applied_heat

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by applied_heat 3mo ago
Quebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company
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by applied_heat 3mo ago
No. I imagine they are less sensitive and generally stay online and are only de-energized if the utility has an outage
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by applied_heat 4mo ago
They taxes vacancies so vacancies went down - but that doesn’t mean that someone who was happy keeping their property empty put it on the market and found some random tenants with all of the hassles that entails - you can never get rid of t
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by applied_heat 4mo ago
Prices in the condo market have fallen. Some buyers that bought pre sale say at 700k maybe put down 120k and now the units are worth 600k and can only get a mortgage for 600k, have to come up with the extra 100k. Lots of the supply is tiny
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
Patents expire Patents are difficult to enforce internationally Where would coke be if the recipe was patented instead of trade secret ?
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
Hydro electric as a resource is probably mostly exploited - are there a lot of big hydro projects left to build? If there are they must be difficult or expensive or they would have already been built.
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
Do you have a source for this? I constantly point out that several cloudy days in a row often happens but am rebutted with graphs of the declining costs of solar modules and batteries
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
Seems crazy to build an expensive factory and then cheap out on the power source so it can only run when it is sunny out
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
They certainly turned away from socialism and towards capitalism though, I think as part of embracing capitalism. What parts of the economy are not capitalist? State owned companies? In Canada and the US there are many protected or subsidi
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
10 year warranty on appliances instead of 1 would show the manufacturer was serious about quality !
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
Power generation is largely automated !
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
A partly cloudy or partly sunny day produces some insane changes in output without a battery system to smooth them out There is a limit to the size of the instantaneous increases and decreases in generation that the other generators on the
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by applied_heat 5mo ago
It is a tax efficient way to return profits to share holders
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by applied_heat 6mo ago
In Toronto there is only daylight for 9 hours in winter Yes surely some days are cloudy So some days you get 5% capacity factor, and need some other energy source as well So it harms the economics of the venture Look at the profitability of
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by applied_heat 6mo ago
I am sure Elon can launch some type of space based directed energy beam and use it to intercept missiles and drones.
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by applied_heat 6mo ago
What country will you go to? I’m leaning towards mexico
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by applied_heat 7mo ago
>By default, all devices hit your main gateway through the wildcard CNAME. But you can override any individual device by creating a specific A record. Need to debug a misbehaving unit? Point it to your local development gateway. Rolling
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by applied_heat 7mo ago
>As for what's causing the gains, there have been a lot of low-level optimizations and enhancements to various Linux kernel data structures and the like this cycle. Offhand that's perhaps the possible explanation but will be in
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by applied_heat 8mo ago
The article says it was a mechanical issue that forced the gear up landing?
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by applied_heat 8mo ago
I’ve had to add more confirmations as people connect remotely using VNC and accidentally click buttons which then have real world actions. To catch them all it logs the user out so buttons which affect the process are disabled, but now it c
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by applied_heat 8mo ago
Transformers and turbines of any significance are not off the shelf parts and can have lead times of years
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by applied_heat 8mo ago
Where is that?
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by applied_heat 8mo ago
I still have two 2013 era t430s, one with windows 7 and one with windows 10. When browsing the web they barely feel any slower than my corporate supplied t14 gen 2 or p1 gen 6 both with windows 11 now. I guess that’s the price of security.
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by applied_heat 9mo ago
Is your windows 11 home edition or managed by corporate IT?
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by applied_heat 9mo ago
What model laptop, how much, and where did you buy from? I’m looking for a Linux laptop
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by applied_heat 9mo ago
Everybody learned somehow. I wonder what % of programmers actually have relevant training and education in programming vs just taught themselves with online resources. Maybe the amateurs aren’t going to be writing a new distributed database
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by applied_heat 9mo ago
>They’re not all going to get their own boat and captain hat Why not? Anyone can load up Claude code and start trial and erroring until they get something that works and has similar reliability to accepted software … what is the stat abo
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by applied_heat 10mo ago
Where in Canada?
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by applied_heat 10mo ago
Allegedly hackers were pilfering Nortel starting around year 2000 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-hit-by-suspected-chi...

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