Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 7y ago
When I moved into a 17th century farm in the Swedish countryside I quickly learned to dread the sound of thunder, especially when not at home. The reason was to be found in the rather ancient and dilapidated power and telephone distribution
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Canada has (temperate) rain forest on Vancouver Island. It is also under more or less constant threat of being cut down, some of it already has but a lot of it still standing. If you happen to be in the area it is more than worth taking a
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
If you don't mind me asking, why did you change from that iPhone 4/5/6 which withstood those keys so well and still sound good? I'm still using a device from the iPhone 4 era - not an iPhone though - which still works fi
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
My more than 8 years old Motorola Defy begs to differ, as does the equally old Ainol Novo tablet I bought around the same time. Both devices run Android 4.4, an older but still usable version for which new software is still produced. The D
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The "melting pot" idea of multiculturalism has been proven to be inaccurate, a better term for the way things actually work is a "salad bowl" - just search on "melting pot or salad bowl" to read more on this su
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
...but if you import an ideology into your culture you'll end up with escalating conflict. The refusal to see this has created something more akin to a powder keg than a melting pot (to paraphrase the old moniker) which has the - alrea
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Homo Sapiens has evolved to the currently dominant species partly due to its tendency to conquer and subdue - others of the same species, other species or the landscape. If Homo Sapiens were to reach this "mental maturity" it woul
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
7. Make sure to be there for both you wife as well as your child, i.e. don't be an absent dad. Your child(ren) will fare much better spending extra hours with you present than they will with the extra earnings those hours would make yo
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Simulation gods would most likely be gods of chaos as that is what simulations are generally used for: to test the behaviour of a system in diverse and often adverse conditions.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Why not? Google Search started out unbiased, Pagerank (the algorithm) did not care about any opinions or attitudes or leanings and the results ended up being representative of what was out there on the 'net. The same approach could hav
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The "Google News" search can not be seen as an objective search for "news" as it is biased both by the selection and weighting of sources by Google (staff and algorithms) as well as by the search history profile. If you
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Niven and Pournelle thought so as well when they wrote "Lucifer's Hammer" [1] in which "...China, anticipating the coming ice age launches a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia. The last Soviet Premier reassures the US t
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Technical measures like these don't have to be watertight to be effective with the 'right' laws in place, this has been demonstrated by the restrictions on bypassing 'content protection measures' in the DMCA. Those
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
That must be a while ago since LuCI has been around for years now: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/luci/start
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
CEO's sit on board for other companies where they get to decide on the salary for CEO's who sit on the boards of companies where they get to decide on the salary for CEO's who... well, you get it by now. Like the revolving do
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Success equals no serious complaints: https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/in-de-stad/verkeer-en-vervoer/fiet... "Als er na 3 maanden geen ernstige bezwaren zijn van bewoners, dan wordt de vlonder weggehaald en ve
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/in-de-stad/verkeer-en-vervoer/fiet... Here's a bit more information on the things, in Dutch. They have 10 of them in Den Haag (The Hague), they are placed on a parking spot and
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The 'bridging' problem is one area where vehicular applications have less of a problem given the fact that the generator is constantly being shaken, especially when used on tractors or other similar equipment (e.g. old-style bone-
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Because it is relatively easy to develop new technology, hard to build things in the US where the government can not just decide to build something without lengthy procedures to appropriate funds and property.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Anathem [1] is another book which could be turned into a script for a movie or series. It has a host of colourful characters, scenery varying from something resembling a medieval abbey to space ships, a fairly linear plot line and enough ac
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
No, that is a nonsensical construction comparable to what is being done in Stockholm where they import biomass from south America to fuel CHP (combined heat and power i.e. co-generation) systems, this in a country where biomass from forestr
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Insulation, or thermal mass - this is why adobe and rammed earth are suitable building materials for hot climates: thick walls take a lot of time to heat up and cool down and help to stabilise the inside climate.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> Renewable does not mean clean. It is mostly biomass... Biomass can be as 'clean' as you want it. The term is applicable to anything from a heap of sticks used to cook a pot of cassave to a combined biogas/gasifier plant
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Although a simpler solution to build due to the absence of liquid coolant I'd still choose a combination of PV-panels with liquid-based collectors attached to the back as this also makes it possible to circulate warm coolant through th
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Combine that passive cooling with a heat pump to create hot water from PV panel waste heat and you'll both gain efficiency as well as a hot water source.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
How times changed, it used to be a journalist's job to uncover things like this - viz. the Watergate scandal, the Clinton's Whitewater controversy - but something broke somewhere down the line and this type of digging journalism w
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
$ ps -eo rss,cmd |grep claws-mail|grep -v grep 36016 claws-mail 37 MB, 4 accounts open, one of them holding ~10.000 messages (i.e. which need to be archived but it not being my account I'm not the one to do so)
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
More likely there is no swap space defined so that any memory error will trigger the OOM killer.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
That is... puzzling. I use Firefox on a 2GB Thinkpad T42p, regularly have 100+ tabs 'open' (as in 'opened in the background' which means it'll start rendering when I actually open the tab) over 2 or 3 active windows
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Don't forget the biggest gorilla of them all started with "Don't be evil" as their motto. They dropped it later but it did help to give them this sheen of being "good citizens" while it lasted.

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