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If it's a custom industrial installation then the source code is part of the documentation just like the electrical schematics, specifically so that any trained electrician can mai…

And it's not immediately obvious how to close a pop-up again.

You skipped GWh. 12B kWh = 12M MWh = 12k GWh = 12 TWh.

EU chip industry: best I can do is power electronics.

There was a post about something similar here a few days ago, it called it a "dirt notebook" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954149

Yeah, should be .rb for Ruby. Also .mm isn't Objective-C, but Objective-C++.

There are two types of load/store instructions, one type requires alignment (vmovdqa), the other can load unaligned data (vmovdqu), in the case of AVX-512 the required alignment is…

15 years ago people would've called it spyware.

The EU parliament has 720 representatives (at the moment 719, one seat is vacant apparently), so 113 representatives didn't show up for the vote. The absolute majority would've bee…

If it has been transmitted via hollow-core fibres it will obviously sound hollow.

You don't get double taxed, you get taxed on your salary and your company gets taxed on whatever profit remains after paying salaries.

> we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area. Almost every larger city has a more or less active subreddit these days, on platforms like Twitter you can look …

Almost all of these immediate mode UI libraries for C/C++ come without a rendering backend. Usually there are "example" implementations for libraries like SDL that you can use, or …

I implemented a very rudimentary copy of it at https://fac3.org/slingshot.html Drag on the red circle to set angle and velocity, let go to launch it, try to hit the green circle, a…

Reminds me a little of an old game called Slingshot[0], I think it implemented the idea much better as you actually had to slingshot and consider gravity. Someone should turn it in…

Probably not possible. Their Wi-Fi access point is inside the capsule, the capsule is made from metal and probably shielding the signal somewhat. Maybe even quite a lot if it's int…

I would take low voter turnout more as indifference than as lack of enthusiam. To take the parking fee for SUVs example, I would assume a lot of people affected by it and complaini…

Considering that Korean is an SOV language it would've been interesting to see that factor into the design of this programming language.

I wouldn't call Android user hostile. What makes most Android phones user hostile is Google Play Services.

Which isn't easy considering they explode tin droplets in the machine. I think that's the point the other commenter wanted to make.

Especially in autumn and winter.

The largest "but" is that they only look at electricity generation, not energy in general. There's a lot of heating with natural gas and of course most cars still have internal com…

But that only works if you already know the exact movement and you basically end up playing a film on the background screen walls. You can't change anything of this on set anymore.…

Carbon tax is not about offsetting emissions, it's about disincentivising fossil fuels.