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Just looking at the weather stations, the highest temperatures are being reported from Class 4 and Class 5 sites.

Brilliant presentation.

Last month I had cloudflare challenges from many regularly visited websites, but for the last 2 weeks, not so much.

They had a segment on their ABC about the price of cinema tickets, inspired by $60 ($40) Imax tickets. An economist pointed out how weird it was that in general you pay as much to see a crap, short, film, as opposed to a long good one. The interviewer seemed to think it was a lot to pay for 3 hours....

Great book. Funnily enough Bill Gibson knew little about computers when he wrote it.

In the USA market if you divide the cost of a new base Toyota Camry by the median full time wage in 2005 and 2025 you find that the alarmism about car prices is overdone. Same with F150. Admittedly they aren't getting much cheaper because they have a bunch more expensive stuff in them. In Australia ...

Thing is if you are buying a new car fuel cost is such a tiny proportion of the true cost of ownership it doesn't have much impact*. Hell my 2 ton 4WD gets slightly better fuel consumption than my 1300cc 1973 Escort wagon which weighed 800 kgf. *However the targets for a new car place enormous weigh...

I'd forgotten about oil viscousity. Certainly a factor to consider. Having said that I've been running ecoboost 2.0 litre biturbo engines for a decade with no oil related problems. But they are fully serviced, whereas in the past I've been running old cars on 20/50W with a fairly lax servicing sched...

It could be they have reduced piston ring contact pressure to get less friction, or possible even the valve guides (dubious). I'd be a bit surprised, spark plugs don't much like oil and the cats won't either, the platinum will get poisoned by the metal in the oil.

So that's 2400 psi of head if they fill it to the top. 350deg C boiling point.

The vast majority of the Met's real weather stations are Class 4 or Class 5, including that one at Kew. That's 2-5 deg C errors. Even funnier when they decommission one they synthesise the results from surrounding stations. Then we have the change in thermometers. They used to use mercury min-max th...

They were going for about UKP 20000 in the recent auctions. Diffs run about UKP 15000.

and to train grads, which surprised me. At least in our group we had a slow but constant stream of new faces to mentor. However we may have been outliers.

I was voluntarily retrenched along with many others 3 years ago, my department has just started hiring again! I can only speculate that there is either a proper EV as a T6 (Ranger) replacement (unlikely) Bronco gets a refresh (likely) or T6 gets a bit of a tartup (likely).

By the way you lot are stealing Greenland's heat, there's a very late start to the summer melt.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA800231.pdf

He runs through the history of pulse jets and why the Argus was designed and developed the way it was,

So far as I can tell the issue is that the GPS constellation is dumb, and merely radiates a signal of the form (I am extrapolating) "my ID is XYZ, the current local time is XYZ, my orbital parameters are XYZ". This is broadcast in all directions, from GSO. Hence the signal is weak. Locally...

Here's the paper, you've probably heard about this on the news. Implications The discovery of whale-fall communities in the Diamantina Zone at depths exceeding 6,700 m establishes one of the deepest known whale-fall ecosystems in the ocean, extending the known depth range of such habitats by more th...

And an investigator is going to be cursed by 1300 small investors in the Donut battery https://electrek.co/2026/06/08/donut-lab-solid-state-battery-exposed-lithium-ion-fraud/ A comprehensive investigation by battery researcher Ziroth, involving over 20 independent battery experts, has produced what ...

I should wait til Friday when they release the 101-200 list. The problem I have with Williams' marches is that they are just about indistinguishable. Splitting the 4 seasons up into separate movements is a good way of boosting Vivaldi's count, but leaves Ludwig unassailable. No Ave Maria.