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Wow, if they removed the blood oxygen measurement, I will keep my S7 Apple watch. I had planned an upgrade.

Which device would work better than the remarkable for its intended purpose of note taking?

You can ssh into the remarkable and copy files via scp.

A highly interesting release. I love my remarkable2 as a note-taking device. I also own a Kindle and an iPad, so reading books or running apps isn't my requirement. I only need something to take notes and that the remarkable does very well. Funny though, that color wasn't the most missing feature. But it is very intriguing that it seems to have the first full-resolution color displays, with the color being part of the eInk pixels. From a practical side, the additional screen space probably is the biggest feature to me. I would hope for some more software improvements, like a few more drawing tools, especially as the colors make that even more appealing. Also, I would like to have an image slide show and of course an official option to customize the sleeping/off display images.

The remarkable2 works well with Linux in the respect that the remarkable itself runs Linux and you can just ssh into it.

It seems to be a difficult situation: he has bug fixes against the version in the stable kernel for bugs which haven't been reported. I can see both perspectives: on stable you don't want to do development, but also you want all bugfixes you can get. I can also see the point of Linus, who wants just to add bug fixes and to minimize the risk of introducing new bugs.

Considering that Kent himself warns against general use right now, I don't quite see the urgency to get the bug fixes out - in my understanding Linus would happily merge them in the next development kernel. And whoever is set to to run bcachefs right now, might also be happy to run a dev kernel.

To be precise: chromatic abberation is lowest at the center of the lens. But with glasses we often don't look through the lens center even if we have something in the center of our vision.

No, that doesn't normally happen. The link doesn't point to an executable. So the linked webpage caused the browser to download. At least there should be a warning.

I use uBlock and got the download.

Please don't post links that download things automatically.

The main body of Franc nuclear are old reactors which require increasing maintenance and extension of operations license to keep producing. If France planned to keep their nuclear power, a lot more reactors would have to be build quickly. Reality is, there is one reactor in construction and it is long delayed and way over budget. It is supposed to get online this year or next. But with the costs of that one reactor, it is not thinkable to replace the aging reactors. As a consequence, France needs urgently to develop and implement a plan B.

On the other side, even France sees the increased competition of renewables. This summer they even had to take three nuclear reactors temporarily off grid, because demand for nuclear was just too low.

Yes, roof-top installation is expensive, but if you combine it with other maintenance of the roof, it gets very cheap. And any new roof should have it planned in with the setup.

Also, here the northern latitude helps, in Germany people start putting solar panels on walls and fences. There is plenty of cheap space and the efficiency isn't too bad considering the cheap panel costs.

The long-term plans are of course to get rid of coal and gas, as it will be the case world wide, if humanity wants to have a future.

Part of that is, that EU-wide there are increasing costs to producing CO2. Which makes power from coal and gas more expensive. This caused a strong drop in coal energy in germany in 23, as there were cheaper alternatives. This trend is expected to continue.

Gas costs saw a spike due to the war Russia started and their attempt at blackmailing Germany and consequently cutting gas delivery to Germany. Gas usage has been reduced and gas prices are roughly back to pre-war levels. But indeed, the LNG part of it is more expensive than the russian gas. On the other side, switching heating to heat pumps will reduce the overal gas consumption drastically.

Gas never bore a main load of the grid, it is mostly for supporting short time demands. This role will be important with renewables, but the overall amount of gas energy will drop

At the same time, buildup of renewables has been greatly sped up by the current government, the electricity is already generated buy almost 60% renewables.

Well, the difference between residual and base load determines what kind of power plants you need. The wrong one doesn't help you.

Yes, we will need more electricity, and renewables are the only way to facilitate that. They can be built up quickly and they are way cheaper. So if you want more power, you need renewables.

You don't need to drill through the crust. A mile down the temperature will already be significantly up.

No. As nuclear power cannot compete price-wise with renewables and is also a bad companion to renewables, it is already internationally on a retreat. As mentioned by the sibling comment, "base load" isn't the relative term. "residual load" is what counts in the day of plentiful renewables - and nuclear is exceptionally bad there. One needs gas or fast storage like hydro and more and more batteries here.

Seconded. I can also just recommend Fedora.

The funny thing for me about this popping up from time to time is, that I like both Tcl and Scheme a lot. Each for their purpose. While certainly not beautiful and never ment to be an implementation language for large-scale applications, Tcl does a wonderful job for its designated tasks. The syntax might seem bizarre, but there is actually a great and simple system behind it, I strongly recommend to read the chapter about the syntax in the book by Ousterhout. Like Lisp Tcl is actually a homoiconic language. And like lisp you can create your own syntax, as required. On top, basic control like function calling, looks more like natural language, little syntax required.

Of course, as programming language, Scheme is much better, and it is the language I use for day to day work. In that respect Stallman is right. However he missed a few important points and that is why Tcl is still so popular, probably more so than Scheme, if you just count users. Tcl didn't just bring a language to the table, it also has an excellent implementation which always was freely available and could be embedded into any software project. It has a nice range of very powerfull tools, Tk obviously the most fameous one. Still today it is one of the most popular GUI toolkits. And that is where Stallman with the GNU project failed. Had they at that time or in the following years provided a comparable Scheme implementation, it would have been extremely popular for application writers. Assuming of course, that it had been licensed under LGPL so that any application could use it. But it took most of the 30 years after this post for Guile becoming an option there.

The irony is, Tcl stands for Tool Control Language, it was created to control the EDA tools of the time. So it is no coincidence, that it is popular in the EDA world. I,for myself, quite like it for the intended tasks.

The other irony is, considering that article, that the Cadence analog tools (Virtuoso, Allegro) are using a nice Scheme dialect called "Skill" for that purpose. So not the whole EDA world is centered around Tcl.

And that is fine. It definitely looks cute.

I strongly disagree. It doesn't render correctly on FireFox on my Mac. And while those animated pages might look cool, they are very bad on giving you information. The product looks really cool, but as a Apple Watch owner I would really like to know what exactly it does and how.

There might be no connection to how many bulbs people use, but how powerful they are. If you make bulbs less efficient, people will uses higher-power bulbs. Like 100 instead of 60W. And if the dimmer bulb is good enough, why not use a 40W bulb in the first place?

It wouldn't have to. 10k years ago, the sea level was way lower. At the end of the ice age, the sea rose by about 100m. The Dover strait was dry land during the ice age. So if those places were built long enough ago, they would have been over the sea level.

You are using the word "ideology". That isn't the hallmark of good arguments. But may be we can agree onto that the current government is trying to fix all the problems caused by the previous one. The problem wasn't shutting down the mostly old nuclear reactors, the problem was curbing the ramp up of renewables. But fortunately, the current government is fixing that. Which brings energy prices down and while currently we are hit by many factors, quickly can become a big support for Germanys economy. It might be expensive leading a trend, but it does pay of long term.

No, the government isn't "on a largely ideologically driven understanding of climate change prevention". The shutdown of the nuclear reactors was decided by the previous government in 2011 and never reconsidered. Yes, as part of the war against Ukraine, Russia cut their gas deliveries to Germany. We managed to find other suppliers, but at least short term, sport market priced for gas went high up. This has by now settled down to about pre-war prices. In parallel, the ramp up of renewables was accelerated. In Q1 2024, 60% of the electricity was renewable.

LFP batteries are cheaper, very safe, and currently the most popular for storage and cars which don't need maximum range - the standard range Teslas are using them too.

But Sodium based batteries are coming into the market and would be even cheaper.

That a non-electric bike is better for your health is often wrong. If you are very sporty, you are fine. But there are plenty of people who would get better exercise with an e-bike, as they are more likely to use it or just use the electric assist to bike more often or longer distances. Also, there are a lot of regions where there are steep roads which could be obstacles without assist.

And Canon just announced a 3D lens for taking video for the VP :)

Or any live event like concerts and especially sports. When they can capture a live event well for the VP, it will sell a lot.