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One direct application would be more efficient ways to generate fuel for Hydrogen vehicles [0]. It would also be essential for mining fuel from asteroids or gas giant's moons as ice is not so rare, improving the sustainability of space
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> You could have a hydrogen BBQ, but the tank would probably have to be much larger for the same amount of burn time. Isn't the opposite true? I mean, hydrogen at 700 bar has a specific energy of 142 MJ/kg while hydrocarbons in
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9y ago
AUR (Arch User Repository) is a great way to provide user and vendor provided installers IMO: you can check the build script, comment on it, flag outdated ones define and change maintainers while providing a web interface as well.
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I'm all for it (EV replacement), but that's an overly pretentious claim.
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This seems potentially terrifying if it's not able to understand the subtleties of what 'value' means on a project.
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Didn't she disclose the information on the video 'Collateral Murder' that was subsequently subject to a FOIA request?
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9y ago
This does not sound very reasonable, what about meetings regarding diplomatic and military strategies? Should that be public?
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9y ago
Maybe the good thing he refers to is the premise.
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9y ago
A shame this had priority over firefox support over a year.
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9y ago
Worth mentioning: http://libremusicproduction.com/
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9y ago
Export works for me in 5.8.
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9y ago
I just thought worth mentioning, I am not aware how donations work today.
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9y ago
> I mean, &#(@, look at the script for Alien and Aliens. I am a huge Alien fan, but I can't understand the fascination with Aliens, it always seemed like a cheap action movie when compared with the true psychological horror of
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I find it no worse than Alien 3, at least it had some aesthetic style.
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Another contributor that is even at least as active, in Ardour and the general Linux Audio community, is Robin Gareus (rgareus, x42) [0]. [0]: http://gareus.org/
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That's exactly what I was pondering after reading the lawsuit. I mean, being told to be the 'mommy' of the male workers, not being supplied with equipment in contrary to the others, having to hear directly of mentions to thre
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> I don't know if quantum computers exist, but I'm sure once they do, the people who build them will keep them secret. They not only do exist but have already successfully factorized low magnitude numbers [0]. The question is
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> it would be wonderful if the U.S. could return to being viewed as "the good guys" You mean internally or that there was ever a time where the external perception of US was of "good guys"? I mean, I can't poss
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We're very, very distant of such capability, waitbutwhy published an amazing article on the challenge of mapping and interacting with the brain via Brain Machine Interfaces [0]. If we ever achieve that, it will certainly not look like
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9y ago
All videos from 3blue1brown are amazing! Followed up through the latest 'Essence of Calculus' series, really a gem. He makes the software used to create the animations and it's open-source: https://github.com/
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> It’s quite reliable and even offers screen sharing without any plugins on Firefox. Since they bothered writing this, I guess the lack of support for Firefox.
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Considering practically all of electricity production in Norway is renewable (99% hydro) the less efficiency in electrical heating can be traded off the more efficient but CO2 emitting gas burning. It's true though that in countries wh
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I think parent was referring to electricity energy consumption. It is true that this is a fraction of total energy use, but this lays the groundwork for reaching clean energy for transportation, specially if Iceland follows on Norway's
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I can't comment on this specific event, but there are many accounts of astronomical events visible to the naked eye that were proven to be a useful resource for contemporary astronomy [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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Thanks for the information, I find that these acronyms may increase the bandwidth of communication, but the worse quality of the prose and dependence of context that is not always obvious makes this pattern very annoying. I've read thi
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> Our energy usage is growing exponentially. Well, with efficiency gains in the latest years energy consumption (not only electricity) actually is constant or decreasing in developed countries. Add to that decreasing population fertili
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> That doesn't feel like we evolved any resistance. If you take into account the infection of native Americans compared to Europeans since the 15th to 19th century [0] you'd infer that some ethnic stratum really evolved a lot
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Specifically for the 80s, this incident that was declassified much later illustrates how one could be expecting doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar... This one happened in 1995: https:&#
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Thanks for taking the time to write this!
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A scenario where a new 'top dog' enters and proposes the solution to all problems™ : let's measure our conversions, optimize this and that and make more sales. By the way, all this time you're developing open source you
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