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by kgabis 7d ago
My Casio F91W has 7+ years. AW are much more capable devices than Garmins, both when it comes to compute and screen - it's understandable they use more power.
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by kgabis 1mo ago
Fitness tracking, accident detection and not needing to take your phone with you because you can still use your watch in case of emergency (if you have cellular connection).
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by kgabis 2mo ago
That's why we should be advocating for more research into SAI, but the reality is we will do it anyway when situation gets bad enough. Global warming has happened and will get only worse, if we ignore the possibility of geoengineering
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by kgabis 2mo ago
When the alternative is failing crops and hot bulb events - it will happen eventually. We did this for over 100 years btw., just as a by-product of burning fossil fuels. Cleaner technologies and air pollution regulations have unmasked real
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by kgabis 2mo ago
It's far easier to start doing stratospheric aerosol injection than to stop burning fossil fuels.
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by kgabis 2mo ago
I'd rather keep my warranty.
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by kgabis 3mo ago
I was happy to confirm my suspicion that the author is polish and the name is indeed a pun (piwko being a small beer in polish).
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by kgabis 7mo ago
You should look up how much NATO members in Europe were spending on defense during the Cold War.
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by kgabis 7mo ago
I wonder what makes EU so wealthy to just buy stuff everywhere - maybe it's the export of high-end technologies inaccessible to US and China?
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by kgabis 9mo ago
"are we the baddies?"
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by kgabis 11mo ago
<vampire typing comment above meme />
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by kgabis 1y ago
Europe is not a single entity, it's mainly the German politicians that ignored the problem.
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by kgabis 1y ago
By some weird accident they stop being that expensive and long to build when you cross the border into China.
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by kgabis 1y ago
Varia can supplement bike mirrors with an early warning that a vehicle is approaching. Some people don't like bike mirrors (they look dorky), but personally I feel half-blind when cycling without a mirror.
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by kgabis 1y ago
Stable 60Hz is still preferable to stuttery 120Hz.
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by kgabis 1y ago
That Xbox One exploit is quite funny, it relies on delisted Game Script app that uses Ape programming language made by me and submitted here on HN a few years back.
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by kgabis 1y ago
6502? Luxury! In my times you were lucky to have a processor.
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by kgabis 1y ago
I went over "Writing an Interpreter in Go" and "Writing a Compiler in Go" but instead of doing it in Go, I did it in C. In hindsight it was a very good decision, because it forced me to write the code myself, instead of
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by kgabis 2y ago
An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype wi
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by kgabis 2y ago
This article is based on false premise: he was not arrested, only escorted by police to a parliamentary commission hearing.
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by kgabis 2y ago
LCOE doesn't make much sense when you think about it. It doesn't include storage necessary for intermittent energy sources, nor grid costs. It also doesn't account for how much variation there is in renewable potential geogra
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by kgabis 2y ago
It's only 75Hz. Why can't they make a decent pro monitor with a reasonable refresh rate?
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by kgabis 2y ago
Apparently not much.
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by kgabis 2y ago
Considering it's lifespan and low external costs (like grid extension and energy storage for renewables) - it is cheap. What makes it expensive is politics.
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by kgabis 2y ago
Definitely, cheap and predictable energy would be fatal for Australian economy.
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by kgabis 2y ago
Population of European Russia is ~110 million people so a bit more than Germany.
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by kgabis 2y ago
Shameless plug, but some time ago I've created a language where the main design goal was for it to be easy to use and embed: https://github.com/kgabis/ape .
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by kgabis 2y ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't invest in renewables, but that we need to consider their limitations, primarily intermittency and unfeasability of storing TWhs of energy for later. At the same time, we need to find a way to cheaply an
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by kgabis 2y ago
Cool link, thanks. But speaking about hydrogen production and not storage is a bit misleading: currently we can story only 0.5TWh of energy using hydrogen WORLDWIDE, and this paper proposes 55TWh just for Germany. Currently, hydrogen is mos
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by kgabis 2y ago
This study assumes 54.8 TWh of hydrogen storage, good luck with that.

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