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The Treedix cable tester is awesome. Ordered one after reading Terence Eden's positive review* and went through all my cables the day it arrived. My favorite was the cable with onl…

Xanthan is the best if you need non-toxic slime for artistic purposes (e.g. Halloween decorations). Just make a stiff gel and hit it with a stick blender for desired consistency an…

"valuable asset for Europe", and it's available in 5 countries. Yay. We already have a bunch of local non-interoperable systems, so what's one more?

Sibelius was already in the last series of Finnish notes, so personally I'd pick Tove Jansson.

I'm in the EU and you absolutely can put a French building on a banknote. I'd much rather look at the Eiffel tower or the Tower of Pisa or Neuschwanstein castle than the European C…

The conjecture assumes durable goods, so it doesn't apply to medicine. Also no resale, so that narrows the scope even more. The gist of the conjecture is that if the customers can …

That's a bit unfair, since one of the achievements of Gustavus Adolphus was establishing governing institutions and professional bureucracy. The bigger issue with that plan was be …

EU has Aisler but what you win in shipping times you lose in production lead time (unless you pay for faster service). And there are probably others but with even less visibility /…

My personal experience is like getting eye glasses for your appetite. Easier to eat reasonably sized portions and they're nutritionally well-balanced. Also the late night cravings …

Got knee surgery with an epidural that leaked. The surgery itself went fine but the headache and nausea afterwards were absolutely brutal.

55 C might be enough to heat buildings but it's right on the edge where domestic hot water needs to be to kill Legionella. So traditional DH systems need to run hotter. There low-t…

Not yet, the Microsoft center is still in planning/construction. But up north there's at least one city (Kajaani) on data center heat; details in another comment.

Nice! Apparently the local supercomputer cluster in Kajaani has also been hooked up in 2021 and is responsible for a fifth of heating.

Microsoft's already building data centers hooked up to district heating (Espoo and Kirkkonummi, Finland). Heatpumps are amazing. (Seasonal heat storage is also a thing, Espoo's nei…

And then there are us engineers. I don't care much either way whether Maxwell's equations are ∇F = J or some other form, as long as it makes the problem easier to solve. If I were …

The electricity can flow both ways in a cable, and for example right now Denmark is exporting to most of its neighbours. https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/ is a wo…

They're not great for anything that might produce heat. Seeing a MOSFET slowly starting to imitate the Tower of Pisa after dissipating a measly 1 W for a few moments was a sight to…

Perhaps more inspired by the INTERCAL's PLEASE.

One of these years I'm going to make a Finnish programming language that enforces the correct case in arguments. And I don't mean silly arguments like camelCase vs kebab-case, I me…

This is the kind of quality response that makes HN great.

Nah, it's pine.

Tar. Specifically wood tar,

If there were one. The closest thing is the Treaty of Lisbon, which in turn was an update on the Treaties of Maastricht and Rome. However, the matter has been heard in the European…

Humbug. Defence policy, especially how the EU member states choose to organize their military forces, is very much in the hands of the individual countries. A majority of the membe…

Most of economics is educated guessing, and having more data (hopefully) leads to better guesses. With this study there's plenty of leads to follow. Does the ABV have an impact? Wh…