To be honest I would rather see only European countries. Adding these countries and especially the controversial Israel doesn’t help Europe to unite.
I also don’t really like the over the top way the festival is presented, it looks very fake and glamorous to me. I don’t associate myself with the fake and glamorous

I believe its roots have more to do with the railways than with the military. I have never called it military time to be honest.

Well, in crypto all your assets are on the blockchain. But you can access them using wallet software. You can have multiple addresses that have a balance, and most of the time anyone can see those balances, as the ledger is synchronized and transactions are checked by all clients. However, in order to access and send the money, you will need proof that you are the owner. Therefore every address had a keypair. In older desktop clients, there was a local file called wallet.dat which stored all of the owned wallet addresses and their private keys. That file could optionally be encrypted. Newer clients often use a mnemonic phrase and derives the keys for the addresses based on that phrase, but the person in question still had the original wallet.dat, even unencrypted, meaning he could access the keys all along.

Same in Europe, it’s generally not allowed to have distracting lights or signals on cars. Advertisements on trucks are only allowed if they are passive (e.g. painted or printed).

There are many other crucial steps to take for cross border competition to take off. European countries often still use incompatible voltages, alarm systems and rail sizes.

Same in the Netherlands. There’s still a long way to go

Now try it with chrome

All Android phones support Opus which makes it a great format if storage space is limited, as it’s optimized for low bitrates. You can go as low as 64 kbps if you are not picky. 128 kbps is near transparent and certainly enjoyable, while 192 kbps is basically a 320 kbps mp3 equivalent.

At 128 kbps, one can store 5000 songs even if they have just 20 GB to spare, as mentioned above.

The quote is obviously incorrect, perhaps the engineer meant to say “absorb 1.2 GWh and start providing power to the grid in a matter of milliseconds”, and it was lost in translation.

From what I read, it does 800 MW max, which is still a lot.

1.2 GWh is just the capacity. And response time can indeed be quite fast as the system is always on standby, but I would guess it would still take a few seconds to go from zero to full power

Not sure if that’s a problem though, the German power grid is connected to many European countries including France, Switzerland and Austria.

Personally, for long term storage, I’m more a fan of simple solutions because they scale better, such as using the excess electricity to pump water up a hill, then using generators in the winter to convert it back to electricity (pumped storage).

I get what you are saying, but there are some subtleties that make it seem a bit out or context.

• Battery storage plants and power plants do not serve the same purpose. One is to generate electricity, the other is used to buffer and stabilize the net. They have to be used together.

• Solar and wind are cheaper to build/run and also way more decentralized than a nuclear plant. Plus a nuclear power plant takes 1-2 decades to complete and should therefore be seen as a long term benefit, it’s not a solution for the short term electricity problems Europe is facing.

• Nuclear hasn’t recently become unpopular in Germany. It was unpopular in the '80s and '90s, particularity after the Chernobyl accident. The decision to phase out nuclear was taken around the turn of the century. That’s 25 years ago. Nowadays people have a more positive outlook on nuclear but it still has to make sense from an economic point of view before companies want to invest.

Not sure about this move though, as most of these plants are end of life. They are all 40-50 years old. I guess owning the land and the permits could save some lead time, but it’s not a small endeavor to get them running again.

There’s always a catch, details matter.

Some chemistries can only work if heated up to a certain temperature.
Some cannot supply high currents. Some perform badly at lower temperatures. Some are expensive to produce. Some have a very low energy density per weight or volume. Some are hard to create consistently and require a lot of balancing. Some cannot be scaled up easily. Some are prone to aging regardless of cycles. Some even require manual maintenance.

It’s hard to make a cell that does everything right. Cycle life is only one out of a huge list of parameters.

It sounds like you are only talking about html.

Delphi VB6 C# Winforms Qt

These wysiwyg editors usually worked/work without issues.

That’s a different regulation. It’s not that hard.

USB C: already required now

Replaceable battery: required starting next year

By the way, USB C on the charger is not a requirement. Only on the device side.

The batteries inside of the phone have to be replaceable by normal personnel. So instead of glueing it stuck, they need to use screws or something else.

This. Furthermore, because the date is fixed, a decade from now, only middle aged people will smoke in public. I really doubt if youngsters find it appealing at that time, to adopt a habit associated with the elderly.

Thanks, didn’t know! I love Massive Attack and I recommend seeing them live. They are way better than you would expect from a decades old band.