ourlordcaffeine

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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
Whilst the UK did indeed have 5 days with less than 2GW wind (not weeks with 0 like you claim), the situation is not as simple as news outlets and agenda-pushers would have you believe. A bunch of other plants (including nuclear) going offl
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
There is absolutely less load during the night. Also wind is the main renewable in western europe, not solar. Having no wind for weeks basically doesn't happen, at least in the north sea.
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
>I am utterly astonished that this is never, ever discussed when talking about solutions to fluctuating supply. I'm not surprised to be honest. On a forum like this, you'll get a bunch of very smart people talking about somethi
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
>IMO it’s decent sci-fi, and interesting enough to watch if you’re bored :) Is it still a somewhat hard sci-fi or has it been turned into a fantasy flick?
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
Wasn't bluetooth beaconing already a thing pre-covid?
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
On the topic of GPT-3, I asked your creation: "Who is better, you or GPT-3?" > GPT-3
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
A lot of my US friends are paid a lot but have 0 free time. I'm not paid as much but I have a lot of free time and holiday (31 + public holidays). Also being sick doesn't use holiday days
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
They don't (in the UK). And every year people die after they decide to go trekking with only a phone and gmaps, and it runs out of power and they get lost.
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
I believe the vacancies are mostly bar staff, carers, farm labour and haulage. There are a bunch of delusional pub landlords in my city who complain about the lack of staff and claim stuff like "today's youth are entitled and lazy
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
"all they need it to do is do whatever they want" sounds like a very middle class take on things. People from working class rust belt towns in the UK, for example, can't just do what they want, since there are no opportunitie
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
>Reddit PR As of late, default subs are frequently flooded with pro-CCP disinformation when any article painting China in a negative light, or (especially) Taiwan in a positive light, is posted. I'd say that reddit PR for China is d
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by ourlordcaffeine 5y ago
Well, I think not all his observations are correct. >Patriotic voices are upvoted, positive opinions on China downvoted. Fanboying of the CCP is usually downvoted. Useful or positive discussions about the country and culture aren't.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
State of the art HVDC is more like 3% loss per 1000km.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
I'm surprised they aren't growing hydroponically in such a water-constrained environment, as the water use is lower. I guess it is due to the difficulty in getting the nutrients to somaliland?
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
The whole "baseline" thing is partly a myth, and there is an article about that https://energypost.eu/dispelling-nuclear-baseload-myth-nothi...
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
France did it right-ish. They have to import peak power as their reactors cannot ramp quickly enough.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Reddit has a bunch of conspiracy theories flying about, being spread by the very people who claim not to be vulnerable to conspiracies and misinformation.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
At $9000 per MWh ($9 per KWh), you could connect your exercise bike to the grid and make nearly minimum wage if you're fit.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Are there open source opencl to FPGA compilers? If you're playing with FPGA's, you might as well directly compile the kernel into a circuit, rather than building a gpu on an FPGA and running your kernel on that. Proprietary soluti
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Taiwan, the country that arguably handled the virus best of all, did so well because they ignored the WHO and quickly closed their border, at the time when the WHO was insisting that countries do not restrict travel to/from China.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
>In the US, we have neither carbon taxes nor intraday prices. Like, no intraday electricity market?
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
I'm pretty concerned that in the not too distant future it will be impossible to build your own PC without having to drop a ton of money for something subpar, since most are happy paying $50 per month to rent their PC from the cloud.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this project will just turn into opposing groups marking anything they disagree with as disinformation, the bigger group succeeding in having control of the narrative. What's to stop a flood of Russian accounts gai
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Told them ages ago, they haven't fixed it and don't seem to care. They want to be able to operate the turbines remotely and either don't care or don't understand the need for authentication. Should add that these plants
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
I work in the industry. I know what power plants they are
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Several power plants in the uk have their control systems entirely open on the net. No authentication or encryption, you just need to know the IP address
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Hmmm, for me, with steamvr and a htc vive on linux, there is about a half second delay on tracking which quickly gives me nausea. The issue does not happen on windows.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
> If you truly knew how manipulative a group of children can be, when ganged together you'd understand this. Toilet breaks are often abused, with children skipping class to, for instance, vape in the toilets Doesn't justify d
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Volvo cars is now Chinese owned. Swedish Volvo only do HGVs.
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by ourlordcaffeine 6y ago
Well I can certainly say one thing, thanks to EU regulation I don't have to eat chlorinated chicken, the air is clean and I have reasonable working hours and holiday protected by law. You seem to suggest that regulation is always bad,

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