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Why? Sorry about my ignorance, but what will happen in about 120 days?

I found this: https://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf . Fascinating failure

Don't threaten me with good time!

I think in this case parasitoid has a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid

Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation.

Can we trust them to enough? If they have a medical emergency (which is quite probable, old people are in risk of all kinds of trouble, even before the harsh environment of spaceships), will the whole mission fail?

We generally have selected the most vigorous military personnel to participate in these types of missions, using old volunteers would be quite a change.

Would not count it as forest, but plantation, if it is heavily managed.

I agree. And how all of our meager steps towards trying to learn the pre-requisites of sustainable colonies (eg. closed cycle ecology) have failed miserably. For example Biosphere program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 ).

And the only working ecological system we can study is being destroyed by humanity and capital on record pace.

The energy balance just does not work with current agricultural paradigm. For example, plowing is really energy intensive and electric tractors just can't carry the required amount of batteries. Too heavy tractors compact the earth and sink in bad weather conditions.

For electrification to really proceed in ag, we need a revolution in the paradigm, something that removes most of the energy heavy processes.

Sadly it will also burn other stuff around. If it would only eat itself, I would watch with glee. But when it eats the life-sphere and our lifesupport before, I feel less gleeful

Related: Carl Sagan's Cosmos resampled to make a "Meat Planet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA

If you ever are looking to implement that EV battery as house backup, this repo might be useful: https://github.com/dalathegreat/Battery-Emulator

I did mine with it and old leaf 24kwh battery (~60k km). After all the safety margins I get ~15 kwh out of the battery.

Not end to end encrypted? I'd wager most email traffic is encrypted while in transit, but of course that depends on the service providers. And it does sit unencrypted when stored.

War is often times even negative sum game.

This can be a bit of a class thing. If one has enough money/capital/savings to weather the unemployment, why panic? And if one has been raised in environment where there never are such buffers, panic is the default answer.

It is still useful for many workloads, I use it in work and on my own machines

I think MWh is meant, otherwise it makes no sense

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They also have not prosecuted the earlier genocides they made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...

I have personally flagged them as a country non-grata.

Must be quite low power engine + small battery system for that to work and translate to the promised charging time

You are correct. Some devices expose local API's, most have walled garden cloud API's

Before buying a device, it is a good idea to check if there are open source adapters for it for Home Assistant, those usually show if it can be controlled easily and preferably without cloud.

I work for a company that does exactly that (for heating systems, especially heat pumps). If anyone is interested: https://www.kapacity.io/

RIP, his work made a huge impression on me. And I admire the dignity to go when one chooses.

I guess we are all Dying, Fast and Slow.

Could you elaborate? Or link some source? I could quickly find this pointing towards them running their own servers https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/27606

If the current state of GH availability is without Azure-induced additional unreliability, I truly fear what it will be on Azure

Edit: Found the discussion about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173

I fear that

Depends on the CAPEX and OPEX requirements. If it is cheap to do, it could be a solid win, but if the plant requires a lot of capital, it might be cheaper to just take the hit on efficiency

This is not taking in to account the fossil fuel usage for growing wood, transporting it and processing it to pellets.

Biofuels rarely make sense, unless we can get the biomass as a side-flow from some other process. And that kind of flows are quite limited compared to our energy needs.

I use [pi-oven](https://github.com/keichi/pi-oven) for my raspberry images. Not perfect, but kind of works and removes a lot of hassle for the provisioning.

Could not quickly find out from the project page an example on how to bake rpi images with mkosi, but the descriptions do point towards somewhat similar use case :shrug:

In Finland honey is rarely pasteurized. It is seen as a quality defect if honey is heated after extraction from the hive. Heating is thought to destroy some of the beneficial compounds in honey.

Similarly one should not put honey to too hot tea if one wants the benefits instead of just sugar.

I enjoyed the The Revolutions podcast from him, but was very confused when I returned to it and new episodes were clearly fiction. I would have preferred a separate podcast instead of using the same feed for history/non-fiction and then changing to fiction midway.

But lower speeds do make crashes a lot less deadly. Probably also less probable, as people have more time to react