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by _ph_ 3y ago
Sorry, but those "defects" are perhaps a minor inconvenience as they require a bit more of typing, but don't prevent you to write code. While I agree that one would prefer to have less inconveniences - and part of the design
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by _ph_ 3y ago
It evolved in two directions. On the one side, Turbo Pascal which constantly updated the language, added OOP later on. On the other side the development of the successors by Wirth, like Modula and Oberon. All of those were quite popular h
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Whatever you do, don't send a radio message there!
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by _ph_ 3y ago
The thing is, the question doesn't really make sense. Yes you could design a closed system of solar production and battery storage, which delivers power 24/7. But that is not reasonable. Solar is only one part of the electricity s
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Besides that most areas aren't in the risk of flooding, there is litte preventing you to water proof your batteries to the point that submerging them into water has no ill effects. The housing of the batteries usually is water-proof an
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Yes, it was always there. Even when you didn't need it. That is why Germany used to export more electricity and France is very happy to be able to sell any unused capacity. In the last year, nuclear capacity was only 5% of the peak lo
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Because of the massive investment necessary, you cannot sell the energy profitably. It is just too expensive.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
You are wrong. Germany can meet its energy demands. However, a lot of times it is cheaper to buy surplus energy from neighboring countries.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
No, they don't. The French grid wouldn't have made it through 2022 without a lot of imports from Germany, as too many reactors were down for maintenande. They found a fault which concerned most reactors of that type. On top of tha
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Germany added more than 10GW of solar alone this year, next years number will be probably significantly higher. That easily equals 1 nuclear power plant, even if you calculate extremely pessimistic. By going with solar (and of course wind),
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Nope. If humanity were to create the large amount of energy from nuclear, uranium would run out within a century.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Nuclear is the worst companion to Solar+Wind. Why? Because nuclear is limited in regulation capacity (you need to keep the output at at least 40%) and also extremely expensive when not running at high capacity.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Besides that this number is high and there we are talking about only very high resolution films, the lenses limit the resolution. With the tiny lenses of those cameras, you wouldn't make good use of any large sensor. There is a reason
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by _ph_ 3y ago
They are still functional, because of the heroic defense by the Ukrainian people and quick rebuilding. Russia was explicitly targeting and quite a lot destroying the Ukraine electric infrastructure. Unfortunately it looks like they are stoc
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by _ph_ 3y ago
The problem is, just having TSMC not provide ICs for a couple of months would probably rip world economy apart. Yes, I think the west can absolutely pick up where TSMC right now is. The machines come from the Netherlands anyway. Intel has s
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by _ph_ 3y ago
It is the usual way of denoting that there is no turn right which leads to the designated location. Usually because of some road closure. Of course here it has a strange vibe to it.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Compared to what modern 35mm cameras can deliver, these cameras had very bad resolution. Yes, you could build such a camera today with a 35mm sensor, but the results wouldn't really justify the effort. If you want good compact cameras,
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by _ph_ 3y ago
And you have basically undone the effect of permanent DST.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
How is this a problem? It just looks that they didn't try to improve the general architecture but make one step to ramp up the clock speeds without increasing the power consumption thanks to the process step. Which is a great achieveme
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by _ph_ 3y ago
They are not artificially limiting the number of external screens. To support more screens, they would have to reserve die area for an additional controller. That could mean a gpu less or something. This is about engineering tradeoffs.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Yes, the amount of vapor increases, which also contributes to global warming. But at the same time, the relative humidity might go down if the capacity of the air to hold water increases faster than the actual vapor amount. The consequence
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I sincerely hope that this means a lot more choices of good ARM based computers. While I am a happy Apple-user, or rather because I am, I want more great ARM chips on the market. I still remember the great times in the 80ies and 90ies, wher
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by _ph_ 3y ago
The plastic which is the problem is at max. 2 generations old so the previous poster was off by 1. Considering this sites affinity with software development, an off-by-one error should be acceptable :)
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by _ph_ 3y ago
If there ever was an article, which yells for an included video... only found this via the manufacturers page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4EOm4bB4s I am not an expert on 3D printers, but the concept sounds very inter
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I think that recent history clearly shows, that any larger organization and especially any public organization should at minimum also have a Mastodon representation. One can argue a lot on how a certain social network is superior to Mastodo
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by _ph_ 3y ago
The black bars are printed like that into the book. They have nothing to do with the reproduction of the ad, they are part of the original ad.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I saw once one :) For a very short time, the German computer retail chain "Vobis" would sell Dec Alpha machines with Windows NT 3.1. Too bad that didn't expand later on. It would have been great for the computer market, if mo
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by _ph_ 3y ago
This breaks down if you have teams in more than one location which have to interact. So yes, for smaller companies, being together at one location and reaping the benefits of direct collaboration is a thing, for international companies less
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I am a huge fand of learning by doing. This is a great way of dealing with problems you cannot anticipate. But it is just bad planning, if you are not dealing in advance with the problems you can anticipate. Like not having enough desks in
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I would be entirely happy with a 300ppi greyscale e Ink screen which has at least A4 dimensions. With USB-C input for power and video. Possibly just using DisplayLink instead of a video connection, as speed is not an issue.

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