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by endymi0n 8y ago
Let me quickly do the math to some more useful units: 0.18 μmol/cm2 in 6 hours is around... 1e-6 0.18 10000*2 == 0,0036 grams of hydrogen for a square meter of panel on a day of sunlight. That will move a Toyota Mirai (~1kg H2 for 100k
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Sometimes you just have to do something simple that just nobody else happened to have thought of before. Graphene and scotch tape comes to my mind...
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Came here to say the same thing. At the scale of container ships, almost all the disadvantages of hydrogen are gone. Storage, cooling and leakage should all be controllable, given large enough tanks. Interestingly enough, there's some
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by endymi0n 9y ago
This hits the nail on the head. Optimization is very, very rarely completely „free“ - and usually a concious trade of some property for another trait that‘s deemed more important in a specific case. Simplicity for performance. Code size for
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I think the direction is good, the conclusion not so much. Nobody has the use or space for a couple hundred timber houses per person on the planet to cope with the current emissions. But if executed correctly (Drones sowing and harvesting m
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I must admit I find the EU pretty progressive and thought-leading lately - ironically using the tool progressives despise the most: Regulation. When they banned all filament lightbulbs, everyone was saying how bad it would be for the econom
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by endymi0n 9y ago
How doctors die (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13122408
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by endymi0n 9y ago
OMG, looks like „permanence“ is now to blockchainers what „web scale“ was to MongoDB fanboys. Now if you were so kind to explain to me what about modern, distributed databases isn‘t „permanent“? Permanence is the very definition of a databa
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by endymi0n 9y ago
The point is - it's neither one nor the other: Combining working fuel cell technology with batteries really gives the best of both worlds: - Batteries are the most efficient in the long run and very dynamic at power release, but they a
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Old and busted: Phishing attempt leaks all my companies‘ emails. New and hot: Breach at phish.ai‘s screenshot database leaks all my company‘s emails.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
My sympathy for the guy, stuff like this sucks deep on a personal level and he should have gravitated towards a higher level team that values his contributions more. That being said, I've worked with my share of brilliant jerks and cou
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by endymi0n 9y ago
From a decade of software engineering and architecture I'd say these are some excellent guidelines for when to choose a library. Let me follow up with a collection of the cases where I'd absolutely stay away from libraries: 1. Y
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by endymi0n 9y ago
To be honest, the academic field is about the only field in which it perfectly makes sense to finish a degree, I mean, what else can you boast with if you have none? The other three reasons are visa (proof of "ability"), wanting
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I had the same exciting thought before it dawned on me that we usually choose plastics for a reason . Imagine water bottles breaking down in the store. Imagine protective coatings of ships breaking down. While I'd be happy for the mes
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by endymi0n 9y ago
The number might be right but misleading in a way. Fixed wing commercial aircraft tend to have a LOT of passengers, while helicopters usually have just a handful of them. I‘d wager the factor on average load is about 50-100x – which is then
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I‘m smelling the SQL case could be reasonably easily thrown together with PostgreSQL and a custom Foreign Data Wrapper based on protobuf-c (prior art: cstore_fdw by the Citus folks). Proto definitions then should compile rather cleanly to t
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I must admit I find the development of Kubernetes extremely well organized fir the sheer size of the project.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Can't help but also think "WTF are they doing there..." - we're doing exactly the same (user segmentation, targeting and campaign execution for cinema & movie users, disclaimer: we're more or less their only c
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by endymi0n 9y ago
And thinking twice about it, you won‘t even need Internet at the Supercharger, either. With some clever cryptography and signing, you can use the existing Tesla fleet with the newest updates loaded as a P2P network on wheels... „Want to get
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Here‘s a better idea: install this „server“ (you‘ll probably not need much more than a Raspberry Pi sized machine) into every Supercharger. Car will have to park there anyway for some significant time, there‘s electricity already and it‘s T
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The Ad-Tech Industry’s Looming Shakeout Could Finally Happen(adweek.com)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I agree ;-)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Still hoping for a professional MacBOOK, but Apple doesn't ever listen to their pro customers or do they?
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by endymi0n 9y ago
As a larger publisher, we're getting crap like this every second day by now... thanks to everyone bringing this to a stop, for me the cryptopocalypse can't come soon enough: --- Good day to you! Here is XXX, I am a business manage
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by endymi0n 9y ago
With all due respect, I never understood the prevailing attitude in the US to do everything it takes to make you keep that „sacred life“ if you get pregnant by accident – and then once it‘s there, drop it like a hot potato and do exactly ze
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I used to have lots of problems getting up early and always championed later times. Growing up through my twenties, it was great seeing finally seeing more and more evidence for a later school start and I was hopeful for future teens. But i
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Agreed, but compared to Go itself, dep is incredibly recent, still in Alpha, not widely used yet and only the last in a series of incredibly many homegrown approaches that created lots of chaos and churn. And when everybody thought the roll
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Apple had zero permission management on the contact book, it was wide open. Especially FB and LinkedIn exploited that heavily and partly do to this day.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
How to fall asleep in two minutes or less: Have kids.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Absolutely spot-on. Companies here usually hire the best people for their budget, not for their bottom-line. The positive side of this comes to my mind too however, which is also a very German trait. There ARE a lot of very successful digit

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