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by yodelshady 2y ago
Good article, I've seen this covered from the materials science and system engineering perspective before but not the mechanical perspective. Ask any first year materials science graduate how Challenger failed and they'll confiden
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by yodelshady 2y ago
120 GWh of storage is approximately zero storage. Which, for Australia, population 30 million and literally near-tropical light patterns, might well be enough. For the UK alone, not the most northerly of populations, you need 50 TWh . Ge
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by yodelshady 2y ago
"..the grid operator to request that Electricite de France SA take several nuclear plants offline." Could you read the article please? The lumbering beasts, which actually do hate changing output at all, turned off before the
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Projects I've seen recently refused permission by the local population in the UK on environmental grounds: - A data centre using the site of an old landfill. - A data centre next to an oil refinery. - A film studio using the site of
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by yodelshady 3y ago
There are ships that move over one billion kWh of LNG around at a time. At $100 to store a kWh of electrical energy, along with approximately ten times the cost to account for structures that can support and move the extra weight (that&#x
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Source [3] seems highly suspicious. There's ~24 GW of wind capacity in the UK, the vast majority offshore, and according to Elexon Portal ( https://www.elexonportal.co.uk , a good public frontend at http://gridwatc
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Which means, as pointed out by e.g. zemvpferreira, proportionate-to-damage then either makes HGVs completely unviable or the wear component of tax for any passenger car negligible. And HGVs really are the limiting factor on road design. We
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by yodelshady 3y ago
If you argue that you'd be a liar. They just don't. They all get about 200 miles real world, my (£10,000 cheaper !) hatchback, petrol with a 55 L tank and much more interior space than any of those, can push 400. Why say things th
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by yodelshady 3y ago
The "slightly tall hatchback" form factor is also the best form factor for electrification. A Fiesta doesn't have a lot of underfloor real estate. Although the industry isn't so dishonest as to pretend that "consu
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Cool. Now, look at the "rust code" when you're tasked with changing mean to median... in the average non-programming specialist shop, where what you have access to is the production server . Which may or may not be the dev s
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by yodelshady 3y ago
I have literally never had a project for which Poetry, given an exact list of dependencies and flawless running on the "bad system", installed correctly on first try. Most recently it defaults to asking for a keyring, even when ju
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by yodelshady 3y ago
It's much more impressive to me seeing it be done on a basically Formula Student++ budget. I'm sure the same team could make a very fast ICE car, and that would be impressive too. I've seen Ford make a similarly fast electric
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by yodelshady 3y ago
> I would suggest that if you are allowed a fan that sucks air from under the car then you can easily achieve pretty much any acceleration. Or if you point the fan backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJz5zkIiUQ
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by yodelshady 3y ago
It's not necessarily the heat pump, but the internal remodelling to fit larger rads/underfloor heating, and better insulation. Fundamentally, after that you're using an energy source 3x as expensive as gas, so... any time the
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Nuclear District Heating (i.e. repurposing the waste steam) is literally a thing. Not in the West though, we're too enlightened and smart and sophisticated for that. Don't look at the starving cold people.
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by yodelshady 3y ago
I believe dingi is perfectly aware of the realistic outcomes, and is instead describing the normative ones, i.e. what you need if you want an enterprise that actually self-improves, where the best employees aren't actively looking fo
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Literally nobody runs storage, not at the required volumes for a North European country. To claim otherwise is just a fucking lie. Just... what is your plan with this? The reality is, North European countries are now wholly reliant on there
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by yodelshady 3y ago
The crossover point in any grid that has significant gas presence - which is absolutely ANY "renewable" grid- is not a COP of 2. It is 3. That is, per this graph, 5 C. A temperature at which if you do things right, process heat (o
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Non-graduates are also suffering, yes. Did I imply they deserved to suffer? If I did that's not the intention. However, a degree usually requires hard work (being born wealthy does not), and has been widely recognised as the best leg
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Or Ireland, Cyprus, Malta?
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by yodelshady 3y ago
And you think correcting that failure will be harder when the consumer has zero personal investment (financial or emotional) in that thing?
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by yodelshady 3y ago
I was going to say "they put methamphetamines in the candy", but apparently that's a myth ( https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/11/melting-the-myth-of-panze... )
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by yodelshady 3y ago
There's an excess of frauds. Large amounts of money will obviously attract them. JFC, if you have "an idea for an app, bro", but you can't build the product, and you can't raise the honest VC necessary to build or
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by yodelshady 3y ago
> if even they are struggling, then... how is the average person in that country even still [independently] alive??" Either they accrued capital already, or borrowing from relatives who did, or they're not living independentl
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by yodelshady 3y ago
No, he's not. Why have it? This isn't a general purpose programming language, a pile of ore from which you might conceivably construct a footgun. It's a toolkit specifically designed for financial applications with a "le
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by yodelshady 3y ago
Tauri might be cool in theory, but Hello World consumers TWO POINT EIGHT GIGABYTES of hard disk on my machine. Arguing "Rust has no dev speed penalty" in that context is just... no. You are damaging your own cause there, because a
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by yodelshady 3y ago
For the vast majority of services, dump the passwords requirement then. Physically stealing a token from me is a much riskier, less scalable attack than slinging hashes from someone's hobby site into GPUs.
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by yodelshady 3y ago
This is probably the biggest problem I was hoping for a YC-style solution for. Motoring is absolutely subsidised - by motorists, who pay 90% of the cost before a single wheel is turned. And Jesus, with a apologies to one Jeremy Clarkson, I
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by yodelshady 3y ago
They're all sold in Europe, where they're legally cars, meet car safety standards and fuel consumption is usually only slightly worse, about the amount you'd expect from raising a hatchback body 1-2 inches. The layout also ha
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by yodelshady 3y ago
The everlasting cycle of security fuckwittery (with some apologies to Randall Munroe's "sandboxing cycle"). 1) There is a protocol for communication that encodes some useful heuristic for regular operations - IP addresses, fo

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