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Re:Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:35PM (#38298652)
I did not. And find mind boggling that we have the ability to virtually stop earth rotation in such a small timeframe with that little effort. I'll definitely read more about it.
Re:Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:15PM (#38298484)
Ask the countries that keep building coal and gas power plants, polluting the only planet we have.
Re:Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row on Thursday November 16, 2023 @08:50PM (#38298239)
Tidal, waves, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass. Many options to choose from, it just takes political will.
Re:Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row on Thursday November 16, 2023 @08:46PM (#38298212)
> People like these small wins.

And for good reason, it proves wrong the mainstream thinking that this is impossible. Quite a few countries already run the full year over 90% renewable[1] and we still neglect it with all kind of excuses.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...

Re:Early Europeans Ate Seaweed for Thousands of Years on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:34PM (#37949713)
Very tasty as fritters.

Buñuelos de Algas (seaweed Fritters) from Rocha, Uruguay [1]

[1]: https://www.sippitysup.com/seaweed-fritters-bunuelos-de-alga...

Re:The Rust I wanted had no future on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:13PM (#36200537)
> How does "func EatADonut() async {}" aka "eating a donut is an inherently async action" even make sense to people?

Of course it does, read it as "beware, something blocking down the road".

If you can EatADonout without blocking, please do, but want it or not that's a different implementation, one that doesn't block and the signature it's telling you so.

We're so used to sync and having hidden blocking operations. I wonder if in an alternate universe the first languages considered the blocking/async nature of operations and then some newer languages considered hiding this information into seemingly sync functions would produce similar but opposite outrage against it.

Dark, Rita, The Rain, Tabula Rasa, Casa de Papel, Atiye, Borgen to name a few. A lot from Spain, Denmark and Turkey.
Of course. Just pointing out how OP was not aware to what extent their choice words was product of that same imperialism.
> Americans are usually not aware of the extent of american cultural imperialism

Which of the 35 American countries are you referring to? ;)

In South America, thanks to Netflix we have far more European content than before. Still less than from US but at least it's there to chose.
Who cares? This is a form of protectionism aimed to national consumers.
Learn to value the taste of not excessively sweet food and drinks. It makes me crazy that every drink and food needs to be sweetened even when their natural flavor is very good or even better (once you acquire the taste). Coffee, fruits juice, cookies and so on, most people consume super sweet versions of those.
Nice story. I couldn't help but thinking that the OS was probably compiled by that compiler too. So, even uncontaminated apps could become contaminated at runtime.
Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:33PM (#34837638)
Thanks, I had forgotten this even existed. I was looking for something like this to perform unit conversions on a website.

Edit: And without giving excessive permissions to an extension.

Typescript. I love how flexible the type system is and the ability of share logic in frontend and backend.

For backend dotnet core is also nice. Fast and batteries included. I would avoid their Entity framework though. I still prefer TS.

2. Is very applicable to workarounds often linked to 3rd party issues.
This, I prefer an inconsistent comment that can still shred light on some code than no comment at all. Code also becomes obsolete and no comment just makes it worse.
Re:Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021) on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:51PM (#33979437)
Acquired taste, just like coffee or beer. They don't need sugar.
Re:One Man's Crusade Against Machismo in Latin America on Monday December 05, 2022 @10:20AM (#33866711)
I don't think it helps to put them in the same bag though. The problem is not being man, is being a criminal or any other form of machismo that limits women freedom.
Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:09AM (#33729982)
You created a straw man. There are 10 countries that fit the 95%+ criteria, all of them probably have excess of production and have 0 interest in buying power. But yeah, what you say could theorically happen.
Re:Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:45PM (#33726498)
> you can't run life saving medical equipment or refrigerator service on wind turbines

There are countries running on 95%+ renewable electricity right now[1]. Including wind, hydro, solar, geothermal and biomass. Humanity keeps neglecting what is already proved to work. Because politics? Coal and gas are cheaper options? Environment is not considered in the equation?

Edit: source [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...

Because they have deposits from 10 other customers from which they where allowed to lend only $9/10. The new dolar they get, allows them to lend the 10th dollar from each and still comply with the 10% reserve.
Re:Why Would Anyone Need JavaScript Generator Functions? on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:11PM (#33515494)
I don't get it, the signature still returns `Type | Promise<Type>` how that promise doesn't spread through your code?

Still, the other comment about using await on plain values seems like a better option than parent comment

Re:Named element IDs can be referenced as JavaScript globals on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:55PM (#32997952)
Nice article, thanks for sharing it.
Sarcasm, right?
Re:Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:34PM (#32693491)
Unfortunately by that metric other electrical heaters tend to 0% efficiency because they are not making use of the virtually unlimited energy outside the buildings.

The 400% metric let's you compare with other heaters, the 100% is kind of useless.

Re:Finnish as a world language? on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:17PM (#32614585)
In Spanish when a 5 or 6 yr old learns to read, they can read virtually any word correctly, no crazy phonetics, vowels are very distinct, the language has somewhat complex but strict rules. Compared to it, English looks like spaghetti thrown to the wall.
Re:The strength of the strong force on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:32PM (#32420186)
After reading a bit more I think I got it all backwards. The force increases with distance, up to a constant, but it seems this is only applicable to already bound quarks, so there's no strong force from rest of the universe.
Re:The strength of the strong force on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:06PM (#32414297)
As I understood, it's constant only after some distance, meaning that the force to its very close quarks is still much stronger than the constant force from the rest of the universe.

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