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by _ph_ 3y ago
The problem of course is the proximity to power consumers or you have to expand the grid. Besides, coastlines are ideal places for wind power generation, which is why the north of Germany has no energy scarcity.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Germany would have had to burn coal that night anyway. The output of the remaining 3 reactors would have been only a fraction of the electricity requirements anyway. Meanwhile the buildup of renewables continues and part of the "lost&q
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by _ph_ 3y ago
And if you have enough for peak demand (which France for a while mostly had), you run into the opposite problem of having too much power production when you don't need it. Nuclear reactors are not only slow to switch power output, but
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Just a little comment for correctness, since April 15th, all German nuclear reactors are switched off.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
It is like an imminent impact with your car. Whether you can still make it or not - you want to break as hard as possible to make the impact, if it cannot be avoided, the least violent you still can manage.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Also, the ability to "do" a hobby might vary over time, depending on many factors. Some are season-related, others might depend on personal life or even health. This might shift the hobby execution between the quadrants.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Personally, I am firmly in all 4 quadrants of the graph :) My main hobby is photography. From the minimum viable gear perspective, I had "enough" many years ago. I like taking photos a lot, but I also like the gear perspective. Ne
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Yes, but the consequences are different. If Russia destroys an Ukrainian nuclear reactor, there are grave, long lasting consequences for the Ukraine and possible larger parts of Europe, we still have enough contamination from Chernobyl stil
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Just to avoid any misunderstandings, the schedule to close all nuclear reactors in Germany by the end of 2022 was set by CDU/CSU together with the FDP. Which then went on to curb the buildup of renewables.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
50% of the German electricity are now renewable, wind, solar, biomass, water. In 2022, Germany was creating and exporting a considerable chunk of electricity to help plugging the holes left by the switched off French reactors.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Both :) It is somewhat funny but might actually work. Plants are great at absorbing CO2, but that is very transient in the nature. One certainly could burry whole logs underground and perhaps it is possible to prevent decay from releasing t
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Turning wood into charcoal would be a way. That doesn't decay easily when burried.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Fortunately, Germany was able to completely replace fossil fuels from Russia.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
And of course, a lot of them are producing parts for electric cars now. Most companies will make the transition successfully and new ones will come up too.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Sure, but in his case it is pure populism. The only rational would be that he finally gets caught by his and his partys stupid energy policy. They were part in phasing out nuclear, but also fought and blocked renewables and blocked the buil
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Till December 2021 Söders party was part of the federal government together with the CDU and the FDP. No attempts were made when it still would have been somewhat possible to revert the shutdown. Only after he is no longer part in the Gover
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by _ph_ 4y ago
In my experience, encapsulating the access to sqlite in a go package helps a lot with avoiding recompilation of the c source, which indeed is brutally slow. It acutally seems to be way slower than compiling with gcc from the command line.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
In all fairness, Paris seems to be the one big city which is strongly reducing cars and consequently creates room for bicycles.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The point being that it was vital for the success of Linux that there were hackeres willing to reverse engineer closed hardware to make it run. That there are now official and open source drivers for a lot of hardware is a directly conseque
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That is definitely true for most large European cities, and that is where lots of the offices are.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
If you have any kind of venue, lets say a restaurant or a shop, you don't want your customers be targetted by any kind of illicit activity even if it is not on your grounds, e.g. in front of your store. Even less you want anyone use yo
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't optimize the time zones so that the deviation is minimized.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
You are missing something: the day schedule society agreed upon derives from the average run of the sun. School doesn't start at 8 because that is some special number, but because without DST it is the value which works best. You want
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Our breaks don't have to coincide with the solar maximum. We can set them at any time we want. Which is why "permanent dst" makes no sense. However, calibrating our wall time so that noon marks the high point of the sun is th
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I consider DST a hack to move the day-start earlier during the time of the year where the daytime is significantly longer than the night time. It is annoying, but to some extend it works - though in my eyes there are clear indications that
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by _ph_ 4y ago
There are unfortunately too many people in Germany, who will struggle even with 49€, though it is a huge improvement for many. I am thinking mostly about retired people with a small pension, which struggle to just pay for food towards the e
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Germany is a small country, area-wise. You can reach large parts well with regional trains which are included in the ticket.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Still great for everyone who just cannot afford a ICE ticket or even a car. And there is a huge in-between area between local connections and long distance. There are a lot of medium distance connections, where the time difference isn'
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, there are configurations where a PC is a way better machine for the money, especially where Apple doesn't offer a directly comparable alternative. However, that doesn't mean, this applies in general, especially with laptops r
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Depends on what exactly you mean by professional. There are Gtk and Qt bindings for SBCL (haven't tried them), and I have deployed GUI applications in an professional environment based on LTk. Yes, CAPI is certainly a strong point of L

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