Readit Newsneamar commented on Electric power generation from Earth's rotation through its own magnetic field arxiv.org/abs/2503.15790... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
What's with the "this http URL" in the summary?
Paper said "earth.however". Because it's missing a space after the period, it appears as an invalid link.
neamar commented on Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement discourse.imfreedom.org/t... · Posted by u/rw_grim
Yes, there was some drama in the early 2000s where a bunch of bad vibe people got forcefully shaken out.
I did some digging and have been able to find basically everything. I'm keeping it to myself. No dirty laundry here.
Also if pidgin could magically combine slack, messenger, telegram, discord, and Whatsapp in a single reasonable app ... It'd be a return to the glory days. The current state of half a dozen web apps is such a pain. Just text chat. Nothing fancy.
What a dream...
In the meantime, you can try Beeper which does that through Matrix. It connects all the apps you mentioned in a single app.
neamar commented on Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object simonwillison.net/2024/Oc... · Posted by u/ajhit406
> ..each DO constantly streams a sequence of WAL entries to object storage - batched every 16MB or every ten seconds.
Which also means it may take 10 seconds before you can (reliably) read the write globally.
I keep failing to see how this can replace regionally placed database clusters which can serve a continent in milliseconds.
Edit: I know it uses streams, but those are only to 5 followers and CF have hundreds of datacenters. There is no physical way to guarantee reads in seconds unless all instances of the SQLite are always connected and even then, packet latency will cause issues.
The writes are streamed in near real time to five followers, acknowledging it near instantly. The cloudflare blog article mention this more in depth. So writes remain fast, while still having durability.
neamar commented on The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy conversableeconomist.com/... · Posted by u/speckx
Curiosity questions is the revenue that is localized in Ireland and the Netherlands because of the double sandwich, of any significance in terms of percentage of total taxed revenue in those countries?
From memory Ireland and the Netherlands are also the biggest contributors to EU funding. So I am wondering how this shift would affect EU dynamics as a whole?
They're not large contributors to eu finance: 10th and 5th, respectively
https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/eu-budget-contrib...
France and Germany account for nearly 50% of the funding.
neamar commented on First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars nottingham.ac.uk/news/fir... · Posted by u/geox
There is a novel written with that premise as the background! I can share the title with you, if you'd like - that particular premise is a very small part of the novel.
I'd like to read it!