They kept the energy, together kinetic (related to they speed) and potential (related to their position). They actual speed/velocity has been changing all the time as the energy has been exchanged one for the other.

What else could they say? That their air defence just doesn’t work?

Then you either have small cheap and safe, without much capacity (so you need many of those), or big, with the problems of the big hydroelectric projects.

Of course pumped hydro has and will have its place in the grid, but it cannot solve all the energy storage problems.

Like any hydroelectrics it has large environment impact and dam failures tend to be the deadliest industrial disasters when they happen. Also most good locations have already been used. You cannot just build it wherever (without insane costs). Pumped hydro is hardly a solution here.

1. Iran have been involved in the war in Ukraine for years. Ukraine has better reasons to fight it than USA or Israel.
2. Ukraine’s involvement is on the defence, they don’t bomb Iranian cities. And the drones they shoot are not only targeting USA and Israel directly.
3. Ukraine is still fighting for survival and they have to make some tough choices to fund that fight. Unlike West Europe they can’t just say ‘fuck off, we won’t help you’ to their important or potential arms suppliers.

Yes, it is not a great place for them to be in, but in their current situation I find this is quite justified.

Aircraft Carriers are not very stealth anyway, are they?

And then Putin can say he stopped selling gas to Europe. Rare chance for him to tell truth.

PV is already cheap and other parts of tge infrastructure are lacking. In my opinion it makes sense to drop subsidies for PV, it will easily grow without them. Infrastructure modernization and energy storage should be subsidized instead. To pull investments where they are needed most.

Neither Israel nor USA want democratic Iran. At most they want a new corrupted regime that cares about Iran/USA interests rather than wellbeing of their own people.

Have you ever tried to use Upstart? It was afwul, in practice it was worse than sysvinit+lsb, in a time one woukd thought any new init system can be better.

There was no way to properly define any complex servixe dependencies, especially with optional or alternative components. And making mistake in defining service forking behaviour would open lock the system down so it could not be cleanly shut down. Those were serious flaws in both design an implementation.

I made a mistake trying to use it in a Linux distribution I was co-developing. So much time an effort lost, when we could directly switch to systemd. But systemd was described as ‘work in progress’ an Upstart ‘practically production ready’ then.

It was the milk, though.

I have seen coconut milk sold as ‘coconut drink’, even though it is not used as drink. That is stupid.

I am sure thet had more than a single microphone. So it is most probably all about the mix. Include crowd noises only when that is convenient.

One more s would be needed, to be sure

He wouldn’t dare to do that in Moscow

When JIRA practically stopped supporting self-hosted installations we migrated to YouTrack and it worked quite well. Not as powerful, but the simplicity also comes as an advantage.

Which would mean they are moving in the wrong direction. Death penalty is a tool of totalitarism, not a characteristic of a healthy democracy.

That is an insult to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL was fully featured relational database even before it implemented SQL. It started much earlier tha MySQL.

And MySQL didn’t have proper transactions or data integrity constraints (including foreign keys) for long time, while calling itself an ‘SQL database’.

Companies generally do not use ‘VPN services’, they maintain their own VPNs. This is what makes them virtual Private networks. The data retention laws are aimed for the ‘VPN providers’ who use the ‘VPN’ term for a different, very non-private services, used to circumvent geolocation and make tracking (even lawful) by some parties harder.

I do not say those services should not exist (there are legitimate uses for them), but do not mix them with actual private networks.

“Social media” ban would include also lemmy, that you are using to write your comment.