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by legulere 4y ago
Heat pumps produce several times the heat as electricity put in. Even with a typical 40%-50% efficiency for a gas power plant you end up with more than 100% efficiency with a heat pump. If the power plant rest heat is used for instance for
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by legulere 4y ago
That really depends if those attributes are an important part of the character, how well the actor can fake those (e.g. Hugh Laurie without British accent in house md), and what you want to achieve. Jesus for instance most likely had a bit
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by legulere 4y ago
So it’s just a what we call in Germany Blockheizkraftwerk (literally a block heating power station) for Kraft-Wärme-Koppelung (Power heat coupling). They are very often used for district heating and were seen as the way forward for reducing
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by legulere 4y ago
Some abstractions leak more than others though, and I don’t think that has that much to do with the level at which the abstraction is. ORM-mappers are very leaky and you have to regularly read what SQL they generate and sometimes even read
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by legulere 4y ago
I think the big issue is that we have bad intuition about what works well with machine learning and what doesn't, leading to both under- and overconfidence at the same time. When I was at university I came across machine learning in me
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by legulere 4y ago
So the tool seems to conflate specifications with work tasks. In my previous job (pretty much top-down btw) product owners did that as well in Azure DevOps. There were huge Product Backlog Items with lots of description and sketches. After
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by legulere 4y ago
You mean the Dilbert Principle? > companies tend to systematically promote incompetent employees to management to get them out of the workflow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
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by legulere 4y ago
> What if Git had a long-running daemon that could satisfy queries on-demand, but also keep that in-memory representation of data instead of needing to parse objects from disk every time I guess that would be performance-wise the same as
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by legulere 4y ago
If you look at the list something becomes obvious: it’s mostly software used by other programmers. If the software isn’t directly targeted at software developers like gimp is, there will be less success. If you look a B2B Software software
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by legulere 4y ago
Luxemburg also is in the same zone as Germany and Austria used to be too.
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by legulere 4y ago
Nuclear utility from the state like in France, where half the reactors are down which is one of the main reason for soaring electricity prices in Europe?
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by legulere 4y ago
Luckily most electricity use is during the day and wind blows also in the night and more in winter when there’s less sun.
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by legulere 4y ago
What do you think the heat pump and district heating runs on? Heat pumps still need electricity and district heating is often using gas.
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by legulere 4y ago
Can they produce electricity though? Half their nuclear reactors are down.
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by legulere 4y ago
We are using 1000 kWh per year as a couple including hot water. With that we are very low in Germany, but even that is really without much optimization (though we lack some energy-intensive devices like a clothes dryer). Newer devices sold
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by legulere 4y ago
But we already have notebooks with battery life for 2 work days which have very good performance like the M2 macbook air. And I highly doubt that it's the cpu that is the limiting factor for battery life and not the screen.
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by legulere 4y ago
Do you wear a ski mask while exchanging cash and bitcoin, or how do you keep that private? Don't forget that your exchange partners are linked to your transactions.
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by legulere 4y ago
The article explains how you do primary key indices with key-value-stores. But how do you do secondary indexes?
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by legulere 4y ago
That's like saying banking systems don't need to be compliant, banks need to be.
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by legulere 4y ago
I propose an alternative: we should get our society more independent of cars. Physical activity by walking and cycling around instead of sitting all day also increases health and with it fertility.
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by legulere 4y ago
The ruble is so strong because russia cannot spend money anymore because of sanctions. I'm living in Germany, the biggest problem is the inflation caused by energy prices. It's still lower than in the US or the UK, but people are
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by legulere 4y ago
Work on the EPR started in 1989 with the first reactor starting commercial operation 2018. That's almost 30 years for an evolutionary Gen III design. Bringing more revolutionary Gen IV designs to market will take probably even longer,
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by legulere 4y ago
> they'll have to go nuclear Germany built up more renewables in 20 years than there ever was nuclear and the speed is still accelerating: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Energiemix_Deutschland.s... Nuclear
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by legulere 4y ago
Basically they need to solve local SSDs not having all needed features and persistent disks having too high latency by: > essentially a write-through cache, with GCP's Local SSDs as the cache and Persistent Disks as the storage laye
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by legulere 4y ago
You are probably being sarcastic, but renewables actually helped Germany replace nuclear and part of fossil fuels for electricity production: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Energiemix_Deutschland.s... (nuclear is
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by legulere 4y ago
France needs to invest heavily into renewables, as it isn't able to replace old nuclear reactors with new ones, especially at the rates renewables offer.
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by legulere 4y ago
Newer business software all runs on the web. Old business software may not even run on current windows machines.
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by legulere 4y ago
Haber-Bosch does not take hydrocarbons as an input but hydrogen. Methane currently just is a convenient cheap source of that. It will be difficult but there’s nothing fundamental that prevents us from making concrete, steel tractors and tru
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by legulere 4y ago
How do you have burn dead trees with renewables or nuclear? I mean I agree that they probably won’t be enough without reducing our consumption but they are far from not solving anything
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by legulere 4y ago
I wonder if programming languages having precedence rules at all is an atavism from the 70s when it was an interesting problem for parsing. Adding parentheses makes things clearer in 99% of the cases.

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