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zidel

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    Comment #49050424

    Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00350

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    Comment #46758454

    The rail is laying on its side in that picture, so what is visible is the foot not the web. edit: other angles of the same location here: https://youtu.be/DIQ4SrGSua0?t=1174

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    Comment #46134014

    Rust handles this by automatically unlocking when the MutexGuard returned by lock() is dropped. The issue here is not that the mutex remains locked, but rather that the data protec…

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    Comment #46114707

    And for the misuse angle there is this talk from Shmoocon 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLH7ytOTYto

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    Comment #46114516

    One interesting thing about the dwarf format is that it is executable and Turing complete, running small programs on a virtual machine to figure out file names, line numbers and ex…

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    Comment #45825940

    A local group of security people have been running a weekend project they call Project Lion Cage where they take Chinese cars into a local mine with spectrum analyzers etc. to watc…

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    Comment #45274102

    That is a rebuttal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars[0] resolution from August[1], not this UN report. [0] https://genocidescholars.org [1] https://genocidescho…

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    Comment #44144022

    The term of art you are probably looking for here is grid forming inverter. The ENTSO-E class list on Wikipedia is probably a good starting point for some of the problems that one …

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    Comment #43061990

    And to add to that, power is almost always the number that is reported/counted so watts is usually correct. That might seem strange since batteries store energy, but in terms of th…

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    Comment #41324324

    The trains are Stadler KISS electric multiple units with 7 cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain_Modernization_Program...

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    Comment #40272190

    BloombergNEF reports a cost of $115 per kWh for turnkey energy storage systems (in China) so their comparison is likely to hold up for complete systems in Australia and the US. htt…

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    Comment #40202730

    The 6+2 spikes around the bright stars is a diffraction pattern created by the edges of the hexagonal mirror segments (the six large spikes) and the three struts that hold the seco…

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    Comment #39446599

    This became RFC 8701 in 2020: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8701

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    Comment #39216433

    The requirement is for the government to produce an impact statement (including carbon emissions in foreign countries and emissions from e.g. combustion) as part of the plan for de…

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    Comment #37787861

    > Does this also share back DHT information like a "server"? No, it ignores all incoming requests. You don't need special software to help out, just run any normal Bittorrent clien…

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    Comment #36562409

    A 2022 study experimentally found the limit to be 30.5C ± 1C at 100% humidity, and lower in dry environments. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysio...

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    Comment #34676891

    > Car commuters miss commuting the least: 55% of this group do not miss it at all. Commuters by (e-)bicycle are the group who miss commuting the most, with 91% missing at least som…

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    Comment #33050385

    For information specific to Norway (in Norwegian) there is a lot here: https://trv.banenor.no/wiki/Forside https://www.jernbanekompetanse.no/wiki/Forside

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    Comment #32152482

    This appears to be copied from https://www.montelnews.com/news/1336133/germany-to-review-nu...

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    Comment #31985484

    I think BitTorrent has all the pieces needed for a fully distributed version of your idea. My initial thought is that you could publish a magnet link that points to a mutable DHT i…

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    Comment #27832452

    Unshortened link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/child-booster-car-seat-standard...

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    Comment #27729368

    I've played around a bit with DHT indexing recently and a very simple python program using libtorrent to send sample_infohashes (BEP51) and download metadata (to get names/files) w…

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    Comment #27300960

    It looks like the decision includes scope 3 emissions, so in your example the refining would be included, as well as the emissions from burning the petrol

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    Comment #27165968

    > What are the actual consequences of the globe warming by 2 degrees instead of 1.5 degrees? IPCC SR1.5 [0] deals with this question. Figure SPM.2 [1] is probably a good place to s…

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    Comment #23366095

    https://marsandme.blogspot.com/ is Scott Maxwells blog about driving Spirit + Opportunity