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Oh! There seems to be a caldera around this boiling river: https://i.imgur.com/VCgS4Xt.jpeg

It's located here for those wondering: https://maps.app.goo.gl/js7miFSkRBa86t15A?g_st=ac If you click on the little resorts/hotels/towns around the area, there are many pictures an…

Don't dismiss the OP so abruptly. IMHO he is convincingly making the case that there is likely a business opportunity for something between a $120k off-the-shelf system and $1.6k i…

Or Ireland can import electricity from France TODAY as we export on average 10 GW continuously, and most of it is already generated by nuclear :-)

Ah the old "country's worth of electricity" comparison... Keep in mind that Ireland's entire electricity needs could be covered by a one nuclear power plant (3.8 GW with 4 reactors…

Yes Wero and Zelle are similar: real-time payment systems, where money is sent directly from bank account to bank account, and recipients are looked up with a convenient ID (a phon…

TBH your problem sounds like a hardware issue. Maybe the PC's new location is warmer due to a more enclosed space, triggering more unrecoverable hardware faults.

Example of bugs, posted last month on HN: https://www.bugsappleloves.com/

As a French speaker, I looked up French sources and found https://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/st... - here is a snippet translated to English below. But many …

I live in Paris and bike nearly every day, with my electric bike, or sometimes the city's velib rental bikes, sometimes private rental bikes (Uber, Dott, Voi). I love the drastic p…

Let's play a fun prediction: I ask HN readers what will be the page size of NYTimes.com in 10 years? Or 20 years? Want to bet 100 MB? 1 GB? Is it unthinkable? 20 years ago, a 49 MB…

Yup. I typed my French ZIP code ( code postal ) and this guessed a US city... But the author has a point. Combine it with some approximate country-level geolocate of the web client…

"Someone who hated computers so much that she had the secretary print out her emails so she could read them was interrogated for hours about hacking into Agency networks [...] ther…

Mistral's Le Chat also fails spectacularly. Although interestingly it assumes that the "walk" option means you are carrying washing supplies back and forth in order to wash the car…

"caved to the blue bubble pressure" As an Android user, I truly don't understand this "pressure". I exchange SMS/MMS with various users, some Android, some iPhone. I am in group ch…

"a property of surfaces" You can conceptualize Rayleigh scattering exactly like you did so it doesn't conflict with my explanation: as light hits the "surface" of nitrogen and oxyg…

Ok! Ping me when you get it updated - I am very curious :-)

I suppose our hobby is related to the hobby of ground-to-ground long-distance observation. Except we don't perform the actual observation, just the math of where it is theoreticall…

Well this is just a personal website, so it is has much (or as little) information as the owner wants to put up. The legal notice page (in German) tells you it's the site of a cert…

I dislike with passion the answer "because Rayleigh scattering". When someone asks why, especially if a child asks, the default answer should be the simplest correct answer : Becau…

Ok that makes sense, thanks for the reply! Maybe document this "percent or so" error in the FAQ since it is about 16 times bigger than the (other?) ~0.0685% error you mention that …

Reply to my edit #2: I realize the "To" point 41.0181,77.6708 is just the coordinate of the center of the 1°-wide horizon line. The actual farthest visible point according to your …

For a 3D rendering of the longest sightline, see this direct panorama rendering: https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/panqueryfull.aspx?mode=ne... Note that technically my link is a …