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by olau 6y ago
No, although if it's cold outside, you might get a sea breeze effect. But most of the time (say > 80% IIRC) in Northern Europe there is at least some wind, and having a large cross sectional area is just incredibly efficient. You ca
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by olau 6y ago
Several years old example: a local forum for mothers were discussing an acute breast feeding problem one of them had (stuck milk), and one of them uploaded a video showing how to massage the milk out of a breast. That was quickly banned as
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by olau 6y ago
Mandate interop?
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by olau 6y ago
IMHO, types for function parameters depends on the use case. If you have a function in a standard library, types are obviously helpful, albeit it can be convoluted if they are templated. On the other end of the scale, if you have a little h
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by olau 6y ago
I watched the whole thing and I don't understand how you arrived at him having a growing pessimism for the future of VR? I had the opposite impression. He did seem to care about VR as a general purpose system (alternative to traditiona
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by olau 6y ago
Help people (including yourself) become the best version of themselves.
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by olau 6y ago
Do something about it. If you work on it, it's likely you'll inspire other people. If you don't know how to start, look to others for inspiration. If we all do something to make the world a better place, it WILL be a better
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by olau 6y ago
How much land would those 400 families need to feed their cows? I think most prehistoric settlements were small. Around where I live, perhaps 5-20 houses.
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by olau 6y ago
Don't die in the next 20 years, and you're going to see it for yourself: https://news.energysage.com/states-with-100-renewable-target... It's not really that hard. Build a lot of wind turbines (more than 100%
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by olau 6y ago
Apparently no: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/27/no-renewables-did-not-c... Real grids are much more complicated than you'd think. Regarding costs of various plants, usually you calculate it as an ave
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by olau 6y ago
Initiatives like this has always appeared to me as a cheap way for societies to improve the health of their population. Perhaps better done in the form of a tax - in the sense that junk food causes an externality in the form of health probl
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by olau 6y ago
Sorry, a filter ate "How elections were rigged". It's audio + English transcript of the head of an election commission falsifying the results in Vitebsk (population ~366k according to Wikipedia) a few days ago. Thought it was
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Elections were rigged in Vitebsk, Belarus(youtube.com)
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by olau 6y ago
I actually consider my Emacs skills permanent. I have made small adjustments over the year, mostly removing stuff from my configuration as the defaults improved. The basic stuff I decided to go through in my youth is the same. I try to impr
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by olau 6y ago
I have a sister with a degree in biology. I borrowed some of her books, like "introduction to zoology". If you've been through high school, books like that are self-contained. For instance, it had an appendix on organic chemi
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by olau 6y ago
For a while, I was same, only I was on Firefox and wanted to switch the other way. Then Firebug withered away, and now I find it's awash. But I've actually been running two browsers, one I keep clean for development and one for ev
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by olau 6y ago
Maybe it would work better if you educate people instead of insisting on controlling them?
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by olau 6y ago
Just about the bandwidth costs: You can rent a server at Hetzner.de for 40 EUR with 1 Gbit/s. Let's say each PDF is around 100 kb, then you can serve 1000 PDFs per second. Say there are 50 million active research students in the w
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by olau 6y ago
Haha, reading this made my day.
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by olau 6y ago
It's much easier to study and understand something you can actually see.
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by olau 6y ago
Writing multi-threaded programs is much, much harder than single-threaded code. I think part of the attraction of async/await is that you can write mostly non-concurrent code. But then it gets extremely important that you're aware
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by olau 6y ago
"I’ve become extremely wary of allocating objects on the heap and of blocking the event loop." I always think of quotes like this when I hear people claim that garbage collection is a solved problem.
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by olau 6y ago
It didn't start off as a joke: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html If you're not careful with what you cache, you end up with bugs unless you invalidate the cache carefully. And doing that c
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by olau 6y ago
Emacs will always be there for you. Personally, I can't move because of the rich set of text editing commands. Some of it seems silly, like word transposition, or jumping over sexps. But with Emacs, it feels like it's just an exte
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by olau 6y ago
Hah, that actually works more than once, as in "Then you have a(nother) kid and realize just how much free time you actually had".
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by olau 6y ago
The pattern seems familiar, take a succesful, self-propelled creative inventor, typically an engineer kind of person, put that person in a group where they need to submit to ideas of others, and things eventually go wrong. It's not tha
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by olau 6y ago
I think it does, in the sense that people in the middle of the curve get used to not using them, which affects their work negatively.
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by olau 6y ago
Not a question, but just a quick comment: Your overview page assumes familiarity with a bunch of concepts. If you could find the time, perhaps it would be helpful writing up a high-level explanation that makes none of those assumptions. For
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by olau 6y ago
Cleantechnica had a writer who spent some time taking a closer look at the claims made by companies in this space, a couple of links: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/21/rip-google-makani-perha... https:&#x
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by olau 7y ago
Are you claiming they couldn't get their ends to meet?

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