starwatch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa...

Admittedly any company will have it's share of controversies over time. But their history speaks to a value system that doesn't square with some of the foundational values of the internet (openness, decentralisation, user empowerment) imo.

At the time of writing the network peers number 888 - it'll be interesting to see this change over time.

As a consequence I've had to build quite defensively - adopting a PWA approach - heavy caching and background sync. My hope is that latency improves over time because the platform is nice to work with.

https://www.votivus.org

A hobby project I started putting together late last year; a little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection. I've just shipped a small feature where you get a Bible reading (KJ only for now) in response to a prayer.

https://dugnad.stavanger-digital.no/

A pro bono tech consultancy for local (Stavanger, Norway) non profits. The idea is to help them use tech to better deliver on their mission. Last week I built a little bookmarklet for a non-profit to surface some of their data buried in a SaaS tool ... which will make their apple pressing operation easier.

https://www.votivus.org

A hobby project I started putting together late last year; a little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection.

https://dugnad.stavanger-digital.no/

A pro bono tech consultancy for local non profits. The idea is to help them use tech to better deliver on their mission.

Just today I finished off building a little PWA to help a couple of non-profits offload the admin of volunteer scheduling (mostly done through whatsapp, messenger, etc).

I'd recommend others try the same pro bono consulting in their local area, it's quite rewarding!

It's quite a different story in other countries at least in terms of visibility!

A hobby project I started putting together late last year; a little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection.

https://dugnad.stavanger-digital.no/

A pro bono tech consultancy for local non profits. The idea is to help them use tech to better deliver on their mission.

It's a hobby project I started putting together a couple of months back; a little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01549-1

> There are also fears that automated systems will violate the rules of war. How will they avoid harming civilians, or distinguish soldiers who want to surrender?

As it stands we see guerrilla fighters already ignore these rules (ISIS for example). It's a little frightening to consider such groups acquiring and deploying automated machine guns. We need to regulate these kinds of weapons systems much like we do with CBRN weapons.

It's not an ideal solution and not just because of examples like the Samsung Galaxy Note7. It's because I love rooting for the startups, the disruptors, the innovators. But in the world of battery powered products I'm inclined to think (or hope!) that the bigger players have more to lose by cheaping out on cheap batteries.

[0]: https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

[1]: https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/

[2]: https://github.com/wasm-bindgen

[3]: https://github.com/wasm-bindgen/wasm-bindgen/issues/4634

Life is full of tradeoffs and this is no exception. I quite like the .no TLD - I find it lends itself to fun product / side project names. It's just a pity that I'm limited to 5 with the .no TLD :)

The 2014 doc was a pretty wild read for me when it came out - it changed my perspective quite a bit.

[1]:https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58796370-can-t-we-just-p...

- Each private individual may at any time subscribe to up to 5 domain names directly under .no

- Each organisation may at any time subscribe to up to 100 domain names directly under .no

[1]: https://www.norid.no/en/om-domenenavn/regelverk-for-no/

The paper is paywalled and I'm cheap so don't have the numbers to hand. But in the abstract sense being statistical could go the other way too - i.e. some might get to 90% before they start their exponential decay.

> And "exponential degrade" doesn't mean it's particularly fast.

True, exponential doesn't mean much other than e^n where it's implied that n > 1. Though the decay rate for n=100 is quite different than n=1.1.

I think modern EVs are set up to charge to a certain percentage of capacity rather than a specific range, kind of like how smartphones do it.

Your point about depth of discharge ( 80%->17% ) makes sense though, since the battery system can't really control someone's driving routine.

To the practical matter - yes, EV manufacturers are very careful with warranty periods. Anecdotally, an acquaintance had a Tesla for 8 years. 6 months after the 8-year battery warranty expired the battery ceased working. The details were a little unclear (it was explained in broken English/Norwegian). That said, anecdata carries little weight. What we need is more peer-reviewed research to update our understanding of battery longevity. Until we have that we need to rely on the existing published knowledge... otherwise anyone can assert anything and we learn nothing.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250530000446/https://afdc.ener...