Yes and if we’re going to continue the original metaphor with groups, some of the group that continued for a lock-in are now being sick on themselves as well…

Systemd+Linux

I don’t understand this, if it’s installable on gentoo using the default method of building from source then it has to be open source, right?

Or have I misunderstood gentoo? I considered trying it once, but didn’t fancy compiling everything on a potato.

There are quite a lot of people in the workforce now who are so young they won’t remember that!

Often we achieve very uplifting things with a huge amount of diligent hard work and planning.

It’s rarely uplifting in the arty/poetic/slightly “wishy washy” sense of the OP though.

If you want a specific example, my last project was a big concrete box bridge (6000t), it was built off to the side of the railway and pushed into position using enormous strand jacks. This allowed the railway to remain open apart from ~10 days over Christmas. It took 3 years to do all the design and construction including the temporary works design (construction methodology); all the planning paid off because it was installed successfully, within tolerance and on programme.

The bridge will last at least 120 years and will allow more rail freight instead of road transportation, which has environmental and social benefits.

We designed the bridge so that you could install overhead electrification in future if the rest of the network was upgraded (so you could use electric rather than diesel powered vehicles).

Basically, you achieve impressive things by doing a lot of hard technical work. It’s a bit of a different mindset to writing poems about beams sharing loads.

No, but a lot of us are more prone to just doing everything ourselves rather than communicating and working together in a big team.

High yield stress!

Most structural engineers are a lot less uplifting than this.

Source: I’m a structural engineer.

Can you sound insulate a garden?

Again, I think if you read the article you’ll understand their issues a lot better.

Like everyone else on Lemmy I recommend an ad blocker!

Anyway, I’m sure that having read the article now you noticed that the couple in question are worried about the noise because they have an autistic daughter and moved there to get away from noise, which she’s especially sensitive to.

I’m not sure how it’s relevant that a substation from any other source wouldn’t be worse is relevant? If the panels weren’t behind their house then the substation wouldn’t be there either.

Small modular reactors? For the UK in particular these are a good option as we use the same tech in nuclear subs.

Or if you want to do solar specifically, lots of smaller scale solar developments that don’t take over an entire area (like 4 fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, so you can avoid it or walk around it and it doesn’t create an enormous “no go” zone next to a rural village.

I don’t think anyone in this thread is really acknowledging the scale of this development, it’s a 1400 hectare site of which 900ha is panels. If you made that into a square it would he 3km x 3km of panels!

The noise is from the substation (it says so in the article).

Did you read the article?

One of the new plants being built in this area, Tillbridge, is the largest solar development to be granted planning permission so far. The project will cover approximately 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres), equivalent to 2,000 football pitches.

That’s absolutely enormous!

They are covering the area with panels because there is an existing grid connection from an old power station nearby that they can re-use. Makes sense from an engineering perspective but it’s a shocking planning decision, it’s not like a few fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, people who live there now will be surrounded by them.

It really seems like bad policy to me, it turns something that should be a positive symbol that you could feel proud of as a local, into something that will feel really oppressive.

You’ve called these people racist, doubtless some are but I expect the majority are just desperate and only support reform because the alternatives aren’t representing them well on this issue.

Optimised to perfection

In the long run, yes. In the short term, the grid upgrades are quite expensive.

I’ve never seen cactus fruit like that before, initially I thought it was a joke image and someone had taken a cactus and put a blueberry on each needle or something. Wild.

Oscar Wilde indeed!

Interesting, thanks!

How do they do that without sending your actual passwords somewhere off your device, or downloading the full list of hacked passwords?

Are you saying it’s fake and gay?

Did you read the article? It’s all interesting but unrelated to the title.