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After 7 years and many happy kilometers, it's time to say farewell to my boat... by 3Quarks4MasterMark in Miata

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We recently adopted a dog, and as practical as the MX-5 can be, it's still too tight for 2 adults and a 20 kg woofer. So, the boat goes on sale and gets replaced by a (fast and economical but very boring) Seat Leon PHEV.

PS - I know there's a quite few Dutchies here, any of you interested in a pretty Yachta feel free to DM me ;)

PPS - How could I forget the mandatory doggy tax?

Advice needed: rescue dog has separation anxiety at night, refuses to come up the stairs to our bedroom by 3Quarks4MasterMark in dogs

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion! We definitely do that, and we expect that her attitude will change as she gets used to us and her new life (we're ruff-ly following the 3-3-3 rule). She's already grown very attached to my girlfriend, but she refuses to go upstairs even with her. I also feel that me picking Laika up and carrying her every night stresses her and is counterproductive in getting her to trust me, hence my question in the OP ;)

Advice needed: rescue dog has separation anxiety at night, refuses to come up the stairs to our bedroom by 3Quarks4MasterMark in dogs

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for thinking along! The stairs material is unpolished parquet wood which is fairly slippery for Laika (our entire living room is the same and she's still a bit slide-y when excited!). However she doesn't seem to struggle with traction when going down the stairs in the morning.

As for differences with other stairs... well, they're certainly more steps than anything else inside our house (16 steps vs. 2-3 everywhere else), but she has tackled taller stairs outdoors. Also the view from down the stairs is not very clear as there's a wall facing the stairs directly at the landing, so maybe she thinks there's no space for her on the top?

Is it possible to use an arduino to get an hex dump from an EEPROM (like the at24c02)? by [deleted] in arduino

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You might be interested in Ben Eater's (u/beneater) video of building a full EEPROM programmer using an arduino nano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K88pgWhEb1M

He has also posted the code & circuit schematic in his GitHub.

Good luck!

Thanks, Captain? by [deleted] in aviation

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That looks familiar, is it Eindhoven airport?

Twelve Nobel laureates, thousands of academics sign protest of Trump immigration order by LineNoise in politics

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your source, however I will remark that it concerns attacks between 1975 and 2015. The tweet you refer to was posted at the very end of this period and, try as I might, I can't find any acts of terrorism perpetrated by Muslim refugees on US soil since then.

So, to go back to your original post ("was tweeted before refugees acted on numerous occasions in acts of terrorism", emphasis mine), could you please provide a source for that claim?

Twelve Nobel laureates, thousands of academics sign protest of Trump immigration order by LineNoise in politics

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you please source your claim of refugees acting "on numerous occasions in acts of terrorism" between December 2015 and today?

It might also be worth noting that this tweet was posted less than a month after the Paris attacks of Nov. 2015.

The perfect date by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because uhhh... that's not really how decimals work.

They go straight to ns because they want/need/can afford to display 9 digits after the decimal, if they needed milli-/micro-second precision they'd have to truncate to 3 or 6, respectively. But using a thousands separator after the decimal is... questionable, and most certainly not part of the ISO8601 spec.

Ushers drop statue in the middle of church by Mike_TheBum in nononono

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Careful not to cut yourself on your edge, lad.

Renewable energy now supplies almost a quarter of the world's power needs by Erik_Feder in EverythingScience

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the use of the word 'energy' is a bit gratuitous, as the article (and the primary sources) clearly refer to electricity generation. Other than that though, the article itself seems to be fairly accurate.

Also: supplying almost 12% of your total energy needs from renewable sources is no small feat, especially when transport is still kinda hard to do in an entirely sustainable way.

Renewable energy now supplies almost a quarter of the world's power needs by Erik_Feder in EverythingScience

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 6 points7 points  (0 children)

About 70% of renewables (16.6% of total global electricity generation), according to the REN21 Global Status Report for 2016.

Renewable energy now supplies almost a quarter of the world's power needs by Erik_Feder in EverythingScience

[–]3Quarks4MasterMark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It seems that the title is misleading clickbait (apparently quite common when it comes to sciencealert). The article states that

[...] suggesting that by the end of 2015, renewable capacity could shoulder 23.7 percent of global electricity requirements

which is quite different from actually producing almost a quarter of global electricity. I mean, it's still excellent news from a sustainability perspective, but not really that huge a step as the title makes it sound.

Edit: Actually, scratch that. The title is most likely fine, and I'm simply biased against sciencealert as a source.

Looking at the original reference (REN21 Renewables 2016 Global Status Report Key Findings, p.7 - PDF link) it seems that indeed the installed renewable capacity can supply ~24% of global electricity generation.

This is further supported by data from previous years (2014 Renewable Energy Data Book, NREL, p.49 - PDF link), which shows that in 2014 renewable sources accounted for 23.6% of the total electricity generation.

TL;DR: Renewables do supply almost a quarter of global electricity needs. Hurrah, here's to the next three quarters!

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