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by johnea 1y ago
> which you also will not do, because you're a person with working legs who chooses to use a wheelchair.
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by johnea 1y ago
I have to wonder how much of that article is LLM generated. I'm pretty sure the exact same info could have been conveyed in 1/4 the number of words. I found it impossible to read the whole thing, word for word, and was seriously s
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by johnea 1y ago
> It’s the sense of authorship. The idea that you can read something and know who wrote it—and whether they meant it This quote from the short prose at the beginning of this article expressed one of my major concerns with LLM generated p
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by johnea 1y ago
Thanks for the replies! I'll do some reading on "grid forming".
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by johnea 1y ago
This was going to be the gist of my reply. I don't have the depth of experience with solar installations cited in your comment, but I have worked with systems that expected automated moving parts to continue to function in an outdoor e
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by johnea 1y ago
Why would you want functionality like this to be in a browser? Isn't a browser for interfacing to http?
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by johnea 1y ago
An interesting calculation, but why do you assume all the battery storage would have to come from tesla? I'm looking at whole-house battery backup for a little construction projct underway here. This is a boom market at the moment, and
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by johnea 1y ago
> However, variable renewable sources, such as solar photovoltaic, do not have this capability. They generate direct current which is converted to alternating current at 50 Hertz, but they cannot react automatically to frequency variatio
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by johnea 1y ago
The original source article: https://microbiologysociety.org/news/press-releases/new-spec... Which also works without javascript or cookies, unlike phys.org
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by johnea 1y ago
I thought it was a good read. It's refreshing to hear someone acknowledge that there are differences between biologically male and female people. Like the author expresses, this shouldn't be controversial, and the assertion is in
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by johnea 1y ago
Thanks for your support of getting people out of genocidal roles...
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by johnea 1y ago
I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist. Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living? Maybe a lot of them are economically disadvantageous be
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by johnea 1y ago
Your argument is supported by the First point in this article as well: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/right-... I hope you're right...
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by johnea 1y ago
I can appreciate the sentiment of this criticism, and my motive is to engage in actual conversation, not trollbaiting. But, sorry, I'm just not going to type his name. And the fact is, he's a cheater, and a liar. This might be cal
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by johnea 2y ago
How about this: Little Jimmy used his space laser pistol to blast the eyeballs out of the reptilian space alien invaders from Chinnastan, thus saving humanity and getting the girl! THE END This is pretty much a summary of 90% of Japanese an
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by johnea 2y ago
Since this new article just came through the HN feed a couple of days after this comment, I wanted to cross reference it here: Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors https://blog.ucs.or
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by johnea 2y ago
The article fails to mention the main reason cassettes were popular in my youth: mix tapes The ability to record your own cassettes, with your own choice of music, and share them with friends was a huge part of what made cassettes a social
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by johnea 2y ago
The article is about Walmart chargers 8-/ Even aside from that, many charging networks _do_ require "membership", "running the app", and often even require a pre-established balance on the account for the most conve
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by johnea 2y ago
First 2 steps on Walmart's instruction page: * Donwload the Walmart app * Scan the QR code
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by johnea 2y ago
> and offer access through its own Walmart app. 8-( I've _never_ been required to "join the club", or "run the app" to purchase gasoline. Why does charging an EV require use of an app? This is an accessibility is
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by johnea 2y ago
What do you mean "we"?
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by johnea 2y ago
If it's this bad in BC, I can't imagine how bad it is in Japan. The addresses there are notoriously local-centric, with knowledge of the area required, to find a physical location from the address. All that being said, I wonder ho
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by johnea 2y ago
I'm not going to watch the youboob, but if the title is an accurate summary, I'd say at least DOGE is getting this one thing right... (20.000 monkeys with typewriters may be correct after all) The cost, and never yet solved probl
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by johnea 2y ago
This was such a laugh! I have to wonder if the whole exercise was a prime example of a brit "taking the piss" 8-) > the US, Canada, and a few other countries don’t follow the standard international paper sizes, even though I ha
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by johnea 2y ago
Getting it to boot is barely even a first step. If the author especially liked the camera of that phone, it was probably because of the custom app that interfaced to the sensor. Getting good photography on a linux phone has been one of the
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by johnea 2y ago
Original source article: https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/11/half-of-the-universes-h... Also, unlike phys.org, does not require cookies and javascript...
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by johnea 2y ago
Ditto, my off-peak charging costs about 1/5th the cost per mile of burning gas. And we have some of the most expensive electricity in the US. If you can charge at home, electric is much cheaper. I don't know about "public&quo
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by johnea 2y ago
And Zeroly, there's absolutely 0 reason for people to go to Mars, AT ALL. This whole idea is the stupidest thing I've heard people seriously discuss. What would be the point? If you want to experience "life on Mars", bur
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by johnea 2y ago
I was going to quote, and respond in almost the exact same way. The only change I would make to your suggestion would be to remove the word "insecurely". They shouldn't extract or aggregate user data in any fashion whatsoever
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by johnea 2y ago
> "Game Transfer Phenomenon" There was a phrase for this in the "old days" too, it was called "Lost in Make Believe". As pointed out in numerous other comments, this phenomenon is not limited to video games.

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