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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you get even more clouds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sampling bias⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works!

  Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the rabbit hole of energy storage.

  Turns out nobody cares about the capacity but about the discharge rate. Which is why you’ll often hear about how many Gigawatts a certain energy storage project has, and nothing about GWh.

  If you think about it for a bit, it does make sense. A lot of solutions would take days to fully discharge, so you might think “oh we have an entire city’s energy consumption for a week in some storage”, but in reality you could maybe power one neighborhood with that cuz of the discharge rate.

  So, capacity refers to the “output capacity”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if this is how you interview, your company sux.

  Your fellow tech bro with a big fat tech job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disagree. I coded up a matrix inverter that provided a step-by-step solution, so I don’t have to invert them myself by hand. It was considerably more effort than the mind-boggling task of doing the assignment itself. Additionally, at least half of the satisfaction came from the simple fact of sticking it to the damn system.

  My brain ain’t doing any of your dumb assignments, but neither am I getting a less than an A. Ha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was sure this was 196. But Apparently not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet simulation theory has a very reasonable merit.

  And if it were to turn out true, you’d also have to admit that OOPs argument was hogwash. Actually, it is either way.

  If you can’t logic better than religious people, then you’re the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Economics Nobel 2024 W⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please elaborate how you believe a non-democratic take over of the ruling power (to establish socialism, or whatever) will lead to a better outcome for everyone or “majority”.

  After that we can discuss what implicit societal welfare function you were improsing, and why you insist individuals are unable to exercise their free will to collectively optimize the same welfare function given that it’s supposedly in their best interest. We’re assuming a functioning democracy here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it makes it zero disgusting. It’s a person making a passionate calling. She simply calls for others to follow their steps, she’s a woman and a mother, and believes everything she says, and is probably happy and fulfilled and is wishing that to others.

  You seem to be triggered af by literally everything and can’t see when someone’s heart is in the right place regardless of whether you agree with them or not.

  Maybe that snowflake term your older generation used was correct. Cuz, frankly, you guys act like a bunch of rebellious teenagers. Kinda cringe.

  Oh, I’m an atheist, feminist, child-free, I don’t have a tweeter, and where I live abortions are legal. And you’re cringe even to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you do want children and are fulfilled living a life dedicated to making and raising them, you’re also still valid.

  In fact, that would be an accomplishment, while simply existing isn’t. But this planet got an overpopulation problem, so if all you wanna do is continue simply and unimportantly existing while also not procreating, I’d say, go ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick some unrelated lectures, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because engineering is precise, measurable, and easily reproducible. You should be testing your things in a way that all you need is a simple two-sample Z-test.

  Experiments on the humans, on the hand, unfortunately, have been outlawed. So all you get is a bunch of shitty noisy data, and yet you’re supposed to somehow make sense of it. Most people with a degree in stats would tell you not to even try, and yet those fucks at phycology departments always do while having had about one undergrad-level class as part of their masters.

  TL;DR good psychology programs nowdays train decent statisticians as they should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick some unrelated lectures, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, looks like an elaborate course in probabilistic graphical models, sign me up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airline airs ‘sexually explicit’ film on every screen – with no way to turn it off⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone explain where in the 2h of “two people talking in a cab” did they find nudity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The holy spirit help you with your servers that run on windows.

  I’d also suppose this update won’t affect you, cuz you’re hopefully not running latest win11 on a server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I either GoG or pirate these days. You want my money? Then respectfully sell me the product.