jamescrowley

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by jamescrowley 1mo ago
Ah but the problem is humans, not the AI! Best get rid of those ASAP. /s
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by jamescrowley 2mo ago
Or getting mad at oil & gas companies? They’re only supplying the fossil drugs we demand. And using their billions in profits to lobby at every level of government and society to ensure they can continue despite the scientific evidence
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by jamescrowley 2mo ago
Quite a few countries (France, Spain, Italy for starters) require seat reservations in advance for any long-distance/high-speed trains now. And worse, they have a quota for passes, so even if the train has space, you might not be able
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by jamescrowley 4mo ago
The EFI partition is unencrypted. “you don't even need to plug an external storage device, you can just pull out the disk, copy the files in the EFI partition, put it back and it will still work. That's how bad it is.”
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by jamescrowley 4mo ago
3GW/9GW is peak load, as I understand it - data centres usually operate at 85-90% of peak load according to Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile, the 4GW figure is average demand - Utah consumed 35,075GWh for 2025, so average demand of 4GW (35075&
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by jamescrowley 4mo ago
‘More power than an entire state’. Yep - take the Stratos data center project in Utah, the first phase of which is expected to consume 3GW and at full capacity is expected to be 9GW. By comparison, the entire state of Utah currently uses ab
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by jamescrowley 6mo ago
Estimates suggest they could save U.S. consumers billions of dollars a year in electricity costs, while potentially offsetting thousands of megawatts of demand ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs&#x2
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by jamescrowley 6mo ago
My understanding is that is why they are limiting to 800w (~4A) at least in the UK's BS 7671 Amendment, which they consider well within the designed safety margins.
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by jamescrowley 8mo ago
Unfortunately most people's actual usage patterns for plug-in hybrids appear to make them worse than just a straight up ICE - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-...
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by jamescrowley 8mo ago
How exactly? Meta isn’t doing this out of generosity to society. They’ll be consuming this and vastly more energy to ultimately increase their own profits?
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by jamescrowley 9mo ago
You actually don’t need (long-lived / hard-coded) secrets in this scenario if you use OIDC: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/secure-your-work/...
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by jamescrowley 10mo ago
I wonder if this works more reliably than airdropping between my iPhone and MacBook… which seems to be 50% success rate at best.
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by jamescrowley 10mo ago
Until recently, the geographical locations where geothermal is feasible and economic was very limited. Ironically it is tech from fracking/shale gas that is starting to open up a far wider range of possible sites at lower cost.
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by jamescrowley 10mo ago
which is why dispatchable power is required - not coal?
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by jamescrowley 10mo ago
Nothing to do with the blackout in Spain - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iberian-... - voltage surge and various thermal power generators failing to provide the voltage correction services th
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by jamescrowley 10mo ago
Baseload is traditionally about generation, not consumption. And baseload generation only makes sense when it is the cheapest option. When solar and wind produce at near-zero marginal cost, running inflexible baseload beside them just force
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by jamescrowley 1y ago
I had a similar experience and backed away from using it - non-spam emails were getting spam filtered without visibility or notification.
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by jamescrowley 1y ago
Assuming those don’t become illegal - Australian authorities are looking to ban face masks at protests- https://www.hrlc.org.au/explainers/human-rights-briefing-vic...
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by jamescrowley 1y ago
The investigation has shown it was in fact nothing to do with renewable energy sources despite the noise made at the time - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iberian-...
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by jamescrowley 1y ago
you also appear to get efficiency gains as vertical panels don’t get as hot - https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/10/researchers-shed-ligh...
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by jamescrowley 1y ago
Iceland, Japan and Norway are the culprits still supporting whaling, not China - just fyi :)
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by jamescrowley 2y ago
Discussion and video link here for anyone else interested: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411#d... And lightly edited transcript here: https://github.com/microsoft&#x2F
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Using Pnpm and Dependabot? Security
2 points by jamescrowley 2y ago|0 comments
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by jamescrowley 2y ago
In case you are not aware, there is tooling to help with GitLab to GitHub actions migration, but I have not tested on anything complex so YMMV https://docs.github.com/en/actions/migrating-to-github-actio...
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by jamescrowley 2y ago
Yep!
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by jamescrowley 2y ago
Unfortunately, quite possibly. Bio-based plastics are not necessarily any more biodegradable than their fossil fuel based counterparts.
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by jamescrowley 2y ago
Most solar arrays that are built still feed into the general electricity grid, as I understand it. So while the PPA has likely enabled the construction of the solar, you'd still need to consider the overall carbon intensity of the grid
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by jamescrowley 2y ago
> Why do we need such a thing? For starters, growing numbers of companies are required to report on their own emissions, which includes software - and therefore having agreed standards on how to measure this would seem a good way forward
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by jamescrowley 3y ago
on the chart in the article is “each month compared to the 20th century average of 12.2°C”, so that’s the zero line in this instance
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by jamescrowley 3y ago
I thought it worth mentioning that a startup called UNDO ( https://un-do.com/ ) is already doing this - and have designed a carbon credit methodology with Puro.earth ( https://puro.earth/accelerate/undo-en

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