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by gibolt 4y ago
Is anyone else delivering anything even close? Aiming 10-100x better than competitors and missing by a small percentage is considered failure apparently. Hughesnet was one of the best options prior to Starlink.
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by gibolt 4y ago
Agreed. We aren't even on next gen satellites (far larger) or laser communication yet. Those should significantly improve speed, bandwidth, and reliability.
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by gibolt 4y ago
Unity is still the engine for the vast majority of 2D and 3D games, especially VR. It feels like each has filled their niche well, and they are now bifurcating to target different audiences. It doesn't seem to me like Unreal will ever
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by gibolt 4y ago
I use similar measurements to value/compare purchases and their impact. - Value per use - Weight (analog for materials used) - Likely lifetime Bonus for wireless headphones specifically is you can buy replacement cases, or single buds
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by gibolt 4y ago
Having a thorough description of the page's images seems like an nice unexpected benefit for accessibility. Do you use any tools to interpret images in other content?
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by gibolt 4y ago
Name collisions are becoming quite common. Fortunately, these projects are at least in separate languages/environments.
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by gibolt 4y ago
Microsoft would license their burger recipe. All the licensees would sell unique, subpar versions. They'd also for some reason have a $10 billion contract to supply burgers to the military.
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by gibolt 4y ago
For grid scale, batteries add a lot of value. They can pay for themselves rather quickly since they react far quicker than spinning up FF peakers. Real world example, one of the biggest batteries in the world likely will be paid off in 2-3
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by gibolt 4y ago
Solar is already extremely cheap, when costed out over it's minimal lifetime. At grid scale, it has dipped down to crazy levels. As you said, this trend will keep on going.
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by gibolt 4y ago
It is becoming hard to find anything trusted online. Here is the equivalent Ryan George video for Google: https://youtu.be/NT7_SxJ3oSI Same problem. Different clothes
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by gibolt 4y ago
One bonus side effect of this is that an influx of batteries meant to be recycled means it will be easier and more profitable for battery recycling to get off the ground. That means more materials and better future recycling process discove
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by gibolt 4y ago
You'd be surprised at how low grid-scale solar/wind plus storage costs have dropped, especially once taking into account full lifetime operating costs. Optimally, you build an energy mix for the worst day of the year, not storing
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by gibolt 4y ago
Solar actually thrives in the winter. Panels' enemy is heat, and snow is happy to soak that up and quickly melt, sliding itself off. Even during overcast or rainy days, you'd be surprised how much sun energy still comes through.
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by gibolt 4y ago
Except it turns out we don't use much energy at night... Solar aligns very well with daily energy demands, and storage helps smooth it out. In the end we will have a massive energy surplus and finding ways to use that extra energy will
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by gibolt 4y ago
For anyone curious, here is the background of this, via Hank Green: https://youtu.be/5yWTPtPYukg Be prepared for laughter
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by gibolt 4y ago
Toilets kill ~40 people per year, obviously not all on military bases (I hope). Mundane things are deadly, simply because we use them everyday.
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by gibolt 4y ago
Oil and gas are the only heavily subsidized energy sources. To the tune of multiple Trillions USD per year
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by gibolt 4y ago
If anything the link makes it look like everything is equally viable. Even if a plot is not perfect, consistent wind (well above the ground) can be tapped by tall wind turbines and still be net positive. Ground wind speed is very different
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by gibolt 4y ago
The main predator is likely cars in this case. Those numbers won't be decreasing, and bug numbers likely won't be bouncing back
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by gibolt 4y ago
Lots of child comments have made statements about what life 'needs' and why that would make things difficult. We don't know what conditions life 'needs' since we only have a sample size of 1. We can speculate, but n
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by gibolt 4y ago
Main benefit is avoiding transmission losses through our atmosphere. Capturing the signal is easy (we have satellite communication already)
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by gibolt 4y ago
This is the point. High energy needs to be transferred in a narrow beam, and be minimally impacted by all layers of our atmosphere
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by gibolt 4y ago
We're nowhere close to that. Covering all land in solar would be ~100x our current energy needs, and then we still have ocean (most of the surface) available.
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by gibolt 4y ago
A Dyson sphere is just as much fantasy as physics, true of most of today's technology just 50 years ago. Solar and wind are needed today, but Starship could bring launch costs down enough that some highly optimized space solar panels w
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by gibolt 4y ago
The teeth are already there. A few gradually longer ones makes obvious sense to be a better predator, giving them an evolutionary advantage.
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by gibolt 4y ago
Unintuitive to biased humans. The solutions may actually be super intuitive/efficient, and we just can't wrap our heads around it yet
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by gibolt 4y ago
Because these are so linked to research, everyone and their cousin is vying for time on them. Even though it may be massive, no individual will get anywhere near peak.
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by gibolt 4y ago
They tend to take a defensive approach to restrict outsiders, since most tech innovation isn't happening locally
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by gibolt 4y ago
Early games and software would be delivered on audio cassettes that would then have to be 'played' in order to load your software temporarily into the device, which could take minutes edit: Video from the 8-bit Guy on how this wor
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by gibolt 4y ago
Or labels it as organic, and green? While actually damaging an ocean ecosystem (that may help fend off climate change)

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