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by xenadu02 3y ago
The vast majority of panels are installed on roofs where the most of the sunlight gets turned into heat anyway. The panels instead turn some into electricity and by providing an air gap give some insulation effect (cooler air flows under th
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by xenadu02 3y ago
LOL... farmers love them. They take up a tiny bit of field in exchange for extra revenue. Almost every farmer takes the deal when offered it.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Fair enough. I guess it depends on what the goal for writing systems is: a system that is easy to teach helps increase literacy but that hardly mattered to many empires throughout history who would rather the rabble not be able to read. T
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by xenadu02 3y ago
For US residential homes the bank has set milestones where they release funds. If the developer leaves the house half-built they only get half-paid (give or take). A similar thing applies to renovations. Banks can and do refuse to pay until
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Correct, the Phoenicians gave it to the Greeks who used vowel letters for the first time... though the Romans mostly inherited theirs from the Etruscans (who got it from the Phoenicians too). That led to some oddities when the Romans conque
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Modern capitalism is definitely short-sighted but the railroads are uniquely bad in that regard. They could increase their business and keep marketshare away from road trucking without capital investment but they prioritize operating ratio
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> the freight trains are often too long to fit on the siding This is a deliberate part of "precision scheduled railroading" which is neither precision nor scheduled. Management and investors believe railroads are in long-term d
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Because the context is relevant here. Net neutrality is not some government over-reach. It was a specific reaction to a captive telco trying to fundamentally change how the internet works by having an intermediary convert certain packet tra
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by xenadu02 3y ago
If the parent process of the container here changes its bootstrap port to itself or disinherits it then it could also create an isolated mach namespace, restricting access to mach/XPC services.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> permanently ceding more privacy to Apple How is on-device image classification "ceding more privacy"? Because an OS vendor provided it? > If you’re seeing so many [...] you need to reflect on how you’re interacting with th
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I don't know why I have to keep explaining the history of this. What people call "Net Neutrality" is just how the internet (and ARPANET before it) had always worked. No one had contemplated it working in any other way. Then
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That is not correct at all. The internet developed with "net neutrality" because that's how ARPANET and later the internet had always worked. Peering agreements developed based on symmetrical traffic loads and providers reg
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by xenadu02 3y ago
This is an opt-in feature. You can enable it for yourself. It is also available as a parental control for your kid's devices. I think that is 100% appropriate. I don't want to see dick pic spam. Actually I don't want anyone t
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by xenadu02 3y ago
A large proportion of at-risk groups don't take any available preventative (they wouldn't be at risk otherwise) so it isn't difficult to find enough people. People are also much more willing to take one or a few doses for fre
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by xenadu02 3y ago
EMF can do some seemingly crazy things. I built a kiln controller and the initial version would sometimes randomly lockup, reboot in the middle of an operation, or do other seemingly "crazy" things. Sometimes even the hardware wat
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by xenadu02 3y ago
People weld cast metal parts all the time. Same for aluminum. The process is just less familiar... aluminum wire is softer than steel so you can't just load it into the MIG and go - you usually want a wire feed gun that puts the spool
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Yes... so priority will be to find diesel generators to get refineries back online. Individual pump stations will, if needed, scavenge solar panels or generators to get their own pumps up and running. Governments will prioritize food and el
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Like I said: it wouldn't be a pretty situation but people aren't just going to sit back and accept the destruction of civilization and/or death. People will dig out old textbooks on electricity and figure it out. Transformers
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Early Unix switched contexts by writing the current process out to disk, loading the next runnable process, then jumping to it. Besides that overhead being far too slow in modern terms it also did not admit threads nor multiple concurrent c
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by xenadu02 3y ago
In such a scenario we would just start cobbling together makeshift transformers using available materials. You just need some spools of wire, a hunk of iron, then wrap the wires around. It won't be pretty, last for 50 years, etc. But i
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Cobalt-based lithium chemistries have a bad thermal resistance coefficient: as they heat up their resistance goes up which causes even more heating. That makes them prone to thermal runaway. As they runaway they also trigger the same effect
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I feel like these are added dimensions beyond existing rating systems but I haven't found a good way to capture the data or communicate it. At a high level what I really want is two ratings: Global rating and does this deliver what it
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by xenadu02 3y ago
As the sibling reply notes I am proposing the insurer refuse to write new policies or renew existing policies unless the homes are upgraded to meet much more stringent standards. Some examples: In CA, require an engineer's report on ea
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> It's true, but that would be within Twitter and Meta's rights. The real issue was that they did so at the behest of the incoming administration, in behind-the-scenes meetings. It's the involvement of government officials
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Invoking 230 here is off-topic but reforming it the way you propose would destroy most communities, especially smaller niche ones. It will also bring down a wave of massive censorship and moderation to sites that try to continue. In the rea
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Don't assume insurers are competent. They often sell homeowner's policies entirely online or over the phone without inspecting the property, looking at as-builts, etc. My renovated up to 2015 earthquake standards house pays the sa
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Before more advanced computerized call routing and SS7 signaling changes area codes had to map to one specific non-overlapping region. So when a metro area needed more exchange prefixes they had to split the area code and some subset of cus
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That has not matched my personal experience so I'm going to say you are wrong. In the end both of us are just posting personal experiences and opinions here, not data.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
My information comes from installers and dealers of used panels. The rate of solar panel replacement is extremely low. Very few people replace their panels. Modern panels also don't degrade very quickly, often warrantied for less than
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The whole world suffers from an extremely deep lack of vision. Why does a utility like PG&E fight so hard to hurt solar installation? If I were CEO I'd buy or start a foundry to make solar panels. Then I'd start an installatio

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