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by adev_ 4y ago
In a smaller scale, this is also what the French solar panel manufacturer Dual Sun [^1] sell with their geothermal+hybrid panels solution for individual houses. - In winter, heat is generated with a geothermal heat pump and an horizontal un
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by adev_ 4y ago
> There's a subjectively legitimate reason to consider blocking POST (but not GET) No, just no. In a world where many website use GraphQL (POST request with content) (or gRPC) that's complete garbage decision. - This kind of br
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> Remember folks -- according to nuclear defenders, nothing can ever happen for the first time. That is sophism and what-aboutism and irrelevant. > There is no valid technical reason you can point to that would prevent a 100% renewabl
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by adev_ 4y ago
> Say you run Hinkley Point C [1] at a capacity factor of 50% because renewable crowd it out Very bad projection because: - Hinkley Point C, Olkiluoto 3 and EPR Flamanville are all prototype. Their CAPEX cost are not representative of in
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by adev_ 4y ago
> Definitely, but how do you feel about locking that in for the next 35 years? Given that the wholesale price usually hovers around €30-50/MWh depending on energy mix. - €30-50/MWh is the price of intermittent, uncontrollable
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by adev_ 4y ago
> When prices spike, dispatchable sources (or dispatchable demand) move in and snipe the peaks, so nuclear can't make up for it then. That is not true. Nuclear power has been used as a dispatchable / regulative source of power
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by adev_ 4y ago
> SMS makes it very hard to be anonymous. Not a good option IMO. How is that even related ? Silence is the equivalent of Signal over SMS instead of the usual Mobile Data: There is nothing by design in Signal to stay anonymous. E2E enc
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by adev_ 4y ago
> All bets are on centralized and/or proprietary ones that can afford to pay for the privilege Or not. App like Silence ( https://silence.im/ ) have been able to do secure e2e messaging using SMS as transport layer fo
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by adev_ 4y ago
> Dan Price is a effectively a nobody Dan Price is not a nobody. He is a public figure, frequently in TV and media presented regularly as "The alternative CEO model that arrive to give to his workers excellent working conditions wh
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by adev_ 4y ago
And again a good example of American Puritanism where someone pass from the status of Hero to Paria as soon as someone discover he has flaws. Everybody is flawed, damned everybody, including yourself. And the most extraordinary people are,
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by adev_ 4y ago
That is mainly an API for professional usage and not so much to do with making your own EV charging. If some of you are interested by some DIY smart EV charger for home usage. I did one for myself and put the design on github some years ago
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by adev_ 4y ago
> I'm not sure what "locked-in" means here. If something happens to WhatsApp (becomes paid-only, abandoned), you can use Telegram, Viber etc. Maybe the only problem is that you can lose chat history when switching, and th
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by adev_ 4y ago
> How so? It is not solved on the network level (due to its use of TCP), but it is solved on application layer: slow response to one request is not blocking other requests. Like you said, it does not solve the network level: - in HTTP&#x
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> The author convinced they're needed. But I wonder if some sort of error signaling should have been baked into `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` instead. It wouldn't have made sense in HTTP/1.1 since you can just close the con
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by adev_ 4y ago
> Yep! Basically, it's safer if you don't own your PC. Think about users with a million toolbars and Bonzi Buddy installed. And it is a pretty terrible solution to the problem. - It is also keeping the good guys outside too: A
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by adev_ 4y ago
They do work below the language level but have been generally explicitly made for C and C++ programs. e.g abi-compliance-checker The other languages benefit of them currently because they leverage LLVM (also made in C++), because their inte
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by adev_ 4y ago
> C++ has virtually zero tooling and the committee is not interested in ever working on that This sentence makes no sense at all: 1 - Tooling does not stop to the build systems 2 - The tooling set in C++ (and C) has been built over decad
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by adev_ 4y ago
It is easy to fire on Toyota for defending their PHEV strategy... But that said: they are not fundamentally wrong. BEVs is not the unique magic solution to every transport problem (sorry Elon). Like usual, the reality is more complex than t
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by adev_ 4y ago
I am currently born near to Verdun > The amount of shells fired at the battle of as Verdun is so extremely high that you find layers of shells everywhere On the first onslaught on the city, it is estimated the German fired around 2 milli
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by adev_ 4y ago
> I find myself reaching for modern C++ instead of Rust when I want to be productive :( You are not the only one, this is also my experience. And if you think about it: This is fine. There is a reason why we are not using TLA+ or forma
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by adev_ 5y ago
> There is no cost transparency so I don't know what you base that on. Electricity cost to the final user is the only metrics that matter. Anything in the energy market is heavily subsidies: petrol, gas, RNG, everything, not onl
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by adev_ 5y ago
> What did France use for the other half of its energy? Why didn't it just use nuclear for everything? Energy is was more than 70% nuclear in France. The rest is mainly hydro, solar when available and a bit of Gas [1]. Some reactors
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by adev_ 5y ago
> More prosaically, the cost of solar only goes down, while the cost of nuclear seems to only go up. Comparing Nuclear and Solar cost is like comparing the cost of rain to the cost tap water. It is fundamentally stupid. - Nuclear provide
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by adev_ 5y ago
> Is there a newer/similar approach to try? I do use something like that everyday. My setup is: - Ipv6 only and NAT64/DNS64 for everything. That covers all wifi mobile traffic (Android/Iphone) and 99% of Laptop/Deskto
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by adev_ 5y ago
> billions of requests per day with C#/.NET which rivaled other stacks, including C++ Ok let's say 2 billions per day. Meaning 2'000'000 / 24 / 3600 ~= 24Kreq/s That's nothing, you can probably eve
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by adev_ 5y ago
> Not everyone can just get a half million dollar loan. You are still optimist, in some part of the world, it is way other one million. And this is the core of the problem: We are making the poorest even more poor by excluding them of
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by adev_ 5y ago
> I mean the amount of clips I see on the youtubes of people breaking walls make me cringe. A wall should break you, not the other way around The external wall un old French house can easily reach 55/60cm of pure concrete mixed with
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by adev_ 5y ago
> That means (if I understand you correctly), fans. It does not always means fans. Geothermal or aquathermal heat pumps are fan-less, very silent and performs amazingly in cold climate. I have one home.
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by adev_ 5y ago
> I didn't spent a lot of hours in C++ world, but it never felt simple C++ is not simple. But presenting C# (or Java) as "simple" is equally hypocritical. The JVM or the CLR and their associated frameworks are monster of c
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by adev_ 5y ago
> Other than memory safety, simplicity, dependency management and build tooling, the .NET standard libraries, the open source library ecosystem Not feeding the troll but outside memory safety, everything else you list exist in the C++ ec

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