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by usrusr 3y ago
Solar energy has certainly gotten much, much cheaper compared to decades ago, but there's only so much cheaper left to go before it reaches market price of plain sheet glass. Collection efficiency is occasionally climbing a percentage
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by usrusr 3y ago
The board orders subordinates to be safe and cheap. When safety fails to materialize without throwing money at the problem they pretend it's not their fault. What's missing is not care , but commitment . Care without commitmen
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by usrusr 3y ago
True. The reality I think is that many of those who do believe that they care just don't actually care as much as they'd have to for a positive effect. Delusion is a strong force.
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by usrusr 3y ago
By turning the area used into a techno-desert with a disposal problem at EOL. Plants can do carbon concentration at the side while solving other problems as their "main job". Food, materials for single use packaging, direct energy
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by usrusr 3y ago
Leave the task of capturing CO2 from the super low concentration in ambient air to plants and keep burning dead plants for heat like we have done since before we evolved into what we now consider humans. Capture from the chimneys where CO2
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by usrusr 3y ago
Yeah, I've been surprised that hyperthreading was still around for quite a while now. It's from an era when the goal was to squeeze as many instructions per time unit as possible through a given transistor count. Or perhaps more c
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by usrusr 3y ago
Charge Robotics, search box did its thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780455 An interesting read, looks like they have the attitude necessary to innovate without distracting moonshot goals.
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by usrusr 3y ago
There are entire continents without much in land so unproductive that no-one bothers taking ownership.
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by usrusr 3y ago
True, but for that alone I'd assume that there's no lack of trying. Innovation through dozens (hundreds?) of suppliers each trying to sell to installation companies. In old-google-speak those are certainly not moonshot projects, b
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by usrusr 3y ago
True, even with a resistor. And with a chain of heat pumps you'd get the same heat or more, and free cool on the other end of the cascade. Good sites for mirror-based solar tend to be places where coldness is quite valuable.
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by usrusr 3y ago
I wouldn't ever see limited space as a hypothetical, considering how human history is often just seen as a long sequence of territorial wars.
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by usrusr 3y ago
At the time the Manzares installation was built the concept seemed very promising. I read about it as a child in an overview of different approaches to solar power generation and to me, the chimney stood out as far more practical than the v
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by usrusr 3y ago
I'm sure the mindset exists everywhere, but others are not associated with a person-brand that puts it into the center. Being German I can't say much about others, but German luxury might be the least similar. Based no doubt on th
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by usrusr 3y ago
Yeah, that's the obvious motivation at the surface, I never questioned that. The thing is, people who "self-identify as winners" are incapable of seeing any downside to ubiquitous surveillance because if that ever turned agai
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by usrusr 3y ago
The root reason is that Tesla is made by and for people who assume that they will never ever be at the receiving end of a power imbalance. (edit: to them) More surveillance equals more opportunity to use power, not risk of ending up on the
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by usrusr 3y ago
ps: long dead thread, but my memory just chimed in with the suggestion that express might have already been available, but only that command line version did not have all optimizations disabled.
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by usrusr 3y ago
Robotic boat, a large tank, some power-to-storable tech, a power generating turbine beneath the waterline and a huge kite. Just send it out on the oceans, to cruise aimlessly wherever the satellite uplink suggests favorable weather and have
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by usrusr 3y ago
There are no issues, at least as long as you can supply power to the base station: just make the motor/generator reel in the kite, that causes plenty of movement relative to the stationary air to keep it afloat and controllable right d
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by usrusr 3y ago
There was a short phase before express when you could get a free command line visual C compiler with some SDK. I think the intention was to enable users of other compilers to create C bindings to msvc C++ ABI DLL or something like that, per
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by usrusr 3y ago
That entire era in Microsoft products, MSVC 6.0, Office 97 and bit later w2k was quite special: linear progress from earlier windows things, but not yet in that cycle of change for the sake of change, that is never really complete so you al
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by usrusr 3y ago
Will machine translation help low-headcount languages or be their death knell? I see multiple forces at play: machine translation lessens the pressure to properly learn whatever happens to be the lingua franca in the greater region. But it
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by usrusr 3y ago
One is aesthetic filler that is true to its purpose of loosening up the typography of a wall of text. The other tends to be awkwardly clever on a level of awkward that was unknown to mankind until recently. I used to hate stock photography
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by usrusr 3y ago
That example is really difficult, because between the lines it sounds like it has been working sufficiently well despite the cowboy style, substituting methodical error-avoidance with that special kind of brilliance of super deep code knowl
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by usrusr 3y ago
Oh yes, the D channel, holy grail of always-on dreams. Young me spent countless hours staring at AVM header files dreaming of finding an angle that would enable me to sneak free bytes to a friend who also had ISDN.
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by usrusr 3y ago
On the other hand in the books Idaho appeared as so much of an outlier to every other person that "in a different movie entirely" seems weirdly fitting. You could even put Momoa in the Lynch version and it would seem accurate to
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by usrusr 3y ago
Is it for sale or do you have to take the entire $2.9B monstrosity?
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by usrusr 3y ago
You don't want friction on the default path to be too low because that would inevitably increase the occurrence of default path where it must not be used, e.g. cause sql injections. Much easier to accidentally write something that boil
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by usrusr 3y ago
About time java introduced escape analysis /s
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by usrusr 3y ago
The language spec is the only place able to introduce meaning to a source byte sequence starting with a backslash that has been invalid before (e.g. not double-backslash, or backslash-u). ${ on the other hand never been an invalid byte sequ
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by usrusr 3y ago
The languages don't have much surface area of features to search about. Far more google queries will be about API than about syntax. I wouldn't be surprised if the browser histories of kotlin developers, on average, contained far

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