These capacitors are typically used for "energy storage" only in a millisecond timespans. Either to smooth ripples that could damage other parts or to provide surge current where needed. Very very useful but it's not usually referred to as "storage". Article tries to explain the difference to batteries but stops halfway, liable to cause confusion.
Central/Eastern European here. Our labor costs are comparable or even lower than China today. And the manufacturing is still struggling. So it's not only that.
That, and you have to ensure your energy costs (power) are low and you have a secure source of raw materials. I'm not an expert, but from what I've heard, the economic region over there has been doing a poor job on both those fronts. Furthermore, you have to talk about regulation vs safety. The EU has regulation. Maybe too much.
There are also network effects. Your plant that is energy intensive is closing? Now other manufactures must increase their cost as transportation is increased and local contracts harder to get. Your chemical plant, which has operated within good bounds for a decade can't get a permit to expand, or is protested? Your intake products now either go up in price or become unable to attain them at all.
In Central/Eastern Europe, the problem is increasingly one of demographics. You can sometimes find somewhat cheap labour due to shitty (geo)politics, stagnant economies and poorly trained workers, but big-picture-like, the age of labour abundance is over. These economies have nowhere to go but down, down, down, starved of talent due to the twin cancers of bad demographics and emigration. Some countries are better, some worse, but the overall trend is the same all over the region. Going gentle into that good night.
(China's predicament is not much better, with the added wrinkle that there's absolutely nothing whatsoever they can do about bad demographics due to their size, whereas Central/Eastern Europe can import people once we collectively get over ourselves and let go of uppity xenophobia).
The number of kids born in 2025 in Uzbekistan (population 38 million) is about the same as the number of kids born in 2025 in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland, *combined* (total population 131 million). The age of labour abundance IS OVER, we're witnessing its very last days in EE. Unemployment may remain due to terrible politics and economic mismanagement.
There's not going to be any point even having sweatshops or factories in this region soon. Why bother? If it's anything low or medium-skill and low or medium-capital intense, just open up shop in... Well, why not Uzbekistan? And if double-landlocked isn't your thing, there's dozens of other options.
Would be so funny if neurodivergents ended up handling monotony and bland food better than the "psychologically sane (and thoroughly tested) individuals".
And I don't get why food would take so much time from exercise and navigation and that would be a problem. They would exercise 12h daily? In deep space once you reach the trajectory there are weeks or even months without any navigation.
Carbon (nano)fiber is competitive with copper conductors if we can mass manufacture it defect-free enough. Synthetic diamond can replace copper coolers, on the other hand. But that needs massive R&D, with experimental aptitude. Not your typical "tech" startup.
I tried streaming with icecast2 during pandemic and always got dropped connections in tens of minutes. It drove me mad. And it's impossible to detect in advance, receivers skip for seconds till new connection is made. From packet captures it appears as dropped ack packets. It was https so copyright filters are unlikely.
Are there different solutions, different protocols, ideally supported by browser in some simple manner? Is streaming over websocket possible?
I am planning to add other restreaming options such as RTMP or HLS. So far, my test stream is running for more than 10h and did not have a single dropout.
From real life we know that people prefer to have multiple anonymous IDs, or self-selected handles, either makes fully deterministic generation schemes moot.
Also, network routing requires objects that have multiple addresses.
Physics side of whole thing is funny too, afaik quantum particles require fungibility, i.e. by doxxing atoms you unavoidably change the behavior of the system.
The orbital of a single atom have a simple closed formula.
H2 is harder, you must determine the distance, make some aproximations and solve the problem that is like the eigenvalues of a matrix, and there is no closed form
With more atoms/electrons the matrix gets exponentialy bigger. Without too many aproximations, probably water is the biggest one you can solve.
If you want something bigger like most molecules in biology, you must do more aproximations. If you want to go down the rabit hole, try googling DFT.
Fancy web interfaces are road to hell. Do simplest thing that works. Plain apache or nginx with webdav, basic auth(proven code, minimal attack surface). Maybe firewall with ip_hashlimit on new connections. I have it set to 2/minute and for browser it's actually fine, while moronic bots make new connection for every request. When they improve, there's always fail2ban.
That the nas server incl. hostname is public does not bother me then.
The phone's hardware must also support it. It needs non-protected VM support which is available in Exynos SoCs but not Qualcomm which is why some Samsung phones have it but other arguably better phones don't (e.g, S25 Ultra VS. Flip 7).
Unfortunate. Looking forward to a trifold with AVF support. And, ideally, support for unprivileged AVF being available for third-party virtualization applications to use.
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