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by XorNot 6mo ago
They could wind up losing all their business to China though. China has memory makers who are creeping up through the stages of production maturity, and once they hit then there's no going back. If the existing makers can't meet s
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Yep I really hate the characterisation that tried to imply people are weaker or worse because they lack a contextually relevant skill. I spent about 6 months teaching myself how to tie a set of useful knots, and the reality is by now I can&
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I mean I've always thought the kinetic experience of vinyl was the point: my childhood memory is the excitement and anticipation of carefully putting the needle on the lead in and hearing the subtle pops and scratches that meant it was
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by XorNot 6mo ago
"Look how many people get shot versus stabbed. Obviously the natural order is for people to get shot."
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by XorNot 6mo ago
As a father I can assure you you have no idea what you're talking about.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
A router which can be switched off sometimes, or break and delay replacement. I don't want all my IoT devices going down because they can't resolve hostnames - that's why I set fixed IP addresses for them. It means how they c
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I don't care to remember them, but I do want them to be consistent so there's no dependency in DNS. My home network isn't the Internet and isn't large: DNS is a much more complicated system to keep running then just fixe
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I mean generally I want fixed IPs on my local network for robustness. With IPv6 I actually want it more and it becomes possible since we can just use the MAC address as an IP address. I have IPv6 service at my ISP right now but I'm hes
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Secret Code Word. Communicates it is meant to be secret, and can be a short memorable thing.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I've just built myself a useful tool which now really would benefit from a database and I'm deeply regretting not doing that from the get-go. So my opinion has thoroughly shifted to "start with a database, and if you _really_
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Not just bigger, but actually tractable problems. The revolutionary fall in the price of solar power and batteries means we can actually displace coal, and have, without really asking much of anyone to do it. That's a massive advanta
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by XorNot 6mo ago
No amount of efficiency improvements matters if all the energy is still coming from burning fossil fuels at the end of the day.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Why would you build a very expensive bipedal robot to suicide bomb someone, when as you note, a very cheap flying drone could do the same thing? (and more over: already is, this is literally how drones are used in Ukraine). Which of course
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Wait is IPU6 working now? My work laptop has it and the only thing I know is it might work provided I use some user space relay driver and a bunch of other things. Has this situation improved?
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by XorNot 6mo ago
For the cost and expense of building a pumped hydro plant though, you could just deploy batteries which will do the same thing for a much lower capital and management investment and vastly simplified engineering. And a higher round-trip eff
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Not what I was responding to. Saying nuclear plants can't ramp for predictable night time demand is wrong. Nuclear plants can't do instant demand response, but they can absolutely respond over windows of several hours.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
The you're talking about a geographical limited, extremely finite resource with a substantial ecological footprint.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Pumped hydro storage only holds about 8-12 hours of power. To be economically viable to build you need to cycle it daily. It uses enormous amounts of land and capital to build, and is ongoingly dangerous in a unique way. If LiFePO4 can do 4
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by XorNot 6mo ago
But who cares? Plastic in stabilized landfill is behaving better then the oil in the ground it was manufactured from. It doesn't matter.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
This is just wrong. Nuclear is perfectly fine for nighttime because nighttime is highly predictable and doesn't fluctuate very much. My state (NSW, Australia) for example uses no less then 6 GW at all times of day. Variable load is on
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by XorNot 6mo ago
This was the group who did it for me in Australia: https://voltxenergy.com.au/ It was under subsidy, but I got about double what I was going to get about 6 months prior. There are 50kwh units going on AliExpress for about $
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by XorNot 6mo ago
There's also just an absolutely bonkers number of functional second hand devices out there. A lot of them make their way to Africa as phones people use (and the Chinese repair and refurbishmenr business is huge and a volume business).
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I mean battery breakthroughs are real though? BYD is now demoing 0-80% in 5 mins on production vehicles in China. The price of the 50kwh unit I had put into my house was very low. Sodium ion is ramping up too but is commercially available.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
The cultural ramifications of choosing one word over another are significant though. "Winner" is a loaded term. > In evolution the survivors reproduced, and that includes 100% of our ancestors.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
We don't descend from winners, we descend from whoever survived and it's not an individual competition. If the only place a particularly beneficial mutation appears is wiped out by chance volcanic eruption, that's just how it
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by XorNot 6mo ago
There's an alternate hypothesis about that which is that a lot of adolescent level risky behavior may actually be a way to weed out psychopaths. The argument is essentially: how come daring people to do something gross or embarrassing
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by XorNot 6mo ago
The scenario being unlikely doesn't make the OP's point irrelevant: the situation you see today is because that scenario doesn't happen , and it doesn't happen because countries are relatively circumspect about the way
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by XorNot 6mo ago
No they're exactly right: drones need cheap, powerful parts which have only become possible due to highly concentrated mass production in places like China. You aren't fabbing up integrated machine learning SOCs in a shed in Ukrai
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by XorNot 6mo ago
There has never been any ability for the UN to work the way people seem to think it should work. Because who exactly, outside of those major powers, is going to enforce anything?
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Yes that's the "it actually makes sense" the more repugnant conservative pundits have been pushing because those guest spots on the right wing networks require you not to criticize the administration in any way.

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