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by _ph_ 3y ago
There are small windmills available for purchase. For a while campers and sailing yachts would use them. But they seem to go out of fashion. The problem is: the efficiency goes up with the size also, there is more wind the higher you go. On
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Well, for any coastal location, you can just take a ship.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Because no one ever made a helicopter able to carry 80 tons? And helicopters are tricky and expensive.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Well, certainly there will be soon the wish to transport even larger blades. But if the first gen works out and is successful, then they could build an even longer airplane. As most of the Airplane is basically an aerodynamic fairing around
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Well, there are no large blimps/airships in production. Also, they are quite sensitive to windy conditions, and you want to errect the turbines in very windy places... On the other side, building a small amount of rather simple airpla
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Your post is nonsense. I was talking about the Apple Silicon chips. Which combine all the logic on one chip. That means, they are limited in the capacities by what is put on that corresponding chip. Apple chose to put 2 display outputs on t
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by _ph_ 3y ago
No, it is about doing proper science. Where you usually don't deal with absolutes, but values within an interval. Which they named in the publication. That scientists want to "scare" is the narrative of the climate change den
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by _ph_ 3y ago
That is a quote from the underlying publication. If you look at the total area of the arctic sea, it means that there are only minimal amounts of ice left on the ocean. As the ice doesn't have a homogeneous thickness, it is expected th
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Well, yes. By using the bigger CPUs, which have more cores, more gpus and more IO hardware on chip.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
One has to differentiate here a bit. Java JIT technology has become really great. Highly optimized native code generation which hugely benefits from the ability to use live profiling data to optimize the code. This is why it often beats sta
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Sometimes I think, returns are a bit to easy. There are too many Apple fans with too much money who just ordered it for fun. And then discover that it is a very much first generation product. I am absolutely thrilled by what I hear about th
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Because the more solar gets deployed, the less the costs are. So each increase in growth triggers a reduction in costs which then enables larger growth and so on.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Yes, messing with things should be done carefully. But one shouldn't forget how much bad things are happening every day: - first of all, the continuous threat to Eco-systems from invasive species constantly spread around the globe by c
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Yes, I have bought reusable bags just because I didn't bring one. :) But then I keep using it and over time this doesn't really create extra trash.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I think selling fully reusable cloth bags would be the right thing to do, but otherwise I agree that stores shouldn't offer single-use plastic bags any more.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
This is Gruber at his best. Both critical at the shortcomings of the first generation but also looking beyond that to try to grasp the power of the concept. As well as the highlights of the first generation. I definitely cannot await the ti
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I think this is a great idea and it just feels right. If you tax something, you have the challenge on how to distribute the money in a proper manner if it isn't repurposed to something else in the first place. But having tax deductions
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by _ph_ 3y ago
For one, even if you make several statements which by themselves are true, but leave out the other half of the truth which describes the situation, then you are misleading people. Also, the statements themselves are only partially right too
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by _ph_ 3y ago
That depends on the service provided. In a alot of cases it is good value. That is why companies sell their software via steam and are fine with the App Store. The thing is: you don't have to use steam if it is not a good value for you
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Is this based on any assertions or just how they feel? While the overall ration might not be terribly high, one can read again and again about cases where Apple did reject apps or app updates out of the blue. Some got resolved later on, oth
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Oh, and Apple, please start showing the search results in the App Store first, not some rip off clones.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
What a nasty piece of scare tactics. I am a big Apple user, in many senses really a fan. But these scare tactics are just off. First of all, the safety promises of the Apple store are way worse than Apple makes them. There is tons of dubiou
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by _ph_ 3y ago
All of them. As shown by the overall statistics. And no, I haven't forgotten the MAX crashes. But the issue was addressed. And I hope all 737 pilots have checked the corresponding cutoff switches. But that is exactly the point: a new p
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Right. They have to be taken apart. All doors have to be checked systematically and also they need to do random probes to sample for possible other systematic manufacturing defects. Probably talking to their mechanics, they might quickly id
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by _ph_ 3y ago
By now one has to start to wonder why the doors didn't fell off much earlier. While Boeing has to change a lot about how they manufacture airplanes, the airlines themselves should install a much more aggressive process to look out for
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by _ph_ 3y ago
It actually isn't a question of the money so much as of time. A new airplane would take about 10-15 years to come to market. And then nothing is won. The problem isn't that the doors are bad on the Max, the problem is, that they a
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by _ph_ 3y ago
In the current situation, sending your own engineers to the manufacturer is the best way to ensure an independent check of the whole production chain. Much easier than having your mechanics take the airplane apart after delivery.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
The problem is with the quality management throughout the manufacturing process and not with the specific airplane model except that the manufacturing sites vary between the models. As the production probably cannot be easily moved, a repla
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Forever is a long time. But with proper engineering you have a setup which can be either guaranteed for the designated life time (using loctite or safety pins) or inspection intervals which would ensure tightness. Assuming of course, the bo
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by _ph_ 3y ago
But the point is: Tesla had to build a service network. Apple would have to find a solution for that too. You cannot bring your car to an Apple store nor mail it in, if something is broken.

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