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by nstom 7d ago
iPhone Pros have sported an always-on display for years now. It uses the OLED display at low brightness and refresh rates to preserve battery life while showing you the time etc. So I'm guessing this is using that same tech.
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by nstom 4y ago
Based on his name and the picture in the article, I assume the author is Dutch. We don’t have the distinction between underpasses and tunnels in our language and just call everything ‘tunnel’. It may have to do with the country being so fl
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by nstom 7y ago
I think it has to do with design. They wanted to make the two top rows have the same amount of lights. Using 6 would mean one row of 6 lights and one of 4. 5^2 is the smallest square that provides enough values to fit 24 hours.
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by nstom 7y ago
So, what would an American say when they actually do want to have lunch sometime?
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by nstom 7y ago
When a tree dies that CO2 will mostly just be released into the air again. Planting trees is a measure to slow the immediate effects of fossil fuel usage, but not a long term solution. At some point you’ll run out of space for new trees. It
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by nstom 7y ago
While this is a good development, hydrogen based planes would not be climate neutral. Unfortunately a large and often overlooked part of planes’ climate impact stems not from their carbon emissions but from the water vapor they produce [1].
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by nstom 7y ago
I read that AC installation companies have been getting a lot of business in the past few weeks, and anecdotally I've heard from local businesses looking to install it as well. So I'd say yes, it'll definitely become more com
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by nstom 7y ago
We generate a lot of heat, but so does the sun by shining on half of the earth's surface. That should not be a problem however, since it goes back into space in the form of infrared beams. The natural greenhouse effect obstructs just e
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by nstom 7y ago
Well, there are six intercity trains per direction each hour to Amsterdam Central, four to Amsterdam South (will be upped to six in a few years), and up to four commuting services. So you could even say there’s a train every 4.3 minutes.
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by nstom 7y ago
That's actually been tried in the 70s, but for various reasons it never really took off: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/mobile-home-skyscrape...
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by nstom 9y ago
With just 16km, this is not by any stretch going to be the world's second-longest tunnel, just the world's second-longest road tunnel. The longest tunnels are rail tunnels, which measure up to 57km (Gotthard base tunnel), and if y
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by nstom 9y ago
You can swipe (with the trackpad or magic mouse, only works when the cursor is hovering over the notification) or drag the notification to the right to make it go away.
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by nstom 10y ago
http://www.blendle.com has quite a nice onboarding process if you ask me.