My Hive thermostat goes up in halves of a C ... which is good for a very similar problem. To heat the house to 22C is too much, 21C is too cold. Goldilocks and I like it just so, at 21.5C. We are so metricated now that I would struggle to tell you what that is in Fahrenheit without asking Siri.

Even horses can't always achieve a horsepower output. You can easily lose your mind in horsepower, especially when you find out there is a difference between US Horsepower (746 watts) and Metric Horsepower (735 watts). (WHY??) And then ask an engine manufacture how they measure the horsepower output of an engine .. measuring torque, multiplying it by RPM and dividing the answer by a magic number .. and of course US and Europe measure torque in slightly different ways which is why there is a Metric Horsepower measurement ...

There's probably a bit too much relationship between Calorie and unfashionably SI units like Centigrade and Grams in its definition. You'll probably have to go for something involving horsepower .. HorseHours for instance. A HorseHour being about 746Wh .. or 642 Calories, .. 2.8MJ ...

I'm English.

Pretty much everything I say can be interpreted at least two ways. I mean to be serious, it has always gently irked me that we would quote KwH when there is a perfectly good single SI unit "Joule" that does the job - but I am more than capable of multiplying numbers by 3,600 if I need to convert. II wuold like to know why we don't use Joules, KJ, MJ etc.
It's always bothered me that we quote batteries in mAh - like 2000mAh, which means I have to go find out what voltage it is before I know how much energy it actually can hold. But again, not a big problem.

On the subject of megajoules, I used to play pinball, and older machines would have scores that went up in units, or five points. Newer machines suffered from score escalation. Before you knew it, you'd only get a replay after scoring 100,000,000 points. Somehow they were more popular with people.

I'd rather like it if instead of telling me my battery is 85KWh, I could have a 300 MegaJoule battery.

Battery manufacturers could have competitions about who will be the first to get a gigajoule into an SUV, and we could quote battery density in Joules per cubic meter .. oh, the beauty of SI units and the metric system.

On the other hand, we could use Joules, being the SI unit you are looking for.

A scary thought, but it would seem so.

I was working for a certain large IT company at the time, and there were two failures that I know of on the night.

First was the local snack machine decided to shut down at midnight, due to its countdown for scheduled maintenance suddenly tripping. Shame, since we were relying on that machine to keep us at our desks and able to pick up the phone should the need arise (it didn't).

The second failure was with the badges at one of our facilities in the UK. We ran out of temporary swipe badges, since a large number of people found their badges wouldn't work the following morning. We'd had a programmed of replacement of badges that had a two digit year of expiry ('expires end Mar 04') with four digits ('expires end Mar 2004'), and clearly the penetration of our messaging to all employees had not got as far as it should.

I'd like to think it was the huge amount of planning and work that prevented a whole host of other issues arising, but it is really difficult after the fact to work out exactly how big the problem had been, and how much it was just consultants enjoying a wave of £1000 / day engagements ...

So one thing I learned working for a large multi-national for years is that there is literally no cost-cutting measure for an organisation that works, save those measures that either lose people - your key asset, the people who work for you - or you lose buildings. Working From Home means you can retain the people and lose the buildings! It requires so little thought to realise that this is the most sensible way forwards, I wonder at the qualities of the leadership who think that they somehow can avoid this simple truth.

I didn't think we used copper in power lines - well, not as much as we used ACSR (Aluminium Conductor Steel Reinforced)

Brexit has been a total disaster for this country, causing its own kind of meltdown.

Excellent - I do subscribe to the channel but I missed that one. Love the whine - now that's what I am talking about.

What would really help the adoption of EV is if the motors made the sound that the Jubilee Line trains make in London. They use AC motors fed from the same DC source that other underground trains use, but the switching of the thyristors (it was a moment in time when it was the technology of choice) makes this wonderful whooping sound as the train accelerates. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Waaaaay, way back when CPUs were much slower, we designed things called associative memory, and content-addressable memory (which we still use in network switches) all about distributing the logic functions within the memory, so we could avoid the fetch/process/store cycle. Did we forget all of that technology and research only to reinvent it now ?

Imagine that. People abusing AI to continue to prove that Rule 34 is indeed true.

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But this is exactly what companies like IBM did in the 60s and 70s to earn a right to sell into government contracts around the world. UK? Build two manufacturing plants and a lab, we will take you seriously. Semiconductor manufacturing in Essonnes in France, along with Montpelier; plants in Sindelfingen in Germany and Vimercate in Italy. It was part of the cost of doing business - invest in our country, and we will consider your for our driver licencing agencies and tax offices, our military and security services; we will let you fairly compete against our own indigenous suppliers like Bull, Siemens, Olivetti, ICL ..