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Ruuvi Air[1] seems to be close to the middle in both price and CO2 measurement accuracy between aranet4 and the IKEA device. I don't have personal experience with Ruuvi Air specifi…

You're right. Perhaps clean would better capture the distinction in favor of solar in this context? Both corn and solar convert insolation to usable power with a short time between…

Yes, and the corn-based ethanol here is used for "feeding cars" that have combustion engines, i.e. it's already used exactly for energy production. The most recent Technology Conne…

Just today, a citizens' initiative started collecting signatures in Finland to stop recent projects that aim to transfer hosting of election, taxation, and social security data on …

> formatting is more common than parsing. Is it, though? It's genuinely hard for me to tell. There's both serialization and deserialization of data sets with, e.g., JSON including …

Could you elaborate? I'm a long-time Xmonad user. Currently, I'm using Ubuntu 25.04, having upgraded to new non-LTS releases every six months, on two computers running Xmonad. I ha…

Europe seems to be having a rough time dealing with costly energy investments involving unstable regimes.

Just finished reading your linked article. I found it interesting and I experienced similar excitement from the results as mentioned up-thread. There were some new things I learned…

There's something about real optimization stories that I find fascinating – particularly the detailed ones including step-by-step improvements and profiling to show how numbers got…

Generally, I agree the situation with errors is much better in Rust in the ways you describe. But, there are also panics which you can catch_unwind[1], set_hook[2] for, define a #[…

A prime example: JIRA's backlog view. In the self-hosted version, you could easily find the issue you were looking for in the backlog view by just using the browser's search, press…

I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed th…

There's also a middle ground: Painstakingly describe the solution first, along with its downside of not being general in the same way as some of the existing features (I guess for …

Optimally, next to a source of water that can be split into hydrogen, ready to be used for the chemical process producing the pure iron. (Not the process in TFA.) An array of SMRs …

There's a nice heat pump in Helsinki, Finland, as well, producing district heating from waste water.[1] [1] https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2023/waste-heat-plays-a-signifi...

Currently, birding. Got really into it in 2021 since it pretty much runs in the family. I feel that observing the lives of our fellow creatures helps me really destress and put my …

No mentions in this thread of biodiversity loss[1], which I've always considered one of the main reasons for vertical farming. We are (and have been) destroying immense swathes of …

That 0.00435 is each year, since 87 TWh was the annual use. Multiplying that by 27.25 gets the ~12 % for accumulated percentage by year 2050.

> I agree that these are important issues to consider, however I disagree that this is important in the context of energy production. Land use by all types of energy production is …

> On top of that we see articles (this isn't the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nucl…

Land use throughout the globe is at an unsustainable level, causing habitat loss for species and reduction in carbon sinks. Getting farmland to produce more per square meter would …

It's a shame UK left EU. All help would be welcome against Germany's lobby to continue burning fossil fuels and spewing the resulting GHGs into atmosphere. If they had been still i…