u/BastingChemina

If you are interested in creating a commercial product based on the Materials, please get in touch with Valve.

It's the second line of the license file. So the license does not automatically grant commercial right but they are addressing straight away that they are open to the idea.

I don't know in practice how easy it would be to get the right from Valve to commercialize a product derivated from these files.

Steam released the CAD files of the Steam controller, on gitlab, **under a creative Commons license** !

I was on the edge about wanting to buy a steam controller but now definitely want one. I'll keep an eye open for when they are back in stock.

They are building up their military industry with Russian money. Why would they stop ?

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

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.

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.

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.

I like St Lucia's flag, quite unique but stays simple enough. 🇱🇨

I did that, I now have two masters degrees in aerospace engineering instead of one for the same number of years and have a crazy fun year in the Czech Republic.

10/10, I would do it again (except I don't think my liver would survive that anymore)

It's great news, making access to contraception easier is always a good thing.

You are being downvoted but you are asking a very legitimate question.

If Russia nuked a NATO country, what would really happen ?

Would the US respond ? It's extremely uncertain, especially with the recent election of space Karen and cheetos.

Would France or the UK respond ? It's a big question and a big discussion is happening currently in Europe.

France nuclear doctrine states that their nuclear arsenal will be used of France's "vital interests" are at stake. Is Europe part of France's vital interest ?

This is specifically why France developed their nuclear arsenal under De Gaulle.

De Gaulle believed that the Americans could not be trusted to defend Europe, he was afraid that if the Russians would attack Europe with nuclear weapons the US would not defend us.

If there is a peace agreement they will station troops in Ukraine to prevent another invasion.