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by auspiv 3y ago
Natural gas (which is of course composed primarily of methane) free takeaway capacity from West Texas is super low. Pipelines are booked solid and and 1-2 new ones are being commissioned yearly (google search for 'Permian natural gas p
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by auspiv 3y ago
Computers have been used in the industry since at least the 1970s. These days, every major oil company has $XXX million in supercomputers cranking through seismic data in a number of extremely computationally intensive ways. Reservoir simul
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by auspiv 3y ago
Do you want sensational click-bait articles or do you want actual weather forecasts by people who understand the topic and know how to interpret the models? Take your pick. One is simple, the other is not.
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by auspiv 3y ago
I have found ChatGPT to be incredibly useful as well. I don't do any fancy prompt engineering, just use plain English. Here are a few recent examples that spit out useful results. 1) can you write a python script to grab the top 3 item
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by auspiv 3y ago
It is worth noting that the highest efficiency gas turbines are combined cycle. That is, the waste heat is captured almost in entirety to make steam to run other turbines (potentially part of the same generating unit) to increase efficiency
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by auspiv 3y ago
Interstate 10 crossing Texas (East-West) is 877 miles, 1412 km. US Highway 83 (N-S) is 906 mi, 1458 km.
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by auspiv 3y ago
5 year old CPUs (Intel i7-6700, for example) do 2.6GB/s. https://calomel.org/aesni_ssl_performance.html First gen Ryzen (similar age) does 8.2GB/s, which is faster than PCIe 4 NVMe drives. https://www.v
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by auspiv 3y ago
Been a feature of SQL Server since I believe SQL Server 2008 - temporal tables. They are used (incorrectly) at my place of work quite a bit. If auditing data (who changed what and when) is important - there are two choices: 1) system versio
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by auspiv 3y ago
Try to run even a Pi 3 on 5W and let me know how it goes. You'll get undervolt warnings like crazy. Not sure if you looked at the article but these are the power adapters listed. These SBCs are not exactly low power anymore: 5V/5A
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by auspiv 3y ago
Yep, very standard to upgrade at end of the 5 year warranty period.
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by auspiv 3y ago
No they don't. I have a Dell Optiplex 3070 SFF (not even ultra small form factor, it is standard desktop sized) that idles at 8W. It has an i5-9500, 8GB memory, and a 128GB NVMe.
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by auspiv 3y ago
Geez for the prices listed in the article (153 EUR and 301 EUR), get a TMM (tiny mini micro - https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic... ) computer. These are the SFF/USFF off-lease older enterprise
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by auspiv 3y ago
If you have a Raspberry Pi laying around and want to run your own Stratum 1 NTP server - https://austinsnerdythings.com/2021/04/19/microsecond-accura...
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by auspiv 3y ago
Ctrl + F "federal reserve" - phrase not found. The Federal Reserve (which, despite its name, is not a part of the US Government) is the de facto institution that controls money in the United States. All US Dollars are created by t