cycomanic

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by cycomanic 7y ago
Actually there have been numerous studies how wind and solar could provide 100% power for a country like the US. The thing is you need significant upgrades to your power grid, this will become easier and easier with improving battery and st
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by cycomanic 7y ago
I'm not sure where your numbers come from, but your off by 2 orders of magnitude (are you talking income?). According to Wikipedia the wealth of the top 1% is 29 trillion ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_i
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by cycomanic 7y ago
It seems like you did not read the article. The article is about a European airport so I'm unsure why you are talking about Americans at all. Most of your other arguments don't aplly either, for most people working at an airport
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by cycomanic 7y ago
This is simply false. First, "base load" powerplants are actually the most troublesome, because they don't adjust for load and predicting base load is actually hard (except when you just use a very small fraction of overall
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by cycomanic 7y ago
People responded to the request for citation already, but Google ROI will get you a lot of sources. Wind is in fact one of (often the) cheapest options, so the OP was wrong. To add to your point of "we just need more research to make
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by cycomanic 7y ago
I'm not sure what your point is, but you're a bit disingenuous. The OP said a 200% increase over the last 30 years (he never talked about the last ten). The data in the document stops in 2011, but it is well over 200% (in particul
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by cycomanic 7y ago
But you don't need origin because preview blocks pretty much all ads by default.
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by cycomanic 7y ago
I highly recommend Firefox preview. It's really fast, no ads and trackers blocked without extensions. They also put the address bar at the bottom which is so much better.
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by cycomanic 7y ago
And there you said you didn't understand it
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by cycomanic 7y ago
I would argue any dynamic programming language is a good alternative to labview. I'm a proponent on using python for labautomation (we run workshops at some major optics conferences, see http://python4photonics.org for an
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by cycomanic 7y ago
How is that fixing the issue of incompatible configuration changes? This is typically the reason why I see boot or start problems, i.e. I have made some changes to some configuration and the format, or some option changed with a package upg
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by cycomanic 7y ago
Well by saying that fields are not "real things" you have just started going down the "philosophical rabbit hole". What is a real thing, is the gravitational force that we feel not a real thing, is the energy we feel in
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by cycomanic 7y ago
I've you're using notmuch astroid is an excellent client. Fast responsive gui, but totally controllable with the keyboard.
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by cycomanic 7y ago
The biggest gripe I have with matlab is that it teaches absolutely horrendous programming habits. Most of the graduate students that only used/learned matlab in their studies (I'm in an engineering field) program everything into o
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by cycomanic 7y ago
Did you actually try it on a website with lots of ads? I've been using focus for the last 6 months or so and the tracker blocking also blocks many ads for me. Also there is blockada which blocks ads system wide.
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by cycomanic 7y ago
Have you tried pyqtgraph? That's IMO the best interactive graphing library for python and qt
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by cycomanic 7y ago
It's not so much the weight but aerodynamics. The top aerobikes (not timetrial bikes) use about 10-20% less power than a non aerobikes at a speed of 45km/h (which is not a high speed during racing). That has actually been the big
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by cycomanic 7y ago
It's actually highly inefficient to do (general) computation with photons. In contrast to electrons, photons really don't like to interact so you need a lot of optical power to implement an optical transistor-like, this was studie
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by cycomanic 7y ago
Funny as I remember it 2008 was all about bailing out the banks, that is giving money to the rich, not rebuilding social structures. It seems increasing debt is always fine if it goes to the elites (via tax breaks or bailouts), while it&#x2
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by cycomanic 7y ago
Why should I as a taxpayer (mind you I am not American, argument still holds though) subsidise ubers business practices? Because that is exactly what you are arguing for. The article clearly states, that uber is extwrnalising costs, which r
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by cycomanic 7y ago
Just because somethin has a benefit to the consumer does not mean we should keep it a viable business model, otherwise we should also allow slave labor. Moreover, while there might be an immediate benefit to consumers, as the article notes
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by cycomanic 8y ago
There's really not enough long term jobs in academia so people have to look elsewhere. Fortunately physics really sets you up for a lot of very different jobs. I myself am one of the lucky ones, am working on a permanent position (simi