paulmac_ie

6 ms·

1.
by paulmac_ie 2y ago
192 kHz is the sampling rate, not the sound frequency.
2.
by paulmac_ie 2y ago
I was also diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer when I was 10. In my case, it was the late 1980's and the H. pylori cause of ulcers wasn't accepted or widely known. I spent a week in bed in excruciating pain, throwing up blood regularl
3.
by paulmac_ie 3y ago
The issue isn't that the grid can't handle large amount of renewables, it's that renewables aren't consistent. Large thermal plants provide inertia that renewables simply can't provide. A lot of the work around inco
4.
by paulmac_ie 5y ago
They're short series, and with very few arcs, there's not much to differentiate between series. And it's easy to binge watch the entire box series! My favourite part of my job is naming internal tools and applications after c
5.
by paulmac_ie 5y ago
Dermot Morgan died just after making the third series. Before Ted, he was best known for Scrap Saturday, a radio show that parodied and mocked the Irish politicians of the day. Scrap Saturday was arguably a watershed in Irish culture. It wa
6.
by paulmac_ie 5y ago
This is my prompt that shows my git branch, AWS_PROFILE etc: if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\u\ [\033[0;36m\] @ \[\033[0;36m\]\h \w\ [\033[0;32m\]$(_
7.
by paulmac_ie 6y ago
We control a mixture of loads, but for Fast Frequency Response (FFR), it's mainly compressor/ motors, with the occassional mains breaker thrown in. Large cement factories, refrigeration companies etc. As for how we control them so
8.
by paulmac_ie 6y ago
The company I work for provides Demand Response to the Irish grid operator. In cases like this, our systems would detect the frequency deviation, and shut off loads within 100 milliseonds to reduce the demand on the grid. This helps in case