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by bergie 2y ago
Yup, solar panels are ridiculously cheap nowadays. In almost every case I've seen, the hardware to mount the panels has been more expensive than the panels themselves
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by bergie 2y ago
14kW is a lot. On our boat we can live off-grid with 860W of solar and a hydrogenerator for when we're under way. Last time we were connected to shore power was in December when we were in the Canaries... Here's a short summary of
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by bergie 2y ago
In the summer you can make tons of power with the almost 24/7 sunlight. Cruising in Finland and Sweden in summer we did more solar power than in the Canaries during the fall
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by bergie 2y ago
I'm currently in the Caribbean with our sailboat. We spent almost a month on Martinique (St. Anne, Anse Mitan, St. Pierre), and were wondering a bit about the low amount of renewables being used. Theory was that both wind and solar are
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by bergie 2y ago
You're suggesting to give the content to Facebook instead of Mozilla?
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by bergie 2y ago
I've deleted all Mozilla software on my devices. Used to run Firefox everywhere. For now trying to live with the mixture of Safari (iOS, MacOS) and the DDG browser (Android). No replacement for Pocket so far, but also not sure if I rea
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by bergie 2y ago
> What accounts for this gap - patents (ha) China has been the country filing the most patents for a while now. "While innovators from China continue to file nearly half of all global patent applications, the country’s growth rate d
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by bergie 2y ago
I think last time I watched a US inauguration was GW Bush's in 2001. We were sitting in a bar in Helsinki, and they were showing that for some reason. Quite a view of that country, a dude wearing a cowboy hat and swearing something on
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by bergie 2y ago
Boats are also making that move. 24V is pretty common now with newer boats, and with electric propulsion 48V is quite attractive. The NMEA2000 standard is confined to 12V however, meaning that all boats still need a 12V system as well. Mayb
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by bergie 2y ago
There is a cap to unemployment benefits, and at salary levels of most tech workers it is nowhere near 60%
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by bergie 2y ago
Why would they. Majority of open source is just enabling the big players to produce software a little bit faster.
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by bergie 2y ago
> Apple: Does backflips to protect your data That's what their marketing says. I'm not sure how far you can actually trust that. They're an ad and media company as well.
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by bergie 2y ago
The alphabet is so cool, strong resemblance to Tolkien's elvish. Especially when you find a ruined castle or monastery in the mountains with that script on the gate. Though I recall on my first trip there being told that the origin of
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by bergie 2y ago
Hasn't IT told you that you shouldn't write your password on basalt tablets? Time for another IT Security compliance e-training...
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The GPT era is already ending(theatlantic.com)
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by bergie 2y ago
This is pretty cool! I'm the developer of a semi-automatic electronic logbook system for sailboats: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/electronic-logbook/ Right now I'm using YAML for the file format, as I wante
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by bergie 2y ago
Having AIS on is mandatory, and in many places taken quite seriously. Last night we sailed from Fuerteventura to Gran Canaria. There was a cargo ship with broken AIS in the area, and the VTS broadcasted their position over VHF every half ho
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by bergie 2y ago
> I wonder. From first principles, I don't quite understand how cruise ships can be that bad. Because of tragedy of commons. There is very little environmental regulation affecting shipping. And cruise ships can utilise flags of con
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by bergie 2y ago
I lived for a few years in 21m². It was nice, very central Helsinki, well thought-out layout. When I wasn't living alone, we upgraded to 30m². Even better layout, in multiple levels. In effect you had a separated bedroom, living room,
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by bergie 2y ago
Back in 2011 I built a JS-based thing for making essentially any website editable: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/introducing_the_midgard_create_us... This required you to add a bit of RDFa markup to identify the editable
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by bergie 2y ago
EU actually did that: > These regulations will empower independent repairers and end-users by ensuring access to spare parts and to the information necessary to repair for at least 7 years after the end of the distribution of a product i
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by bergie 2y ago
12€ per month here. 10€/month for the regular 2TB Google One plan, 22€/month for the same but with a chatbot. I wonder who falls for that.
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by bergie 2y ago
Nah, we've just outsourced production to countries with cheaper labour costs. It's a great deal: somebody else somewhere else deals with changing the diapers, and yet there will be a tax base to keep the country running when I&#x2
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by bergie 2y ago
"...and made an impact in thousands of lives" in resume-speak
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by bergie 2y ago
> I love that I can just use my phone for virtually everything I use my laptop for (developing probably being the only obsticle). I used to write software on my phone using termux (usually via DeX).
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by bergie 2y ago
That, or another year of lockdown could also do it.
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by bergie 2y ago
> You can have a city where all residential buildings are five- to six-stories, with ample green spaces and every street lined with trees; So, essentially Berlin inside the ring. Each "kiez" (a neighbourhood) is sort of a villa
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by bergie 2y ago
12k? I wonder what route they take. Direct, it is about 3000km. Central Europe is small.
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A Month of the Vision Pro(ben-evans.com)
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by bergie 3y ago
The other intact one is Hamina in eastern Finland. We sailed there last summer, was worth the visit! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamina

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