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Ratalala··on They can and will ruin everything you love
If you're referring to the author of that page, she's a woman.
Ratalala··on Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)
Interesting read. I once wondered what would be the contribution to atmospheric heat of the combustion of cigarettes, and waved it as probably insignificant. A quick googling suggests burning a cigarette releases 7.8 J/mg of tobacco[1], that a cigarette weighs around 1 g, and that about 5 trillions (5e12) cigarettes are smoked annually [2]. This amounts to 3.9e16 J, or, averaged over one year, 1.2e9 W; corresponding to the total US energy consumption around 1730, according to the figure in parent's link.

Insignificant today, but not a few centuries back.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307705601_Heat_Emis... [2] https://www.vitalstrategies.org/tobacco-atlas-global-tobacco...

Ratalala··on The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020)
You should check out https://www.pola.rs/
Ratalala··on Work from home and the office real estate apocalypse
They are pretty rare in European cities (that I know of). They do exist, but in the largest cities, and are limited to the main arteries.
Ratalala··on Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated meat
Same here. I dropped meat more because of being a "billions of living creatures living miserable, short lives before being slaughtered" anti-fan, but the GHG impacts are a nice side effect. Damn do I miss meat, though.
Ratalala··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
That would be 49!/(43!6!) = 13983816 combinations. So, on average, you need to play 13983816 times before your first win (geometric distribution). At one game a day, that's nearly 40000 years.
Ratalala··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
France is a founding member.
Ratalala··on The quest to trap carbon in stone
Watts are not energy.
Ratalala··on English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
And the local variations. In NZ the bulk of "e"s in words like pen, ten, etc. are often pronounced as "i"s, like in pin or tin. Took me a while to get used to it.
Ratalala··on Insects are more sensitive than they seem
That's fallacious. Cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, all existed before being farmed. And still exist in the while. Probably not on the scale of the 60 billions land animals slaughtered each year, though.
Ratalala··on Radical Polish books to add to your reading list
And breed them.
Ratalala··on The new luxury vacation: being dumped in the middle of nowhere
Everything is in the elevation. I'm rather fit, used to be in the army nearly ten years ago. These days I hike now and then. Last weekend I went on a wee tip, 25 km and 1400 m elevation; it took me 9 hours, not including my lunch break. Only carrying water for the day, the said lunch, dry clothes and a bit of gear ; probably a 10 kg pack. Mild weather and decent track. On flat ground, I would have halved that time.
Ratalala··on Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)
vimtex is so nice. At every new LaTeX project I have, I find out something new about its capabilities; I had never heard of the concealment before.

EDIT: this seems to actually be vanilla vim. vimtex is still great, though!

Ratalala··on This word does not exist
Or unhulled
Ratalala··on Hydrogen’s moment is here at last?
Hydrogen escapes the atmosphere because it is extremely light and the planet's gravity cannot hold on to it.