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by hwillis 3y ago
> Seems to me that as the energy mix moves more towards renewable, to the extent that the renewable-skeptics’ prediction that variability is an issue comes true, then we would have to build gas peaker plants and start charging more for e
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> They estimate that it could produce 2,895 TWh of electricity each year from solar and wind. That’s almost double its estimate for final energy demand in 2050. See the chart below. [...] We can see this when we look at other estimates o
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1. The lower lake still needs to be substantially above sea level and the local water table etc. so that it can actually be drained and so that it doesn't just fill up with local water. You can't do this by the hoover dam, since
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Tons of common plastics are made from plants. PLA, the most common FDM 3d printing plastic, is made from corn. Ethylene in particular is also naturally occurring- it's one of the most important plant hormones. Plastic implies it is s
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Yes but no. Allergies are a very particular reaction- you don't get allergy symptoms when you're sick. They're predominantly IgE (immunoglobulin E) which is a detector antibody rather than a neutralizing antibody (although
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> People can develop antibodies against things which are not foreign micro-organisms. TIL. Well yeah- that's how many (most?) resistance to toxins works. When you are given pit viper antivenom, it's literally a bunch of sheep
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Murray wrote Zionism is Bullshit in 2017. It's just as old as his pro-independence stuff. > Humanity shouldn't wait for another holocaust. Agreed. An international coalition must militarily intervene to repeal rules such as M
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by hwillis 3y ago
That's tautological. Commenter above is saying that IPC may have gone down. You're asserting that it didn't without any evidence. There are also plenty of other reasons speed doesn't translate well to performance, like
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Not really. Major damage would be damage to the subframes or wheel wells. It's a step right above getting entire axles ripped off. In most situations, for most cars, that will total the car.
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Not all metals. The stronger aluminum alloys get their strength from precipitation aging, which gives a lot of similar benefits to forging (via different processes), and because of that cannot be forged very much. They do get stronger whe
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The nationwide average capacity factor for CCGT was 57% in 2020: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48036
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Yep. Keep it all hot. North/southbridge, controllers, everything. Skip POST. If something has changed we can just restart once it's warmed up. Anything that still needs a traditional boot (eg a disk drive) we just be assumed to ha
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same as legal substances like alcohol.
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Obviously separate problems, like alcohol and drunk driving. People use prescription meth (desoxyn) and opioids responsibly, just like alcohol. Negative externalities are a separate choice. Using meth is as victimless as using alcohol, an
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by hwillis 3y ago
Should be stressed that speed is entirely theoretical: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aelm.202101... > In all of the above tests, the program and erase states were set using
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by hwillis 3y ago
Currently, performance is hypothetical. This and DRAM both work by charging up a little capacitor; this tech uses tunnelling so that the capacitor can be very highly isolated. That's why it doesn't discharge. The smaller the cap
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by hwillis 3y ago
Optane made loading the OS super fast, but the OS still has to fill up RAM. No matter what, loading up 2+ GB of ram will always take noticeable time. Even flat out, Optane takes >1 second to boot, and several seconds to restore a sessi
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by hwillis 3y ago
If they've done that, I think the concept of "turning off" a device goes away. You just unplug it, and the energy needed to dump the stuff in the pipeline to memory can be stored in a capacitor. The OS can just always be load
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Its intentional language. Lawyerspeak, if you like. Not all talks at a conference are serious; some are humorous, some are meta-commentary on problems in the field, etc. If you say you are cancelling the talk because it's not scienti
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It sounds like the speaker was trying to argue against the usage of sex estimation. As you say, sex estimation seems like a good and working solution.
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That breaks the video. inspect -> network -> refresh -> blocking the request for pointers.js works.
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turned off javascript as soon as I saw it. Like trying to read with twenty mosquitos in your face.
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> The foaming was from the other side of the aisle, in a similar vein to your post. That's a WILD thing to say. People are still going crazy over ivermectin, an senators are still posting conspiracy theories about it: https:&#x2
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> Wire up a cheap boat with explosives and it can sink an expensive naval vessel. This has been pretty obvious since the Millennium Challenge 21 years ago, when they just called them suicide attacks. Nobody seems to have cared then and
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I don't really disagree with you, but that's very misleading to say. 64% of the federal budget goes to social security, medicare/medicaid, disability etc. That is, it goes to individuals. It's not meaningful to call th
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> this is what happens when you shift everything in heavy industry or production in general off to India and China without keeping at least some production domestic I disagree, or at least think it's a lot harder than that. 1. It&#x
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Instagram was just fined even more for the same thing. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/05/instagram-gdpr-fine-childr...
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> TikTok said the investigation looked at the company’s privacy setup between 31 July and 31 December 2020 and said it had addressed the problems raised by the inquiry. All existing and new TikTok accounts for 13- to 15-year-olds have be
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It's pretty good, about +/- 5 mmHg. At worst it can bump you up/down a category- drinking a couple glasses of water can do that too, and the medical treatment would not be any different. The electric cuff machines can be ov
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> Do you think the EU regulatory agencies haven't properly accounted for the claims made by the makers of this device? Exactly what regulation do you think applies to this device? Do you think it's an approved medical device?

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