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Re:Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:59AM (#47863758)
I'm still confused by this chart. Nuclear is shown to be a bit more than half the addition of wind power but if you look at the bar chart for electricity, it's suddenly only a small fraction. How does that fit together?
Re:Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:57AM (#47863722)
This isn't capacity.
Re:AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a sin...
on Saturday March 28, 2026 @01:25PM (#47556626)
I'm curious to see if that is true. The maximum amount of cache addressable per core didn't increase after all.
Re:Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)
on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:56PM (#46953380)
For chat history, there are servers which provide that (IRCv3). I don't know why you would think there are no mobile clients. I don't know anything about anti-Unicode networks but mIRC (Windows-only) famously didn't support it until 2013 or so.
Re:Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?
on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:34AM (#46729201)
Like DDG is a proxy for Bing, so is Startpage a proxy for Google, if you haven
,t tried that.
Re:Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:09AM (#46299773)
> as tou, too, or somewhere between the two.
I see what you did there.
Re:FEX-emu – run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @09:22AM (#46134781)
They took their sweet time but both the project lead Ryan Houdek as well as Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais (username Plagman here in the comments) have now come out saying that FEX-Emu was not just sponsored by Valve but is actually their project and that they approached suitable developers with the idea who they have been paying for the development: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-have-been-fundin...
Re:FEX-emu – run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:29AM (#46002814)
https://gamersnexus.net/pc-builds-news/valve-steam-machine-d...
"Valve has devoted significant resources to the development of FEX emulation."
Re:FEX-emu – run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
on Friday November 21, 2025 @02:01AM (#46001940)
Fancy seeing the Plagman here. Last time I saw you was on Freenode (R.I.P.). So you are still working for Valve? ;-)
Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choose Your Ow...
on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @01:55AM (#45343215)
Wear sunscreen?
Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into Another Sp...
on Saturday September 20, 2025 @02:19AM (#45310924)
Those are chimera ants. Quick, someone call the Hunter Association before the king hatches!
Re:Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real ...
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:40AM (#45272537)
They missed that window when Sierra was still the publisher for Half-Life. Besides, Valve is not a publicly traded company and Gabe Newell as former manager at Microsoft has no interest in getting back together. Valve is betting everything on Linux right now to be more independent from Microsoft.
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:17AM (#45258644)
True, there is uranium everywhere. Yet Russia still has a 40% marketshare on enriched uranium because enrichment is the difficult part, just ask the Iranians.
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:51PM (#45227677)
Misleading title. The controversial part is that they ruled both nuclear energy AND natural gas plants as clean energy.
Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month
on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:30AM (#44541277)
What a koinkidink, I just saw a news about a research platform for exactly that (okay, it's for ships but still) starting now, with the idea being to use surplus offshore wind electricity which otherwise would go unused: https://www.dlr.de/en/tt/latest/news/2025/synthetic-fuel-fro...
Re:What is Incus?
on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:59AM (#44541100)
Not to be confused with the cirrus7 incus[0], which are fanless PC models based on the ASRock DeskMini series that I'm using right now.
Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:02PM (#44522498)
You are a bit behind on China. This was just published a week ago, showing renewable energy build-out has finally surpassed increased demand for this year, meaning peak coal was probably last year: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-brics-emergin... (at end of the article).
Re:Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System
on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:53AM (#43970917)
I remember there being legal threads from LucasArts every few years, presumably when new staff at legal got aware of ScummVM. The ScummVM team got used to it but iMUSE was the only part that could actually get them into trouble because it was still patented back in the early days.
Nice to see that Nick Porcino is acknowledging the unofficial implementations in the references, including ScummVM and its now-defunct sister project ResidualVM.
Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub
on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:36AM (#43970807)
Using proprietary software in-house for management is one thing, forcing outside contributors to use them, another. That is why they went out of their way to avoid Slack when the time came to leave IRC behind and they chose Matrix instead.
Re:Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not g...
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:27AM (#43278506)
MobyGames is a helpful website to search for physical releases, as they include box scans. Sometimes not just of the cover but also the sides.. and top and bottoms of big boxes, where the system requirements were printed back in the day: https://www.mobygames.com/game/15564/half-life-2/cover/group...
Re:The Memory Wall: Past, Present, and Future of DRAM
on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:56AM (#41463598)
Probably on Asianometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G4_RZo41Zw
Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:53PM (#40722937)
First: nothing against a polemic comment against politicians but in this case, the proposal is coming from the council, which is made of national politicians and this news was written by a EU politician (Patrick Breyer of the Pirate Party Germany), so maybe a bit misplaced.
Re:Gruen Transfer
on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:27AM (#40655175)
Also a good reminder that ö, ä, ü should be subtituted with oe (like in Goethe), ae (aether) or ue here (Gruen's original name was Grünbaum); not o, a, u.
Re:Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:49PM (#40579742)
I was so sure this would be a reference about the pale in Disco Elysium..
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4
on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:59PM (#40175669)
Like ComputerGuru said, even the README of the repository mentions both 4.0 and 4.00 as if they are the same.
Re:Welcome to Libera Chat
on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:15AM (#27264609)
They've added the staff now: https://libera.chat/about
Re:My Resignation from Freenode
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:11AM (#27208885)
Aggregated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926
Re:Leaving Freenode for a new network
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:42AM (#27208440)
Welp, don't feel like repeating every resignation letter, they are aggregated in this previous post that seems to have been buried: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926
Re:Freenode resignation is official, not a draft
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:31AM (#27208294)
Re:Freenode resignation is official, not a draft
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @08:11AM (#27207481)
Also grumble and mniip:
* grumble has quit (Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. I'm leaving freenode forever and I recommend you drop your NickServ account to keep your data safe.)))
<mniip> I've resigned from volunteering for freenode for a good reason and I think you should know as well: https://mniip.com/freenode.txt (sorry for the spam (wait that's cliche))