PinguTS

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by PinguTS 4y ago
It is much more robust on EMI. It is much cheaper, because it uses very thin wires. There are lots of thing, which distinguish it from the good old Coax days with required proper termination of 75 Ohms.
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by PinguTS 4y ago
I am fan of the philosophy free for personal use and money for professional use. Because, when I make money of somebody else work, I should give some of that somebody else (what ever 'some' means). That said, there is a lot to con
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by PinguTS 4y ago
We don't have power outages after ice storms. Temperatures of -10°C are regularly in Scandinavia as well as in Austria, Swiss and Germany. We are living in a developed world with working infrastructure. Power outages happens only by ac
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Its always funny reading such comments while others are running for years their heat pumps without any problems needing a backup. Not only they are used in Scandinavia for years. Also in Germany they are used for years. The company Waterkot
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by PinguTS 4y ago
I have about 1050 US gallons (4000 l) of water storage in my house. The very effective wooden carburettor heating system is heating up the water storage. Then you use the water storage for next days until you have to re-fire. That is a stan
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Sorry, but I don't see any novelty here. Everything described in the article is commercially available. At least here in Germany. Heat pumps are used to heat a storage container called buffer, a water container of 200l or more of water
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Did you read and understood what I wrote: "The cars the Waymo runs, are running in very dedicated areas, which are highly mapped."
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Everybody got bullish on this when Google first publicly presented their autonomous car and everybody from IT said: 10 years from now. Except all the automotive people said: Nay, way to complex to solve. The automotive guys worked since the
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by PinguTS 4y ago
It is still today the fastest way to move large amount of data around. If both parties have 1 Gbps connection it will take about 20 min to move about 128 GB. But if one end has only 100 Mbps, then it is already 3,5h. If can only maintain re
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by PinguTS 4y ago
This is this thinking of "Automation reduces workforce". The next argument then is always "We need Basic Income" because of this. But this is ignoring the fact that automation never replaced workforce as such. It moved t
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Maybe its because of too short notice and legally you have to inform your customers x months head? I don't know, but curious to know. Because I am in that situation.
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Why should I trust some arbitrary third-party OAuth provider? Why? Either I don't need this single point of failure and create an account on each and every service independently. Each and every service then stands for its own. If someo
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by PinguTS 4y ago
My take on this is always: we will see first fully automated airplanes and railroad trains before we will see a widespread of autonomous cars. Airspace is an highly controlled area. We have many years of actual autopilots. We have many year
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by PinguTS 4y ago
This reminds me of my university time as a student. In the realtime OS/programming course we needed to build an elevator with 4 cars in parallel entirely on an i386 (Embedded) in an realtime OS including the simulation of people pressi
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by PinguTS 4y ago
I remember the gnome thing. But that is nothing I have any knowledge about. So this area was for me like unknowledged people learn about things. Automation is actually my area. Self-droving cars are in development for more than 50 years. In
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Actually, you don't need to own a book to read it. We in Germany have a great concept for this, its called: Library, You can go to your local community library and decide to either read the book there or to take it home and read it whe
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by PinguTS 4y ago
"Thankfully" is an interesting view from the reader side. Would be interesting to know what was the impact on the authors side. Got it cheaper because the authors got now less money or got it cheaper because the publisher got now
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by PinguTS 4y ago
The local bookstore can even do same day delivery.
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by PinguTS 4y ago
We hade a competitor in Europe. It was called Zoro. Maybe not THAT clean but overall they also had a good website and great prices. But they folded some years ago. In B2B we have Fabory: https://www.fabory.com
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by PinguTS 4y ago
There is nothing with "the result of a law trying to get some of the money the big Techs make in Europe". There is nothing new here in Europe. It is what it is for 5 years now. What is different than before is the inflation and th
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Actually, that is what I learned over 20 years ago at the university while studying electrical engineering. Basic business class (and law) was part of the courses to get the diploma. The general rule of thumb was, that a product in parts an
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by PinguTS 4y ago
I have greylisting enabled for years. But recently some Russian spamers were able to circumvent those by using compliant SMTP servers. They even support proper SPF, DKIM, DMARC and all that stuff what you can think of. That is the reason wh
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by PinguTS 4y ago
I completly agree with you. While Hetzner is my actual neighbor as their headquarters is right in the neighboring town, I still use a server at very small scale provider. I have no problem with my email server. I receive some spam here and
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by PinguTS 4y ago
They try to cover their ass. But still, if it would have been even fully fitted Level 5 self-driving car, it is still a test car and the test-driver is explicitly there to take over in cases when it fails. In any case, the driver here is st
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by PinguTS 4y ago
… and even as employee your are not allowed to share unofficial things with relatives nor to take them on a ride with you. I used to be hitchhiked in such cars to meetings, because those "colleagues" hat the same route to the same
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Actually, they are existing in prototype stage. EDIT: They exists since the 1970s on closed tracks. I remember during my work in 1990s at DASA (Daimler Chrysler Areo Space) they had them on the airfield in Friedrichshafen.
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Nope, if you want to make a true comparison, then nuclear is in the costs of about 40 Cents/kWh instead of the postulated 2 Cents/kWh. Because as we do not have a final deposit for nuclear waste there are no costs for it. There ar
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Thanks for correcting.
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by PinguTS 4y ago
The problem is called Merit-Price-Fixation and is the method used all over Europe to "define" the costs for energy. It is also called Windfall earnings. I heard that in Austria it is under discussion that this method is not well s
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by PinguTS 4y ago
Green energy is in the costs of 8 cents/Wh. Coal is more expansive as gas always was. Only nuclear is calculated with 2 cents/Wh ignoring the costs of the nuclear waste as this paid for by taxes in addition.

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