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- Comment on Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions 13 hours ago:
Pshaw, if it’s not from the Gabon region of Africa it’s just sparkling nuclear reactor
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 21 hours ago:
I think exclusive content is only a symptom of the larger problem, which is that we’re letting movie production companies run their own (new-fangled versions of) theaters again.
- Comment on Which is the best WiFi 7 adapter: Intel vs Qualcomm 1 day ago:
I would love confirmation but I’m assuming they are also restricted due to 6ghz license holders
- Comment on Which is the best WiFi 7 adapter: Intel vs Qualcomm 1 day ago:
Does Wi-Fi 7 have the same restrictions on AP mode for these cards as wifi 6e?
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 3 days ago:
Needs power to go clear, otherwise opaque/frosted
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 days ago:
I could see that happening if these are used in gas hybrid cars, or ev taxis, or maybe grid scale energy buffering
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 1 week ago:
Boris: Don’t you know who I am?!?
Poll worker: no sir, you don’t have ID.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 week ago:
Alright everybody, let’s make the Switch 2 the next WiiU.
No purchases, no recommendations to relatives. If anyone you know asks if you think they should get one for their kids for Christmas: nah it’s basically just the switch but WAY more expensive.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
Plus the batteries, unless you only want to run the thing while the sun is up
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
Building a cannon to shoot for the moon
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
Yeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work? 1 week ago:
I think that sounds more like a feudal fiefdom than communism
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 1 week ago:
Yeah from what I’ve seen of Jeff geerling’s testing it can use all of a 2.5g and about 3.5 of a 5gbit adapter
- Comment on Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy 2 weeks ago:
I think I was more advocating for automatic switching at the meters when grid power isn’t sensed at the meter. The same type of sensing that goes into larger solar inverters to prevent back feeding during power outages today. 20-40+ years ago your argument about having to go home to home manually shutting off connections would have made sense, but these days technology is advanced far enough that it can be done automatically without human intervention, as soon as the grid goes down. Then brought back up when grid power returns.
- Comment on Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood why this isn’t the responsibility of the utility to prevent back feeding at the meter when the grid is down.
- Comment on Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy 2 weeks ago:
Well let’s do some back of the envelope math.
Conservative estimate: 6m^2 about 6000w of sunlight x 20% panel efficiency x 4hrs/day = 4800wh or 9.5 hrs at max 500w inverter output.
Liberal estimate: 6m^2 about 7200w of sunlight x 25% panel efficiency x 5hrs/day = 9000wh or 18 hrs at max 500w inverter output.
I think this would be worth it for an apartment dweller who doesn’t have access to the roof or a whole field. And producing the power when and where it’s used reduces transmission costs.
- Comment on Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy 2 weeks ago:
Translated by Google:
In the future, private individuals will be able to operate mini solar systems as balcony power plants without complicated registration
This is the coolest part. As I understand it you’ll be able to export 500w to the grid without requiring approval of your provider. The new units just plug into the wall and back feed power into your house to reduce your bill.
Depending on how the law is written, I can imagine people putting a battery between the solar and inverter so they could capture more energy and export the maximum 500w all day & night
- Comment on Battery storage becomes biggest source of supply in evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids 3 weeks ago:
Lmao, I was on this site 2 nights ago just looking at the graphs.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think we’re considering all the possibilities for this revelation. Like China may have dropped the first bombs on the US after vault Tek dropped a bomb on China
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 3 weeks ago:
Honestly you didn’t miss much. I used the one in my phone for a couple weeks at work until I found out I could get way better reception out of just about any dedicated portable radio. I think the headphones as an antenna thing works best when you’re fairly close to a transmitter.
- Comment on tikatalik 4 weeks ago:
I think this was specific to tetrapods, though I don’t know if there are any land vertebrates that aren’t descendants of tetrapods.
- Comment on After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings 4 weeks ago:
FireWire was a standard/semi-pro video interface back in the days before HDMI. I thought it was just standard to have them on older equipment.
- Comment on Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive 4 weeks ago:
You could go with a 2.5in SSD in a USB enclosure. I think OP was just suggesting this as the highest performance option.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
They sell 3000mah replacement batteries vs the original 850mah. I think some solid state drives can save power, but others can use more.
- Comment on AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online 1 month ago:
Huh, I wonder if they’re not saying because it was a crypto ransom and they had the opportunity to stop it.
- Comment on Radxa Penta SATA HAT adds up to five SATA drives to the Raspberry Pi 5 1 month ago:
One lane of pcie. Gen 2 for raspberry pi. Maybe gen 3 for other boards. So, 5-8gbit/s total. Compared to SATA 3 which is 6gbit/s, and there are 5 of those if the estate port can go that fast.
- Comment on Trump unable to pay $464m bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say 1 month ago:
No the point is put up or shut up. We know if we send him a bill he’s not going to pay it, he’s notorious for it.
And if his lawyers suggest putting property up as collateral, we should say no because he’s also known to inflate property values.
- Comment on Still wanna know 1 month ago:
Nah just the wrong aspect ratio. These classics were intended for 4:3 not 16:9
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 1 month ago:
I thought their issue was with one-touch make-ready rules on the phone poles. You had to wait for legacy users to move their lines up the pole before Google’s could be added to the bottom. And legacy users had absolutely no incentive to hurry since completing the work means helping add another competitor in the area.
- Comment on TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 1 month ago:
Lol, that’s just how Antenna man has always done thumbnails. As a semi-regular viewer, I can say the interview with the small broadcaster really elevates this video above most of his other content. It’s a pretty fantastic and informative video.