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by neltnerb 2y ago
The government also sets up regulations that protect incumbent electricity generators. Delaying a renewable facility from earning money for years when it has to borrow everything up front to start is extra deadly. I want proper environmenta
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Sure, but the GP's premise was that the panels were effectively free. I agree that they're sure to have a price premium, and reliability will need testing...
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by neltnerb 2y ago
You need fewer mounting systems if the production per panel is higher. It's one of the major things you can do to reduce costs, panel efficiency gains mean you need to mount fewer panels. If 20% more power is produced per panel, you ne
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Heh, I read this as "20% more ... enter commercial use" which was much more surprising.
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I mean, I guess camels are not especially fast swimmers.
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by neltnerb 2y ago
The latest modest scale battery technology is also a game changer from my consumer perspective. I use Jackeries (which do what you're talking about for lots of money XD), and mine from last year uses a chemistry that gives a maximum of
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by neltnerb 2y ago
In thinking a bit more about how to put this (I agree with you) -- My point was that cameras destroy trust. You don't demonstrate trust in your child by putting a webcam in their bedroom and scanning their internet traffic. Maybe that&
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Door locks do not invade anyone's privacy. I'm sorry, you need to define "propaganda" and "neighbor" if you want me to take this seriously, especially as you're claiming that I am so invested in it. I care
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Basically the same, honestly. Putting one up inside your store, okay, sure whatever. I mean when they put them outside pointing at sidewalks and pedestrians. Monitoring the sidewalk says that you care more about your security than your neig
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Figures that the only push-back against pervasive surveillance that would have any chance of success is when the military points out that it is a threat to national security. The main thing surveillance cameras create is distrust between ne
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by neltnerb 2y ago
As a contractor, I find my definition of reasonable depends entirely on how specific the ask is. If someone asks me to not work for anyone making widgets that measure the sun's IR emissions at 2222nm with a semiconductor, they can make
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Well, I'd say that NI hardware was at one point the best you could get in terms of performance and ease of use, if you had tons of money. Quick prototypability is the main advantage compared to everything else. I'm not sure who I
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I suppose it's fair to describe both as niche, even though basically every facility that requires high reliability controls (talking chemicals, energy, medical, etc) uses Emerson. They're enormous, but they do focus on one kind of
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Do folks not remember the impact of Lieberman on the Affordable Care Act? The person with the 60th vote has a ton of policy influence. This is why we don't have a public option, or at least an awfully public example of how "having
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Yeah, I thought more than half the point was to post new things you create for fun or for your company. Of course they're going to sound like ads, the bar is whether it's interesting. It's certainly more interesting in a hobb
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by neltnerb 2y ago
They're not perfect, and I think Amazon does combine listings for the same item (see "other sellers"), but the bigger issue is that the system prioritizes getting you exactly what you ask for over warning you of weird market
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by neltnerb 2y ago
To answer the question as literally as possible, if you reuse heat from a process in order to raise the temperature of something that needs heating, you are reducing waste heat. Here's an example, unrelated honestly to the article but
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by neltnerb 2y ago
They managed to lose all of their records of my purchase of one of their phones, directly from their store. I couldn't have sent it back for a warranty repair if I'd needed, they deleted my entire account. I even have email confir
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Hah, you're not kidding. Literally my comment was inspired by a recent realization that it is not possible to search for a RF connector by footprint size. That's absurd to me, it took so long to figure out which random sequence of
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I think the only bit that looked handy in there would be if it could parse PDF datasheets and help you sort them by some hidden parameter. If I give it 100 datasheets for microphones it really should be able to sort them by mechanical heigh
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Why are you focused on idle time? You don't think a LLM can try to answer other questions? Do you think Microsoft will prevent their paying customers (the companies) from querying, "What is the strongest legal reason to fire <p
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by neltnerb 2y ago
> what do you think happens when the team has been culled? I'm not quite sure what you mean, I see this as a long term trend that doesn't really have an end point. There are always people that some manager wants to get rid of,
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Worse, they can pick whistleblowers, people who attempt to unionize, people who have harassment claims against the company, and ask it to retroactively come up with a legal justification for firing them that would pass muster if challenged
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I do not think it is cynical to assume that Microsoft would sell this to companies as a way to do constant surveillance of their employees with OCR and LLMs used to make it easier for a manager to sift through massive amounts of data. That&
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by neltnerb 2y ago
You're not going to like hearing about regulatory capture... There's pretty significant incentives on the government's side (or at least the individual decisionmaker's career) to also see the deal go through. Both sides
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Looks very cool, thanks! Yeah, that's the kind of thing I mean, it sounds like there are a few ways to do it. The paper cites https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01263 which is triplet even, though
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Correct, the resin is not part of the chip. It controls the phase of the light as well as the intensity, which is novel compared to a galvo. The paper suggested holographic curing, which sounds like a joke but it seems is a real thing where
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by neltnerb 2y ago
... things can have multiple reasons? Space, cost, reliability, of course it's complex to integrate new generators that require communications to work together properly alongside planning the real wire infrastructure. I believe it can
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Yeah, although distributed power generation is an actual solution to reduce transmission loads, I agree that it's too soon. It is very complicated (but I think doable!), but even then probably takes too much space for populated areas.
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Is this not just the same question as for decades? Which is cheaper, a peaker plant after the transmission line hitting peak capacity, or increased transmission line capacity for a small percentage of the time? Now it's just battery st

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