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by happosai 10mo ago
The difference is today we eat bland cherries around the year except for a couple of weeks when you get fresh local ones. You don't spend half of the year remembering the previous season's cherries waiting for the next time you ca
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by happosai 10mo ago
Seasonal food also tasted a lot better when you spent half of the year waiting for the season, dreaming about fresh food of the next season.
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by happosai 11mo ago
> Next thing you need is some way to convert 12V DC battery voltage to 230V AC mains voltage to power common devices like servers. But the server and phones use 12V/5V DC. Why the extra step of DC 12V (inverter) -> AC 220V (serve
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by happosai 11mo ago
You have no idea how regulated car business in China is... For example china is regulating the "innovative" Tesla style door handles.. https://carnewschina.com/2025/09/24/new-safety-requirements-...
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by happosai 11mo ago
Doesn't need to be seasonal, we have enough energy in general to go through winter. This is to help through week long cold snaps, when Finland is short on energy. Week-long storage is still eyewateringly expensive with chemical batteri
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by happosai 11mo ago
In the articles case the end use of energy is household heating, so there is no need to convert back to electricity. The whole beauty of thermal energy storage that the end use of energy in many use cases is.. heat: heating buildings, cooki
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by happosai 11mo ago
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
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by happosai 11mo ago
Super neat. I almost never need to .doc or .xls files anymore. But the next time I'll be sure to try this instead of the kludgy google docs or ever worsening office o365 web ui...
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by happosai 11mo ago
ChromeOS is much more close to regular Linux systems than Android. The vendors had support Linux properly to get into ChromeOS. This allowed google go support ChromeOS laptops for very long period. Also, a a side-effect Chrome OS contractor
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by happosai 11mo ago
To be fair I don't think many expected making people angry would be the best strategy for engagement. You would think people would get tired of being angry and would stop using web sites that keep making them angry.
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by happosai 11mo ago
While a handful troll factories are paid to destabilize USA, vast majority operate from 3rd world countries with only profit in mind.
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by happosai 11mo ago
https://xkcd.com/949/ ...still relevant
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by happosai 11mo ago
> Unless you want to charge in negative temperatures LFP charging in cold has pretty much been solved by adding a heater to battery pack. > (Sodium-ion) prices won't reach LFPs for another 10-15 years (unless you believe hype, no
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by happosai 11mo ago
There is always Android ABI but kernel developers still think android is a calamity rather than biggest Linux success story ever...
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by happosai 11mo ago
Valve being the only company in 2025 launching something that isn't a AI glowing AI button. Coincidentally also the only launch in 2025 people appear genuinely excited about.
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Xkcd: Car Size(xkcd.com)
30 points by happosai 11mo ago|1 comments
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by happosai 11mo ago
Not everyone, just American companies. When people don't value something (like foreign languages) they dump the job to the AI.
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by happosai 11mo ago
Solar wasn't economical until China made the strategic decision to invest into cutting solar costs and scaling production up. Putin isn't relevant, nobody really listens to him (the reason why he is so mad). It's really the A
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by happosai 11mo ago
That really big question for society is how to force GHG emissions externalities to the polluters. In the current political climate it doesn't appear possible...
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by happosai 1y ago
Reliable Anticheat rootkits are just not possible on Open PC platforms. Consoles should just add proper keyboard+mouse support and competitive online players can move over...
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by happosai 1y ago
I didn't expect China to become the solution provider for global warming while USA contribution to the world is mostly climate change denial. Yet here we are...
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SourceFS: We turn a 2 hour Android build into a 15-minute task(source.dev)
3 points by happosai 1y ago|0 comments
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by happosai 1y ago
True for gas not for diesel. You have to switch to winter- or arctic diesel if the temperature goes below -20c.
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by happosai 1y ago
Your link doesn't work. However, I know electric busses have won tenders over diesel in many places that don't have any eco-subsidies. Japan may have special conditions, like diesel/electricity price may be unfavorable or &qu
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by happosai 1y ago
It should be illegal to build that much fossil fuel powerplants to just train LLMs. The platant disregard of global warming by AI investors is truly repulsive.
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by happosai 1y ago
Electronics is not the issue of electricity usage in winter - heating is. Of course, if one uses fossil fuels for heating, it might seem one doesn't need that much electricity to survive winter.
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by happosai 1y ago
Even if LNT would under-predict it is still a rounding error in the big picture of the tsunami disaster. And, let's put it straight: LNT is scaremongering fiction. People who live in Ramsay, Iran, are exposed to higher level of backgro
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by happosai 1y ago
That tsunami killed 20.000+ people, and spilled massive amounts of chemicals and toxic junk to the ocean. Yet people keep fixating over the radioactive pollution, including evicting people from their homes for truly minor amounts of radiati
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by happosai 1y ago
Nuclear regulations are no worse than aviation regulation. Yet planes manage to be cost competitive. Cutting regulations isn't necessary the win people think. If safety regulations are cut, it risks accidents in future. Nuclear needs t
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by happosai 1y ago
Yet, most cars you see in the streets are single-occupancy.

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