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by mdf 3mo ago
Ruuvi Air[1] seems to be close to the middle in both price and CO2 measurement accuracy between aranet4 and the IKEA device. I don't have personal experience with Ruuvi Air specifically, but have been using their cheaper Ruuvi Tags (th
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by mdf 7mo ago
You're right. Perhaps clean would better capture the distinction in favor of solar in this context? Both corn and solar convert insolation to usable power with a short time between capture and use. Solar, on the other hand, is net ne
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by mdf 7mo ago
Yes, and the corn-based ethanol here is used for "feeding cars" that have combustion engines, i.e. it's already used exactly for energy production. The most recent Technology Connections video[1] quoted some numbers on this
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by mdf 8mo ago
Just today, a citizens' initiative started collecting signatures in Finland to stop recent projects that aim to transfer hosting of election, taxation, and social security data on services provided by US-run companies.[1] [1] https:&#
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by mdf 9mo ago
> formatting is more common than parsing. Is it, though? It's genuinely hard for me to tell. There's both serialization and deserialization of data sets with, e.g., JSON including floating point numbers, implying formatting and
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by mdf 1y ago
Could you elaborate? I'm a long-time Xmonad user. Currently, I'm using Ubuntu 25.04, having upgraded to new non-LTS releases every six months, on two computers running Xmonad. I haven't run into any problems.
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by mdf 1y ago
Europe seems to be having a rough time dealing with costly energy investments involving unstable regimes.
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by mdf 1y ago
Just finished reading your linked article. I found it interesting and I experienced similar excitement from the results as mentioned up-thread. There were some new things I learned, too. I wouldn't say your article is too technical; it
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by mdf 1y ago
There's something about real optimization stories that I find fascinating – particularly the detailed ones including step-by-step improvements and profiling to show how numbers got better. In some way, they are satisfying to read. Ni
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by mdf 1y ago
Generally, I agree the situation with errors is much better in Rust in the ways you describe. But, there are also panics which you can catch_unwind[1], set_hook[2] for, define a #[panic_handler][3] for, etc. [1] https://doc.rust-
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How to Crack a Binary File Format(iwriteiam.nl)
2 points by mdf 1y ago|0 comments
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by mdf 2y ago
A prime example: JIRA's backlog view. In the self-hosted version, you could easily find the issue you were looking for in the backlog view by just using the browser's search, press Ctrl+F, write some words, you have the issue you
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by mdf 2y ago
I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the jok
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by mdf 2y ago
There's also a middle ground: Painstakingly describe the solution first, along with its downside of not being general in the same way as some of the existing features (I guess for example seeking back 10 seconds) are not, and ask wheth
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by mdf 3y ago
Optimally, next to a source of water that can be split into hydrogen, ready to be used for the chemical process producing the pure iron. (Not the process in TFA.) An array of SMRs (small modular reactors) located at the steel factory could
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by mdf 3y ago
There's a nice heat pump in Helsinki, Finland, as well, producing district heating from waste water.[1] [1] https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2023/waste-heat-plays-a-signifi...
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Hungary's new Sovereignty Protection Authority can investigate nearly anyone(telex.hu)
3 points by mdf 3y ago|1 comments
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by mdf 3y ago
Currently, birding. Got really into it in 2021 since it pretty much runs in the family. I feel that observing the lives of our fellow creatures helps me really destress and put my mind off work. Interestingly, I find that birding while walk
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by mdf 3y ago
No mentions in this thread of biodiversity loss[1], which I've always considered one of the main reasons for vertical farming. We are (and have been) destroying immense swathes of land to make more room for human activities, killing nu
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by mdf 4y ago
That 0.00435 is each year, since 87 TWh was the annual use. Multiplying that by 27.25 gets the ~12 % for accumulated percentage by year 2050.
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by mdf 4y ago
> I agree that these are important issues to consider, however I disagree that this is important in the context of energy production. Land use by all types of energy production is miniscule compared to agriculture, urbanisation and roads
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by mdf 4y ago
> On top of that we see articles (this isn't the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous. I wonder, what's yo
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by mdf 4y ago
Land use throughout the globe is at an unsustainable level, causing habitat loss for species and reduction in carbon sinks. Getting farmland to produce more per square meter would be very important, and the results presented in the article
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TV Detector Van(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mdf 4y ago|0 comments
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by mdf 5y ago
It's a shame UK left EU. All help would be welcome against Germany's lobby to continue burning fossil fuels and spewing the resulting GHGs into atmosphere. If they had been still in, I'm sure UK would have stood with France,
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by mdf 5y ago
The Green League party in Finland is kind of interesting when compared to other Greens worldwide. They used to be vehemently anti-nuclear, having for example previously left a government due to decisions related to investments in new nuclea
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by mdf 5y ago
Would inside a chimney work?
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by mdf 6y ago
Good points in this post, although I'd add the word "Only" in front of the headline. IMO, syntax highlighting definitely has its uses, but why limit ourselves to only using colors for that? I'd like to see a future, wher
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by mdf 7y ago
Indeed. Even with some versioning schemes where 4.2 would equal 4.20 I wouldn't see the point in changing the title from what the project itself used. And if I'm reading this[1] correctly, the versions look pretty straightforward
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by mdf 7y ago
Shouldn't the burden of proof be on the opposite side? To allow such procedure, it should be proven that there are no adverse effects.

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