Ratalala
Re:They can and will ruin everything you love
on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:13PM (#37960231)
If you're referring to the author of that page, she's a woman.
Re:Nuclear Fission Fuel Is Inexhaustible (2022)
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @07:23PM (#36752416)
Interesting read.
I once wondered what would be the contribution to atmospheric heat of the combustion of cigarettes, and waved it as probably insignificant.
A quick googling suggests burning a cigarette releases 7.8 J/mg of tobacco[1], that a cigarette weighs around 1 g, and that about 5 trillions (5e12) cigarettes are smoked annually [2].
This amounts to 3.9e16 J, or, averaged over one year, 1.2e9 W; corresponding to the total US energy consumption around 1730, according to the figure in parent's link.
Insignificant today, but not a few centuries back.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307705601_Heat_Emis... [2] https://www.vitalstrategies.org/tobacco-atlas-global-tobacco...
Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020)
on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:27PM (#31632400)
You should check out https://www.pola.rs/
Re:Work from home and the office real estate apocalypse
on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:48AM (#31628391)
They are pretty rare in European cities (that I know of). They do exist, but in the largest cities, and are limited to the main arteries.
Re:Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated ...
on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:10PM (#30635325)
Same here. I dropped meat more because of being a "billions of living creatures living miserable, short lives before being slaughtered" anti-fan, but the GHG impacts are a nice side effect. Damn do I miss meat, though.
Re:Some tiny personal programs I've written
on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:08PM (#30622064)
That would be 49!/(43!6!) = 13983816 combinations. So, on average, you need to play 13983816 times before your first win (geometric distribution). At one game a day, that's nearly 40000 years.
Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:06PM (#30462926)
France is a founding member.
Re:The quest to trap carbon in stone
on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @05:41PM (#29719187)
Watts are not energy.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:47AM (#29646939)
And the local variations. In NZ the bulk of "e"s in words like pen, ten, etc. are often pronounced as "i"s, like in pin or tin. Took me a while to get used to it.
Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem
on Saturday December 11, 2021 @03:37AM (#29519478)
That's fallacious. Cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, all existed before being farmed. And still exist in the while. Probably not on the scale of the 60 billions land animals slaughtered each year, though.
Re:Radical Polish books to add to your reading list
on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:02PM (#29505622)
And breed them.
Re:The new luxury vacation: being dumped in the middle of nowhere
on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:51PM (#29345774)
Everything is in the elevation.
I'm rather fit, used to be in the army nearly ten years ago. These days I hike now and then. Last weekend I went on a wee tip, 25 km and 1400 m elevation; it took me 9 hours, not including my lunch break. Only carrying water for the day, the said lunch, dry clothes and a bit of gear ; probably a 10 kg pack. Mild weather and decent track. On flat ground, I would have halved that time.
Re:Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)
on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:05PM (#29144844)
vimtex is so nice. At every new LaTeX project I have, I find out something new about its capabilities; I had never heard of the concealment before.
EDIT: this seems to actually be vanilla vim. vimtex is still great, though!
Re:This word does not exist
on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:39PM (#29005253)
Or unhulled
Re:Hydrogen’s moment is here at last?
on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:57PM (#28806320)
Hydrogen escapes the atmosphere because it is extremely light and the planet's gravity cannot hold on to it.