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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Yes, due to the insane amount of single-use plastic bottles being being wasted without recycling, we nowadays have to pay deposit for most bottles, which we then get back by returning the spent bottles to special collecting stations that us
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Yes, this is disappointing. Take the Nokia 8114 4G feature-phone [1] for example: it does even have "Wireless Emergency Alert" (WEA) [2] configuration in its connectivity configuration screen. However Germany does not implement
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
We have something like what you propose in germany [1]. Basically it causes the producers of packaging to end up paying for the disposal of the corresponding trash. This creates an incentitive for producers to make the packaging less wast
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
And what about good old water cannons? I can't imagine how the drone's rotor would be able to generate predictable lift when hit by a lot of water.
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Googeling for "photonic tensor" I found this publication: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0001942 which seems to describe a similar technology. The matrix-multiplication is partially done in an &
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
> not if you want to live a modern life with all the benefits that comes from that. That seems like a rather imprecise and thereby meaningless refutation of the parent's point. IMO a more honest statement of that idea would be: &quo
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
> A zero-carbon lifestyle is completely unattainable for the simple reason that we breathe out CO2. [..] That's a misconception that I often encounter. Note that CO2 breathed out by humans and animals has (almost) no effect on atmos
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
> The primary downside is the remarkable dangerousness of much of the JavaScript that is found bound to the HTML. Are you aware that PDF format has also featured JavaScript support (and related vulnerabilities) for a long time now [1]? [
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
WRT to the "veto nonsense" you refer to: as far as I understand, the EU nowadays does have some sort of majority voting system for most areas, since the Treaty of Lisbon came into effect [1]. This also means that sovereignity of
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Comparing the nitrogen problem with the problem of CO2 emissions is apples to oranges IMO: - Nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere and bound nitrogen (i.e. fertilizer) has an inherent short-time value that is higher than the cost of n
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
> Wait what? a TCP request already breaks the GDPR rules? If the TCP request carries personal data like the name of a visited website plus the user's IP address, then it "breaks the GDPR rules" in so far as you now have to
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Yes it does not look very GDPR conformant. They may try to argue that the transmission of visited domain names serves a purpose (browser performance) and that the user agreed to that transmission by accepting the TOS etc. However, I thin
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
In germany we have the words "Datensparsamkeit" (data parsimony) and "Datenvermeidung" (data prevention) [1]. Which wikipedia merely translates as "Privacy by design" [2]. DDG is unneccessaryly producing (aggr
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Looking at the "Weekly number of deaths" plot in the page you linked, I think what it says is, that the number of all-cause /excess/ deaths throughout april and may is more than 100 thousand people. This is without looki
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Slight correction: by default Debian/Ubuntu put all modules potentially required for initial boot into the initramfs. That's still a very small percentage of all modules. I.e. you only need those modules that will get you so f
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
And don't forget that maybe more than 20% of the normal water intake are due to food, not just drinking [1], so if you eat less you need to compensate water intake accordingly. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
As somebody who owned both a Crusoe-based and an Efficeon-based machine, let me thank you and your colleagues for the great work you did. I never suffered any stability issues with these machines running various Linux flavours (mostly Debi
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Just as a single data-point: I still had an old Crusoe-based TC-1000 [1] convertible lying around, that must be > 15 years old by now. About two years back I gave it a new hard-disk (some PATA to flash adapter), replaced the battery, u
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
The problem is, if you write by hand and you start writing really fast, you will distort the image. As long as you use the common stroke order, that distorsion will stay readable as it is a distorsion that people are familiar with. Use th
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
I switched to Dovorak maybe more than 15 years ago. But I found it put too much load an the pinky fingers (which already are pretty loaded doing enter, backspace, shift). Also typing german is very awkward with Dvorak. I then switched to
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
This just hit me via Debian's 'apt-get update': I'm using jitsi's package repository which is hosted via HTTPS and seems to rely on the expired root-CA. Certificate checks started failing for everybody a few hours
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Electron apps have much more access permissions than a normal website. I don't know technical details of how electron apps interact with the bundled chrome, however this post [1] suggests that electron apps can just talk low-level TCP
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Yes, the primary (or only) reason to even implement a WS server connection is exactly to allow data to be scrapped off using a web-browser. E.g. Asterisk nowadays allows enabling SIP protocol access over websocket so that you can run a java
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
No, webpage javascript is limited to using websocket protocol [1] for connections. That means your database or IP camera, or VoIP phone or router are safe for now. Though the websocket connection establishment seems to allow the javascrip
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Yes the number of Qubits used to represent the problem scales polynomially with the bit-length of the input integers. However, annealing here is used as an approximation of a brute-force search. If you demand a sufficiently exact (i.e. no
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Glancing at the paper, I do not find anything that is impressive. AFAICS the algorithm they implement is of asymptotic exponential complexity, even when run on a quantum computer. I cannot imagine how this work would have any effect on th
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
TL;DR: Deaths from COVID-19 represent a substantial burden in terms of per-person years of life lost, more than a decade [..]". This is relevant to answer the often voiced concern that people dying of coronavirus are merely dying &quo
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
Wave-particle duality (of e.g. light)
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by dvdkhlng 6y ago
I think the question that you're trying to ask is answered in part by the publication "COVID-19 – exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost:" [1] TL;DR: more tha
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by dvdkhlng 7y ago
Whenever reading about these kind of horror stories, I feel so lucky that we have the GDPR in europe. AFAIK under GDPR it would be imposssible to share those data without explicit, free, informed consent of all affected persons [1]. Even i

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