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by _ph_ 4y ago
But isn't that the point? If solar plants can be deployed quicker and cheaper, that is what should be done (and of course the same applies for wind generators).
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, you are not wrong. Gas is only a small part of German electricity production. It is a larger part in the US, but the US has a lot of gas available from fracking. Yes, if there were plentiful of cheap gas, it is much better to use that i
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, but most plants we currently have are in a pretty much 100% cycle, that is, why the biosphere is so stable. Take the Amazon region, the top soil layer is like 50cm. There is no deposit of carbon into the ground going on and its one of
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The left hand on a split keyboard has 6 keys in the bottom row on an ISO layout, but only 5 on an ANSI layout as this keyboard has. Then comes the shift key. I am a huge fan of split keyboards, but as I am touch typing, that required the ke
515.
by _ph_ 4y ago
Right. It is strange that there are no good keyboard shops at least in major cities. There are so many parameters involved in finding the right keyboard, testing is so important here.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Nice page. Perhaps you could add a filter for ANSI/ISO key layout?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
And once again, no ISO layout option available :( While I can understand that US companies address the US market first, why are they ignoring large markets of the rest of the world, which are larger than the US?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Her watch has ended. Not being a citizen of the commonwealth, I have no political beef in this, I can only admire her for holding her office for a longer time than most here (including me) have lived. Being the formal head of once a colonia
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bikes used by normal people look a lot because of what the UCI is mandating. If e.g. recumbent bikes were an option in at least some competitions, they would be much more common place, the same ap
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by _ph_ 4y ago
A highly efficient velomobile.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, this is not about UCI regulations, it is about what is physically most efficient. But indeed, it is a pity that the UCI blocks any new bicycle designs.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I would like to have seen a comparison to a state-of-the-art velomobile though. They have greatly reduced drag compared to a single cyclist too.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, if we are talking about decarbonization, we are not using a natural gas turbine to charge the electric car but solar, wind, water.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That might be true, but we were talking about the energy consumption we have to replace, and that is the comparision of the fuel vs. elecricity used.
525.
by _ph_ 4y ago
You haven't heard the number before? Combustion engines are physically limited to a maximum of 40% efficiency. But that is at their peak performance point. That is basically the efficiency a thermal power plant runs on. But with cars,
526.
by _ph_ 4y ago
First of all, the most important point is, that by switching from using the chain fossil fuels -> heat -> usage to the chain: renewable source -> electricity -> usage We need 2/3rds less of energy, as e.g. hea
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It escapes me, what this has to do with my comment. That was directed at the Emacs development in general. It is based on Gtk, but doesn't fully embrace it, still limiting itself to mostly a terminal emulation.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yeah, the Emacs UI is definitely a bit lacking. It could be greatly improved if they embraced Gtk a bit more. Especially if some widgets could be handled from elisp. But what it lacks in polish, it often makes up with usability, once you ar
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Besides that I can only recommend Slime, you can basically convert any program that doesn't use readline into one via rlwrap. Very useful :)
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by _ph_ 4y ago
One has to stress: SBCL is probably by far the best Lisp compiler out there. So it is not only free, but also good. Might require a few type annotations to get the best performance though. And the diagnostic messages can sometimes be annoyi
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by _ph_ 4y ago
They offer a more graphical development experience. Yes. Whether it is better than Slime, would need to be discussed. But the point is quite irrelevant in the moment, when you just cannot develop anything due to memory limitations.
532.
by _ph_ 4y ago
Not if your lisp image exits even with simple programs.
533.
by _ph_ 4y ago
There are also TK bindindings https://github.com/herth/ltk
534.
by _ph_ 4y ago
Many years ago we had one too. It was very hot in the first day or two, but like with a forest fire, you had new outbreaks when people returned from vacation and before having read any other replies, replied to all "unsubscribe" o
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I am not a judge, I am not asking for a guilty verdict. Perhaps badly phrased, I was asking for a comment, a contrary viewpoint, because all that I had so far heard makes it sound as if cloudflare rather acted to late. But that might be bec
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Seconded.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
As I didn't really follow the controversy around Kiwi Farms: there have been made quite plausible accusations that the Kiwi Farms are a forum of people for quite some time organizing online hate and harrassment which has lead to swatti
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The binary does work (at least on Big Sur). It would be nice though, if there were signed executables available. Not sure what I did to make it work, if I can remember that required some trial-and-error.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Thinking about it, have you made sure, that sbcl-1.2.11 works at all for you before trying to build? I remember it took a bit of trying due to gatekeeper. I had to allow both the sbcl executable as well as the core file, before it was fully
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Some other SBCL version, I don't know what I had installed on x86_64. I can look on monday, what it was. Probably the 1.2.11 that can be found on the download site. What was the issue you were running into? Alternatively, you can try A

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