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1141.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
The phrase "the computer decided" gives way more agency to the computer than it deserves in this instance. In reality it was a simple airspeed threshold below which no one imagined the aircraft actually flying. It was a really tra
1142.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
In the article he mentioned this; he was worried about the hosting costs. Thankfully his host got a laugh out of it and donated the hosting cost and he has in turn donated any proceeds.
1143.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I think some of the recently IPOed tech stocks must be viewed in this light. For example, Deliveroo is basically a platform for skimming off of a market which until recently was mostly people working off books often without the correct insu
1144.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
You ever have the experience when you listen to someone speak with a strong accent, you don't quite catch the beginning of a word and the whole of what they say sounds like a foreign language? I imagine that is how those poor pilots fe
1145.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Where have you been all through the 737 Max debacle! It's refreshing to read someone who genuinely understands this issue. And for what it's worth I've pondered that before and my only conclusion was as others have said here,
1146.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Definitely someone I'd like to have a drink with. I originally came across his article about flying his PC-12 into Burning Man.
1147.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I think that would be under the deliberately excluded category of winning the lottery. It's so unlikely that it's pointless to add it.
1148.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I think making inferences about what the rational actors you know of will do is quite a different problem to dealing with situations where there is a limit to what you can see e.g. fog or a corner for that matter.
1149.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Wouldn't the simple solution here to limit speed such that it can stop within the distance that can be seen to be clear ahead? I mean this is exactly how you are supposed to drive but few actually do (which leads to perverse situations
1150.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
The beauty of steel is that it will yield plastically beyond its normal design stress. It would have been possible for them to damage the ship to the point where it required significant repairs but still be capable of exiting the canal.
1151.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I've seen this ship mentioned a couple of times. I kind of assume the subtext is that we should stop sending live animals by ship (except for perhaps specialist and breading stock), which I totally agree with, as much for the dangers o
1152.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I don't think it has to be this way. The move to hybrid and remote working can be a huge advantage for everyone, from parents who get to spend more time with their children instead of spending it fighting for seat on a train, to young
1153.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Yeah, that seems pretty sensible. I think the outcome will probably be the result of a commercial negotiation between the canal operators, some of the largest shipping companies and their insurers. It also depends on what the actual cause w
1154.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
It depends on who's point of view we're evaluating it from. I haven't looked, but suppose there is an endangered species which call the lake home, perhaps that is the only place they inhabit. Putting them one oil spill away f
1155.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
There are some complications, for example some huge Cruise ships have so much manoeuvrability that they could transit in reverse without breaking a sweat. Similarly large military ships with powerful rudders and multiple engines. Even if th
1156.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Yes, like 125cc motorcycles and Easyjet sized carry on luggage the minute you publish maximum dimensions you can expect someone to size their product exactly to the limit. I think a more realistic outcome is that ships of this size require
1157.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Presumably you were paying tax in the Netherlands though?
1158.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
On demand doesn't mean instantly. Even gas peaker plants aren't instant, they can take 15 minutes to warm up and connect to the grid. If the sun is down no amount of calling up a solar farm will increase output, if the wind isn&#x
1159.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
From the same article: "Dispatchable generation refers to sources of electricity that can be dispatched on demand at the request of power grid operators, according to market needs. Dispatchable generators can adjust their power output
1160.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I see you still haven't learned what dispatchable means.
1161.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I've really enjoyed reading your contribution to this discussion. To the extent I kind of wished there was a private message function. Partially this is because we have similar views on a lot of the challenges facing a move to renewabl
1162.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
That is where the storage presumably comes from, you use the excess energy to pump water out of the hole. I think the whole thing would be just as geology dependant as the conventional arrangement but with the added expense of digging down
1163.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I make that $20 per MWh. That's somewhere around half the wholesale price of electricity in the UK. That's pretty incredible.
1164.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
> I was thinking more along the lines of international standards for how the appliance could tell that it was in a period of low electricity pricing. The obvious solution to this is grid frequency. It's already a requirement for sol
1165.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Without knowing what industry you are talking about it's hard to engage in any meaningful dialog. It clearly doesn't matter what percentage of the input cost is energy to whether the plant is profitable. So long as that percentage
1166.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
The challenge with this kind of stuff is that capital costs are a big part of the cost for large industrial plants. A plant which is only using 25% of its capacity is going to be unprofitable.
1167.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Unconscionable is a strong word. Ground source heat pumps powered by renewablely generated electricity is pretty close to an ideal scenario. Resistance heating from electricity generated by gas is pretty bad though.
1168.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
IMO recycling batteries after use in cars is a more interesting idea. A 20% reduction in a cars range is significant but not an issue in actual power storage.
1169.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
For the most part electricity isn't used for heating in the UK, generally gas central heating is preferred. There are obviously some exceptions, houses built in the 70s with electric ceiling heating (this is as bad is it sounds) or ele
1170.
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
You could say that for any marketing activity. You don't expect a hotel to add an additional fee for the fact that you seen an advert in a glossy magazine, or for providing their own website for that matter. I'm sure you are aware

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