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Currently there's no way to connect to it like you would a normal SQL db, but you could embed it like you would sqlite.

Go's XML parser straight-up emits broken XML when trying to output tags that have prefixed namespaces.

I have friends who use their desktop for gaming only, literally nothing else, I guarantee they don't care about the extra security a microkernel claims to offer.

You clearly didn't even watch the interview...

James Cameron *is* an expert in deep submersible design/construction.

They're not talking of sub millisecond latency in communications.

What is this supposed to mean?

What role do you think lawyers play in scraping the internet?

Because it's trying to avoid accepting any responsibility for a problem that is quite clearly Cloudflare's intentional doing.

If reporting the email as spam is quicker than unsubscribing, that's what I do.

Truly random data is incompressible. Any alogirithm should work.

Needs an update now, it contains numerous facts that are no longer true.

If you want to be obtuse, be my guest.

P.S - I should've just used "efficiency", that is the correct word, not "energy efficiency"

In the winter, when you're using it to heat, it collects heat underground and brings it up to be concentrated and released into your house, this concentration costs energy. Though in the grand scheme of heating your house, any heat generated inside your house isn't a loss. Due to the fact you have to have buried pipe which you pump liquids through, you'll lose some efficiency to head loss and gravity. Those loses happen outside your house too.

Ground source heating is a lot more economical as it uses far less electricity than resistance heating for the same BTU output (because it's "stealing" heat from somewhere else), but it's not more efficient. But if you ask anyone who has to heat their house in the winter, electric heat is the most expensive. It may be efficient, but electricity isn't cheap.

As for cooling, Ground Source Cooling would be more efficient than a conventional AC (as it's not compressing and then evaporating a refrigerant on a coil).

The nice thing about cooling, its greatest demand typically coincides with the best time to collect solar energy. Solar is perfect for offsetting the a/c, they are a great combo in sunny warm climates.

I hadn't ever thought about the double effect of solar panels on your roof protecting your house from heating up by absorbing the sun, and then using that power to cool your house further. That synergy makes me smile.

And while heat pumps are transferring energy, there is loss due to inefficiencies. If you're trying to transfer heat from inside to outside, especially when outside is hotter than inside (like in almost every AC scenario), you need to spend energy to compress a refrigerant, cool it, move it inside (meanwhile it's gaining heat during the entire transfer process) and then use it. Also, components like the compressor and radiator fan aren't 100% efficient, and will be giving off heat.

To be pedantic, nothing is more energy efficient than electric heat.

All of the electricity that's lost due to inefficiencies in the device turns into heat anyways. Electric heat is the closest thing to 100% efficient we'll ever get.

Whether it's economical, or the best choice is a different matter, but it's certainly energy efficient.

You're not alone my friend, those IBM docs certainly are not easy to read/understand.