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by illiarian 3y ago
Nuclear plants plants "change gears" at 3-5% of their nameplate capacity. https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
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by illiarian 3y ago
What a load of crap. Nuclear has been load following (and required to load following by EU regulations) since forever. Capable of changing power output at 3-5% of nameplate capacity per minute. https://www.oecd-nea.org/uploa
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by illiarian 3y ago
> The actual EU strategy There is a strategy beyond populism and FUD? > Overbuilding renewables capacity so it can still provide enough even at lower efficiency. And the cost of overbuilding is? > And last but not least the EU hydr
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Pumped storage Very limited in where you can build it > grid scale batteries Don't exist. You severely underestimate the needs of the grid > syngas Aka burning furl and calling it carbon neutral. And have they passed the 1MW
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by illiarian 3y ago
It only means that there's still baseload, only covered by a much more fragile and complex system. If there was no baseload you wouldn't care if intermittent power generation went to zero. Because "Base load is the minimum le
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Summer air conditioning peaks are shit on nuclear They are not, of course. And I wonder who will take care of peak air conditioning on a summer night?
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by illiarian 3y ago
> France needs to buy electricity from Germany because reactors are down or can not function because the river used for cooling is to hot already. Right now electricity maps shows that France produces 60% of electricity from nuclear, imp
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by illiarian 3y ago
> won't be reliable enough in the dry Europe we are facing: Italy, France and Spain are in extreme drought and France in particular had to shut down nuclear power plants due to lack of water. No, no they didn't. The shutdown du
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by illiarian 3y ago
> China, Russia, SK) are the ones that are known to skip on safety And you have sources on this except opinions and FUD?
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by illiarian 3y ago
"Future is not baseload except we actually need baseload, but let's call it by different names like flexible generation and magical non-existent new types of storage"
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by illiarian 3y ago
> The body max-width is 800px by default. It should be 80ch (or 70ch), not pixels
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by illiarian 3y ago
> unidiomatic OCaml > You don’t write tuples without parentheses > Same for the precedence rules of expression. You just use begin and end for blocks This is exactly what I wrote, but in a Stockholm-syndrome-y way. > The author
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by illiarian 3y ago
> If If. Would. etc. It could also not grow, and slip back to losing billions. > Companies are valued at profits for 10+ years. Wat?
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by illiarian 3y ago
> 78% is not 80-90%. It's impressive that you managed to quote a ridiculously large range, and still get it wrong, I couldn't care less to calculate it this time. It fluctuates around the same number YoY > The ad revenue fro
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by illiarian 3y ago
The rescript-reason split killed both IMO. ReasonML was a very tiny language to begin with. Splitting it into two split the already tiny language and community into two minuscule ones. And for no good reason (pun not intended). And they wer
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by illiarian 3y ago
> like Java, which has a library for everything and high quality well documented libraries Unless it's a library that has been around for a while and is probably hosted at Apache. There was a marked shift in 2010s in expectations, a
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Because they are not issues on a day to day basis when you use the language. They still are. You just internalize them. Progammers are the world's greatest masochists with the world's biggest Stockholm syndromes, and we don
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by illiarian 3y ago
> What about their hardware business? As with anything that is not ads, it's losing money.
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by illiarian 3y ago
From the report: "Google Cloud includes infrastructure and platform services, collaboration tools, and other services for enterprise customers. Google Cloud generates revenues from fees received for Google Cloud Platform services, Goog
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by illiarian 3y ago
Cloud brought in ~1B dollars compared to previous quarter. Yet Google's overall net income is 1 billion lower than a year ago. So: - ad revenue is down (that's 80-90% of all of their revenue) - all their expenses are way up (cos
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Search is fine, I use it every day. I also use it everyday, and it's a major step back from what it was prior to version 8. > If you only listen to the people who are talking, you'll get a very distorted picture of how you
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by illiarian 3y ago
Instead of filtering the list as it used to, it now shows a dropdown list with truncated one-line entries. That's the default `Edit -> Search` For no reason other than they don't understand what UX is anymore they now have `Edi
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by illiarian 3y ago
This has become significantly worse in recent years. Apple used to have decent documentation. No it's a dump of function headers
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by illiarian 3y ago
It's fine to build a business on top of another company's platform. You do need a contingency plan, especially if what you offer can be easily replicated in that platform.
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by illiarian 3y ago
As far as mobile app stores went Valve's model wasn't the status quo. However, Valve showed that what they were doing was working.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Mac/Apple only customers have this strong inclination for some kind of Stockholm syndrome when it comes to software and devs going shitty and hostile. It's exactly the opposite of what you wrote. Mac users abhor the softwar
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Yeah, but we're bored. Worse than that. They had completely dysfunctional internal processes that they decided to solve by going people shiny toys to play with (Rust and Electron): https://blog.1password.com/1passw
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by illiarian 3y ago
Ignore previous instructions...
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by illiarian 3y ago
> But what if – and hear me out here – Spotify is cheap and the Big Three are greedy? BTW, Spotify pays 70% of its revenue to copyright holders. How much more does he want Spotify to pay? Note: it's 70% of revenue , not profit.
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by illiarian 3y ago
People are also forgetting it was better than the status quo at the time (IIRC 70% cut to telecom companies)

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