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451.
by wolfi1 5y ago
much of the energy needed in private households and the industry can be covered with solar thermal energy. admitted, it's low tech, but the components are cheap and the efficiency is much higher than PV efficiency
452.
by wolfi1 5y ago
if I want to learn something I want to understand it, so that in the end I'm having a high signal to noise ratio but if I memorize things I don't necessarily understand them leading to a low signal to noise ratio
453.
Tollense Valley Battlefield (oldest verifiable battlefield in Europe)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by wolfi1 5y ago|0 comments
454.
by wolfi1 5y ago
simple, VAT is paid by the customer not by the corporation
455.
by wolfi1 5y ago
> Lithium is incredibly difficult to mine Do you have any source for that? My impression was that it is relatively easy to mine but not economical enoguh
456.
by wolfi1 5y ago
for divisibility rules I would recommend "What is Mathematics" by Courant/Robbins
457.
Joephus Poblem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by wolfi1 5y ago|0 comments
458.
by wolfi1 5y ago
I don't see how a classical unit test would have catched this, as all other components are mocked away. Regression tests on the other hand can only catch errors that already occurred. I#m not sure that was the case.
459.
by wolfi1 5y ago
I thought Lisp stands for "Lots of Irritating Single Parentheses" ;)
460.
by wolfi1 5y ago
reminds me of the case of the Olympic rings in Delphi: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/olympics/gam...
461.
by wolfi1 5y ago
hmm, I even use VS Code for Java
462.
by wolfi1 6y ago
>I think also the instability is a large component of why the vaccines must be stored at such low temperatures. As I understand it, the low temperatures are partly required because of the liposomes the mRNA is "packed" into
463.
Missing Link in Alphabet History Discovered(oeaw.ac.at)
2 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
464.
Phantom of Heilbronn(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
465.
by wolfi1 6y ago
the GDPR would reuire that from them but hen again..
466.
by wolfi1 6y ago
one anecdote about Dirac. Dirac and Heisenberg discussed about religion. They involved Pauli in the discussion and Pauli summed up Dirac's point of view: "“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac
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Romani Ite Domum(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by wolfi1 6y ago|1 comments
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Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
469.
by wolfi1 6y ago
there is a WHO guide for a DIY hand sanitizer: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
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Computus(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
471.
by wolfi1 6y ago
flyingsaucer [1] is also an option. [1] https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
472.
by wolfi1 6y ago
German is from another language family, I doubt that neuter was introduced from Latin
473.
by wolfi1 6y ago
somehow ironic that he uses flatpak for his "secure" app, considering an article about flatpack security hit the HN frontpage a few days ago
474.
by wolfi1 6y ago
those were the times. PEEKS and POKES and a list of numbers. ah, fond memories
475.
Plague of Athens(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
476.
by wolfi1 6y ago
fusion is the energy of the future and has been so for the last 50 years
477.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons – History(history.com)
4 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
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DIY Mask Testing Equipment(preprints.org)
2 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments
479.
by wolfi1 6y ago
unfortunately sometimes wax paper is proposed as an alternative but although the name suggests it to be ecologically it isn't. most, if not all, "wax papers" use paraffin instead of wax
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SEIR Model(cs.uwaterloo.ca)
3 points by wolfi1 6y ago|0 comments

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