I have not found any study published after 2020 (the year when the French minister made the statement) that advises against ibuprofen for COVID-19. But I'm not a doctor, so I'd be interested to know your source.

Studies showed negative efficacy. At best, no difference. [0]

[0]: https://c19early.org/ib

Fascinating and annoying problem, indeed. In Java, the correct way to iterate over the characters (Unicode scalar values) of a string is to use the IntStream provided by String::codePoints (since Java 8), but I bet 99.9999% of the existing code uses 16-bit chars.

This does not fix the problem. The emoji consists of multiple Unicode characters (in turn represented 1:1 by the integer "code point" values). There is much more to it than the problem of surrogate pairs.

Codepoint is not cluster and cluster is not character. I bet there is "50 falsehoods about Unicode".

Your browser is using it when you watch a video on youtube (HTTP/3).

Yes, that's crazy. They say up to 1 MW electric which would mean (33% efficiency) 2 MW of heat to get rid of with air cooling. Later they mention facility heating which sounds more realistic, I guess?

I mean its not that much different from a diesel generator, they are around 30% efficient, so they'd also be kicking out the same amount of heat?

https://www.generatorsindustrial.com/products/1mw-diesel-gen... has a simple radiator.

but then the heat profile is different I suppose, and the efficiency doesn't depend on being able to shed heat.

> ...of course?

No, it isn't. That sounds strange, right? But here is an explanation what eternauta3k probably meant: In modern physics, there is a kind of consensus that asking “why” has often been inappropriate or even misleading and should be therefore left to philosophers. The real questions are: Does our current model describe all observations? If not, can we find a model that does? And, even better, can that new model make predictions that we can verify?

> The real questions are: Does our current model describe all observations? If not, can we find a model that does? And, even better, can that new model make predictions that we can verify?

But every prediction your model can make comes from a "why" question that the model answers.

Newton’s title has philosophy in it. It’s probably a modern error to separate all the fields and ignore philosophy when doing science etc and vice versa.

> That's as darn good of an explanation of why we fall down as one could possibly give

Well, around two hundred years later they found out that it is not a good explanation (which of course in no way diminishes Newton's achievements).

Newton’s physics is still taught and used everywhere because it’s simple and accurate enough for 99% of practical situations. Einstein’s relativity isn’t a better explanation, it just extends it to extreme conditions. NASA still uses Newtonian law to launch rockets.

> Prior to PCs, games were mostly just hand-eye coordination checks

Not sure what you call a PC, but there are 17 years of problem-solving computer games (text adventures, click-and-point adventures, RPGs, real-time and round-based strategy games,...) before Myst.

Including from Cyan! But the gps point still stands Myst felt more...alive? than other IF games of the time. The videos, graphics, and atmosphere were top notch of the time, and it drew people in like crazy.

Myst was the top selling game for several years.

Why does the tool say that "cable" is the lexically most elaborated word in French?

What should the grid operators do with all that energy that comes in at noon on a beautiful sunny day?

Pump it to the storage. Building something like https://www.energyvault.com/products/g-vault-gravity-energy-... is impossible for a home owner. But the country scale energy provider can build such thing.

Technically almost all homes have a wonderful energy storage system already -- their hot water heater tank.

One can imagine a setup where you've got a hot water tank and a mixing valve that allows you to heat your water up to some very high temperature and then mix that down to "safe" hot water for the house. Have that run in "heat from grid if below this threshold, otherwise conditionally heat with surplus energy if the water's below this temperature"

Great idea, but that also comes at an additional cost - who would you recommend should pay for that cost?

Storage comes at a cost, but storing cheap/free power offsets even bigger generation costs. So the power company should pay to build storage.

There's a point where the grid has so much solar power that we need to start shedding production as a general rule and not just as an intermittent temporary measure, but I don't think we're anywhere near that point.

Hmmm, run direct carbon capture systems?

Heat up molten salt, or shipping containers full of sand. It’s a surprisingly high density and cheap way to store an awful lot of energy. Don’t have sand batteries here yet, but they’re on my todo for deep storage of excess energy, which I currently just dump as heat into the air.

I don't know. Salt (NaCl) is corrosive. Specific heat capacity is not that high (about 1/5th of water per weight). Suppose you have cubic meter of molten salt at 800°C in a dewar, how do you get the heat out again?

Interesting that it works for you. I tried several times something similar with frames from a 5G network and it mixed fields from 4G and 5G in its answers (or even from non-cellular network protocols because they had similar features as the 5G protocol I was looking at). Occasionally, the explanation was completely invented or based on discussions of planned features for future versions.

I have really learned to mistrust and double check every single line those systems produce. Same for writing code. Everything they produce looks nice and reasonable on the surface but when you dig deaper it falls apart unless it's something very very basic.

Similarly I found the results pretty mixed whenever a library or framework with a lot of releases/versions is involved. The LLM tends to mix and match features from across versions.