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Jökulhlaup

herogreen — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6kulhlaup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27691923

Points: 2

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Preservation of Knowledge

herogreen — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:16:08 +0000

Article URL: https://energyskeptic.com/preservation-of-knowledge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27623871

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by herogreen in "Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts"

herogreen — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:13:49 +0000

You can block this banner using ublock origin: right click on it > Block element > Create

New comment by herogreen in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"

herogreen — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:32:01 +0000

Or less than Minecraft (2B)

“Energy in the Future”: a time capsule of energy concerns from 1953

herogreen — Wed, 19 May 2021 21:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-05-17/the-most-colossal-planning-failure-in-human-history/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27214929

Points: 72

# Comments: 84

BPA-like chemicals likely causing “alarming” damage to brain cells

herogreen — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://newatlas.com/science/bpa-chemicals-plasticizers-damage-brain-cells/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26824616

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

Mpemba Effect

herogreen — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:17:16 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674153

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Natural nuclear fission reactor (2011)

herogreen — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nuclear-reactors-the-2-billion-year-old-natural-fission-reactors-in-gabon-western-africa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26625286

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by herogreen in "Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support"

herogreen — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:45:54 +0000

The radio firmware could be executed on different CPU than the Android kernel and communicate with a standard protocol ?

New comment by herogreen in "PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder"

herogreen — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:35:49 +0000

Some reasons why non-technical folks might be interested in the Pinephone:

1) avoid the privacy issues of Android & iOS 2) have the confidence that as long as their hardware work, they will have updates 3) buy from a brand that will allow you (or a third party) to fix your hardware (Pine64 sells you spare parts, and at reasonable prices!) 4) have an user-replaceable battery 5) have an affordable smartphone (I know, there are 30$ android phones but they tick none of the above points)

The points 2 to 4 will interest an increasing number of people this century, imo

edit: typos

New comment by herogreen in "PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder"

herogreen — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:20:29 +0000

I just tested: Firefox is able to play reasonably well a Youtube video at 720p 25fps.

New comment by herogreen in "PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder"

herogreen — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:11:05 +0000

Well, it is easier to place all the components in a bigger phone :)

I too prefer small screens, but I bought a Pinephone anyway to support the effort and help testing.

Typed from Firefox on my Pinephone Braveheart running Mobian (works fine for me).

New comment by herogreen in "Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?"

herogreen — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:26:14 +0000

hackaday.com/blog

New comment by herogreen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

herogreen — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:14:29 +0000

Alma was founded 41 years ago as an operation research company working on sheet nesting for CAM (have a look at the demo of our saas offer: https://demo.powernestlib.com/ ). Over the years Alma has been diversifying into other areas such as sheet cutting, 3D robots programming (e.g. for welding), IT services and health-care: https://www.alma.fr/en/

Alma is a cooperative: a new employee becomes an associate one year after joining. All shareholders are employees and at the shareholder meeting each associate has 1 vote (regardless of their seniority/capital).

You must speak French or be willing to learn it: English would be ok for technical discussions but less practical for coffe-break discussions, shareholders meetings, etc. We may be able to help for visas. Our offers (in French): https://recrutement.alma.fr/listeoffre.asp Please use this page to candidate to an offer, or contact rh AT alma.fr and mention that you are coming from HN.

New comment by herogreen in "Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology"

herogreen — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:13:21 +0000

Unless the apocalypse is due to a solar flare similar to the Carrington event, which could destroy a lot of computers.

New comment by herogreen in "Long-time nuclear waste warning messages"

herogreen — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 23:07:45 +0000

I think the task of propagating such information could suit well the Church of Reality: http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/

New comment by herogreen in "A new release for GNU Octave"

herogreen — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:54:11 +0000

I really like matplotlib: while it is not intuitive and the documentation is sometimes lacking, there are a lot of examples online and stackoverflow answers all my questions.

That said I may use matplotlib much less than you do (I used it a lot when I was a student, now maybe 6 times a year).

New comment by herogreen in "Turn any camera into a webcam with a $13 USB/HDMI video card"

herogreen — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:43:19 +0000

What is the advantage of a mirrorless camera in the webcam use case ?

New comment by herogreen in "Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible"

herogreen — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 09:18:13 +0000

Even if the app was perfect, I would not use it (less suported platforms, waste space, gathers more data, etc).

New comment by herogreen in "Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel"

herogreen — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:40:20 +0000

But would solar price be the same if the world global energy mix used no fossil fuel ? My belief is no, not at all, unless we used nuclear which can give an energy density similar to fossil fuels. But I have no research data to back this claim.