danhor

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by danhor 3y ago
> By “leaning in” to curves, you make the ride more comfortable, not less. That is the intention, but many people report discomfort due to the non-ideal adjustments, at least for the tilting trains in germany.
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by danhor 3y ago
I've found that many applications work without Play serices or simply complain but work. Whatsapp even offers an .apk for Download with a self Updater and everything else can be installed with "AuroraStore" (third party play
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by danhor 3y ago
All of my of my on-the-go shopping without thinking about it beforehand have much smaller quantities than the one I specifically think about (especially because in Germany I usually take some bottles with me to deposit at the store), for th
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by danhor 3y ago
> And of course, the complainer's personal use of polluting energy is always objectively correct and morally just. Please tell me where it's possible to live in modern society right now without any use of polluting energy. Seem
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by danhor 3y ago
The carbon impact of PCs is negligible for almost all people, and possessions are only a smaller portion of emissions (with the exception of high embodied carbon things like electric cars). Important things you can influence for a low carbo
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by danhor 3y ago
People are less fine with risk if it's less controllable by themselves. Every mode of transport where people don't directly control their fate is held to a much higher safety standard (and partially as a result) much safer. Aviati
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by danhor 3y ago
This is nothing that regulation can't solve. German regulations prohibit wind farms with such periodic shadowing if it occurs more than 30 minutes a day or 30 hours per year for a house.
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by danhor 3y ago
> That just my view of the aesthetics… As wind turbines aren't a very rare sight, I think it's reasonable to assume that most have already seen a wind farm in person. Newer generations in Germany also only flash when planes are
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by danhor 3y ago
Pretty much all relevant ceuntries also pleged to triple renewable capacity in 8 years, which seems mostly doable, while with the typical (western) construction timelines for nuclear they would have to pretty much start tendering the new pl
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by danhor 3y ago
> whether it's more expensive than peaker gas plants. While running only a small percentage of the time. Some only operate a few hundred hours a year, let's say 300 hours (around 3.4% of the time). These low operating hours are
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by danhor 3y ago
> We are probably AT LEAST 50 years away from a near 100% non-nuclear "renewable" world. For electricity (which is the only energy category where nuclear makes sense) I see no reason to be this pessimistic (of course, depending
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by danhor 3y ago
At least regarding the homebrew, I disagree completely. While it took a while for the vita to be thoroughly hacked, it has been thoroughly hacked. And the benefits are numerous: Using normal SD cards, expanding the the integrated psp hardwa
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by danhor 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's simply cost-benefit analysis. It's also scale of accidents. A whole lot more people die from car accidents, yet there are few reports on national news on accidents. So fewer people care. Meanwhile each tim
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by danhor 3y ago
I'm not sure if you've ever used modern software. It's sometimes amazing just how unreliable it is. Web browsers crash every few weeks, windows is known for regularly needing a reboot, evince regularly crashes on me, you can&
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by danhor 3y ago
That is also my impression as well. The softwareization of trains has led to deep regressions in both basic reliability and interoperability/flexilibity. Many modern trains suffer from software issues for basic driving [0] and delays w
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by danhor 3y ago
Those benefits have eroded a bit over time. Rail vehicles have become pretty good at acceleration and deceleration, with acceleration often being limited due to passenger comfort. Similarly high(er) grades of 8%-10% are now quite possible w
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by danhor 3y ago
I think most people the US and europe have switched over to chinese manufacturers like jlcpcb or similar for small batch-size PCBs, since they're cheaper and more user friendly. I would've expected them to ship to most of the worl
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by danhor 3y ago
Interestingly enough the source for the first graph in the article shows the opposite: https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/electricity/ele... Even more staggering is that from 2020 to 2021 solar
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by danhor 3y ago
NYC subways were all built by the city, but most were not operated by them. There are privately built subways around the world (especially in Japan), but globally it's a rarity. This isn't a surprise, considering that subways are
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by danhor 3y ago
At least in germany this isn't the case. The cell coverage on trains is almost a meme by now (even though it's overstated) and and small communities/other attractions in very rural areas (rural for germany, a highway is still
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by danhor 3y ago
At least the Wii U can just be powered using a 15V PD trigger. The maximum current requirement of 5A isn't met, but works just fine. Since the Wii needs 12V I would add a DC-DC converter but I don't see any reason why it shouldn&#
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by danhor 3y ago
VQFN is quite possible using a soldering iron (the difficulty is the soldering pad underneath, but that isn't necessary and doable with suitable PCB design) . IMHO QFN is much easier to solder (and rework) than LQFN because bridges bet
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Prolific Counterfeiting(computer.rip)
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by danhor 3y ago
The specialized stops are an issue (and have gotten very rare), but the speed limit from the car train is an issue but especially the highly cyclical nature of the demand for car transport on night trains, much more so than normal sleeper t
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by danhor 3y ago
USB 3 the protocol isn't backwards compatible with USB 2, USB 3 ports just include both USB 2 and USB 3 pins (what one might call dual stack). You can easily connect two differnt devices one to the USB 2 pins and one to the USB 3 pins
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by danhor 3y ago
High-end equipment certainly increased sharply in price in the last few years, but few people gaming on PC spend anywhere near that amount of money. If you just went to play most games on a reasonable framerate (30fps) a Steam Deck for 400$
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by danhor 3y ago
While Steam itself certainly has DRM infrastructure, it's not required and easily bypassed. Valve allows other 3rd-party DRM solutions, but I'd argue that the built-in DRM is one of the less important aspects of steam.
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by danhor 3y ago
AAA-like titles were previously tried at the beginning of the App Store, mostly ports of older titles. Most Indie Games would also run fine on most Smartphones, but never succeeded. Stuff that sold great on the Switch. I think the lack of &
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by danhor 3y ago
Nintendo used the same file format as used for pirated ROMs, so people assumed Nintendo simply used downloaded ROMs. As it turns out one of the people working at Nintendo for emulation previously worked on emulators outside Nintendo, so it&
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by danhor 3y ago
More than 40% of the german railway network isn't electrified, which supports around around 10% of of traffic. Simply looking at https://openrailwaymap.org/ shows you just how many small branch lines and less significa

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