I remember seeing a documentary about a village in Germany, where many houses were damaged by geothermal plants, caused by water entering layers where it usually didn’t reach and the material there taking in water and expanding. So it probably depends a lot on the local geology and also on the depth. I sadly don’t remember how deep the one in the documentary was.

I know a few people that got geothermal heating installed for their homes (in Germany), which goes a lot less deep than something intended for whole cities or districts. The one at my friend’s home is 50m deep, and it looks like anything less than 400m is considered “near surface”

I don’t think it makes sense to compare those efficiencies, as one is for converting heat to electricity, while the other is for converting sunlight. If you use sunlight to heat water and then use that for a steam turbine, the efficiency is similar to a photovoltaic panel. The efficiency numbers are still useful, but only when they refer to the same starting point for the conversion (e.g. only comparing things that turn heat into electricity).

Die kaputten Tags waren im Hintergrundbild (Bilder scheinen allgemein in der Archivversion zu fehlen). Aber die ganzen /* ohne Gegenstück passen auch gut :) Der Satz mit den Nervenzusammenbrüchen ist bei der Seite zu Anwendungsentwickler:innen.

Falls ich die Straßenbahn noch Mal sehe, mache ich ein Foto, da haben sie die kaputten Tags noch drauf

Die hatten bestimmt die gleiche Werbeagentur beauftragt wie die Rentenversicherungn für ihre “Echte IT” Kampagne, da war der Hintergrund auch voller (kaputter) HTML-Tags, bzw. zufällig im Text platzierter spitzer Klammern, weil schaut nach Code aus.

Leider gibt’s echte-it.de nicht mehr (hatte auch andere Highlights, wie die Beschreibung der Entwicklerstelle mit “nach dem einen oder anderen Nervenzusammenbruch funktioniert’s”), aber bei uns fährt die Werbung noch auf einer Straßenbahn rum.

Thank you, from a quick glance it seems to be able to do everything I need. I will try it for my next load test.

The only thing I still use Postman for at work is when running API performance benchmarks, as I wasn’t yet motivated enough to write a curl wrapper to do such tests and plot the results. Especially when doing things like ramp up etc. it becomes more than a simple for-loop.

Can someone recommend an existing command line tool for that?

Ps, this gave me an idea for possible vegetarian branding: names like “not a burger” seem to still be allowed, so a line of foodstuffs called “not a sausage” etc might be fun.

That’s definitely gonna happen, there’s already a plant drink brand named “this is not m*lk” (including the censoring) in Germany, as here a similar ban is already in effect for the word “milk” to exclude soy milk / oat milk / …

Ich habe Typ 2, aber viele neue Ladestationen können nur DC und an manchen Autobahnraststätten, an denen ich früher regelmäßig geladen habe, wurden die bestehenden AC-Säulen abgebaut, damit mehr reine DC-Säulen hin passen (oder halt nach einem Defekt nicht mehr repariert, weil gibt ja jetzt die DC-Säule).

Ich kann die Entscheidung für die Raststätten auch nachvollziehen, tendenziell fahren Langstrecken halt schon eher Leute mit Schnelllader. Aber zumindest eine Säule, die AC kann, wäre nett (gibt ja auch genug Modelle, die beides können).

Als Early Adopter muss ich leider sagen, dass Typ 2 mittlerweile seltener wird und oft nur noch CCS da ist. Aber das betrifft kein Auto, das VW derzeit noch produziert, die können ziemlich sicher an allen Ladestationen in Deutschland laden.

The author seems to be Ellis Rosen (I searched based on the signature in the comic)

As far as I know, if the vehicle’s top speed is not above 6km/h, there are a lot less rules in Germany, e.g. you don’t need a license and also no TÜV certification. Don’t know how fast a barbie car goes though.

Zumindest hier in der Region ist es so, dass die Union als einzige Partei so viel Geld übrig hat, dass keine Freiwilligen die Werbung verteilen, sondern Dienstleister. Und die SPD hat einfach noch relativ viele Mitglieder. Die Grünen haben in meinem 3500-Einwohner-Dorf zwei aktive Mitglieder und das bei 17% Grünen-Wählern.

Digitale Broschüren gibt’s, aber dafür muss man halt auf die Webseite. Oft sind ja mittlerweile QR-Codes dazu auf den Wahlplakaten, aber ich hab meine Zweifel, dass die oft genutzt werden.

Do most packages usually have a manual entry ?

Usually there are manual pages for commands, for libraries and drivers like libwacom it is less common, and they are not necessarily the same as the package name. Some packages also just have a Readme file or an HTML manual installed under /usr/share/doc or similar.

When unsure, I often just check the list of files that belong to a package, most package managers can do it. E.g. on Debian-based (i.e. apt using) distros, dpkg -L $packagename will list it, in arch based distros it is pacman -Ql $packagename.

I also thought this was a scam like “energized water” and similar, but then found that there are actually medical studies being done on it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10816294/ But that review paper also says, that larger sample sizes are needed and the mechanisms aren’t explained, so it may turn out useless after all.

In the EU, cars have to be equipped with automatic emergency call systems since 2018. So probably since then most brands will have had it, as they are required to have cell connection hardware anyway.

I don’t think The Guardian is wrong here, see this passage from the article:

Comer has sent 16 letters to former Biden White House officials requesting transcribed interviews, NBC said. Metadata analysis showed that all appeared to be signed with a digitally inserted signature. Further letters requesting testimony from the White House physician Dr Kevin O’Connor and Anthony Bernal, a senior aide to former first lady Jill Biden, were also signed with digital images, NBC said.

He did not use cryptographic signatures, but images of his written signature, which I think is pretty similar to using an autopen (albeit probably much easier to detect)

ARM boards with slotted RAM use the same type as x86 (although mostly LPDDR, as found in laptops), so I assume there isn’t any difference that is related to the CPU architecture.

My theory for why it created copies: The files you listed look like they are all subdirectories from /dev, which is (usually) a separate filesystem. When you try to move a file or directory across filesystems, the OS can’t just change the link, it has to actually copy the files and then remove the original. As a directory is a set of links to files, and the copies are different files, directories are just newly created with the same name in the new location instead of copying the directory filesystem entry. It looks like mv creates these target directories, before it checks if it actually has permission to remove the source, but checks file permissions, before it copies them

Except the circumstances in which they run on gasoline are not that exceptional: https://theicct.org/publication/real-world-phev-use-jun22/ And the lower weight of the battery is partially offset by needing an additional drive train, a transmission with multiple gears (purely electric cars usually have fixed transmission) and other smaller parts required for the combustion engine. These also increase the required maintenance a lot (e.g. requiring oil changes).