The main question is do you get enough charge from a solar array to actually fill the battery. Because if you don't then you either top up off the mains (which must still get its power from somewhere) or you eat warmed beans by torchlight.

Not saying the concept is a bad idea at all but it might not be ideal. I expect people in sunny climes all year round could easily supply 90-100% of their supply from solar assuming they had the means to capture the energy.

Why doesn't the federal or local government simply commission the books it requires for its educational curriculum? Then give them away for free from a website. It shouldn't be necessary to go cap in hand to publishers begging for a few freebies when the publishers shouldn't be in such a strong position to start with.

The Telegraph is just a mouthpiece for the views of the Barclay brothers. Its profoundly anti science, anti immigration, anti EU, mysteriously silent on matters of taxation, offshore accounts, and pro big business. Until recently, it's been trumping up UKIP like theyre the second coming of Jesus and now they've served their purpose it's desperately trying to undermine them to put votes back to the Conservatives.

It's shame it's gotten this way since it used to be a good paper with good journalists. Now it's just clickbait.

And Christopher Booker is a blithering idiot. I suspect he actually believes the shit he's spouting even though it doesn't pass a cursory fact check. I mentioned those two but there are several more there spouting some highly questionable views.

I find it hilarious that the one "leading climate change skeptic" they name is Christopher Monckton who is basically a climate change denial kook. The Telegraph seems to have an obsession for climate change denial and hosts columns from two other prominent denialists - James Delingpole and Christopher Booker.

No it isn't. Quite the opposite really:

1. What does my software look like to a non-technical user who has never seen it before? Simple, discoverable and easy to use.
2. Is there any screen in my GUI that is a dead end, without giving guidance further into the system? No.
3. The requirement that end-users read documentation is a sign of UI design failure. Is my UI design a failure? There is no requirement to read documentation.
4. For technical tasks that do require documentation, do they fail to mention critical defaults? Not applicable to a desktop since technical tasks would be done by other tools.
5. Does my project welcome and respond to usability feedback from non-expert users? Yes. In fact GNOME is driven by such feedback.
6. And, most importantly of all...do I allow my users the precious luxury of ignorance? Yes.

For all the hate GNOME receives it is simple, forgiving, task centric, and generally acts as a facilitator to do other stuff. It doesn't mean it's flawless but it doesn't follow a kitchen sink mentality that could confuse a non expert. I daresay many experts (including myself) appreciate a simple desktop too and if they don't, they can use another one.

VR isn't new tech by any stretch. I remember VR headsets powered by Commodore Amigas.

Sadly it's a fact in open source. Outside criticism of a project, even valid criticism is often seen as an attack on the people who use it and it provokes some irrational responses. Or when some beloved piece of software is replaced in a dist by something else (usually demonstrably better) and supporters of the old software freak out. Happens all the time.

Is each of those 100 AIs essentially the same? I shouldn't be surprised that in that case it comes out as a bit of a stalemate, or with the winner decided essentially by fate (the tiles they started with).

What would be interesting is to be able to plug AIs into freeciv - a bit like crobots, core wars or similar games. Then you could pit AIs against each other, perhaps even grade them by strength and allow humans to play them.

The typical work flow for sysvinit is - open a script, launch bash / python / whatever, parse script, invoke daemon, daemon invokes itself again as detached process, script ends. All the scripts are run consecutively.

The typical work flow for systemd is open a unit file, launch the daemon directly as a detached process. Units can run in parallel according to their dependencies. No script required or 2-stage daemon launch.

So yes systemd can obviously improve boot times. However some debian discussion threads suggest they were just pointing systemd to launch the sysv scripts which seems a bit pointless really and won't do much to improve startup.

Deceit or delusion. Either way these people are a pox on society.

It's a good place on a 16:9 monitor. Not so good if you have a 4:3 monitor, or multiple monitors or simply want an option to change it to the bottom, right or some other behaviour.

More shame on the NHS then.

As for being sued for calling them quacks, I assume you mean Simon Singh's run-in with chiropractors. He eventually prevailed (they dropped it after an onslaught of complaints against their members) and the case became a driving force for reforming defamation law.

So the UK should be glad they sued. Libel law in the UK now requires the claimant to demonstrate it caused serious harm and there are defences for honest opinion, academic peer review, and public interest.

Promoting quack cures for cancer is illegal in some countries like the UK. I hope it is in Australia too and that she is prosecuted for it.

Separately, I wish all these self professed wellness "gurus" would jump off the nearest cliff and rid the world of their stupidity.

That example says more for the suckiness of Obj-C than it's replacement. Maybe that's explains why Swift devs are so joyous to escape this BS.

I read that some scams involve linking to a url which exploits bugs in Steam to install a trojan (e.g. a malformed png). Otherwise I don't see what the scam is.