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by lkbm 1y ago
> Blimps and airships can carry the weight, but they bring a laundry list of complications. They’re too slow, need an expensive hangar to shield them from bad weather, require helium—which is currently scarce—and struggle to land when it
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by lkbm 1y ago
> Shipping them in multiple pieces and reassembling them on-site won’t work because the joints would create weak spots. Junctions would also add too much weight compared with that of blades made from single pieces of polymer, says Doug A
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by lkbm 1y ago
> Blimps and airships can carry the weight, but they bring a laundry list of complications. They’re too slow, need an expensive hangar to shield them from bad weather, require helium—which is currently scarce—and struggle to land when it
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by lkbm 1y ago
> Lundstrom says 3D-printed blades will never happen, since it would require a large, sophisticated manufacturing facility to be built at every wind farm.
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by lkbm 1y ago
Why would the Cuban government lie about this, though? Seems like they should be lying in the other direction.
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by lkbm 1y ago
Isn't the issue not that libuv is C, but that the thing calling it (Node.js) is Javascript, so you have to switch modes each time you have libuv make a system call?
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by lkbm 1y ago
I believe it's because you get to stream-compress efficiently, at the cost of stream-decompress efficiency.
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by lkbm 1y ago
If you've got generators for towers and people use their mobile phones, I'd expect traffic to continue. 37% is a little higher than I'd expect, but I don't know the make-up of traffic.
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by lkbm 1y ago
Putting a privacy setting under Settings->Privacy is making it "pretty hard to find"? Where else did you look first?
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by lkbm 1y ago
My understanding is that most new data centers don't use evaporation cooling these days, at least in water-sensitive areas. Hard to find solid data on this either way, though. Of course, if you're using dry cooling, it uses more e
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by lkbm 1y ago
> Turns out the ISP did their usual ISP thing and failed to mark that I'd returned my modem when cancelling service a few months prior then told no one and sent it to collections. Spectrum did this to me. They sent a single "he
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by lkbm 1y ago
Global population growth is still measured in the tens of millions. We're a ways off from launching anywhere near a meaningful number of people into space in terms of current terrestrial population.
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by lkbm 1y ago
I ended up buying spaghetti when I went to the store a couple days later, and now I have an abundance of spaghetti. But lunch that first day ended up being something else.
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by lkbm 1y ago
> Why is this emissions fakery illegal? Ultimately it’s because pollution kills people. Are these people going to prison for killing people? Not exactly. They’re going to prison for killing too many people. If they had stayed within the
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by lkbm 1y ago
I moved a couple weeks ago, and was quite confused when--after repeatedly searching through every kitchen box--we were missing the flour, sugar, and pasta. Turns out one kitchen box got placed at the bottom of in a pile of book boxes in the
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by lkbm 1y ago
Do you consider life not worth living during the time of your life when you're working? What do you think you get if you don't hold up your side of the bargain? It's not like the state of nature was an early retirement.
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by lkbm 1y ago
> > It's hard to be right without sounding right. > This doesn't seem true in the age of LLMs, which are notorious for being confidently incorrect. You're denying the antecedent. PG: Right => Sounds right Your com
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by lkbm 1y ago
The blog is citing specific studies for its claims. Is there an issue with those studies?
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by lkbm 1y ago
? No...we wouldn't. No US paper would use that headline, anyway. Maybe it's different in other countries.
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by lkbm 1y ago
> If what you're saying is true, why are we hearing about AI companies wanting to build nuclear power plants to power new data centers they think they need to build? Well, partly because they (all but X, IIRC) have commitments to sh
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by lkbm 1y ago
Yeah, when I was biking to and from work in Texas, I was showering 1-2 times a day during the summer. I'm now working from home in a cooler climate, so it's more like 1-4 times a week.
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by lkbm 1y ago
Did the employee ship the feature this against their employer's will? 'Cause if so, I'm not sure we would say the company shipped it.
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My my
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by lkbm 1y ago
If your employer spends $20k a month on you (salary + everything else), $200 a month breaks even at around a 1% boost in productivity.
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by lkbm 2y ago
> 1. Friends reviews on book is actually not that hard at all. We will implement it right after we get the friends and follow system working. I mean it's hard because you have to get my friends to join. Goodreads has the network eff
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by lkbm 2y ago
Not guaranteeing I got these conversions correct, but I believe the rough estimate for the thermal energy of the Earth is on the order of 10^31 Joules.[0] while the rough estimate for human energy use is 10^20 Joules per year.[0] So if we s
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by lkbm 2y ago
I've joined Storygraph, LibraryThing, and I think a few others. Never heard of Bookwyrm before. I still use Goodreads almost exclusively. Goodreads is still the competition. If you mean competition specifically between alternative to
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by lkbm 2y ago
I don't mind where the search is. I do mind that the drop-down results can't be opened in new tabs—they are links, so you can choose "open in new tab", but they're links to "#", so you end up opening the c
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by lkbm 2y ago
DNF seems useful to me. The other deficiencies you mention don't matter much to me, though the Goodreads UI is bad. (Don't care if it looks old, but right-clicking on things often doesn't work because they're stupid JS l
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by lkbm 2y ago
> Adding a building doesn't improve the environment Depends how concerned you are about pesticides.

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