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> Given that you're often hand holding a camera, being lighter is a significant advantage, it can often be the difference between a stable or a blurred shot.

Lighter camera ~ more vibrations.

They're there, e.g. old delivery trucks.

American-style pickups in general are unpopular here (in either meaning). For transporting stuff transporter/sprinter-class vehicles are far far more common as well as 3.5 ton transporters, which can have an open cargo area (or an enclosed cargo area) but look totally different from the American style pickup:

https://www.google.de/search?q=klein%20lkw&tbm=isch

Or take a peek at the streets around pretty much any school these days, they are crawling with Straßenkampfwagen.

Reader view to the rescue

... and then you clear the scrollback (Ctrl-L) but you can't just re-run the previous command because the system is now in a different state.

The German constitution set forth that law enforcement is a matter of the states; no federal "general purpose" police may exist. Secret agencies and police may not be mixed (although some commenters liken the excessive powers of the Bundeskriminalamt to a secret police), for obvious reasons. Many other western countries don't have that separation in the first place; e.g. the FBI is quite clearly a secret police.

The biggest advantage is that you get transactions. (Or Not). Possibly faster small objects with less (memory, storage) overhead.

With default mount options you can even create files/folders named foo\bar.

Man pages aren't even in the kernel tree.

> Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North Korea reserved the right to shoot down US bombers.

> This applied even when they were not in North Korean airspace, the minister added. The world "should clearly remember" it was the US that first declared war, Mr Ri said.

Haha, here in Germany people will call you out for crossing a pedestrian red light.

Properties like source/sink volume. It's bad UX if the adjustment is performed out-of-sync with the visual (volume slider) and manual (key press) feedback.

Firefox stopped supporting ALSA, so I had to install PA. PA gives me: a noise chirp when the PA daemon starts, which is probably some uninitialized garbage buffer. Sometimes (I don't know what triggers it, seems to be random, and no, it's not the auto-suspend module which is on by default but seems to cause a similar bug for many people) audio starts to lag by .3-.5 seconds. Restarting PA does not help; have to reboot, which I can't/won't do for days at a time. This is supposed to be a Linux system, not Windows 98.

I don't hate PA. On another machine it was always installed. But it is quite clear to me that it is yet-another layer on top of the existing infrastructure, so it statistically will cause more issues than just the infra that's there already.

IIRC Voith developed these... I'm in no way an expert about these, but I'd guess that going gearless and using a slow-running generator would have the advantage that you get a much longer and fatter shaft to put bearings on.

I think one of the very few remaining applications of variable-speed gearboxes are wind generators with no converter. But this in itself is rare, because it may be more reliable (?), but also less efficient than the power electronics... (afaik off-shore wind generators are going completely gearless).

> and = as semi-function definition.

Variable binding.

+1

Many people commute by train from the "suburbs" or the smaller cities sprinkled around the larger cities, partly because it's convenient, partly because traffic is really bad in major cities.

A special chip isn't really needed for this, an FPGA can do all of the above (with the correct bitstream)

> It's like Newton not only discovering calculus but also inventing its modern syntax and writing the best textbook on the subject.

Leibniz called, he wants his calculus back.

Well there are people who use solar cycles for dating things as well.

Doesn't look significantly worse than the American power grid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PV panels are not damaged by no-load conditions.

All directly grid-connected inverters have backfeed protection built-in.

Bigger installations can have automatic switching from the grid to the inverter, much like an uninterruptible power supply. (This is technically possible with smaller installations as well, just uncommon, since it doesn't make a lot of sense)

You don't need inverters, strictly speaking. For some applications the battery voltage is just fine.

> I understand that server-side rendering is basically dead.

Server-side rendering is a mature technology, don't measure it's pervasiveness in how often you see articles in the news about it...

> It's like saying the good thing with not having a cellphone is that you avoid a lot of fight with your girlfriend cause you can't talk as much.

I can't quite see what's wrong with that...

> (which has been used for many years)

> Tesla and Steinmetz figured out the theory of AC machines in the early 20th century. This was the first industrial technology where you needed advanced math to get anything to work right. Complex numbers. Calculus. Laplace transforms. That bothered some people, such as Edison. By the 1930s it was figured out, and generations of EEs struggled through rotating machine theory in college.

It's always interesting to observe differences in history from different vantage points.

In Europe the story told goes like this: Some time in the early 19th century people noticed that a thing called induction exists. Then in the later 19th century a chap called Ferraris (also known for his AC energy meter) developed multi-phase AC and the general idea of an induction motor. Some bit later, a Russian guy named Dolivo Dobrowolsky, invented a two-phase induction motor. Meanwhile, some other folks started to build transformers. Not even a handful decades later and virtually everyone in Europe used AC and both synchronous and asynchronous generators and motors were used everywhere for everything in industry.

The reason for these differences is of course that in these few years key advancements were made by different people at the same time.

Depends on the windings. Synchronous motors have had windings designed for sq. wave drive for many years now, prominently for stepper, servo and BLDC motors. These still use some filtering to reduce the insulation stresses.