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a better solution would have been to have an industry wide standard icon for the fuel inlet and then an arrow would point on which side of the vehicle it is. The way it is now with the pump icon really can be confusing. If the arrow is pointing right, it seems to be suggesting the driver should go to the right of the pump which is obviously wrong.

I like the way EVs have the squiggly hose icon and that tells you everyting.it doesn't depict the charger station, but the plug point on the vehicle.


“Directions are ambiguous, when somebody says turn right, I grab the wheel by the bottom and move the hand to the right”

*Technically* it could be less ambiguous, but actually it is good enough.

If memorising this is hard, not a big problem, parking next to fuel pump twice is not that huge of a damage.


in the absence of industry wide standards, this is an ingenious design, 100% best thing possible


Just to put this into perspective - Luxembourg is really really tiny, and if MS Copilot data and calculations are to be believed it accounts for 0.23% of the average yearly power consumption of the European Union in total. so take that for what it's worth.

So, if this solar farm takes about 200,000 acres or circa 800km2 of land to achieve the above figure, such solar farms would take around 350,000km2 of land or something the size of Germany to power the entire EU.


Man i remember the days when it was the dream to have a single farm in the desert big enough to power whole countries.

Is it because China did it, or because Elon is mentioned in the article that i have to spit on the achievement?


Using the surface of Germany to power the entirety of the EU with solar power would be a real achievement. Even just powering Luxembourg is a project of a scale and return that it's worth looking at.


but what would we do with the Germans then? :)


They can live under the solar panels. Matrix style.

    It was us that covered the sky. At the time they were dependent on fossil power and it was believed that we would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.



One should be comparing with Operation Neptune, not Overlord.


Ah, thanks. The WP link on "D-Day" goes to the wrong page.


First day casualties for the allies are in the 10k range.

Title is still off.


your MacOS doesn't come with a search box in the settings window?


A new phishing technique called "file archiver in the browser" can be leveraged to "emulate" a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a .ZIP domain.


no, but commonly used services like Google Drive often zip folder downloads automatically, so regular users have been conditioned to blindly accept .zip downloads. so even if grandpa himself doesn't know how to create a zip file, he might very well try to open a .zip link when he sees one.


doesn't this bug only manifest itself if one is using microsoft defender as their only security solution, and not a 3rd party AV/IS? if so, then the number of Firefox users in this calculation is much lower.


I don't know if that's the case. I'm a Firefox user but consider all the 3rd party apps nearly as much malware as the things they are trying to solve. I run strictly defender and try to make good choices when downloading and browsing.


I actually replace Defender with a 3rd party choice (Eset) for this very same reason - to wrestle some control over my OS from Microsoft. I find Defender to be overbearing in so many ways.


I agree with this and try to practice myself. I download portablespps.com hoping they have a scanner and stick to the open source ones


well, if we're taking strictly subjective personal experiences as some sort of a relevant benchmark, then I'm a Windows Firefox user that has never used MS defender for any length of time, and always strictly a reliable low-impact 3rd party AV like ESET or Emsisoft. so I guess the two of us cancel each other out.


So based upon rigorous analysis, approximately half of all Firefox users use the default choice, and half use a different AV.


> strictly a reliable low-impact 3rd party AV

Sounds good

> like ESET

What?! ESET used to burn constant CPU when wifi disconnected.


More complicated still, defender does not completely stop working when 3rd party AV is installed. Also maybe Firefox is not the only app triggering this bug?


I run an antivirus suite and have attempted to turn Defender off several times. Windows Update keeps switching it back on.


why have they stopped providing compiled windows binaries?


Like a lot of open source communities, participation ebbs and flows, and additional hands are needed to make and maintain distribution binaries for different platforms. The project has recently prioritized usability improvements and that's consuming a lion share of available developer time and resources. If someone wants to get involved and start producing Windows binaries, they would not be turned away.


if anything, Yugoslavia itself was created using false common history as a glue for enforced national South Slavic identity that never took a strong hold, precisely because most of its constituent peoples always felt stronger connection to their specific ethnic identities than this forced common identity.

Croats, Serbs, and some others who made up Yugoslavia had separate and firm national identities in the modern sense of the word for at least 150 years before Yugoslavia fell apart in the 1990s, and in the more extended sense some of them had written history, rulers, institutions, their own language and script going back for more than a thousand years before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Xk9b92oKY


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