DamonHD

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by DamonHD 8mo ago
> This price-setting dominance is being eroded by renewables, with recent analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre showing that gas set power prices 90% of the time in 2025.
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
All untrue long-since-debunked FUD talking points. Please understand the South Australia market for example.
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Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas(carbonbrief.org)
85 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|85 comments
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A Solitary Cabin(asolitarycabin.org)
1 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
I don't think that this has correctly cited XKCD, which has quite a low ask...
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by DamonHD 8mo ago
Indeed.
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RIP – Ken Boak a.k.a. Monsonite(retrocomputingforum.com)
2 points by DamonHD 8mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
A client had a weird problem with data flowing 10x faster in one direction between two parts of its campus on either side of a road, ~30Y ago... http://d.hd.org/anecdotes.html#NFS TL;DR: kinked fibre causing large (NFS) pac
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As we breach 1.5°C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets(nature.com)
3 points by DamonHD 9mo ago|0 comments
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Sunlight Optimism Calculator [UK](dracos.co.uk)
1 points by DamonHD 9mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Bad PIs seem to be a real problem. Luckily I'm self-funded and with good supervisors, so not a problem that I face!
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
They should be unless you want to publish one of the things that too many (eg sites) regard as a reasonable secondary security verifier.
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Inherently sexist/misogynist/objectivising the human female form?
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The origin of the names of the days of the week in Portuguese(practiceportuguese.com)
3 points by DamonHD 9mo ago|3 comments
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Or you could call them interconnectors strung with solar and wind generation. In any case, if PV is available from somewhere on the globe much of each 24h, and cars are plugged in to recharge then (typical UK cars are parked ~96% of the tim
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Octopus in the UK has tariffs where it basically takes over your system (ie the batteries in particular) and subsumes them into its wider activities, eg: https://octopus.energy/intelligent-flux-faqs/
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
We brought down our energy consumption substantially over the years starting not so far from that high figure, including swapping out racks of Sun servers for an RPi or two, and we are now slight net exporters of utility energy and with it
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but if we stopped fighting one another and built a planet-circling grid (I have ofc made a modest proposal for a US/Europe interconnector including wind generation along its route) then the issue w
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
The land-use and EV vs ICE efficiency compound in: > ... you could drive 70 times as many miles in a solar-powered electric car as you could in one running on biofuels from the same amount of land. The article notes that the EVs have a l
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Browsers already have an early scanner to look ahead for things that it may need to load soon, such as images, and piles of heuristics. Those heuristics are hard in part because many HTML authors don't bother marking up their image di
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Nice pure-declarative responsive tweak!
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
This should be a "Show HN: " to be in line with the guidelines rather than just SPAM, IMHO.
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
I am also reducing my reliance on the US a little, financially also. Technically: Have you looked at Fairphone? I've been using a couple lastig many many years now. I self-host email, DNS, and a few other few services. Do not use any p
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Maybe prefix with "Show HN: " per the guidelines?
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
Yes, the ergonomics are less good than a conventional monitor. I arrange my workspace to minimise the bad aspects, eg having the laptop at the back of the desk to minimise the angle down to the screen.
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
I do (1) and have for many many years (laptops w/ ~13" screen), and the mobility it allows is huge, though I have a 2nd-hand portrait monitor on my desk at home for reading portrait documents (eg formal papers) occasionally. I hav
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by DamonHD 9mo ago
You could try asking at https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/
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by DamonHD 10mo ago
Published CC0 in the hope that it is of use to others. Has a fixed DOI covering updates also: 10.5281/zenodo.10206489
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Show HN: Earth.Org.UK public data snapshot including home energy timeseries(zenodo.org)
3 points by DamonHD 10mo ago|1 comments
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Playing to Lose(powering-the-planet.ghost.io)
1 points by DamonHD 10mo ago|0 comments

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