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- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 18 hours ago:
Sadly, others have argued so and still are. Here in Belgium they’re still trying to close existing, running nuclear power generation. In favour of subsidised “emergency” gas generation 🙄
Until then grid battery storage can mature and demand adjustment projects can be rolled out.
In my experience, people tend to severily under estimate the size of the storage problem. After 20 years of energy transition, we’re worse of then we started. We’ll see more and more blackouts. The latter being good for the environment ofcourse.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 18 hours ago:
As far as I know, the power outage in Portugal and Spain did not start with renewables
It’s not like a set of bowling balls and pins, one being the initial mover and the others falling one by one.
Grids are better modelled as a system, jointly operating. Insufficient damping is the cause as per the grid operator (1).
Can be solved in multiple ways such as make it a france problem (stronger interconnects to a system with more turbines), storage, improved DC-AC transformers for small (<1MW) solar plants. (*)
Pumped storage is indeed the best known technology for grid stability, as it provides both storage, and turbines with inertia. Hard to build though, finding funding and appropriate locations.
(*) the report mentions an estimated 700MW of production auto-shutting down as grid frequency dropped. Most likely these are the inverters of small scale solar installations, which are frequency following (measure then adjust) rather than synchronizing.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 19 hours ago:
The worlds production of storage isn’t even sufficient to power germany for a week. Hence why germany is, till date, heavily dependent on gas. Mostly US liquified natural gas, and russian pipeline gas.
To me, it’s a surprising statement that, for the same amount of money, one can buy something that doesn’t exist. 🤔
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 19 hours ago:
In terms of engineering, it takes renewables + shitload of storage in order to have equivalent power generation to nuclear.
The recent portugal/spain power outage was due to the system being insufficiently damped (read insufficient storage/inertia to buffer the unpredictable generation).
- Comment on Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started? 1 day ago:
I find that digitalocean (which is a VPS provider) has great tutorials.
I often tend to search for “how to X site:digitalocean.com”, despite hosting almost everything on my own hardware.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 day ago:
In Europe I think it’s mostly because of fear and fearmongering by consrrvative groups such as greenpeace.
They argue from an emotive point of view: nuclear energy feels unnatural, scary, industrial. Gas power generation on the other hand is the same old familiar technology, the enemy we know, with externalities we all seem to accept already.
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Except when it does (1)
- Comment on two wolves 1 week ago:
Oh noo. Oh yes.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 1 week ago:
That’s a weird cope
- Comment on The three musketeers never use muskets 2 weeks ago:
There’s no room next to the onion. That’s where I keep my other onion.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
Using “us”, as if your opinion is consensus :)
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
China is a bad relationship?
It’s an exploitative autoritarian regime, institutionalising severe human rights abuses (1).
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get the abused spouse like logic, where because you get out of one bad relationship, you’d need to start a new one?
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 weeks ago:
Just like mom used to buy
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 weeks ago:
When life gives you baked beans and gelatin
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- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
that do not engage with politics in China
There’s no such thing. A person nor company can’t unilaterally decide “not to engage with politics”, as politics engages with them in thousands of ways. The best they can do is self-censorship, which, even when successfull, is in itself a form of political engagement.
which one is the dictatorship?
False dichotomy 🙄
We need them more than ever now that the US has decided to go full mask off.
Who’s “we” in this case? And why would they “need” someone now, because of stuff in the US?
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
Man I love a good stick so rare today
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!”
I think you’re the only one reading it that way. The rest of us understand that it happens within a context of an autorirarian regime.
which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government
Independent untill the party decides they’re not independent. (Eg).
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.
Nobody of right mind takes this at face value. This isn’t a pro wrestling heavyweight championship belt, with Jinping suplexing the Hong Kong protestors.
It’s obviously as head of an autoritarian communist regime, using corona measures and a militarized police, suppressing people for political reasons.
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
In a hierarchical society, those on top will use any existing govt structures to their benefit
That’s exactly why there’s separation of power! The idea being that executive, legislative and judiciary are of equal power. One can block the strenghten the behaviour of the other on an independant, case-by-case basis.
people affected by a decision should be the ones to make it, not merely to vote for those who promise to do right by them.
Samesees. My utopia would be liquid democracy.
But even here, there would be law! It’s a necessary good, imo.
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
Would you say we’d be better off by merging executive and judiciary, doing away with legislative?
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
I think about it quite similar to you. I’d even go a bit further: shortsighted and bad laws are the biggest source of problems.
Often the kind of law that a populist gains popularity/notoriety through.
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
Not quite true, I reckon. Plenty of examples where both public and executive and legislative would’ve deemed certain behaviour problematic, yet the perpetrator, of marginal power, walks free.
I’d say the law also gives power to the marginalized, when the judicial behaves independently, as they should.
I agree with you there are perversions to this ideal, such as elected judges, plea bargains.
- Comment on What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B) 3 weeks ago:
I think RAG will be surpassed by LLMs with tool calling (aka agents), with search being one of the tools.
- Comment on What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B) 3 weeks ago:
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
- Comment on What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B) 3 weeks ago:
Converting free text to standardized forms such as json
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, a full mathematical proof is required.
- Comment on Napster/BitTorrent for machine learning? 4 weeks ago:
Can you help me understand the use case?
Is it intended to be a variant of Flower AI that can be used in an adversarial environment?