Xylakant

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by Xylakant 3y ago
I have no issue with infotainment systems with development, beta, test modes in vehicles on the road as long as the infotainment system is not essential to safe operation of the vehicle.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Even if it is a testing configuration, it has no place in code that is deployed to vehicles that drive on public roads, much less being enabled on cars that drive on public roads, without prior special approval - which is what’s under inves
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by Xylakant 3y ago
It’s usually pretty full in the M10. I don’t get the comparison with the total length of the track - you could compare with the length of a tram, which would be 50 meters.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Just for a comparison of efficiency: The M10 Tram in Berlin runs every 5 minutes during daytime, each car with a capacity of around 300 passengers. That’s equivalent to roughly a kilometer of cars, parked end to end with no space in between
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Indeed: > Just because all roads lead to Rome doesn’t mean you can get in — at least not on wheels. During Julius Caesar’s reign, daytime access to the Eternal City was restricted, with travelers required to hitch their carriages outside
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Strictly speaking, no. MIT does not give you permissions to change the license. But you can incorporate MIT licensed code into a project that contains code that is under a different license of your choice, open or closed source for a nearly
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The same applies to European conferences for essentially everyone not from Europe/US, with very few exceptions.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
For a winning combination, you can use combined thermal/solar panels and then drive a heat pump with the electricity on the pre-warmed water. But that adds complexity. The primary reason we use electricity as intermediary is that it’s
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The projects license is of no concern at all here. Licenses do not bind the owner of the code. Hashicorp required a CLA before contributing, so they own the copyright. They can change the license at any time as they see fit.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The idea behind the combined panels addresses the limited space concern - these are full-size PV panels with a back plane that harvests the heat and cools the panel up front.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
> There's no Lucene "competitor" to Elasticsearch. Apache Solr, which existed long before Elasticsearch was conceived.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The Fremantle Highway was burning and at risk of sinking in the Wadden Sea, off the Dutch coast of just a week ago. This would have severely damaged the entire habitat - and that was a car carrier only. Spills from minor incidents are a con
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Tracking specific metrics and monitoring those is an option - for example you could track service restarts and alert on unusually high numbers. The tricky part - just as with logging - is to figure out what metric make sense and give you si
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by Xylakant 3y ago
There are two bits of information that the article omits. Large chunks of the Harz forest are a nature reserve and only limited action will be taken, for example planting seedlings. Pesticides won’t be used in those zones - the only action
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Quite a few animals chew their food multiple times for more effective digestion - cows for example. Plant fibers are notoriously hard to break down. Horses don’t and if you compare the digestion results, you’ll see a significant difference
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The article mentions the content is 500mg of oxalic acid / 100g and says the deadly dose is at 15 - 30g. That makes for 3-6kg of rhubarb leaves. Quite a serving, if you ask me. In the original British understatement: > Since a letha
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I agree that the price of fuel should be increased to the point where it covers externalities. This could be treated the same. But you specifically asked for “not legal”.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
How many people drive their car for leisure? Motorsports? Riding motorcycles for fun? Using high powered GPUs for gaming? That’s all just burning energy for fun. In your words, a middle finger to the environment. Should that all be forbidde
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Old trick for people that had cars with somewhat inadequate cooling systems: open the windows, turn on the heating to full helps to cool the engine.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
There's also a huge space between 18 wheels and Sprinter. Fun fact: There's even cargo bikes that can carry up to 3 euro pallets (though that's clearly stretching the definition of "bike" to the breaking point) htt
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Rigid airships still have flexible gas bags (cells) inside. They just have a rigid hull around them.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Yes - the latter is more dense by a factor of 8 (2^3) and thus has less lifting power. To take an actual real example: Air has a weight of 1.222 kilograms/m^3 (dry, clean, standard pressure) Helium has a weight of about 0.167 kg/m
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by Xylakant 3y ago
There is already a way to change the lift without releasing gas: pump the gas into a compressed container - it reduces the volume and thus the specific lift.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
No, for mostly organizational reasons this lives in a private repo that we can't easily grant access to. I'll take that on my list of things that we should consider, but we're pretty busy right now - so no promises.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
> it may as well be a recent stable release of Rust. It essentially is, we're pretty open about this. There's a tiny patchset that's required to enable some guarantees (literally a handful of patches), none of them of inte
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I'd like to clarify a little here: There's an ISO certifiation in here - but it's not an ISO standard for the language. Essentially, the ISO 26262 certification mostly verifies that the compiler release process conforms to
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I agree, that would be better. But the current situation is strictly better than before, even if it’s not perfect - it protects you until you flip that switch and when you do, you’re exactly where you were before they added the feature. So
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The blocking UI shown to n the documentation of the feature has a “learn more” link which presumably leads to to exact the same documentation that I quoted. I consider that absolutely discoverable and fine. The one thing that I would wish f
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by Xylakant 3y ago
From the linked page explaining the feature: How can I re-enable the add-ons that are not allowed on some websites? We understand that installing add-ons is a user choice and, as with your security, we also take this matter very seriously.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
You also need to note that the same government at the same time decided to decelerate the growth of renewable energies that were supposed to replace both nuclear and fossil plants. It’s not a choice between nuclear and fossil.

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