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by wumpus 4y ago
Scientists are unconcerned with that question. Your eye is nothing like the Hubble. Your eye isn't that useful for doing science. Hubble images are.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say -- there are many astronomy multimodal studies.
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by wumpus 4y ago
When you run into physics/astronomy people mentioning epicycles, it's not ironic, it's saying that we're missing out on a simpler rule.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Thank you upvoters! I wonder why my other comment has so many downvotes, when it's just as relevant as this one.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Latency measurements are tricky, the usual benchmarks kind of suck and aren't predictive of actual performance in real systems under load. Given that the entire Myrinet team went to work for Google, and the InfiniPath microarchitecture
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by wumpus 4y ago
InfiniPath / OmniPath dates back to 2004. Cornelis Networks sells the current generation.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Your eye is an imperfect sensor, film is an imperfect sensor, the color sensor in your camera is an imperfect sensor, and astronomers do things in particular ways because we're doing science with the data. The paper always says how the
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by wumpus 4y ago
You replied to > I heard recently of a study that found 2-4 hours is sufficient along with an interconnected grid. That, literally, is not the same as: > Really, 100% of experts think we need only a few hours of storage and reserve i
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by wumpus 4y ago
No, no one said that but you.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Roughly 0% of experts behind more renewables and storage agree with you. But maybe you don't realize that, given that you'd driven them away with this style of argument.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I was specifically pointing out that nuclear's construction costs have been going up, not down, despite the entire industry's claim that this time will be different.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Sure, let's summarize: Solar cells have an awesome reduction in cost over time Wind has an awesome reduction in cost over time Nuclear is a clown show
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by wumpus 4y ago
Modern nuclear has flunked every economic test.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Did you reply to the correct comment? I didn't propose anything.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Yep, electric cars aren't becoming more popular, no way.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Do you want people freezing to death Have you ever had a useful discussion after accusing the other side of wanting to kill people?
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by wumpus 4y ago
Most home electric vehicle charging can be shifted by more than an hour.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> De-orbiting faster means reserving more propellant for the final de-orbit burn. One new technology is releasing a sail to increase drag. Example: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/08/23/millennium-space-sy
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by wumpus 4y ago
Where's the part where you have to install enough batteries to charge most electric cars at night? That was your scenario. Good choice of states, though: I grew up in SC and live in California. California uses time-of-day rates to nudg
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by wumpus 4y ago
Good news! The very article we're discussing explains why you don't have to install enough batteries to charge most people's electric cars at night.
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by wumpus 4y ago
It could be fun to have a conversation about this topic, but when you start with calling the opinions of others a "deliberate misunderstanding", you've poisoned the well. Still, it's a good illustration that it's a
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by wumpus 4y ago
This short essay is good philosophy, but doesn't seem very connected with reality. No, search engines and browsers don't permanently cache permanent redirects. Yes, you should probably use unique usernames instead of reusing them.
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by wumpus 4y ago
"Right to be forgotten" is an example of a European value.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Blekko (2007-2015) did that -- apparently it wasn't enough for commercial success.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I've run a web-scale search engine and I don't think it will work. Not only are some sites malicious -- mostly unimportant ones -- but many good sites are simply incompetent.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> But calculus is not being taught to her by engineers. 30+ years ago, when I started undergrad, calc for engineers, pre-meds, and scientists were 3 different classes. Seems like your daughter should choose a more enlightened school. (Ma
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by wumpus 4y ago
If you're asking about California, we're about to start the rainy season.
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by wumpus 4y ago
You have a choice: 1) Say "you're so dumb" and everyone flags you, so you have little impact on the conversation 2) Don't say "you're so dumb", and enough people will vouch for you that your comments are v
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by wumpus 4y ago
Congrats, you're reinventing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic
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by wumpus 4y ago
My not super-secure datacenter requires either a palm-print plus RFID card, or showing ID to a human.

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