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by hanche 4y ago
That’s a lesson EV drivers in Norway learn very quickly. If you can’t charge at your destination, plan to visit a quick charger nearby, before arrival while the battery is warm from driving. Even using a quick charger, charging is very slow
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by hanche 4y ago
This. At highway speeds, air resistance dominates the energy consumption. It is roughly proportional to air density, which in turn is inversely proportional to temperature. Compare a nice summer day at 300 K, say, to a really cold day at 24
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by hanche 4y ago
The interior of Finnmark in northern Norway can get very cold indeed. Temperatures approaching -40 degrees are not unheard of there. The coast is much warmer most of the time as you say.
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by hanche 4y ago
I never did proofread anything more carefully than that partition table before the reboot.
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by hanche 4y ago
Oh, what fun! Our system administrator decided once to duplicate the boot partition of a server, so we had a spare should the usual one fail. He used dd of course. And the next day, he was off to a USENIX conference. What he had forgotten,
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by hanche 4y ago
We had a laser printer in our computer lab that would, once in a while, shift the subscript in a mathematical formula several centimeters to the right. This was in a LaTeX-produced document. In those days, the path to print was LaTeX to dvi
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Russian pseudoscience has fuelled the bloodshed in Ukraine(khrono.no)
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by hanche 4y ago
Well, he said it “is like” a fjord, not that it is one. But truth to be told, in some parts of Norway, the word “fjord” can refer to a narrow fresh water lake, often with steep sides. Moreover, some Norwegian lakes have names ending in -fjo
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by hanche 4y ago
Amusingly, I encountered the same sort of problem on a vastly smaller scale: An electric car with a fully charged 400 V, 64 kWh battery that I could not start for lack of electric power. Said electric power normally to be delivered by a sma
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by hanche 4y ago
Or as a friend of mine suggested, more than ten years ago and only half in jest, I think: just block all porn sites on IPv4 (but not on IPv6). The demand for IPv6 will soon be overwhelming.
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by hanche 4y ago
I’ve been using Mitsuharu’s port for years, always compiling it myself from his bitbucket repo. I am no longer sure how different it is from the vanilla GNU distribution. When I first started using emacs, long before the Mac port, the curre
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by hanche 4y ago
That’s an appropriate application of technology if I ever saw one.
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by hanche 4y ago
Bah! In my day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we wrote on transparent plastic slides using special pens, the way our fathers did, and their fathers before them! And then we displayed them using machines called overhead projectors, powere
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by hanche 4y ago
Huh. I owned a Citroen Ami back in the seventies. It was a gas car (two cylinder air cooled engine), much like the 2CV but made to look a bit more like a conventional car. Interesting that they decided to reuse the name.
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by hanche 4y ago
I can see how that sucks during the exam, but knowing how to do it from first principles will stick with you for much longer. When I told my students that I went into mathematics because my memory is so bad, they never believed me. But it i
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by hanche 4y ago
> PDF is a subset of Postscript That’s a bit of an oversimplification. There’s a whole layer of structure atop the postscript subset. Much software deals only with that layer, never looking into the chunks of rendering code. That’s plent
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by hanche 4y ago
Prime Minister of what country?
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by hanche 4y ago
I can recommend using the “hack” app to read HN on the phone. Voting is done by swiping, so it’s much easier to avoid unintended downvotes. (edit: I don’t know if it’s available on android, though. I’m an iphone user myself.)
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by hanche 4y ago
> I switched to my first iPhone last year and for me the determining factor was not feeling I had to constantly be on the upgrade path. I've has my iPhone SE (2020) and haven't been happier with a phone. Indeed. I am on my four
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by hanche 4y ago
You might have a look at https://ddvk.github.io/rmfakecloud/ ;-)
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by hanche 4y ago
Is standard markdown a thing? What is now called commonmark [1] was called by thar name originally, but the name was changed after John Gruber objected. Other than that, there seem to be a plethora of markdown dialects, none of which is ver
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by hanche 4y ago
> It does but you have to go through the maintainers and they have to be in line with the core principles of SQLite and have the necessary code quality etc. Even so, I think they’ll prefer to rewrite the contribution. They need to be abs
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by hanche 4y ago
He was working on a conversion of emacs from elisp to common lisp, but I don’t think he got very far on the project before he fell ill. He never shared many details about it, that I know of.
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by hanche 4y ago
Swiping on the search field works (I had already forgotten that), but when you have a lot of pages, as I do, the feedback is much worse, as it does not expand the field to accomodate all the dots. It’s amazing what difference such small det
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by hanche 4y ago
> Doesn’t help if you have pages of apps and have to swipe five or six times to get to the App Library There’s another hidden feature: swiping on the row of dots near the bottom of the screen lets you scroll through the pages at speed. O
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The role of ruminants in reducing agriculture's carbon footprint (2016)(jswconline.org)
2 points by hanche 4y ago|1 comments
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by hanche 4y ago
Statistically speaking? I have read somewhere that you are more likely to be killed by a meteor impact than winning the jackpot in ⟨some lottery⟩. Statistically speaking, that is nonsense. Nobody is known to have been killed by meteor impac
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by hanche 4y ago
Yes, but iPads without the cellular option also lack a GPS receiver.
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by hanche 4y ago
Thanks, that is helpful to know. However, a switch-mode power supply is quite different from a reactive load. Cheap ones tend to draw power only near the voltage peaks, whereas better ones improve on that. See [1] and [2]. So the question r
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by hanche 4y ago
I have been wondering about that. Are these meters built on the assumption of a purely resistive load, or will they give accurate readings even with a switch mode power supply? My very limited understanding says these draw current in a very

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