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by martinpw 1y ago
Probably feels a lot better than the opposite of spending your whole life hoping to achieve something and never feeling you quite did - always becoming and never being.
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by martinpw 1y ago
Back in the day when photographic plates were used to capture images from astronomical telescopes, occasionally the excitement of a new discovery was followed by the disappointment of realizing that it was just a blemish in the emulsion, al
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by martinpw 1y ago
Figure 1 in the above paper packs a lot of interesting information: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/d7c477fa-3... One important factor shown there is that dams hold back water on land, so act to
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by martinpw 1y ago
Just to share one datapoint - I have not looked at the internals myself, but having talked to a couple of devs who has spent a great deal of time working with Blender at a code level, one takeaway seemed to be that there was a lot of code d
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by martinpw 1y ago
Well for a start Norway is not in the EU and therefore does not have tariffs on Chinese EVs, so would not expect any impact in that part of Scandinavia at least. Also the tariffs are higher on pure EVs. Plugin hybrids have a lower tariff. A
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by martinpw 1y ago
There are contracts around how much water needs to flow downstream, so they can't just hold it back like that. California and Arizona both have allocations that they pull from the river downstream of the dam. Mexico too in theory I thi
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by martinpw 1y ago
The Economist always comes up with good tag lines for stories. In this case: Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO. https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarin...
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by martinpw 1y ago
From your first link: They will also pull forward the economic tipping points for longer duration 8 hour to 10 hour systems needed to shore up ‘Round The Clock’ renewables use cases, which disproportionately stand to benefit. I never unde
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by martinpw 1y ago
Battery storage growth has been incredible and you can see the gains almost weekly: https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Bat... It looks like batteries are now able to displace 100% of imports (whic
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Solar becomes top source of electricity in California(pv-magazine-usa.com)
55 points by martinpw 1y ago|20 comments
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by martinpw 1y ago
> 75% of the trips I take in my Model 3 across a standard US city (admittedly one without snow) are handled by FSD with no interventions on my part. Is that meant to be making a case for Tesla's robotaxis? Because 25% of trips requi
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Xiaomi SU7 Ultra becomes 3rd fastest car at Nürburgring with 6:22.091 lap(carnewschina.com)
2 points by martinpw 1y ago|0 comments
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by martinpw 1y ago
If I'm reading this graph correctly, it looks like they were hitting up to 5% last year and are hitting up to 10% this year - that's an incredible rate of growth: https://www.gridstatus.io/records/ercot?record
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by martinpw 1y ago
> we need a lot more nuclear that can be dialed up to compensate for renewables going offline during certain weather conditions If you want something to compensate for intermittency, nuclear seems like the worst option. It implies you ha
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Texas electricity maximum renewables record(gridstatus.io)
37 points by martinpw 1y ago|57 comments
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by martinpw 1y ago
Important caveat to that study from right at the end of the article: the data set used for the study, while massive, was limited to 2017 data. [...] Uber only added a tipping function to its app in 2017 So the study was either before you
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by martinpw 1y ago
> I know that when I have Alzheimer or ALS out similar stuff I will commit suicide, quickly. One of the common features of dementia is that you don't know you have it. It is just that everyone else around you seems to start behaving
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by martinpw 1y ago
Appalling comment. You have clearly not been around extreme end of life suffering.
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by martinpw 1y ago
Looks like it has been flagged. How do you escalate to get it unflagged?
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NSIDC: Degraded delivery for Arctic sea ice data from US Navy(nsidc.org)
5 points by martinpw 1y ago|0 comments
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by martinpw 1y ago
Maybe this is implied, but I like to leave with a failing test that I know how to fix . That way I am not brooding on it all evening. Leaving when things are broken and I don't know why is frustrating.
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by martinpw 1y ago
> just You keep using that word. As another response said, you seem to underestimate how much energy is needed to deorbit ISS. It has a mass of 450,000 kg and is moving at nearly 8km per second. There is no 'just' here.
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by martinpw 1y ago
It seems to be a common misconception that lowering an object's orbit is much easier than raising it. I guess because it feels like it is just floating up there and gravity can do most of the work to pull it down if you give it a littl
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by martinpw 1y ago
> The grandparents would be absolutely horrified if they saw what their family was turning into. I wonder if they somewhat expected it. The 'third generation curse' is a widely known effect. Question is whether there is anythin
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by martinpw 1y ago
Classic scam to separate gullible wealthy investors from their money - delivering a revolutionary product real soon now - for the past 35 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Light_Power
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by martinpw 1y ago
At the start of the article it links to a previous article on the scroll from February 2025 which has some more background details: https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/inside-her... In particular this par
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by martinpw 1y ago
> If Slate succeeds, it would be the total inversion of Tesla's original masterplan strategy Slate is an anagram of Tesla. Coincidence?
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CATL: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes charging, 2025 sodium-ion battery(carnewschina.com)
7 points by martinpw 1y ago|1 comments
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by martinpw 2y ago
I once returned a product that was not working to the Burbank Fry's location. I walked around the store for a bit, then passed by the section where that product was sold - and saw the product I had returned back on the shelf. Could tel
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by martinpw 2y ago
Looks like they edited it to remove that end section that shows they just copied directly from an LLM, so here is the original ending of the comment for posterity... Maybe the solution to preserving cultural heritage isn't always high

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