Veliladon

7 ms·

31.
by Veliladon 1y ago
That too. Coal piles froze. Cooling pumps froze. Water vapor in the natural gas production pipelines froze because it's all fracked. But if they were connected to the East and West interconnections they probably could have rode it out.
32.
by Veliladon 1y ago
I say all of this as someone with a 14kW system on his roof: The problem with supplying power back to the grid with solar is that it's utterly random in terms of supply and output. The only thing you can count on is that the frequency
33.
by Veliladon 1y ago
It got so cold that the oil in the wind turbines froze. If Texas was connected to the rest of the country it would be subject to federal regulations that require winterization and even if the wind turbines weren't frozen it would have
34.
by Veliladon 1y ago
Sadly you can't really buy the cards for love or money right now.
35.
by Veliladon 1y ago
This is one of the times where law is outrunning technology. Apple and Google are both working on anonymous attestation but they're pulling the trigger before it's ready. But that's not what laws like these are about. In the
36.
by Veliladon 1y ago
Transfer switches are trivial to have installed. I already have a manual, interlocked one for a portable generator. I have a 13kW array on the roof and live in a place where ice storms make power outages a thing most years. My solar inverte
37.
by Veliladon 1y ago
Exactly. Only thing holding off my EV purchase is that I want proper V2G support. If I'm paying for 100kWh of lithium battery capacity I damn well want to use it as a backup for my house.
38.
by Veliladon 1y ago
No he didn't. Sweden gets ~2.6kWh/day per kW of solar panels. Malmö is at 55N latitude. If he put the panels on the car I hope he had a decent anti reflection coating because at that latitude he could be looking at 25% reduction i
39.
by Veliladon 1y ago
They're not wrong but if you stick a solar panel on a car that's almost constantly going to be in less than perfect conditions to gather power the EROEI for the panel is going to struggle to be above 1. Stick a panel on the bloody
40.
by Veliladon 2y ago
*an exponent of 64 bytes If it can be kept to a exponent of 64 bytes you even get page aligned again.
41.
by Veliladon 2y ago
There's two main things. First of all, when you load data into a register from an address in memory the CPU loads 64-byte cache lines, not words or bytes. AActor for instance is 1016 bytes. 16 cache lines. It's freaking huge. So l
42.
by Veliladon 2y ago
It'd have to be a really old one. Almost every CPU with an L1 cache loads in cache lines and loads don't have to be cache line aligned because it's supposed to be transparent to the programmer. So there's little to no
43.
by Veliladon 2y ago
I think the better question is why use a single bit or byte for a single bool when sum types exist? You're pulling in an entire cache line (64 bytes) with any load. Why would you not just turn the bool into sum type that carries the pa
44.
by Veliladon 2y ago
They weren't venerable. They were anything but. They were designed to be a lower BOM on the motherboard and 90% of them were buggy garbage.
45.
by Veliladon 2y ago
All words are invented?
46.
by Veliladon 2y ago
Their cheap as chips PCBs are garbage for anything but hobbyist use. They use crappy substrates and have poor tolerances. If you want decent quality substrates and decent quality finishes for fine pitched work the price quickly shoots up.
47.
by Veliladon 2y ago
I miss having an NMI that you got at 50/60Hz come hell or high water.
48.
by Veliladon 2y ago
Because there's nowhere in the US like Shenzhen, Guangdong or Hong Kong. Remember how Apple couldn't just pick up and move the production of iPhones to India or Vietnam? You need all the ancillary industries around the production
49.
by Veliladon 2y ago
It doesn't matter because you can't predict random data which is what the example is using. Branch predictors work on the premise that 95% of the time the branch resolves the same way which is damn common in most code. The closer
50.
by Veliladon 2y ago
The problem with every empire is that eventually the aristocracy/oligarchy/ruling class get high off their own supply.
51.
by Veliladon 2y ago
DNS servers are anycasted. You hit the closest one routing wise. 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 most likely have poisoned records where required to. If you want to use them and not have domain poisoning you need a VPN.
52.
by Veliladon 2y ago
It’s as pointless as the war on drugs. Drugs won and the draconian laws in a futile attempt to enforce prohibition just make people miserable. They poison their DNS and then what? Hop on a VPN and you can be from anywhere and use any DNS se
53.
by Veliladon 2y ago
We generate 30% excess calories more than what is required to feed the world even after wasting 25 calories to create one beef calorie for the developed world. There is no competition. There are only distribution problems under capitalism.
54.
by Veliladon 2y ago
Do they live on the second floor?
55.
by Veliladon 2y ago
Simple solution: Reset the cost basis of an asset to the current market value and realize the capital gain when said asset is used as collateral. Oh and treat the capital gain as income. No more of this lower tax bulllshit just because it&#
56.
by Veliladon 2y ago
*They just FYI.
57.
by Veliladon 2y ago
Exactly this. Like if you're in the 95th percentile on tech literacy it makes no sense. Congrats. Here's a medal. If you're in the 30th percentile and you turn everything off because you're paranoid about stuff you don&#
58.
by Veliladon 2y ago
A robber baron’s cupidity may at some point be satiated? That’s why check notes billionaires keep increasing their share of total wealth year on year?
59.
by Veliladon 2y ago
I mean, how are people supposed to afford all this high tech shit if they can't work decent paying jobs without a degree and the welfare state has been hollowed out? Manufacturing used to provide that. Are companies just going to fight
60.
by Veliladon 2y ago
Nothing. It's Pegasus with the first two letters removed so they'd be at the top of the phone book when we used phone books way back in 1989.

More ›