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You can see them very easily at dusk. It’s dark enough but they are still in sunlight making them very clearly visible. There is always one or more easily visible (by design).

Fuel was created by the explosion of supernovae, still solar but not our sun.

Note that growing ingots is an incredible feat at that purity and size that they achieve on earth. It’s already a very very hard step in a crazy process for entire chip manufacturi…

Rivian I think it’s eating the extra buffer but that also means that the worse degradation that happens in first year is « free ». Then stats are a few percents per 100k miles…. Th…

This is completely avoided and not my experience. This is only because the leaf is not actively cooled. Most ev do not suffer from such difficult management of battery and have a c…

There is a polynomial expression that will match the file. I wonder if expressing it would be compressible to a lower size than original file? [edit] I’m wrong - not all sequences …

Ah! That “well” is exactly what I couldn’t understand from ion thrusters, where they shed electrons as they expulsé ionized gas. All I could find was “to keep the same charge”, but…

That reminds me of a question I was asking myself: instead of using rare gas for ion thrusters… why not ejecting very high velocity electrons ? Their mass is much, much smaller tha…

I don’t want my comment to feel like an ad, but I got a Rivian over the winter and it’s a similar process: it is a fantastic experience!

Yes they are.

Plugging the numbers using France latest EPR: 20B for 1.2GW is 16M per MW Batteries mentioned : 1.7B for 300MW for 16hr is 5.3M per MW for 16hr So compared to EPR, we could spend a…

That’s interesting. The quotes for the nuclear power plant are really low though. France, which has a lot of knowledge and trained workforce for nuclear, is slowly building a react…

I’m interested in details. Nuclear is very expensive and not going down, while batteries are. So with your analysis, it could be possible to estimate how low batteries have to go b…

I have two (vacuum and mop) and I’m happy with them. Slow ? Yes. Who cares it gets done in the day while I work ! Effective: yes.

Example in UK, offshore (with higher costs than onshore) are about 60 pounds/mwh (lcoe, so all included). That's 6 cents /kwh and this is offshore But UK has lots of offshore wind.…

There is a fundamental reason for low inflation / growth in Japan: demography. No children, very aging population. I think normalizing growth by population growth would give some i…

Xilinx/amd fpga have a CE pin on many of its flops (if not all?). Not sure for altera/intel but would be surprised they wouldn't have.

De bouncing is solved in hw with right-sized capacitor. That's it....

Sources? I haven't seen that (yet)

I'm close to this (I work in emulation) and that chip IS awesome. It is the first fpga really designed with emulation in focus.

Ahah I actually once looked for such tool AND even started writing one. Raising two kids got the better of me!

Ski resorts house employees - at least it's very common in that industry. So clearly not illegal.

There is a strong advantage to regular mowing in my area (new england): way less risk of ticks. It's a real problem a'd with kids that spends time outside, ticks can be real scary.…

I recall old interviews stating 3 off is fine for nominal flight of a loaded starship. It was empty (no payload) so probably more failure is ok. But there are limits on how assymet…

Montreal has like 30 or 40 years of rent control. The downside is landlords don't invest in renovations. It does make montreal the most affordable large city of NA. So in theory I'…