas. I wanted to take apart my toys to see how they worked1. I also thought they might be useful on our upcoming holiday; if the aeroplane needed repairing mid-flight I'd be able to help2! Santa heard my […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/a-love-letter-to-electric-power-tools/
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#tools

If I was a Tory Chancellor, I wouldn’t abolish inheritance tax. I’d fix the ridiculous marginal rates that can exceed 70%

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/09/24/70percent/

Someone did an actual study on why text editing on phones sucks so bad and built a prototype that solves a bunch of its problems and I want it real bad ;_; https://jenson.org/text/

UK GDPR recognises the USA as adequate for some (many?) transfers of personal data:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/09/uk-gdpr-recognises-the-usa-as-adequate-for-some-many-transfers-of-personal-data

#UKGDPR #GDPR #DataProtection #Adequacy #USA #decodedlegal #lawfedi

View the International Space Station twice this evening! First, 8:37pm for 5 minutes starting in the west, and again one orbit later at 10.14pm, for only 1 minute. https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=London #Space #London

Very enlightening post on the "seven bins" thing from Tom Forth (who I don't think is on the fediverse yet?). Worth a read! https://tomforth.co.uk/sevenbins/

"The length of #motorways in #Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while #railways shrank 6.5%. For every €1 governments spent building railways, they spent €1.6 building roads.

In the public and political debate, small investments into #BikeLanes and railways were heavily scrutinised while investments in roads were taken for granted. “This absolutely needs to change if we are to meet #climate mitigation targets in the #TransportSector.” "

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/european-governments-railways-road-building-report-motorways-funding-rail
from the Guardian

When people say "government needs to get better at regulating tech", the related "government needs to get better at tech to regulate" is just as true, and this inflation/price fixing in Austria is a fantastic example:

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

If you like listening to podcasts where people are set ingenious puzzles and have to reason things out live, you can now listen to one with me in! I'm in the latest episode of #Lateral with Tom Scott: https://audioboom.com/posts/8362443-completely-inedible-eggs