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Only if you actually has a system complex enough to require it. A lot of systems that use kubernetes are not complex enough to require it, but use it anyway. In that case kubernetes does indeed add unnecessary complexity.


> 1 nautical mile equals to one minute in the 90 degrees hemisphere arc

The nautical mile is not an SI unit, so it is not defined by a single organization, Your definition used to be the common definition, but it seems like the relevant organizations has updated the definition to be exactly 1852 m. If the original definition of the meter applies, then it would have been 1851.85 or 15 cm shorter, but with newer measurement of the earth, it would have been more like 1855 m.


> The nautical mile is not an SI unit, so it is not defined by a single organization

"In 1929 the International Hydrographic Bureau obtained an agreement from a large number of countries to adopt a value of 1852 metres for the nautical mile, the unit thus defined to be called the International Nautical Mile."

* https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/adoption-of-international-na...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Hydrographic_Org...

But there was no treaty or anything with a fancy ceremony, just a 'handshake', and so it was up to each country to adopt it with a domestic law or regulation, which (e.g.) the US did in 1954:

* https://usma.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Nautical-Mile.pd...

Previously in the US it was 1853.25 m (because the US is actually metric "officially": all of its customary units (ft, oz) are defined in terms of metric equivalents):

* https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/mendenhall-order


Some of the heavy metals are likely from the fire retardant, and some are likely from the fire. Look at zinc vs lead for example. There is little lead in the unused sample vs the environmental samples, thus most of the lead is likely not from the fire retardant. I would guess the most likely source is lead from roofs of burning houses.

Zinc on the other hand is present in all samples in about the same amount, including the unused one. That means that the zinc is likely from the fire retardant rather than the environment. Other metals are present in slightly higher amounts in the environmental samples, and often only in some of the samples. In that case both the fire retardant and the fires/environment are likely to contribute.

To me it seems like copper, lead and manganese are mostly from the fires, while zinc and chromium seems to be from the fire retardant. Then there is the sample from the Franklin fire, that seems to be higher in everything.


> Some of the heavy metals are likely from the fire retardant

I'm not disagreeing with what you wrote, but they did also analyze unused, "fresh out of the package" retardant.


This does not work in Firefox. The squares get stretched, while the area you can access stays square, so that the lower row is hidden. This makes it impossible to play.


it works in my version of Firefox, and I tested it on mobile as well. Can you send a screenshot and give information about your version of Firefox? what it looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/ma37KtJ


I don't have a place to upload a screenshot just now, but it's Firefox 135 on Fedora linux 41.

What happens is that the squares doesn't stay square like in your screenshot, but varies in size depending on which pieces are in that row. The height of a row varies, but the width of the columns always stays the same.

Edit: It is often not the lowest row that get hidden, often e.g row 4 and 5 get so low that you can't put any pieces there.


I did not have this problem when I played a game from Firefox.


Steel production causes around 8% of the worlds CO2 emissions, so if this is right, this project alone is causing emissions around two thirds of all of the worlds aviation.


Probably pales into insignificance compared to all the oil Saudi Arabian is pumping out the ground, but meh.


Mike Stewart, that is the one with the most in depth knowledge about the AGC on the Curious Marc channel, is also one of the main contributors to this repo, so I guess so.


> You need carbon (coal) to make steel from iron.

Carbon in form of coal is currently used for three purposes in steel production:

1) Heat up the ore to high temperatures

2) Reduce iron oxide to iron.

3) Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon.

Only for the third of these carbon is essential, and that requires some tens of kilos carbon per ton of steel as opposed to more than 2 tons carbon per ton of steel. The two first ones can be replaced by electrical heating and hydrogen respectively. There are currently being built some factories in northern Sweden for doing this, using hydrogen produced by hydropower. Without sufficient tax on carbon or customers willing to pay the extra for "green steel", it is not cost competitive for now.


> This property is more a function of the encoding parameters of the video stream

Not really. Formats like mp4 can't be parsed without reading the container header, that may be at the start or end of the file. Thus you can't read an mp4 by starting in the middle without reading the header and then seek to the middle of the file. This is the case regardless of encoding parameters. With mpeg-ts on the other hand, you can seek to a random place in the middle, and recover the stream on the next Iframe. Not many other file formats allow this.


Of course you can start an mp4 at an arbitrary point, that's what fragmented mp4 is for :)

It's just lots of independent separate mp4 files concatenated into a single file.


Some funding happens through the university, but an increasingly large part of it is gathered through external grants, most often financed through the government. My understanding is that the author argue that when external grants make up most of the funding, universities are just overhead for the scientists. The scientists will still be funded by the government or other grant agencies, but not be employed by a university. In other words, a different way of organizing research.

I don't say I necessarily agree with that position. it would have large implications on how advanced degrees are given, which is part of why the government pay for research in addition to the science output. There for sure are other things that must be handled differently in society as well, but that's the argument as I understand it. To some extent government labs as well as private research organizations to some extent do research outside of universities already, but most science happens inside universities and is combined with education.


A university department is a research community, which is much more valuable than just some bureaucratic overhead.

A group of professors, postdocs and grad students regularly interacting with one another, attending talks by visiting researchers, going to journal club every week to discuss new papers, etc. will be much more intellectually productive, in general, than the same set of people dispersed and trying to work by themselves.

Of course, the university does also perform bureaucratic functions, like running payroll, making sure the grant money is used on what it's supposed to be used on, and very importantly, organizing classes for undergraduate and graduate students. However, the university is also an intellectual community.


A whole lot of science goes on in Pharma and Biotech, but the paper doesn't appear until the project fails or, perhaps, after the patent is granted and things are "safe". And I'm sure some things are held as trade secrets. They were in computational modeling so I assume they're handled the same way in "real" chemistry.


The data clearly supported the hole in the middle, and only reconstructions with a hole did fit the data. The data support the hole and that one side is brighter, but not much more than that. Thus a blurred image does not make one believe that we know more than we do.


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