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by toxik 4y ago
The institution credited, Jönköping University, is notable in Sweden for /not/ being a university and skirting the name issue by being named “Jönköping University” in Swedish as well. Make of that what you will but to me it seems
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by toxik 4y ago
To me, that sounds like your public transportation can’t handle peak demand properly. I think that’s actually solvable by building more transportation and scheduling more trains, busses, etc. There will of course always be a trade off betwe
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by toxik 4y ago
Seems pretty easy to back out. Though absolutely a boy-who-cried-wolf type situation.
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by toxik 4y ago
So then according to your analysis there is no problem with solar/wind, and the power companies are basically lying when they say they need plannable power. Meanwhile people are resorting to paying with their savings to pay the 10-fold
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by toxik 4y ago
You’re right, and I didn’t know that. Fascinating law. I blame being ESL. However, I wonder if it actually is fraud. Intent matters. The intention isn’t to defraud the employer, but rather to short-circuit the whole process of job skipping
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by toxik 4y ago
You’re not listening. They are literally calling for plannable power. I don’t think they’re stupid people either. You cover the base consumption using plannable sources, then use gas/hydro turbines for short term variation. The problem
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by toxik 4y ago
It is not fraud, it is just lying. Lying is not illegal. Withholding the truth is also lying, by omission. In that sense, your employer is already lying to you by not compensating you according to your actual value. I realize it’s a bit of
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by toxik 4y ago
Is it more immoral than withholding fair wages because your employees are unwilling to change jobs? It is fighting fire with fire to be sure, but it somehow seems justified in this context. A person in my life changed jobs to a worse locati
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by toxik 4y ago
Couldn’t you, as a strategy, just dress real nice once every six months and then every twelve or so, you just go to your boss and say you received an offer at 10% increased salary or something? They “match” that and you both feel like you m
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by toxik 4y ago
Calling it a myth doesn’t make it a myth. Power companies have been saying exactly this for years: they need PLANNABLE power generation. Building 3x solar or wind plants means 3x volatility.
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by toxik 4y ago
The effort required to reproduce a result, especially an exotic one, is often prohibitive. The reward for successful reproduction is near zero, and if you fail, it’s often absolutely zero - you are not going to be able to contest a result b
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by toxik 4y ago
My main problem with Bluetooth is connecting and disconnecting devices together. Want to use your corded headphones on your phone? Just plug them in. Want to switch to your computer? Just plug them in there. Want to use your Bluetooth headp
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by toxik 4y ago
It may be motor noise but anecdotal evidence suggests that it happens even when the machines are off, eg on national holidays. Some kind of transmitter seems likely though. I know one construction site had analog video signals in the 2.4 Gh
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by toxik 4y ago
Something I’ve noticed is that Bluetooth breaks down around major construction sites, like infrastructure projects. It’s very strange, I wonder if they have some kind of high power BT transmitters for some reason.
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by toxik 4y ago
You decided all on your own that GWh of storage cannot be divided by a time unit to create another 'new' unit, GW of storage. Repeat: _You_ decided that. I can explain it simply: One GW of storage is equivalent to producing one gi
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by toxik 4y ago
You can still divide GWh of capacity by a year and get GW of capacity, ie the instantaneous production rate of capacity.
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by toxik 4y ago
It’s really not that simple. The reasons for shutting down are multiple, not the least of which is staffing.
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by toxik 4y ago
> Enabling 2FA on PyPI controls access to PyPI’s web interface, not publishing workflows. Kinda feel like it should. (I also own packages that are critical.)
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by toxik 4y ago
I smoked a pack of cigs back in my teens and I don’t have cancer.
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by toxik 4y ago
Is it possible to build a third party YouTube search by scraping a) YouTube and b) the user’s watch history? To me it seems like there’s some mid-to-low hanging fruit there. YT’s recommender fails to understand when a video is part of a ser
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by toxik 4y ago
Physics is absolutely crammed with person names, though. Maxwell’s equations, Newtown’s laws, Boltzmann distributions, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Einstein’s summation convention, Green’s formula, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, etc etc et
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by toxik 4y ago
It was an observation that the choice to use references is actually a must, because of the halting problem, which I found interesting. Not everything is an argumentation.
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by toxik 4y ago
Right, which is exactly what I pointed out. The true call graph can only be obtained by basically running the program. Counting references is clearly a compromise here. To see its drawbacks, consider indirection and dynamism.
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by toxik 4y ago
This becomes impossible to do correctly because of the halting problem, interestingly. For example, suppose a routine calls F in a loop for most of its work, then at the end takes the square root by sqrtf(). Clearly number of calls matters
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by toxik 4y ago
Turning them off, like turning comments off, makes you look like you’re afraid of what people will say about your video. … Which is exactly the case, but they don't want it to look like that.
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by toxik 4y ago
I swear, the YouTube staff was just salty about the ratios on their cringe-fest Rewind videos.
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by toxik 4y ago
And remember that RCDs or GFCIs are not the panacea they may seem like at first. All it takes is an unreferenced secondary and voila, ground faults are invisible.
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by toxik 4y ago
I honestly find that deceiving and I would’ve said so in a review. Since it /is/ a percentage, I think you should absolutely show the zero - and the maximum if applicable. The correct scale is 0-1. It being a minute difference is
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by toxik 4y ago
In the year or so I used it, it was never updated.
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by toxik 4y ago
Shrugs paying customer here - I emailed the devs about several significant bugs that were pretty much ignored. The client doesn’t support some important features, making it basically not useful as a daily driver. It also has weird unread fl

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