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by ragebol 4y ago
I'd assume that is not symmetrical. But if you can run your own software, does that matter?
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by ragebol 4y ago
But then again: IIRC, Starlink is much more focused so power per unit square might be equivalent perhaps? It needs to get to space with a good enough SNR. The phasing of the array might also amplify the harmful effect, I'd say. But I&#
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by ragebol 4y ago
Given that Starlink user terminals can obviously also transmit data, maybe you can make a point to point connection between user terminals over hundreds of kilometers (given line of sight, so realistically much much less). Make a mesh netw
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by ragebol 4y ago
Fair point. Those different plugs are standardized though so adapters & travel plugs can be made. I wondered why this has not yet been standardized EU-wide, but of course the cost of doing so would be huge, since those plugs & outle
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by ragebol 4y ago
D'oh...
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by ragebol 4y ago
Woah, exactly same here! Video starts 5 minutes in, so I watched and left off there some time. Wonder what the reason is there.
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by ragebol 4y ago
Currently working 99+% remote. In a next job, I'd like to have the flexibility to work from home whenever I want to but also have the option to meet colleagues IRL when we feel we need to, which should not be too often. I'd also
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by ragebol 4y ago
The managers that force this horseshit on they employees never used anything else before the pandemic. Suddenly they also had to use something with that function, already had Teams and now forced everyone to use it as a lowest common denomi
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by ragebol 4y ago
Get into embedded software. Grab an Arduino and make it do something fun/useful. Then some other microcontroller etc. So learn C or maybe Rust. I do robotics (I think manipulating stuff in the real world is more interesting than bits o
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by ragebol 4y ago
A heat pump takes heat produced elsewhere (eg in air outside). If that stops or it gets too cold, the heat pump stops working. It's not a perpetuum mobile because it needs an external energy source (eg. the sun to warm the air)
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by ragebol 4y ago
Sounds weird right? But it really is true: heat pumps pump heat, from one place to another, like a fridge and airco etc. Current heat pumps for home heating use can pump about 3-5 units of energy from outside to inside while the pump requir
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by ragebol 4y ago
There are pinning services, that do the pinning for a fee. But Those can also be DDosed I suppose. Can have multiple pinners of course but, but I doubt that makes a difference in the longer term.
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by ragebol 4y ago
Huh, did not know that. How well ahead is well ahead?
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by ragebol 4y ago
> Nurnburg to Leipzig and it took us close to 6hrs The 9 euro ticket only worked for regional trains. With the ICE, the high-speed intercity trains, that would have taken 2 hours and 6 minutes if you leave right when I write this comment
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by ragebol 4y ago
Also: SLS is a hedge against eg. SpaceX or Blue Origin (in some time hopefully) or any other commercial heavy lift launcher failing. SLS, in various incarnations, has been in the works longer than those companies exist and certainly longer
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by ragebol 4y ago
About 20-25% of that solar energy not going into your shingles or whatever now goes through an copper cable. Still a lot of energy, and if not wired correctly, that is still a risk. The other 75% of solar energy heats up the panels themselv
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by ragebol 4y ago
Jup. We drive a small Toyota Aygo. If I extend the seatbelts, I could almost use it as a backpack. If I occasionally need some wood from Hornbach, even if the delivery cost is €100, which it is for large pieces of wood, that's still wa
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by ragebol 4y ago
All true, but I do regularly feel like I'm inconveniencing people when I park our cargo bike, since it sticks out beyond the other bikes. With some consideration it's fine, but when there's dozens, I kinda get the point. Stil
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by ragebol 4y ago
Might have some truth to it. Human attention does not scale (ie. impact many other people) very well, and jobs where human attention is crucial, like in teaching & care, don't pay very well.
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by ragebol 4y ago
I'd value my kids being taught well, me taken care of if I'm in a hospital or old etc. No machine can compete with the human care. Machine can help, but not replace a human.
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by ragebol 4y ago
Agreed. Why is that though?
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by ragebol 4y ago
And FWIW: I pay 0.42029€/kWh to my provider in the Netherlands while getting back 0.115€/kWh back for every kWh delivered back to the grid (after I generated and used most of it in my home) Used to be 0.23ct or something. I don&#x
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by ragebol 4y ago
Woodworking. Where competing means making the most beautiful (for whatever style you want).
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by ragebol 4y ago
Well, I'd delete to remove the disinformation, not to hide my mistake. Effect is the same of course.
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by ragebol 4y ago
Oops, I had it the wrong way around.
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by ragebol 4y ago
Yep, you're are right, my bad.
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by ragebol 4y ago
> This is mostly about lack of rainfall and not temperature. Higher temperature air has less capacity to carry water, 7% less for every degree Celcius IIRC. So there could very well be a link. EDIT: Nope, I had it completely backwards, w
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by ragebol 4y ago
And the value of a compiler
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by ragebol 4y ago
I think it's hard not to know this, but outside of embedded I don't think I ever needed that knowledge. So as always: it depends. A front-end dev: nope, don't think so. Embedded software dev: you don't become one without
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by ragebol 4y ago
Why not provide a pre-set up machine? I would also not have them install eg Matlab or LabView themselves at the start of classes. But yes, I recognize the struggle. At my RoboCup team (TechUnited Eindhoven), the learning curve is also stee

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