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by liotier 3y ago
Interesting Lazard study. First time I see such investment guys so optimistic about grid-scale storage beyond the currently supply-limited pumped hydro.
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France concludes resorption of a huge backlog of nuclear power plant improvements that resulted in exceptional downtimes in 2021-2022. With that done and investment back to the levels it should never have fallen under, the deficit of the 20
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If taking into account the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) in isolation, variable renewables are more competitive. If taking into account the System LCOE (sum of generation, integration and storage costs to reach equivalent stable supply),
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by liotier 3y ago
That is the funny part: when the sun is down and the wind is not sufficient (surprisingly often), nuclear-hating Germany buys power from its neighbours - chiefly France (nuclear) and Switzerland (hydro and nuclear)
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Rest assured that workers bees do shit upon your crops.
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Germany's energy policy failed badly, but consider Germany as part of the European Union with nuclear-powered France as its neighbour. Ensemble wir schaffen das !
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Except when scripting Microsoft products, for which one might prefer a Powershell library.
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> couples that maintain distinct finances Is that an American custom, going as far as accounting for split groceries runs ?
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by liotier 3y ago
We, French, do actually have seriously competent people in charge of central government IT infrastructure. Local governments not so much and that is an euphemism, but French central government doesn't cut corners about that. Also, ANSS
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Indeed - different classes of users will have different perceptions. I never understood why anyone would feel ruffled by different applications using different UI libraries...
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A great conundrum of our times... Who knows what sets the USA apart from all other Western countries ?
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Damn, I meant HTML !
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Indeed - the state of HTLM parsing is not so bad that improving it might produce Nobel Laureates...
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... For when your Model M isn't assertive enough.
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Orderlies, kitchen help, cleaners, gardeners, construction laborers, nannies... Those hard jobs here are just not staffed without migrant labor. The scarcity is such that the government avert their eyes from all the illegal work: those indu
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by liotier 3y ago
Arbitrage, it is not just for hedge funds. And by now, everyone south of the Mediterranean, or south of the Rio Grande, knows that North America and the EU are not the land of milk and honey. They know what to expect, the price to pay to bu
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> Sometimes the costs are hidden from most people. [..] It’s like immigration The costs of immigration are not hidden, nor are its benefits. Financially speaking and from the point of view of the state, immigrant are net negative in the
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by liotier 3y ago
How does the Eddington Limit relate to black hole formation ? Does it means that accretion is slow until the star's matter has finished fusing ?
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by liotier 3y ago
and sugar - lots of it. Needs a control group that consumes equivalent quantities of sweet caffeinated soda.
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In his Chaos Manor column, in Byte Magazine, in the late 90's, author Jerry Pournelle used to mention the “monk cell” where he went to write, upstairs his house - on a PC with no Internet access and just enough software for writing.
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by liotier 3y ago
> But honestly? I don't use them because I like modern GNOME better. I use it every day, everything just works, and I like it more than the alternatives Same here, but with KDE - and I'm a former XFCE user, and before that I wa
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Line of sight, easy - just aim a sight and find that you are seeing a building rather than the opposite device.
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A customer's DSL connection dysfunctioned every evening during December - but worked fine the rest of the year... Culprit: interference from nearby Christmas decorations leaking EM all over the place. A customer's DSL connection d
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by liotier 3y ago
Between clear-cut horror and ideal pristine old growth, there is a world of managed forests that fix carbon with an economically sustainable model. Not the best biodiversity but mixing sixteen species makes the initiative top tear already.
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OpenRA's Red Alert is Red Alert as it was in player's dreams. The game is just as fun as it once was: fast, fun and limited in scope - but adapted to contemporary connectivity and display resolution. OpenRA's killer feature i
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> Gates's view was also that, once the market had sorted the good from the bad, Microsoft would, if desired, just implement whatever killer apps third party developers had discovered and make them part of Windows, cutting the floor
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Machine-generated music might be functionally equivalent to human-generated music, but that ignores the cultural role of art as a shared human experience - witness the liturgy of live music. That can't happen with music tailored to eac
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The whole concept of "custom domain" is absurd - a domain is a domain... Or why does Google use that google.com custom domain instead of a respectable one like ibm.com ?
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I found that even the distance computer on my bicycle was not producing actionable data - only anxiety. Nowadays, I consider non-actionable data as a cost. If it is entertainment, then that is luxury for which I accept the cost. Otherwise,
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My French bank, CIC, sold me a Digipass scanner+pin authentication device. Adding yet another device to the usual kit bag won't make it very popular but an option independent from Google/Apple exists and I guess that its non-exist

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