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2y ago
Hem... It's of course "cool" but... At scale of supermarkets fridges not lab specimens, especially in not-so-cold climate the needed energy to keep food cool off grid it's MASSIVE. Of course the future of a grid with mos
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2y ago
Also worth mention the Plan 9 "fixed prompt" where any command is at the top, with it's output underneath, there are few variants and in few cases they are comfy.
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2y ago
Personally I suffer eye strain without dark mode, but dark does not means black , I tend to use dark grey colors without too much contrast.
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2y ago
Honestly I feel to be stuck in a society who reject evolution... Witch is worse because changing job is hard, changing society well... FAR harder...
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2y ago
Of course the support is only for enterprises, state aid to them, nothing to the people who have or want renewables...
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2y ago
Yes. You never heard of that because seat belts became mandatory BEFORE the web spread so research on that topic, having much data to compare between those with and without seat belts was simply missed due to automakers interests. 3 point s
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2y ago
Few notes: climate change is a fact we all can observe, there is no point in talking about climate models, who tend to change far faster than climate and have many limits, no point in talking about mean temperature most people simply do n
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2y ago
There are two kind of issues here: one is the preservation of human information fully knowing that sparse books are hard to change/destroy, while digital information on centralized sources is terribly easy to change, and we all know th
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2y ago
Apart from Rogers et alike, the main OOB/LOM issue is that's mostly only very old iron very few know, finding people who knows and finding non-hacky homegrown and not much tested solutions it's damn hard.
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2y ago
No one. I've tried arch and realized that's good if you are a geek investing time in your own system not caring if it's in a good known state and having plenty of time before any upgrade. I'm on NixOS willing to switch t
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2y ago
Two notes, one from a short summary of Carl von Clausewitz monumental war treaty, done for training the Prussian prince, a passage where "even an imbecile who have memorized few fundamental things can act, succeed and being considered
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2y ago
In general norms are reasonable but just for instance my car ADAS today given me two phantom breaks, one for a reasonable reason (I was approaching another car fast enough knowing it will accelerate, but the car can't know that) anothe
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2y ago
Not in Germany, but still in the EU, I'm one who complain not against "seat belt" in general but the approved three-points one, because they are DANGEROUS instead of being helpful and automakers know it but do not want to inv
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2y ago
Well... The issue is that produced water is not much healthy to drink, not "salty" but "near salty". The "full desalination" it's much more expensive and limited in output, also involving washed clean sand
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2y ago
Heat pumps prices here keep going UP, not down. The very same machine cost more after few years. There is no chance to keep up such conversion at these rates. I'm one of the few who have built a new home, all electric main car included
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2y ago
Sure, but just the ability to check a 3D model of a T shirt or a pair of shoes with a surface of the biggest and the smallest human body who can use them comfortably it would be very nice. The problem is not much on the customers side but o
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2y ago
Honestly... To makes clothes and shoes remote shopping easier I'd like the option to get a 3D model of them I can load in a local software to check if it fit my body well, without both sending my biometrical data to someone else and fo
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2y ago
Unfortunately DIY is limited to what is certified in France, Victron MultiPlus are certified all, Quattro so far are not, the sole battery from this shop allowed for a grid-connected system are the Pylontech. Still MUCH cheaper than what I&
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2y ago
Well, here, France, LFP batteries now cost MUCH MORE than just three years ago (final customer price) and... ~1000€ per kWh, while just 3 years ago they was a bit less than 700€ per kWh, the battery alone (with BMS etc) but we also need an
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2y ago
A small note: I have a domestic p.v. system with small LFP storage and well... It's ~3 years old and now the same battery capacity (8kWh) cost a bit less the THE DOUBLE, witch is ~9000€ instead of a bit more than 5000€... Industrial ba
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2y ago
I think is not a novel idea: there are various vendors here in EU that offer "thermodynamic VMCs", meaning dual-flux ventilation system [1] with a small heat-pump between the to air flows, sucking heat from the outgoing air, heati
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2y ago
These functions do not change fridge temperature, choose when to run the defrost functions for no-frost units (a quick wall heating to melt the ice and quickly came back to normal), choose to run or not some ancillary functions (like making
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2y ago
The point is that 99% of the contracts have no "dynamic prices", they have few different tariffs established up front an year for the next. In this case you do not need a smart meter to shift load. You simply look at the "cur
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2y ago
Few notes: - fear and polemics about connected meters was not about "surveillance" by some giant but more about ability to disconnect or throttle a customer from remote and third party monitoring to elicit family habits for instan
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2y ago
You know, today we talk about nazi and fascist because their model is back. Simply. Some fails to recognize it, as fails to recognize it's economical and philosophical origin, so think the others are crazy. Happen frequently. The tende
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2y ago
I propose to erase the development in Silicon Valley Mode and ALL the modern IT. I propose to came back and makes modern a classic OS-as-a-single-application, like Smalltalk workstations or LispM ones, where desktop computing and end-users
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2y ago
Ehm, it's the opposite: kanban was the ancient Toyoda system to produce mechanical parts in Toyota factories. Scrum is a way to adapt such model to the commercial IT. Both are used by nazi ignorant management who fails to comprehend th
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An ancient Italian proverb state "there is no medal without a backside", or anything have good and bad aspects, however "collectivism vs individualism" it's IMVHO a way to misled, society are groups of individuals w
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2y ago
An interesting point, I think I can add that those who know have no need of nice offices, dresses, titles on business cards and so on to "show their identity", while those who do not need them to fill the void. And that's mig
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I WFH and my reasons to have ZERO reasons to go to an office are: - being able to live in a nice natural place, with a good climate and so on, not in a dense city; - being able to avoid wasting energy and health to commute, getting myself u
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