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Diamond Geezer talks about pylons diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/202 - featuring the amazing Open Infrastructure Map openinframap.org/#9.86/51.51/- Not many pylons in London, but I've photographed the tallest.

As you put the clocks back tonight, remember that UTC doesn't stand for anything in French or English. It's a compromise where neither country got the acronym they want! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordina

90s TV where two teams make ridiculous machines out of junk. Episode 1: aeroplanes. Amazing! channel4.com/programmes/scraph

Steve Mould explains how petrol pumps turn off when the tank is full youtu.be/fT2KhJ8W-Kg

1 in 80 people signed a petition requesting a general election.
1 in 400 are Tory party members.
Time for a general election.
petition.parliament.uk/petitio

Electricity standing charge for those on prepayment metres (ie: zero electricity use) is £187/year. Which is more than 5% of Universal Credit for under-25s (£3,184/year). moneysavingexpert.com/utilitie

Tilting It Sideways: stories about hackers causing damage in the real world. spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=62

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RT @fabsh@twitter.com

I have started to upload the old Linux Outlaws backlog to The Internet Archive. I can't promise a time frame to get all episodes up there, but I will give my best. Feel free to share outlawarchives.com with people who are very nostalgic for the past.

fab.industries/outlaw-archives

🐦🔗: twitter.com/fabsh/status/15772

Canaletto is known for painting for aristocratic tourists doing the Grand Tour. But in The Stonemason's Yard, he shows a different view of Venice. youtu.be/03BfPn6xrSo

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Today I went through the Channel Tunnel and started asking questions.

It turns out that the trains can dissipate up to 100 MW of energy (!) into the tunnel, so it has to be actively cooled by the largest refrigeration system in Europe.

Postgres is adding a "unique nulls not unique" index, which prevents duplicate nulls. Normally a unique index allows duplicates if any column is null, so duplicate values of (123, null) are allowed. blog.rustprooflabs.com/2022/07

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