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You still have to decide exactly which millisecond the ball left the passer's boot.
Personally I'm happy to trust the semi-automated system since at least it will be unbiased, i.e. you should get the same outcome if the teams were reversed.
Personally I'm happy to trust the semi-automated system since at least it will be unbiased, i.e. you should get the same outcome if the teams were reversed.
September 6, 2026 at 10:31 AM
You still have to decide exactly which millisecond the ball left the passer's boot.
Personally I'm happy to trust the semi-automated system since at least it will be unbiased, i.e. you should get the same outcome if the teams were reversed.
Personally I'm happy to trust the semi-automated system since at least it will be unbiased, i.e. you should get the same outcome if the teams were reversed.
per The Book, Scandal was also previewed on 18/2/89 (billed as "A Scandalous Sneaky Preview of a Brand New British Movie")
September 6, 2026 at 10:24 AM
per The Book, Scandal was also previewed on 18/2/89 (billed as "A Scandalous Sneaky Preview of a Brand New British Movie")
I would have put a tenner on you picking Knife Slits Water
September 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I would have put a tenner on you picking Knife Slits Water
I saw YHWH Nailgun live last year... appropriately enough at Scala
August 31, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I saw YHWH Nailgun live last year... appropriately enough at Scala
Really should be watched immediately following Sátántangó so you're in the correct headspace.
August 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Really should be watched immediately following Sátántangó so you're in the correct headspace.
There's only so far the "beatbox and a dozen obvious samples" formula could go. Still there's something about "Pump Up The Volume", "Theme From S-Express", or "Beat Dis" that just sends me straight back in time.
August 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
There's only so far the "beatbox and a dozen obvious samples" formula could go. Still there's something about "Pump Up The Volume", "Theme From S-Express", or "Beat Dis" that just sends me straight back in time.
In my long-ago DJ days it rarely left my crate. A guilty pleasure, but just to much fun to mix with.
August 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
In my long-ago DJ days it rarely left my crate. A guilty pleasure, but just to much fun to mix with.
Man, that's a shame. I can't claim to have followed all of his output, but I remember bumping the Meets Kouhei album in the day. More recently there was the Still Ill record on Veyl which I liked a lot. RIP.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf04...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf04...
Supreme Low - Raw Shit feat. Sensational (official video)
YouTube video by Veyl
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Man, that's a shame. I can't claim to have followed all of his output, but I remember bumping the Meets Kouhei album in the day. More recently there was the Still Ill record on Veyl which I liked a lot. RIP.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf04...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf04...
101 years ago in 1936? Man, how long was that nap I just took?
July 27, 2026 at 2:43 PM
101 years ago in 1936? Man, how long was that nap I just took?
Oh I see, it's missing Tasty Jerk
July 21, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Oh I see, it's missing Tasty Jerk
Other places need to keep expanding trans-national grids for the same reason.
June 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Other places need to keep expanding trans-national grids for the same reason.
If you want to know why China is going to big on long-distance HVDC this is it. At a national scale they have lots of both available and are building a grid capable of using them.
June 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
If you want to know why China is going to big on long-distance HVDC this is it. At a national scale they have lots of both available and are building a grid capable of using them.
One catch (there is always one, isn't there) is that not everybody has both. If you imagine the perfet location for a solar farm it would be in loads of flat, worthless desert.
June 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
One catch (there is always one, isn't there) is that not everybody has both. If you imagine the perfet location for a solar farm it would be in loads of flat, worthless desert.
Yep, it's an under-appreciated fact about hydro. If you have enough solar panels combined with hydro your net-zero grid can take shape quite simply.
June 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Yep, it's an under-appreciated fact about hydro. If you have enough solar panels combined with hydro your net-zero grid can take shape quite simply.
Essentially it becomes a spreadsheet project balancing depreciation and financing costs against benefit to the grid.
But at least in theory it could be a part of a future grid strategy. Not a new idea, either. Aluminium smelters know all about it.
But at least in theory it could be a part of a future grid strategy. Not a new idea, either. Aluminium smelters know all about it.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Essentially it becomes a spreadsheet project balancing depreciation and financing costs against benefit to the grid.
But at least in theory it could be a part of a future grid strategy. Not a new idea, either. Aluminium smelters know all about it.
But at least in theory it could be a part of a future grid strategy. Not a new idea, either. Aluminium smelters know all about it.
This isn't trivial in practice, either. Not every industrial process can scale up and down easily. Even if it can, it means you paid for expensive machines that aren't being used to their full capacity.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
This isn't trivial in practice, either. Not every industrial process can scale up and down easily. Even if it can, it means you paid for expensive machines that aren't being used to their full capacity.
What is less sexy but probably more hopeful is if processes like electrolysis, desalination can form part of demand-side management. i.e. crank up production when electricity is abundant since you can store what you produce.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
What is less sexy but probably more hopeful is if processes like electrolysis, desalination can form part of demand-side management. i.e. crank up production when electricity is abundant since you can store what you produce.
I'm unexcited. First, we're a long way from those conditionals being true. Second, it has the same problem as iron-air: poor electricity-to-electricity cycle efficiency.
So it's only cheap in some imagined future and it may still be uncompetitive.
So it's only cheap in some imagined future and it may still be uncompetitive.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I'm unexcited. First, we're a long way from those conditionals being true. Second, it has the same problem as iron-air: poor electricity-to-electricity cycle efficiency.
So it's only cheap in some imagined future and it may still be uncompetitive.
So it's only cheap in some imagined future and it may still be uncompetitive.
Now the storage story is this: *IF* we already were producing massive amounts of green hydrogen and *IF* we were so good at it that it was super-cheap *THEN* we could also use it for electrical storage.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Now the storage story is this: *IF* we already were producing massive amounts of green hydrogen and *IF* we were so good at it that it was super-cheap *THEN* we could also use it for electrical storage.
So massively expanding hydrogen production is an important goal for that reason alone: it's a critical industrial input. You can get it the dirty way (dig up a hydrocarbon, carbon atoms end up in CO₂ molecules) or the clean way (take it from H₂O)
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
So massively expanding hydrogen production is an important goal for that reason alone: it's a critical industrial input. You can get it the dirty way (dig up a hydrocarbon, carbon atoms end up in CO₂ molecules) or the clean way (take it from H₂O)
The simple fact is that if you want to decarbonise the production of some important products like steel and ammonia you're going to need a lot of electrolysis to get there.
That's just chemistry: if you are making NH₃ you need to get those hydrogen atoms from somewhere.
That's just chemistry: if you are making NH₃ you need to get those hydrogen atoms from somewhere.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The simple fact is that if you want to decarbonise the production of some important products like steel and ammonia you're going to need a lot of electrolysis to get there.
That's just chemistry: if you are making NH₃ you need to get those hydrogen atoms from somewhere.
That's just chemistry: if you are making NH₃ you need to get those hydrogen atoms from somewhere.
Yes. A lot of the online discussion about hydrogen focussed on very surface-level analysis ("hydrogen cars failed, duh" or "it's a storage medium not a fuel, in case you didn't notice). But that's not the real hydrogen story.
June 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Yes. A lot of the online discussion about hydrogen focussed on very surface-level analysis ("hydrogen cars failed, duh" or "it's a storage medium not a fuel, in case you didn't notice). But that's not the real hydrogen story.
A decade ago, chemical batteries were expensive enough that the alternative options (redox options, compressed gas, etc) seemed like reasonable bets. But if Na-ion hits the price points it's looking likely to then I doubt the "cheap but inefficient" options still have a lane.
June 27, 2026 at 7:09 PM
A decade ago, chemical batteries were expensive enough that the alternative options (redox options, compressed gas, etc) seemed like reasonable bets. But if Na-ion hits the price points it's looking likely to then I doubt the "cheap but inefficient" options still have a lane.
So the iron-air (or whatever) battery story is this: you can reduce the "X" number because the battery will be so cheap, but you also reduce the "Y" number because it's so inefficient.
The question is: does this math ever work out?
The question is: does this math ever work out?
June 27, 2026 at 7:09 PM
So the iron-air (or whatever) battery story is this: you can reduce the "X" number because the battery will be so cheap, but you also reduce the "Y" number because it's so inefficient.
The question is: does this math ever work out?
The question is: does this math ever work out?
So to be more precise you're saying "I'm going to spend £X on generation *and* storage infrastructure, and provide the grid with Y GWh, some fraction of which will pass through my storage medium"
June 27, 2026 at 7:09 PM
So to be more precise you're saying "I'm going to spend £X on generation *and* storage infrastructure, and provide the grid with Y GWh, some fraction of which will pass through my storage medium"