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mdf
·7 days ago·discuss
Ruuvi Air[1] seems to be close to the middle in both price and CO2 measurement accuracy between aranet4 and the IKEA device. I don't have personal experience with Ruuvi Air specifically, but have been using their cheaper Ruuvi Tags (that don't measure CO2) for temperature, humidity and air pressure measurement at home and office.

[1] https://ruuvi.com/air/
mdf
·5 months ago·discuss
You're right. Perhaps clean would better capture the distinction in favor of solar in this context? Both corn and solar convert insolation to usable power with a short time between capture and use. Solar, on the other hand, is net negative when it comes to emissions, while the corn harvest is just burnt with the CO2 escaping back to the atmosphere. (And potentially, the solar panels can just be recycled back to new solar panels when they reach the end of their lifetimes. They're mostly aluminum and glass after all.)
mdf
·5 months ago·discuss
Yes, and the corn-based ethanol here is used for "feeding cars" that have combustion engines, i.e. it's already used exactly for energy production. The most recent Technology Connections video[1] quoted some numbers on this. All this land dedicated to disposable energy production could be dedicated to renewable energy production instead.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM
mdf
·5 months ago·discuss
Just today, a citizens' initiative started collecting signatures in Finland to stop recent projects that aim to transfer hosting of election, taxation, and social security data on services provided by US-run companies.[1]

[1] https://digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi/
mdf
·7 months ago·discuss
> formatting is more common than parsing.

Is it, though? It's genuinely hard for me to tell.

There's both serialization and deserialization of data sets with, e.g., JSON including floating point numbers, implying formatting and parsing, respectively.

Source code (including unit tests etc.) with hard-coded floating point values is compiled, linted, automatically formatted again and again, implying lots of parsing.

Code I usually work with ingests a lot of floating point numbers, but whatever is calculated is seldom displayed as formatted strings and more often gets plotted on graphs.
mdf
·10 months ago·discuss
Could you elaborate?

I'm a long-time Xmonad user. Currently, I'm using Ubuntu 25.04, having upgraded to new non-LTS releases every six months, on two computers running Xmonad. I haven't run into any problems.