Tonopah #CSP #solar #energy plant went bankrupt in 02021 and was already obsolete when it went into operation in 02015.
The #HTML5 Fetch API supports #CORS, so you can talk to third-party servers.
It’s pretty easy to submit POST data with the #HTML5 Fetch API.
Running #Emacs on #Android, either inside #Termux or just from #F-Droid.
turning a GPS/LTE modem into a web server. #hoarding #bootstrapping
The #OpenStreetMap #dataset downloads page. 156GB for planet.xml, 84GB for planet PBF file, 7.5GB for latest weekly changesets.
How to download #OpenStreetMap #dataset files. Amazon donates (?) unlimited bandwidth from S3.
South America on #OpenStreetMap is only 4 gigabytes in PBF format. North America is 19.
And Argentina on #OpenStreetMap is only 426 megabytes.
The #PBF format for #OpenStreetMap: “It is about half of the size of a gzipped planet [in OSM XML format] and about 30% smaller than a bzipped planet. It is also about 5x faster to write than a gzipped planet and 6x faster to read than a gzipped planet. The format was designed to support future extensibility and flexibility.
The underlying file format is chosen to support random access at the 'fileblock' granularity. Each file-block is independently decodable and contains a series of encoded PrimitiveGroups, with each PrimitiveGroup containing ~8k OSM entities in the default configuration.”. #file-format
#news about the #PV #energy explosion: “#Pakistan says rooftop #solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year (...) “Negative demand” is likely in the northwestern city of #Lahore, which has some of the country's highest solar penetration, followed by Faisalabad and Sialkot, where industrial areas are driving solar adoption, [Aisha Moriani] said. (...) The south Asian nation is planning to introduce new tariffs for large solar users, as well as changes to fee structures to ensure businesses with panels share equally in the costs of grid upkeep, she said.”
Oh, torrents for #OpenStreetMap planet data are available going back to 02020.
#history of the #internet and the .us domain with things like bridger.pps.k12.or.us which I am never going to read
more about the hard problem of #consciousness and #AI
oh hey, a #Wikipedia mirror on #IPFS
Kontsept, Billy Joel's album from his concert series in the USSR in glasnost in 01985
Ozymandias Brennan on why #polyamory with several partners who are exclusive with you would be exhausting, as in the FLDS #Mormon church. “[S]carce resource[s] and harem politics are inherent to the relationship style.”
Ozymandias Brennan on the cons of #polyamory
#Aella speculates that monogamy is riskier than #polyamory even though her survey data doesn’t support that conclusion
#USA #politics of #Facebook providing communication for online #slavery markets. #human-rights
#news from 02022 of Google flagging Mark [anonymous]’s Google account for child porn when he sent a photo of his toddler son’s infected penis to the doctor and reported him to the police. The police decided no abuse had happened but he never got his account back. #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
#news article about Charles M. Schulz, the “Peanuts” author of Charlie Brown
"Pocketbase" is an open-source backend-as-a-service (like Firebase?) in one file, with OAuth2 support (for Google, Facebook, etc. login) storing the data in SQLite, written in Golang. Apparently Trailbase is another instance of the concept but written in Rust.
Another #news item about the #Polar-Night #sand-battery #energy-storage, which utility Lahti Energia will be using for district heating #energy
#introduction #video for #slide-rules, but only using A, B, C, and D scales, no CI, CIF, DI, L, etc. So just showing multiplication, division, squares, and square roots, and not by the most efficient procedure, by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, filming Harvey E. White, Professor of Physics, University of California
Harvey E. White, the #slide-rules video professor, taught at Berkeley; he worked on atomic spectroscopy under Paschen in Germany, then went to Cornell and Berkeley. Doesn’t seem to have ever discovered anything. Well, he published 13 papers when he was at Cornell.
another #humor #video on how #English makes less sense than #Chinese