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691.
by matt-p 2y ago
We only have so many lochs/valleys, realistically we will need to rely on batteries after about 20GWH or so.
692.
by matt-p 2y ago
no, 5.9GWh, so after 1 hour at 4.6GW we could do another hour at 1.3 GW (or another 16 Mins at 4.6HW) ~76 mins at 4.6GW.
693.
by matt-p 2y ago
Indeed, we may as well finish it, certainly, but it's going to reduce appetite for future nuclear schemes enormously. Realistically I think small reactors are our last hope for net new nuclear in the UK - if we don't get them we&#
694.
by matt-p 2y ago
I would also just say that a half of these 118,770 were over 25 Years old when they started, and only 44% of the total are for "advanced" level starts. They are often not very high quality, sometimes it will be things like the per
695.
by matt-p 2y ago
Majority (particularly by ticket sales) of uk train operators (TOCs) are foreign owned[1] and operators are "TBTF" and subsidised by the government, in 2023 this was over 4 Billion pounds, meanwhile each TOC is paying out millions
696.
by matt-p 2y ago
Couldn't agree more, I'd love to see a range of standard licences for this business model, in a similar way to what we have with MIT, GPL etc. This business model is still massively preferable to fully closed source in my view.
697.
by matt-p 2y ago
AGPL or other copyleft licences don't stop amazon taking "your" product and hosting it for less than your own hosted offering as they don't have to pay the developers. "Then it shouldn't be open source" -
698.
by matt-p 2y ago
I don't know, do these the majority of these companies actually rely heavily on free contributions? Personally I would rather buy a product where there is "fair source" available but premium features were paid for than a comp
699.
by matt-p 2y ago
In telecoms 48V dc is very common and not always even connectorised! It's "safe-ish" but DC makes me more nervous than 240v, big thick 400A cables into a rack are quite intimidating to see but the main issue is DC is sticky a
700.
by matt-p 2y ago
To be fair I'd be quite a bit more relaxed working on 120v. Very supprised these machines don't run on dc internally?
701.
by matt-p 2y ago
They are competing like it or not with starlink 100Mb 1TB of usage in the middle of the ocean, unlimited usage near land (within about 5-15 miles) for ~$800 a month. In that context it's a rip off, and higher latency/lower speed.
702.
by matt-p 2y ago
Indeed. Creating imagined barriers where nobody (eu companies/citizens, uk companies/citizens, or the uk government) actually wants or needs them. In practice IMO they are just there because they're incentivised to make thing
703.
by matt-p 2y ago
So it's not acceptable for a EU company to store any customer data with a US company? They very literally all do. We are also not the US, and are I'm sure happy to arrange a sensible agreement. Regardless I still don't think
704.
by matt-p 2y ago
Who says? The EU. There are other statuses that exist like EFTA and so on that don't have this issue, there's no reason at all why this couldn't be agreed (except that the EU haven't the incentive to make this work, quit
705.
by matt-p 2y ago
No, I don't agree with that, they're first party terms so the only law that would impact it is if the UK said "you MUST NOT protect users privacy or you'll go to jail" that won't happen. They would only revoke
706.
by matt-p 2y ago
It's honestly so embarrassing that they are a 'top 5' for commercial email service made in Europe. Proton mail is 'getting there' and I think the best we collectively have to offer but let's be honest, it'
707.
by matt-p 2y ago
It's exactly the same GDPR that every country in the EU has. That recruitment practice sounds like it could be a breach, I would go ahead and submit a SAR just to put the frighteners on them to be honest.
708.
by matt-p 2y ago
Also you would of thought the EU would of accepted the UKs request of bringing GDPR into scope of the trade agreement and therefore not making it a third country (which is insane as the UK has the exact same GDPR in Law with no intention of
709.
by matt-p 2y ago
Fair enough, I was coming from a UK standpoint which has a trade agreement and GDPR in law.
710.
by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, but a contract is under a country's law (which may or may not inherit some or all EU 'law'). For example a Portuguese company selling a service to a German one will be under Portuguese jurisdiction. Portugal "could&
711.
by matt-p 2y ago
They refused. It's honestly unfortunate and I desperately wish it wasn't true, but this is actually how it is.
712.
by matt-p 2y ago
Oh yeah and countries like Germany weren't a part of that at all
713.
by matt-p 2y ago
UK meets all of these points too FYI :). VAT is not paid/or refunded, we use the same payment methods and many will even accept euros if push comes to shove. GDPR is enshrined in law, we have an EU trade and co-op agreement.
714.
by matt-p 2y ago
Yeah literally. Law and standard contracts provide for this already, this is just pure "one of us, one of us" protectionism
715.
by matt-p 2y ago
All of these are bing based and/or have US parent Cos. So how exactly are they "European"? A European company put a react UI ontop of the bing API - seriously? Meanwhile the UK has at least one serious option (e.g https:&#x2
716.
by matt-p 2y ago
Genuinely I'd love to understand why this is an issue. This can trivially be solved contractually, indeed any UK tech company will have it in thier standard contract since they encounter it so often.
717.
by matt-p 2y ago
Germany has 81 large US military bases, Italy has 26, UK has 14. Sorry but if you think your internet traffic isn't being tapped by the US regardless you're completely delusional. At least in the UK were probably not letting EU co
718.
by matt-p 2y ago
It seems incredibly petty to me to exclude UK companies from this list. We left, yeah ok. But this says European alternatives and we're in Europe as far as I'm aware.GDPR is enshrined in law and we've a EU-UK Trade and Cooper
719.
by matt-p 2y ago
I'm sure it probably is faster for thier own workloads (which they are choosing to benchmark on), why bother making it if not. But that is clearly not universally true, a GPU is clearly more versatile. This means nothing to most if t
720.
by matt-p 2y ago
Exactly and they are still about 1/18ths as good at training llms as a H100. Maybe they are less than 1/18ths the cost, so google technically have a marginally better unit cost but i doubt it when you consider the R&D cost. Th

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