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by flor1s 5y ago
Is day and night really the problem here? Because I thought demand usually peaks at certain times of the day (e.g. early in the evening in California: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan
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by flor1s 5y ago
I don't think this is true. My (Dutch) mom used to wash at night and in the weekend because of reduced tariffs. She is very energy conscious on general. Not everyone is oblivious to these things, especially less well off people.
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by flor1s 5y ago
I think it's more important to find a good text book about the language you want to learn programming in, rather than a book about OOP. OOP is implemented differently by each language, and some popular languages these days completely a
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by flor1s 5y ago
I don't think nuclear is much more resistant against forces of nature than solar/wind are... An INES level 7 accident in France could cause a similar outage in France's nuclear capacity (similar to Japan's nuclear lost d
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by flor1s 5y ago
Right, luckily it's not enabled by default. Some other fields in which unbounded computation is common are IOT and robotics.
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by flor1s 5y ago
You keep calling it a "letter" but it is not just a "letter" in the sense that I can write a letter to you, it's a letter written by experts in the field to a top ranked scientific journal that has been editorially
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by flor1s 5y ago
If you think a pre-print is a better source than an academic letter (published in a reputable scientific journal, which implies at least editorial review), then lets agree to disagree.
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by flor1s 5y ago
> a pre-print in the process of review. So not reviewed yet. My point is that both a preprint and a letter to the editors have not gone through a rigorous review. Preprints might be submitted for peer-review but that's no guarantee
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by flor1s 5y ago
> Regions with an early interest in face masks had milder COVID-19 epidemics, according to a new letter-to-the-editor published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. (the source of the Science Daily article:
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by flor1s 6y ago
He says you can't "combine" percentages, not that you can't "compare" percentages, "you can't add and substract between them".
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by flor1s 6y ago
You mean that Fukushima never killed anyone during normal operations? Because people died during the evacuation, a worker died due to lung cancer attributed to the disaster (it's mentioned in the article), and we are not sure if there
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by flor1s 6y ago
Nuclear has its fair share of NIMBY-ism (especially regarding storage of waste), also benefits from "magic" energy storage technologies (so you can run them at higher efficiency) and is also reliant on breakthroughs (technological
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by flor1s 6y ago
Having all countries in the EU in the same boat when it comes to vaccines seems like a good thing to me. Now we have this spat between the EU and UK, but if every nation in the EU negotiated by themselves we might have a conflict between EU
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by flor1s 6y ago
This would solve one of the biggest problems I have with split keyboards; where do I put my mouse? At least I'm using a Logitech Ergo Trackball, which means that I can predictability move from the keyboard to the mouse, but there is no
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by flor1s 6y ago
For buying ergonomic chairs on a budget, you should check out used office supply stores. You can often save hundreds of dollars for a good quality chair.
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by flor1s 6y ago
Vulcanus
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by flor1s 6y ago
Somewhat related applications in the robotics field were presented at this IROS 2020 workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/iros2020-geometric-methods/hom...
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by flor1s 6y ago
> They only work well at small percentage of generation when you have enough hydropower backup What do you see as a small percentage? A country like The Netherlands is generating between 10% and 50% renewable energy without significant s
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by flor1s 6y ago
Considering Nature labelled it as a review article and still published it, it does seem like Nature is an applicable venue for publishing a paper like this.
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by flor1s 6y ago
The type of renewable matters though, it seems like retrofitting existing houses with solar panels is relatively more dangerous than building utility scale solar farms (no roof to fall off from, higher yield).
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by flor1s 6y ago
Is there a particular reason why solar and wind aren't competitive in Ukraine, while in general it seems like those technologies are some of the cheapest sources of energy available today?
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by flor1s 6y ago
Do you have a source for blades often being made of toxic material? The Bloomberg article a poster linked above makes it seem like it's completely safe to store the blades in landfill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news&#x2
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by flor1s 6y ago
Reading the Bloomberg article, it doesn't seem like the blades are a big problem. > “Wind turbine blades at the end of their operational life are landfill-safe, unlike the waste from some other energy sources, and represent a small
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Does Stress Impact Technical Interview Performance? [pdf](chrisparnin.me)
3 points by flor1s 6y ago|0 comments
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by flor1s 6y ago
I found it funny that the book "Robotics" (by Siciliano et al.) isn't in the category "Intelligent Technologies and Robotics". There's another book titled "Robotics" (by Mihelj et al.) in that categor
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by flor1s 6y ago
Check out https://www.ros.org - it allows you to program in either C++ or Python (with some other languages being supported by the community)
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by flor1s 7y ago
I've seen it mostly in the Dutch news until now. The source is the Dutch CDC (RIVM) via Marion Koopmans (Professor of virology and head of the virology department at the Erasmus Medical Center). Article in Dutch (translated title: Mild
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by flor1s 7y ago
You might hate what you are doing in the short term but love what you will gain from doing that in the long term.
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by flor1s 7y ago
As someone who has a PhD in informatics, I would say it's only worth it if you (mostly) like doing what is required for getting the actual PhD (research, writing papers, giving presentations - often to an audience that is not really in
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by flor1s 7y ago
In The Netherlands we have a specific degree on the PhD level but focused on practical research, called PDEng (Professional Doctorate in Engineering).

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