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  • You can maybe diversify a bit by adding other stuff while leaving the base the same.

    E.g. my go to is oat meal. But you can add apples, bananas, nuts, strawberries, seeds, etc. This should combat the one dimensionality of that lifestyle a bit. At least I hope so, lol.

  • Rotational reference frames are out though! (Unless you want to deal with magic forces acting on your masses)

    And since the earth rotates around itself and the sun, and the sun rotates around the center of the galaxy, you will always have to deal with a moving target.

  • Actually for me the conclusion from my math was that it's surprisingly possible to get millions of light years away from earth with just time travel. As such I consider the meme to be scientifically accurate.

    Seeing earth as a lava planet or the primordial soup of life would be pretty sick!

  • How standardized is the accounting anyway? Does the US Army Corps of engineers count as military spending? Because in most countries that budget would be categorized as civil infrastructure work and not be affiliated with the military in any way.

  • Yes, but how are you gonna accept pull requests? You need a frontend and a frontend needs an account.

    Of course, all of these alternative forges (gitea, forgejo, gitlab) can be self hosted on your own private server.

  • Fair enough. Dithering would still be an option though. But if it's not done I agree there can be visible stripes in some cases.

    Also I wanted to apologize for the negative wording in my above comment. That was uncalled for, even if I think HDR is totally not worth it at the moment.

    1. You can use other forges, but they have the exact same issues as GitHub. You need to make an account, you need to accept terms of service and if they feel like it (or are forced by a court) they'll ban you and your repository.
    2. git send-email exists. So it's not like you absolutely can't contribute to projects that are hosted on GitHub.

    At some point in the future gitlab will get federation, but that's not a solution for now. It'll take a while.

  • Yes? But that's already explicitly warned about.

    At work I had to fill out a form which threats to my health could impact me. Next to chemicals or radiation, working at a desk for more than x hours a day was also listed as a potential source of bodily harm.

  • I have never seen banding before, the image seems specifically picked to show the effect. I know it's common when converting to less than 256 but color, e.g. if you turn images into svgs for some reason, or gifs (actual gifs, not video)

    Also dithering exists.

    Anyway, it'll surely be standard at some point in the future, but it's very much a small quality improvement and not something one definitely needs.

  • The mass market has really pushed solar panel production. I expect the material quality even of the cheap china panels to be better than what anyone was able to produce almost 40 years ago. That's a long time to understand degradation processes and develop countermeasures.

  • Yeah, but PV is dirt cheap nowadays. Also

    degrade over a few years.

    If by "few" you mean like 30-50 then sure, they degrade. But it certainly beats anything with a spinning turbine. Or anything with moving parts really. PV is purely solid state physics, you can't get more longevity than that.

    If the capacitance of the system is not enough to hold the produced power then an electrical failure will occur, so you must also include large commercial and industrial batteries

    That's not true. You can also simply turn PV off. The inverters only run when they sense 50 Hz on their output terminals, it's easy to have them turn off when it's 50.2 instead. Basically all big powerplants follow that rule already, ordered by things like shutoff time etc.

    a Heliostat (a Collection Tower and Mirror Array) out in the desert

    Funny that you specified in the desert. The appeal of PV is not only that it's cheap and easy, it also scales down to small investments and local power generation. If base load actually becomes a problem concentrated solar power will be relevant. But for now, slapping a few solar panels on your roof just makes sense.

  • A basic image is really easy. It's basically just

    Dockerfile

     
        
    FROM debian  # start with a minimal Linux system. There are probably better options than debian. Some images are made especially for docker (i.e. very minimal and light weight). 
    RUN apt install dependencies  # do what ever you need to get your app running. 
    RUN echo "options and stuff" >> /etc/a/config/file  # you can also edit system files
    COPY . /app  # copy your project into the docker container.
    EXPOSE 8080  # doesn't actually do anything, but documents where the app will be listening
    CMD server-binary run /app/main.php  # I have actually no idea how php server stuff works
    
      

    (Docs https://docs.docker.com/reference/dockerfile/)

    Then people can run your project with docker.

    Edit: checking the readme some small changes would be required. Config.php should read in environment variables and the DB init SQL should be run automatically somehow.

  • Each time a gas molecule is hits the balloon envelope it transfers some momentum.

    I see! Thank you very much!

    If we assume the balloon model and the sides expand then each collision of a molecule inside the balloon with the outer wall will leave it with less speed and therefore lower energy and therefore a lower temperature.

    As a consequence, gas expanding in a vacuum does not cool off, because it has nothing to transfer the energy to!