> Gemini says since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, so another thing to blame Putin for), now it's about 5% more expensive...
No. That's not correct. It got more expensive than gasoline since the attack on Iran.
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No. That's not correct. It got more expensive than gasoline since the attack on Iran.
Nice concept! Do you have any problems with mold build up?
Interesting! Is there some sort of filter system you can easily clean out, to avoid any issues?
No, that's not right. The CB interchange fees are 0.2% + 0.0011€ network fee.
Therefore for 1€ : 0.002 + 0.0011 = 0.0031€, not 0.23€
So you have 0.2269€ of fees coming out of left field, with someone else making a massive profit.
Terse?
I tried searching the interweb for a cause/fix, but couldn't find anything sensible in the flood of low-quality SEO hijacking webcrap returned by multiple search engines. So I asked AI.
The claim is that it could be caused by the blocking of some DNS providers (NextDNS, Quad9, ..), and it suggested using a VPN or phone tethering.
And lo and behold, both suggestions worked, without any browser setting changes.
It's very annoying and inconvenient.
No, not necessarily.
I've been using bikes with only rear brakes for years and years as city bikes, and never had a braking problem.
On the other hand, I've borrowed many bikes with conventional rim brakes and invariably had (serious) braking issues because they would be badly adjusted.
My experience with black ice and bikes, is to unexpectedly fall flat on my face because the front wheel loses all grip. Without even getting to the point of trying to brake..
He told me that the problem had been forecast and known since the early 2000s, and that basically nothing was done about it until very recently (think less than 5 years).
The problem was made worse with the privatization of the electricity network, as the incentive to invest in primary net infrastructure was very low.
So it's the classical case of a known problem with no will to invest, combined with successive governments that wash their hands saying "it's privatized, we cannot interfere". (so also with no will to invest)
The problem was foreseen, the plans were made and proposed with actionable steps and real deadlines, and nothing was done because the costs were too high.
And now the short-to-medium term prognosis is bleak, with blackouts a real possibility.
For solar, starting next year, you'll get less and less money for the energy you give back to the net, so you might as well us it and store it for yourself instead of letting the energy shareholders get rich with your production.
If your unit is also to be used as heat pump, well.. ..things look bleaker globaly in the Netherlands.. Especially if more and more people step over from gas to electric. No sun + cold wave (and therefore an inefficient heat pump) is going to put some people in the cold..
A smarter network could help, if the investments were sufficient. But the problem has been known since the early 2000s, and nothing has been done about it until recently.
https://dutchtimes.nl/business/connection-ban-in-utrecht-sig...
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/12/grid-operator-warns-overload-u...
https://nos.nl/artikel/2611522-vol-stroomnet-utrecht-is-een-...
If anything, using more energy-efficient heat pumps might even decrease the load on the network.
In the best case, you might have had chalk added to whiten your bread. In worse cases, alum..
Or they will be, and we will have an even bigger problem..
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart#Climate
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Budapest#Data
(I took Budapest, for the sake of generality, from [1] it is clear that there are significant variations in Hungary)
You can see that the mean temperatures from April to October are about 2 degrees higher in Budapest than in Stuttgart, which is really significant. To give you an idea, that's a lot closer to Avignon (France) [2], which is a Mediterranean climate, than to Stuttgart which is considered oceanic.
I also remember people saying that they could get 2 harvests of figs a year in Moravia (CZ), which you will not get in Germany. Moravia is not Hungary, but it's getting there, climate-wise, and it illustrates nicely the difference a few degrees (mean) make.
[1] https://www.met.hu/en/eghajlat/magyarorszag_eghajlata/altala...
- 13000 * 9.81 * 1000 = 127.5 MJ, to reach your altitude
- 0.5 * 13000 * (77)^2 = 38.5 MJ, to accelerate to your climbing speed.
Total: 127 + 38.5 = 166 MJ, or about 46.11 kWh
For a go around, re-accelerating from 1.3 * stall speed (85 knots / 44 m/s) to your climbing speed, and going to your missed approach altitude of 1000 m, you will need:
- 13000 * 9.81 * 1000 = 127.5 MJ, to reach your altitude
- 0.5 * 13000 * (77^2 - 44^2) = 26 MJ to accelerate back to your climbing speed.
Total: 127 + 26 = 153 MJ, or about 42.5 kWh
That's an interesting roundabout way of saying that they were not following the certification requirements before, and that it now takes much longer for them to actually conform to the rules they should have followed in the first place.
> The 777-9 just happened to be on the edge of certification when they came along.
Yeah, killing 346 passengers due to extreme negligence will do that to you.. These pesky FAA requirements standing in the way of business..
And more generally, door blow-outs during pressurization tests and engine pylons failing are maybe not things that can be blamed on certification rigorousness..
First country in the list: Australia
Just two little niggles:
- I feel like I should be able to fly over a runway without crashing in a landing/taking-off airplane. The vertical separation would allow for that.
- It would be nice to have an (optional?) zoom-out level, to have a bit more space for routing.
But a lovely little game, thanks again.
With OP postulating that it is to enable corruption, and a sub-reply affirming that it is therefore the trait of a country in decay, bringing in Serbia as a counter-example is hilarious.
Serbia ranks 116th in the corruption perception index, Germany 10th. (Lower is better)