Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Israel supplies Gaza with electric power as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_crisis_in_the_Gaza...
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I fail really to see the difference between Hezbollah lunching rockets into Israel and Israel's pager bombs. Except the latter are pretty well targeted. Frankly I believe that the people complaining pagers wouldn't if Hezbollah ha
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
If you're designing a language you might be interested in this paper. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/xhebraj-ecoop22... > We design a type system that tracks the underlying storage mode
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I looked at the population pyramid for Greece, just guessing but it looks like there are 10% fewer women in their 20s than men. Sometimes that sort of thing is because men come to work. Sometimes it's because young women up and leave.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Yes. The whole trope that systematic problems are ordinary individuals personal responsibility to do something about is tiresome.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Imagine if starting in the 1950's we'd spent on the money we spent on nukes on solar instead.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
A single family house is probably the worst investment, low rate of return and illiquid with high costs to sell. You can buy a house and won't break even till six years in. But it's the only way to invest rent money.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Better to live in a cheaply constructed 12 plex than in a 12 unit homeless encampment. Because lets be honest that is the two realistic choices we have before us.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My nutter cousin likes to post pictures on facebook of rural solar farms that he claims are destroying the environment. And pictures of farms and cattle ranches that are natural. He lost his house rural house in a fire and now rents. But ye
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Yeah if you're calcining concrete clinker you'll happily use resistive heating if electricity is cheaper than nat gas. I like to bitch about people that think the free market solves everything but oh noes the price of electricity
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I will totally agree with that. The US response needed to be double what it was. But at least the sign was in the right direction. I remember at the time reading what the European Central Bank was doing and going it's not acting like a
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My standard response to negative energy prices is, it's oh noes for energy suppliers and oh yes baby for industrial users. A medium electric arc furnace consumes 60MW. 17 of those can draw a GW.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I tried some calculations comparing the amount of work energy you can get out of an acre of solar vs an acre of corn grown for ethanol. I get different numbers depending on data sources but it's around 50 times more. It's enough i
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Feels like standard neoliberal magical thinking. The magic of the free market can solve any problem including oil and gas fields slowly being exhausted. Course California through regulatory browbeating, taxation, and lawfare is slowly but r
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The solution to that is linkers need to generate those permissions and create a manifest section in the elf file so the OS can handle it transparently.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've come to the conclusion that just like we require licenses and certain degrees to work on safety critical fields we should extend that to things you can't have in order to work for companies that do manufacturing, starting wit
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
You are right about that, friend in Nevada county had his house broken into, guy stole some stuff including a rifle, drank one of his beers. Cops came dusted for prints, took the empty beer can. And nothing came of it. Two years later gets
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Big difference between RS422 and RS485 is the drivers for RS485 are required to survive a minus 7 volt difference between the two grounds. Old R422 drivers would smoke if you got more than 7 tenths of a volt difference. Which would happen i
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Your rant reminds me of a 40 year old Saturday Night Live sketch where they're doing an open access television show called Women's Problems. And it's all guys. It bothers me because I feel there are political repercussions I
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Bangladesh's GDP per capita now exceeds Pakistan's. That's a bit embarrassing.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Last time I visited this it felt to me that Australia's metro's are small and spread far apart so that a typical sized nuke plant is overkill.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
You could put an sql database on a local device and just access it remotely like anything else. But you are correct you're stuck with administering each and everyone one of them. The standard go to a raz pi solution will up and die eve
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I'm talking about particular types of leaders.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
You could imagine an alternate universe where Stalin gets dysentery and dies. The USSR tells Ribentrop to f'off. And then joins the allies declaring war on Germany when Hitler invades Poland. Also I forgot to add Mussolini and his desi
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I swear a lot of wars get started by guys like Xi who after seizing power internally try to seize power externally and it often ends really really badly for the host country. Seriously, the leader of Germany in the 1930's, Stalin, Puti
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
It's useful to compare Russia with other countries. Russia pop 145 million. GDP 2.24 Trillion. Brazil, pop 205 million, GDP 1.92 Trillion. Brazil isn't anyone's idea of a super power. Difference is Russia has or had a lot of
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think it's a dubious proposition that aircraft are worse than driving a similar distance. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10311 The worst thing you can say is that aircraft allow people to travel more miles than th
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
You can image the drivers side door has a module that senses the door switches and operates the drivers window and door locks. And communicates via RF to modules in the other three doors to control the windows and door locks. Seriously why
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
People don't like your comment but I have a side project that requires controlling 36 lamps in groups of 3. I rolled it over and I'm just going to slap a cheap radio on a PCB's and just daisy chain the power.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Friend of mine lives in rural Nevada and occasionally has to work on a radio repeater on a local mountain. He takes the ATV up and back.

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