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Those all make sense for long trips. For the short trips, users will more likely charge at home and thus there will be less demand for "fuel" stations.

The more one dives into the relationship between society and energy, the more it appears energy sources and availability mold society, like transport, food, architecture, politics, urbanization, philo…

Out of curiosity, what do you consider the worst architecture choices in IRC ? And what would be better solutions ?

Fiefdom is especially funny when you know Lee was crowned king of Korea a couple of years ago: * https://nextshark.com/korea-crown-prince-andrew-lee/ * https://en.wiki…

For those, like me, who didn't know, Groverhaus is a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/groverhaus …

He also refers to another repo with a very small Python implementation of a raytracer. There, the author links to an article how he managed to speed up raytracing in Python by a factor of 130, going f…

>>> Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time…

The web site touts that they combat climate change with a nice concept. But it's a bit ironic that the target product the ship will transport are cars, one major consumer of fossil fuels and a bi…

And they even have talks on how to run a big virtual conference and some lessons learned : * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_communities/ * https…

And this story gives an extra argument in favor of dynamic libraries as they make it easier to fix some bugs in compiled applications (except for games which check if someone messed with LD_PRELOAD).

Patents have stalled technology in many areas since a long time. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" [1] by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine analyze the economical impact of patterns…

The French do vary the power of the reactors to follow the load [1] [2]. They don't purely rely on their neighbors, far from it. As a consequence, the usage factor of the plants is lower than nuc…

Nuclear power plants can vary power output quickly if planned during the design. As France has an installed capacity of more than 60 GW of nuclear power production, their power plants can quickly adap…

When looking at the commit history on github of axet project, the most recent commit is only 4 months old. That comment about it not seeing updates since years looks wrong.

According to Wikipedia, the Stirling engine is particularly well suited here because the engine is near silent and can use the surrounding sea water as a heat sink to increase efficiency.

One of the biggest companies manufacturing foam glass is actually based in the USA and has many production sites in Europe. The insulation properties depend on the chemical composition of the glass. W…

Why is it trying to load a script from 127.0.0.1 ?

Le "bail réel solidaire" is a special type of lease contract in France created in 2015. It's used by state institutions to rent buildings to poorer people at decent prices. Those lease …

All that sounds well, but it also has some nasty side effects. Anonymous sources and whistle blowers would not be possible anymore while very much needed.

The article by The Register goes into way more details about the colusions between members of ICANN and Ethos Capitals.

You can read the measurements in "Importance of Water-Volume on the Release of Microplastic Fibers from Laundry" by the team at the university of Newcastle : https://pubs.acs.org&…

And the money to "standardize" the ISO docx format.

That book is on my shelf to be read. In what way did age poorly ?

You're right. My tired brain bugged when seeing 30% lower than today.

CO2 did increase a lot. The ratio of CO2 in our atmosphere got up by more than 40% since 2 centuries ago. And that's despite effects which slow down the CO2 increase, like absorption by the ocean…

IRC deep conversations do happen and indeed you want persistence for those. Communities which rely on IRC use IRC logs for that. Perl projects use IRC that way and I think the Mozilla guys too.

Harriet Hall from Science Based Medecine finds Denise Mingers critiques good and well researched: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/ …