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by Gibbon1 2y ago
> A 1998 ministerial inquiry criticized both the Auckland Electric Power Board and its privatized successor, which had halved its staff after taking over in October 1993 > The inquiry report also said, "Internal expertise in 110
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If you look back to the early 1900's you find that excluding minorities was a big reason for zoning regulations and minimum lot sizes. Minorities tended to live in apartments so banning apartments was a good way to keep them out. Immig
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Thing I remember thinking 25 years ago when businessmen would talk about 'their factory in China' It's not your factory, it's the CCP's factory. And you've converted your business from a valuable manufacturing
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Used to be there were capital controls. You couldn't easily move money from one country to another. That's problematic in same ways. But gives central banks much better control. We got convinced to get rid of capital controls. But
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Yes it's basically designated initializers for function arguments. Interestingly designated initializers got added to C99 and then WG21 sat on their finger for 20 years before adding it to C++. It can't be anything but the most tr
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If a giant meteor took out WG14 we might get named arguments in C modify_string(.str=str, .options = { .toggle_case = true, .strip_whitespace = false });
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Back in the 80's I used to know how to get to half the surplus electronics places in the valley by heart. One of the things about it was there wasn't an internet. Everything was paper catalogs. Even if you had them they didn'
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Other hand when talking about functional operation. Solar, Wind plus Nat Gas works well together. Where Solar, Wind plus Coal doesn't. It's technically easy to shutdown, restart, and take Nat Gas plants in and out of standby to ma
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India's birthrate is 2.01
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I'll read it. Will say that starting with CO2 feels to me like playing the game in hard mode. > For companies seeking to use e-methane, it usually means their technology and production processes don't have to change. They are m
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think text based programming languages are a local minima that's it's hard climb out of. Partly because most languages aren't designed around being represented by structured data. And no one has any morden experience with t
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The latter
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I have a command line tool I wrote in C# back in 2011 and it just still works.
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My mother said her cousins that ran a high quality dairy in Washington State back in the 1950's would sell all their milk and buy milk from the store. I think that's a testament to economics and how broke they were. Also a while a
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I went on a ride through the internet and saw some figures that lithium production would need to increase by 40X by 2040. But that's still only 7.2 million tons/year. I feel like the where are we going to get the lithium and but w
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Need a renewables feasibility index that accounts for the amount of solar, wind, hydro vs climate and typical weather. And bin plot population vs that. Seems obvious that Norway, Washington State have lots of hydro. Places like Spain and Ca
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I know a lady with Downs who was born into a wacky Christian family. She's at the end of the spectrum where she just seems a bit odd if you don't know what to look for. The wacky Christian family is important because since she had
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Forgot the efficiency of an RTG is at most 10%. So you'd need 870kg of Pu-238. Which is twice what a Piper Cub weighs.
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Amusing southern California is getting more watts per m2 then A lot of North Africa. This is a good source, population by latitude. http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-lat...
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think you need 1 hp per 10-15 lbs of weight to fly. I think that's around 130 W/kg. I checked a piper cub is something like 100. Other hand Pu-238 produces 570 W/kg. A piper cub with it's 48kw engine would need 87kg of
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've read some heretic economists that say that instead what orthodox economists claim that energy contributes 10% to GDP it's much higher closer to 100%. You get outside economics into accounting and as you chase the supply costs
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You have to admit using AI to steal stuff wholesale is a disruptive technology.
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The thing that got me was I used to use the second to last version of WordStar. Which had paragraph and page styles that you could import, edit and apply to text. When it became apparent that I couldn't be using Word Star to share docu
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Stuff I've read is spectroscopy can detect molecules from billions of light years away. And if something like Planck's constant varied with time or distance the spectral properties of those would change radically.
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I think the chart doesn't show progress. California carbon fuel is mostly natural gas and those other states still burn a lot of coal. But much less than they used to 10 years ago. California started with a lower carbon intensity and p
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
That's totally shows how fast things are changing. Great thank you.
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3.8 hours storage at name plate power is roughly the 4 hours I've been able to guesstimate. I think California added 3GW name plate of batteries in the last 12 months. Just based on the historical supply. Yesterday Batteries peaked at
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I had something like that 30 years ago on a Motorolla 68332 processor. It could generate the high speed CPU clock using the 32khz clock as a reference. What I found was the layout guy ran a digital trace through the pins of the 32khz xtal.
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That should just be your bad decision shouldn't be other people problems.
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Reminds me of Moe on the Simpsons saying I've done things I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting. You should be proud like that.

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