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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
The way they do renewables in some places: * solar with no storage * shutting down existing nuclear * natural gas peaker plants * making everyone to use natural gas for heating by making it much cheaper than electricity * slowing down the E
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
Exactly. My new favorite game at work is "guess if this person is really into AI or they just have to be because their boss is and if they weren't they would get replaced by someone who is" and it's quite hard to say. An
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
You forgot layoffs, layoffs and also layoffs.
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
The HN comments are sadly mostly just people pushing their favorite thing, whether COVID denialism, "everything is going bad because people are atheists" or whatever, without engaging with the article at all.
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
I think the answer is "all of the above". Columnar storage is very effectively compressed so one "page" actually contains a lot of data (Parquet rowgroups default to 100k records IIRC). Writing usually means replacing th
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
Yes, and that is both units of power, not energy.
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
Not that I know of. But if you look at how TikTok and Meta impacted our society, you could argue they did worse.
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
Gigawatts are units of power, gigawatthours are units of energy. The equivalent of cars would be pricing by how much gas you burned, not horsepower.
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
SAP is very good at what it is trying to do, which is to define, standardize, automate and run a business process, and it is equipped with a large library of premade processes so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. It does not have g
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
That is not going to happen. Even if MAGA doesn't rig the midterms and the Democrats actually win something, they will just "reach across the aisle" and "work on healing our divided nation". Nobody will see any cons
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
Hello, six months old account that only posts anti-EU stuff!
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
Yes, the biggest advantage of solar and wind is that they can be built as many small projects, instead of few gigaprojects we seem to have lost the ability to execute in the West. I wish I didn't live in coal and NIMBY land.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
> The Trump administration is secretly the head of a renewable energy accelerationist front "accelerationist" yes, not sure about the other parts.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
Do you have some links to how someone scaled up storage? I know that scaling up solar is easy, but I don't know of any nation that build significant storage.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
> This is a common rebuttal, but not grounded in reality. Even assuming ~20% capacity factor for "apples to apples" comparison to legacy thermal and nuclear, solar and batteries are the cheapest form of power to install. I look
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
This is a brilliant example of DARVO: The US and Israel decided to attack Iran but somehow they had no choice and are actually the victims in all of this.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
We have not gotten quite to the "VDV tries air assault, gets wiped out" stage of Iran war yet, as far as I know. But the US seems to be committed on repeating the Russian experience.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
> Do you think some evil military planners sat in the Pentagon, saw that school, said "let's shoot at it for shits and giggles" and pressed the button? Absolutely. Russia does it all the time, IDF does it all the time, why
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
Yup, we had exactly those hangups when diagrams showed data flowing from restricted network system to data lake. The data is generated and owned by the system and the lake has a secondary copy, except the physical implementation is that the
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
This is not an airport, you don't need to announce your departure.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
I picked 20 years arbitrarily, what I meant is that we don't have data on how modern EV batteries will look when 20 years old, because they have not been around that long. The whole LFP chemistry is pretty new, on automotive timescales
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
Research on the current EVs shows that they degrade by on average 2.3 % of original capacity a year, but there is a strong dependency on how much the vehicle is used and how often it is DC fast charged, i.e. there is time based degradation
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
I already noticed that. When I feel lazy, I feel like reaching for the AI. Exactly the same laziness voice that nudges me to drive instead of walking. But then I go running and swimming for fun, and there is no laziness voice there, telling
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
Were they caught by the same people who found WMDs in Iraq by any chance?
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
That is unfortunately not the case - see all the ridiculous ginormous American pickup trucks invading Europe as a "look at me, I'm rich" or "look at me I'm (local equivalent to) MAGA" signifiers.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
In the "When you're a star^H^H^H^H big tech, they let you do it. You can do anything." kind of way.
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by pepperoni_pizza 7mo ago
I do online banking on my phone. There's two reasons for it: 1) Because of regulations, I need to use my phone to log in into internet banking and to confirm every transaction (including online card payments) anyway. If I already have
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by pepperoni_pizza 8mo ago
Yes, and I'm not sure why you're framing it as some kind of gotcha. As an EU citizen, I'm all for it.
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by pepperoni_pizza 9mo ago
Poor Ea-Nasir will never know peace.
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by pepperoni_pizza 9mo ago
Some people are doing their best to get on that list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

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