mahrain

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by mahrain 8d ago
Already a reality in mainland China, which is a country with very little street crime, grafitti, vandalism etc.
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by mahrain 21d ago
This was done for mostly ideological reasons, "green transition" and such. The Dutch economy was dependent on natural gas sales for funding parts of the welfare state. They became a net importer of natural gas and then Ukraine and
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by mahrain 2mo ago
Works for me, Firefox 152.0.4 on macOS 27 beta3.
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by mahrain 5mo ago
I don't agree with "the west forgot how to make things", it moved supply chains for cheap consumer goods to asia, but in the B2B space a lot of things are manufactured in Europe: companies like Bosch, Volkswagen, ASML, Alstom
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by mahrain 5mo ago
Well, these numbers are averages between people living until old age (65+ years) and high infant mortality. I don't think most people keeled over when they reach 25 years...
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by mahrain 6mo ago
Office for Mac 2008, when they shifted to a new codebase, was pretty good for a while, just slooooow.
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Airline-like comfort, and airplane-like noise. It's surprising how much noisier the Shanghai Maglev gets once you approach 400kph.
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Large parts of the OS are open source though. Not just the Linux kernel and userland, but also some specific things: Sailfish: https://github.com/sailfishos Android layer: https://github.com/libhybris/
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Mediatek is a taiwanese company and the Dimensity 7100 platform includes the cellular stack.
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by mahrain 7mo ago
This explains a lot, American microwaves have these settings for different types of food etc, it seems most people throw something in and just 'nuke it'. European microwave ovens on the other hand, have a setting for different wat
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Sure, however as explained further in this thread the BFI approach is new as opposed to the courser Zigbee RSSI-based approaches of Hue MotionAware.
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Thank you for adding this context of this particular research, I do see that it relies on MU-MIMO information, which does rely on more powerful WiFi infrastructure than the basic ESP32's I am referring to.
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Yes, you won't be able to do this on normal wifi traffic typically either, you need to send specific packets at a high enough rate (in between normal internet traffic) in order to sense with any accuracy, as I also remarked earlier: h
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by mahrain 7mo ago
I was shocked to find that even electronics that are collected in Europe seem to be shipped to Africa, set on fire, and at most, metals are collected from the ashes, including traces of gold and copper. That's about it. Batteries have
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by mahrain 7mo ago
Verizon has a security feature built around this, https://www.xfinity.com/hub/smart-home/wifi-motion Philips WiZ bulbs: https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/explore-wiz/spacesense Alarm.co
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by mahrain 7mo ago
What happens is that a large body of water (pun intended) has the ability to absorb and reflect wifi signals as it moves through the room. For this you need to generate traffic and measure for instance RSSI or CSI (basically, signal strengt
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by mahrain 7mo ago
With the age of retirement (in europe) steadily increasing, and the workforce getting older, the typical corporate position of rejecting older candidates will need to change, if only simply to fill the vacancies. For this, the mentality of
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by mahrain 8mo ago
Local news sources[1] show that the unions and works council are outraged. That's only a start. [1] Source: https://www.ed.nl/binnenland/vakbonden-woedend-na-keiharde-i...
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by mahrain 8mo ago
What’s more surprising is the fact that the seem comfortable letting go of 1700 people with knowledge of the company and processes. Dutch government stepped in last year to help facilitate a anticipated growth by fast tracking infrastructur
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by mahrain 8mo ago
One of the most startling differences between Chinese and European cities is the lack of grafitti in China. I wonder if it's explained by laws, norms, enforcement?
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by mahrain 8mo ago
The TiO2 will likely rub off and need regular replenishment. Also, the alternative here, sensor-operated or button-operated automatic doors are already widely used. I wonder who this is meant for?
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by mahrain 8mo ago
When I was young and having access to internet (but pre social media) I loved looking into these theories, prompted by Discovery Channel's "Quest for the lost civilization" and stumbling upon these books from the 1970s. It fe
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by mahrain 9mo ago
It would be amazing if they could leverage the container system, but instead of goods, there'd be battery containers they could just plug in to the ship. You could even charge a battery container somewhere and bring it in by (electrifi
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by mahrain 10mo ago
I used ChatGPT to figure out what's going on here, and it told me this is a 'neo-Marxist critique of the nation state'.
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by mahrain 10mo ago
Reading the blog post the Marxist sentiment was creeping in, and then I also saw actual Marx referenced in the footnotes.
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by mahrain 11mo ago
Without spoiling too much, this is a major theme in Dan Brown's latest novel 'the secret of secrets'.
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by mahrain 11mo ago
Northern Europe had a very similar facility, a large "underground city" in The Netherlands near Maastricht, being used as a command center / information hub in NATO for the airspace. Unfortunately in the construction was a lo
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by mahrain 1y ago
There really are too few business models available to build sustainable IoT solutions, apart from subscriptions (and only Security companies seem to have figured this out), pyramid schemes (letting your new users pay for maintaining the who
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by mahrain 1y ago
Your first paragraph is advocating for ventilation, which is great but there's been so much incentive to reduce building energy consumption (heating/cooling) that recirculating, filtration and other technologies have resulted in o
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by mahrain 1y ago
Studying a building's microbiome is really a new field. What happens to people if offices become boxes of sterile air and -surfaces? We don't know.

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