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by fpoling 2y ago
Indeed. Tesla Model 3 consumes about 50MJ of battery energy per 100 km. Toyota Prius consumes about 4.5 liters of gasoline. That gives roughly 150 MJ. So a electrical car consumes 3 times less or about 33% of energy of one of the best hybri
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by fpoling 2y ago
One ship with an anchor on the bottom can destroy 100 cables just as well as one.
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by fpoling 2y ago
I second the observation of the state of Google C++. Just look at Chromium. There are a lot of unfinished refactoring there, as if people lost interest the moment the clean refactoring hit a roadblock requiring efforts to communicate with o
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by fpoling 2y ago
See references in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve right before See also section. For more speculative paper about behavior of galaxy clusters see https://www.scirp.org/journal&#x2F
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by fpoling 2y ago
We already know that one must not use Newtonian gravity on the galaxy scale. For example, properly accounting for GR effects is enough to explain the observed rotational curve for our Galaxy without the need for any dark matter hypothesis.
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by fpoling 2y ago
Firejail attempts to mitigate that with secomp filters.
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For me iPhone looses all connectivity on a daily basis. No cellular signals are available in the underground parking lot that I use.
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by fpoling 2y ago
Bekenstein-Hawking radiation is unproven hypothesis based on Bekenstein‘s idea that black hole should have entropy and non-zero temperature. It does not follow from General Relativity equations. One can argue just as well that black holes h
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by fpoling 2y ago
The boosters for the Shuttle were reusable, but it turned out the cost of refurbishing them was similar if not higher than simply building new ones. Plus it contributed to the Challenger crash, see "Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington"
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by fpoling 2y ago
Even if Google did want to reduce effectiveness of ad blockers, doing that via removal of blocking webRequest API is a double-edged sword. It may push users to alternate browsers with more effective ad-blocking. Besides, webRequest implemen
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by fpoling 2y ago
The problem with this is that presently it takes years for a probe to reach the destination. So one cannot do a quick try-observe-tinker loop. Granted with cheaper access to orbit the time can be reduced by using more fuel, but still space
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by fpoling 2y ago
A lot of other ad blockers use static lists for years. The fact that they work tells that ad industry does not see the blockers as a problem that needs to be dealt with. It can also be that so far the increased cost of development of ads th
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by fpoling 2y ago
This does not explain the flow of time nor the direction of how consciousness perceives it. A low entropy is just a low probability state. Such state in the past is just as unlikely as in future as physical models are time-reversible. Moreo
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by fpoling 2y ago
This still misses the biggest question about the nature of time. The problem is not that we perceive the world as a set of space-like frames. The problem is why our consciousness perceives the frames moving from one to another at all and in
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by fpoling 2y ago
The most effective spam filtering is done not by content but by various white and black lists of providers. Essentially it is a trust score which is a very old solution to a lot of problems.
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by fpoling 2y ago
Physics does not explain flow of time at all. If one films a thrown ball, physics can tell from few frames its speed or where the ball is on the following or previous frames. But it tells nothing about why, when see the film, we perceive th
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by fpoling 2y ago
Excaliber became ineffective in Ukraine after Russia deployed effective jamming.
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Space tourism is commercial and very supersonic.
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At my previous work 1Password was replaced with Keeper. The main reason was better integration with SSO as Keeper can be unlocked with SSO itself so the user needs to remember just single password and for the rest either SSO was used direct
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by fpoling 2y ago
Electrical car using electricity from a modern coal plant generates less CO2 than a gasoline car.
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by fpoling 2y ago
I suspect that an electrical car with a range of just 150km using the latest battery technology is already cheaper to manufacture than ICE. But triple the capacity and the cost of extra drivetrain will be cheaper.
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by fpoling 2y ago
The article mentioned that plug-in hybrids slow down pure EV transition. But that is kind of expected. It is strictly cheaper to make a car that can drive on a battery 30 km and then switch to gasoline than a pure EV that can drive 500 km a
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by fpoling 2y ago
A big and and not so big enterprises these days uses VPN and similar solutions with exit nodes in the cloud so such blocks essentially prevents access to your web site from a work computer.
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For Visual Studio on Windows Google provides a search extension that indexes Chromium locally and gives instant results for search. I was always puzzled why such functionality is not available in most IDE by default.
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by fpoling 2y ago
For Chromium IntelliSence at least in the form of VSCode plug-in works pretty much out of the box with recent releases of VSCode. It is not as precise as clang LSP but the latter can easily consume over 10GB for Chromium.
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by fpoling 2y ago
For example, it took Google years before they properly implemented search in Russian. That allowed Russian Yandex to win Russian market.
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AppStore location country can only be changed if you have a credit card from a bank in EU with customer address also in EU. And these days there are strong regulations in EU about bank accounts that pretty much ruled out an option to get a
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by fpoling 2y ago
Samsung SSD still reports to the system that their logical sector size is 512 bytes. In fact one of the recent models even removed the option to reconfigure the disk to use 4k logical sectors. Presumably Samsung has figured that since the p
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by fpoling 2y ago
Chrome browser on Android uses the same code base as Chrome on desktop including multi-process architecture. But it’s UI is in Java communicating with C++ using JNI.
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by fpoling 2y ago
A sad story. Was he hyperventilating? As the article explains, that makes chances of passing much higher.

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