Mihies
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- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 days ago:
Probably not just capital, also political influence and other ways I guess. But yes, it’s always a problem if it’s like that. If you ask me, there should be a generic independent payment backbone, where many providers could provide payments - like internet or something like that.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 days ago:
The issues here are trust, security, adoption and so forth. It’s not easy to start a competition here I’d say.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 4 days ago:
STASI enters the chat.
- Comment on Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery 5 days ago:
Also the size of the thing and what happens to batteries after they die.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
That’s quite a speed. How much does it cost and is this a company or personal subscription?
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
It’d be only fair if they required NSFW selfies.
- Comment on Europeans warn Iran of UN sanctions if no progress on nuclear deal 2 weeks ago:
Also Iran obliged to nuclear deal until the Orange unilaterally pulled away.
- Comment on Slovenia bars two far-right Israeli ministers 2 weeks ago:
Slovenia is all bark and no bite, this is the first tiny step that we actually took. But don’t be mislead, we still won’t don’t anything meaningful except for being concerned. Our right it’s also totally pro genocide and elections are next year.
- Comment on Pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at Tour de France 3 weeks ago:
Nope, the way he did it he endangered bicyclists and his life. And at the end of the day, nobody understood his protest until reporters told us. Instead he should find a more creative and safer way such as huge banner or something. As I said, the message was right, the execution was poor.
- Comment on Pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at Tour de France 3 weeks ago:
His message is to be heard, the way he did it was not a good one.
- Comment on Trump says Ukraine should not target Moscow 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t 24 hours? And then Orange also made the situation much worse, not just didn’t make peace.
- Comment on Indigenous Australians lose landmark climate court case against government 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps these Aborigines should send their children somewhere safe, such as inland government schools, to be safe.
- Comment on Excavations begin at child mass grave site in Ireland 3 weeks ago:
As God intended, right? What a disgusting chapter of Catholic church, not the only one, and yet, people still trust them. 🤷♂️
- Comment on AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. So zen 5 seems fine and patch for 3 and 4 will come with a newer kernel.
- Comment on AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs 4 weeks ago:
That’d be my assumption as well, but journalists better to do better
- Comment on AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs 4 weeks ago:
Why are they mentioning only Windows?
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
I mean the UK has 6% of its energy over the year come from solar, and 30% from wind, and installations are only accelerating, so this amount of installed solar is far from unrealistic.
Yep. No issues there. The core problem is storage here. And until we have a solid plan how to deliver with proven technology present today, we have to build new and run existing nuclear power plants. The other option is gambling.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
Actually energy from fusion reactors on Earth does make a lot of sense. Sadly we are advancing slowly there.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
That’s why we have all that power available, right? You guys keeping listing various technologies but it isn’t available nowhere at scale. Even this feature is not that common among the cars of today. And 10kWh is nowhere enough during winter (and perhaps summer with A/C), perhaps for single not big house with heat pump. Good luck with big cities.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
EVs provides more than 24 hours of needed energy in an area
Only if it was fully charged, you don’t drive with it and you live in a house. And thus are not a reliable energy source at all, even less for general energy problems.
H2 technologies are advancing, including storage and pipes.
All technology is advancing, but do you have a solution today? And even with advancements, you’ll hardly solve H2 flammability. Even keeping it contained is problematic.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
Yes, something like that. Now, while you can theoretically install that many solar panels, the kicker is that you don’t have nowhere enough storage. And even if you had that 10%, you could increase solar all you want, but the nuclear would be still running at 90MW because of the storage, or better, the lack of it. And because you would have a surplus of cheap solar power energy during the day - assuming more solar panels than 10%, it would erode more expensive nuclear one to become even more expensive. Basically if we solve storage, we can get rid of nuclear, but not before.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
If you trade too much EV energy during night, then you can’t drive during the day. And again, EVs capacity is not reliable at all. As per green H2, please show me a production and a storage capable of providing energy to a city. Or at least a real project that’s building it. Storing H2 is a big problem, like a huge one. If nothing else, Hindenburg tells a story. The fact that energy loss is at more than 50% when producing green H2 is a minor problem compared to storage.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
And that’s your reach apparently - insulting people without anything to contribute whatsoever.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
EVs are rare (in the context of total energy consumption, even more so because not so many models offer this feature), limited to houses (what do you do when you live in a flat?) and not a reliable source - “honey, I need to drive fetch some groceries, you won’t have energy in meantime”. How many houses with only EVs as energy storage are disconnected from grid? I bet the number is next to 0. OTOH EVs as energy storage can provide buffering to energy grid when properly connected. This feature has its place, but they can’t be used for reliable storage.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
Las Vegas has already achieved 97% storage supply for its needs - a city that barely sleeps at night.
Hard data is where? And I bet LV heavily relies on hydro and gas powerplants. Solar is a tiny fraction, even though, where is its energy stored?
Again, where is your evidence that it is not going to improve across the board, and will all fail?
Instead of trying to pick a fight, please read what I write: “Perhaps somewhen in the not so near future, but today?”
And it’s an especially ironic answer given that it takes up to 20 years to commission a nuclear power plant. And they are down for scheduled maintenance for up to a month a year, etc.
The difference with nuclear power plants is that we have the technology today. Can you say the same for batteries? Also you’d build a surplus of nuclear energy power plants (or have another backup plan) just for cases like you mention. The maintenance frequency varies, i.e. for a Slovene one is once per 18 months. But that’s something you know in advance and one plans for.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
What batteries are you referring to? Do you realize the amount of energy those batteries would have to store? Perhaps somewhen in the not so near future, but today? Go ahead and show me a western city able to store a couple of days worth of energy. More realistically a week.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
The question is simple. If you have installed solar power of 40% your country peak use, how much nuclear power you need - assuming simplified you have only these two power sources.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
You can’t just switch it off and on. It runs at more or less full power all the time. So tell me, at what power is that taking into consideration that sun doesn’t shine during night + mornings and evenings when days are short or cloudy?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
C’mon, this is getting childish. No, I don’t have headphones while driving, I have an audio input to the car’s stereo.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
Yes, of course I’ve meant it in a positive way - a way to replace coal and gas. But solar is not just positive, they are problematic when you couple them with nuclear for the simple reasons that solar is not reliable and you can’t throttle nuclear - they are like big ships, they require a lot of time to steer. Furthermore solar energy low price causes problems for nuclear higher prices. Which wouldn’t be a problem if solar was reliable and continuous (long winter nights much?). But it’s not, but you still need a reliable energy source. And so on. The pro solar panel crowd don’t understand many of these implications and go with simple “idiotic” and downvotes.