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blueblueue commented on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels   grist.org/buildings/how-g... · Posted by u/bilsbie
MaKey · 3 months ago
Germany's nuclear power plants were shut down by the governments before him. What do you think he should have done differently?
blueblueue · 3 months ago
Well most of them were, but not all. Notably the last three nuclear power plants in Germany were shutdown on 15. April 2023, while the last coalition was in power. At that time there was a big discussion whether the shutdown could be postponed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a measure to curb rising electricity costs in Germany, but ultimately it was decided to go through with the shutdown. It was a largely symbolic move, but carried a lot of emotional weight since it put last nail in the coffin for nuclear energy in Germany. Hence people now blaming the Ampel government (and Habeck in particular) even though it wasn’t their decision to shut down power plants in the first place (with people of the party who made the decision openly criticizing them as well). Just to add a bit of context as German…
blueblueue commented on Hacking a Toniebox   schafe-sind-bessere-rasen... · Posted by u/LorenDB
blueblueue · 5 months ago
What imo doesn’t get mentioned enough about the music on the (German, can’t speak for English) Tonies is the recordings themselves: They are recorded with real musicians and natural postproduction, not like most kids songs found on YouTube nowadays which are heavily compressed and edited. My kids love using the Toniebox and I am happy they do. For me the quality of content outweighs the negative aspects.
blueblueue commented on Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?    · Posted by u/trwhite
whatamidoingyo · 2 years ago
Do you have any book recommendations for those topics?
blueblueue · 2 years ago
I really enjoyed http://www.emulator101.com/. It is a hands on tutorial on how to write an emulator for an Intel 8080 CPU that can run the original Space Invaders. The code examples are in C, but you can find implementations in other languages on GitHub as well.

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KarmaCake day190October 10, 2021View Original