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by Jedd 6y ago
Evidently contemporary baits aren't Warfarin based - that was the active ingredient I recall when growing up - it acts as a blood thinner, and rodents would haemorrhage internally whenever they bumped into something. A fairly unplea
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by Jedd 6y ago
> Installed capacity is installed capacity. It does not "fluctuate" throughout the year. 7 days ago I had a new array of 12kW of solar panels plugged into the grid. So far I've had one properly sunny day - that generated a
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by Jedd 6y ago
> The one yearly figure of "over 25000 GW" is for ERCOT's installed wind capacity ... That figure informs an earlier calculation, which got you to here: > [nuclear fission] Performing at 75% of capacity is completely di
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by Jedd 6y ago
You've thrown lots of numbers around, while claiming other people are wrong and/or incautious: > I'm against the current narrative's misinformation which cherry-picks stats to push a political agenda. and > If we&#
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by Jedd 6y ago
Well, you conceded that it's primarily a winterisation problem, but then immediately say: > ... but having so much capacity invested in unreliable wind generation was a very significant contributor to the blackouts that should not b
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by Jedd 6y ago
I see you've made many sweeping comments in this thread, some of which I can't confirm the veracity of. > ... but having so much capacity invested in unreliable wind generation was a very significant contributor to the blackout
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by Jedd 6y ago
This is a challenging position to take. The failure point was a repeat of previous cold events -- it wasn't really a cascade event, of course, given wind turbines provide only 20% of power on the ECOT mini-grid. Given there are similar
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by Jedd 6y ago
When I spent Christmas in Reykjavik a few years ago, there was nominally 4 hours of (barely) daylight - 11:30 through 15:30. But because the sun barely ever got much above the horizon, the slightest cloud cover meant it mostly felt like twi
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by Jedd 6y ago
> 'Top of the sky' is often the colloquial phrase for 'on the meridian line'. Which is valuable to know in itself. I've never heard the phrase before, and it seems to be such a wildly unpopular term that running
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by Jedd 6y ago
> It helps with circadian rhythms. I seem to post this for every DST story, so I might as well continue the tradition: All these arguments against a timezone change, removing the shifting to/from DST, etc are predicated on the ass
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by Jedd 6y ago
I wonder what your preferred answer would be to these hypothetical children that noticed the sun's location at noon is not 'at the top of the sky' for half the year already. And where do you live such that the sun is at the
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by Jedd 6y ago
On GNU/Linux systems, at least, you middle-click to say 'go to this place'. I love my scrollbars, and I want them always visible. I don't use the mouse often, and I certainly don't want to have to use the mouse jus
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by Jedd 6y ago
> ... the “only breathe through your nose” crowd always seemed a little woo-woo. Can highly recommend 'Breath' by James Nestor, for some science-focused, non-woo look at the practice. (I'm about 3/4 the way through it
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by Jedd 6y ago
> An ordinary UV lamp with bug zapper will probably be more effective. Alas, as I discovered recently when looking at those nifty, cheap, USB-powered UV + fan mosquito killers -- mosquitoes aren't attracted to UV. Evidently they are
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by Jedd 6y ago
Yup, I couldn't find the details, but IIRC it was a combination of people generating new accounts in the hope of catching a second round, and the fact some people had signups for Keybase auth on only one or two systems, and also IIRC e
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by Jedd 6y ago
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.[0] Refer also the law of unintended consequences. [1] Conveniently we have a natural experiment from a year or two ago we can refer to. Stellar Lumens offered some free crypt
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Kevin Rudd Speaking to the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity in Australia(youtube.com)
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by Jedd 6y ago
Yup, we might be down to 100ms now -- certainly still a long way from your initial 15ms guess. Since I moved on from that last gig, I note that Telstra completed their Sydney-Perth re-cabling project, and the Vocus Perth-Singapore undersea
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by Jedd 6y ago
Yikes, and thanks for picking that up. I meant 80 / 150 GB -- I'll correct my earlier post.
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by Jedd 6y ago
I expect a fair bit of interest from latency-sensitive markets (eg finance) here in Australia. A few years ago when I was in the WAN optimisation space, IIRC Sydney/Singapore latency was ~150ms, partly raw distance, partly because the
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by Jedd 6y ago
I put a pre-order in a week ago, after the status changed a couple of days earlier (from 'please give us your email address so we can advise you' to 'we have a limited offering per region' - which is what's showing
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by Jedd 6y ago
I'm in a similar position - though for various reasons I did a bit of a username landgrab early on, so I have about 10x what most people got 'for free'. The price fluctuations are wild, and because we're not talking mega
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by Jedd 6y ago
My experiences are similar. I had it all working with Pulse + Jack a year ago, on a previous workstation build, but it was a massive pain to get there. I had my m-audio USB keyboard working, along with Tracktion Waveform and VCV Rack. (No
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by Jedd 6y ago
I suppose by some definitions, this beetle is a parasite, but it feeds from a specific species of cactus, which makes it a herbivore, so in the context of a story ostensibly alerting starbucks customers (and if you're a starbucks custo
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by Jedd 6y ago
> I spent some time last century living in Toronto, a moderately large North American city. The main street of the neighbourhood in which I lived was a former streetcar route crowded with small human-scale shops on the north side, and a
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by Jedd 6y ago
This is described about a quarter the way into TFA. > REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY index_name; (A vanilla REINDEX will lock the table, preventing writes, while it runs. The CONCURRENT creates a new index, replicates any updates to the ori
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by Jedd 6y ago
Stellar Lumens don't require proof of work - that was one of the key design decisions. There's a finite volume of the things now, so presumably (fiat equivalent) value per Lumen will slowly increase. Either way, 'they don&#x2
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by Jedd 6y ago
The TFA page contains a search dialog, and punching in 'linux' there takes you to: http://www.airwindows.com/airwindows-linux/
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by Jedd 6y ago
Usufruct makes this a difficult & poor measure, also. Even well-off (but far from wealthy) people - think contractors on say USD$200-500k / year - can architect their financial arrangements via a Pty Ltd / LLC to minimise on-p
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by Jedd 6y ago
It's a source of some significant regret that Keybase was acquired by Zoom, and the subsequent loss of street-cred that ensued - as I'd swung a few groups over, and really appreciated some of the features (you don't need a mo

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