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Comment Re:P as in Personal as in Affordable ? (Score 0) 57

The P in PC means Personal which means affordable for the average man.

Not exactly. Personal originally meant "not shared with another person". Originally, it meant a computer only you have access to, only you install and run software, and only you store and retrieve data.

Comment Re:Doing god's work. (Score 1) 159

Apparently, you have never installed Nagios. Back in the days, when you ran the install script, it wrote out what it was doing, and then suddenly the lines appeared:

Searching for credit card information...

Sending credit card information to [...]

Just kidding!

It was the same warning to you to vet any code before executing it.

Comment Re: Dance for me. (Score 1) 154

I predict the same for the enhanced games. There is not much to win for competitors in the games outside the event. Except for some sellers of questionable supplements, there are probably not many wanting to advertise with steroid-pumped up people, and there are not many other events they can start in. They have to earn all their money with the enhanced games. That means you only get second-level people competing, which will turn the show into some kind of Survivor set on a track and field court.

Comment Re:Mythbusters? (Score 1) 112

The article even mentioned the relationship. When laminar flow turns into turbulent flow, aerodynamic drag increases. Turbulent flow in turn is what we hear as noise. You can also reason that noise is acoustic energy, and that noise is a parasitic load on the action we want the fan to do: moving air from one side to the other side.

Comment Re:Steroid use is pretty safe (Score 1) 154

Doping was done under medical supervision before. It still was not safe. Florence Griffith-Joyner and Marco Pantani both were doped in hospitals, and Eufemanio Fuentes was a physician whose speciality was doping. Being from Europe, I know more of the European side of doping, including the death of Birgit Dressel, who was a patient of University teacher Armin Kluemper.

Comment Re: The new CATL batteries are wild (Score 1) 293

No one disputes that things may not work for you as they work for me. I don't have a car at all, and I am pretty sure that does not work for most other people. But in general, an EV might work for you because the reasons you cite might not really be valid, but based on misconceptions. And if someone who has experience with EVs tells you that you might not judge correctly, because you assume things about EVs you should not easily assume, you could try to listen instead of feeling attacked. It might be that in the end, you are really not a good fit for an EV (neither am I, hence no car at all), but it would probably not be for the reasons you think.

Comment Re: The new CATL batteries are wild (Score 2) 293

Thatâs actually not what they are saying, but what you like to understand. Instead, they point out that EVs behave differently than internal combustion engine cars, and criteria which are fine for the later donât match nicely with EVs. Instead of profiteering from the experience and knowledge of EV owners, you prefer to feel personally attacked. So be it.

Comment Re:Not quite the same (Re: Promises Promises) (Score 3) 138

Let's make a list:

That are just some cab-over long-haul semi trucks I can think of from the top of my head. They are already running in truck fleets right now all over Europe. German YouTuber Elektrotrucker has a vlog running since July 2024 driving them on long haul services.

Comment Re:EM sensitivity (Score 1) 82

Until my parents built their own bathroom into the apartment, we were using a bathroom which still had a coal fired boiler. So yes, we had the old infrastructure. My aunt, who lived in an apartment across the street, even had the water closet outside the apartment with a separate entrance from the stairwell. So yes, the infrastructure, at the time 70 or 80 years old, was still in place. And heating was done by tiled stoves in each room - every morning, my father had to light each oven, and each evening, we had to carry the ashes down to the trash bins at the road.

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