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- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 1 day ago:
Little bit of A, little bit of B.
In China there’s a lot of big coastal cities with very little open land for development. Putting small amounts of solar onto 1000 skyscrapers vs one big ocean plant, and the additional costs of ocean maintenance start to be less significant.
Similarly, in some places there may be opportunities to align the deployment of the panels with other systems, e.g., a kelp farm or ocean fish farm where you can collocate ocean structures.
There’s likely to be lots of new challenges faced by these structures, but it’s still good to work the kinks out now with some pilot projects
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 weeks ago:
Not trying to be a “nuclear shill”, but it is worth mentioning from the article you linked:
The 1.8 million solar panels are expected to generate up to 690 MW and they’re co-located with 380 MW of 4-hour battery energy storage (1,400 MWh).
The capacity factor of solar is something around 25%, so that 690 MW solar array (even with batteries) produces about as much energy as ~160 MW nuclear… So 7x faster, but the costs are closer than you suggest. Solar is still cheaper because the O&M costs are minimal, but pretending 690 MW solar + 380 MW battery is equivalent to 1 GW nuclear is a bit disingenuous.
- Comment on Privacy Guides is Hiring 2 weeks ago:
That’s… That’s the… Well nevermind…
- Comment on Privacy Guides is Hiring 2 weeks ago:
Remember kids, everything is a data mining trap. Be sure to submit your resume with zero PII, and at least 1024-bit encryption.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 weeks ago:
Height selection on metric side has jumps of up to 3 centimeters lmao.
Too lazy to look, but given 1 inch = 2.54 cm, my guess is the tool is written in inches, and just rounds those values to the nearest whole cm, thus alternating between 2 & 3 cm increments.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 weeks ago:
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
But that’s not a burner phone, that’s an off phone.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
burner goes from your house, to abortion clinic, to your office, back to your house
Hmm, must be someone else, I don’t recognize this number
-The Government
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 3 weeks ago:
You do you, but I will say uBO can block all of those things, it just doesn’t do it all out of the box.
You have to subscribe to the right blocklists, or manually remove elements you don’t want from sites you visit frequently.
ABP offers you the convenience of not having to manually tinker with everything, which is what money is supposed to be used for - convenience.
- Comment on Honey 3 weeks ago:
The harm side comes in multiple forms:
Harm to the animals; by removing their nutrient dense food source, and feeding them sugar water in its place, impacting colony health
Harm to the ecosystem; by mass producing honey bees we are choking out other pollinators, and the selective breeding for honey bees prioritizes output and makes colonies more susceptible to disease and collapse.
Even if you feel like the bees we’re farming lead a good life, that life comes at a cost of other species - we are choosing a winner in the food web in a way that could be done less harmful for similar end result (i.e., plant sugars / syrups). Much of veganism is about harm reduction.
Knowing the importance of pollinators to our food supply, as a vegan I would probably not have much of an issue with pollinator farming if there goal was maintaining biodiversity, instead of min-maxing profit.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
All of the banks I’ve used in the past utilize email or SMS for 2FA, which isn’t the must secure, but doesn’t require an app.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
“This sub is now entirely dedicated to u/Spez’s involvement in moderating jailbait subreddits”
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
They’ll fire the developers that implemented the unpopular features (that they didn’t want to build in the first place but were forced upon them from executives, who, by the way, are due for their end of year bonuses!!)
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
Sure, there are risks, but if there alternatives are pony up $100k for a new exosuit, or just don’t fucking walk again, I see why repair is an enticing option.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
I’ve started choosing the companies I use based much more on the experience offered when their product/service DOESN’T work, rather than when it does.
Easy to do for a cell phone or a toaster, but I can’t imagine there’s a ton of options for exosuits that correct your condition, covered by your insurance, that your doctor is familiar enough with to prescribe (for lack of a better term).
Some things are annoying to make abandonware, and some things should be criminal.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
Shopping cart icon, and “checkout”
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
Just Google “how to increase my fire risk to save $2 on a new LED”. Should be a how to guide or two out there.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
If these companies are marketing their AI as being able to provide “answers” to your questions they should be liable for any libel they produce.
If they market it as “come have our letter generator give you statistically associated collections of letters to your prompt” then I guess they’re in the clear.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 1 month ago:
The problem is these AI companies currently exist on the business model of not paying for information, and that generally includes not wanting to pay content curators.
Google is probably the only one in a position to potentially outsource by making everyone solve a “does this hand look normal to you” CAPTCHA
They can try and train AI to detect AI, but that’s also difficult.
- Comment on Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime 2 months ago:
Someone watched an old Bond film.
old
Die Another Day (2002)
You fucking watch yourself, alright? You’re on thin ice.
- Comment on They're Making Solar Panels... Work at Night. 2 months ago:
It’s all fun and games until we find out the white dude running the startup used to be an Asian dude with a vendetta against Pierce Brosnan.
Pierce better start rethinking his annual trip to the ice palace.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
But $12 to $14 is <20%…
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
just tried disconnecting the “smart” part of my desktop pc. Now all I have is an expensive space heater.
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 2 months ago:
For a professional sysadmin’s home network? Maybe. For the average Joe who probably has their 12-year-old toaster still connected to their wifi? I wouldn’t bank on it.
- Comment on Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay Louisiana utility company for lost profits 2 months ago:
Fed up with the delays, Commissioner Craig Greene, R-Baton Rouge, ended the stalemate in January and joined with the two Democrats on the commission in adopting what they say is a more consumer-friendly program than the one the utilities wanted.
That’s what happens when one party’s entire purpose in life is to just be bought and paid for. The reason they got to drag their feet for years to come up with nothing meaningful is because 3/5 members of the commission let them. I’m just glad Commissioner Greene finally came around, even if it’s only because he’s not running for reelection
Friendly reminder that those tiny elections down ballot are still inedibly important.
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
The current Tesla “superchargers” put out 250kWh
kW
My wall outlet charger puts out 250 kWh, if you leave it in for 2 weeks straight…
- Comment on Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app 3 months ago:
As someone in the market for a new sound system - looking for recommendations for something wireless w/ Dolby Atmos. Any suggestions?
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
As does Ecosia.
- Comment on Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit 3 months ago:
Yeah, always site:reddit.com if I need it, SEO spam has gotten so trashy.
- Comment on Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit 3 months ago:
TBF that’s a textbook monopoly.
