a4ng3l
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- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
I read not so long ago that someone tried to leverage human walking / steps. Now raindrops. I love it :)
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
With 2 electric cars… Belgium here so it’s not the tundra either but the house is sizeable and doesn’t share walls. Hot water alone was 150/200 kWh a month. It all adds…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
Using rain for electricity sounds like too fun to be efficient enough xD I’m gonna look into that :)
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
I feel you… I got a nice 3k€ to pay for electricity just for winter months and that’s with a quite performant heat pump. But at least zero emissions here…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
Yeah but that would not account for the electricity need: in winter we need between 1000/1300 kWh mainly for heating / domestic hot water. Other months under 250 even if we use air conditioning. So if you cover the 7 nice months you still get absolutely wrecked by the dreaded 4 in the winter cost wise…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
Also if one chose to have some tree for natural shading it kind of forbids to have verticals. Shade was more appropriate in our case so there’s a very limited direct sun exposure.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
I would have loved that but having a wind turbine is… not easy. Permits, psychotic attitude from neighbours… but that have been my go-to given we don’t have a stream to go hydro. I’m still happy with covering 8 ou of 12 months with our setup but it’s still unnerving to swallow the costs of the setup + utilities for winter months…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
Yeah I saw that… Though I’m 3 years into solar and my measurements aren’t so positive. I am definitely not covering 62% of our needs yearly. The 4 less sunny months are killers when you need heating.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
I you live where sun is abundant all year round… In which case (Las Vegas?) I would question the choice of having humans living in a fucking desert in the first place. But man I wish I could cover my needs between October and March here in Europe but no battery will help me store so much for so long :-/
- Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep 3 weeks ago:
It’s the reversal currently, off peak after 10pm and the weekends. Definitely possible to edge that way during wintertime but the cost differential isn’t so big so the roi is definitely not great.
- Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep 3 weeks ago:
I’d be curious as well. I’m looking at batteries but my consumption is 80% in winter when whatever the capacity I install I’ll end up using the network :-/
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how recently « the rest of us » built that opinion because from my 43 years as a European I certainly saw a lot of adulation of USA for as long as I remember. Even the healthcare pov is rather recent… For a long ass time they were certainly seen as our betters.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Ho come on it’s not that simple. Add to that the language barrier. And in general precise language and accuracy are not making knowledge more available to laymen. Laymen don’t have to vocabulary to start with, that’s pretty much the definition of being a layman.
There is definitely value in dumbing down knowledge, that’s the point of education.
Now using AI or pushing guidelines for editors to do it that’s entirely different discussion…
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 4 weeks ago:
Well considering that North Korea and Russia exist it’s not soooo far fetched. The real surprise is how it has been considered until recently as THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. We were so blind…
- Comment on ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit 4 weeks ago:
One point for ChatGPT it is then… it might be a bit on the posh / haughty side but that’s better than the reddit cesspool in my book.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ll need the detailed judgment of this one before considering it a massive win. Consent has always been something that needs to be done willingly and freely. The issue is forcing the whole industry to give a shit about the principle. Maybe IAB will have to shift its practices but I haven’t had any panicked calls yet so I assume this isn’t systemic.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 1 month ago:
They say sharing so it’s solely duplicating data everywhere, effectively increasing the attack surface…
And this would violate my favourite GDPR principle ; purpose based consent. I give my data to the healthcare body for handle reimbursement and I like it that way. No need for them to share that data with anyone else. Same for the tax guy: let him scrutinise the shit outa my incomes but that’s it, don’t share it with the fucking police or whoever else.
But yeah… this is a difficult topic even in a sane country. We’re talking USA here…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Best Asian one so far for me is mayo, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame seed and sesame oil. That shit is just magic. Bonus if you can use the Japanese mayo.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
Try to read it slowly maybe?
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
How do you go from « saying no to cash » to « c-levels are the issue » in the context of ethical considerations for engineers that enable AI in military industrial complex?
That guy definitely decides that lives he will impacts are less relevant than his salary. That’s ethics & morality… and a seasoned AI engineer can certainly eat well enough on in any other industry.
- Comment on EU top court rules 'golden passport' schemes are illegal 2 months ago:
About time… now get them to stop providing those.
- Comment on First impressions: Dune Awakening is an MMORPG pretending to be a survival game | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
Urh that’s the game? Not very 2025-ish…
- Comment on First impressions: Dune Awakening is an MMORPG pretending to be a survival game | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
One add per paragraph yet no meaningful pic of the game itself.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 2 months ago:
Remember that at a point in time they setup yours…
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 months ago:
I would hope so. I would not be surprised that this is a US special…
- Comment on President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the TRUMP memecoin on May 22. 2 months ago:
When you’re the president of the fucking United States but the grief is more important to you… come on, even I would be less of a disgrace….
- Comment on Looks Like 3DO Might Be Getting An Unofficial Port Of PS1 Classic WipEout | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Hooooo please have the same music… the game was a banger but the music was perfection. I still listen to those acid tracks regularly :)
- Comment on Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals 2 months ago:
Nice to see that animals aren’t better off then Americans. At least there’s consistency.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 4 months ago:
It’s settled then, once I finish fields of mistria I’m going to Valheim :)
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 4 months ago:
How good is Valheim for solo play? I’m on the fence about getting it myself for the deck.