Wait, I messed up. It’s almost 40 years ago, not 50

I’m having a thought now.

Each time we see “company laid off X employees to replace them with AI”. Is it really to replace them with AI or is it just layoff because we are in recession that are disguised with AI to make it sound better ?

It’s been in the work for quite a while. The mayor of Paris announced that the seine will be open for swimming in 5 years … In 1988.

So it took a bit longer than planned, almost 50 years instead of 5 but the fact that they are opening it now is the result of these 50 years of continuous improvement.

I moved to the Caribbean for a few years a while ago and I wanted to do something meaningful.

I saw that the trade between islands was quite low despite being very close, a lot of businesses are struggling because they lack the economy of scale that inter-island trade could bring.

Since it’s low volume it’s quite expensive and slow to move stuff between islands the traditional way (container)

So I thought that a small autonomous cargo boat going between islands would be a great idea !

I was quickly told that it was a terrible idea unless I wanted to be “recruited” by a cartel.

This is probably why cold water taste so good. It’s natural selection.

There is so many diseases carried in water so there is no doubt that people doing extra effort to get that nice crispy water from the spring will survive longer that people getting warm water from the nearest water body.

Probably, it should be quite efficient as well.

On the other hand reversible heatpumps work great with floor heating.

Having a cool floor during a heatwave is amazing, plus no noise,

The main problem here is not that toxic waste has been stored in mining tunnels.

The main problem is that there are tons of dangerous chemicals that need to be stored somewhere. It’s all residues from incinerating waste. Once we have all these waste what do we do with it ? Is there a better option than being buried deep in mining tunnels ?

We absolutely need to reduce the waste we produce.

Also, everyone should have a look at what happens to mine tailings. The prices of mining leaves begins hundreds of millions of tons of toxic material containing heavy metals like mercury, cyanide of arsenic.

The method of dealing with it is just to build a dam and store it on the surface. It contaminates the land, the water, sometimes the dam breaks and buries entire villages under toxic waste. No one really cares because most of the mining happens in third world countries, remote communities and because it is needed to feed the global consumerism way of life.

It depends on the kind of heatpumps, in a lot of cases the heatpump is installed to replace a boiler, reusing the radiators and hot water circulation already available.

Unfortunately in this case the heatpump cannot be used as AC.

It’s much darker than what I thought. For me a mickey is a booger.

Not a YouTube channel unfortunately but there are several videos and documentaries about it.

The castle of Guedelon is exactly what you are describing.

In France a group of archeologists decided to build a full castle, from scratch pretending to be in the XIIth century.

A blacksmith is making the tools, they are chopping trees in the first forest around, extracting stones from a local carry, carrying on carts built by the Carpenter, making their own clothes …

It’s amazing !

Edit: here is an aerial picture of the castle in 2025

They are getting better at blowing rockets. The goal is a 24h turnaround, blow one rocket, bring a new one and blow it again in less than 24h

I think it would be easier to list the French cheeses that are NOT named after a place.

It’s not that hard actually, if you don’t want them to catch the wind you let them rotate freely and they will automatically face the wind in a way where they have almost no drag.

It’s much easier to automate than a regular sail. It self aligns with the wrong and with one or two actuators your set the direction you want to go too.

Automating flexible sail would be way, way harder.

Even Putin still has his legion d’honneur.

Did you try with a new Sim card ? I had the same problem on my fairphone where it kept losing the network.

I got a new sim card, it fixed the issue and it seem to be a common issue with Fairphones

What do you use that is better than windows remote desktop ?

I used it a few times for work even. At the time I had a usb-c hub connected with a screen, Ethernet, 65w charger, a keyboard and mouse and I had my laptop that I was carrying with me.

Once or twice I arrived at work and realized I forgot my computer at home … And I have a 2hour drive … So I connected my phone to the hub and work on it. It worked well to send email, use an internet browser, a bit of document editing and mostly connecting to remote desktops.

You should find a startup incubator of whatever is the equivalent around you.

You have a product idea, it’s great but is just the start. I’m sure 10 other people got up this morning with the same idea. What matters is what you do with this idea.

Now you need to learn how to refine this idea and turn it into a business and for that you need help. This is exactly what startup incubators are here for.