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Out of curiosity, what do you consider the worst architecture choices in IRC ? And what would be better solutions ?

Fiefdom is especially funny when you know Lee was crowned king of Korea a couple of years ago:

* https://nextshark.com/korea-crown-prince-andrew-lee/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur)

For those, like me, who didn't know, Groverhaus is a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/groverhaus

He also refers to another repo with a very small Python implementation of a raytracer. There, the author links to an article how he managed to speed up raytracing in Python by a factor of 130, going from 15 seconds per image to 115ms: http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-ray.html

>>> Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time collaborator Ben Noordhuis.

Why is the Mozilla Corporation an investor in a Chrome based technology startup ?

The web site touts that they combat climate change with a nice concept. But it's a bit ironic that the target product the ship will transport are cars, one major consumer of fossil fuels and a big source of CO2.

And they even have talks on how to run a big virtual conference and some lessons learned :

  * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_communities/
  * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/jitsi_scaling/
  * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/vircadia/

And this story gives an extra argument in favor of dynamic libraries as they make it easier to fix some bugs in compiled applications (except for games which check if someone messed with LD_PRELOAD).

Patents have stalled technology in many areas since a long time. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" [1] by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine analyze the economical impact of patterns on society. They give some surprising examples, like how the Wright brothers invested heavily in patents and legal actions to stiffle competition instead of continuing development of airplanes.

[1] http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm

The French do vary the power of the reactors to follow the load [1] [2]. They don't purely rely on their neighbors, far from it. As a consequence, the usage factor of the plants is lower than nuclear plants in countries where they they purely use them for base load.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant [2] https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/aen-infos-suivi-...

Nuclear power plants can vary power output quickly if planned during the design. As France has an installed capacity of more than 60 GW of nuclear power production, their power plants can quickly adapt their production. That's needed to keep the network balanced.

When looking at the commit history on github of axet project, the most recent commit is only 4 months old. That comment about it not seeing updates since years looks wrong.

According to Wikipedia, the Stirling engine is particularly well suited here because the engine is near silent and can use the surrounding sea water as a heat sink to increase efficiency.

One of the biggest companies manufacturing foam glass is actually based in the USA and has many production sites in Europe.

The insulation properties depend on the chemical composition of the glass. With recycled glass, the chemical composition is not fully under control and therefore they limit the amount of recycled glass.

Production of cellular glass (also called foam glass) requires, even with recycled glass, a lot of energy. That makes it one of the most expensive inorganic insulation materials.

Why is it trying to load a script from 127.0.0.1 ?

Le "bail réel solidaire" is a special type of lease contract in France created in 2015. It's used by state institutions to rent buildings to poorer people at decent prices. Those lease contracts grant some long term property rights. Unlike normal lease contracts, the duration goes from 18 to 99 years. The contracts don't transfer the ownership of the building itself and have mechanisms to avoid real estate speculation which drive the prices up.

Source: https://location-immobilier.ooreka.fr/astuce/voir/590869/bai...

All that sounds well, but it also has some nasty side effects. Anonymous sources and whistle blowers would not be possible anymore while very much needed.

The article by The Register goes into way more details about the colusions between members of ICANN and Ethos Capitals.

You can read the measurements in "Importance of Water-Volume on the Release of Microplastic Fibers from Laundry" by the team at the university of Newcastle : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.9b03022/suppl...

Edit: the publication of the full article seem to be under embargo (https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/259968)

And the money to "standardize" the ISO docx format.

That book is on my shelf to be read. In what way did age poorly ?

You're right. My tired brain bugged when seeing 30% lower than today.

CO2 did increase a lot. The ratio of CO2 in our atmosphere got up by more than 40% since 2 centuries ago. And that's despite effects which slow down the CO2 increase, like absorption by the ocean.

Source: https://www.co2levels.org/

edit: fixed increase ratio from 1800 to now.

IRC deep conversations do happen and indeed you want persistence for those. Communities which rely on IRC use IRC logs for that. Perl projects use IRC that way and I think the Mozilla guys too.

Harriet Hall from Science Based Medecine finds Denise Mingers critiques good and well researched: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/

A few weeks ago, I hoped 3geonames could become a standard. But it has some painful limitations:

The system picks very unusual names. For example STOCARDA-KRRABA-SIPLA is in Germany, but doesn't use the German name of the city. (For those wondering, Stocarda means Stuttgart in Venetian according to Wikipedia.) That makes it harder to use for locals and can hurt the feelings of people in some regions. Also using cities of other countries can cause controversial codes, especially for young and or small countries.

3geonames has to use a language for each name. This makes it hard for people who don't speak that language to pronounce the words.

The 3geonames website describes the basic principles but there's no detailed description on how to build those codes besides (a somewhat hard to read) Perl script. For example, the documentation does not explain what encoding is used exactly.

Very cool approach which relies on the sponge construction of Keccak/SHA-3 fame.

The presentation at Blackhat 2017 explains well the core ideas as well as the context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGLO4obxco

That news hit HN top stories a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912

The similarities with webhint are striking. For example they have mostly the same categories :

* Performance (exactly same as webhint)

* PWA (exactly same name as webhint)

* Accessibility (exactly same as webhint)

* Best Practices

* SEO

Webhint also has categories Interoperability and Security. Not sure what web.dev uses for those.

People tried to scam people involved in TRON via Reddit : https://cryptovest.com/news/tron-genesis-hard-fork-an-elabor...