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by phil21 2y ago
How many MWH does that battery array store? MW is a useless number for energy storage. HN should know better. Edit: The article linked states: > Roughly, one could assume that the energy storage portion of the project – 1.4 GWh worth S
902.
by phil21 2y ago
> We know the probability that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing for N days, we can calculate it from historical data. Exactly. And everyone is putting their heads in the sand over this calculation. Seasonal energy storag
903.
by phil21 2y ago
Easily solved via sane energy policy. Of course politics will likely make this impossible in the US. In a rational environment you run your nuclear at 100% 24x7. The cost of the fuel is not material running at 10% vs. 100%. Letting paras
904.
by phil21 2y ago
Way more useful to humanity than the exploration launches. At least currently in the timeframe of a human life. It’s been game changing for a few friends and family. Perhaps the science missions may be game changing to their great grandch
905.
by phil21 2y ago
Those solar production numbers are exceedingly exaggerated. You need to add capacity factor to the solar install. Multiply your solar production by 0.2 to 0.3 or so and you’ll be in a better ballpark range. Peak power usage for large scal
906.
by phil21 2y ago
Datacenters require pretty constant 24/7 loads. You don’t get much difference at scale between 2pm and 2am. Maybe 10-20% at best. It’s about the last place you want to start using intermittent power sources. Chemical battery storage
907.
by phil21 2y ago
I don’t consider VC funded companies as startups. If you have to answer to a board to stay alive due to needing that next round of financing, you are no longer in control of your own company and simply work for someone else with a fancy ti
908.
by phil21 2y ago
Oh, this thought has definitely crossed my mind quite a bit. Just not much I can do about it!
909.
by phil21 2y ago
This was a large consideration in me offloading the vast majority of my cryptocurrency during the peak run up. The financial and digital hacking risk I was okay with, the physical risk to my family was too much. Even if I kept it off-site
910.
by phil21 2y ago
Scale and ease of “sysadmin” level management for things such as clustering, replication, etc. Some of that will be personal preference but I’ve never found administration of a Postgres database cluster to be nearly as intuitive as MySQL&#x
911.
by phil21 2y ago
I live in the US. I've had friends without their phone for days due to a bad swap. I wasn't really talking about myself (I have a spare phone at all times I can simply switch to in an emergency) - but the average person doesn&#x
912.
by phil21 2y ago
Yes. Because it’s a giant pita to drop your phone off and be without it for an indefinite period of time (if something goes wrong). For a device worth a couple hundred dollars it typically makes more sense to trade it in and simply upgrad
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by phil21 2y ago
Yeah, I still have a few of the OG Philips x-prize bulbs going strong well over a decade of use. Plus a half dozen of the follow-ons that look very similar. I suspect they outlive me at this point.
914.
by phil21 2y ago
Unless I’m missing something here, pretty much any Intel nic released in the past decade should support tcp offload. I imagine the same is true for Broadcom and other vendors as well, but I don’t have something handy to check.
915.
by phil21 2y ago
Adding a bog-standard breaker and a short conduit run is about as simple as it gets for electric work. It’s rather low risk if you simply read the code and follow it. If you know nothing about basic electric work or principles, sure - spen
916.
by phil21 2y ago
Do you have any references for this? Given the basic hacking on GPUs I was doing during that era, my memory leads me to believe the binning was pretty much in the opposite direction than as you describe. I’m not a major gamer, so I don’t b
917.
by phil21 2y ago
The difference here is everyone involved in the opioid epidemic knew opioids were addictive. They just enjoyed the CYA aspect of it. It’s like sexual harassment training. Literally no one needs to be “educated” that sexually harassing your
918.
by phil21 2y ago
Yep this. I hastily typed that on my phone right before a meeting. Thanks for clarifying for me!
919.
by phil21 2y ago
It really depends on your background. I grew up poor and while I never quite was at his level of self-immolation, I also would book (on the company dime at least!) the cheapest possible options at my own personal expense. Staying in a sli
920.
by phil21 2y ago
The worst part is that it’s the best UI for its product segment by far, and I don’t think it’s even close. The bar is incredibly low.
921.
by phil21 2y ago
It’s actually pretty interesting that I had the opposite adjustment moving into a huge city. Miles became meaningless - nearly everything I go to is within 5 miles. What matters is total travel time since two locations both 2 miles away fr
922.
by phil21 2y ago
I run a bunch of Seagate 8TB SMR bought a few months after release, and the ZFS raidz2 pool has grown over the years. They are wonderful for write once/read many storage of large files. Due the the sheer number of drives the write spe
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by phil21 2y ago
The mad rush to as quickly abolish religious practices in mainstream U.S. culture without any form of societal replacement is puzzling to me. I am no fan of religion having grown up in an exceedingly religious environment. But it was alway
924.
by phil21 2y ago
I’ve found the “collective common knowledge” regarding pop-culture topics such as this, is much like generals preparing for the last war they fought. Direct kickbacks were an actual problem decades ago. That has long been “solved” all the
925.
by phil21 2y ago
I love Amex generally, but they are the sole card issuer who has outright denied charging a vendor back - or even blocking future transactions. I had to close my account to get it to stop. Not even reissuing a new card helped due to the pr
926.
by phil21 2y ago
> My father was an elementary school janitor. If you paid me the same to be a janitor, I'd take that trade any day of the week. I've been a janitor before and while the job is not fun and has some shitty (pun intended) days -
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by phil21 2y ago
Carmel can only exist as an exception within a wider metro area. Once too many communities try to follow it's model, the model no longer works since there aren't enough rich folks to segregate from the poor folks. It's reall
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by phil21 2y ago
The funny/ironic thing is, all those items tend to be the first to go when management experiences personal burn-out themselves. I wonder how much burn-out is transferred downwards due to this phenomena.
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by phil21 2y ago
It depends on the exact type of Testosterone being used. Each type has a different half-life and absorption profile. The most common - Testosterone Cypionate should be best used twice a week to avoid the "crashes" - if you care a
930.
by phil21 2y ago
> I'm a homeschool parent, and we wouldn't have it any other way for our family. But one thing I've learned is that most homeschool parents are even worse than public school and the risk of permanently harming your child t

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