History, Politics And Current Affairs

No problems here. I do use my phone for the forum most times. Don’t know if that makes a difference.

To add to the above, I haven’t been able to read the full srticle as it’s paywalled, but I saw the below snippet posted which is rather interesting. It suggests that the French have offered to transfer a hull built for the French navy to Sweden in order to accelerate the delivery process. That coul...

Some Chinese company, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, announced a battery that gets to 90% charge in 7 minutes. LFP chemistry. CATL is as far as I recall the biggest and most dominating manufacturer of EV batteries. They presented a number of new product updates this week. Greater den...

And also, great chapter as usual! I really enjoy reading this

A bit of nitpicking. Fredensborg Castle is in Fredensborg. Frederiksborg Castle is in Hillerød. The two are close however. Fredensborg is a current royal castle while Frederiksborg isn’t.

Tesla claims with Adaptive high beams with the Matrix LED headlights, the car can keep high beams on while creating dark zones around other vehicles to prevent blinding them. Not really sure how much I buy that. They ought to be able to do that. Other manufacturers has been doing exactly that for y...

Stuart, peace be upon him, told a story about about some Chinese visiting the place he worked and commenting about the idea that there are too many Chinese to kill. Stuart and his coworkers did calculations and found that with a small percentage of the US nuclear arsenal at the time could kill just...

I’m always a sceptic when it comes to claims of new battery tech. Solid state batteries has been just around the corner for years. I see no mention of price. That will be crucial for commercial breakthrough. One thing I did notice is the comparison with traditional batteries. They are pessimistic. C...

My first job was programming in RPG/ILE. Started out in the old column based syntax and then gradually started using a more C like syntax (I do not recall if it had a name…). Due to that experience I was later interviewed for a COBOL position and I was surprised at how quickly that language made sen...

January 9: Venstre, lead by popular Prime Minister Egon Olsen, are narrowly returned to power in the Danish general election, with the Social Democratic Party's late rally just falling short of the threshold of forming government after a series of unfortunate events.

Danes be looking at new build replacement of Ivar Huifeld class. Apparently the CMS handling air warfare has issues and fixing it is prohibitively expensive for the remaining lifespan of the ships. So Type 31 evolved is quite plausible for new AAW ships. But UK maybe winning over Norway with additi...