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by usrusr 2y ago
Sailing technology has gone beyond "we can go downwind, yay!" for quite a while now...
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by usrusr 2y ago
You have it reverse wind turbines need mooring, stay upright and so on. That's highly impractical. No, you build a fast-going sail vessel (using big traction kites, because it's not the 19th century anymore) and power the genera
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by usrusr 2y ago
Balanced games feel like a chore: you just sit through them, trying to avoid those mistakes that aren't balanced away and there's never any hope for some positive discovery. Decisions do not matter and the pro-balancing crowd even
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by usrusr 2y ago
Let's be realistic, it would have a diesel engine as a plan B. But if you like sails: my pet hypothetical technology is wind-driven hydrogen tankers (or tankers for some other e-fuel derived from hydrogen) that sail out empty, then cru
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by usrusr 2y ago
How far is this from the hypothetical (I think, for now) scenario of including a WASM build as a fallback "platform" in jars that include some native code for a number of platforms? A number of platforms that will never be complet
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by usrusr 2y ago
Technically, those tiny USB-to-whatever blocks of their laptops can be considered components and you can supposedly swap them with the desktop: > (note the two bays for Framework's expansion cards at the bottom)
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by usrusr 2y ago
> Mark Laidlaw, the sometime science-fiction novelist who wrote the script, makes no bones about the limits to his ambitions for it. “You don’t have to write the whole story,” he says. “Because it’s a conspiracy plot, everybody knows mo
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by usrusr 2y ago
Get it removed: the next hit will be much worse than a broken collar bone if the bone can't do its job of giving in before less restorable parts of the shoulder give in.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Do yourself a favor and don't wait too long to get rid of the plate: when you crash on that shoulder again, the collar bone won't be able to do it's job of being the predetermined breaking point that saves the shoulder ligame
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by usrusr 2y ago
Like the conflict between grass and a hungry herd of cows. Is it really a conflict of it's that one-sided?
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by usrusr 2y ago
Similar here, long time R.E.M. listener/collector who had just listened to some last week, then surprisingly heard Stand played quietly at a bar on the weekend (even misidentified it as Nirvana at first, it was really barely hearable,
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's certainly not all that much of an Adobe killer in places where English isn't a first language. And where English is only a second language, the software is the first thing that comes to mind, by far. "Those letters also
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by usrusr 2y ago
I read that "ugly" not as a "what is this yesrerdayish mess, was life in the twntieth really that unrefined?", but as a "technically, it's breaking all the rules", a judgement from typography knowledge, no
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by usrusr 2y ago
Which later became Caldera Deutschland and played a bit of a role in Caldera Open Linux. And which happened to have its offices well within commuting range of everything SuSE. I've been wondering about local connections ever since I re
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not exactly - as in I did not expect half as many platforms. Awesome! (but I can't find any mention of the AltGr modified that most languages other than English use as their central exotica pivot? That's a surprising omission)
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by usrusr 2y ago
Multi platform is an awesome quality for a tool like that: when you do have a customization like that, it's a huge value-loss when it can't be passed on across system boundaries. That being said, this appears to be an active mappe
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by usrusr 2y ago
Had the same thought. But then on the other hand, when nobody is looking at the timing, nobody will see anything. And those who do see a timing artifact, will they really dig deeper or will they just shrug off another oddity? I would not li
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by usrusr 2y ago
That's why you'd usually want to only use the H2 as an intermediate step on the way to some other e-fuel. Which can be as simple as iron powder to be oxidized at the application site. But the first step, in all e-fuel processes, i
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by usrusr 2y ago
H2 could solve intermittence, on-vehicle batteries can't. Not if the charging has to be squeezed into a tight work schedule. The biggest challenge, besides the obvious one of just building a huge quantity of wind and sun harvesting ins
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by usrusr 2y ago
Increased job-mobility won't increase the number of higher paying openings though. Even if everybody at the bottom of the pyramid is laser-focused on making it up, the number actually succeeding won't really change, except perhap
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by usrusr 2y ago
> Who'd pay that kind of money today for a commercial flight? People willing to throw money at connecting with others who do the same thing. That was the main value proposition back then I think, getting from continent to continent
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by usrusr 2y ago
You made me wonder what my smartphone PIN actually is and now I can only access the device with the fingerprint reader. Usually my hands know what PIN to use, but apparently not when the brain gets involved. Guess I have to wait until I for
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by usrusr 2y ago
Even just holding position would give some downdraft, from those 15 kt of wind. With 2/3 of airspeed compensated by the ship moving into the wind, and an airplane already quite good at short runway landing, the descent angle relative t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Your comment reads a lot like you were assuming that he was a layperson who never flew a plane before. The article looks as of it was deliberately staying ambiguous about that part. But the complete absence of any statement about his previo
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by usrusr 2y ago
Here in Germany I run an inverse of that for "am I in the wider halo of a larger city or am I in a truly rural environment": when approaching a metropolitan area, the outer urban halo starts where there are still farms, but many o
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by usrusr 2y ago
To me the key element is that it can run different transmission ratios: wether that's in discrete steps or a continuous ramp, that's an implementation detail. BEV (most of them) don't have that, the Prius has. When I read GP
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by usrusr 2y ago
I would not call a CVT "not a gearbox". Were Audis equipped with their multitronic option (not in any way related to hybrid or BEV) "cars without a gearbox"?
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by usrusr 2y ago
Setting away Mosquitos (the real Wunderwaffe of that war) for freight runs (and for stuffing the occasional Nobel Price physicist in the bomb bay) tells a rather different story about the importance of swedish-made ball bearings for UK arms
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by usrusr 2y ago
Also keep in mind that the iPhone was far from starting at zero: they did not so much enter the phone market as a newcomer as they did pull the phone market into the existing and utterly dominated iPod market. Dominated so much that I don&#
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by usrusr 2y ago
As a grumpy old symbolic ai hand I do wonder if it was possible to build a (perhaps crude) ontology based simulation with consistency, cause and effect and so on and then use the results of that for prompting an LLM. But as a consumer, I le

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