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Comment Re:No it won't. (Score 1) 124

Who says you need scuba divers. If you hang the turbine at the right depth with an anchor at the bottom and a buoy on top with a system with pulleys you could easily pull up the turbine and do the maintenance. Makes sense though to have multiple smaller turbines so that whilst it is up the decrease in generated power is a lot less than with just a few large turbines.

Comment finally 15 GB (for paid accounts) (Score 1) 37

The increase of storage is actually in my view more important than it may seem. I had a Google Business account that was free until recently. I switched to a paid Proton account as a result. The fact that it was free was the only reason I stayed there. As Proton had only 5GB at the time and my inbox at Google was much larger I chose to just backup all the old Gmail stuff and start fresh on Proton. Had it been 15 GB as it is now I could simply have used the very simple migration option in Proton and had it copy over all my email. So for people switching now, it is much better (if you like me keep way too many old emails...

Experience so far: Proton works well. I do value the added security and most of all privacy. But it is a bit rough around the edges. Spam is worse on proton. Not very bad, but I do get a lot more that Google was able to filter. The apps and webinterface are fine but there are minor annoyances. For instance if I read an email on one device, on the others the notification doesn't realise this. So when all my mail is already read i.e. on the webinterface, my phone and tablet still have the notifications on.
There are other small things, but all in all I'm happy with the move.

Comment Re:Agile is just a tool (Score 1) 152

What I see a lot is terrible Scrum masters. It's either because they lack sufficient technical background to understand that something is wrong or because they are terrible at managing and fail to act. Acting by they way can be to discuss the issue with the whole team to discover what the problem really is. It doesn't have to be laziness of incompetence.
I don't know if in your example this was Scrum with a Scrum master, but it seems that that person wasn't the only at fault here.
I am starting to mistrust any Scrum master that is not also dev in the team

Comment Re:I am happy to see. (Score 2) 103

One of the things I like most on my 2011 Prius is the solar panel powering the fan when the car is turned off. The stronger the sun is, the faster the fans blow. Works perfectly when the air temperature is still cool, but the sun is already strong.
I got the option because it came with the sunroof. I guess it wasn't a success since they stopped selling them. My guess is that people expect airco type cooling which is it isn't capable of. It is however, even on hot summer days, capable of ensuring that at least you can still touch the leather of the seats and the steering wheel. So when it's hot and the car has been in the sun, I can at least get driving straight away. Then I need the airco that runs when the car is on to get the temperature to comfortable.
So in my view, great if you don't expect airco type cooling.

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