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This washing machine sized box draws 50kW of power. It wouldn't be able to heat up a cold swimming pool very much, but it would be enough to keep a pool that's already hot at a sta…

Usually, when refineries flare something like that it's because what they are burning is not suitable for use, and making it suitable would cost more than the product would sell fo…

keychron does make one: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q12-max-qmk-via-w... found this one as well, don't know the brand: https://www.bloodyusa.com/product.php?pid=11&i…

There are unregistered trademarks as well as registered ones. Usually the "TM" symbol is applied to unregistered trademarks, and the ® symbol for registered ones. Both enjoy protec…

You are absolutely correct. Valve's linux push was driven by developments in the windows platform, specifically around the release of windows 8. Microsoft was pushing a windows sto…

With respect to tagged pointers, there seems to be some recent movements on that front in CPython: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/132509

There's no base 60 involved, it's the energy available divided by the power delivered: 178.8 Watt hours / 8300 Watts ≈ 0.0215 hours

I'm sort of the inverse of this author: I have always liked Python and disliked Ruby. It's true though that python has changed a lot , and it's a mixed bag IMHO. I think every lang…

As far as I know, the science on this is far from settled. There is no consensus and the evidence in favor of a trophic cascade in Yellowstone came predominantly from two studies d…

There was an article about this journey just recently: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-trai... Unfortunately you may have to wait some time, at the moment t…

Dutch banks did this, it is called iDeal: https://www.ideal.nl/en/ iDeal is ubiquitous in The Netherlands for individuals sending money to each other, and for online payments. Howe…

> Every meal is a gift from Harber & Bosch + the world order allowing international trade. Let's not forget Norman Borlaug

This is generally unknown, of course. However it currently appears that the expansion of the universe is accelerating , i.e. it is expanding faster and faster. Obviously it can't b…

A key (hah!) property of key derivation functions is that they allow you to customize the key that you get out, mainly because you may need a specific length (e.g. 512 bits) for wh…

The proof is not really formal, but you could view the shown system as a minimal subset of an arbitrarily shaped large system. For the system to be distributed it must have at leas…

They are not. The proposal text itself doesn't mention taxing "the 1% richest" or any threshold at all really. It's quite vague on the specifics: > Firstly, we call on the European…

Unfortunately a shrinking population leads to a situation where there are more older people alive than young people, which makes our retirement and health care systems quite unsust…

Usually on the bottle of lactase enzyme pills it will just say "take before consuming a lactose-containing product." But actual usage will really depend on the degree of lactose in…

> The JS ecosystem encourages using a million tiny unmaintained packages and that is bad continuing on this, I wonder if this is a cultural thing or if there are actual technical c…

Overall this looks nice, but I found myself stumbling over the ToSpan syntax: let span = 5.days().hours(8).minutes(1); It feels sort of weird how the first number appears in front,…

Simply renting out products is not necessarily the same as rent-seeking. Rent-seeking is the extraction of uncompensated value from others without increasing productivity. The clas…

Dating apps have fundamentally misaligned incentives with their customers: customer success implies that the customer will stop paying. For this reason no dating app that charges f…

I don't feel this is a very good argument to use Emacs. On any bash prompt you ever encounter you can simply `set -o vi` and be on your way.

That system is just called capitalism, no? The whole point is to employ greed as a (powerful) motivator to achieve desired outcomes.

> Better superconductors means better magnets, which means cheaper fusion. Notably, what is required for this is superconductors with a higher critical field strength. A higher cri…