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by xroche 5y ago
It's the wet bulb thermometer reading (temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth over which air is passed). At 35°C it is considered lethal for humans after a couple of hours. > Wet bulb thermometer readings ar
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by xroche 5y ago
> That's seriously messed up. I'd have to very seriously second-guess buying anything that involves software of any kind from this company. If you connect a device to the Internet, you must maintain it. If it's a server, y
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by xroche 5y ago
> If the problem with air travel is emissions then we ought to work on alternative fuels. They don't exist yet. > Globally, air travel accounts for only a small proportion of emissions Air travel is 2% of all global emissions. Th
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by xroche 5y ago
Louis Rossmann is more skeptical: Right to Repair bill PASSES in NY state senate! What now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX6BVQe6Tq4 TL;DR: Low probability than anything will happen before next year
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by xroche 5y ago
If my memory is correct, he explained that this was where most of the market was (especially on the neighborhood of NYC he lives in), and it was easier to fix a bunch of Apple models, rather than thousands of different Android brands/m
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by xroche 5y ago
If I loosely quote Louis Rossmann, one of the issue of right to repair is that more and more companies (Apple leading the trend) are using slightly modified chips from manufacturers, and them make then sign contracts that prevent any part s
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by xroche 5y ago
> Sometimes I am grateful that I live in Europe where software patents are not a thing. Unfortunately they are. Software patents are in theory forbidden, but... you can patent a broader patent which will also cover the software variant.
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by xroche 5y ago
I am the treasurer of a small European non-profit organisation. We got our PayPal account restricted (no money could be withdrawn) for no reason, only because we suddenly had more donations than usual. It took three months to resolve the is
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by xroche 5y ago
Those spams should be NoCeM'ed, and google groups should accept trusted NoCeM announces. But I doubt google ever cared about Usenet at all.
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by xroche 5y ago
It's the safest energy, even safer than solar or wind Source: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-te...
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by xroche 5y ago
The other elephants in the room are (1) the material requirements (required metals, plastics, glass, electronics and reinforced concrete) per GWh, and (2) the required space per GWh (less space for buildings, fields or nature). And solar&#x
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by xroche 5y ago
> It never got as cheap as it was claimed it would be, accounting for loan interest or not. I would say "citation needed". France typically had a documented public investment plan for nuclear energy, and is enjoying one of the
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by xroche 5y ago
Nuclear waste handling is a non-issue. The volume are totally manageable, and future generations of nuclear plants won't product much ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-neutron_reactor )
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by xroche 5y ago
Nuclear power requirements (up front) has also a big issue: the cost of money. The only viable solution is to have state-owned nuclear energy, because only states can borrow cheap money (ie. even at negative rates), where private companies
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by xroche 5y ago
And we may remember the "Linux is a cancer" ( https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_ca... ), or more subtly the SCO "suicide attack" attack against open-source: https:&#
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by xroche 5y ago
> condition of some of those reactors was questioned The nuclear security agency in France is one of the toughest in the world, and is independent. They notably demand "current" state-of-the art security for all nuclear plants
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by xroche 5y ago
> was near coal mine In Europe, coal typically kills more than 20,000 people _every year_: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european... [ And yet Germany and Belgium decided to end
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by xroche 5y ago
Dumb question: what would be the cost of a compiler-based mitigation, ie. never using fused instructions (ie. complex instructions broken-down into several micro-instructions internally by the pipeline) but only micro-ops that won't u
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by xroche 5y ago
The full titre should actually be "Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in the name of research and thinking they can add insult to injury by playing the victims" > I respectfully ask you to cease and de
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by xroche 6y ago
"Programming is easy" is like "Cooking is easy": it's true and (as nicely put by this blog) completely misleading at the same time. Anyone can start cooking; because the entry level is really low. But mastering cook
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by xroche 6y ago
> “Meritocracy!”, I hear you cry. “They pick from the most talented students. The ones that worked the hardest to get into the most elite schools. The black students should have just worked harder” Crazy idea: if companies that do virtue
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by xroche 6y ago
> Yeah, that’s gonna take a while… To be fair I had no idea most sscanf implementations called strlen so I can’t blame the developer who wrote this. I would assume it just scanned byte by byte and could stop on a NULL. Darn, I got the ex
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by xroche 6y ago
> France runs a lot of totally outdated reactors, because there is not enough money available to replace them We don't replace them because there is no political will to do so, and the green party has successfully put fear-mongering
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by xroche 6y ago
> It boggles my mind that France and South Korea had such great success with nuclear but nobody else was able to replicate that success. The reason is that France has invested a lot of public money in nuclear energy. The state has taken
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by xroche 8y ago
I have an Oculus (DK2, development version though, so please take my opinion with a grain of salt), and while it is great, there are some show-stoppers: • Games needs to be reinvented for VR, which basically makes adoption much harder - pla
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by xroche 8y ago
The perf benefits are mainly for the big companies [namely, Google, Mozilla, and few others]. Hard to see any real ones for the rest of the world.
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by xroche 8y ago
It's still used today because (1) of historical code and (2) the fact many people are fluent with it (including me). But this is a terrible languages in most cases.
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by xroche 8y ago
"Less harmful alternatives" seems in many cases to be "Exotic technologies hardly used by anyone, simply unusable in any serious environment". In some cases, comically wrong: C as a better alternative to C++ ? Did I tota
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by xroche 8y ago
Alas! strlcpy and strlcat are still not present in the glibc, despite numerous attempts, mainly for religious reasons (ie. "BSD sucks"). And yes, having something like "if (strlcat(buffer, src, sizeof(buffer) >= sizeof(buf
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by xroche 8y ago
And they also have a very decent line or hardware. Digium cards used to be the de-facto standard to build quickly a small PBX system, and I really appreciated their quality.

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