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Considering coal is pure C, I can't really imagine an alternate fuel that would change the math substantially

Yea probably within an order of magnitude or so - then again, elephants are probably within an order of magnitude of size of humans. I don't see why elephants couldn't eventually evolve to an intelligent civilisation, given enough time. I'd say that's still pretty large.

But yea I mean the blue whale and the largest dinosaurs are probably about the limit of how large life can get, at least with Earth conditions.

Rust-based JS engine that isn’t just AI generated unsafe everywhere

Tbf only 4% of the code was unsafe after the rewrite, which is much better than the 100% of the Zig code being unsafe. Honestly it's not surprising you'd have such a large amount of unsafe when you translate Zig to Rust. But as I understand it, it's since been refactored to much less than 4%.

I mean it was 600,000 lines of Zig prior to the rewrite yea? If we say that a team is ~6 people, that's 100,000 lines each to read through and translate. Assuming 250 working days in a year, that's 400 lines of code you just need to read every day, let alone the Rust you need to be writing (approximately another 400 lines).

Add to that overhead for planning and coordination... I actually think a year for a team might be an underestimate.

But maybe you wouldn’t need as much fire cause bigger animals tend to hold heat better?

I thought the same thing. Then again, fire is not only needed for heat, but also for cooking food and creating new materials (metallurgy essentially). But surely a large creature could just make fires the same size as humans do if they needed to do those things? But perhaps it'd be impractical to cook food at a tiny fire hehe

Smaller I suppose, but larger? Why not? Wouldn't you just have a really large fire?

Not kinda, exactly like it - it is just another example of it :)

I’ve never seen such a small flame, I think they can’t exist. Why? I don’t know.

Your intuition is correct and it's quite simple really. A small fire cools down faster than it can keep/generate its own heat.

Surface area of the fire (which correlates with how quickly it cools) grows with the square of the size of the fire. Meanwhile volume of the fire (which correlates to how much heat it generates, how much fuel it is burning) grows with the cube.

At small sizes, the surface area can win out against the volume. However, because it grows with the cube, the volume eventually wins as the fire gets bigger. So a fire can only get so small.

Presumably such behavior could get you into moderation trouble, just guessing.

I would definitely have gone for an Ioniq 5 as well if money was not a question. But at the end of the day, the Ioniq 5 was overkill for my use case so I ended up going for a used Hyundai Kona. Still very happy with my choice, even if I would've loved an Ioniq 5. But it did save me like 60.000 DKK.

To manage the deficit, the Russian government has initiated maritime gasoline imports from India

Why is India okay with fuelling Putin's war? Should we be okay with that? Should we sanction India? It just seems like we ought to get India to be on the better side of history here, but not sure how to achieve that. It is a real shame that they don't seem to care.

Actually think his points are extremely valid and the retorts in this thread just proves his point even further tbh