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by caseyy 2y ago
Well, I cannot currently foresee a situation where we’d need to apply this technology to store several orders of magnitude more energy. Even storing 50% more energy this way in the West would have significant self-reinforcing positive effec
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I think this is more likely it. NIMBY is a plausible explanation for both the delays in building these plants and NPPs. Not to mention the guaranteed opposition to whoever suggests them as a politician.
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This is very important in controllers using feedback loops. The output of a controller is measured, a function is applied to it, and the result is fed back into the controller. The output becomes self-balancing. The applications in this cas
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by caseyy 2y ago
Well, this is about pumped storage hydroelectric plants, which are not dams. These plants aren’t generally built on rivers because they require much larger water reservoirs. As with any land development, they require land, of course. But al
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They are grid-wide plants, which don’t need to be near large population centres. Sierra Madres/Rockies offer great elevation gradients in West TX, if one would want to keep it in the state. This is a consideration but I don’t think it’
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by caseyy 2y ago
There are pumped storage hydro-electric plants with abundant and cheap capacities. They also work and are in use, mostly in China and Japan. China is building a lot more, too. It will probably have 80% of the world’s energy storage capacity
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by caseyy 2y ago
All these things are likely. It is also often the case that Joe's friend who's "good with computers" will install Chrome for him. Chrome is massively popular and overall a very functional browser. As another commenter me
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“it’s the Google ball on the taskbar and when you click it, the internet comes up” — is the argument to use Chrome that many people will go with. I’m not making fun of tech illiterate people either. We are all more vulnerable in some parts
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Andy Weir: Your indomitable human spirit has gotten you far. Now in the face of overwhelming odds, you will need to show resilience and science the shit out of your situation.
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by caseyy 2y ago
A performative personal attack, disguised as helpful suggestion; revealing that the purpose of my engagement was never a serious discussion, but only making myself look good. The use of a semicolon tastefully solidifies my position as a ver
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by caseyy 2y ago
A condemning argument against your diatribe, based largely on my personal definition of a loaded term your diatribe used.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Touché
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by caseyy 2y ago
It’s not necessarily about how hard it is, but what’s the ROI on learning a skill. If soldering was something I did at work or if I often repaired my own electronics, then it could even be worth learning it if it took a month of evenings. B
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I wish this was for sale assembled. I know probably about 50% about printing PCBs compared to what I’d need to know, don’t have a 3D printer, and I expect that the firmware and apps probably have at least one or two quirks to take into acco
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by caseyy 2y ago
I think most private dentists charge about £20/$25 for a radiography in the UK. In the US, this pricing seems also available - https://www.teethtalkgirl.com/dental-health/cost-for-dental-... . Interestingly, I live
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by caseyy 2y ago
It's one of those things which people endlessly argue about, but once one flosses once or twice, the rotting bits of food in between their teeth become very unappealing to them.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Possibly, but it’s a local maxima of market share. Global is where Google now is.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Perhaps normal people also have a more substantiated view of facts :)
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I think they need to bring it down to $0.99/mo before anyone but early adopters will consider it. Kagi must compete with a search engine that most people believe has no cost. And many people, as evidenced by Google’s profitable enshitt
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Quite many "normal people" also enjoy the freedom of the automobile. It has contributed significantly to the culture of autonomy, unity on large scales (beyond one's local town), and cosmopolitanism. Online, it is acceptable
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I’ve worked in companies where problematic behavior was rarely addressed. Surprise surprise — they turned toxic. It is undeniably an awkward question to ask, but valuable. How to weasel this question into the interview is another matter…
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by caseyy 2y ago
It is culture. The government doesn’t just provide these APIs, people use them. End even if you compare Harvard’s CS50 vs CS courses in the UK, you will see that it’s a lot more oriented around computing in every day life. The BBC home comp
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by caseyy 2y ago
Compared to many other countries, UK has a computer science culture that's very open about how technology is used in every day lives, and it invites public participation in new tech. This shows a lot in the government as well as its se
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If they calculated the % in terms of CPU time used, they could have made the claim even more impressive.
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I don't know – would we risk Kessler Syndrome for a war? Win a piece of land and doom humanity for a hundred years of regress in space? Maybe, probably can't be ruled out. As for jamming, is it feasible or practical to jam very la
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This is what the future of communication looks like. It's really a massive step forward. No one will have to die from exposure when their cars break down, no planes will go missing, and no more black spots in natural disasters. It is a
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Okay, but this political stuff is unrelated to the topic at hand.
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Wow that's dark.
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WiFi map: https://wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/#/list-accesspoints
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It is notable that human blood concrete was still found to be stronger than ordinary concrete.

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