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by plantain 11mo ago
I have no idea what you are talking about. I archive petabytes of space imagery with libjxl on maximum compression, effortlessly.
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by plantain 11mo ago
Now try when you don't control the host to tune on.
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by plantain 11mo ago
Turkeys bet on tomorrow 364 days of the year.
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by plantain 11mo ago
The new supercomputer was budgeted for 50 mil, and cost 866 million... 8 years late and out of date on delivery. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2024/06...
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by plantain 11mo ago
Try a single threaded download from Hetzner Finland versus eu-north-1 to a remote (i.e. Australia) destination and you'll see premium bandwidth is very real. Google Cloud Storage significantly more so than AWS. Sure you can just ram mo
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by plantain 11mo ago
Darksky was only ever good marketing.
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by plantain 11mo ago
I had the motherboard fail on a Dell XPS while at a conference in Tasmania, staying in a student residency that was inaccessible by car for the last ~1km. Within 24 hours a man arrived, to my room, to change the motherboard. Extremely impre
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by plantain 1y ago
The future is here - https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/products/velis-electro/ Seeing these pop up at a lot of flying schools for basic training.
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by plantain 1y ago
>For its doughnuts, the shop takes only green cotton notes from the Federal Reserve. >The proximate reason is obvious. If it were to accept credit cards, Carlson’s would have to pay an interchange fee to a network, for the privilege o
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by plantain 1y ago
"Despite the higher mass, takeoff & climb performance of the consist is similar to that of the lead plane flying independently. This means the consist is capable of taking off on the same runways and with similar climb profiles as
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by plantain 1y ago
It's 10x more expensive. https://www.investigativeeconomics.org/p/solar-is-only-cheap...
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by plantain 1y ago
You understood my point better than myself.
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by plantain 1y ago
>Acquiring land-use rights, permitting, environmental reviews, and zoning changes for an industrial power plant costs far more than the raw rent. So the argument against my claim that the government and market has failed if balcony solar
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by plantain 1y ago
I don't think so. This is well studied. The LCOE of rooftop solar is terrible compared to utility. I can't imagine what it looks like for balcony. https://www.investigativeeconomics.org/p/solar-is-only-cheap..
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by plantain 1y ago
People are entitled to do as they want, even if it's not profitable. I am just pointing out that if the economics of this add up, people have been seriously let down by their governments.
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by plantain 1y ago
The fact the economics of DIY make sense, is the evidence of the market/state failure. (whether they really do make sense without fanciful efficiency calculations, I leave to you). https://www.investigativeeconomics.org&#x2F
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by plantain 1y ago
A hectare of land is a few hundred euros per year to rent - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... Power consumption in the EU has flatlined and is even falling. New HV transmission line
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by plantain 1y ago
I think you are exactly correct. As the state fails, it feels good to take some personal control.
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by plantain 1y ago
Paying contractors to climb on rooftops one at a time and cable up a million distinct houses is clearly not comparable to an industrial installation. Similarly the generation from a balcony on a bad angle, and from walking around Germany, t
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by plantain 1y ago
The transmission losses are trivial. 5-10% max. It makes no sense to isolate batteries behind meters. Sharing batteries on a neighborhood or suburban level would make far more sense. We are meant to be a society, not libertarians living in
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by plantain 1y ago
You grow herbs at home because it's kitsch, fun, or even convenient, not to save money. Store harvested herbs die in the fridge, electricity does not. In Australia, our government massively subsidizes putting solar panels on our roof,
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by plantain 1y ago
This is such a total failure of state capacity. Why can the government or industry not build solar power at an industrial scale, and then bring it to people's homes via the existing infrastructure at a price that makes this kind of mic
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by plantain 1y ago
Don't give them any ideas.
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by plantain 1y ago
If you've ever used Claude Code + Plan mode - you know that exactly this is true.
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by plantain 1y ago
>We live very well in the EU. We don’t have to have millions in savings in order to retire. Strong worker protection. Plenty of time off. Low crime rates. We'll see how that pans out when the baby boomers finish retiring. Europe ate
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by plantain 1y ago
Inflows are not evenly distributed across the market. The S&P500 ETF's dominate.
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by plantain 1y ago
The real purpose of equity grants is to fudge the OpEx accounting costs on non-GAAP reports.
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by plantain 1y ago
Or is the active money also in the big companies, because even though there are good opportunities elsewhere, the steady ETF flows just keep pumping the big companies even faster?
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by plantain 1y ago
If you sit down and think hard about it, I'm not sure you'll figure out a better system. It does make sense.
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by plantain 1y ago
The UK has insane prices because of their refusal to do regional pricing to accommodate grid constraints. They'd rather pay wind farms to park their turbines, than to segment their grid pricing (i.e. make energy prices cheaper where

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