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Comment #38926104
For people who don't know them yet: use DDG bangs. For example "!m restaurant [citynmae]" will immediately bring you to Google maps, "!w chemistry" will open Wikipedia etc. Super e…
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Comment #38918909
How is Airbus doing meanwhile? I didn't hear about any production quality issues in their aircraft.
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Comment #38896322
Never had a paper rejected for lack of reproducibility though. And as long as I am working for the PhD and not the long term career, it's still better to focus on the short term. I…
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Comment #38894065
I just handed in my PhD in computer science. Our department teaches "best practices" but adherence to them is hardly possible in research: 1) Requirements change constantly, since.…
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Comment #38893947
Here's most of Europe, but mostly based on interpolated schedule data: https://travic.app/?z=6&x=1652866.9&y=6336146.8&l=osm_standa... It's also great to see the utter mess that DB…
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Comment #38831334
I wish there was some standard way to add DC wiring in parallel to AC. Seems like people who want to do this have to roll their own systems for now.
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Comment #38831302
> if you're working on something collaboratively you need to express intent in your commit messages! 100%! And if somebody cannot communicate the intent, there is a high chance the…
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Comment #38827908
689Wh/mi is 428Wh/km... that is utterly insane energy use. My Zoe (small car) needs 150Wh/km in winter and I wouldn't get a car above 200 or 250.
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Comment #38740207
How would you detect and track somebody with a faraday bag?
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Comment #38681260
This is false. The Nordics use way more heat pumps than the rest of Europe: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/30/do-heat-pumps-work...
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Comment #38626871
> With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans. Si…
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Comment #38506341
> It's very noticeably in building architecture. My bad take: Modern architecture ugliness comes from architects using CAD with insufficient proficiency to create complex designs. …
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Comment #38475094
> nuclear is always on When is peak energy demand during the day/month/year? > nuclear can be built anywhere Like Fukushima? How do you handle lack of cooling water during droughts…
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Comment #38472550
Finally. As a next step, we need mechanisms to prevent the constant rehashing of these attempts to break security. Otherwise, it will get through during a crisis or via fatigue.
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Comment #38463778
Oddly enough they don't state what the problems are. Meanwhile the ADAC (German car club) find that EVs have similar defect rates in components they share with ICE while having les…
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Comment #38463745
Mini is BMW
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Comment #38412560
Renaults unofficial slogan is " tous les jours un bruit nouveau", which means "every day a new noise". ... which is not that wrong with the Zoe. Especially the E-brake has some bar…
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Comment #38398545
This instantly loses the main selling point: Massive audience. If they manage to get 20% of people to pay (which would be huge) they'd lose hundreds of millions of viewers still.
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Comment #38264385
> there is no military incentive for this * Precision landing of large amount of troops, anywhere * Ability to lift 250 tons -> precision landing of tanks and artillery, anywhere *…
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Comment #38206363
> Surging olive oil prices, driven in part by two years of drought in Spain, has meant opportunity for criminals across the Mediterranean. i.e. we are beginning to see the impacts …
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Comment #38203002
From what I heard it is very exciting for tank crews, but not necessarily in a good way.
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Comment #38193142
Consumer-grade drones and RC ground vehicles becoming a major part of a war between regular armies.
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Comment #38191011
> I tell everyone to move to firefox, help them set it up and most are convinced. That already helps significantly. :) > I have nothing to say so don't host A fair point, probably …
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Comment #38190459
Well, the Commission is elected by the elected governments of the member states. In a similar fashion, many heads of state are voted in by the elected government and not directly. …
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Comment #38189960
People complain a lot about the internet getting worse and worse. We can fix it, if we put in the effort to rebuild it. * Join fediverse services, e.g. [Lemmy](feddit.de) or Mastod…