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by liketochill 4y ago
And longevity. I have my note books from 20 years ago on the same shelf as my notebooks from last year. Apart from pictures (I had a digital camera in the mid nineties) The number of files that have survived the transition between a dozen c
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by liketochill 4y ago
Permitting to build the solar farms and any necessary transmission lines are the number one challenge. See the opposition to solar projects in hawaii or transmission line project in Maine. Classic nimby stuff. Sadly not a technical problem
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by liketochill 4y ago
In my memory Napster was before torrents? Did the idea for torrents, receiving pieces of the same file from multiple peers, come from Napster?
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by liketochill 4y ago
I wasn’t sure how to get back to the listen to this station page from the “these are the stations I want the option of listening to page” Took me a bit to figure out clear all would remove them, tapping green meant selected, grey meant not
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by liketochill 4y ago
Perl
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by liketochill 4y ago
The capex cost is still above $1500/MWh according to US NREL. While PV modules might be dropping in cost and increasing In efficiency stuff like labour, transformers, inverters, fire suppression systems, transmission lines are not perh
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by liketochill 4y ago
The article said that USA has a 1% tax on buybacks.
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by liketochill 4y ago
Are tesla and spaceX snake oil?
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by liketochill 4y ago
The lead times are too long on power plants. It takes years of permitting and studies and then years of procurement and construction for large projects.
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by liketochill 4y ago
Any source for the 20 years? A project I had a colleague working on where the batteries are critical to preventing blackouts since they will result in mothballing of other infrastructure indicated the utility was budgeting for a 5 year life
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by liketochill 4y ago
Thanks for articulating this, I’ve recently moved from being a maker to a manager and am still working on letting go of fixing things myself, managing demands on my own time by saying no to people that will just waste it or try to use me to
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by liketochill 4y ago
Because the rewards for being in government are less than in private sector. So we should identify high performers in government and pay them more.
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by liketochill 4y ago
It’s a tough place to be when the bar is perfection
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by liketochill 4y ago
About the time I need to retire is when I will sell
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by liketochill 4y ago
Committing to purchase X quantity of Y from a factory that already exists in a competitive market to make Z is different from removing the need for the company to make ends meet
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by liketochill 4y ago
Without shareholders to answer to costs would increase out of control and productivity would plummet. It would become like a government
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by liketochill 4y ago
So it is natural for it to dry up and go salty dust to blow around for a while, and not an ecological disaster caused by climate change or excessive agricultural water use? Honest question
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by liketochill 4y ago
I’ve been using unison for what feels like 14 years. Once working it was great but it always took me a while to figure out the exact command line options I wanted. Beautiful tool.
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by liketochill 4y ago
For whatever web app, it doesn’t matter, but are you saying blameless post mortems are the only solution to software caused deaths and evironmental catastrophes? The buck has to stop somewhere.
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by liketochill 4y ago
Would you consider that some type of license that holds the individuals writing software which is responsible for safeguarding human life or the environment accountable and liable for its performance might have prevented some disasters, suc
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by liketochill 4y ago
T430s is my daily driver still
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by liketochill 4y ago
I have a lg webos smarttv and haven’t noticed any ads. I also have a pihole.
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by liketochill 4y ago
For engineers the foremost value is safeguarding human life and the second might be protecting the environment. If anyone is developing software that can cause loss of life or damage the environment then I think the engineering ethics and p
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by liketochill 4y ago
Do you know for sure it is a PID? Error is center of car minus center of lane?
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by liketochill 4y ago
It’s liability not certification. What you get with a professional engineer is someone who is liable for their work.
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by liketochill 4y ago
Revenues from products with near zero marginal cost.
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by liketochill 4y ago
Page background where pixel displayed was purple
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by liketochill 4y ago
In the hydro electric power industry I work in I find that only people paid to have the responsibility and liability for the results of decisions are the ones that make them. If a call has environmental impacts, or safety of human life is i
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by liketochill 4y ago
Canada has two hydro projects not quite finished that are going to cost around 12 billion too for a about 1 GW. Expensive plants aren’t unique to nuclear
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by liketochill 4y ago
Where does companies revenue come from? Do they have servers in their data centers or obvious mining rigs?

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