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by ncmncm 4y ago
Bifacial fencerow panels work with almost any crop, orchards perhaps excepted. Since there is so overwhelmingly more land available to put solar on than is needed, only the very best-suited for it need be used. Some crops do better under ho
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Market forces will take care of this, if needed. If battery price goes up, hydrogen vehicles are favored. What hydrogen vehicles need now is cheaper catalysts for their fuel cells. Hydrogen-powered vehicles are much, much lighter than batte
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Singapore is an interesting choice to single out. Singapore is very aggressively installing GW-scale "floatovoltaics", solar floating on their abundant water resources. This is very smart, as the panels stay cool so more efficient
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Policymakers, anyway, are used to being lied to, so mostly know better than to be swayed by tendentious material like TFA. Solar and wind, uniquely, do not compete for land, as they coexist neatly with other uses. This is part of why they a
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Even that massively overblows the real numbers, because there is no need to use that land only for solar.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
As Hamlet said, "It's as easy as lying."
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It costs more to put them on residential roofs. It is cheap on industrial and warehouse roofs, and extends the life of the roof. But they coexist well with pasture and crop land uses, too, as well as reservoirs and canals. So space for sola
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yet, far, far more is available than could ever be needed. Orders of magnitude more.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
And in fact actual food could be farmed in those acres at the same time, instead of fuel.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is a transparent falsehood. Besides that just the area already devoted to fossil fuel extraction would suffice, solar and wind coexist neatly with existing uses, so don't need to "use up" any land at all.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There is no need to "raise panels high enough". Bifacial panels may be erected vertically, in fencerows running north/south, with room for farm equipment to run between. Crops and livestock both do better with shade, evaporat
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is always easy to promote your favorite by lying. the article author's favorite is obvious. Solar, of course, does not need to take up any land at all, as it easily coexists with existing uses, whether reservoirs and canals, pastu
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The main addendum is that fgrep without a file list is -F, and egrep is -E.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Trolling is unwelcome here.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It was a read-only page of zeroes.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Not getting this. I understand you have to get it out fast because you need it for fuel tomorrow. Is it that you don't want your bred tritium floating in a sea of regular hydrogen, needing separation by physical rather than chemical me
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Did.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
As I said, it was needed for low-skilled coders.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Different compilers, same language.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You had carpet?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Rob is a careful student of history.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
2400 baud? You lucky bastard! We had to whistle into a handset.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Serious programmers bypassed almost all of that. The hierarchical files became important after people got what they called "hard drives".
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It was quite a coup to get an article in BYTE.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I wonder who really wrote it. The importance it attached to feeding mainframes betrays his familial IBM connection (Mom), also the reason Microsoft now rules the world.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Oh yes, SLS Linux, always installed from a big stack of floppies. Had almost forgotten! ("Soft Landing Systems".) Then Slackware came out on CD!
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by ncmncm 4y ago
France had Minitel, so didn't need computers.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Right, there was no room in memory for the compiler to implement peephole optimization. Or any other.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It would have sufficed to read K&R through, twice. Maybe work the exercises.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
One wonders who wrote it.

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