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by fundatus 9mo ago
And the reason for that? Fossil fuels. Cited from one of your articles: > “Our industry continues to face difficult market dynamics and challenging energy costs, with European gas prices around three times higher than the US,” Arnaud Val
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by fundatus 9mo ago
> It's worth noting that 450MHz was listed as one of the GSM bands, but apparently was never used It's specified for 4G/LTE (Band 31, 72 & 73) and 5G (Band n31 & n72) as well! The bandwidth is pretty low though at
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by fundatus 9mo ago
> Nuclear can be curtailed I know, that's why I said it's basically never done. And it's usually not even done even if the price is zero or below, because a lot of nuclear power plants have fixed prices that are guarante
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by fundatus 9mo ago
> undispatchable resources Solar is not dispatchable like a gas power plant is as the sun needs to shine to produce electricity. But it can very much be curtailed to any percentage you want. And that is being done globally every day exac
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by fundatus 9mo ago
The 8-Bit Guy did a great episode about the history of the Commodore PET and it starts with the KIM-1 and how it was basically turned into the PET. Highly recommended! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9y_7it3ZM
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by fundatus 10mo ago
I initially found his channel when he build a working calculator from roller coasters in RCT2.[1] It's been fun since then learning about how guests decide to enter a toilet or why guests will always get stuck in certain maze designs e
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by fundatus 11mo ago
If that is true it now is much harder for Apple to nuke this though. Because all eyes would be on them.
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by fundatus 11mo ago
The numbers and actual risks don't matter to change regular people's feelings about a technology. All they know is that there was actual nuclear fallout and now the mushrooms in their forests are radioactive.
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by fundatus 11mo ago
> the lack of commercialization due to decades of misinformation from the eco-groups The lack of commercialization has exactly a single reason: The lack of commercial viability.
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by fundatus 11mo ago
To quote from the article I linked to: > In the last years values of up to several thousand becquerel per kilogram were measured in wild game and certain edible mushrooms. In Germany it is not permitted to market food with more than 600
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by fundatus 11mo ago
That's not what we're seeing with nuclear power though. At least so far. Counterintuitively it seems to get more expensive the more you build of the same design: [1] > Among the surprising findings in the study, which covered 5
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by fundatus 11mo ago
Well, at least for Germany it was the actual nuclear fallout over large areas of the country after Chernobyl. Which is btw still measurable today. [1] That's a pretty scary thing to happen to you and one just has to accept that these
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by fundatus 11mo ago
True, but for most places you'll now be dependent on some other country selling you uranium. Which is something many countries are now factoring in into these kind of decisions.
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by fundatus 11mo ago
> There are benefits splitting America in two Are there? Most Latin American countries, who see all of America as a single continent, would disagree. It really makes no sense to argue about this. As I already mentioned, there is no unive
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by fundatus 11mo ago
It's an interesting topic since most people in a hypothetical Eurasia would probably never call themselves Eurasian, but would have a strong sense of being one or the other. But on the other hand there is also no universally agreed to
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by fundatus 11mo ago
Obviously, but in case the sarcasm of my comment didn't come through: I was trying to make the point that you can't draw lines between continents just because of geography (or tectonic plates for that matter). It's arbitrary
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by fundatus 11mo ago
> To be really pedantic we should acknowledge there's no good reason to separate Europe from Asia, it's all one geographical continent. To be even more pedantic you have to throw in Africa as well, as that is connected by land
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by fundatus 11mo ago
Many ISPs in Germany have stopped fighting this fight as well and sadly have now even started to self-censor their DNS servers.[1] [1] https://cuii.info/en
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by fundatus 11mo ago
You could get an IKEA Dirigera, but one of the upsides of Matter is that you do not need the manufacturers hub anymore. So an Apple Homepod or a Home Assistant instance with a Thread stick will do as well! (Or any other Matter hub for that
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by fundatus 11mo ago
I am talking about the numbers in the article (Tesla sales in Germany), not the stock: > The number of Teslas sold in the January-October period dropped 50.4% to 15,595 units, compared with the same period last year.
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by fundatus 11mo ago
Interesting, not only is Tesla 50% down YTD, but it seems like BYD almost caught up with them: 15,595 (Tesla) vs. 15,171 (BYD)
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by fundatus 11mo ago
This is technically possible in the EU (through web distribution[1] of Apps), but intentionally made impossible to actually use by Apple. They require the developer to have had an Apple Developer account for at least 2 years and at least on
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by fundatus 11mo ago
It was way worse. They basically made the first install attempt fail. Then they made you go to the Settings app (of course without telling you that you have to go there) to allow it. Then you had to try again to download, which then trigger
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by fundatus 11mo ago
> Apple complied but maliciously in the EU making it very difficult and very expensive to offer apps on alt stores. They also made sure to add scary warnings so one can never offer a normal onboarding flow. Even for web distribution in t
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by fundatus 11mo ago
Yeah, the fragmentation that is caused by Apple's behaviour is insane. You can set a different email client globally, but a different default Messages or Maps app? That only works in some regions. In-App payments? You can now basically
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by fundatus 1y ago
For anyone looking for a convenient way to set restic up: Backrest[1] provides a docker container and a web interface to configure, monitor and restore your restic backups. [1] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
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by fundatus 1y ago
> I like fusion, really. I’ve talked to some of luminaries that work in the field, they’re great people. I love the technology and the physics behind it. > But fusion as a power source is never going to happen. Not because it can’t, b
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by fundatus 1y ago
Why would it be too cheap to meter? You're still heating up water and putting it through a turbine. We've been doing that for ages (just different sources of energy for the heating up part) and we still meter energy because these
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by fundatus 1y ago
I mean, we already have a giant working fusion reactor (the sun) and we can even harvest it's energy (solar, wind, etc)! That's pretty awesome.
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by fundatus 1y ago
Wild mushroom in some parts of Germany are still radioactive to this day exactly because of this. After Chernobyl, clouds with radioactive particles moved west and then started raining over Germany. Certain species of mushroom tend to accum

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