Panzer04

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by Panzer04 4y ago
I’m always slightly confused at how easily intel is written off. They still generate more revenue than AMD and Nvidia combined, they have a huge foundry business attached, their processors are competitive and they are making the necessary i
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I must admit to not being an expert in the matter - but it seems odd to expect inverters to spontaneously desync. Grid-tie inverters take their cue from the existing grid presence, so it's not like we'll have a grid full of invert
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Batteries are more "inertia" than any rotational generator could ever hope to be. Inertia is only a concept because the grid has traditionally relied on rotational generators (which do have inertia). It's by no means necessar
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Pretty serious overstep of rights - hopefully these kinds of restrictions don't pass muster when they get challenged. It's ridiculous we can impose this on someone who hasn't even been found guilty. I wouldn't take this
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Why a line? Surely a square grid would be better in every way? Less energy loss, more places within walkable distance, better transport scaling.. Cool idea, sounds pretty impractical as stated.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I feel like there’d be consequences for up-and-comers against incumbents, who would have a huge brand lead.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
"de facto homeless shelters"? wtf? Is that genuinely a concern in some places? Cars have an edge on transit because orders of magnitude more money is spent on the road system and on the vehicles than is spent on PT. Despite that,
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by Panzer04 4y ago
How do higher water prices not solve the problem? If farmers were beholden to trade offs about their water use they would likely be using substantially less water than they are now. Crops that use twice the water without a matching increase
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Gas is (relatively speaking) quite clean, and presumably pure synthetic gas likely to be even cleaner.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
How does that differ from tab autocomplete?
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Myself, two other Australians and the guy from NZ resent this.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
The primary issue with ships is you don’t get to recharge the batteries every night - so you need way more capacity than an equivalent application on land (even if ships are very efficient)
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by Panzer04 4y ago
If software use is generating 1% of that growth, it explains why it's so important - whatever is growing productivity the most is going to grow profit and thus ability to pay higher wages. Especially as software can be applied in so ma
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by Panzer04 4y ago
When the money comes, so will the engineers. I did EE, work in embedded SW because it was way easier to find a job with decent pay. Everyone looking for EEs was pickier and paying less :/. Maybe when this "shortage" materiali
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by Panzer04 4y ago
The way to make PT work is for it to be faster than cars. People should choose it because it’s faster/cheaper/more convenient, not because they have no alternative. You’ll find this is typically the case in large cities that prior
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It's not a question of if we value it - we have yet to automate trades, and we still require tradespeople to carry out the day to day work of construction and manufacturing. There's nothing wrong with that, as there are many peopl
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Mostly less stable governance, often with less protection of private rights (though obviously most of these countries are just poorer as well). If you have no assets, it’s also far easier to make money in a rich country and move back rich,
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by Panzer04 4y ago
By and large, the problem is unfortunately the reverse. If you have resources, your government ends up either an corrupt, nepotistic authoritarian hellhole or a corrupt, nepotistic socialist paradise (until the oil/gold/diamonds&#
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Does it matter? At least people are paying the right price for power, and it gives those who need it the ability to save money by shifting demand.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Consider that as house supply increases, house prices should keep dropping, towards the cost of construction - right now supply is so constructed prices are limited by buyer ability to pay rather than sellers cost of construction. So supply
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by Panzer04 4y ago
True, but there are limits. It’s surprising how many apps and webpages I use that are just straight up slow - things that should load instantly instead take a second or two. The web is a good application for this to some extent since there
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by Panzer04 4y ago
"faster" vs "reduced time". Many people confuse rate of work with reduction in time, and it's exceptionally annoying :(
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by Panzer04 4y ago
How can not a single person have hooked up a debugger and just paused it during the 5 minute load time? Especially given the difference between story and online mode? After eight years?
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by Panzer04 4y ago
While this is an admirable perspective, keep things in context. Make sure you aren’t keeping a computer that takes a couple extra seconds on things you do 100s of times a day (eg opening browser tabs, compiling, etc). If you waste an extra
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by Panzer04 4y ago
"only" an order of magnitude. Never mind comparing bleeding edge NVMe with (by now) decade-old DDR3, while the current bleeding edge DDR5 is now trickling out at 100GB/s+ pretty easily. Never mind DDR memory latencies of ~50n
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by Panzer04 4y ago
In a competitive market, prices are determined by the lowest seller, not the highest buyer.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
2008?
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by Panzer04 4y ago
There's no DRM though? This just looks like the simplest thing the engineers could have done - the only extra change they could have made is not requiring a cassette be present, I guess.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I think there's certainly a lot of potential for us to drastically reduce fossil fuel usage with renewables while supporting off hours with something like gas turbines in the interim. The ultimate goal is to remove those too, but we co
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Of course, they have a vested interest in companies believing that this is going to be both an impactful and severe downturn, given they are capital providers. I'd take this with the appropriate grains of salt.

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