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by cbmuser 6y ago
And they‘re building a new dam in Turkey which destroys large areas of cultural-historic land just to construct a hydro-plant with just 1200 MW installed electricity, just 1/4 of the power delivered by the new Akkuyu nuclear power plan
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by cbmuser 6y ago
There was no blackout _yet_, but it was very close. According to the German Bundesnetzagentur (the equivalent of the FTC/EIA), the number of times where they have to intervene with the grid due to grid instability is constantly rising
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Yes, but that doesn’t mean anyone has the right to kill these architectures off. Btw, we just saved the VAX backend in gcc.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
HEAD kernel runs fine on my Amiga 4000 from 1992. It also runs fine on my SH-7785LCR SuperH board where I regularly test the latest kernel releases and patches.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
That’s not true. A lot of embedded stuff is still 32 bits. The simpler the hardware, the higher the reliability and the smaller the power consumption.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> Because at some point, who really cares about those ancient systems? A lot of people do. Retro-computing is way more popular than you would think. In fact, m68k is the oldest port in the Linux kernel and is so well-maintained that it s
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Exactly my thought. Please leave autotools alone and don’t “improve” it. It’s not like there are tons of build systems already and if someone is so keen in a heavy-weight build system, they can use Bazel which is so bloated that it doesn’t
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Well, you can put gas into a canister and manually refill it. That’s not possible with electric cars unless you want to use a hometrainer with a generator to charge your car.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Poland is planning to build six nuclear reactors in the near future. One of the biggest consumers of coal within the EU is actually Germany which have a rising reliance on fossil fuels due to them shutting down nuclear power plants.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
And you are ignoring that electric cars produce fine dust particles from their brakes and tyres as well. The fine dust is actually a much more serious problem in the city than combustion engine emissions as the latter are passed through par
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by cbmuser 6y ago
We were talking about emissions, not costs.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
You are ignoring the high amount of emissions necessary to produce the battery. You have to compare the complete lifecycles, including production and recycling of the car.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Germany is one of the dirtiest producers of electricity in the European Union with 400 grams of CO2 per kWh on average while France emits 50 grams of CO2 per kWh on average. Poland is actually planning to build nuclear power plants while Ge
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by cbmuser 6y ago
And you always have to emphasize that buying a regular, combustion engine car is exceptionally expensive in Norway, even for used cars the taxes are high. Electric vehicles are exempt from all this plus you don’t pay road fees and electrici
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Electric cars aren’t zero emission when considering the whole life cycle. The cake is a lie!
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by cbmuser 6y ago
No, even China cannot defeat the laws of Physics. Good luck trying to drive through a remote rural area in winter with an electric vehicle. You will realize pretty soon why battery-powered vehicles are not the universal solution that some p
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Yep, and Germany proves that renewables don’t help to drive down emissions in the energy sector unless you can use abundant amounts of hydro power. Germany has 50% renewables, yet their kWh causes 400 grams of CO2 on average while France wi
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Waste disposal or reprocessing are neglectible if you keep in mind that a single nuclear reactor produces electricity worth over one million US Dollars per day. See: https://youtu.be/cbeJIwF1pVY
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Which is actually not true at all. Modern nuclear plants can be operated in load-following mode and reduce and increase their output by 10% and more within minutes.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Yes, that’s all accounted for. Can be looked up in one of the IPCC reports. Google for “GHG emissions life cycle IPCC”. I’m currently on mobile so I don’t have the sources at hand.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
We have lots of solar in Germany (50% renewables in our electricity mix) and we’re paying the highest price per kWh in the whole world. Let alone that we’re emitting 400 grams of CO2 per kWh on average while it’s just 50 grams on average in
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Germany: 350 million tons of CO2 per year in the energy sector France: 50 million tons of CO2 per year in the energy sector Germany: 50% renewables France: 70% nuclear
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Except that solar power isn’t an effective measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector. Nuclear is far more effective as the comparison between France and Germany shows with Germany emitting _seven_ times the emissions a
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Why does this non-sense get constantly rehashed all the time? You cannot compare the cost of an electricity generation system solely based on the cost of the plant technology itself, you always have to take the whole system costs into accou
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by cbmuser 6y ago
I have the MIPS version of that portable workstation. It's a beautiful piece of hardware. Also, one NWS-1520 and another one which I imported from Japan. Haven't gotten around trying NetBSD on these yet.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
It’s also not very Debian-specific. It applies to openSUSE as well, for example.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> Debian policy is very sane (no network access during build) openaSUSE has that policy, too. And I’m pretty sure the same applies for Fedora. You don’t want to rely on external dependencies during build that you can’t control. That woul
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> Debian's claims to adding value in terms of security and stability to those vendor provided packages are IMHO dubious at best. That’s not true. The idea is that the distribution is tested and stable as a whole and replacing someth
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by cbmuser 6y ago
The name is a bit confusing as there is already a J2 CPU which is the open source variant of the SuperH SH-2.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> When companies deliberately build products in unrepairable ways then repair labor costs more than automated production. They don’t. They optimize for production costs, not repairability, that’s all. And glueing 100,000 iPhones together

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