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by jabl 9mo ago
The podman kube support? It provides similar functionality as docker-compose, using a yaml file which is a subset of the Kubernetes pod definition syntax. Then you can just create a few line systemd unit definition, and it integrates as a n
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by jabl 9mo ago
You can actually count to 12 on your fingers using one hand. Use the thumb as a pointer, then for each of your other fingers you have three joints. So 3*4=12.
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by jabl 9mo ago
As long as we count in base 10, it makes sense for the unit system to also be based on base 10. As for changing the world to counting in base 12, yes there would be some advantages, but really, good luck with that.
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by jabl 9mo ago
Quick AI search suggests average car age in Norway to be 11.1-11.3 years, so indeed quite similar. As for what would happen with gas station when EV's dominate, what already seems to be in progress here (not due to EV's, but other
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by jabl 9mo ago
> There were many older models of BMW that had an electric water pump. If that sounds silly, well, it is. And it failed frequently and was again, very difficult to replace. On the face of it, it's not actually a bad idea. The electr
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by jabl 9mo ago
T-hybrid is cool, yes. Ironically the first electric turbocharger hitting the streets just when Formula I is banning them..
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by jabl 9mo ago
As much as I'm gung-ho about the world electrifying transport, I agree with you here. Those Porsche SUV's just look awful, whatever the drivetrain. If I'm gonna splurge on a Porsche, I'll want the real thing. And if I do
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by jabl 9mo ago
Unfortunately children playing in the yard have ample time to get behind the car between you checking it, entering the car, starting it, and reversing. Yes, in principle one could take whatever other measures necessary to prevent such accid
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by jabl 9mo ago
> And if you take into account how China has treated its own people, it’s not much better or worse than the United States. Maybe worst, actually, since Americans do have a legal right to protest. In "The Great Leap Forward" the
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by jabl 9mo ago
Might be 90% of current sales. Still a lot of ICE cars on the road.
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by jabl 9mo ago
They seem quite intent on inching their border closer to the Philippines mainland by building military bases on some shoals that belong to the Philippines.
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by jabl 9mo ago
> The writer is always finished before the reader starts in these scenarios. The issue is reads on one machine aren't guaranteed to be ordered after writes on a different machine due to write caching. In such a case it should be suf
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by jabl 9mo ago
> poor locking support (this sounds like it works better) File locking on Unix is in general a clusterf*ck. (There was a thread a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542247 ) > no manual fence suppo
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by jabl 9mo ago
AFAIU the NFSv4 protocol in principle allows implementing unlinking an open file without silly rename, but the Linux client still does the silly rename dance.
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by jabl 9mo ago
Aluminum got a bad rep due to a lot of poor installations made in the 1960 and 70'ies. Subsequently new alloys (AA-8000 series) for wiring, new installation and termination procedures etc. have been developed, and AFAIU the situation t
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by jabl 9mo ago
As TFA mentions, Unix/POSIX locking is insane. Note that this page is slightly outdated wrt. flock(). From the manpage (online at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/flock.2.html ): > Since
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by jabl 9mo ago
The cooling effect of SO2 was certainly known when the IMO regulations were decided upon. It was decided that the public health advantages outweighed the climate warming. One can certainly quibble whether this decision was correct or not, b
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by jabl 9mo ago
Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.
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by jabl 10mo ago
How are they gathering data about how much you drive?
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by jabl 10mo ago
In the same vein Pascal was invented by Niklaus Wirth in Switzerland.
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by jabl 10mo ago
Hooray for the Boeing 787 with its electrically powered cabin air compressor rather than using engine bleed air like other contemporary airliners.
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by jabl 10mo ago
The peace price is different, and it's been a bit of a hit and miss at least since Kissinger got it. And the economics prize, though it's not officially really a Nobel prize. But the core science prizes, AFAICT, are pretty spot on
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by jabl 10mo ago
> Germany is not really rich compared to nordics. (From another post I made in this thread) Looking at IMF 2025 GDP per capita figures ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi ... ): Norway: $92k
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by jabl 10mo ago
My understanding is that at the moment there's no expansion happening at the Katri Vala plant (the 160MW mentioned in the link above), the 300 MW is the total heat pump capacity spread out over half a dozen locations.
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by jabl 10mo ago
> Sign of a rich and very developed country. You need to find another reason. Looking at IMF 2025 GDP per capita figures ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... ): Norway: $92k Denmark: $77k
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by jabl 10mo ago
Interesting. In Helsinki the municipal energy company has a plant with 7 heat pumps which is slightly smaller at 160 MW heat and 100 MW of cooling. https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2023/Waste-heat-plays-a-signifi.
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by jabl 10mo ago
Air-source heat pumps are also somewhat common in retrofits where the remaining expected lifetime of the building isn't big enough to be worth spending some 20-30k€ (?) that installing a ground source heat pump costs. A significant par
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by jabl 10mo ago
> What works for GNOME is useless for KDE, and what works for KDE is useless for XFCE, which is ignored by Sway and so forth. KDE had their own IPC thingy, DCOP, but it has been replaced with D-Bus.
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by jabl 10mo ago
Yes! Make something built on top of binder, and use something with orders of magnitude more users and developer resources behind it.. > hardened stuff that already exist. To make it even more hardened(?), Google recently contributed and
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by jabl 10mo ago
How convenient that refueling also replenishes your missiles.

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