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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, wait, no: Total temp occupied = occupied after + occupied before makes more sense. It's liberated which is not included in any equation and no bar shows currently occupied. which should be temp occupied - liberated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, it isn't. It's integrated into the browser, and running locally.

I'm just saying that if you a) want translation and b) privacy then you want c) AI in firefox. Because, you know, translation models are AI tech, figures that natural language is too fuzzy to do in other ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It isn't, and has not been, illegal to carry knives out in the open in a public area. You don't usually see people running around with 12cm Fahrtenmesser but it's completely legal. That's blade length, to be clear, not total length. This kind of thing. Or things like an Opinel, completely legal to EDC.

And mass gatherings aren't the same thing as a random public place.

EDCing swords was outlawed in 2008 IIRC, now it's aforementioned 12cm max, only a single edge etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not just building it's shipping by default. That is, language detection and code that displays a popup asking you whether you want to download the actual translation model is shipping by default. About twelve megs per model, so 24 for a language pair.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

The result of the whole thing was project quantum. Firefox includes lots of Rust code. Servo was never intended to be a product, it always was a research platform.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You're free to send your data to google or deepl instead of using Firefox's included AI translate. You know, privacy, no AI in the browser, choose one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not in general I don't think so. Probably depends on whether you're talking about Frankfurt HBf or some forgotten platform at the arse end of the heath.

Courts are generally quite on top of making sure that those zones are very specific. All four of duration, time of day, space, and cause.

And, of course, over-regional train station are federal police jurisdiction. In SH that's a downgrade when it comes to the quality of officers, in Bavaria an upgrade. Also in Hamburg which yes is still a police state. You get some, you lose some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah it's Occupied after = Total temporary occupied - liberated. At least approximately. Occupied before seems to be included in occupied after, that is, both numbers count Crimea and the "people's republics".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

When’s that going to happen? Right after the green hydrogen revolution?

Already happening, on a small (but industrial) scale. You can buy that stuff off the shelf, but it's still on the lower end of the sigmoid. Most new installations right now will be going to Canada and Namibia, we'll be buying massive amounts of ammonia from both.

Sorry, I didn’t think someone would deny the existance of dunkelflautes. It’s currently happening in Germany.

Yes and elsewhere in Europe the wind is blowing. Differences in solar yields are seasonal (that's what those three months storage are for, according to Fraunhofer's initial plans), but reversed on the other side of the globe, and Germany would be better situated to tank differences in local wind production all by itself if e.g. Bavaria didn't hinder wind projects in their state. The total energy the sun infuses into the earth does change a bit over time, but that's negligible. In principle pretty much zero storage is needed as long as there's good enough interconnectivity.

...meanwhile, we'll probably have the first commercial fusion plant in just about the mean construction time of a fission plant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The declaration of a weapons-free zone makes searches legal. If you don't want to be searched, you're free to not enter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You must be confusing us with the UK or France. You can carry (concealed or otherwise) knives up to 12 cm or folder that are not designed to be openable with one hand. If you want to transport a Chef's knife on the metro, do it in your backpack, that is, you're not supposed to have it at hand. Some types of knives (e.g. butterflies) are right-out outlawed, you're not allowed to have them even in your own home.

Mostly though these weapon-free zones are a way to allow police to do searches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Wouldn’t it be better to go fossil free. Given, you know, climate change.

Gas can be synthesised and we're going to have to do that anyway for chemical feedstock. Maintaining backup gas plant capacity is cheaper than you think, they don't need much maintenance if they're not actually running.

That’s physically impossible for a place the size of Germany, much less Europe.

Unless we use a different technology, that is not renewables + storage?

It's not technology it's physics. It is impossible for there to be no wind anywhere, at least as long as the sun doesn't explode and the earth continues to rotate and an atmosphere exists. If any of those ever fail electricity production will be the least of our worries.

Technology comes into play when it comes to shovelling electricity from one end of the continent to the other and yes we need more interconnects and beefier interconnects but it's not like we don't know how to do that, or don't already have a Europe-wide electricity grid. The issues are somewhere in between NIMBYism regarding pylons and "but we don't want to pay for burying the cable earthworks are expensive".

 

In this video, I measure a wave of electricity traveling down a wire, and answer the question - how does electricity know where to go? How does "electricity" "decide" where electrons should be moving in wires, and how long does that process take? Spoiler alert - very fast!

I've been very excited about this project for a while - it was a lot of work to figure out a reliable way to make these measurements, but I've learned SO much by actually watching waves travel down wires, and I hope you do too!

 

This is from the 37th Chaos Communication Congress, still ongoing y'all might find other things of interests there, e.g. sticking with looking at stars the talk about the Extremely Large Telescope. Congress schedule, live streams, relive and released videos (i.e. final cuts not the automatic relive stuff which is often quite iffy)

Talk blurb:

The Solar System has had 8 planets ever since Pluto was excluded in 2006. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. But did you know Neptune was discovered as the 12th planet? Or that, 80 years before Star Trek, astronomers seriously suspected a planet called Vulcan near the Sun? This talk will take you through centuries of struggling with the question: Do you even planet?!

In antiquity, scientists counted the 7 classical planets: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – but their model of the universe was wrong. Two thousand years later, a new model was introduced. It was less wrong, and it brought the number of planets down to 6: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Since then, it's been a roller coaster ride of planet discoveries and dismissals.

In this talk, we stagger through the smoke and mirrors of scientific history. We meet old friends like Uranus and Neptune, forgotten lovers like Ceres, Psyche and Eros, fallen celebrities like Pluto, regicidal interlopers like Eris and Makemake as well as mysterious strangers like Vulcan, Planet X and Planet Nine.

Find out how science has been tricked by its own vanity, been hampered by too little (or too much!) imagination, and how human drama can make a soap opera out of a question as simple as: How Many Planets in Our Solar System?

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RyanF9 uses science to explain how Gore-Tex works and why you’re being ripped off.

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Bevy game engine 0.12! (www.youtube.com)
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For people who want to read instead of making coffee while listening (or more details), the actual release notes: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-12/

 

Often in online conversations about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are not included in the conversation, and their perspective is not shared. This is not only true of main stream news, but alternative news outlets as well. This also includes conversations had in the streaming place, and streams broadcasted by Twitch's top political streamer, Hasan Piker. So I gathered 4 Ukrainians from all across Ukraine, with varying political beliefs, to respond to statements made by Twitch's top political pundit.

 

26m video interview. Blurb:

"Netanyahu is history, he's done," Ehud Olmert told DW. He called the current Israeli leaders "violent, messianic thugs" and said that long term, Palestinians must be able to "exercise their right to self-determination." The center-right politician and former prime minister added that there was no alternative to the two-state solution with the Palestinians. On the issue of the scores of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas, Olmert said there was "no basis for negotiation" with Hamas — since, in his view, the Islamist militant group was not interested in negotiations. Olmert also told host Tim Sebastian that he thought there was little likelihood of direct military action against Iran, even though Tehran had "coordinated" the attacks and that a derailment of a US-sponsored diplomatic and security accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia would serve Iran's interests.


Not sure whether this counts as "news" in the strict sense but I think it does in the loose sense also I wouldn't know where else to post it.

 
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