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Great idea!

Does it work with yen and other currencies that don't have decimals?

That would be... a moon shot.

I see what you mean. It's "temporal information density" then. Also called bandwidth :D

> resulting in lower information density as you get towards the inner grooves

It's actually the opposite: highest information density (musical notes played per surface unit) is in the innermost grooves.

Since linear velocity is lower in the center than the border, the size dedicated to each piece of data is larger in the outermost places, which may increase the quality of songs placed there.

I don't really know if the machine making the disc is precise enough and if the human ear is capable of hearing the difference.

Don't forget the decimals of pi record holder for a while (on a laptop)

AND you can use Zepto (7KB) instead of JQuery.

I wouldn't call Intercooler heavy, au contraire.

Reading this article, it seems that terahertz is only suited for space-based telecommunication.

Given its super high transfer rate, it would be perfect for a low orbit, internet-providing satellite constellation. cough starlink cough

This is not correct. A barrel of oil is 118kg of pure carbon but when burning this translate to roughly 450kg of CO2 (because carbon combines with heavier oxygen to form CO2)

This is without taking into account the CO2 that is emitted to extract the oil from the ground.

Indeed I'm getting quite a few 404s now. Oh well.

Many things actually:

- The clickable image map with pixel-perfect precision is a marvel of efficiency and have probably necessitated a lot of tedious, manual labor. Or a nice dive into a library of country maps and a script to tie it all together.

- Most of the content is static HTML, probably updated by hand from time to time. Could this be the reason why the website is surviving the slashdot/HN effect?

- It seems that there are a lot of Estonians (or Estoniaphiles) on Hacker News

But then it's not robotics, it's rockets!!! Yay rockets!

Let's invent a new Godwin's law reached when any discussion devolves (upgrades?) into rocket talks.

It is subject to mechanical constraints AKA laws of physics.

Acceleration is limited by the grip on the ground under its feet. It could slowly accelerate to amazing speeds though.

Communication.

Communication! Communication! Communication!

If any part of your product requires people to communicate with each other, then the team members lying on vastly different time zones will have low efficiency because information round trip time will be larger than those of the local (or time zone near) ones.

It now supports real time web hooks.

Gosh I sound like a Zapier salesman :)

Zapier conveniently replaces web hooks and adds some mapping between fields.

Try it out, they have a connector (Zapier calls this an Action)for airtable that works great.

Edit: direct link: https://Zapier.com

Think about it: you still need batteries for when you run out of coal.

I wonder where the name 18F comes from...

Feedback, of course, is appreciated.

Consumer electricity price in Germany is almost twice the French price. Edit: source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#/media/F...

From a quick research online, it seems that most mining pools are located in China [1]

Roughly 2/3rd of electricity in China is produced from burning coal or gas, which, upon combustion, emit their own weight in CO2, basically. [2]

From this two facts, one can conclude that Bitcoin has a pretty huge carbon footprint overall. This is not the impression that I got from reading that article.

[1] https://bit-media.org/bitcoin/where-in-the-world-are-bitcoin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China

I just assumed that they mean carbon-poor electricity.

That one precisely! Thanks!

Funny coincidence to have two articles about women scientists studying the sun at one week interval.

Remember, the other was Japanese. Very interesting story too.

It's a great piece of laptop.

It copied the MacBook for all important points.

The touchpad is the only downside to me.

The OS and matte screen are huge pluses.

You could build a very generic product that would act as a problem detector.

Talk with your early users. Once you've detected a pain point, pivot and double down on it.

Good luck!

> Another distinguishing feature is that Canada's teachers are well paid by international standards - and entry into teaching is highly selective.

Funny how this makes education level better, huh?

Are you listening, France?

Formic comes from the Latin word for ant.

It's what ants spray at an intruder when upset.

It's also hallucinogenic.

Good stuff.

And who said maintenance can't be automated?

That's actually great, but not always possible.

Maybe save by living frugally for a while, as the OP did?

This is not good advice for hard-working, dedicated programmers who wants to start their own company. Foregoing a salary is scary enough that you don't need to discourage wannabe entrepreneurs even more.