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A new way to store thermal energy (2017)(news.mit.edu)
2 points by feb 5y ago|1 comments
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by feb 5y ago
Even local variables of functions can take up a lot of room can take quite a lot of space. Especially when you minimize use of the heap. Using the stack instead of heap where possible makes for clean automatic free-ing of unused memory.
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by feb 5y ago
Those all make sense for long trips. For the short trips, users will more likely charge at home and thus there will be less demand for "fuel" stations.
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by feb 5y ago
The more one dives into the relationship between society and energy, the more it appears energy sources and availability mold society, like transport, food, architecture, politics, urbanization, philosophy or medicine. The book "Oil, P
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by feb 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you consider the worst architecture choices in IRC ? And what would be better solutions ?
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by feb 5y ago
Fiefdom is especially funny when you know Lee was crowned king of Korea a couple of years ago: * https://nextshark.com/korea-crown-prince-andrew-lee/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(ent
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by feb 5y ago
For those, like me, who didn't know, Groverhaus is a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/groverhaus
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by feb 5y ago
He also refers to another repo with a very small Python implementation of a raytracer. There, the author links to an article how he managed to speed up raytracing in Python by a factor of 130, going from 15 seconds per image to 115ms: http
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The Economics of 24/7 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop YouTube Livestreams(hotpodnews.com)
80 points by feb 5y ago|72 comments
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by feb 6y ago
>>> Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time collaborator Ben Noordhuis. Why is the
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by feb 6y ago
The web site touts that they combat climate change with a nice concept. But it's a bit ironic that the target product the ship will transport are cars, one major consumer of fossil fuels and a big source of CO2.
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by feb 6y ago
And they even have talks on how to run a big virtual conference and some lessons learned : * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_communities/ * https://fosdem.org/2021/s
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by feb 6y ago
And this story gives an extra argument in favor of dynamic libraries as they make it easier to fix some bugs in compiled applications (except for games which check if someone messed with LD_PRELOAD).
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by feb 6y ago
Patents have stalled technology in many areas since a long time. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" [1] by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine analyze the economical impact of patterns on society. They give some surprising e
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by feb 6y ago
The French do vary the power of the reactors to follow the load [1] [2]. They don't purely rely on their neighbors, far from it. As a consequence, the usage factor of the plants is lower than nuclear plants in countries where they they
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by feb 6y ago
Nuclear power plants can vary power output quickly if planned during the design. As France has an installed capacity of more than 60 GW of nuclear power production, their power plants can quickly adapt their production. That's needed t
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by feb 6y ago
When looking at the commit history on github of axet project, the most recent commit is only 4 months old. That comment about it not seeing updates since years looks wrong.
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by feb 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Stirling engine is particularly well suited here because the engine is near silent and can use the surrounding sea water as a heat sink to increase efficiency.
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by feb 7y ago
One of the biggest companies manufacturing foam glass is actually based in the USA and has many production sites in Europe. The insulation properties depend on the chemical composition of the glass. With recycled glass, the chemical composi
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by feb 7y ago
Why is it trying to load a script from 127.0.0.1 ?
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by feb 7y ago
Le "bail réel solidaire" is a special type of lease contract in France created in 2015. It's used by state institutions to rent buildings to poorer people at decent prices. Those lease contracts grant some long term property
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by feb 7y ago
All that sounds well, but it also has some nasty side effects. Anonymous sources and whistle blowers would not be possible anymore while very much needed.
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by feb 7y ago
The article by The Register goes into way more details about the colusions between members of ICANN and Ethos Capitals.
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by feb 7y ago
You can read the measurements in "Importance of Water-Volume on the Release of Microplastic Fibers from Laundry" by the team at the university of Newcastle : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/ac
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by feb 7y ago
And the money to "standardize" the ISO docx format.
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Brick tax (how a tax changed buildings)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by feb 7y ago|0 comments
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by feb 7y ago
That book is on my shelf to be read. In what way did age poorly ?
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by feb 7y ago
You're right. My tired brain bugged when seeing 30% lower than today.
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by feb 7y ago
CO2 did increase a lot. The ratio of CO2 in our atmosphere got up by more than 40% since 2 centuries ago. And that's despite effects which slow down the CO2 increase, like absorption by the ocean. Source: https://www.co2leve
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by feb 8y ago
IRC deep conversations do happen and indeed you want persistence for those. Communities which rely on IRC use IRC logs for that. Perl projects use IRC that way and I think the Mozilla guys too.

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