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by _ph_ 2y ago
Though, the RM Pro has 229 ppi vs. the 300ppi for the scribe. So for black and white text, the scribe still has a small edge. But it would of course be cool, if the scribe eventually gets color at 300ppi.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Sure, thats what they did with the JWST. But that ist complex and expensive. A custom Starship could be the cheapest way to get telescopes up to 9m mirror size into space as you can assemble everything on the ground and you don't need
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by _ph_ 2y ago
If anything, the last 2 flights have shown how good a decisions it was to go with steel. The thermal reserves seem to be really large. While not as bad as with the previous flight, there was still significant leakage of hot air between the
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by _ph_ 2y ago
For things like that, they could build special versions of the star ship which remain in orbit as the housing. They would need no flaps, no tiles, just the 6 engines and the fuel tank. The body of the starship itself would be the telescopes
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by _ph_ 2y ago
The nuclear emissions seem to be optimistic in their absolute amounts - mining and producing nuclear fuel causes a lot of emissions. No one claimed it exceeds the one of fossil fuel power plants. There has been a strong decline in coal usag
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by _ph_ 2y ago
That is not correct. Yes, we are building more gas power plants. As peaker plants to pick up the residual load. That can in theory be the total net power requirement, which is why we need many of them. However, they are not running continuo
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Your argument would be valid if nuclear power would be the only option to prevent climate change. But there are other options: the various renewables, most importantly solar and wind. So it is not nuclear vs. climate change, but nuclear vs.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Whether the number for France is correct, is debatable. While I like the electricitymaps app, they are quite optimistic about nuclear power. But that isn't the point. The point is: Germany is strongly reducing the usage of coal. Yes, h
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Somewhere between 2-3x the electricity consumed right now (which is way down from the peak several years ago as efficiency increases, e.g. LEDs instead of light bulbs etc.). It would be crazy expensive to build nuclear reactors to produce s
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Yes, Germany has a historic debt there. However, the transition is working and in 2024 Germany has used less coal than any year after 1960. Coal power usage is in a strong decline. The nuclear reactors have been more than replaced.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Oh sure, for the Linux kernel, Rust makes a lot of sense and one would try to keep the number of languages used minimal. But I was speaking about an abstract context. There are plenty of memory safe languages which could be used. But eventu
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by _ph_ 2y ago
That is the separation between abstract considerations and a given projects constraints. In a given project there might be few choices, but if you talk about fundamental phenomena, you have to reason about arbitrary projects. And of course,
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by _ph_ 2y ago
The nice thing about Nintendo is, they are one of those companies who are willing to try something entirely different and new. Sometimes they fail spectacularly, but often enough they have success and definitely have brought a lot of nice a
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by _ph_ 2y ago
There are quite a bit of differences here. The mail services transport physical goods, and the whole path can be tracked. Every letter or parcel is registered by the postal office where it was submitted to for transport. And usually there i
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by _ph_ 2y ago
And it doesn't need to be a "really bad actor". I have been spammed by someone for years who clearly used a script to target an online service of mine. Always connecting from TOR, so banning an IP or a range wouldn't blo
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by _ph_ 2y ago
For me it is quite simple: if a watch has a seconds hand, I wand to be able to see it :) So I consider this change really an important part of "always on". I hope, they adjust most watch faces not to hide parts any more in idle st
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by _ph_ 2y ago
I hope they add a hh:mm:ss watch face/option soon.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Well, shaking the arm will do the trick. But I really look forward to have the seconds hand visible all the time. The always-on display was a huge step for the Apple watch and this enhancement completes it, as all hands keep visible all tim
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by _ph_ 2y ago
I am pretty sure, diamonds would make awful eyeglasses. While their index of refraction is high, which makes glasses thin, their chromatic dispersion is high. That is the very thing which makes their glitter so colorful. For good optical sy
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by _ph_ 2y ago
As I have big wrists and my eyes aren't getting better, I like a larger screen a lot. But for me, the most important update might be, that the screen now updates every second instead of every minute in the "inactive" mode. I
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by _ph_ 2y ago
May be not an earth-shattering update vs. the 15, but overall a lot of improvements. Probably more so for the plain iPhone 16, as it gets the A18 SOC, the Pro seems to have mainly one CPU core more. As I am on an iPhone 13 Pro Max, still in
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by _ph_ 2y ago
They said that the iPhone can record video directly to external storage, so you would need the faster USB speed for that. Quite a nice feature for productions which use the iPhone for professional video.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
The German website doesn't list it either, but lets hope that is just an issue with the web site. Edit: if you go to the comparison page, it lists the blood oxygene app for the 10 and the Ultra 2, so great :)
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Scrolling is quite much more plesant at 120 Hz.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Siri doesn't use ChatGPT
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Wow, if they removed the blood oxygen measurement, I will keep my S7 Apple watch. I had planned an upgrade.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
Which device would work better than the remarkable for its intended purpose of note taking?
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by _ph_ 2y ago
You can ssh into the remarkable and copy files via scp.
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by _ph_ 2y ago
A highly interesting release. I love my remarkable2 as a note-taking device. I also own a Kindle and an iPad, so reading books or running apps isn't my requirement. I only need something to take notes and that the remarkable does very
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by _ph_ 2y ago
The remarkable2 works well with Linux in the respect that the remarkable itself runs Linux and you can just ssh into it.

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