benjhm

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

How about Salvini and his Lega, did they comment on this topic?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

Potentially (ok - not currently), "24 gigatons of carbon accumulated in methane hydrates" is a serious amount. Note that as methane increases in the atmosphere, it's lifetime increases as oxidising capacity is used up, a positive feedback. Methane may also help explain the rapid at the ends of ice ages (when sea-level rose ±100m). If there's any really bad runaway warming scenario, it has to do with methane.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

pH 7 being neutral only works at STP (lab temperature). Actually the dissociation constant K~w~ of water increases a lot across the normal range of seawater (0-30^o^C), so in tropical seas there's a lot more of both H^+^ and OH^-^ around. I'd imagine that molecules of early life could be stable at some temperatures - i.e. in some regions, while not in others.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

I vaguely recall Thatcher government in UK also tried to privatise the weather, added layers of complicated accounting (not sure how is now - how much of this got rolled back ? ).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

To me it's remarkable how most of those arbitrary borders are still there today. Also how few of those "proposed" railways got built. As for the red words - seems much of the desert (as well as some rainforest) is covered in "feathers", why were these so important? (Well I suppose tycoons still think that way - only current fashion is rare metals for phones).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So how about the Cahill Butterfly projection, ...

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For info: this track is SE of Zagreb, en route towards Belgrade, openrailwaymap shows it was rather slow. Maybe they are concerned that the new fast line from Budapest - Belgrade competes with their route Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade, to be the main line from Germany to Turkey.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Zed, for the last few months, and happy with it (previously vscode) - I code in Scala, so Metals provides the complex hints / actions.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Pour ajouter contexte - il semble que c'était une centre d'education pour adultes, y compris ceux venant d'autres pays qui y apprennent la langue suedoise.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Il me semble qu'il y existe d'offre ferroviaire entre quelque villes connectées avec des grosse lignes sur cette carte - par example Toulon-Nice, je me demande comment ils déterminent 'suffisante' ?
Autre problème - les voyages habituelles s'adaptent aux transports disponibles, donc par telle méthodologie on ne va jamais découvrir tous les voyages potentielles, si on remplirait les trous dans le reseau.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Many Ukrainian women are still in exile further west in europe, especially those with or expecting young children, for their safety. Their children are not included in this data (it says 'on the territory') but these are potentially the next generation of Ukrainians, if conditions become good for them to return.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I'd like to see something like this proposal. I'd been following that pre-SIP but was rather dismayed by so many negative comments.
I respect those who urge caution to be sure that it's not too hard to implement in the tooling - smooth-running metals etc. is very important. But it's a pity to see all those remarks like "we shouldn't put data in code".
I'm a scientist, I make an interactive climate / socio-scenarios system model. It now works in scala.js (even wasm), but was derived from a java applet, evolving over 25 years.
This is real world stuff, there are many small sets of 'constants' (not user data) with irregular structures, setting up gases and aerosols, regions, socioeconomic sectors, sources of energy, land use biomes, pledge (NDC) definitions, parameter sets tuned from other models and scenarios, etc. etc. Of course the model loads big historical datasets separately, but small sets of numbers should be in the code where it's easy to see and adjust them (real world and science changes...), that's an essential part of the transparency. And don't tell me to put these within multi-line strings, then the compiler doesn't check the structure, so we'd get runtime errors instead (scala is great - because when once it compiles, it just works).
As noted in the discussion, there are various workarounds with aliases, which I use, but it could be neater.
A related topic that was on scala-contributors which I'd like to see reopened is multi-level (nested) enums, for similar reasons. To get around the limitations of enums, I recently started to write my own macros, which works but ... (another story...).

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