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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, as statistics clearly show, there is a minimum demand 24/7. But that is just one characteristic number. That is the demand you always have to provide through the year. But at any time, more power is required, you have to provide
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Solar doesn't work at night of course, but wind power does. Actually, on average, it is stronger at night. Yes, we have to supply power in the times of low renewable production. Though there are renewables which are good for it like bi
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The thing is, if the demand of the grid raises, you have to raise power production. Period. Of course, if e.g. it is dark, you cannot raise the power production of solar cells. That is bad. But if your nuclear plant is running at 100% alrea
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, they are not solved.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Solar works great in Germany. Admittedly, there are better places in the world for solar, but it works. At noon today, about 50% of the total electricity in Germany came from solar. We need much more of solar, but until all rooftops have be
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, currently a lot of electricity goes from Germany to France, as 50% of the French nuclear plants are not operational at the moment. (A lot need maintenance, others are down because of the heat)
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The whole concept of "base load" is wrong. Electric networks need to provide exactly as much power as demmanded at any point in time to remain stable. "Base load" was just a statistical construct to determine which fract
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I beg your pardon? Excessive safety guidelines? Do you have any idea what a large scale nuclear disaster could cause in a densely populated Europe? How close Japan brush with disaster as the Fukushima fallout could have hit the Tokyo region
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, all the gas usages can and will be replaced by electricity. Which will come from renewables. The 3 remaining German nuclear reactors won't make much of a difference here, but yes, those which are in any shape for it, should run e
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, since all currently available nuclear reactor models are way more expensive to build than renewables. And a lot of tangentials remain open. Like where to get and reprocess fuel rods? What about operational safety? And most of all, where
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It is not that an aspiring EE switches to become a lawyer. EE is often a special kind of software development. Switching to a "software" job often enough doesn't deeply mean a change of proffession. You are still an engineer
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Then check out the Asahi Linux project. From my understanding, it consists of two parts. First, kind of a boot loader, which makes it easy to boot any code on your Mac. This they use to run a Linux kernel, customized for the hardware of the
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by _ph_ 4y ago
MacOs doesn't forbid to run your own code. Not sure what you are talking about.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Nor do most PC vendors. Which is why Linux on many laptops is still some kind of a challenge. The only reason it most of the times works nevertheless is, that the PC vendors often use known components and the user base is so large, that a l
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, a commit log isn't a changelog. However, a good commit log can make writing your change log much easier. While this isn't an automatic process, writing a changelog becomes a bit of filtering of the commit messages as well as
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Some did into the early 90ies. Mind you, PCs at that time had a fan in the power supply but not on the CPU. My mother had a 486/33, that didn't even had a heat sink on the CPU.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, that was the time, when home computers ruled the world :) Like the C64, the Amiga 500, the Atari ST. The very first ARM computer, the archimedes. Indeed, PCs always had fans, were big and noisy. But home computers, you just switched
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I took delivery of mine yesterday morning and I absolutely adore it. I have to fully agree with what Gruber wrote. If you are looking for a compact, very mobile solution, the Air is exactly designed for that and leaves little to be desired.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Following Asahi too, I am reasonably optimistic. Also it is interesting to watch what Apple is doing. While not providing any official support to Asahi, they did some changes to macOS to make the life of the developers easier. Also, Apple j
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I wouldn't say so. The nice thing about the Apple Silicon seems to be, that the hardware is pretty constant. So once WIFI works, it should continue to work, maybe with minor tweaks on each generation. Lenovo just announced an ARM lapto
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Not? There is no doubt, that even Hitler every now and then did something right. But of course that doesn't excuse him from being the Monster he was and all the crimes he was responsible for.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I am not sure how the method of installation plays a role and I have not said, that lacking GPU support is the only drawback, just the biggest. The rest is work im progress or already working. But to a few of your points: - HDMI: the MacBoo
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by _ph_ 4y ago
How many "general purpose computers" are out there? There are a few vendors, which explicitly support Windows and Linux, but many computers are just designed for Windows, Linux might or might not run on them. Asahi Linux is makin
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by _ph_ 4y ago
This applies to most computers sold. A lot of PC hardware has components, which might not be supported by Linux nor drivers provided. Fortunately, there are more and more manufacturers, who officially support Linux on their machines and of
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Even with reasonable amounts of swapping you are unlikely to notice huge differences. Only if you are thrashing the memory, you surely would. But then just getting more memory would be a very wise investment.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I think there are no unbiased opinions. With every reviewer, you have to know that person and take that persons perspective in mind. Just depending what your typical usage szenario is, can make a huge impact on a review. With Gruber, I do t
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by _ph_ 4y ago
There is. Apple does not restrict you from booting into other operations, they actually have even slightly improved the ability to do so over time on the ARM Macs. The catch is to get another OS which supports your hardware. With Linux, it
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, unless your work load is purely SSD bound - in which case you probably want a larger SSD anyway - the M2 Air is consistantly faster than the M1, as the CPU is noticeably faster. If you get a good deal on an M1, by all means get one as y
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by _ph_ 4y ago
There are no sanctions against Russian gas and the contractual agreed money is paid as specified in the contracts. The involved Russian banks have been excluded from the sanctions to facilitate that. On the other side, Russia has started to
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by _ph_ 4y ago
A lot of bad country leaders have been right at times. I am trying to resist to invoke Godwin's law here...

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