Atemu

Right and that was not my point. The 300 person town should get a train station nearby aswell as Missouri's capital city. I see no reason why one should wait on the other.

If you're telling me that's impossible because there aren't enough resources to do both simulatneously, I can show you an industry that is currently wasting a ton of resources to build poor interim solutions touted as saviours of the world.

This isn't really fit for the Android community because "Android's kernel" is the Linux kernel. Android is more about everything beyond the kernel; the userspace APIs and components that make an Android phone actually work. The kernel is rather unimportant here. Android uses Linux because it's the most mature operating system out there.

Monolith vs. microkernel has been a hot debate in operating systems ever since the concepts emerged.

I personally really like the basic idea behind microkernels (separating mechanism and policy) but can also appreciate that, in reality, the best kernel in existence for general purpose computing is purposefully a monolith while the best a true microkernel (Minix) has achieved is to run CPU firmware.

Do note, over the past decade or so, that Linux has sorta been stealthily laying out the basics to turn itself into something of a microkernel. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBPF

Android uses Linux' eBPF for its firewall implementation for instance.

I don't have much experience with Apple's XNU kernel but AFAIK it's not a true microkernel but a lot more of a microkernel than Linux is.

Thanks for the info. Do you know which combination was used to derive the number in the article?

Ironic.

Pressing "Continue to HTTP Site" actually adds it to the allow-lists already which is quite handy (if it weren't for the annoying delay now...)

Note that I only want to get rid of the delay before being allowed to press the button, not the screen itself. I want an HTTP connection to remain an action I must explicitly initiate (as it should be).

smartwatch, but the level of overkill, given what you want, would be silly.

That and I actively do not want a smartwatch anyways because at least three of these apply:

• Doesn't show the time all the time (huh?); you need to do weird flick motions or whatever
• Has heavy batteries and still extremely short runtime
• Is a privacy nightmare
• Is likely to become a paperweight in 5 years

while even one of these properties would be a no-go for me.

My personal experience has been that analog quartz watches often have some of those features

Do you know of any other models with a count-down timer? I've actually had a hard time finding even just the Seiko ones.

You would probably do best with a hybrid that has both kinds of display.

At this point, I'm considering that aswell.

While presenting these functions via the analog display the way the Seikos do is just so incredibly neat, using a little LCD panel for these wouldn't be too bad either.
These might have the option to be be radio controlled or solar-powered too which would both be a medium boon to me.

I also simply haven't been able to find these old Seikos in good condition anywhere here in Germany. Physical shops usually either only carry expensive show-off watches (Rolex etc.) or newer Seiko models and listings on after market sites usually don't look very good or are only sold for parts. Although you did just prompt me to look again and I found an insert on Kleinanzeigen that looks very promising...

So thanks a bunch for your comment either way! :)

Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Technologies (GREET) model

Wasn't that the fun model where they ignored the emissions of producing the vehicle?

Electric cars are creating additional sources of funding for battery research, improvement of the electrical grid (there was a movement to get rid of central power generating and just use generators at each house), and electric generation smoothing.

The kinds of battery used in cars and the kinds of batteries suitable for grid-scale operation only have a small overlap. They have entirely different needs. Car batteries make lots of trade-offs to very lightweight for example which is totally irrelevant in a stationary facility.

I think the only reason Li-ION batteries were even considered for grid-scale is that better suited battery technologies simply haven't been researched until very recently.

If our goal was energy storage for our grids, we would not be researching BEV battery tech.

What you heard was probably about tail-pipe emissions which are very low compared to ICEs indeed but they only represent a small part of an EV's lifetime emissions.

In the EU, EVs reduce lifetime emissions by about 30%. Certainly not nothing but not anywhere close to solving our transport emissions problem.

Also most parts of Europe actually but it's not quite as bad.

How much of the population lives in those areas? I can't imagine it's more than 10%.